FM 11 crashing consistently on Save Ditamap As PDF

2013-01-24 Thread Craig Ede
Over the last few days I'm running into FM11 crashing every time I try to use the Save Ditamap As PDF option. It also crashes when I try to save the ditamap as a composite document. I've sent a handful of the many error log files generated to fmer...@adobe.com so they are aware of the

Re: Can't import Object styles

2013-01-24 Thread Roger Shuttleworth
Hello Carol I'm using FM 11.0.1.382 as well. When I do File Import Formats I see an option for Object Styles at the bottom right of the list. All the options are selected initially, and the button says Deselect All. Not quite sure what you mean by dock the Object Designer. In my

RE: Can't import Object styles

2013-01-24 Thread Craig Ede
I have the same FM version you do, and I see the Object Styles as the last item in the second column of the Import Formats dialog. Mine comes up with all formats selected. Craig Date: Wed, 23 Jan 2013 12:38:12 -0700 To: fram...@omsys.com; framers@lists.frameusers.com From:

Re: Unavailable Fonts error

2013-01-24 Thread Robert Lauriston
Have you tried saving as .mif and searching for that font? On Wed, Jan 23, 2013 at 4:06 PM, Karen Robbins karendes...@gmail.com wrote: A file (generated file from a plain text source) keeps displaying the unavailable fonts error each time it opens. I've run Silicoin Prairie's Paragraph Tools

RE: Unavailable Fonts error

2013-01-24 Thread rebecca officer
Hi Karen The other option is to save the file as MIF, open it in a text editor and look for fonts. MIFs are pretty human-readable. Cheers Rebecca Combs, Richard richard.co...@polycom.com 24/01/13 13:54 Karen Robbins wrote: A file (generated file from a plain text source) keeps displaying

RE: Unavailable Fonts error

2013-01-24 Thread Steve Rickaby
At 17:21 -0800 23/1/13, Karen Robbins wrote: You are correct, that's just what it was--Times instances in the default tables. (I did the mif to find this out; there are no tables in the document itself.) I already thought I'd have to do what you say... How annoying that I have to do this extra

RE: OT: Adobe Illustrator group?

2013-01-24 Thread Ivan David Vaseekaran
Hi Steve, I believe the Illustrator forum on the Adobe website is one of the most active and useful Illustrator forums you could use. It is an open forum, and the community caters really well to a pretty diverse bunch of users - starting from one-off users, new users, to those who've been

Re: FM 11 crashing consistently on Save Ditamap As PDF

2013-01-24 Thread Matt Sullivan
Save your ditamap as FM binary files, then save to PDF. Works every time for me. -Matt Matt Sullivan technical communication | online training | eLearning twitter: @mattrsullivan phone: 714 960-6840 On Jan 23, 2013, at 8:58 AM, Craig Ede craig...@hotmail.com wrote: Over the last few days

RE: Unavailable Fonts error

2013-01-24 Thread Combs, Richard
Karen Robbins wrote: You are correct, that's just what it was--Times instances in the default tables. (I did the mif to find this out; there are no tables in the document itself.) That's why I said to insert an instance of each table format. I already thought I'd have to do what you

RE: Unavailable Fonts error

2013-01-24 Thread Karen Robbins
I sure do learn something new every day! :-) I could also define those formats in a stock document and always import them to the working document. I do something similar for indexes--a format master imported each time a new one is generated. I like the idea of using SP's Table Tools to just

Re: Unavailable Fonts error

2013-01-24 Thread Stuart Rogers
On 24/01/2013 11:18 AM, Karen Robbins wrote: I sure do learn something new every day! :-) I could also define those formats in a stock document and always import them to the working document. I do something similar for indexes--a format master imported each time a new one is generated. I like

Re: FM 11 crashing consistently on Save Ditamap As PDF

2013-01-24 Thread Matt Sullivan
Hmm, sounds more like file corruption than DITA-related. Can you make a copy of the doc and strip out the images? Perhaps a mifwash? -Matt Matt Sullivan technical communication | online training | eLearning twitter: @mattrsullivan phone: 714 960-6840 On Jan 24, 2013, at 9:06 AM, Craig Ede

