Re: Off List

Howard, I agree: this is a quality list. :-) This list has never, and in my view, should not be limiting itself to technical solutions regarding FM problems, although this will always be the main issue. There is so much more about FM than that, mainly because of how different FM is to most

RE: FM 9 Upgrade - Please share your views

As a victim of OLE compatibility/stability, I also support the method described here. You will find far fewer encumbrances to production workflow by using the import-by-reference method...Kelly. -Original Message- From: framers-boun...@lists.frameusers.com

RE: Off List

I fear mine may have been the initial post that started the green discussion. For that, please accept my apology. The question I asked, though not directly related to FrameMaker, was more in the venue of how PDFs were used without any green subtext. The point of the issue is that I am attempting

RE: Off List

As I recall, this was a voyage of several steps. I replied to your innocent question with some anecdotal evidence that PDFs are seen are green in Germany, and printed manuals as actively anti-green. Later, a third responder observed that trees are plentiful in the US, which led to the way

Re: Off List

I welcome most of the side-threads, although people could push labeling them with an OT in the subject line a bit more. So I'd also vote for no changes required, at the moment. I'm among the group of people who have figured out how the Delete key works, as well as making use of Gmail's Mute

Re: Off List

I welcome most of the side-threads, although people could push labeling them with an OT in the subject line a bit more. You mean like this one? ;) So I'd also vote for no changes required, at the moment. I don't think a vote is necessary. I'm among the group of people who have figured out

RE: FM 9 Upgrade - Please share your views

Dear Kelly McDaniel,   Thanks for sharing your experience.   I am a believer in import-by-reference myself which has worked pretty reliably for me for many many years. I inherited some docs with many OLE diagrams and this method worked well for a while until this problem started to occur about

Is FM9 More Stable than FM8?

Hi All, We, at my company, are using FM8, and our files reside on a server. We've had numerous problems with crashing and file corruption that we did not have when we were using FM7. Is there any opinion on whether this new version, FM9, is more stable? Thanks, Nancy Adams

Re: difficulties using italics for index entries in FM 8.0

Shlomo, You hit the nail on the head! I was at release 266. I thought I had updated to the latest release but obviously I hadn't. I just downloaded the latest patch (I'm now at 273) and regenerated my index after applying the patch. All the missing entries now displayed! The problem has been

Importing Multi Page Tiffs, How ??

I posted this yesterday and was just wondering if anyone received it, thank you. Hello Framers, I have spent the last couples of hours trying to find an answer to this question. I am importing by reference TIFFs into a Framemaker 8 file. The TIFFs are a single file with multiple pages, but

Extra space after text insets

Hi! While I am importing the text insets from a source file, an extra blank line is automatically added after the content of the text inset. It seems a minor problem, but I really don't want that extra space! I have to go to the container document each time to remove this extra space. How do I

Find and Replace Paragraph Format Feature

Folks, We are one FrameMaker 7 and ePublisher 2008.3 We noticed that when we generated the html output of our FM source files using ePublisher, the fonts for some of our paragraph formats were altered. We looked at the Cascading Style Sheet and noticed that paragraph formats that contained a

Re: FM8 seems to be sluggish on my PC

Well, it doesn't work that way for me. Laptop: four year old Sony, optimized for battery life over performance; 1.2 GHz, .5 GB RAM (!!), XP SP3; FM8p273. Desktop: Dual CPU 2.13 GHz, 4GB RAM, Vista SP1; FM8p277. With the desktop it takes six seconds to scroll across two 90character lines with

RE: New Adobe Technical Communication Suite 2andnewAdobeeLearningSuite

Yes, they called it round-tripping from FM to PDF back again in the demo. Jeff Coatsworth Documentation Specialist Gary Jonas Computing Ltd. 905-886-0544 905-886-8511 (fax) jeff.coatswo...@jonassoftware.com -Original Message- From: framers-boun...@lists.frameusers.com

Re: New Adobe Technical Communication Suite 2 and newAdobeeLearningSuite

The following text is from the adobe site ( http://www.adobe.com/products/framemaker/features/?view=topnew) Importing of comments from PDF files Easily gather and incorporate review comments from subject matter experts and other colleagues. Use the Track Text Edits feature and a new user

