Re: Tab issue with FrameMaker 8

Hi, Brian: On Tue, Dec 16, 2008 at 9:21 AM, blamb...@comcast.net wrote: Peter, Thanks for the info. I went back to double check what was going on. The tabs were not there. I manually inserted them. The tabs/leaders work for Paragraph Designs (auto generated by Frame) Heading2TOC

Re: Tab issue with FrameMaker 8

Peter Gold wrote: Hi, Brian: On Tue, Dec 16, 2008 at 9:21 AM, blamb...@comcast.net wrote: Peter, Thanks for the info. I went back to double check what was going on. The tabs were not there. I manually inserted them. The tabs/leaders work for Paragraph Designs (auto generated by

Re: FM 8 Apostrophe Problem

Thanks to everyone for the help. I had to do a repair using the disk. Once I did this, the quotes re-appeared. Something must have been corrupt. Joel On Mon, Dec 15, 2008 at 6:12 PM, Jeremy H. Griffith jer...@omsys.com wrote: On Mon, 15 Dec 2008 17:22:34 -0500, Joel eleys...@gmail.com wrote:

[Somewhat OT]: SVK question

Has anyone on the list used SVK ( http://svk.bestpractical.com/view/HomePage ) (built on SVN). It seems to overcome some limitations of SVN. Are there any downsides to it other than Chinese English? QUOTE svk is a decentralized version control system built with the robust Subversion filesystem.

Links within document to TOC (in PDF)

Hello, I have created a FM doc - complete with TOC. I want to link some key words in the document to the TOC, so when my end-users are reading the PDF, they can click on key words and jump around within the PDF document. How would I do this? Thanks! ADRIANA HARPER

Re: PDF-ing FM files under SVN

I would like to say thanks to Fei Min Lorente and Scott for very helpful answers. Bodvar 2008/12/15 qui...@airmail.net: We use TortiseSVN and FrameMaker. The only files sent to the repository are the source FM files, the graphic files, and the PDF file. All others, (*.backup, PS files,

Linking to external documents

Hiya! Here's what I'm looking to create: a Frame book which, when turned into a PDF, contains links that open external documents when clicked. Seems simple, but I can't figure out how to do it. Tricky bits: - the links to the external docs need to be relative (ie, of the form

[Semi-OT] New Tech Comm Suite email list / group

Over the past few months, I've noticed an increasing number of emails on the FrameMaker lists that have to do with inter-program problems between members of Adobe's Technical Communications Suite, such as Frame and RoboHelp, Frame and Acrobat, how to integrate Captivate movies and so on. And

Re: Accessibility

As long as we're talking about accessibility, I'd like to throw a few more questions in: When you use the Alternative text box of Object Attributes to enter your graphic descriptions, is there any way to collect all of these descriptions for review? I didn't see anything in List of References

OT: correct symbol to use

Quick off-topic question, If you have in a line of text something like to any of 1 (a)-(c), is this more correctly set as to any of 1 (a)...(c)? Cheers Alan -- Alan Litchfield MBus (Hons), MNZCS AlphaByte PO Box 1941, Auckland http://www.alphabyte.co.nz

Re: OT: correct symbol to use

On Tue, Dec 16, 2008 at 9:50 PM, Alan Litchfield a...@alphabyte.co.nz wrote: If you have in a line of text something like to any of 1 (a)-(c), is this more correctly set as to any of 1 (a)...(c)? Take a look at the en dash; it might be what you want:

Re: OT: correct symbol to use

Thanks, The question is: en dash or ellipsis? The context is as I had quoted. Cheers Alan Milan Davidovic wrote: On Tue, Dec 16, 2008 at 9:50 PM, Alan Litchfield a...@alphabyte.co.nz wrote: If you have in a line of text something like to any of 1 (a)-(c), is this more correctly set as to any

Re: Accessibility

Sorry to say, I don't think that there is an easy way to collect the Alternate Text. You might try saving as MIF and see if that does it. Then you'd at least be able to spell check from a text editor. I don't think there is a way to set the language outside of the PDF itself. Scott At 6:33 PM

Re: Linking to external documents

Ealasaid, You wrote: Here's what I'm looking to create: a Frame book which, when turned into a PDF, contains links that open external documents when clicked. ... - the links to the external docs need to be relative (ie, of the form Procedures/DDOC-00100-001.pdf rather than c:/My

[Somewhat OT]: SVK question

Has anyone on the list used SVK ( http://svk.bestpractical.com/view/HomePage ) (built on SVN). It seems to overcome some limitations of SVN. Are there any downsides to it other than Chinese English? QUOTE svk is a decentralized version control system built with the robust Subversion filesystem.

