Save As not working with Acrobat Pro 9.0

2009-06-29 Thread Garnier Garnier
Hello listers, After installing Acrobat Pro 9.0 the “Save As” option has ceased to work and throws an error “the selected job option does not exist in the current installation. Create a job option or select an existing job option” Selecting OK throws another error “Framemaker could not find Ac

Re: Save As not working with Acrobat Pro 9.0

2009-06-29 Thread Writer
For a long time, people here have recommended that you do not use the Save as PDF option, but rather use the File > Print option and set the printer to Adobe PDF. If you do that, do you still get the same error message? Nadine Garnier Garnier wrote: > Hello listers, > > After installing Acroba

RE: Save As not working with Acrobat Pro 9.0

2009-06-29 Thread Garnier Garnier
Yes I am aware of the same and hence I was trying to clarify the same,that is a known error. File >Print option >Adobe PDF throws "Font information on your system has changed" error and changes the fonts (used in headings. I have uninstalled the Acrobat 5.0 before installing Acrobat Pro 9.0.

RE: Save As not working with Acrobat Pro 9.0

2009-06-29 Thread Garnier Garnier
Please excuse the contents of another mail(direct offline response) that was attached accidently in the earlier mail. Yes I am aware of the same and hence I was trying to clarify the same,that is a known error. File >Print option >Adobe PDF throws "Font information on your system has chang

Re: Save As not working with Acrobat Pro 9.0

2009-06-29 Thread Writer
I believe that means that the Adobe PDF printer does not support the font that you used for your headers. Nadine Garnier Garnier wrote: > Please excuse the contents of another mail(direct offline response) that was > attached accidently in the earlier mail. > > > Yes I am aware of the same an

Create rollover text with FrameMaker

2009-06-29 Thread OCONNOR Mark
Hi all, Is there any method of creating rollover text in a pdf generated from a FrameMaker file? I can create mailto and url hypertext links (from FrameMaker hypertext markers) that display the marker text as a rollover, but is there any way to do this for normal text (i.e., without the link bein

RE: Create rollover text with FrameMaker

2009-06-29 Thread Baruch Brodersen
With the TimeSavers you can do this is a couple ways: 1. http://www.microtype.com/showcase/highlight.pdf 2. http://www.microtype.com/showcase/FormAsst/SP_RolloverPop_demo.pdf Baruch Brodersen -Original Message- From: framers-boun...@lists.frameusers.com [mailto:framers-boun...@lists.

Re: Typing conditional text

2009-06-29 Thread Chris Despopoulos
This looks like part of a bigger problem with character ranges. It's understandable that you would get this behavior where arrowing from one direction makes the transition point show one property, and from the other direction the transition point shows another. The fact that the Enter key (new

RE: Save As not working with Acrobat Pro 9.0

2009-06-29 Thread Fred Ridder
Not exactly correct, Nadine. The message that Garnier refers to occurs whenever you change the printer you have selected--for example when you change from your system's default printer to the Adobe PDF printer. The reason for the message is that on a Windows system the information on font metri

RE: Save As not working with Acrobat Pro 9.0

2009-06-29 Thread Writer
Thanks for the correction and clarification, Fred. I try to stick to common fonts whenever possible (eg, Times New Roman and Arial) to avoid these issues. I get the warning, but I haven't had a problem with font change in quite some time. Nadine --- On Mon, 6/29/09, Fred Ridder wrote: > Fro

RE: Typing conditional text

2009-06-29 Thread Combs, Richard
Chris Despopoulos wrote: > If you apply bold to a char range that includes the last char in a pgf, > then Maker will assume the whole pgf should be bolded. Using the Default > Font setting in the fmt catalog won't change it back to its default > properties. I've found that you should always hav

RE: Save As not working with Acrobat Pro 9.0

2009-06-29 Thread Dov Isaacs
Exactly what version of FrameMaker are you using with Acrobat 9? If you are using versions of FrameMaker earlier than 7.2, what you are experiencing would naturally be expected. Why? Acrobat 7 changed the name of the PostScript printer driver instance from "Acrobat Distiller" (or some name simil

RE: Logging FrameMaker book errors in a text file

2009-06-29 Thread Lynne A. Price
Gordon, You are correct that by default FM exports a forced return as a regular return. There are other special characters that FM converts to more usual characters. For example, it exports a discretionary hyphen as a regular hyphen. There are a couple of read/write rules that may help in y

