Re: From A4 to A5 with trim marks

2007-04-10 Thread Bodvar Bjorgvinsson
Why does he/she want 2x A5 with print marks on an A3? If your client wants this printed (why else the print marks) just have the print shop do this. No problem for them, and probably no or little extra cost. If you really want to do this as your client suggests, just print to ps (file) from FM

Re: FrameMaker deals on eBay...

2007-04-10 Thread Bodvar Bjorgvinsson
When buying through such channels always check for the serial number. Scammers won't reply, as they fear they will be exposed. EBay gives you a certain security here if you do things the right way. Ask the seller the necessary questions before you buy and to that through the e-bay system, not by

Re: FW: Graphics and Reference Pages

2007-04-17 Thread Bodvar Bjorgvinsson
Thanks, Stuart. I had forgotten about this one. Downloaded it 2-3 years ago and did not have the time to use it. Did some testing just now and found that, seemingly, it can completely replace the awkward tables. I am going to give it a serious try, as I am in the middle of a manual which does a

Re: Arabic translations from English FrameMaker files

2007-05-08 Thread Bodvar Bjorgvinsson
Hi Tanya, FM does not work well with Arabic (or other without extended ASCII languages). However, for small jobs I have been able to do this by adding settings the environments on my computer to Arabic (except for the keyboard settings -- you should be able to toggle between your regular locale

Re: How many FM users are there?

2007-05-09 Thread Bodvar Bjorgvinsson
on the show! /grin Seats here: 6. Users: 3 (for now). Bodvar Bjorgvinsson Iceland On 5/9/07, Diane Gaskill [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi all, I know Adobe keeps all of their numbers a Big Secret, but I am creating a comparison spreadsheet in my research on FM vs AT and I need to have a general idea

Character switching FM/Distiller

2007-05-16 Thread Bodvar Bjorgvinsson
numbers from Wingdings 1? I have no problems with the circled 1. Bodvar Bjorgvinsson, Supervisor Publishing, Air Atlanta Icelandic. ___ You are currently subscribed to Framers as [EMAIL PROTECTED] Send list messages to [EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: FW: Adobe CEO interview

2007-05-21 Thread Bodvar Bjorgvinsson
. There is, I understand, no solution to the problem in sight. I do not see a paperless office in the near future. There would have to be a major change in the Internet system for that to happen -- which might just as well end in doing away with the Internet as such. Bodvar Bjorgvinsson -- never pessimistic

Re: FrameMaker.next

2007-05-21 Thread Bodvar Bjorgvinsson
Bill, are you by any chance implying that FramMaker.next will come with a Sushi support. That would be nice. FM does such a nice thing of wrapping upp a lots of things anyway! ;-) Bodvar Bjorgvinsson -- here to lighten up your Monday morning. On 5/17/07, Bill Swallow [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote

Re: Character switching FM/Distiller

2007-05-21 Thread Bodvar Bjorgvinsson
- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] .com] On Behalf Of Bodvar Bjorgvinsson Sent: Wednesday, May 16, 2007 6:48 AM To: framers@lists.frameusers.com Subject: Character switching FM/Distiller Hi all, I am trying to use Zapf Dingbats (that has never failed me!) to display

Re: Character switching FM/Distiller

2007-05-21 Thread Bodvar Bjorgvinsson
On 5/21/07, Dov Isaacs [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: For what it is worth, there is no such thing as an Adobe PostScript Driver, at least for the current versions of Windows. The driver used for the Adobe PDF PostScript printer driver instance and for most printers supporting PostScript is in fact

FM crashes on print book to file (surprise! No?)

2007-05-31 Thread Bodvar Bjorgvinsson
. Is there a malfunction in the Xref marker, is the graphic not kosher, etc. Any help out there, please? I am going home now. Will check the mail in the morning. Bodvar Bjorgvinsson Supervisor Publishing Air Atlanta Icelandic. http://www.airatlanta.com

Re: FM layout causing inconsistency when printing a PDF?

2007-06-01 Thread Bodvar Bjorgvinsson
. The downside is that this is something you have to tell your customers to do, because Adobe did not exactly advertise this clumsiness. Hopefully this has been solved in later versions of Acrobat. HTH, Bodvar Bjorgvinsson On 5/31/07, Rene Stephenson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: All, We have a quick

Re: FM crashes on print book to file (surprise! No?)

2007-06-01 Thread Bodvar Bjorgvinsson
My FNTCACHE.DAT was only 767 kb this morning. I deleted it nevertheless and rebooted. Now it is the same size as before (767 kb). And I am trying to print again. Result: Crash at the same point as before, page 13 in chapter 3. :-( To answer Art's questions: Platform: WinXP SP2. Acrobat

Re: FM crashes on print book to file (surprise! No?)

