-Original Message-
From: Avraham Makeler; framers@lists.frameusers.com
Subject: Procedure How to Write a Manual!
I just want to share this with the list and absorb the response. My boss
today told me to write a procedure on how to write a manual and he
also stated to me that anyone
Hi List,
Can FM 8 and Acrobat Pro 8 coexist on the same machine? If so, which should be
installed first to ensure that one gets the full functionality of Distiller
from both applications?
Before I started with the 8 versions I had the respective 6 versions
working happily side by side. So
At 01:44 PM 2/06/2009, Garnier Garnier wrote:
Hi
I have a query:
Which is technically accurate, Push the Browse button to activate the browser
on click the Browse button to activate the browser?
IMO, neither is 100% correct. If you click a button (with a pointer device
such as a mouse) it
At 09:51 PM 4/06/2009, Jakob Fix wrote:
Hi,
I'm trying to install FrameMaker 8 on a development machine running Windows
2003 Server. On this machine we already have FrameMaker 7.0.
At the very end of the installation procedure (I had C:\Program
Files\Adobe\FrameMaker8 open and saw the files)
At 10:27 PM 16/06/2009, Steve Rickaby wrote:
The default behaviour in FrameMaker is that double-clicking selects a word and
triple-clicking selects a paragraph, as we all know.
Completely off-topic, but - I didn't know about double-clicking to select a
word and triple-clicking to select a
At 02:23 AM 18/06/2009, Susan Curtzwiler wrote:
Hi All,
Using FM 7.0, Acrobat Distiller 5.0, Vista Enterprise on Compaq laptop.
-
In the pdf setup, I have marked the file to open on pg 1. However, the file
is now opening at the end of the book.
Can I make the file open on the
At 10:21 AM 18/06/2009, Art Campbell wrote:
[]
If you can't find it and you need a quick fix, you may want to
download the eval version of Acrobat and make the adjustment on a
different system so you don't mess up your current install.
I found that Acrobat Pro won't save any document edits in
At 01:53 PM 7/07/2009, syed.hos...@aeris.net wrote:
I use PDF Convertor Pro for PDF-Word conversions ... works reasonably
well, but still needs a lot of cleaning up after the work is done.
NitroPDF Professional does a perfect conversion - at least to {blush} Word 7,
which is the youngest version
At 12:41 AM 28/11/2009, mathieu jacquet wrote:
Dear all,
is there any rule about how to mention open source software in technical
documentation?
Open source means that the source code of the software is available to anyone
under a licence. Its terms and restrictions apply to the usage of the
At 01:26 PM 4/01/2010, Ann Zdunczyk wrote:
A friend has a new computer with Windows XP Pro and is trying to load Frame
6. It opens the window that allows him to select Install FrameMaker:
When he gets the first install screen, he picks English. Then he gets the
next screen, and he picks install.
At 10:17 AM 12/01/2010, jopakent wrote:
I'm trying to crack an old nut again. I've got a Word doc into which I want
to import many PDF documents. The issue is that most of these documents are
multiple page PDFs. When I import (as object, from file) one of the PDFs
into the Word doc, only the
At 01:07 PM 11/02/2010, syed.hos...@aeris.net wrote:
I like the Scriptorium book a lot too.
My only regret is that [Scriptorium] decided not to publish the Structured
FrameMaker version of it ... I hope that this happens sometime. I would
gladly buy it!
Me too. But I don't underestimate the
At 05:28 AM 26/05/2010, Flato, Gillian wrote:
Dew knot trussed yore spell chequer two fined awl yore mistakes.
Picked this up tonight from a forum where members had been complaining about
the poor spelling in messages there:
I cdnuolt blveiee that I cluod aulaclty uesdnatnrd what I was
Is it legal to use dots in tag names?
For example,
part.title
part.number
chapter.title
chapter.number
body
body.first
and so on.
These tags are for chapters in a large book of several parts. It is being
written in unstructured Framemaker but eventually, after publication, much of
the
At 02:36 AM 30/11/2010, Jeremy H. Griffith and several others wrote helpful
advice on this question. Thanks, everyone.