Ctrl-Alt-u shortcut bug

Hi, Has anyone seen or got a solution to the Ctrl-Alt-u shortcut bug? When I use it, FM places a ú in front of the word following the selected text. Thanks, Heidi Bailey ___ You are currently subscribed to Framers as

Screen Capture

All, Not really a FrameMaker question, but... I am creating some manuals and I need to include some screen shots of our configuration software. Any recommendations on which screen capture software works best? Thanks, Brian Lamborn blamb...@comcast.net

Questions about TCS2 and RoboHelp Server

Hi all, My company is considering buying the Technical Communications Suite 2 and Robohelp Server. However, we have two questions about it, that I haven't been able to find answers, too. I hope someone can help. 1. Over the long term, we want to transition our documentation into adobe air

Re: New Adobe Technical Communication Suite 2 and new, Adobe

Thus spake Doug Cuff subscr...@cuff.ca: I hope that FM9 will meet your needs. I also fear that it won't. Wow, what a pleasant surprise seeing your name on the Framers list! What have you been up to lately? Clearly it involves FrameMaker. :-) I started at Tecplot, a scientific data

Re: PDF Documentation

Hi Kelly, A quick check here says that our Asia-Pacific customers want DVDs. Customers who take our training ask for printed sets of manuals. Everyone else downloads the PDF. Hope this helps! Regards, Anne Urban Senior Technical Editor Altair Engineering Kelly McDaniel wrote: Quick Survey:

FM9 show stoppers

Trying to use FM9 reveals beside the goodies (modern interface, enhanced book handling, list of referenced files, variables, cross references, ...) also some misbehaviour becomes obvious: The first one has already been mentioned here: Various lists (¶ format by F9, variable names by CTRL+0,

Re: PDF Documentation

Dear Kelly McDaniel, In my experience working in the IT and telecommunications field, PDFs are used almost exclusively. The only time I have seen hard copies used is during eLearning courses, but that's a different context (though related) than technical documentation. Here's why. I am writing

List of Figures/Tables Question

All, I am using FM8.0p273 on a XP SP3 machine. When I insert a table or figure into my document, I have the formatting set up to number the figures and tables. The formatting is set up as follows: F: Figure n+: T:Table n+: The numbering works flawlessly. However, when I generate a list

Is there a Frame with RoboHelp digest out there?

I apologize for straying slightly off topic, especially since as a loyal framer I appreciate the lack of extraneous postings that bloat other digests. However, I am v. eager to find a RoboHelp digest. Does anyone know of one out there? Have googled to no avail. As a Framer / WebWorks user I am

Re: Screen Capture

There are a herd of them, and I played with a lot of them, but SnagIt worked most smoothly for me; has a slew of options; and has a toolbar that integrates cleanly with Frame, so you can do the screen shot and import in one action from with in FM. Art Art Campbell art.campb...@gmail.com

RE: Screen Capture

I got many recommendations for SnagIt on my recent question. My question in reply is whether anyone has tried Cropper? I've used it for a while, and for anything but open menus, it works nicely for me. -Original Message- From: framers-boun...@lists.frameusers.com [mailto:framers-

Re: Is there a Frame with RoboHelp digest out there?

You may want to check out the Tech Comm Suite User's group at http://groups.google.com/group/TCS-Users?hl=en New, small group that seems to have a high level of experience. (Disclaimer: I started it.) Art Art Campbell art.campb...@gmail.com ... In my opinion, there's nothing in this

Re: List of Figures/Tables Question

On the Reference pages of the list, look for the collection of tags that control the source. It'll probably look like several sets of: $paratext $pagenum Add the variable to generate the number, in front of the paragraph, to create something like: $paranum $paratext $pagenum Save the file and

Re: Screen Capture

I like HyperSnap. It's an excellent screen capture program and has very good editing options. If you want to go the free route, MWSnap is the best free one I've seen so far. -- Regards, Shmuel Wolfson Technical Writer 052-763-7133 Brian Lamborn wrote: All, Not really a FrameMaker