2007-06-04 Thread Bodvar Bjorgvinsson
with FM, or if you have a complete Acrobat installation... Art On 6/1/07, Bodvar Bjorgvinsson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: My FNTCACHE.DAT was only 767 kb this morning. I deleted it nevertheless and rebooted. Now it is the same size as before (767 kb). And I am trying to print again. Result: Crash

Re: FM crashes on print book to file (surprise! No?)

2007-06-05 Thread Bodvar Bjorgvinsson
On 6/4/07, Combs, Richard [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Bodvar Bjorgvinsson wrote: I am using the Distiller 7 that came with FM. I also have installed Acrbat 6 pro. The odd thing though is that it seems that FM can see the old joboptions, but Distiller 7 can only see the ones that reside in its

Re: FM crashes on print book to file (surprise! No?)

2007-06-05 Thread Bodvar Bjorgvinsson
and reserve them for use in FM, but still keep as many as you want available in Acrobat. Makes always getting the right setting file in FM easy, cause there aren't any options. Art On 6/4/07, Combs, Richard [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Bodvar Bjorgvinsson wrote: I am using the Distiller 7

Re: Updating and saving an entire book

2007-06-05 Thread Bodvar Bjorgvinsson
Just a note: Even after making the suggested changes the warning will still show, but only the first time for each type of undo. Bodvar Bjorgvinsson On 6/4/07, Kwiatkowski Richard (ST-VS/DOC-La) [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello Jennifer, We recently upgraded to FM 7.2 and encountered the same

Does anyones have an EDD for the Bible?

2007-06-19 Thread Bodvar Bjorgvinsson
this could be done, especially if quotation marks are just typed and not relying on an element or an attribute (maybe attributes may be used for opening and closing quotes, etc.). Am I over my head in this? Please respond on or off the list. Bodvar Bjorgvinsson Iceland

Need Icelandic Hyphenation (and dict)

2007-06-20 Thread Bodvar Bjorgvinsson
FrameMaker seems rather limited in offering language support. Icelandic hyphenation rules are basically: 1. Between compound words (auto-matic) 2. Before a vowel. But both rules are subjects to exceptions, but I think that all in all Icelandic hyphenation rules are rather simple. My question

Re: Does anyone have an EDD for the Bible?

2007-06-20 Thread Bodvar Bjorgvinsson
I think you must all be hinting that the final EDD will be rock solid! ;-) Actually the last joke about the tablets fits in Icelandic too. I may even have heard it with God as the adviser -- which also gives a deeper meaning to the joke. -- Is it Friday already? Bodvar On 6/20/07, Lin Surasky

Re: missing fonts

2007-06-21 Thread Bodvar Bjorgvinsson
If you save the file as MIF and search that, then you got a flat file (Document, Master Ref. pages all in one), easy to search -- and replace -- in a fairly good text editor (TextPad, ConText, jEdit, etc.). Bodvar On 6/18/07, Rene Stephenson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: FM Console does show the

Re: Table formatting

2007-07-09 Thread Bodvar Bjorgvinsson
I guess you are using the first cell for graphics, am I right? I have had some luck with using a sidehead paragraph tag for this purpose with font size and line space set to a minimum and the space below to a minus equaling the line size. The paragraph will call a certain graphic in the

Re: Save book as postcript

2007-07-19 Thread Bodvar Bjorgvinsson
documentation at the cudspan location. HTH Regards, Peter ___ Peter Gold KnowHow ProServices On 7/19/07, Bodvar Bjorgvinsson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I am not familiar with DoBatch, but why not simply print book to file? Setting Adobe PDF (Distiller) or any

Re: Problems with the trial version of FrameMaker 8

2007-08-01 Thread Bodvar Bjorgvinsson
I do not have that problem. When I start FM 8 trial i get a popup that my trial period has expired! Adobe is looking into the problem. Bodvar On 8/1/07, Gagne, Bernard (Bolton) [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Good morning (EDT) all, We have tried several times this morning to download the trial

How to delete trailing spaces in one go?

2007-08-03 Thread Bodvar Bjorgvinsson
but this results in the new \p taking on the paragraph attributes of the next line, removing extra vertical space or changing to superscript if next line starts on a superscript. Was there another solution to this? Thanks, Bodvar Bjorgvinsson Iceland

Re: How to delete trailing spaces in one go?

2007-08-03 Thread Bodvar Bjorgvinsson
changed this erraneous behaviour in 8. There were several annoyances still in the Beta 2, and I don't think they took the time to finish correcting these. Bodvar On 8/3/07, Kenneth C. Benson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Bodvar Bjorgvinsson wrote: but this results in the new \p taking

Re: How to delete trailing spaces in one go?