Re: Unavailable Fonts error

2013-01-24 Thread Stuart Rogers
On 24/01/2013 11:05 AM, Combs, Richard wrote: Or for a comprehensive, permanent solution, you can modify any and all format definitions to suit you (as well as which formats exist) in the behind-the-scenes template that FM uses when you create a new document without selecting a template (Use

Re: FM 11 crashing consistently on Save Ditamap As PDF

2013-01-24 Thread Scott Prentice
It sounds like there's something in your topics (or map) that FM doesn't like. I'd start by pruning the set of files down to locate the problem. Have these files been authored in FM or another XML editor? It's possible that you're using DITA elements or features in a way that FM doesn't

RE: Unavailable Fonts error

2013-01-24 Thread Combs, Richard
Stuart Rogers wrote: I just modified shellnew.fm with your suggested changes, and there is no effect on a new document. The table formats still use Times New Roman, the ruler is still in cm. There is another file, custom with no extension, also in the fminit directory. I am able to use

Use Blank Paper ruler units (Was: Unavailable Fonts error)

2013-01-24 Thread Stuart Rogers
On 24/01/2013 1:31 PM, Matt Sullivan wrote: I believe the Document Properties in custom.fm will control units. (setting custom.fm to use a specific unit of measure should fix this) Should, but doesn't. The Custom file (no extension) opens with a ruler in inches. New documents opened with

RE: Unavailable Fonts error

2013-01-24 Thread Combs, Richard
I wrote: Oops, sorry. I misremembered some information from many years ago. You're right, it's custom that's used when you create new blank paper documents in FM (shellnew.fm is used when you create a new FM doc outside of FM; don't ask me why). Eating lunch seems to have slightly revived

RE: Unavailable Fonts error

2013-01-24 Thread Steve Rickaby
For anyone still using FrameMaker 7 on Mac, the 'custom' file that sets the defaults for new blank documents seems to be /Adobe FrameMaker 7.0/Modules/Custom New Document, in whatever root folder you have located your Classic apps. -- Steve ___ You

RE: Use Blank Paper ruler units (Was: Unavailable Fonts error)

2013-01-24 Thread Stuart Rogers
On 24/01/2013 3:07 PM, Combs, Richard wrote: Stuart Rogers wrote: Thanks for the link, Richard. I tried following the instructions and overwrote the custom. file; no joy. Sure sounds like a bug. But IIRC, you're on FM 10, right? It worked in FM 10 for me. Here's a thought: In the

RE: Unavailable Fonts Error: Save to .ps, but...

2013-01-24 Thread Karen Robbins
Saving to Postscript and distilling does work, but I did see a can't open [thisfilename].fm message at the bottom of the book window beneath the list of pages. The file did open, .ps file was created correctly, distilled correctly. I thought the save as PDF function in FM11 (my current

Re: FM 11 crashing consistently on Save Ditamap As PDF

2013-01-24 Thread Roger Shuttleworth
Hi Craig I just tried this and it worked OK. FM11.0.1.382 according to Help, About (but who knows?). Strange, since I can crash FM11 in a variety of other ways! Roger On 23/01/2013 11:58 AM, Craig Ede wrote: Over the last few days I'm running into FM11 crashing every time I try to use the

RE: FM 11 crashing consistently on Save Ditamap As PDF

2013-01-24 Thread Craig Ede
That crashes for me as well. Craig Subject: Re: FM 11 crashing consistently on Save Ditamap As PDF From: m...@mattrsullivan.com Date: Thu, 24 Jan 2013 07:35:32 -0800 CC: framers@lists.frameusers.com To: craig...@hotmail.com Save your ditamap as FM binary files, then save to PDF. Works every

RE: FM 11 crashing consistently on Save Ditamap As PDF

2013-01-24 Thread Craig Ede
What's weird is I can do these actions without crashing in another document (ditamap). In this troublesome document, even trying to save a small ditamap (a submap that is included in the larger doc) produces the crash. All docs authored in FM. It's almost as if there is something about the

Round tripping commented PDF, using DITA

2013-01-24 Thread Steve Nelson
I'm running FM 10, using the DITA 1.2 xml topic templates. Is there a way to merge comments from a PDF in such a way that they hit the source xml files/topics? I suspect not, as the documentation seems to only describe merging into a Framemaker document. A search of this list's history seems to