Re: Strange orphan behavior in tables

2009-06-29 Thread Andy Kass
"Lynne A. Price" wrote: > Are you asking why the second row isn't placed on the first page > or why a 3-row table with an orphan setting of 2 breaks at all? Either way. Something was inconsistent for me, so thanks for confirming you see the behavior as well. In the para designer, this feature i

Re: Strange orphan behavior in tables

2009-06-29 Thread Lynne A. Price
At 11:30 AM 6/29/2009, Andy Kass wrote: >In the para designer, this feature is clearly labeled widow/orphan >control, but the table designer controls refer only to orphans, so I >thought that maybe tables handle only orphan rows, despite the >documentation. But the behavior we're seeing is clear

RE: Creating an FM9 Style to Apply Forced Page Breaks

2009-06-29 Thread Alison Craig
Sorry. My error. I was dealing with 2 problems at the same time and spoke to the wrong issue in my reply. As for the page breaks and the 95% factor, I firmly believe that certain formatting issues add significantly to manual usability (in the medical device industry, we are mandated to provide

RE: Strange orphan behavior in tables

2009-06-29 Thread Fred Ridder
Andy Kass wrote (in small part): > I actually don't mind breaking a small table, since I have fairly tall rows. > And if it does break like that, having orphans is better than having widows. > However, not being able to use the space created at the bottom of the page > makes it all useless. M

Interference from Printer Resident Fonts (Was: Save As not working with Acrobat Pro 9.0)

2009-06-29 Thread Dov Isaacs
There is another solution to this problem and it is associated with the PPD files themselves and their support for "printer resident fonts." At one time (over 18 years ago), it was considered useful for PostScript printers to have "resident fonts" such that less memory was needed in the printer

RE: Save As not working with Acrobat Pro 9.0

2009-06-29 Thread Garnier Garnier
Hi Listers, Thanks to each one of you who responded to my query. Am using FM 7.0 and was using Acrobat distiller 5.0. All was working fine including the scripts that I use for various processes before the docs go into the build. The requirement shifted to having editable pdfs so opted for Ac

OT: Automatic capturing of screen shots

2009-06-29 Thread Andersen, Verner Engell VEA
Hi Have any of you been working with tools that grab screen shots automatically. I am going to - start our application - send data to the application using a java based simulator - capture various screens and parts of screens - save the screens as .png Change the language settings of the PC an

Save As not working with Acrobat Pro 9.0

2009-06-29 Thread Garnier Garnier
Hello listers, After installing Acrobat Pro 9.0 the ?Save As? option has ceased to work and throws an error ?the selected job option does not exist in the current installation. Create a job option or select an existing job option? Selecting OK throws another error ?Framemaker could not find Ac

Save As not working with Acrobat Pro 9.0

2009-06-29 Thread Writer
For a long time, people here have recommended that you do not use the Save as PDF option, but rather use the File > Print option and set the printer to Adobe PDF. If you do that, do you still get the same error message? Nadine Garnier Garnier wrote: > Hello listers, > > After installing Acroba

Save As not working with Acrobat Pro 9.0

2009-06-29 Thread Garnier Garnier
Yes I am aware of the same and hence I was trying to clarify the same,that is a known error. File >Print option >Adobe PDF throws "Font information on your system has changed" error and changes the fonts (used in headings. I have uninstalled the Acrobat 5.0 before installing Acrobat Pro 9.0.

Save As not working with Acrobat Pro 9.0

2009-06-29 Thread Garnier Garnier
Please excuse the contents of another mail(direct offline response) that was attached accidently in the earlier mail. Yes I am aware of the same and hence I was trying to clarify the same,that is a known error. File >Print option >Adobe PDF throws "Font information on your system has chang

Save As not working with Acrobat Pro 9.0

2009-06-29 Thread Writer
I believe that means that the Adobe PDF printer does not support the font that you used for your headers. Nadine Garnier Garnier wrote: > Please excuse the contents of another mail(direct offline response) that was > attached accidently in the earlier mail. > > > Yes I am aware of the same an

Create rollover text with FrameMaker

2009-06-29 Thread OCONNOR Mark
Hi all, Is there any method of creating rollover text in a pdf generated from a FrameMaker file? I can create mailto and url hypertext links (from FrameMaker hypertext markers) that display the marker text as a rollover, but is there any way to do this for normal text (i.e., without the link being

Create rollover text with FrameMaker

2009-06-29 Thread Baruch Brodersen
With the TimeSavers you can do this is a couple ways: 1. http://www.microtype.com/showcase/highlight.pdf 2. http://www.microtype.com/showcase/FormAsst/SP_RolloverPop_demo.pdf Baruch Brodersen -Original Message- From: framers-bounces at lists.frameusers.com [mailto:framers-boun...@lis