Helen
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Using FM 8 unstructured - is there any shortcut (equivalent to Ctrl-Y in Word)
whereby one can repeat the last tagging instruction?
For example, I'm working on merging at lot of documents from various sources
that I import into a templated document with all paras in Body format. I'd
like to
At 02:39 AM 3/02/2011, Stuart Rogers wrote:
On 02/02/2011 4:05 AM, Helen Borrie wrote:
Using FM 8 unstructured - is there any shortcut (equivalent to Ctrl-Y
in Word) whereby one can repeat the last tagging instruction?
Repeat last pgf tag: Esc j j
Repeat last char tag: Esc c c
Yeee!! thank
At 01:25 AM 3/02/2011, Jerilynne \MamaRed\ Knight wrote:
Boy, that is one Word command I would love to have too...I'm not using 8, so I
don't know if there is one.
I tried esc j j amd esc c c as suggested by Stuart and it does exactly the job
I want.
However, one possibility of speeding up
At 08:04 AM 3/02/2011, Helen Borrie wrote:
The template they are coming into is structured unstructured if you get my
drift. Although the content is for a monolithic book, I have designed the
template to be able to convert the content to unstructured and round-trip it
in future.
She meant
At 01:38 PM 4/02/2011, Ann Zdunczyk wrote:
I worked for Western Electric/ATT/Lucent as a technical writer and I am
very familiar with POTS!!! It is what we called them.
That label is on one of the sockets on my Belkin ADSL router, which supports
VOIP. I had to look it up to discover that it
At 08:15 AM 2/03/2011, Alan Litchfield wrote:
Yeah, I'm in that boat, and pricing in this part of the world is such that we
get to pay significantly more than those stateside.
Worse, that upgrade thing is a cheat. I was contentedly using FM6 which, when
bought, had an upgrade path of two
Hi All,
In unstructured FM8, if I have a table that might split across a page break if
new content is added above it, is there a way that I can have a line of text
e.g., ...continued inserted conditionally after the last entry on the page,
before the break? Ideally, I would like to do this
At 08:58 AM 17/03/2011, Owen, Clint wrote:
Helen,
You can insert the Table Continuation or Table Sheet variable in
your table title or table # paragraph.
Ah, thanks, I hoped there'd be something like that! Now to go back and search
the help again with the *right* key phrases. ;-)
Cheers,
At 09:39 AM 17/03/2011, Jerilynne \MamaRed\ Knight wrote:
Hey there Helen
Did you want the specific ROW to indicate continued or the table itself? If
the table itself, this approach will work. You insert the variable on the
title row on the first page.
That is what I wanted but it seems
At 06:24 AM 7/05/2011, Owen, Clint wrote:
Susan,
I think that this is a web-based service, which means that we would not be
able to use it for any proprietary or sensitive information. Virtually
everything we do would be off limits.
One of my co-workers suggested using a similar service to
Example:
For documentation and more information, visit http://freeadhocudf.org
breaks across the end of a line like this:
For documentation and more information, visit http://
freeadhocudf.org.
It seems the slash character behaves like a breaking hyphen but I can't seem to
find out how to
At 10:18 AM 12/05/2011, Fei Min Lorente wrote:
Hi Helen:
I don't know which version of FrameMaker you're using, so this might not
be exactly the same. On FrameMaker 7.2, under the Format menu, there is
a Document option. Choose Text Options. I have a field there that says
Allow Line Breaks
Hello List,
I'm having a problem with PDF generation from unstructured FM8. I'm trying to
build a sub-book at the moment for tech reviewers, consisting of a front
page, a generated TOC and five chapters, in that order. Bookmarks generation
is selected and it is set up to make bookmarks for a
At 11:42 PM 7/07/2011, Fred Ridder wrote:
I think you are runnign up against one of FrameMaker's undocumented features.
When you generate a PDF, FrameMaker passes bookmark data to Acrobat for all
the tag names that are set in the book file's PDF Setup, *plus* data for any
additional tags in a
At 11:02 AM 15/08/2011, Cal Callahan wrote:
Hmmm. Thanks, Mike. I will definitely check out those possibilities,
especially since, whenever I print fron FM (or try to print to pdF), I get a
notice that Your font information has changed. The file still prints fine
from FM, but maybe that's a
At 08:09 AM 22/08/2011, Fred Ridder wrote:
3) Use the Character Designer to add the paragraph format to the current
file's catalog.
