the renaming by clicking on another filename in
>the book, the file I clicked on moves within the book, at the end of
>FM's rename and save process. The file I renamed stays in place.
>Weird. And very annoying - my instinct is to end the renaming by
>clicking somewhere.
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most of the major bugs in Frame 8 been fixed? If
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each document. I'll probably need to do this once every
couple of years. The hard way would be to take the whole-book PDF and
manually extract each document to an individual file. Is there an easier way?
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Thanks Art and Jeremy. You definitely summed up my problem well. A
Frameuser wrote me offline to suggest that ARTS PDF Split & Merge
Lite would do the job by splitting at the bookmark level. Because I
use two other ARTS plugins for PDFs, I have confidence in the
company, so that is probably a g
splay correctly, but that is a long-standing problem.)
~I created a document in Frame9 and distilled it in both Distiller 7
and 9 and the bookmarks DO NOT display correctly in either PDF file.
Has anyone seen this problem on their Frame9 set-up? And fixed it?
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Is there anyway I can force FrameMaker to use MT Symbol Italic and have all
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Headley, I use Silicon Prairie Software's MasterPage Tools to do
this. I'm really pleased with their product.
http://www.siliconprairiesoftware.com/
Carol
On 11/21/2006 6:04:58 PM, hedley.finger at myob.com wrote:
> Is there some way to do this automagically? Or do I have to write a
> FrameS
In a table cell with View->Text Symbols turned on, how do I search
for a blank space following the last alpha-numeric character and
preceding the section symbol? I know the keyboard strokes to search
for the tab symbol, forced return symbol, end-of-paragraph symbol,
etc., but none of my quick-r
Stuart, Dick, and all,
When I search for text using the backslash-f term with Wildcards
turned on, I receive a message that "The item you are searching for
requires text in the Find text box." When I precede the backslash-f
term with a space, then I find every space in the entire doc--not
just
You are brilliant, Stuart! The "space $" string is what I needed.
Carol
At 11:59 AM 3/5/2009, Stuart Rogers wrote:
However, you might be able to work with ' $' (space, dollar sign)
with wildcards turned on. That finds a space at the end of a
paragraph or cell (not the end of a line, as the Hel
each document. I'll probably need to do this once every
couple of years. The hard way would be to take the whole-book PDF and
manually extract each document to an individual file. Is there an easier way?
Carol
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Thanks Art and Jeremy. You definitely summed up my problem well. A
Frameuser wrote me offline to suggest that ARTS PDF Split & Merge
Lite would do the job by splitting at the bookmark level. Because I
use two other ARTS plugins for PDFs, I have confidence in the
company, so that is probably a g
I'm looking for a way to create an alert message (Danger, Caution,
etc.) that avoids having to make the whole thing a graphic. I have a
manual with a zillion of these. They are rectangular with rounded
corners; the width is constant and the height will vary according to
message content. There i
to do that. Does
anyone know a workaround in Word that will help me identify all of
these graphic files? A macro? I am not a Word guru so all help is appreciated.
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Thanks to the folks who suggested that I convert the Word docs to
HTML to obtain the filenames for the graphics. If I remember, that
was a trick useful when the original graphics are not available
because saving to HTML causes Word to convert the graphics to gifs
and jpgs. But in doing so, the
splay correctly, but that is a long-standing problem.)
~I created a document in Frame9 and distilled it in both Distiller 7
and 9 and the bookmarks DO NOT display correctly in either PDF file.
Has anyone seen this problem on their Frame9 set-up? And fixed it?
Carol
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eeks ago. It is resolved by closing down Frame
and restarting the program. Within a few minutes, the problem
returns. Very annoying and time consuming, especially while I am
designing templates. Any ideas?
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Hi Shlomo,
So far, five people has responded to my email indicating that they,
too, experience this problem with some regularity. Neither they nor
I have been able to identify any specific sequence that triggers the
freeze. However, yours is the first information I've received that
suggests
11:00 AM 4/14/2010, you wrote:
I know I can make a pgf with an individual webding character balloon
number, but my instructions will get past 10 in several tasks, so I
don't want to create twenty-some pgfs.