2007-08-03 Thread Bodvar Bjorgvinsson
On 8/3/07, Combs, Richard [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Bodvar Bjorgvinsson wrote: I thought I had seen in this list a discussion on how to remove trailing spaces that so often come with Word documents that are either imported into FrameMaker or opened by FrameMaker (by conversion). I have

Re: Need 8 Install Help

2007-08-07 Thread Bodvar Bjorgvinsson
Same problem with me, also reported to the Team. No resolution yet. :-( Cost me two days of reworking into FM 7.2. Bodvar Bjorgvinsson On 8/1/07, Randall Larson-Maynard [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I was a beta 8 tester. Beta 8 expired yesterday. I downloaded the trial 8 copy and installed. All

Re: Need 8 Install Help

2007-08-07 Thread Bodvar Bjorgvinsson
Thanks for the notion here, Dov. I _think_ I did. Had to, really, because of rather narrow space on my HDs. But I did not uninstall until after downloading and maybe also unzipping the Trial version. There were no explanations in the Beta testers site that I recall telling about the proper

Re: Heading with autonumber and square bullet

2007-08-09 Thread Bodvar Bjorgvinsson
One way of messing with this would be to add a run-in heading with Dingbats before the other headings. Only allow for it when setting the indents and tabulature of the headings. Bodvar On 8/9/07, Steve Rickaby [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: At 17:14 +0200 9/8/07, Shmuel Wolfson wrote: If you don't

Re: first impressions of FrameMaker 8

2007-08-09 Thread Bodvar Bjorgvinsson
Thanks, Sarah, Lot of things here to support my suspicion that Adobe should have waited a couple of months with this release. We will probably see more than a couple of patches soon. This registering thing: does it mean that we no longer can install the same FM on two computers like the license

Text lines disappearing below bottom of main text flow frame

2007-08-27 Thread Bodvar Bjorgvinsson
on a Monday!). ;-) TBF Bodvar Bjorgvinsson ___ You are currently subscribed to Framers as [EMAIL PROTECTED] Send list messages to [EMAIL PROTECTED] To unsubscribe send a blank email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] or visit http://lists.frameusers.com/mailman

Re: Text lines disappearing below bottom of main text flow frame

2007-08-28 Thread Bodvar Bjorgvinsson
I found a posting since 2004 about the same thing. This happened when columns were set to balanced. Same here. There was never a reply to this posting. Is this a problem that others have experienced? Bodvar On 8/27/07, Bodvar Bjorgvinsson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I think this is an oldie

Re: Text lines disappearing below bottom of main text flow frame

2007-08-28 Thread Bodvar Bjorgvinsson
that otherwise don't seem solvable. Good luck! On Tuesday, August 28, 2007 09:06 AM, Bodvar Bjorgvinsson wrote: | I found a posting since 2004 about the same thing. This happened when | columns were set to balanced. Same here. There was never a reply to | this posting. | | Is this a problem

Re: OT Re: Text lines disappearing below bottom of main text flow frame

2007-08-29 Thread Bodvar Bjorgvinsson
, Steve Rickaby [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: At 20:51 + 28/8/07, Bodvar Bjorgvinsson wrote: And to complicate things further, the eth and thorn and even an accented y (which are all parts of the extended ASCII) seem to FrameMaker just as some space character when it comes to hyphenating

Re: Help with footnote numbers

2007-08-29 Thread Bodvar Bjorgvinsson
Tina, I will not repeat what others have already suggested, but in addition to that, you always have the option of applying a Character Format (Tag) to your footnotes or parts of them. Bodvar On 8/27/07, Tina Ricks [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'm looking for help with footnote reference numbers.

Re: an apology (LinkedIn fiasco)

2007-08-31 Thread Bodvar Bjorgvinsson
I, for one, was glad to accept. Now the rest of the week is ruined! :-( But it is Friday, so ... ;-) Bodvar On 8/31/07, Bill Swallow [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: All, Many of you whom I've conversed with through this list have been sent invites for LinkedIn. This was not intentional. Somehow

Re: Importing PPT slideshows

2007-09-06 Thread Bodvar Bjorgvinsson
PP does not seem to behave well when it comes to printing. My solution would be to print to file full width (Letter/A4 - sadly printing will not (Office 2003) print landscape) and then crop top and bottom all pages. After that FM should be able to import by ref. Any other ideas would be

Re: Importing PPT slideshows

2007-09-06 Thread Bodvar Bjorgvinsson
and importing those by reference would be considerably better. Perhaps there is a reason not to do this, but it sure works great here. Steve Cavanaugh -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Bodvar Bjorgvinsson Sent: Thursday, September 06