RE: FM 11 crashing consistently on Save Ditamap As PDF

2013-01-24 Thread Craig Ede
The submap was newly made, as were the two files in the map, so they couldn't have caused the original issue. I copied the whole subdirectory containing these files to my C: drive and things now work! So there must be a restriction within the directory on the network that is causing the FM to

Re: Use Blank Paper ruler units (Was: Unavailable Fonts error)

2013-01-24 Thread Grant Hogarth
Could this possibly be a FMinit setting? Grant On 1/24/2013 12:19 PM, Stuart Rogers wrote: On 24/01/2013 1:31 PM, Matt Sullivan wrote: I believe the Document Properties in custom.fm will control units. (setting custom.fm to use a specific unit of measure should fix this) Should, but doesn't.

Open Office to Frame

2013-01-24 Thread Gillian Flato
Anyone know a good tool for converting Open Office documents to FrameMaker? Thank You, Gillian Flato Senior Content Developer Skype: Gillian.B.Flato gillian.fl...@nexenta.com ___ You are currently subscribed to framers as arch...@mail-archive.com.

Job Ops: Networking technology writers

2013-01-24 Thread Grant Hogarth
Hi all! The company I have been contracting for for the past 9 months now has some open contract positions that they want to fill immediately. I'm posting here because they are FrameMaker jobs. Bard (http://www.bardwrite.com/

Help? Disappearing Conditional Tag in FrameMaker 9 book file

2013-01-24 Thread Judy Chen
Hello, If someone could please help me, I'm having trouble turning on one specific conditional tag within my Frame 9 book and files. The properly conditionalized text does exist in the file (exists in all the files within this book), but for some reason, the tag is not showing up in my

Re: Round tripping commented PDF, using DITA

2013-01-24 Thread Scott Prentice
Nothing out of the box, that I'm aware of. A process could be developed I'd imagine .. might be tricky .. definitely not simple. Contact me off-list if this is something that you'd like to explore. ...scott On 1/24/13 10:24 AM, Steve Nelson wrote: Round tripping commented PDF, using DITA

Re: Open Office to Frame

2013-01-24 Thread Gary Schnabl
Save the OpenOffice or LibreOffice ODT document as an DOC file and simply import into FrameMaker. I have done that numerous times with FM 7.0. Gary On 1/24/2013 2:41 PM, Gillian Flato wrote: Anyone know a good tool for converting Open Office documents to FrameMaker? *Thank You,* **

Finding overrides in Framemaker files

2013-01-24 Thread John Pitt
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Unavailable Fonts error

2013-01-24 Thread rebecca officer
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Unavailable Fonts error

2013-01-24 Thread Steve Rickaby
At 17:21 -0800 23/1/13, Karen Robbins wrote: >You are correct, that's just what it was--Times instances in the default >tables. (I did the mif to find this out; there are no tables in the document >itself.) I already thought I'd have to do what you say... How annoying that I >have to do this

OT: Adobe Illustrator group?

2013-01-24 Thread Ivan David Vaseekaran
Hi Steve, I believe the Illustrator forum on the Adobe website is one of the most active and useful Illustrator forums you could use. It is an open forum, and the community caters really well to a pretty diverse bunch of users - starting from one-off users, new users, to those who've been

FM 11 crashing consistently on Save Ditamap As > PDF

2013-01-24 Thread Matt Sullivan
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Unavailable Fonts error

2013-01-24 Thread Combs, Richard
Karen Robbins wrote: > You are correct, that's just what it was--Times instances in the default > tables. (I did the mif to find this out; there are no tables in the document > itself.) That's why I said to insert an instance of each table format. > I already thought I'd have to do what you

Unavailable Fonts error

2013-01-24 Thread Karen Robbins
I sure do learn something new every day! :-) I could also define those formats in a "stock" document and always import them to the working document. I do something similar for indexes--a format master imported each time a new one is generated. I like the idea of using SP's Table Tools to just

Unavailable Fonts error

2013-01-24 Thread Stuart Rogers
On 24/01/2013 11:18 AM, Karen Robbins wrote: > I sure do learn something new every day! :-) > > I could also define those formats in a "stock" document and always > import them to the working document. I do something similar for > indexes--a format master imported each time a new one is generated.