Re: Questions about TCS2 and RoboHelp Server

As for Question 1, AIR supports about 15-18 languages, RoboHelp and RH Server fewer, and all list Japanese. The complete lists are on each products' System Requirements pages. Art Art Campbell art.campb...@gmail.com ... In my opinion, there's nothing in this world beats a '52 Vincent

RE: Screen Capture

Same for me. Fast, cheap, and stable...Kelly. -Original Message- From: framers-boun...@lists.frameusers.com [mailto:framers-boun...@lists.frameusers.com] On Behalf Of Art Campbell Sent: Monday, January 26, 2009 12:33 PM To: Brian Lamborn Cc: Frame Users Subject: Re: Screen Capture There

RE: FM9 show stoppers

A third great annoyance: The new buttons are gray in normal state and coloured if hovered over. I thought that maybe I was too picky, but this bothers me, too. -Original Message- From: framers-boun...@lists.frameusers.com [mailto:framers-boun...@lists.frameusers.com] On Behalf Of Klaus

RE: Screen Capture

Brian Lamborn wrote: I am creating some manuals and I need to include some screen shots of our configuration software. Any recommendations on which screen capture software works best? I just use the built-in Windows capabilities (works well for me) ... some others here like Snag-It. Z

RE: Screen Capture

All of the posted options will work, but if you want better control over your captures, SnagIt (www.textsmith.com) is probably in the Cadillac class. For less than $50, it is a steal. Another inexpensive, and good, option is Gadwin Print Screen Pro (www.gadwin.com). You can buy the latest version

RE: FM9 show stoppers

Kelly McDaniel wrote: A third great annoyance: The new buttons are gray in normal state and coloured if hovered over. I thought that maybe I was too picky, but this bothers me, too. Just about this, I thought that in 'normal' UI design terms a button is greyed out if it is *not* available

Re: Screen Capture

Any recommendations on which screen capture software works best? SnagIt. Very powerful. Mike Wickham ___ You are currently subscribed to Framers as arch...@mail-archive.com. Send list messages to fram...@lists.frameusers.com. To unsubscribe

Re: Extra space after text insets

Shrobona Choudhuri wrote: Hi! While I am importing the text insets from a source file, an extra blank line is automatically added after the content of the text inset. It seems a minor problem, but I really don't want that extra space! I have to go to the container document each time to

Re: Importing Multi Page Tiffs, How ??

Richard, I think you may have uncovered a rare bug. I hadn't ever seen a multi-page TIF before... and I bet the coders hadn't either. I'd expect Frame to treat it as a multi-page PDF and prompt you to select which page to display. May be worth opening a bug on it. The only work-around I can

Re: Importing Multi Page Tiffs, How ??

Multi-page tiffs are pretty common really. I remember replying to this, so I am not certain why it has come up again. But anyway I suggested opening the tiff in an application that supports multi-page tiffs (probably *not* Photoshop) and print the file to PDF (press-quality settings if you want

RE: Screen Capture

Responding to Brian Lamborn, David Spreadbury wrote (in part): All of the posted options will work, but if you want better control over your captures, SnagIt (www.textsmith.com) is probably in the Cadillac class. For less than $50, it is a steal. I second David's recommendation of SnagIt,

[Fwd: RE: Importing Multi Page Tiffs, How ??]

OK. Leave the tiff. Don't delete it or change its name ;) Print it to PDF and use that by reference in your Frame document. When the tiff is updated, update the pdf. There are no other changes that need to be made to the file. Cheers Alan Richard Melanson wrote: Thank you all very much for

RE: Importing Multi Page Tiffs, How ??

