Query regarding standardising headers and headers only; unwanted edge lines

2008-12-25 Thread Shell, Robert
Hi Framers: Seasons greetings I am running FM 8p277 on Vista Prof. 1. I wish to standardize my headers' dimensions. I know how to go into each file and set the dimensions using Graphics/object properties. But being bone lazy I would like to do this globally. Is this a job for FrameScript? The

Re: Graphics Fundamentals

2008-12-25 Thread Jack DeLand
Hello, Sean - They may be .eps, but they are copied and pasted into the files, not linked, so I can't open them, or at least don't know how to. There is no graphics subdirectory or other file location. Ideas? Jack Sean Pollock wrote: I'm guessing they are .eps graphics,

the values of Variables: only per document and not per book?

2008-12-25 Thread Avraham Makeler
Hi all, I am new to this group, and pretty new to FrameMaker (but I was a Word 2003 guru, so that helps a bit...). My question is ... I am taking over somebody else's document, who is no longer around. Amongst other things, I also have to update the document date and version number. I found the

Re: the values of Variables: only per document and not per book?

2008-12-25 Thread Shmuel Wolfson
Sure. You can import settings from any (open) file to all the other in the book. Select all the files in the book, then select File Import Formats. Only select the item that you want to import, in this case variable definitions. Otherwise you can really mess up the doc by importing things

RE: the values of Variables: only per document and not per book?

2008-12-25 Thread Fred Ridder
Avraham Makeler wrote (in part): For sure, I can then do the same thing in each chapter, but is not the variables scope supposed to be global, i.e., thoughout the book? No, the scope of user variables is deliberately file by file. But it is easy to import the values of all variables from one

RE: the values of Variables: only per document and not per book?

2008-12-25 Thread Syed.Hosain
Foor book-level variables control, I *strongly* recommend the BookVars plugin by Leximation! I use this all the time for my documents - it is the best add-on I have for FrameMaker. Please see www.leximation.com for the details. Z -Original Message- Hi all, I am new to this group, and

Re: Combined Fonts in FM8

2008-12-25 Thread Klaus Mueller
Hello Morgan, [...] Customize Layout, I don't see an option for Combined Fonts Unnecessarily (imo), Adobe restricted the availability of some Asian specific commands to be visible only with an Asian system locale. You can activate the CombinedFonts command by opening your

RE: Graphics Fundamentals

2008-12-25 Thread Sean Pollock
Merry Christmas, sorry for the delay. Yours is not a good situation, but there is a solution if you have Photoshop--I am using CS2. I have not tried this on other apps. Print a page containing a graphic to PDF. Drag and drop that page to Photoshop. When prompted to import the pdf at 72 ppi

Re: Graphics Fundamentals

2008-12-25 Thread Jeremy H. Griffith
On Wed, 24 Dec 2008 19:15:24 -0500, Jack DeLand jdela...@comcast.net wrote: They may be .eps, but they are copied and pasted into the files, not linked, so I can't open them, or at least don't know how to. There is no graphics subdirectory or other file location. Ideas? You can always get

RE: Graphics Fundamentals

2008-12-25 Thread Sean Pollock
That sounds like the way to go! From: jer...@omsys.com To: framers@lists.frameusers.com CC: spoll...@hotmail.com; jdela...@comcast.net Subject: Re: Graphics Fundamentals Date: Thu, 25 Dec 2008 20:07:57 -0800 On Wed, 24 Dec 2008 19:15:24 -0500, Jack DeLand jdela...@comcast.net wrote: They

Query regarding standardising headers and headers only; unwanted edge lines

2008-12-25 Thread Shell, Robert
Hi Framers: Seasons greetings I am running FM 8p277 on Vista Prof. 1. I wish to standardize my headers' dimensions. I know how to go into each file and set the dimensions using Graphics/object properties. But being bone lazy I would like to do this globally. Is this a job for FrameScript? The

the values of Variables: only per document and not per book?

2008-12-25 Thread Avraham Makeler
Hi all, I am new to this group, and pretty new to FrameMaker (but I was a Word 2003 guru, so that helps a bit...). My question is ... I am taking over somebody else's document, who is no longer around. Amongst other things, I also have to update the document date and version number. I found the

the values of Variables: only per document and not per book?

2008-12-25 Thread Shmuel Wolfson
Sure. You can import settings from any (open) file to all the other in the book. Select all the files in the book, then select File > Import > Formats. Only select the item that you want to import, in this case variable definitions. Otherwise you can really mess up the doc by importing things

the values of Variables: only per document and not per book?

2008-12-25 Thread Fred Ridder
Avraham Makeler wrote (in part):> For sure, I can then do the same thing in each chapter, but > is not the variables scope supposed to be global, i.e., thoughout the book? No, the scope of user variables is deliberately file by file. But it is easy to import the values of all variables from

the values of Variables: only per document and not per book?

2008-12-25 Thread syed.hos...@aeris.net
Foor book-level variables control, I *strongly* recommend the BookVars plugin by Leximation! I use this all the time for my documents - it is the best add-on I have for FrameMaker. Please see www.leximation.com for the details. Z -Original Message- Hi all, I am new to this group, and

Graphics Fundamentals

2008-12-25 Thread Sean Pollock
Merry Christmas, sorry for the delay. Yours is not a good situation, but there is a solution if you have Photoshop--I am using CS2. I have not tried this on other apps. Print a page containing a graphic to PDF. Drag and drop that page to Photoshop. When prompted to import the pdf at 72 ppi

Graphics Fundamentals

2008-12-25 Thread Jeremy H. Griffith
On Wed, 24 Dec 2008 19:15:24 -0500, Jack DeLand wrote: >They may be .eps, but they are copied and pasted into the files, not >linked, so I can't open them, or at least don't know how to. There is no >graphics subdirectory or other file location. Ideas? You can always get embedded graphics