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ument fonts. Click OK twice.
12. Repeat when Adobe next does an automatic update.
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the renaming by clicking on another filename in
>the book, the file I clicked on moves within the book, at the end of
>FM's rename and save process. The file I renamed stays in place.
>Weird. And very annoying - my instinct is to end the renaming by
>clicking somewhere.
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I have Silicon Prairie's
Autotext add-on, I don't think that it does what I need. I have a
vague memory of MSWord or some elderly word processor (the only kind
I'm familiar with since I'm elderly) having this functionality.
Any ideas?
Carol
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As I indicated in the "restrictions," I don't want to do more than
type the word. I'm aware that variables would work, but there are a
zillion instances of these words and I do not want to locate and
insert a variable for each instance. For this exercise, I was hoping
to learn about scripts, ad
Tammy, if you have Shlomo Peret's enhanced toolbar, one of its tools
is to copy a table width to the clipboard. (If I'm mistkane here and
is a Frame feature, I apologize. I've copied my .ini file and
plug-ins from so many versions of FM I no longer know which tool goes
with what plugin.)
So i
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I think there is so much more to say about a Frame vs Word comparison
in a video than stability, single-sourcing, and conditional text. I
am not an advanced Word user, so it is likely that I simply do not
know how to force Word to do some of the things that Framemaker does
so simply, but off th
Does anyone know if the problem occurs when using the Print Selected
Files option in unstructured FM11? Or does it only occur when using
the Print Book option?
Carol
At 11:00 AM 9/27/2012, you wrote:
This issue occurs when a user who is running FrameMaker11 in
unstructured mode and tries to p
(this only happens for the default colors). So changing any
of the default colors from the UI doesn't seem to be an option. Any other way?
Carol
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Carol
At 12:14 PM 10/16/2012, you wrote:
Forgive me for stating the obvious, but won't merely defining the
green you want as a custom color work for you?
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Sigh. I thought I'd have a look at ePublisher to see how it compares
price-wise to RoboHelp. Maybe I'm missing something on their Web
site, but it appears that the only way to find out the price is to
give them my contact information first via a form. I object to that
practice on principal. Doe
them?
I'll be making my decision about this in the next week or so and
would like to hear as many of your stories and experiences as possible.
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about 2.5 years now.
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eviously used). The only
way to deselect all is to click the button twice. Can anyone else
reproduce this behavior?
Does anyone know how to dock the Object Designer alongside the
Paragraph Design and Character Designer pod/panels? It doesn't seem
to be dockable.
Carol
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le but I
can't import it into other files as I can do with paragraph and
character styles via File->Import->Formats. Object Styles isn't a
listed option,
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nst each other in real life. (That
actually was the real point of my email.)
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Matt, yes I am using RH's Multiscreen output. I'm annoyed at the
differences in the out-of-box options for the various device outputs.
There doesn't appear to be a unified "set" that retains the same
color scheme or other skin characteristics. But my biggest whine is
that RH10 treats the device
I'm so glad other people have commented about their dislike of this
"feature." I hate it too. But it isn't that the text isn't sharp,
it's that it has a white drop-shadow. Adobe, please make this go away
on the next version or tell us if we can change it ourselves. It has
made it very difficult
Nancy, consider creating markers for all headings, regardless of
whether you plan to use them or not. Let RoboHelp break them into
topics. Then in your RoboHelp TOC and browse sequences, just include
the topics that you want. Yes, the unwanted ones will go along for
the ride when the file is ge
There is a discussion of how to use markers in Framemaker to control
page breaks in RoboHelp at
http://help.adobe.com/en_US/robohelp/robohtml/WS9F91508B-AC18-4b72-8FFB-B639F73F4741.html
As with most things, there are many ways to achieve the desired
outcome. Often combinations of ways work well
There are several problems with the HTML5 layouts supplied with RH10:
~They are not consistently formatted across
mobile device layouts; a client wanting output
for all mobile devices will have to put up with
different color schemes, different "branding,"
etc. for each device he wants to outpu
d to interactive media, with FM8 or later "Save as PDF"
works fine and I use it as the standard way to produce PDFs from FM.
