RE: Logging FrameMaker book errors in a text file

2009-06-20 Thread Rick Quatro
FrameMaker Console window messages are stored in a file called consfile.txt in the FrameMaker folder. So, for any message written there, you can look at this file after the build process completes. For more complete reporting and scripting abilities, take a look at FrameScript (http://www.framescr

RE: FM9: Book within a book, generated files not in PDF

2009-06-20 Thread Lynne A. Price
At 10:16 AM 6/18/2009, Combs, Richard wrote: >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,

Font Issues - Unavaiilable Fonts and Font Information Changed - Recap

2009-06-20 Thread Oran Petersen
Following the two recent threads on the list concerning fonts, I did not see a comprehensive recap of these issues for cause and cure. CAUSE-Unavailable fonts 1. Most postscript printers come loaded with a set of Postscript fonts. 2. If you set a postscript printer as your default, Windows

Re: Merge Multiple Doc Styles

2009-06-20 Thread Karen Robbins
Jeff, Good point--trouble finds many opportunities. I see inconsistencies in master pages, get color def errors (which luckily have little ramification in this particular project), and have recently discovered that if those before me had only used C-head level properly I wouldn't have to strugg

Re: Getting Rid of Font Change Warning

2009-06-20 Thread Art Campbell
Fei Min, The idea here is to set the Adobe PDF printer as the system default printer so that Frame will have a stable baseline and not access to fonts on hard physical printers that cannot be included in a PDF. With that in mind, the answers to your questions would be: 1. No. This action sets the

Re: FM9 & DocBook (was FM9 Question Was: Is FM8 --> FM9 worth the money?)

2009-06-20 Thread Lynne A. Price
At 11:36 AM 6/18/2009, Diane Gaskill wrote: >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

PDF problem

2009-06-20 Thread Cynthia Cobb
I hope you all can help me. I'm using Frame  7.0p578 on Windows XP. When I do a File Save As a PDF. I am getting the following error message in the text file that is saved: %%[Page: 163]%% %%[Page: 164]%% %%[Page: 165]%% %%[ Error: undefined; OffendingCommand: p ]%% Stack: -mark- /Block /Placem

Fw: PDF problem with ending of error message

2009-06-20 Thread Cynthia Cobb
Just realzied I forgot to include the end of the file: %%[ Flushing: rest of job (to end-of-file) will be ignored ]%% %%[ Warning: PostScript error. No PDF file produced. ] %% - Forwarded Message From: Cynthia Cobb To: framers@lists.frameusers.com Sent: Saturday, June 20, 2009 3:14:14

Logging FrameMaker book errors in a text file

2009-06-20 Thread Rick Quatro
FrameMaker Console window messages are stored in a file called consfile.txt in the FrameMaker folder. So, for any message written there, you can look at this file after the build process completes. For more complete reporting and scripting abilities, take a look at FrameScript (http://www.framescr

FM9: Book within a book, generated files not in PDF

2009-06-20 Thread Lynne A. Price
At 10:16 AM 6/18/2009, Combs, Richard wrote: >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,

Font Issues - Unavaiilable Fonts and Font Information Changed - Recap

2009-06-20 Thread Oran Petersen
Following the two recent threads on the list concerning fonts, I did not see a comprehensive recap of these issues for cause and cure. CAUSE-Unavailable fonts 1. Most postscript printers come loaded with a set of Postscript fonts. 2. If you set a postscript printer as your default, Windows

Merge Multiple Doc Styles

2009-06-20 Thread Karen Robbins
Jeff, Good point--trouble finds many opportunities. I see inconsistencies in master pages, get color def errors (which luckily have little ramification in this particular project), and have recently discovered that if those before me had only used C-head level properly I wouldn't have to strugg

Getting Rid of Font Change Warning

2009-06-20 Thread Art Campbell
Fei Min, The idea here is to set the Adobe PDF printer as the system default printer so that Frame will have a stable baseline and not access to fonts on hard physical printers that cannot be included in a PDF. With that in mind, the answers to your questions would be: 1. No. This action sets the

FM9 & DocBook (was FM9 Question Was: Is FM8 --> FM9 worth the money?)

2009-06-20 Thread Lynne A. Price
At 11:36 AM 6/18/2009, Diane Gaskill wrote: >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

PDF problem

2009-06-20 Thread Cynthia Cobb
I hope you all can help me. I'm using Frame? 7.0p578 on Windows XP. When I?do a File Save As a PDF. I am getting the following error message in the text file that is saved: %%[Page: 163]%% %%[Page: 164]%% %%[Page: 165]%% %%[ Error: undefined; OffendingCommand: p ]%% Stack: -mark- /Block /Placem

Fw: PDF problem with ending of error message

2009-06-20 Thread Cynthia Cobb
Just realzied I forgot to include the end of the file: %%[ Flushing: rest of job (to end-of-file) will be ignored ]%% %%[ Warning: PostScript error. No PDF file produced. ] %% - Forwarded Message From: Cynthia Cobb To: framers at lists.frameusers.com Sent: Saturday, June 20, 2009 3:14