FrameMaker 10.x and Windows 8?

2013-01-17 Thread Harding, Dan
I looked back through list discussions and I don't see any discussion of problems/questions/experiences using FrameMaker 10.x and Windows 8... actually I'm not seeing discussions of ANY version of Frame being used with Win8. While I am still using Windows 7 Enterprise, I'm looking at a desktop

RE: Frame to Robo Cross Refs: Conversion Unpredictable

2013-01-17 Thread Harpreet Singh Seehra
Hi Keith, Try this, Wherever the Framemaker document or book is on your system, copy the complete stuff from there and paste it in Local Disk C:/ of the computer, make sure there is no folder tree like C:/documents/Keith/keith.fm...,the Framemaker document should be in the root folder

RE: Updating older versions of Adobe fonts? Slightly off-topic, but related in a way!

2013-01-17 Thread Craig Ede
And while we are on the topic of fonts and FrameMaker, can someone suggest a reasonable way to get the ZapfDingbat font cheaply, since the default FM installation often complains about this font not being available (even using their templates). BTW: I understand Adobe not wanting to license it

RE: Updating older versions of Adobe fonts? Slightly off-topic, but ... related in a way!

2013-01-17 Thread Craig Ede
Adobe must have done business with them as they now own Macromedia's old product Fontographer. Craig From: syed.hos...@aeris.net To: i...@mikewickham.com; framers@lists.frameusers.com Date: Wed, 16 Jan 2013 07:23:18 -0800 Subject: RE: Updating older

Re: FrameMaker9 / XML

2013-01-17 Thread Robert Lauriston
I use MIF2Go. I can post my settings if you want them. On Wed, Jan 16, 2013 at 12:37 AM, Ian McDonald i...@aptb2b.co.uk wrote: Hello fellow Framers, I'm looking to save small chunks of a FM9 file (9 chapter book, 600 pages) as XML for use in a standard text/content library.

Random links in pdf don't work, but only on RHEL 5

2013-01-17 Thread Martha Lee
Hi All, I have TCS 2.5, which I use to create a large documentation set that includes several manuals. I created a pdf that acts as the documentation set overview, and it has links (cross-references in the source FM file) to major topics in each of the manuals. When I open the pdf on a Windows 7

Word count at the .book level? (FM11)

2013-01-17 Thread Mary Sheahan
Greetings all,   We will be providing word counts for future documents. I know how to do a wordcount inside an .FM file with the Document Reports Utility -- but is there a way to do the same across an entire .BOOK file?    We don't have access to FrameScriptin the past we couldn't even get

RE: Word count at the .book level? (FM11)

2013-01-17 Thread Jeff Coatsworth
Now that you're on FM11, you have ExtendScript built in for free, you know ;) Check out Rick Quattro's webinar on ExtendScript that he gave this week. From: framers-boun...@lists.frameusers.com [mailto:framers-boun...@lists.frameusers.com] On Behalf Of Mary

RE: Word count at the .book level? (FM11)

2013-01-17 Thread Rick Quatro
Here is a link to the webinar information and replay: http://frameautomation.com/2013/01/16/beginning-framemaker-scripting-webinar -january-15-2013/ Rick Quatro Carmen Publishing Inc. 585-283-5045 r...@frameexpert.com ___ You are

ANN: Beginning FrameMaker Scripting - Functions

2013-01-17 Thread Rick Quatro
Please register for FrameMaker Scripting Webinar - Functions on Jan 22, 2013 11:00 AM EST at: https://attendee.gotowebinar.com/register/1914904301135713536 This is part 2 of the Beginning FrameMaker Scripting series. In part 1 we worked with selections in a document. Part 2 will show you how to

RE: Word count at the .book level? (FM11)

2013-01-17 Thread Mary Sheahan
Thanks, I had missed that -- time to go check it out. --- On Thu, 1/17/13, Jeff Coatsworth jeff.coatswo...@jonassoftware.com wrote: From: Jeff Coatsworth jeff.coatswo...@jonassoftware.com Subject: RE: Word count at the .book level? (FM11) To: framers@lists.frameusers.com