There are highly exceptional cases where "Save as PDF" fails (e.g.
producing very small pages), and then switching to PS+distill is the
workaround.
Does anyone use Adobe LiveCycle as a digital rights management (DRM)
solution for selling/distributing their documents? If so, I'd
appreciate your emailing me off-list so that I can ask a couple of questions.
Thanks in advance,
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Hi Alison,
So far, the only response has been from someone who uses LiveCycle
Designer for forms but has no experience with it for ecommerce. Like
you, I use Acrobat security for PDFs to prevent changing the docs or
copying the content to clipboard, but it cannot prevent copying the
entire fi
oftware
"
[nothing original
I'm sure that these points
and many other valid points were already made in
the different threads in so many forums]
Shlomo Perets
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But there are hundreds of them and I'd rather not.
Carol
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The reason that the child pages are in individual files is because
the client isn't sure yet how he wants to organize the content of the
book. Hundreds of diagrams that could be grouped in various ways. To
remain flexible, it made sense to create individual files that I
could organize at the bo
At 11:00 AM 6/9/2013, you wrote:
Do I remember right that I can build a FM11 unstructured book that
can include non-FM files?
I can't find anything in the help, but maybe I do not recall the
name of the feature
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advice? (This was so simple in earlier
versions of both Frame and Acrobat.)
Carol
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.
Carol
Carol
At 01:09 AM 6/20/2013, Harro de Jong wrote:
Carol J. Elkins wrote:
> HOWEVER, I don't want all of the registration marks; I want only trim
> marks. So I need to do this in Acrobat, not Frame. I cannot get
> Acrobat set up to do this correctly. I've located
2.2.2.2.1. This is List Number 5
2.2.2.2.2. This is Heading 5
2.2.2.2.2.1. This is List Number 6
2.2.2.2.2.2. This is Heading 6
Carol
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I can second Mike's suggestion to watch RJ's video. I watched it
immediately after upgrading to Frame 9 and it made the paradigm shift
from Frame 7 so much smoother. A lot of people really struggled with
how to manage the pods and panels on the new UI, but RJ made it easy
to understand. Until y
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Matt, thanks for the advise, but I think you
misunderstood. My client wants a Word template
that matches my Frame template. I don't plan to
"parcel" out the work; I'm doing it myself. As
the subject line indicates, I want to collaborate
with a Word guru, so my post was to find a Word
guru on
ssage-
From: framers-boun...@lists.frameusers.com
[mailto:framers-boun...@lists.frameusers.com] On Behalf Of Carol J. Elkins
Sent: Friday, September 06, 2013 10:04 AM
To: fram...@omsys.com; framers@lists.frameusers.com
Subject: can corrupted FM doc be opened in some other way?
I'm usin
work in Frame
v7 and 8. I haven't tested it in FM11.
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over. Is there some other way to open this file and get at the ASCII text?
Carol
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pdfs and then group them before copying the group to the final
CD?.
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today. I'm left wondering if it has any
relation to the Adobe hack. It is a bit scary that the man knew my
name. I will not answer any incoming call from Skyp 661-748-024 from
this point forward.
Carol
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/www.linkedin.com/groups/Adobe-Technical-Communications-Professionals-Group-2381149/about
"
I checked their blog and LinkedIn URLs and can find no mention of who
won. Does anyone know? Did I win? Did you?
Carol
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Thanks for the link, Harro. And congratulations on being one of the winners!
Carol
At 11:00 AM 11/23/2013, you wrote:
the announcement just went up today:
https://blogs.adobe.com/techcomm/2013/11/congratulations-to-adobe-tech-comm-content-strategy-tool-survey-winners.html
5 years or so ago, when I
evaluated them for documentation POD, the samples weren't good.
Any recent feedback from anyone?
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captions, etc. Just text. No complicated reading order. So
for the life of me I can't figure out what to do to get the thing to
read to me. I never had a problem before Acrobat 11 and I've never
had to "do" anything to prepare the PDF.