Re: Problems with PDF

2007-09-10 Thread Bodvar Bjorgvinsson
elements (structured), and now the file distilled without any problems. Bodvar Bjorgvinsson Iceland On 9/10/07, Shlomo Perets [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Tina, You wrote: I'm using Frame 8. I have a book (28 chapters) with a TOC. I'm creating a PDF using the File Save As PDF command

Re: Adobe Unveils Technical Communication Suite

2007-09-25 Thread Bodvar Bjorgvinsson
Great news! This seems to me to be the official stamp of Adobe finally acknowledging FrameMaker for what it is first and foremost: the best all-over technical publication workhorse. IMHO it only remains for Adobe to realise that FM is also one of the best tools for regular book layout, except

Re: Adobe Unveils Technical Communication Suite

2007-09-25 Thread Bodvar Bjorgvinsson
Does not work either for me, but this one does: http://www.adobe.com/products/technicalcommunicationsuite/?promoid=BJXOA Bodvar On 9/25/07, Mark Southee [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: This one should work. http://www.adobe.com/products/technicalcommunicationsuite/ Cheers Mark Mark Southee

Re: Hyphenation in Swedish FM 8

2007-10-02 Thread Bodvar Bjorgvinsson
I believe there is no real support for Swedish, is it (I forget, as I have not used FM8 since Beta testing)? Did you try to set the language to None for the paragraph tags? After that you can manually hyphenate. I tried running Dashes Pro on rtf files and it worked except that their support for

Re: Bad Autonumbers

2007-10-04 Thread Bodvar Bjorgvinsson
I am not quite sure I understand what you are trying to do. It seems to me you are mixing methods. On one hand you are using an autonumbering of a paragraph and on the other hand you want to control it with a system variable for page numbering. That, to my knowledge, cannot be done. This is one of

Re: footnote problem

2007-10-18 Thread Bodvar Bjorgvinsson
My walnut is telling me that a footnote is a footnote and things that do not fit within the majority of a page as allowed in FrameMaker must be something else, like an end note or just as an insert (not in the FM way) that is just shown indented and/or in smaller type in direct continuation of the

Re: a new Dell PC

2007-12-10 Thread Bodvar Bjorgvinsson
I can recommend Dell Precision. I have had the Precision 450 Dual Processor with 2GB memory for three and a half years now, all internal hardware preinstalled (factory installed), except one extra (my old) hard drive. I have never had a better or more reliable PC (although my home assembled PC

Re: PDF bookmark font is Arial not Arial-CE

2007-12-14 Thread Bodvar Bjorgvinsson
IIRC, Acrobat does not support foreign characters in bookmarks, at least not in the older versions. I have not yet tested it in Acrobat 8. Bodvar On Dec 13, 2007 4:17 PM, Chinell, David F (GE Indust, Security) [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'm writing on behalf of a co-worker. OS: Windows XP

Re: The dreaded Internal Error error meets the dreaded Adobe support, sigh

2008-01-11 Thread Bodvar Bjorgvinsson
Emily, THIS is the group to turn to in or before such woes! ;-) You don't give much info about your problem with 7.1, but many of us have had these internal errors. Usually thet are caused by some setting not being the right one. So, what is the version of your Acrobat/Distiller? And a little

Re: The dreaded Internal Error error meets the dreaded Adobe support, sigh

2008-01-14 Thread Bodvar Bjorgvinsson
Emily, The one thing I cannot see that has been mentioned int this discussion and was my main teaser is the setting in Generate Acrobat Data. Ticking the Generate Tagged PDF (and then emptying the box or leaving only a few things to tag -- for leaner output) did the trick for me. Bodvar On Jan

Re: pagination dilemma

2008-02-04 Thread Bodvar Bjorgvinsson
between pages or moving between pages. I think more info from you about your layout would be needed to give any reasonably relevant reply. Bodvar Bjorgvinsson On Sun, Feb 3, 2008 at 10:36 AM, David Kuhn [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I had to adjust our template to add a line to the header (recently one

Re: Change bars that will not die and making RoboHelp for FrameMaker see

2008-02-04 Thread Bodvar Bjorgvinsson
be the offending factor. Bodvar Bjorgvinsson On Fri, Feb 1, 2008 at 3:03 PM, Thomas Scalise [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Esteemed colleagues, Two questions, please. 1. I've got a book that I inherited from a contractor colleague that exhibits persistent change bars, even though I have

Re: Internal Error

2008-02-07 Thread Bodvar Bjorgvinsson
In large documents, bigger RAM can speed up the work but usually 1GB is ample. Which version FM and in what instances does this happen? Bodvar On Wed, Feb 6, 2008 at 11:22 AM, Shmuel Wolfson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I occasionally have the dreaded Internal Error after a search in FM, then FM