Adding Files to New Book

2013-01-17 Thread Karen Robbins
File names for my publication begin with a numeral (e.g., 1frontmatter.fm, 2preface.fm)--helps keep them in order more easily. Typically I might have 10 files to assemble into a book; they appear in ascending order in the book window. I previously had Frame 9. When I chose add files to fill a new

RE: Adding Files to New Book

2013-01-17 Thread Combs, Richard
Karen Robbins wrote: I previously had Frame 9. When I chose add files to fill a new book, selected the files as a group, and clicked the Add button, the files appeared in the wrong order in the book window: half (files 1 through 5) were ascending and half (files 5 through 10) were

RE: Adding Files to New Book

2013-01-17 Thread Combs, Richard
Re: And this was a Windows behavior, not an FM behavior. I should have pointed out explicitly what's implied by that statement: A change in Windows version may be more of a factor than a change in FM version. Did your version of Windows change when you went from FM 9 to FM 11? (Even a

Re: Adding Files to New Book

2013-01-17 Thread Karen Robbins
That works! Thank you. But... what odd behavior even for an OS. :-) --Karen On Thu, Jan 17, 2013 at 11:55 AM, Robert Lauriston rob...@lauriston.comwrote: File Add Files, click the Name header to sort backwards, proceed as usual. On Thu, Jan 17, 2013 at 11:48 AM, Karen Robbins

Re: FrameMaker 10.x and Windows 8?

2013-01-17 Thread Robert Lauriston
It may be a slight exaggeration to say that no competent corporate IT department will approve the use of Windows 8 until next year. ___ You are currently subscribed to framers as arch...@mail-archive.com. Send list messages to

Re: Adding Files to New Book

2013-01-17 Thread Robert Lauriston
File Add Files, click the Name header to sort backwards, proceed as usual. On Thu, Jan 17, 2013 at 11:48 AM, Karen Robbins karendes...@gmail.com wrote: File names for my publication begin with a numeral (e.g., 1frontmatter.fm, 2preface.fm)--helps keep them in order more easily. Typically I

Re: Adding Files to New Book

2013-01-17 Thread Ken Poshedly
The file order has always been reversed for me when adding multiple files to a book going back to Frame 7 and possibly even Frame 5.5 which I learned back in 1998). And it didn't matter if it was Windows 98 or Windows XP (currently and for as long as possible). -- Ken in Atlanta

Re: Adding Files to New Book

2013-01-17 Thread Robert Lauriston
Yeah, it is the opposite of what you'd expect. In this case, it's Microsoft's fault, not Adobe's. On Thu, Jan 17, 2013 at 12:58 PM, Karen Robbins karendes...@gmail.com wrote: That works! Thank you. But... what odd behavior even for an OS. :-) --Karen On Thu, Jan 17, 2013 at 11:55 AM, Robert

RE: Updating older versions of Adobe fonts? Slightly off-topic, but related in a way!

2013-01-17 Thread Dov Isaacs
Exactly what is the problem you have with Adobe Pi? Adobe Pi was designed to serve as a substitute for Zapf Dingbats originally for Acrobat and Reader and then for other Adobe applications. Although the design of each of the glyphs is not identical, Adobe Pi does do a fairly good job as a

RE: Random links in pdf don't work, but only on RHEL 5

2013-01-17 Thread Dov Isaacs
Please repeat after me, PDF is a binary file format! You cannot create, edit, or in most cases readily examine a PDF file in an text editor. And in many if not most cases, content streams are internally compressed. In terms of Martha's original issue, in theory such cross reference links

Random links in pdf don't work, but only on RHEL 5

2013-01-17 Thread Martha Lee
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Word count at the .book level? (FM11)

2013-01-17 Thread Mary Sheahan
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Word count at the .book level? (FM11)

2013-01-17 Thread Jeff Coatsworth
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Word count at the .book level? (FM11)