Help!
Carol
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After I emailed this yesterday, I tested the PDF on my laptop (also
running Acrobat 11 Pro on Windows 7), and the Read Out Loud function
works fine. So the problem must be with the Acrobat installation on
my desktop CPU. I've run the Repair feature to no avail. It isn't
worth uninstalling and r
Can anyone tell me if FM12 has fixed the problem in which character
formats in source text are lost in cross-references to that source
text? That one little fix would be a tipping point for me to upgrade
to FM12. If not, has anyone found a better workaround than the one in
the Frame archives th
Best practice for setting up character formats is to set everything
As Is except the feature that you want the character tag to control.
That would include setting the Font Family to As Is. So for Emphasis,
for example, the font family would be set to As Is and only the Angle
set to Italic. Thi
11:56 -0700 4/2/14, Carol J. Elkins wrote:
>Best practice for setting up character formats is to set
everything As Is except the feature that you want the character tag
to control. That would include setting the Font Family to As Is. So
for Emphasis, for example, the font family would be set
Thanks, Steve. My struggle right now is with cross-references to
paragraphs that, in addition to regular text, house hypertext links
formatted with a Character tag that makes the text blue; and
cross-references that house an italicized citation to a book. The
character-formatted text in those
document and manually change it back to NOT
make room for side heads. I'd just like to know what the shortcut is
so that I never, ever, ever do that again.
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I'm working in Frame 11, all patches applied. So if it's a bug, it is
persistent.
Carol
At 09:44 AM 2/26/2014, Craig Ede wrote:
I look forward to the responses to this since I have had the same
thing happen to me (on FM10). It may be a bug. Usually I immediately
close the document without sav
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I'm generating PDFs out of Frame 11 and opening them in Acrobat 11
Pro in a Windows environment. I've discovered that the text in
cross-references created in Framemaker cannot be annotated in Acrobat
using the Strikethrough Text tool or the Insert Text at Cursor tool,
and probably other tools a
Craig,
Of course I revise any annotated cross-ref in the source FM document.
But the cross-references must be reviewed and annotated, if
necessary, in Acrobat. I give these PDFs to my clients for review and
THEY must be able to annotate them.
Carol
At 01:43 PM 3/27/2014, you wrote:
If it is
Thanks for trying, Winfried. Unfortunately, text in the middle of the
cross-reference isn't annotatable. The I-beam cursor starts
red-lining wherever it is placed and the user can't segregate just
the text that they want to annotate from the surrounding text in the
cross-reference.
I think th
the cross-reference text.
You know that you can change your selected text when you press
the SHIFT key and the Left/Right arrow keys!
Best regards
Winfried
> -Original Message-
> From: framers-boun...@lists.frameusers.com [mailto:framers-
> boun...@lists.frameusers.com] On Behalf
With help from Winifried and Rick, I finally figured out what the
problem was and why I couldn't select text within a cross-reference
so that I could annotate it. What was not pointed out in anyone's
instructions is that you must have the I-beam/Arrow tool selected as
the default tool. Generall
I've attended most of the Adobe Webinars about TCS5 and FM12 and am
getting close to being ready to upgrade from TCS 4 using FM11 and
RH10 to TCS5 using FM12 and RH11. I'm running Windows 7. To the best
of this group's collective knowledge, are there any gotchas that I
need to be aware of? Ca
Last year I opted to subscribe to the Adobe Creative Cloud for
$29.99/month promotional. That has now jumped to $49.99/month, but it
provides access to every Adobe product I could want, including
Photoshop and Illustrator. But those products were part of TCS4, so
some people who already have th
Framers,
I'm ready to print a wire-bound pocket-sized booklet that will be
top-bound (coil binding along the top of the book) so as to fit
nicely in one's pocket. In all my 18 years of doing this, this is the
first time I've run across having to publish a top-bound book, so I
have no experien
Thanks, everyone. I agree that this should be done by the printer and
I will contact him. It is easy enough for me to rotate the
even-numbered pages in the PDF (thanks, Robert!) , which will nicely
solve that problem if he doesn't want to do it himself. Rotating in
the PDF will prevent me from
When I need to convert a Word book into Frame, the workflow I use is
to print the Word book to PDF, open the PDF in Acrobat, and export
all of the graphics as .eps files. Then I import those by reference
into the FM book. (I rename them first to some meaningful filename.)