Re: Internal Error

2008-02-07 Thread Bodvar Bjorgvinsson
? If it happens when you are scrolling, that might indicate a bad image (the error would show approximately in the same spot in the document). Bodvar Regards, Shmuel Wolfson Bodvar Bjorgvinsson wrote: In large documents, bigger RAM can speed up the work but usually 1GB is ample

Re: Internal Error

2008-02-07 Thread Bodvar Bjorgvinsson
for the graphic to appear. Noe I just wait. Lately it happens occasionally when doing a search in an entire book. Regards, Shmuel Wolfson Bodvar Bjorgvinsson wrote: On Thu, Feb 7, 2008 at 10:57 AM, Shmuel Wolfson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'm using FM Version 7.2b128

Re: FM abruptly closes with no save

2008-02-15 Thread Bodvar Bjorgvinsson
an error message for a moment and telling it must close. My first experience in this direction for a long time. I have not tried to regenerate this error. Bodvar Bjorgvinsson Air Atlanta Icelandic. -- It is impossible to make anything foolproof because fools are so ingenious. -- Edsel Murphy

Re: FM abruptly closes with no save

2008-02-15 Thread Bodvar Bjorgvinsson
. Deleting these lines in the MIF cleared the change bar. So this (or something similar) is what to look for in the MIF in such cases. Bodvar On Fri, Feb 15, 2008 at 9:04 AM, Bodvar Bjorgvinsson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: FM 7.2 XP. When looking for a way to remove a ghost revision bar at the end

Re: Shutdown

2008-02-22 Thread Bodvar Bjorgvinsson
I talked to my IP Director and he advised me to google for info on logoff scripts. I came up with this for Win XP: QUOTE: If you go to start run, type gpedit.msc This should open the local group policy. Under the User Configuration Window Settings Scripts(Logon/Logoff). There are key/values

Re: Registering a new FrameMaker license

2008-02-27 Thread Bodvar Bjorgvinsson
Ask the seller (if not already stated in the description) whether this is an unused, sealed copy. By the rules of eBay, wrong information will deem the seller to refund. Do not ask for a serial number because the seller will probably know that such information can (sometimes?) be used illegally

Re: Is there a way to paste text as default?

2008-03-06 Thread Bodvar Bjorgvinsson
I did not even know of the personal maker.ini, but it is there sure enough. HOWEVER, I would not recommend putting these things in there, the reason being: 1. ~\Documents and Settings\ ~~~ da da da \maker.ini showed with today's stamp, implying that it is regenerated each time you boot. 2. The

Re: Is there a way to paste text as default?

2008-03-07 Thread Bodvar Bjorgvinsson
Thanks Fred, I stand corrected. Bodvar -- It is impossible to make anything foolproof because fools are so ingenious. -- Edsel Murphy, dec. On Thu, Mar 6, 2008 at 1:46 PM, Fred Ridder [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: In responding about the personal copy of maker.ini Bodvar wrote (in part):

OT: Syntax highlighting for MIF in EditPad

2008-04-03 Thread Bodvar Bjorgvinsson
Hi, Does anyone on the list know where I could get a syntax highlighting addition for Maker Interchange Format for the EditPad editor? Seems not to come up on Googling, but some people on the list seem very happy with EditPad. Thanks, Bodvar -- It is impossible to make anything foolproof

Re: question about modification date variable

2008-04-04 Thread Bodvar Bjorgvinsson
I know this is a late reply but I will try to help a bit. Question: Will all pages show the same date (i.e. be updated at the same time) or will the pages be revised as an entity in itself? If the whole manual will show the same date, the easiest thing would be to make a variable with the date

Re: import only one

2008-04-25 Thread Bodvar Bjorgvinsson
Hi Milan, One of the files that come with FrameScript is ImportPgfFormats.fsl which I use very much. With that you can choose which one or more of PgfFormats you want to import. Bodvar On Fri, Apr 25, 2008 at 3:04 PM, Milan Davidovic [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I couldn't think of good terms for

OT: Adobe PS3 drivers

2008-05-07 Thread Bodvar Bjorgvinsson
parties to make those, resulting in diminishing offers of printers with the Adobe PS3 logo. Can anyone on the list confirm this or explain this? (Dov? Shlomo?) Thank you, Bodvar Bjorgvinsson Air Atlanta Icelandic -- It is impossible to make anything foolproof because fools are so ingenious. -- Edsel