2013-01-17 Thread Rick Quatro
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ANN: Beginning FrameMaker Scripting - Functions

2013-01-17 Thread Rick Quatro
Please register for FrameMaker Scripting Webinar - Functions on Jan 22, 2013 11:00 AM EST at: https://attendee.gotowebinar.com/register/1914904301135713536 This is part 2 of the Beginning FrameMaker Scripting series. In part 1 we worked with selections in a document. Part 2 will show you how to

Word count at the .book level? (FM11)

2013-01-17 Thread Mary Sheahan
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Adding Files to New Book

2013-01-17 Thread Karen Robbins
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Adding Files to New Book

2013-01-17 Thread Combs, Richard
Karen Robbins wrote: > I previously had Frame 9. When I chose "add files" to fill a new book, > selected the files as a group, and clicked the "Add" button, the files > appeared in the wrong order in the book window: half (files 1 through 5) were > ascending and half (files 5 through 10) were

Adding Files to New Book

2013-01-17 Thread Combs, Richard
Re: > And this was a Windows behavior, not an FM behavior. I should have pointed out explicitly what's implied by that statement: A change in Windows version may be more of a factor than a change in FM version. Did your version of Windows change when you went from FM 9 to FM 11? (Even a

Adding Files to New Book

2013-01-17 Thread Karen Robbins
I > > imported my files for the new edition. Using the same steps, the files > > listed vertically are 10, 9, 8, 7, 6, 5, 4, 3, 2, 1. And I still have to > > manually rearrange them. > > > > What causes this and how can I get the files to appear in ascending order &g

FrameMaker 10.x and Windows 8?

2013-01-17 Thread Robert Lauriston
It may be a slight exaggeration to say that no competent corporate IT department will approve the use of Windows 8 until next year.

Updating older versions of Adobe fonts? Slightly off-topic, but related in a way!

2013-01-17 Thread Robert Lauriston
I had a confusing problem with the three Zapf bullets my inherited templates use for nested lists not rendering. Eventually I figured out that the Type 1 font had never been installed on my computer because the master font directory was missing the .pfb file. I didn't really want to install such

Random links in pdf don't work, but only on RHEL 5

2013-01-17 Thread Robert Lauriston
Is the PDF source readable in a text editor? On Thu, Jan 17, 2013 at 5:04 AM, Martha Lee wrote: > Hi All, > > I have TCS 2.5, which I use to create a large documentation set that > includes several manuals. I created a pdf that acts as the documentation set > overview, and it has links

Adding Files to New Book

2013-01-17 Thread Robert Lauriston
File > Add > Files, click the Name header to sort backwards, proceed as usual. On Thu, Jan 17, 2013 at 11:48 AM, Karen Robbins wrote: > File names for my publication begin with a numeral (e.g., "1frontmatter.fm", > "2preface.fm")--helps keep them in order more easily. Typically I might have >

Adding Files to New Book

2013-01-17 Thread Ken Poshedly
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Adding Files to New Book

2013-01-17 Thread Robert Lauriston
Yeah, it is the opposite of what you'd expect. In this case, it's Microsoft's fault, not Adobe's. On Thu, Jan 17, 2013 at 12:58 PM, Karen Robbins wrote: > That works! Thank you. But... what odd behavior even for an OS. :-) > > --Karen > > > On Thu, Jan 17, 2013 at 11:55 AM, Robert Lauriston >

Updating older versions of Adobe fonts? Slightly off-topic, but related in a way!

2013-01-17 Thread Dov Isaacs
tead. Why Adobe mapped Zapf to Adobe Pi Std in the first place ... ___ -- next part -- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://lists.frameusers.com/pipermail/framers/attachments/20130117/7acf48fc/attachment.html> -

Random links in pdf don't work, but only on RHEL 5

2013-01-17 Thread Dov Isaacs
d Reader X > on Windows. Any ideas as to why a link would work on Windows but not RHEL5? > > Thanks for your help. -- next part -- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://lists.frameusers.com/pipermail/framers/attachments/20130117/a6df2501/attachment.ht