-- Paragraph Designer --
;-)
H.
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At 05:34 AM 11/10/2011, Galanter, Lea wrote:
Huh? This is a list for people who use FrameMaker and you think most
readers are not technical writers? Then who do you think is using
FrameMaker? I'm interested in this discussion because it involves my
work as an editor and writer. And just to add my
At 08:52 AM 24/10/2011, Art Campbell wrote:
Short answer is that you should probably uninstall acrobat and reinstall.
I would use RevoUninstaller, a free utility, to make sure you get all
components. Then reboot and reinstall.
+1 for RevoUninstaller
From bitter experience:
1. Uninstall
At 07:28 AM 7/11/2011, David Creamer wrote:
What is the cost of ePublisher? (It's not listed on the site.) The OP was
looking for a low-cost solution.
http://www.webworks.com/Tour/Pricing_Advantage/
ePublisher Subscription Pricing
ePublisher comes with four releases each year and includes
At 11:09 PM 7/06/2012, Helen Borrie wrote:
Hi group,
I have a very large book (40 chapters, 14 appendices + glossary, circa 1100
pp.) in FM 8 unstructured that I'm printing to PDF via the Adobe printer. All
goes perfectly except for one anomalous thing in Bookmarks, that I can't seem
to fix
At 07:58 AM 7/09/2012, Studio Smalbro wrote:
My FrameMaker 10 has a modified maker.ini which sets txt as primary format
when pasting from clipboard. But now I need to be able to paste as unicode
text. I need to paste russian text from a spreadsheet into FrameMaker without
making all sorts of
At 03:21 PM 2/10/2012, Shelly Schneider wrote:
An additional contractor has been brought on by my company. If I can find a
low-price copy of FrameMaker, perhaps she wont end up moving her docs to Word
(shudder). I know folks on this list swear by FrameMaker 8. FrameMaker 9 was a
bug-fest. I
At 09:34 AM 3/10/2012, Lise Bible wrote:
I'm using Frame 8.0p266 on a Windows 7 machine, 64-bit, 2.4GHz processor, 12GB
of RAM.
I was running Frame 8 on my previous WinXP computer, with no issues, though I
do not recall if that one was patched; that computer has since been wiped and
given to a
At 05:41 AM 21/11/2012, Stephen O'Brien wrote:
We are several tech writers using books/documents on a server, containing
images imported by reference (also on the server). Network file locking is
activated. The network is relatively fast.
Every day on the same workstation (FM9.0p.255,
At 12:43 p.m. 11/12/2012, Matt Sullivan wrote:
I'm in the process of finishing up the FM 11 book I'm updating in conjunction
with Sarah O'Keefe.
The book will again contain FM and tech comm resources in an appendix.
I would like to make sure I don't miss anyone's favorites!
Are any of your
Hello list,
I'm struggling a bit here with conditionals, specifically text containing
cross-references. The original unstructured book is 40 chapters and 14
appendices with all the other usual front and back matter. It is in
distribution as a PDF. Naturally it has a ton of cross-references
At 11:42 p.m. 20/02/2013, Shmuel Wolfson wrote:
Are you sure it's not generating the TOC and index? It thought Frame updated
whatever it could, even if some things were unresolved.
I was hoping that would be so, but so far it is not. I'll persevere because
I'm not keen to throw the baby out
just going to have to push on until I get a breakthrough.
Kia ora!
Helen
Cheers
Rebecca
Helen Borrie hele...@iinet.net.au 21/02/13 09:17
At 11:42 p.m. 20/02/2013, Shmuel Wolfson wrote:
Are you sure it's not generating the TOC and index? It thought Frame updated
whatever it could, even
At 09:01 p.m. 20/02/2013, Helen Borrie wrote:
Hello list,
I'm struggling a bit here with conditionals, specifically text containing
cross-references. The original unstructured book is 40 chapters and 14
appendices with all the other usual front and back matter. It is in
distribution as a PDF
At 09:23 a.m. 23/02/2013, Alan T Litchfield wrote:
I have complained on this list before about price gouging by Adobe, but this
article (albeit about music, refers to Adobe too) is interesting in that my
concerns have been noted by others.