Typing conditional text

2009-06-29 Thread Chris Despopoulos
This looks like part of a bigger problem with character ranges. It's understandable that you would get this behavior where arrowing from one direction makes the transition point show one property, and from the other direction the transition point shows another. The fact that the Enter key (new

Save As not working with Acrobat Pro 9.0

2009-06-29 Thread Fred Ridder
Not exactly correct, Nadine. The message that Garnier refers to occurs whenever you change the printer you have selected--for example when you change from your system's default printer to the Adobe PDF printer. The reason for the message is that on a Windows system the information on font metri

Save As not working with Acrobat Pro 9.0

2009-06-29 Thread Writer
Thanks for the correction and clarification, Fred. I try to stick to common fonts whenever possible (eg, Times New Roman and Arial) to avoid these issues. I get the warning, but I haven't had a problem with font change in quite some time. Nadine --- On Mon, 6/29/09, Fred Ridder wrote: > Fro

Typing conditional text

2009-06-29 Thread Combs, Richard
Chris Despopoulos wrote: > If you apply bold to a char range that includes the last char in a pgf, > then Maker will assume the whole pgf should be bolded. Using the Default > Font setting in the fmt catalog won't change it back to its default > properties. I've found that you should always have

Save As not working with Acrobat Pro 9.0

2009-06-29 Thread Dov Isaacs
Exactly what version of FrameMaker are you using with Acrobat 9? If you are using versions of FrameMaker earlier than 7.2, what you are experiencing would naturally be expected. Why? Acrobat 7 changed the name of the PostScript printer driver instance from "Acrobat Distiller" (or some name simil

Logging FrameMaker book errors in a text file

2009-06-29 Thread Lynne A. Price
Gordon, You are correct that by default FM exports a forced return as a regular return. There are other special characters that FM converts to more usual characters. For example, it exports a discretionary hyphen as a regular hyphen. There are a couple of read/write rules that may help in y

Strange orphan behavior in tables

2009-06-29 Thread Andy Kass
"Lynne A. Price" wrote: > Are you asking why the second row isn't placed on the first page > or why a 3-row table with an orphan setting of 2 breaks at all? Either way. Something was inconsistent for me, so thanks for confirming you see the behavior as well. In the para designer, this feature i

Strange orphan behavior in tables

2009-06-29 Thread Lynne A. Price
At 11:30 AM 6/29/2009, Andy Kass wrote: >In the para designer, this feature is clearly labeled widow/orphan >control, but the table designer controls refer only to orphans, so I >thought that maybe tables handle only orphan rows, despite the >documentation. But the behavior we're seeing is clear

Creating an FM9 Style to Apply Forced Page Breaks

2009-06-29 Thread Alison Craig
Sorry. My error. I was dealing with 2 problems at the same time and spoke to the wrong issue in my reply. As for the page breaks and the 95% factor, I firmly believe that certain formatting issues add significantly to manual usability (in the medical device industry, we are mandated to provide

Strange orphan behavior in tables

2009-06-29 Thread Fred Ridder
Andy Kass wrote (in small part): > I actually don't mind breaking a small table, since I have fairly tall rows. > And if it does break like that, having orphans is better than having widows. > However, not being able to use the space created at the bottom of the page > makes it all useless. M

Interference from Printer Resident Fonts (Was: Save As not working with Acrobat Pro 9.0)

2009-06-29 Thread Dov Isaacs
There is another solution to this problem and it is associated with the PPD files themselves and their support for "printer resident fonts." At one time (over 18 years ago), it was considered useful for PostScript printers to have "resident fonts" such that less memory was needed in the printer

Use of "please" in technical documentation and messages on screen

2009-06-29 Thread Thomas Scalise
Verner, I write in Controlled English for translation. I would write: Wait while the program updates the results. Thus, you avoid the "Please" and the gerund (updating), the first of which is unnecessary and the second of which may not be translatable in many languages. Simple, direct, active voi

Logging FrameMaker book errors in a text file

2009-06-29 Thread Gordon Furbush
For some reason, the XML exported from FrameMaker 8 does not recognize forced returns (Control-Enter). We've reported this as a bug, but Adobe has effectively ignored us and we've had no luck getting any type of workaround other than downgrading to FrameMaker 7. - Gordon --- On Sun, 6/28/09