However, sometimes for
Carol
At 12:59 PM 6/5/2014, Robert Lauriston wrote:
You don't need to convert Word to PDF to extract images. Save the Word
doc as .docx if it's not already, make a copy, change the extension
from .docx to .zip, extract the files, and the images are all in
\word\media.
On Thu, Jun 5,
I'm working in Frame 12 fully patched on a Win7 system. For each
document in a book, I've set a specific Section number using the
file's Numbering Properties
(Format-->Document-->Numbering-->Section). Everything works fine
while all files in the book are open. Cross-references to that
section
You know, I tested the behavior of the Section number problem on this
book three times before I sent the email for help. Then I tested the
other five books (and 80 documents) in this series of books and the
Section number does not reset when the files are closed and reopened.
Then I tested the
Okay, I have finally made the problem reproducible. (Sorry for
innundating the list with these emails, but I'm pretty panicky right
now because I've based an entire library of books and documents to
rely on using the Section number in a specific type of
cross-reference that I've defined.)
Ope
Hi Rebecca,
Thanks for responding. It turns out that the Section numbering
property will work only for files that are nested under a book
folder. Unfortunately, Framemaker doesn't tell you that when you are
setting up the Section number. It happily does your bidding and then
when you regenera
dobe-authorized-training-videos?aid=a-lj3950br
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anyone has developed a boiler-plate solution to help
compute these dimensions.
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I'm using Frame12.0.1 (can't update to 12.0.2 or 12.0.3; waiting for
Adobe Tech Support help). Suddenly (after trying unsuccessfully to
update to 12.0.2) I can't print multiple files in a book. Frame
crashes. I have always (16 years) used the "print to .ps and distill"
method with no problems.
Sigh. I have to reinstall Framemaker 12 on my Win7 system. Before I
do so, I am creating a list of all of the files that I need to back
up so that I can restore all of my customization after I reinstall.
Here is my list so far (not including all of the add-ins and scripts
that are unique to my
Theresa, as I noted in my original post, in FM12 the workspaces are saved in
C:\Users\username\AppData\Roaming\Adobe\Framemaker\12\WorkSpaces
Carol
At 11:00 AM 10/30/2014, you wrote:
From: Theresa de Valence
Precedence: list
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To: "framers@lists.frameusers.com"
Date: Thu, 30
ding, as I did, and may not be able to reinstall if you need to.
As I said, your mileage may vary.
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I'm not sure why this wasn't sent to our Framers
Listserv. You'd think we'd be at the top of the distribution list.
Date: Fri, 12 Dec 2014 15:14:04 -0700
NEW FrameMaker Userâs Guide: Sliced, Diced,
and Enhanced
http://blogs.adobe.com/techcomm/2014/12/framemaker-users-guide-sliced-diced-and
hrough them that way.
Carol
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Is there any easy way to delete obsolete variables from the
variables library at the book level (Frame 12)?
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I think it depends on how a text editor interprets ends of lines.
When I copy the text from your Framemaker file into eCleaner or
Notepad++, there are no unexpected line breaks. If I save your FM
file as PDF and then copy/paste the text from the PDF into eCleaner
or Notepad++, I see no unexpect
It sounds like you might be trying to include all
of the content in the manual in one Framemaker
file. If that is the case, then I recommend you
break the content out into separate files; one
for the cover, one for the change page and TOC
(although I would put each of these in separate
files
I posted about this back on 2/26/14 and Craig Ede
was waiting for a response, too. None ever came.
So we are all waiting to learn how to NEVER do
whatever we did to set room for sideheads on all
of our text boxes. I hope Rick can find a fix for
you, but some of us would really appreciate
know
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