Re: Globally resize FM files in book?

2012-05-03 Thread Doris Pavlichek
Hi Nancy - If you open all files in the book and select them, you can then go to View Zoom 100%. If you want all the files to be 120% (my favorite zoom level), you would then select View Zoom In. That will take it up a notch on the standard zoom ladder. Hope this helps - D On

Re: FYI: Deal for upgrading from FM7.x to FM10 ends June 15

2012-06-14 Thread Doris Pavlichek
We upgraded from FM 7.x to 10 earlier this year (unstructured). I like a lot of the new features, but we do see quite a few crashes. I have also gotten out of memory errors when dealing with large books (and I'm on a Win7 VM with 4GB RAM). If you're stable and happy, there is no burning

Re: Disappearing text in PDF: a weird issue

2012-06-19 Thread Doris Pavlichek
Yep. We had a similar problem, and the Windows hotfix cleared it up. It was a PostScript issue. D On 6/19/2012 9:01 AM, Mike Wickham wrote: When I create a PDF from a MIF test file using TimesNewRoman, everything works ok. When she creates a PDF from FrameMaker 10, using some corporate font

Re: FM9 does not support helvetica font (any workaround)

2012-06-20 Thread Doris Pavlichek
That's a great flick! I've watched it several times. D Doris E. Pavlichek dpavliche...@gmail.com Sent from my iPhone On Jun 19, 2012, at 11:21 AM, jackdel...@comcast.net wrote: I agree with Fred, having used Helvetica for a while, but now using Segoe UI for body text. And of course no

Survey about the impact of cloud technology on knowledge workers

2012-06-22 Thread Doris Pavlichek
Hi all - Please take a few minutes to participate in this survey about the impact of cloud technology on knowledge workers (including technical communicators). This is for a graduate project for Mercer University. We can offer nothing more than a good feeling that you helped some poor

Re: OT: Unexpected event

2012-06-22 Thread Doris Pavlichek
Rick, I hope you are recovering nicely from your surgery and that you have many, many years left to help us decipher the mysteries of FrameMaker. D On 6/20/2012 8:07 AM, Rick Quatro wrote: Hi Framers, I hesitate to put this on the list, but I have been around the FrameMaker community for a

Re: Survey about the impact of cloud technology on knowledge workers

2012-07-05 Thread Doris Pavlichek
technology often has nothing to do with mobile devices. Lots of people use Rally and Salesforce just as they would desktop applications. On Fri, Jun 22, 2012 at 6:10 AM, Doris Pavlichek dpavlic...@opnet.com wrote: Hi all - Please take a few minutes to participate in this survey about the impact of cloud

Re: Support needed!

2012-07-12 Thread Doris Pavlichek
Laura, I wrote to you privately, but I wanted to add something that, while anecdotal, is relevant. For a very large (100+ pages) document for my capstone course, I am running into many issues of Word 2011 on a MacBook Pro running Lion crashing. It gives me an error saying that my disk isn't

Re: Tips/tools/resources for converting unstructured to structured

2012-08-24 Thread Doris Pavlichek
I'm interested in this, too, so I'll be following the discussion closely! Doris E. Pavlichek dpavliche...@gmail.com Sent from my iPhone On Aug 23, 2012, at 3:23 PM, Pat Christenson pxen...@gmail.com wrote: I'm about to start a unstructured-to-structuredconversion project in either Frame 9 or

Diverse templates and Structure

2012-09-14 Thread Doris Pavlichek
Hi all - At my company, we are preparing to go from unstructured FM10 to structured FM10. Because of all of the messages on this board and generally accepted best practices, we are doing some clean-up and preparation now before trying to implement a structure. However, we have at least one

Tips/tools/resources for converting unstructured to structured

2012-08-23 Thread Doris Pavlichek
I'm interested in this, too, so I'll be following the discussion closely! Doris E. Pavlichek Dpavlichek62 at gmail.com Sent from my iPhone On Aug 23, 2012, at 3:23 PM, Pat Christenson wrote: > I'm about to start a unstructured-to-structuredconversion project in either > Frame 9 or 10. Does

Survey about the impact of cloud technology on knowledge workers

2012-07-05 Thread Doris Pavlichek
oud technology > often has nothing to do with mobile devices. Lots of people use Rally > and Salesforce just as they would desktop applications. > > On Fri, Jun 22, 2012 at 6:10 AM, Doris Pavlichek > wrote: >> Hi all - >> >> Please take a few minutes to participate in this

Support needed!

2012-07-12 Thread Doris Pavlichek
Laura, I wrote to you privately, but I wanted to add something that, while anecdotal, is relevant. For a very large (100+ pages) document for my capstone course, I am running into many issues of Word 2011 on a MacBook Pro running Lion crashing. It gives me an error saying that my disk isn't

FYI: Deal for upgrading from FM7.x to FM10 ends June 15

2012-06-14 Thread Doris Pavlichek
We upgraded from FM 7.x to 10 earlier this year (unstructured). I like a lot of the new features, but we do see quite a few crashes. I have also gotten "out of memory" errors when dealing with large books (and I'm on a Win7 VM with 4GB RAM). If you're stable and happy, there is no "burning

Disappearing text in PDF: a weird issue

2012-06-19 Thread Doris Pavlichek
Yep. We had a similar problem, and the Windows hotfix cleared it up. It was a PostScript issue. D On 6/19/2012 9:01 AM, Mike Wickham wrote: > > When I create a PDF from a MIF test file using TimesNewRoman, > everything works ok. When she creates a PDF from FrameMaker 10, using > some

FM9 does not support helvetica font (any workaround)

2012-06-20 Thread Doris Pavlichek
That's a great flick! I've watched it several times. D Doris E. Pavlichek Dpavlichek62 at gmail.com Sent from my iPhone On Jun 19, 2012, at 11:21 AM, jackdeland at comcast.net wrote: > I agree with Fred, having used Helvetica for a while, but now using Segoe UI > for body text. And of course

Survey about the impact of cloud technology on knowledge workers

2012-06-22 Thread Doris Pavlichek
Hi all - Please take a few minutes to participate in this survey about the impact of cloud technology on knowledge workers (including technical communicators). This is for a graduate project for Mercer University. We can offer nothing more than a good feeling that you helped some poor

OT: Unexpected event

2012-06-22 Thread Doris Pavlichek
Rick, I hope you are recovering nicely from your surgery and that you have many, many years left to help us decipher the mysteries of FrameMaker. D On 6/20/2012 8:07 AM, Rick Quatro wrote: > Hi Framers, > > I hesitate to put this on the list, but I have been around the FrameMaker > community for

Globally resize FM files in book?

2012-05-02 Thread Doris Pavlichek
Hi Nancy - If you open all files in the book and select them, you can then go to View > Zoom > 100%. If you want all the files to be 120% (my favorite zoom level), you would then select View > Zoom > In. That will take it up a notch on the standard zoom ladder. Hope this helps - D On

Overrides - FM10

2012-05-04 Thread Doris Pavlichek
Hi all - We're having some issues with overrides in FrameMaker 10. We've been using the new "Remove Overrides" option, and we thought we were having some success. But one of my writers removed all overrides in a document last night and left the document open on his desktop overnight (no

Diverse templates and Structure

2012-09-14 Thread Doris Pavlichek
Hi all - At my company, we are preparing to go from unstructured FM10 to structured FM10. Because of all of the messages on this board and generally accepted "best practices", we are doing some clean-up and preparation now before trying to implement a structure. However, we have at least one