Actually, Shatanu Narayen gave a crazy press conference
At 09:17 a.m. 19/04/2013, Alison Craig wrote:
Content-Language: en-US
Content-Type: multipart/alternative;
boundary=_000_17474827509158478EE10BC6B977A3E30CC5A15342exchangeultra_
FM 9 Version: 9.0p255
Unstructured
OS: Windows 7, 64 bit
Does anyone know if any kind of guide exists
At 06:04 p.m. 26/04/2013, Syed Zaeem Hosain (syed.hos...@aeris.net) wrote:
transparent backgrounds (which GIF does not support)
FWIW, GIF does support transparent backgrounds. I prefer it over png for
web-based, non-photo graphics. I prefer tiff for any ink/paper job.
Helen
At 02:17 a.m. 7/05/2013, Rick Quatro wrote:
I have a PDF file set up with logical page numbering. If I want to print
page 7-10 and type this in the Pages field, Acrobat prints physical pages 7
through 10 from the PDF file instead of logical page 7-10. I tried it in
Acrobat X and XI and the problem
At 10:05 a.m. 21/06/2013, Theresa de Valence wrote:
My questions/replies get posted to frameusers after a day or so. I have been
subscriber to these lists for more than 15(?) years but I had to
delete/refresh my subscription about a year or two ago.
Does this happen to everyone? Is there
At 03:26 a.m. 8/10/2013, Stephen O'Brien wrote:
Hi,
A few mechanical engineers have been asked, as part of their varied workload,
to author certain documents in English (How To, Webinars, software essentials)
in the near future.
Working with authors who are not formally trained is a new
At 04:54 p.m. 13/10/2013, Scott Turner wrote:
I've use Silicon Prairie product for some 15 years. They are cost effective,
and not expensive. Those are two separate qualifiers.
They work, they are effective, they are simple.
Amen to that. Worth their byte-count in gold. Make sure you check
At 12:47 a.m. 7/02/2014, Carrie Baker wrote:
Hello,
I don't think I am the only person with oldish software.
I work in a fairly small company, as a single technical writer.
I have FrameMaker 7, and use with Acrobat 7.
I have FrameMaker 8 and Acrobat 8 (jumped over from FM6 and Acro6, no
At 11:06 a.m. 14/05/2014, Karen Robbins wrote:
My IT person installed a licensed copy of FM11 on my colleague's computer. I
am the keeper of license info for our unit. Since I wasn't around, he
installed as a trial version. Now we cannot figure out how to activate it...
no evidence of any
At 12:28 p.m. 30/05/2014, Writer wrote:
It's not a verb in this case; it's a predicate adjective.
Nadine
From: Robert Lauriston rob...@lauriston.com
To: Stephen O'Brien sobr...@innovmetric.com; Frame Users
(framers@lists.frameusers.com)
Pat Christenson wrote:
I was visiting Adobe's website earlier and noticed that when you sign up, you
have to make a choice from the list of Job Titles. One of the choices is End
User.
Really? That's a job title? ;-)
At 07:19 a.m. 28/10/2014, Writer wrote:
It's a dirty job, but someone's
At 08:58 a.m. 11/12/2014, Zacchetti, Maeli E CIV USARMY ECBC (US) wrote:
Content-Language: en-US
Content-Type: multipart/alternative;
boundary=_000_4FB2192B95EC4D4C8FBF126461A6557FA4C9B496ucolhpkmeasfcsd_
Classification: UNCLASSIFIED
Caveats: FOUO
Im getting back to unstructured
At 03:15 a.m. 19/03/2015, Harding, Dan wrote:
Dang fumblefingers
Careful, I have a patent application on that.
;-)
Helen
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At 12:44 p.m. 14/03/2015, Craig, Alison wrote:
Personally, Iâve always preferred User Manual.