Re: Framemaker Class

2008-05-07 Thread Bodvar Bjorgvinsson
Bright Path Solutions ( http://www.brightpathsolutions.com ) is based in or around Raleigh, NC. Bodvar On Wed, May 7, 2008 at 3:09 PM, Deirdre Reagan [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Just to be clear, I'm looking for names of companies. I can travel to Atlanta, Birmingham, and Washington DC. (and

Re: Framemaker Books

2008-05-07 Thread Bodvar Bjorgvinsson
On Wed, May 7, 2008 at 3:33 PM, Deirdre Reagan [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi all: I know this topic was just covered, and I've searched for it in the archives, but I'd like also to get your opinions. I've been told that Framemaker: Classroom in a Book is an excellent resource for

Re: Book file too big

2008-05-08 Thread Bodvar Bjorgvinsson
on boot. I recently wrote on the list a procedure to make Windows do this automatically. It has worked fine so far. Best regards, Bodvar Bjorgvinsson On Wed, May 7, 2008 at 8:04 PM, HSC Italian [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi Rick, That's good news that you don't think it's maxing out ... as I

Re: Case Change (a la Word)?

2008-05-19 Thread Bodvar Bjorgvinsson
And: FM not only changes the presentation of the characters, like Word does, but actually changes them (the character code). Besides the shortcuts, there is a toolbar with these options. Click View Quick Access Bar, if it is not showing. Bodvar Bjorgvinsson On Sat, May 17, 2008 at 2:50 PM, Ken

Re: Basic question- Visio to Frame

2008-05-30 Thread Bodvar Bjorgvinsson
The OLE linking of Visio files has worked well for me. I have tried PDF-ing the Visio and EPS-ing that in Acrobat. It sometimes works and sometimes crashes FM, like a couple of days since. I then saved the Visio as AutoCad and opened that in Illustrator, made some changes and EPS-ed that. No crash

Re: XP Service Patch 3 prevents referencing Visios in Frame 7.2

2008-05-30 Thread Bodvar Bjorgvinsson
Our IT staff say there are lots of other incompatiblities in SP3 with older software and that they are not going for it until it has been out for approx. a full year. (I hate to say this, but it seems a lot like with FM 8, as predicted by so many in June last year. Sorry, Adobe, sad but true, I'm

Condtion color and change bar not showing

2008-06-03 Thread Bodvar Bjorgvinsson
condition tag. Can anyone shed a light on this for me? Thanks, Bodvar Bjorgvinsson -- It is impossible to make anything foolproof because fools are so ingenious. -- Edsel Murphy, dec. ___ You are currently subscribed to Framers as [EMAIL PROTECTED] Send

Re: FM Crash chapter 4 page 5

2008-06-04 Thread Bodvar Bjorgvinsson
, 2008 at 7:29 AM, Bodvar Bjorgvinsson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: This is weird. I am working on a nonstructured FM (7.2) book and when printing to ps with bookmarks (and tagged or untagged) it always crashes on the same spot, page 5 of Chapter 4. I can distill the ps file and it looks fine all

Re: FM Crash chapter 4 page 5

2008-06-04 Thread Bodvar Bjorgvinsson
Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Bodvar Bjorgvinsson Sent: Wednesday, June 04, 2008 8:31 AM To: Frame Users Subject: Re: FM Crash chapter 4 page 5 Thanks Art, I have a script that runs at shutdown that deletes the FNTCACHE.DAT file, so no problem

Re: FM Crash chapter 4 page 5

2008-06-04 Thread Bodvar Bjorgvinsson
I tried this now and same results. Bodvar On Wed, Jun 4, 2008 at 3:19 PM, Bodvar Bjorgvinsson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: No, I had not tried that yet. One funny thing. When processing the files with all book components open, I get recovery files of all files except Chapter 4. Thanks, Bodvar

Re: FM Crash chapter 4 page 5

2008-06-04 Thread Bodvar Bjorgvinsson
Yes Bodvar On Wed, Jun 4, 2008 at 4:06 PM, Art Campbell [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Can you print Chapter 4 to PDF by itself? Art On Wed, Jun 4, 2008 at 11:28 AM, Bodvar Bjorgvinsson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I tried this now and same results. Bodvar On Wed, Jun 4, 2008 at 3:19 PM

Re: Printing Error with FM

2008-06-04 Thread Bodvar Bjorgvinsson
Hi Dov, This is new to me, as it has been stressed on many occations that the EPS should be saved as PS language level 3. Almost all my EPSs are. Could this be the thing that is causing me all the trouble these days (see message thread FM Crash chapter 4 page 5)? Regards, Bodvar On Wed, Jun 4,