FM 11 crashing consistently on Save Ditamap As > PDF

2013-01-24 Thread Matt Sullivan
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Unavailable Fonts error

2013-01-24 Thread Stuart Rogers
On 24/01/2013 11:05 AM, Combs, Richard wrote: > > Or for a comprehensive, permanent solution, you can modify any and > all format definitions to suit you (as well as which formats exist) > in the behind-the-scenes template that FM uses when you create a new > document without selecting a template

FM 11 crashing consistently on Save Ditamap As > PDF

2013-01-24 Thread Scott Prentice
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Unavailable Fonts error

2013-01-24 Thread Combs, Richard
Stuart Rogers wrote: > I just modified shellnew.fm with your suggested changes, and there is no > effect on a new document. The table formats still use Times New Roman, > the ruler is still in cm. > > There is another file, "custom" with no extension, also in the fminit > directory. I am able

Unavailable Fonts error

2013-01-24 Thread Matt Sullivan
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Use Blank Paper ruler units (Was: Unavailable Fonts error)

2013-01-24 Thread Stuart Rogers
On 24/01/2013 1:31 PM, Matt Sullivan wrote: > I believe the Document Properties in custom.fm will control units. > (setting custom.fm to use a specific unit of measure should fix this) > Should, but doesn't. The Custom file (no extension) opens with a ruler in inches. New documents opened with

Unavailable Fonts error

2013-01-24 Thread Combs, Richard
I wrote: > Oops, sorry. I misremembered some information from many years ago. You're > right, it's custom that's used when you create new blank paper documents in FM > (shellnew.fm is used when you create a new FM doc outside of FM; don't ask me > why). Eating lunch seems to have slightly

Unavailable Fonts error

2013-01-24 Thread Steve Rickaby
For anyone still using FrameMaker 7 on Mac, the 'custom' file that sets the defaults for new blank documents seems to be /Adobe FrameMaker 7.0/Modules/Custom New Document, in whatever root folder you have located your Classic apps. -- Steve

Use Blank Paper ruler units (Was: Unavailable Fonts error)

2013-01-24 Thread Stuart Rogers
On 24/01/2013 3:07 PM, Combs, Richard wrote: > Stuart Rogers wrote: > >> Thanks for the link, Richard. I tried following the instructions >> and overwrote the custom. file; no joy. > > Sure sounds like a bug. But IIRC, you're on FM 10, right? It worked > in FM 10 for me. > > Here's a thought: In

Unavailable Fonts Error: Save to .ps, but...

2013-01-24 Thread Karen Robbins
Saving to Postscript and distilling does work, but I did see a "can't open [thisfilename].fm" message at the bottom of the book window beneath the list of pages. The file did open, .ps file was created correctly, distilled correctly. I thought the "save as PDF" function in FM11 (my current

FM 11 crashing consistently on Save Ditamap As > PDF

2013-01-24 Thread Roger Shuttleworth
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FM 11 crashing consistently on Save Ditamap As > PDF

2013-01-24 Thread Craig Ede
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FM 11 crashing consistently on Save Ditamap As > PDF

2013-01-24 Thread Craig Ede
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Round tripping commented PDF, using DITA

2013-01-24 Thread Steve Nelson
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FM 11 crashing consistently on Save Ditamap As > PDF

2013-01-24 Thread Craig Ede
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Use Blank Paper ruler units (Was: Unavailable Fonts error)

2013-01-24 Thread Grant Hogarth
Could this possibly be a FMinit setting? Grant On 1/24/2013 12:19 PM, Stuart Rogers wrote: > On 24/01/2013 1:31 PM, Matt Sullivan wrote: >> I believe the Document Properties in custom.fm will control units. >> (setting custom.fm to use a specific unit of measure should fix this) > > Should, but

Open Office to Frame

2013-01-24 Thread Gillian Flato
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Job Ops: Networking technology writers

2013-01-24 Thread Grant Hogarth
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Help? Disappearing Conditional Tag in FrameMaker 9 book & file

2013-01-24 Thread Judy Chen
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Round tripping commented PDF, using DITA

2013-01-24 Thread Scott Prentice
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