I find the other option awkward to say as well as awkward looking.
I agree. If you use the possessive version, is it going to be User's Manual
or Users' Manual ? Too messy.
Helen
Alison Craig |
At 09:09 a.m. 4/06/2015, Dave Reynolds wrote:
I'm using Frame 8 on Win7 and occasionally the keyboard shortcuts (standard
and custom) stop working for me too. As yet, I haven't found out why. I have
to restart Frame to get them working again.
I'm using FM8 on Win7 64-bit and I've noticed
At 01:53 PM 7/07/2009, Syed.Hosain at aeris.net wrote:
>I use PDF Convertor Pro for PDF->Word conversions ... works reasonably
>well, but still needs a lot of cleaning up after the work is done.
NitroPDF Professional does a perfect conversion - at least to {blush} Word 7,
which is the youngest
At 01:44 PM 2/06/2009, Garnier Garnier wrote:
>Hi
>
>I have a query:
>
>Which is technically accurate, Push the Browse button to activate the browser
>on click the Browse button to activate the browser?
IMO, neither is 100% correct. If you "click" a button (with a pointer device
such as a
At 09:51 PM 4/06/2009, Jakob Fix wrote:
>Hi,
>
>I'm trying to install FrameMaker 8 on a development machine running Windows
>2003 Server. On this machine we already have FrameMaker 7.0.
>
>At the very end of the installation procedure (I had C:\Program
>Files\Adobe\FrameMaker8 open and saw the
At 10:27 PM 16/06/2009, Steve Rickaby wrote:
>The default behaviour in FrameMaker is that double-clicking selects a word and
>triple-clicking selects a paragraph, as we all know.
Completely off-topic, but - I didn't know about double-clicking to select a
word and triple-clicking to select a
At 02:23 AM 18/06/2009, Susan Curtzwiler wrote:
>Hi All,
>
> Using FM 7.0, Acrobat Distiller 5.0, Vista Enterprise on Compaq laptop.
>-
>
>In the pdf setup, I have marked the file to open on pg 1. However, the file
>is now opening at the end of the book.
>
>Can I make the file open
At 10:21 AM 18/06/2009, Art Campbell wrote:
>[]
>If you can't find it and you need a quick fix, you may want to
>download the eval version of Acrobat and make the adjustment on a
>different system so you don't mess up your current install.
I found that Acrobat Pro won't save any document
>-Original Message-
>From: Avraham Makeler; framers at lists.frameusers.com
>Subject: Procedure How to Write a Manual!
>
>I just want to share this with the list and absorb the response. My boss
>today told me to "write a procedure on how to write a manual" and he
>also stated to me that
Hi List,
Can FM 8 and Acrobat Pro 8 coexist on the same machine? If so, which should be
installed first to ensure that one gets the full functionality of Distiller
from both applications?
Before I started with the "8" versions I had the respective "6" versions
working happily side by side.
At 07:10 PM 28/05/2009, Yves Barbion wrote:
>Hi Helen
>
>(I'll make sure to use the spell-checker this time.;-))
The spell-checker spelled flawlessly. :-D
Thanks for that response - it is *exactly* what I wanted to know.
cheers,
Helen
At 12:41 AM 28/11/2009, mathieu jacquet wrote:
>Dear all,
>
>is there any "rule" about how to mention open source software in technical
>documentation?
"Open source" means that the source code of the software is available to anyone
under a licence. Its terms and restrictions apply to the usage
At 01:07 PM 11/02/2010, Syed.Hosain at aeris.net wrote:
>I like the Scriptorium book a lot too.
>
>My only regret is that [Scriptorium] decided not to publish the "Structured
>FrameMaker" version of it ... I hope that this happens sometime. I would
>gladly buy it!
Me too. But I don't
At 01:26 PM 4/01/2010, Ann Zdunczyk wrote:
>A friend has a new computer with Windows XP Pro and is trying to load Frame
>6. It opens the window that allows him to select Install FrameMaker:
>
>When he gets the first install screen, he picks English. Then he gets the
>next screen, and he picks
At 10:17 AM 12/01/2010, jopakent wrote:
>I'm trying to crack an old nut again. I've got a Word doc into which I want
>to import many PDF documents. The issue is that most of these documents are
>multiple page PDFs. When I import (as object, from file) one of the PDFs
>into the Word doc, only the
At 05:28 AM 26/05/2010, Flato, Gillian wrote:
>Dew knot trussed yore spell chequer two fined awl yore mistakes.