Re: FM Crash chapter 4 page 5

2008-06-04 Thread Bodvar Bjorgvinsson
tea as the Englishmen say, so I am going home now. Thanks to everyone that helped -- or tried to. One final word to Adobe: Please make effort to make FM stable in handling all sorts of situation. I am really getting tired of the all to frequent surprises. Bodvar Bjorgvinsson Air Atlanta Icelandic

Re: Printing Error with FM

2008-06-05 Thread Bodvar Bjorgvinsson
a problem and should be what you import into FrameMaker documents. - Dov -Original Message- From: Bodvar Bjorgvinsson [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, June 04, 2008 11:16 AM To: Dov Isaacs Cc: Tim Lewis; framers@lists.frameusers.com Subject: Re: Printing Error

Re: FM Crash chapter 4 page 5

2008-06-05 Thread Bodvar Bjorgvinsson
tifs and 15 eps graphics (referenced) which are in fact mostly full pages from pdf documents. Can anyone comment on how XP SP2 memory or resources deal with EPSs in FM? Bodvar On Wed, Jun 4, 2008 at 6:51 PM, Bodvar Bjorgvinsson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Art, I am utterly flabbergasted

Re: FM Crash chapter 4 page 5

2008-06-06 Thread Bodvar Bjorgvinsson
All the pages were EPS'd from PDF according to the old Gospel. ;-) I will, when I get the time again, try the PDF approach, as so many have suggested and I have successfully done in many other (more recently prepared) manuals. At least I have not had any problems with such pdfs to speak of.

Re: Overrides

2008-06-19 Thread Bodvar Bjorgvinsson
samples though. Bodvar Bjorgvinsson -- It is impossible to make anything foolproof because fools are so ingenious. -- Edsel Murphy, dec. ___ You are currently subscribed to Framers as [EMAIL PROTECTED] Send list messages to [EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: Deleting fntcache.dat no longer necessary: Windows Hotfix now available

2008-07-07 Thread Bodvar Bjorgvinsson
Finally! -- if it works, that is (but no hurray here -- how many years has this been taking?) However, to you Yves, tanks for the information. You get the hurray from me. :-) Bodvar On Mon, Jul 7, 2008 at 6:49 AM, Yves Barbion [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi Framers Good news for those of you

Re: Words dropping out when a PDF is generated

2008-07-08 Thread Bodvar Bjorgvinsson
This I have experienced (besides what is due to the FNTCACHE.DAT problem) when Structured FrameMaker has gobbled up too much memory. The only solution (until Micro$oft sometime in the next ten years solves it with a brand new Hotfix ;-) ) is to quit FM and restart or even to reboot. Bodvar

Re: Deleting fntcache.dat no longer necessary: Windows Hotfix now available

2008-07-08 Thread Bodvar Bjorgvinsson
Seems that this is only for Vista. That is the only option I get and the file I received was a Vista installation file. I even opened it using the expand function, but this showed only Windows 6.0 related files (mum and cab). Is there a way to get this working on XP SP2? Bodvar Bjorgvinsson

Re: Deleting fntcache.dat no longer necessary: Windows Hotfix now available

2008-07-08 Thread Bodvar Bjorgvinsson
that installed fine. 348411_ENU_i386_zip.exe at 715 K Art On Tue, Jul 8, 2008 at 7:30 AM, Bodvar Bjorgvinsson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Seems that this is only for Vista. That is the only option I get and the file I received was a Vista installation file. I even opened it using the expand function

Re: Deleting fntcache.dat no longer necessary: Windows Hotfix nowavailable

2008-07-09 Thread Bodvar Bjorgvinsson
] on behalf of Art Campbell Sent: Tue 7/8/2008 7:41 AM To: Bodvar Bjorgvinsson; FrameUsers List Subject: Re: Deleting fntcache.dat no longer necessary: Windows Hotfix nowavailable When I downloaded from the site, you had to specify your OS, I assume in order to get an OS-specific file. I think

Re: ON-SCREEN GUIDES

2008-08-13 Thread Bodvar Bjorgvinsson
FM upgrade. Bodvar Bjorgvinsson On Wed, Aug 13, 2008 at 8:50 AM, Michael Zaichenko [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello there, does anyone know of a utility that would put guides on my screen. To explain: Frame doesn't have any guides and at times it's needed. Any advanced software - Photoshop

Menu item Fonts lost in Format drop down menu

2008-08-14 Thread Bodvar Bjorgvinsson
-down list. Can anyone shed a ligh on this? Is there anything missing OS: XP SP2. Thanks beforehand, Bodvar Bjorgvinsson Supervisor Publishing Air Atlanta Icelandic -- It is impossible to make anything foolproof because fools are so ingenious. -- Edsel Murphy, dec

