Re: Using Frame on a Mac running virtual Windows

2009-04-22 Thread Amnon Yaish
Yes. MacOS 10.5 + VMWare Fusion 2. Frame 8 works like a charm. You don't need to run MS Office on virtual Windows. It exists in Mac version, but there is no reason it shouldn't work. And I'm talking about real-world day to day production. best, Amnon. Baruch Brodersen

Installing Acrobat 9.0 taking FOREVER??!?

2009-04-22 Thread John Hedtke
I just re-installed Acrobat 9.0 Pro Extended off the Adobe TCS 2.0 and it took very close to two hours. Nope, nothing special, but the histogram just s-l-o-w-l-y crawled across the screen and a mere two hours later, it seemed to be done. Is this normal for Acrobat 9.0 or for the Tech Comm

Re: Installing Acrobat 9.0 taking FOREVER??!?

2009-04-22 Thread David Schor
John, I just installed a new license for Acrobat 9 Pro Complete Version on my computer here at work yesterday, and I noticed that the folder for the program in the Program Files folder is a whopping 1.85 GB, containing 6,416 files in 882 subfolders. Now you know why installation seems to take

Re: Installing Acrobat 9.0 taking FOREVER??!?

2009-04-22 Thread quills
I would say that it's more common to the operating system. The more you have going on in your background the more time Windows takes to do installs. And my experience has always been for long install times on Windows. I believe it to be a function of how the OS is structured and the registry.

Re: Using Frame on a Mac running virtual Windows

2009-04-22 Thread quills
I can second Amnon's statement. It is stable, and fully functional. The only caveat is that you need the maximum RAM to operate smoothly. The good news is that if you purchase your RAM from a company other than Apple you will be able to conserve on your expenditure. The RAM is vital. You will

Re: Installing Acrobat 9.0 taking FOREVER??!?

2009-04-22 Thread John Hedtke
I'd find that utterly believable. I'm sure that my registry is full of junk. I've been thinking about doing a system reload and reinstall for months, but I also know that it takes about 40-50 hours of productive time to get the box back to the state I'd wanted--reloading and reconfiguring

Re: Installing Acrobat 9.0 taking FOREVER??!?

2009-04-22 Thread John Hedtke
Yes, I understand. I really hate that going off in mumble mode that Windows does so well. John ___ You are currently subscribed to Framers as arch...@mail-archive.com. Send list messages to fram...@lists.frameusers.com. To unsubscribe send a

Re: Installing Acrobat 9.0 taking FOREVER??!?

2009-04-22 Thread Jim Owens
Sometimes it takes my system several minutes just to delete a 2KB file using Windows Explorer. I assume that the registry is being updated in hundreds of places. John Hedtke wrote: I'd find that utterly believable. I'm sure that my registry is full of junk. I've been thinking about doing a

RE: Installing Acrobat 9.0 taking FOREVER??!?

2009-04-22 Thread Dov Isaacs
Deletion of a file normally does not result in any registry modifications whatsoever! When you delete a file, changes are made to the directory entries and the space allocation tables on your disk partition. That should be it. Taking several minutes just to delete a 2KB file using Windows Explorer

SV: Installing Acrobat 9.0 taking FOREVER??!?

2009-04-22 Thread Jacob Schäffer
If Windows Explorer try to re-connect to an unavailable share or other ressource on the network it sometimes goes completely banana and try to re-stablish the connection upon many file operations and window re-paints. This is also true for the some of the FileSystem objects used by the latest

RE: Weird autonumbering problem with Framemaker

2009-04-22 Thread Combs, Richard
Eva Whitley wrote: Well, after literally hours of work, I've managed to trace the problem to a bad second level heading that was causing the re-set. However, fixing it meant trying to re-do the autonumbering on the headings, and I just can't figure out how to structure the headings so

Re: Weird autonumbering problem with Framemaker

2009-04-22 Thread Eva Whitley
Well, after literally hours of work, I've managed to trace the problem to a bad second level heading that was causing the re-set. However, fixing it meant trying to re-do the autonumbering on the headings, and I just can't figure out how to structure the headings so Heading 1.1 in Section 2