PDF-ing FM files under SVN

I would like to say thanks to Fei Min Lorente and Scott for very helpful answers. Bodvar 2008/12/15 : > We use TortiseSVN and FrameMaker. > > The only files sent to the repository are the source FM files, the graphic > files, and the PDF file. All others, (*.backup, PS files, etc.) are not >

FM 8 Apostrophe Problem

Thanks to everyone for the help. I had to do a repair using the disk. Once I did this, the quotes re-appeared. Something must have been corrupt. Joel On Mon, Dec 15, 2008 at 6:12 PM, Jeremy H. Griffith wrote: > On Mon, 15 Dec 2008 17:22:34 -0500, Joel wrote: > >>That didn't work either. My

Links within document to TOC (in PDF)

Hello, I have created a FM doc - complete with TOC. I want to link some key words in the document to the TOC, so when my end-users are reading the PDF, they can click on key words and jump around within the PDF document. How would I do this? Thanks! ADRIANA HARPER Technical Writer

Tab issue with FrameMaker 8

Hi, Brian: On Tue, Dec 16, 2008 at 9:21 AM, wrote: > Peter, > > Thanks for the info. I went back to double check what was going on. The > tabs were not there. I manually inserted them. The tabs/leaders work for > Paragraph Designs (auto generated by Frame) Heading2TOC through Heading 5TOC.

Tab issue with FrameMaker 8

Peter Gold wrote: > Hi, Brian: > > > On Tue, Dec 16, 2008 at 9:21 AM, wrote: >> Peter, >> >> Thanks for the info. I went back to double check what was going >> on. The tabs were not there. I manually inserted them. The >> tabs/leaders work for Paragraph Designs (auto generated by Frame) >>

Linking to external documents

Hiya! Here's what I'm looking to create: a Frame book which, when turned into a PDF, contains links that open external documents when clicked. Seems simple, but I can't figure out how to do it. Tricky bits: - the links to the external docs need to be relative (ie, of the form

[Semi-OT] New Tech Comm Suite email list / group

Over the past few months, I've noticed an increasing number of emails on the FrameMaker lists that have to do with inter-program problems between members of Adobe's Technical Communications Suite, such as Frame and RoboHelp, Frame and Acrobat, how to integrate Captivate movies and so on. And

Accessibility

As long as we're talking about accessibility, I'd like to throw a few more questions in: When you use the Alternative text box of Object Attributes to enter your graphic descriptions, is there any way to collect all of these descriptions for review? I didn't see anything in List of References

OT: correct symbol to use

On Tue, Dec 16, 2008 at 9:50 PM, Alan Litchfield wrote: > If you have in a line of text something like "to any of 1 (a)-(c)", is this > more correctly set as "to any of 1 (a)...(c)"? Take a look at the en dash; it might be what you want: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/En_dash#En_dash -- Milan

Accessibility

Sorry to say, I don't think that there is an easy way to collect the Alternate Text. You might try saving as MIF and see if that does it. Then you'd at least be able to spell check from a text editor. I don't think there is a way to set the language outside of the PDF itself. Scott At 6:33 PM

FrameMaker license question for older versions

Thanks to everyone who replied. Seems clear that the answer is, NO! As far as saving as 7.x format, our content management needs require 7.2 files to be fiddled with in order to make them compatible with 6.0. (Seems like there should be a much simpler solution...) The company owns several

Tab issue with FrameMaker 8

Peter, Thanks for the info. I went back to double check what was going on. The tabs were not there. I manually inserted them. The tabs/leaders work for Paragraph Designs (auto generated by Frame) Heading2TOC through Heading 5TOC. They do not work for Heading1TOC (the top level). The tab

Frame 7 and 8 to Word 2003

Hello Framers Don't ask why I ask this - it is a question from an engineer boss. Is there an easy way to convert Frame 7 or 8 to Word 2003? The thought scares me but I must ask. Thanks Les Winberg

PDF to PDF Links on Linux

Hello, I just joined, have only used FM for 9 months, and have been around and around this issue with Adobe.? We want to distribute our PDFs to Linux, Windows, and Unix.? They work as shown below on Windows 32-bit and?-64 bit versions of XP and Vista Business. I am using gotolink

framemaker does not skip missing graphics

Dear all, I have two installations of FM 8.0p277: The one on the workstation behaves On the laptop missing graphics can not be skipped when opening a file. Neither "Skip this file" nor "Skip all files" works. I just can Cancel and postpone the job to the workstation. I have this problem since