Hi
One of the ways to add callouts to a graphic, is by placing a text frame in
the anchored frame and typing the callout in this text frame. However, when
this text is translated, you get text expansion, and the text frame may
become too small. Apparently, this phenomenon is called overset. For
Hi Yves,
We once created a simple script to find text overflows, run the script and
it will find the first overflow. May be you can use it to create a more
advanced script.
// Detect overflow in AFrames
// Script detects first overflow and stops there
// copyright iDTP; versie 1.0; januari 2003
Even with William's script as a base...
In general, including text in a graphic isn't usually considered a
good practice for just the reason you point out -- during translation,
the text shrinks or grows, depending on the target languages, and that
can require minute adjustment to the graphic.
A
Hi FrameUsers
I'm using FM9.0p237 in Windows XP SP3.
I have a DITA map open in the Resource Manager view. I want to add topicrefs
to my ditamap, but when I click the Insert Child or Sibling Topicref button,
nothing seems to happen. Apparently, I can only do this when I switch to
Document View.
Dear all,
Both in FM 8 and in FM 9 I habe set in maker.ini:
[Preferences]
GetLibraryColorRGBFromCMYK=None
Save as PDF in FM-8
- colour cmyk 100/25/25/0 looks ok
- font Lucida Sans Semibold (and other bold/semibold) are used
Save as PDF in FM-9
- colour cmyk 100/25/25/0 is blueisch, rather than
Dear all,
Both in FM 8 and in FM 9 I habe set in maker.ini:
[Preferences]
GetLibraryColorRGBFromCMYK=None
Save as PDF in FM-8
- colour cmyk 100/25/25/0 looks ok
- font Lucida Sans Semibold (and other bold/semibold) are used
Save as PDF in FM-9
- colour cmyk 100/25/25/0 is blueisch, rather than
Hi Yves,
If you can't find something, let me know, and I can write you a FrameScript
script to do this. Depending on your exact requirements, the cost should be
under $150. Thank you very much.
Rick Quatro
Carmen Publishing Inc.
r...@frameexpert.com
585-659-8267
Hi
One of the ways to add
Klaus,
Forgive me if I'm not getting the idea that you're presenting, but
your sequence of PDFs and posts seems to confirm the long-standing
ideas that:
1.) SaveAs PDF from within FrameMaker uses a different workflow and
different options than Printing to a PDF logical printer, and
2.) SaveAs
I did something similar, where I implemented a tiny language that specified the
order in which to try and modify the formatting to get content to fit on a
specific page (the last page). I implemented font changes, text frame changes,
line space changes, and I forget what else. The language
Hi,
We upgraded because of the free SDL AuthorAssistant, which we are using
to improve both consistency and readability in our docs. We are too
small for an editor at this time.
We are a group of 5, and everyone here likes the new interface. We use
both structured and unstructured docs, but not
Kees van de Wal wrote:
A few days ago I've posted a message about the disappearing TOC when
printing a book with a childbook. See e-mail below.
Someone told me this is an intended functionality of FM. When you
print
the childbook, you want to see the TOC, but when you print the
main-book
Would this method support the border above and below the Note?
If we were doing a manual redesign I could look at creating a new style for
Notes, but at the moment we're doing what is essentially a one-to-one
conversion without any redesign in look and feel. As the manuals deal with
medical
Forgive me if I sound ignorant - although being new to FM, the term is
applicable - if I make the Notes/Cautions/Warnings into a graphic, wouldn't
that imply that all contents of every Note (or Caution or Warning) would have
to be identical?
Alison
From: Gary
Alison,
One common way of setting this up in Frame is to create a (usually)
one row, two cell table. One cell, often with a hanging indent so that
it's visible in the margin, contains a symbol or graphic for
Notes/Cautions/Warnings. The other cell, usually set so that it runs
in margin with the
Is there a way in FM8 or FM9 to save and re-use conditional expressions
created using the Build expression dialog box?
I'm using FM8 and I can't find a way to do this. I'm hoping the
capability has been added for FM9.
___
You are currently
If you used a line above and below the note that was the width of the printed
part of the page (eg, 5 inches), you would probably have to create a separate
note para tag for tables (I can't remember what happens to a line that is
longer than the space that it's in).
Nadine
--- On Thu,
Hi folks,
Here's another FM9 question. I can't find anything on the Adobe website about
this. Does anyone know if FM9 supports a version of DocBook later than 4.2?
FM8 supports only DB 4.2 and there are some serious limitations.
Unfortunately, we cannot switch to DITA because we have a
Nadine wrote:
FM does support tables within tables, but you have to put the inner
table into an anchored frame.
Alison Craig responded:
Would this method support the border above and below the Note?