RE: Weird autonumbering problem with Framemaker

2009-04-22 Thread Matt Sullivan
I second Lin's solution! I usually keep my autonumbering documentation on a table on a reference page. This allows me to have access to it when using the file, rather than remembering the last place I left the .xls file! -Matt Matt Sullivan GRAFIX Training m...@roundpeg.com www.roundpeg.com

RE: Weird autonumbering problem with Framemaker

2009-04-22 Thread Fred Ridder
Lin Sims offered Eva some good advice on numbering: Remember when using a numbering string to provide it with a series tag (e.g., H: for headings) and to have the same number of blocks in each tag's string. That is, if your Heading1 is 1. and Heading2 is 1.1 and resets after each

Links in PDFs created from Frame

2009-04-22 Thread Pat Christenson
Hi all - I have some Frame docs that include hypertext links to URLs. The links work fine when I use Ctrl-Alt-click to check them in Frame. Clicking the link in the generated PDF brings up a dialog that asks you to confirm that you trust the destination website. Is there a security

Re: Links in PDFs created from Frame

2009-04-22 Thread Writer
Does the message give the user the opportunity to accept or block the link? I suspect it is a feature that is built into the PDF viewer. Nadine --- On Wed, 4/22/09, Pat Christenson pxen...@comcast.net wrote: From: Pat Christenson pxen...@comcast.net Subject: Links in PDFs created from

Using Frame on a Mac running virtual Windows

2009-04-22 Thread Baruch Brodersen
Dear Framers, Does anybody have experience running Frame and Frame utilities (FrameScript, IXGen, MIF2GO, TimeSavers, etc) as well as MS Office on a Mac laptop through a virtual Windows (middleware?) platform. Is this doable/practicable in the real-world of day-to-day, grind it out

Using Frame on a Mac running virtual Windows

2009-04-22 Thread Amnon Yaish
Yes. MacOS 10.5 + VMWare Fusion 2. Frame 8 works like a charm. You don't need to run MS Office on virtual Windows. It exists in Mac version, but there is no reason it shouldn't work. And I'm talking about "real-world day to day production". best, Amnon. Baruch Brodersen (Baruch.Brodersen at

Installing Acrobat 9.0 taking FOREVER??!?

2009-04-22 Thread John Hedtke
I just re-installed Acrobat 9.0 Pro Extended off the Adobe TCS 2.0 and it took very close to two hours. Nope, nothing special, but the histogram just s-l-o-w-l-y crawled across the screen and a mere two hours later, it seemed to be done. Is this normal for Acrobat 9.0 or for the Tech Comm

Installing Acrobat 9.0 taking FOREVER??!?

2009-04-22 Thread David Schor
John, I just installed a new license for Acrobat 9 Pro Complete Version on my computer here at work yesterday, and I noticed that the folder for the program in the Program Files folder is a whopping 1.85 GB, containing 6,416 files in 882 subfolders. Now you know why installation seems to take

Installing Acrobat 9.0 taking FOREVER??!?

2009-04-22 Thread qui...@airmail.net
I would say that it's more common to the operating system. The more you have going on in your background the more time Windows takes to do installs. And my experience has always been for long install times on Windows. I believe it to be a function of how the OS is structured and the registry.

Using Frame on a Mac running virtual Windows

2009-04-22 Thread qui...@airmail.net
I can second Amnon's statement. It is stable, and fully functional. The only caveat is that you need the maximum RAM to operate smoothly. The good news is that if you purchase your RAM from a company other than Apple you will be able to conserve on your expenditure. The RAM is vital. You will

Installing Acrobat 9.0 taking FOREVER??!?

2009-04-22 Thread John Hedtke
I'd find that utterly believable. I'm sure that my registry is full of junk. I've been thinking about doing a system reload and reinstall for months, but I also know that it takes about 40-50 hours of productive time to get the box back to the state I'd wanted--reloading and reconfiguring

Installing Acrobat 9.0 taking FOREVER??!?