I would hardly say that multipage TIFF files are pretty common unless your pretty common world of TIFF is primarily FAX servers. - Dov -Original Message- From: framers-boun...@lists.frameusers.com [mailto:framers-boun...@lists.frameusers.com] On Behalf Of Alan Litchfield

Automating the import of multi-page PDFs

A project requires that FM is used to publish a collection of reports that were created in WordPerfect. The reports in the collection must look like the original reports - this is a condition. I can either copy text from the WordPerfect file and paste into the FM document (then format), or I

FM8 Updates (was: Re: difficulties using italics for index entries in FM 8.0)

On Mon, 19 Jan 2009 14:43:49 -0700, Lucie Haskins luc...@att.net wrote: Now, *why* FM didn't automatically update to 273 when I asked it to earlier this past weekend, I'll never know. It just updated me to 266... It's because you were at 236, the one before 266. Since updates are

Re: Automating the import of multi-page PDFs

Unless there's a gotcha that you didn't mention, the easiest route would be to SaveAs in Acrobat (or any of several third-party programs) to create an RTF file. Then open the RTF files in Frame, wash out any hidden characters by saving as MIF and reopening those files, and then apply the FM

RE: Screen Capture

Fred, Thank you for correcting that URL. My mind has been on several other things and I didn't check before sending. Mea culpa and sincerest apologies if some was mis-directed. From: Fred Ridder [mailto:docu...@hotmail.com] Sent: Monday, January 26, 2009 3:24 PM To: dspre...@yahoo.com;

RE: Automating the import of multi-page PDFs

Yes, but I think that's a workaround, Art, and not the exact solution Christopher is asking for. I recall considering an approach a year or two back where I would have imported some of our subsupplier brochures, MSDSs, Product Data Sheets, catalogs, etc. in their full-color, graphically rich PDFs

RE: FM8 Updates (was: Re: difficulties using italics for index entries in FM 8.0)

Jeremy Griffith wrote (in part): One of 277's features is a change to the sort order of the formats in the catalogs that makes mincemeat of keyboard usage for applying formats (Ctrl-number-letters). The same improvement is in FM9, but thankfully there is a maker.ini setting to make it work

Re: Automating the import of multi-page PDFs

Well, I'd disagree, slightly. I think the import-via-RTF fits under the umbrella of copying the original text and reformattting it, which was one of Christopher's original options. It just isn't copying it directly from the Word Perfect source. Putting a wrapper around a sequence of PDFs would

RE: Importing Multi Page Tiffs, How ??

Although the TIFF format supports multiple pages there aren't many applications out there supporting the multi-page flavor. Adobe Photoshop doesn't, I believe (I haven't tested with CS3 or newer) -- even though the TIFF spec is published by Adobe. The likely reason is that multiple-page TIFF has a

RE: Automating the import of multi-page PDFs

Christopher Seal wrote: I can either copy text from the WordPerfect file and paste into the FM document (then format), or I can import sequential pages from the PDF version of each report. The report collection will be published as PDF. As there are hundreds of PDF pages to be imported

RE: Importing Multi Page Tiffs, How ??

If you were on a Mac I would say to just use Preview ;) However on Windows, Corel products handle and write to Multi-page tiff (which is where I have had them produced from by various clients). Otherwise there are (and in all cases YMMV, of course): http://www.informatik.com/imagistik.html

RE: Importing Multi Page Tiffs, How ??

Some of our older scanned documents are multi-page TIFFs. I keep a copy of Paperport Deluxe (version 7.0, that came with a long gone scanner) on my computer solely because it can split these files into individual graphics. Clint Clinton Owen | Senior Technical Writer | Crane Aerospace

RE: Automating the import of multi-page PDFs

If that is an option for Christopher, I'd certainly agree that this approach is a good one, Art. As for the direct import issue, I went back and searched the archives and found the discussion in October 2006, but couldn't find a definitive answer to the direct import of multiple-page PDFs into

RE: Importing Multi Page Tiffs, How ??

Thanks for the brush-up, Alan. I stand corrected :-) Best regards / Med venlig hilsen Jacob Schäffer | Chief Developer Grafikhuset (House of Graphics) Paradis Allé 22, Ramløse DK-3200 Helsinge, Denmark Phone: +45 4439 4400 Email: j...@grafikhuset.dk Web:

RE: Automating the import of multi-page PDFs

Pinkham, Jim wrote: As for the direct import issue, I went back and searched the archives and found the discussion in October 2006, but couldn't find a definitive answer to the direct import of multiple-page PDFs into Frame. You suggested the alternative approach of the RTF for the text at