Sure, you're still using a table for the notes, so you still have the
table borders
Right. I forgot about having to put it into a text frame, too. I avoid putting
tables into tables because I've often used WebWorks ePublisher to create online
help. ePublisher views anything inside of an anchored frame as an image (and
will turn embedded tables into an image), thus ignoring
Thanks.
I'll be trying everyone's suggestions over the next day or so and hopefully,
I'll get this done.
Then it'll be on to the next question ;-)))
Alison
Alison Craig, Technical Writer
Ultrasonix Medical Corporation
Tel: (604) 279-8550, ext 127
Fax: (604) 279-8559
E-mail:
Am 18.06.2009 um 16:57 schrieb Art Campbell:
your sequence of PDFs and posts seems to confirm the long-standing
ideas that:
1.) SaveAs PDF from within FrameMaker uses a different workflow and
different options than Printing to a PDF logical printer, and
When I once compared a PostScript
I say that Save As PDF _is_ _now_ the preferred way to create PDFs.
But there is no reason to warn against using Save As PDF.
Wow. I'd sure take issue with that advice. I've been using FrameMaker since
version 6.0, and been a member of the forum since that time. There have been
countless
Does anyone with /extensive experience/ with FrameMaker 9 think it is
worth upgrading from FM8? I downloaded the trial and played with it a
bit and like the new menus. But was any substantially or even slightly
useful functionality added that makes it must have?
Regards,
Hedley
--
Hedley
If you're using it to author in DITA, then I would say yes. If you're
authoring in unstructured, I would say meh.
Nadine
Hedley Finger wrote:
> Does anyone with /extensive experience/ with FrameMaker 9 think it is
> worth upgrading from FM8? I downloaded the trial and played with it a
> bit
At 02:23 AM 18/06/2009, Susan Curtzwiler wrote:
>Hi All,
>
> Using FM 7.0, Acrobat Distiller 5.0, Vista Enterprise on Compaq laptop.
>-
>
>In the pdf setup, I have marked the file to open on pg 1. However, the file
>is now opening at the end of the book.
>
>Can I make the file open
At 10:21 AM 18/06/2009, Art Campbell wrote:
>[]
>If you can't find it and you need a quick fix, you may want to
>download the eval version of Acrobat and make the adjustment on a
>different system so you don't mess up your current install.
I found that Acrobat Pro won't save any document
Hi
One of the ways to add callouts to a graphic, is by placing a text frame in
the anchored frame and typing the callout in this text frame. However, when
this text is translated, you get text expansion, and the text frame may
become too small. Apparently, this phenomenon is called "overset". For
Hi Yves,
We once created a simple script to find text overflows, run the script and
it will find the first overflow. May be you can use it to create a more
advanced script.
// Detect overflow in AFrames
// Script detects first overflow and stops there
// copyright iDTP; versie 1.0; januari 2003
Even with William's script as a base...
In general, including text in a graphic isn't usually considered a
good practice for just the reason you point out -- during translation,
the text shrinks or grows, depending on the target languages, and that
can require minute adjustment to the graphic.
A
Hi FrameUsers
I'm using FM9.0p237 in Windows XP SP3.
I have a DITA map open in the Resource Manager view. I want to add topicrefs
to my ditamap, but when I click the Insert Child or Sibling Topicref button,
nothing seems to happen. Apparently, I can only do this when I switch to
Document View.
That's what we do. We put A, B, C... in the graphic, and then create a table
below the graphic with headers like Item, Name, Description.
Nadine
--- On Thu, 6/18/09, Art Campbell wrote:
> From: Art Campbell
> Subject: Re: Overset Manager (or a similar Framescript) for FrameMaker?
> To:
Dear all,
Both in FM 8 and in FM 9 I habe set in maker.ini:
[Preferences]
GetLibraryColorRGBFromCMYK=None
Save as PDF in FM-8
- colour cmyk 100/25/25/0 looks ok
- font Lucida Sans Semibold (and other bold/semibold) are used
Save as PDF in FM-9
- colour cmyk 100/25/25/0 is blueisch, rather than
Dear experts,
With FrameMaker 8.0p277 and distiller 8.1.0 i note the following
behavior.
This was the same already with distiller 7.x XP-SP2, all files on local
HDs
1 Save as PDF (only book file is open, chapter files are not)
2 After some time distiller starts and fm builds the tps
3 Distiller
Dear all,
Both in FM 8 and in FM 9 I habe set in maker.ini:
[Preferences]
GetLibraryColorRGBFromCMYK=None
Save as PDF in FM-8
- colour cmyk 100/25/25/0 looks ok
- font Lucida Sans Semibold (and other bold/semibold) are used
Save as PDF in FM-9
- colour cmyk 100/25/25/0 is blueisch, rather than
Hi Yves,
If you can't find something, let me know, and I can write you a FrameScript
script to do this. Depending on your exact requirements, the cost should be
under $150. Thank you very much.