2009-04-22 Thread Jim Owens
Sometimes it takes my system several minutes just to delete a 2KB file using Windows Explorer. I assume that the registry is being updated in hundreds of places. John Hedtke wrote: > I'd find that utterly believable. I'm sure that my registry is full > of junk. I've been thinking about doing

Installing Acrobat 9.0 taking FOREVER??!?

2009-04-22 Thread John Hedtke
Yes, I understand. I really hate that "going off in mumble mode" that Windows does so well. John

Installing Acrobat 9.0 taking FOREVER??!?

2009-04-22 Thread Dov Isaacs
Although the Acrobat 9 Pro installation does take a tremendous amount of disk space (of which nearly 725MB are the installation files so that Acrobat can "self heal" when there are problems), that does not account for the two hour installation cited. I have performed Acrobat 9 Pro Extended

Installing Acrobat 9.0 taking FOREVER??!?

2009-04-22 Thread Dov Isaacs
Deletion of a file normally does not result in any registry modifications whatsoever! When you delete a file, changes are made to the directory entries and the space allocation tables on your disk partition. That should be it. Taking "several minutes just to delete a 2KB file using Windows

SV: Installing Acrobat 9.0 taking FOREVER??!?

2009-04-22 Thread Jacob Schäffer
If Windows Explorer try to re-connect to an unavailable share or other ressource on the network it sometimes goes completely banana and try to re-stablish the connection upon many file operations and window re-paints. This is also true for the some of the FileSystem objects used by the latest

Weird autonumbering problem with Framemaker

2009-04-22 Thread Eva Whitley
Well, after literally hours of work, I've managed to trace the problem to a bad second level heading that was causing the re-set. However, fixing it meant trying to re-do the autonumbering on the headings, and I just can't figure out how to structure the headings so Heading 1.1 in Section 2

Weird autonumbering problem with Framemaker

2009-04-22 Thread Lin Sims
On Wed, Apr 22, 2009 at 3:44 PM, Eva Whitley wrote: > Well, after literally hours of work, I've managed to trace the problem > to a bad second level heading that was causing the re-set. However, > fixing it meant trying to re-do the autonumbering on the headings, and I > just can't figure out how

Weird autonumbering problem with Framemaker

2009-04-22 Thread Combs, Richard
Eva Whitley wrote: > Well, after literally hours of work, I've managed to trace the problem > to a bad second level heading that was causing the re-set. However, > fixing it meant trying to re-do the autonumbering on the headings, and I > just can't figure out how to structure the headings so

Weird autonumbering problem with Framemaker

2009-04-22 Thread Matt Sullivan
I second Lin's solution! I usually keep my autonumbering documentation on a table on a reference page. This allows me to have access to it when using the file, rather than remembering the last place I left the .xls file! -Matt Matt Sullivan GRAFIX Training matt at roundpeg.com

Weird autonumbering problem with Framemaker

2009-04-22 Thread Fred Ridder
Lin Sims offered Eva some good advice on numbering: > Remember when using a numbering string to provide it with a series tag > (e.g., "H:" for headings) and to have the same number of blocks in > each tag's string. > > That is, if your Heading1 is "1." and Heading2 is "1.1" and resets > after

Links in PDFs created from Frame

2009-04-22 Thread Pat Christenson
Hi all - I have some Frame docs that include hypertext links to URLs. The links work fine when I use Ctrl-Alt-click to check them in Frame. Clicking the link in the generated PDF brings up a dialog that asks you to confirm that you trust the destination website. Is there a security

Links in PDFs created from Frame

2009-04-22 Thread Writer
Does the message give the user the opportunity to accept or block the link? I suspect it is a feature that is built into the PDF viewer. Nadine --- On Wed, 4/22/09, Pat Christenson wrote: > From: Pat Christenson > Subject: Links in PDFs created from Frame > To: "FrameUsers List" >