RE: Automating the import of multi-page PDFs

Wow. Quick response! I've read the responses, and obviously I have to clarify a few things. Note: This is a short contract in which I have already finished several collections that were started by others, and in which the FM book had been set up, and individual documents had been text filled and

Outline

Framer Folks: As I develop my personally written book in FrameMaker 7.2, especially since I have learned to create hot key macros in the customization files, there is only one thing about MS Word that I miss – Outline View. The ability to reduce the book to an outline and manipulate that outline

Re: Screen Capture / Framer's List Issue - Slightly OT

All, Sorry about this post hitting hitting the list today. I actually sent it last Thursday, a little while before Lea Rush's post on the same subject hit the list. I was one of those that Richard Combs mentioned, whose posts weren't reaching the list. That seems to be fixed now. Anyhow, I

RE: Importing Multi Page Tiffs, How ??

Thank you all very much for responding to my question. One important fact I may have left out, I am importing the TIFF by reference and I do NOT have any control over the Master I am importing. I cannot convert it, dissect it, etc :-) My hands are tied, I have to use the tiff as it exists on

RE: Importing Multi Page Tiffs, How ??

An update or maybe a summation :-) The TIFF files I have been referring to are controlled by our Engineering Department. I reach out to a network drive and import by reference the TIFFs Engineering makes available. I cannot do anything to the TIFFs but import them! So unless I can find a way for

Off List

Howard, I agree: this is a quality list. :-) This list has never, and in my view, should not be limiting itself to technical solutions regarding FM problems, although this will always be the main issue. There is so much more about FM than that, mainly because of how different FM is to most

FM 9 Upgrade - Please share your views

As a victim of OLE compatibility/stability, I also support the method described here. You will find far fewer encumbrances to production workflow by using the import-by-reference method...Kelly. -Original Message- From: framers-boun...@lists.frameusers.com [mailto:framers-bounces at

Off List

I fear mine may have been the initial post that started the green discussion. For that, please accept my apology. The question I asked, though not directly related to FrameMaker, was more in the venue of how PDFs were used without any green subtext. The point of the issue is that I am attempting

Off List

As I recall, this was a voyage of several steps. I replied to your innocent question with some anecdotal evidence that PDFs are seen are "green" in Germany, and printed manuals as actively "anti-green". Later, a third responder observed that trees are plentiful in the US, which led to the way

Off List

I welcome most of the side-threads, although people could push labeling them with an OT in the subject line a bit more. So I'd also vote for no changes required, at the moment. I'm among the group of people who have figured out how the Delete key works, as well as making use of Gmail's "Mute"

Off List

> I welcome most of the side-threads, although people could push labeling them > with an OT in the subject line a bit more. You mean like this one? ;) > So I'd also vote for no changes required, at the moment. I don't think a vote is necessary. > I'm among the group of people who have figured

FM 9 Upgrade - Please share your views

Dear Kelly McDaniel, ? Thanks for sharing your experience. ? I am a believer in import-by-reference?myself which has worked?pretty reliably for me for?many many years.?I inherited?some docs?with?many?OLE diagrams and this method worked well for a while until?this problem started to occur about

Is FM9 More Stable than FM8?

Hi All, We, at my company, are using FM8, and our files reside on a server. We've had numerous problems with crashing and file corruption that we did not have when we were using FM7. Is there any opinion on whether this new version, FM9, is more stable? Thanks, Nancy Adams

List of Figures/Tables Question

All, I am using FM8.0p273 on a XP SP3 machine. When I insert a table or figure into my document, I have the formatting set up to number the figures and tables. The formatting is set up as follows: F: Figure : T:Table : The numbering works flawlessly. However, when I generate a

Is there a Frame with RoboHelp digest out there?