Rick Quatro
Carmen Publishing Inc.
rick at frameexpert.com
585-659-8267
Hi
One of the ways to
Klaus,
Forgive me if I'm not getting the idea that you're presenting, but
your sequence of PDFs and posts seems to confirm the long-standing
ideas that:
1.) SaveAs PDF from within FrameMaker uses a different workflow and
different options than Printing to a PDF logical printer, and
2.) SaveAs
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Hello again,
A few days ago I've posted a message about the disappearing TOC when
printing a book with a childbook. See e-mail below.
Someone told me this is an intended functionality of FM. When you print
the childbook, you want to see the TOC, but when you print the main-book
you don't want to
I did something similar, where I implemented a tiny language that specified the
order in which to try and modify the formatting to get content to fit on a
specific page (the last page). I implemented font changes, text frame changes,
line space changes, and I forget what else. The language
Hi,
We upgraded because of the free SDL AuthorAssistant, which we are using
to improve both consistency and readability in our docs. We are too
small for an editor at this time.
We are a group of 5, and everyone here likes the new interface. We use
both structured and unstructured docs, but not
Kees van de Wal wrote:
> A few days ago I've posted a message about the disappearing TOC when
> printing a book with a childbook. See e-mail below.
>
> Someone told me this is an intended functionality of FM. When you
print
> the childbook, you want to see the TOC, but when you print the
Would this method support the border above and below the Note?
If we were doing a manual redesign I could look at creating a new style for
Notes, but at the moment we're doing what is essentially a one-to-one
conversion without any redesign in "look and feel". As the manuals deal with
medical
Forgive me if I sound ignorant - although being new to FM, the term is
applicable - if I make the Notes/Cautions/Warnings into a graphic, wouldn't
that imply that all contents of every Note (or Caution or Warning) would have
to be identical?
Alison
From: Gary
Alison,
One common way of setting this up in Frame is to create a (usually)
one row, two cell table. One cell, often with a hanging indent so that
it's visible in the margin, contains a symbol or graphic for
Notes/Cautions/Warnings. The other cell, usually set so that it runs
in margin with the
Is there a way in FM8 or FM9 to save and re-use conditional expressions
created using the "Build expression" dialog box?
I'm using FM8 and I can't find a way to do this. I'm hoping the
capability has been added for FM9.
I have a hunch you may be able to copy and paste to store it on a
Reference page, and I haven't played with equations enough to know if
you can or not.
Another option may be to play with the Autotext plug-in.
Art
Art Campbell
art.campbell at gmail.com
"... In my opinion,
If you used a line above and below the note that was the width of the printed
part of the page (eg, 5 inches), you would probably have to create a separate
note para tag for tables (I can't remember what happens to a line that is
longer than the space that it's in).
Nadine
--- On Thu,
Hi folks,
Here's another FM9 question. I can't find anything on the Adobe website about
this. Does anyone know if FM9 supports a version of DocBook later than 4.2?
FM8 supports only DB 4.2 and there are some serious limitations.
Unfortunately, we cannot switch to DITA because we have a
Nadine wrote:
> FM does support tables within tables, but you have to put the inner
> table into an anchored frame.
Alison Craig responded:
> Would this method support the border above and below the Note?
Sure, you're still using a table for the notes, so you still have the
table borders
Right. I forgot about having to put it into a text frame, too. I avoid putting
tables into tables because I've often used WebWorks ePublisher to create online
help. ePublisher views anything inside of an anchored frame as an image (and
will turn embedded tables into an image), thus ignoring
Thanks.
I'll be trying everyone's suggestions over the next day or so and hopefully,
I'll get this done.
Then it'll be on to the next question ;-)))
Alison
Alison Craig, Technical Writer
Ultrasonix Medical Corporation
Tel: (604) 279-8550, ext 127
Fax: (604) 279-8559
E-mail: alison.craig at
> I say that Save As PDF _is_ _now_ the preferred way to create PDFs.
> But there is no reason to warn against using Save As PDF.
Wow. I'd sure take issue with that advice. I've been using FrameMaker since
version 6.0, and been a member of the forum since that time. There have been
countless
Hello Frame Gurus,
I'm rather new to the list so please bear with me.
I have a book containing 12 files. Over time (starting before I ever
worked with these files), each file's paragraph style sheet has been
modified so that now the book's styles are a sea of inconsistency.
Using Paragraph
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