Re: GUIDES in FRAMEMAKER

2008-08-15 Thread Bodvar Bjorgvinsson
Me, I am interested! :-) Bodvar On Fri, Aug 15, 2008 at 9:14 AM, Michael Zaichenko [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello all, just finished scripting GUIDES in FrameMaker. I.e. rules, just like you have in InDesign or Illustrator. I know Frame was missing this option ever since it appeared and

Re: ON-SCREEN GUIDES

2008-08-19 Thread Bodvar Bjorgvinsson
Carol, On this list attachements are stripped off the messages. You would have to send it directly to someone on the list or jing a snapshot of it (see http://www.jingproject.com/) and insert the link. I think a sample is need for a compact answer. Bodvar On Wed, Aug 13, 2008 at 3:42 PM,

SOLVED: Re: Menu item Fonts lost in Format drop down menu

2008-08-19 Thread Bodvar Bjorgvinsson
Sorry, all. I forgot that I had set Klaus Müller's handy itl Script RemoveFontMenu to autoinstall months ago at which time the font menu was bugging me. Silly me! :-( Bodvar On Thu, Aug 14, 2008 at 8:02 PM, Bodvar Bjorgvinsson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: FM 7.2 no longer shows the Font menu item

Re: SOLVED: Re: Menu item Fonts lost in Format drop down menu

2008-08-19 Thread Bodvar Bjorgvinsson
LOL! On Tue, Aug 19, 2008 at 2:30 PM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Ahhh, well, we all have had these little lapses in memory. At least it wasn't as bad as forgetting to plug-in the computer before you called the help desk. mea culpa. Scott At 1:11 PM + 8/19/08, Bodvar Bjorgvinsson wrote

Re: Migrating features over to InDesign

2008-09-29 Thread Bodvar Bjorgvinsson
Thanks. Very helpful, indeed. Bodvar On Mon, Sep 29, 2008 at 8:40 AM, Paul Findon [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Framers, Following the recent discussion of FM features migrating to InDesign, here's a snippet from an interview between Adobe Co-Chairman John Warnock and Conrad Taylor, BCS

Re: Recommendation for PDF to HTML converter?

2008-11-03 Thread Bodvar Bjorgvinsson
I don't know much about the Mac, but googling pdf to html mac os x gives bout 24,300 results including some Mac forums where, I believe, you get the best help. Bodvar On Mon, Nov 3, 2008 at 6:15 PM, Anne Urban [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello framers, Can anyone recommend a PDF to HTML

ANN: Job seeking

2008-12-02 Thread Bodvar Bjorgvinsson
-- this is not the end of the world -- yet!) Best regards, Bodvar Bjorgvinsson Iceland http://www.linkedin.com/in/bodvarbjorgvinsson ___ You are currently subscribed to Framers as [EMAIL PROTECTED] Send list messages to [EMAIL PROTECTED] To unsubscribe

Re: ANN: Job seeking

2008-12-02 Thread Bodvar Bjorgvinsson
Thanks for the kind words and reminder, Jeremy. Regards, Bodvar On Tue, Dec 2, 2008 at 9:35 PM, Jeremy H. Griffith [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: -- snipped -- Yes, the tech sector here has been hard hit too, with major layoffs at Sun and at numerous other tech companies. It doesn't look as bad

PDF-ing FM files under SVN

2008-12-15 Thread Bodvar Bjorgvinsson
would be the best procedure when printing to file and PDF-ing. These, and some other files, IMO, don't have any business being uploaded to the repository. Do you try to print/save those files to a place outside the SVN library or just try not to upload them by accident? Bodvar Bjorgvinsson

[Somewhat OT]: SVK question

2008-12-16 Thread Bodvar Bjorgvinsson
. It supports repository mirroring, disconnected operation, history-sensitive merging, and integrates with other version control systems, as well as popular visual merge tools. UNQUOTE It seems to allow for multiple repositories that can work together to some extent. Bodvar Bjorgvinsson Iceland

Re: PDF-ing FM files under SVN

2008-12-16 Thread Bodvar Bjorgvinsson
.) are not included. Scott At 12:27 PM + 12/15/08, Bodvar Bjorgvinsson wrote: I don't seem to find any list committed to working with FM under SVN or TortoiseSVN, so I will try and put the problem up here. I am testing SVN. My IT has set up a dedicated SVN server and also they set up

SVN creates a huge db

2008-12-23 Thread Bodvar Bjorgvinsson
help me or explain this to me? Thanks beforehand, Bodvar Bjorgvinsson, Supervisor Publishing, Flight Ops, Air Atlanta Icelandic. -- It is impossible to make anything foolproof because fools are so ingenious. -- Edsel Murphy, dec. ___ You are currently

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