I apologize for straying slightly off topic, especially since as a loyal framer I appreciate the lack of extraneous postings that bloat other digests. However, I am v. eager to find a RoboHelp digest. Does anyone know of one out there? Have googled to no avail. As a Framer / WebWorks user I am

Screen Capture

There are a herd of them, and I played with a lot of them, but SnagIt worked most smoothly for me; has a slew of options; and has a toolbar that integrates cleanly with Frame, so you can do the screen shot and import in one action from with in FM. Art Art Campbell art.campbell at

Find and Replace Paragraph Format Feature

Set up one of the paragraphs with the corrected para format. Then: Copy Special > Para Format. S for a para tag with the old tag name, and replace by Pasting. Make sure the Book option is checked in the S dialog to define your range. *** You may also want to check out Rick Quattro's Find/Change

Screen Capture

I got many recommendations for SnagIt on my recent question. My question in reply is whether anyone has tried Cropper? I've used it for a while, and for anything but open menus, it works nicely for me. > -Original Message- > From: framers-bounces at lists.frameusers.com [mailto:framers-

Is there a Frame with RoboHelp digest out there?

You may want to check out the Tech Comm Suite User's group at http://groups.google.com/group/TCS-Users?hl=en New, small group that seems to have a high level of experience. (Disclaimer: I started it.) Art Art Campbell art.campbell at gmail.com "... In my opinion, there's nothing in

List of Figures/Tables Question

On the Reference pages of the list, look for the collection of tags that control the source. It'll probably look like several sets of: <$paratext> <$pagenum> Add the variable to generate the number, in front of the paragraph, to create something like: <$paranum> <$paratext> <$pagenum> Save the

Screen Capture

I like HyperSnap. It's an excellent screen capture program and has very good editing options. If you want to go the free route, MWSnap is the best free one I've seen so far. -- Regards, Shmuel Wolfson Technical Writer 052-763-7133 Brian Lamborn wrote: > All, > > Not really a FrameMaker

Questions about TCS2 and RoboHelp Server

As for Question 1, AIR supports about 15-18 languages, RoboHelp and RH Server fewer, and all list Japanese. The complete lists are on each products' System Requirements pages. Art Art Campbell art.campbell at gmail.com "... In my opinion, there's nothing in this world beats a '52

Screen Capture

Same for me. Fast, cheap, and stable...Kelly. -Original Message- From: framers-boun...@lists.frameusers.com [mailto:framers-bounces at lists.frameusers.com] On Behalf Of Art Campbell Sent: Monday, January 26, 2009 12:33 PM To: Brian Lamborn Cc: Frame Users Subject: Re: Screen Capture

FM9 show stoppers

"A third great annoyance: The new buttons are gray in normal state and coloured if hovered over." I thought that maybe I was too picky, but this bothers me, too. -Original Message- From: framers-bounces at lists.frameusers.com [mailto:framers-boun...@lists.frameusers.com] On Behalf Of

FM 9 Upgrade - Please share your views

This is definitely NOT a Visio issue with Framemaker, but a general MS OLE implementation issue. OLE has always been dangerous in many aspects even though it may seem to work OK at first sight on the local machine. Apart from effectively preventing document portability, OLE object linking are

Screen Capture

Brian Lamborn wrote: > I am creating some manuals and I need to include some screen shots of our configuration software. Any recommendations on which screen capture software works best? I just use the built-in Windows capabilities (works well for me) ... some others here like Snag-It. Z

Screen Capture

All of the posted options will work, but if you want better control over your captures, SnagIt (www.textsmith.com) is probably in the Cadillac class. For less than $50, it is a steal. Another inexpensive, and good, option is Gadwin Print Screen Pro (www.gadwin.com). You can buy the latest version

Screen Capture

> Any recommendations on which screen capture software works best? SnagIt. Very powerful. Mike Wickham

Extra space after text insets

Shrobona Choudhuri wrote: > Hi! > > > > While I am importing the text insets from a source file, an extra blank > line is automatically added after the content of the text inset. It > seems a minor problem, but I really don't want that extra space! I have > to go to the container document each

Importing Multi Page Tiffs, How ??

Richard, I think you may have uncovered a rare bug. I hadn't ever seen a multi-page TIF before... and I bet the coders hadn't either. I'd expect Frame to treat it as a multi-page PDF and prompt you to select which page to display. May be worth opening a bug on it. The only work-around I can

Screen Capture

Responding to Brian Lamborn, David Spreadbury wrote (in part): > All of the posted options will work, but if you want better control over > your captures, SnagIt (www.textsmith.com) is probably in the Cadillac class. > For less than $50, it is a steal. I second David's recommendation of SnagIt,

Importing Multi Page Tiffs, How ??

I would hardly say that multipage TIFF files are pretty common unless your pretty common world of TIFF is primarily FAX servers. - Dov > -Original Message- > From: framers-bounces at lists.frameusers.com [mailto:framers-bounces at > lists.frameusers.com] On Behalf Of > Alan

FM8 Updates (was: Re: difficulties using italics for index entries in FM 8.0)

On Mon, 19 Jan 2009 14:43:49 -0700, "Lucie Haskins" wrote: >Now, *why* FM didn't automatically update to 273 when >I asked it to earlier this past weekend, I'll never >know. It just updated me to 266... It's because you were at 236, the one before 266. Since updates are sequential, and not

Automating the import of multi-page PDFs

Unless there's a gotcha that you didn't mention, the easiest route would be to SaveAs in Acrobat (or any of several third-party programs) to create an RTF file. Then open the RTF files in Frame, wash out any hidden characters by saving as MIF and reopening those files, and then apply the FM

Screen Capture

Fred, Thank you for correcting that URL. My mind has been on several other things and I didn't check before sending. Mea culpa and sincerest apologies if some was mis-directed. From: Fred Ridder [mailto:docu...@hotmail.com] Sent: Monday, January 26, 2009 3:24 PM To: dspreadb at yahoo.com;

Automating the import of multi-page PDFs

Yes, but I think that's a workaround, Art, and not the exact solution Christopher is asking for. I recall considering an approach a year or two back where I would have imported some of our subsupplier brochures, MSDSs, Product Data Sheets, catalogs, etc. in their full-color, graphically rich PDFs

FM8 Updates (was: Re: difficulties using italics for index entries in FM 8.0)

Jeremy Griffith wrote (in part): > One of 277's "features" is a change to the sort order of the > formats in the catalogs that makes mincemeat of keyboard > usage for applying formats (Ctrl-number-letters). The same > "improvement" is in FM9, but thankfully there is a maker.ini > setting to make

Automating the import of multi-page PDFs

Well, I'd disagree, slightly. I think the import-via-RTF fits under the umbrella of copying the original text and reformattting it, which was one of Christopher's original options. It just isn't copying it directly from the Word Perfect source. Putting a wrapper around a sequence of PDFs would

Importing Multi Page Tiffs, How ??

Although the TIFF format supports multiple pages there aren't many applications out there supporting the multi-page flavor. Adobe Photoshop doesn't, I believe (I haven't tested with CS3 or newer) -- even though the TIFF spec is published by Adobe. The likely reason is that multiple-page TIFF has a

Automating the import of multi-page PDFs

Christopher Seal wrote: > I can either copy text from the WordPerfect file and paste into the FM > document (then format), or I can import sequential pages from the PDF > version of each report. > > The report collection will be published as PDF. > > As there are hundreds of PDF pages to be

Importing Multi Page Tiffs, How ??

Some of our older scanned documents are multi-page TIFFs. I keep a copy of Paperport Deluxe (version 7.0, that came with a long gone scanner) on my computer solely because it can split these files into individual graphics. Clint Clinton Owen | Senior Technical Writer | Crane Aerospace &

Automating the import of multi-page PDFs

If that is an option for Christopher, I'd certainly agree that this approach is a good one, Art. As for the direct import issue, I went back and searched the archives and found the discussion in October 2006, but couldn't find a definitive answer to the direct import of multiple-page PDFs into

Automating the import of multi-page PDFs

Pinkham, Jim wrote: > As for the direct import issue, I went back and searched the archives > and found the discussion in October 2006, but couldn't find a definitive > answer to the direct import of multiple-page PDFs into Frame. You > suggested the alternative approach of the RTF for the text

Automating the import of multi-page PDFs

Wow. Quick response! I've read the responses, and obviously I have to clarify a few things. Note: This is a short contract in which I have already finished several collections that were started by others, and in which the FM book had been set up, and individual documents had been text filled and

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