Picked this up tonight from a forum where members had been complaining about
the poor spelling in messages there:
I cdnuolt blveiee that I cluod aulaclty uesdnatnrd what I was
Is it legal to use dots in tag names?
For example,
part.title
part.number
chapter.title
chapter.number
body
body.first
and so on.
These tags are for chapters in a large book of several parts. It is being
written in unstructured Framemaker but eventually, after publication, much of
the
At 02:36 AM 30/11/2010, Jeremy H. Griffith and several others wrote helpful
advice on this question. Thanks, everyone.
Helen
At 11:02 AM 15/08/2011, Cal Callahan wrote:
>
>Hmmm. Thanks, Mike. I will definitely check out those possibilities,
>especially since, whenever I print fron FM (or try to print to pdF), I get a
>notice that "Your font information has changed." The file still prints fine
>from FM, but maybe
At 08:09 AM 22/08/2011, Fred Ridder wrote:
>3) Use the Character Designer to add the paragraph format to the current
>file's catalog.
-- Paragraph Designer --
;-)
H.
Using FM 8 unstructured - is there any shortcut (equivalent to Ctrl-Y in Word)
whereby one can repeat the last tagging instruction?
For example, I'm working on merging at lot of documents from various sources
that I import into a templated document with all paras in Body format. I'd
like to
At 02:39 AM 3/02/2011, Stuart Rogers wrote:
>On 02/02/2011 4:05 AM, Helen Borrie wrote:
>>Using FM 8 unstructured - is there any shortcut (equivalent to Ctrl-Y
>>in Word) whereby one can repeat the last tagging instruction?
>
>Repeat last pgf tag: Esc j j
>Repeat last cha
At 01:25 AM 3/02/2011, Jerilynne \"MamaRed\" Knight wrote:
>Boy, that is one Word command I would love to have too...I'm not using 8, so I
>don't know if there is one.
I tried esc j j amd esc c c as suggested by Stuart and it does exactly the job
I want.
>However, one possibility of speeding
At 08:04 AM 3/02/2011, Helen Borrie wrote:
>The template they are coming into is "structured unstructured" if you get my
>drift. Although the content is for a monolithic book, I have designed the
>template to be able to convert the content to unstructured and round-trip i
At 01:38 PM 4/02/2011, Ann Zdunczyk wrote:
>I worked for Western Electric/AT/Lucent as a technical writer and I am
>very familiar with POTS!!! It is what we called them.
That label is on one of the sockets on my Belkin ADSL router, which supports
VOIP. I had to look it up to discover that it
Hello List,
I'm having a problem with PDF generation from unstructured FM8. I'm trying to
build a "sub-book" at the moment for tech reviewers, consisting of a front
page, a generated TOC and five chapters, in that order. Bookmarks generation
is selected and it is set up to make bookmarks for
At 11:42 PM 7/07/2011, Fred Ridder wrote:
>I think you are runnign up against one of FrameMaker's undocumented features.
>
>When you generate a PDF, FrameMaker passes bookmark data to Acrobat for all
>the tag names that are set in the book file's PDF Setup, *plus* data for any
>additional tags
At 08:15 AM 2/03/2011, Alan Litchfield wrote:
>Yeah, I'm in that boat, and pricing in this part of the world is such that we
>get to pay significantly more than those stateside.
Worse, that upgrade thing is a cheat. I was contentedly using FM6 which, when
bought, had an upgrade path of two
Hi All,
In unstructured FM8, if I have a table that might split across a page break if
new content is added above it, is there a way that I can have a line of text
e.g., "...continued" inserted conditionally after the last entry on the page,
before the break? Ideally, I would like to do this
At 08:58 AM 17/03/2011, Owen, Clint wrote:
>Helen,
>
>You can insert the "Table Continuation" or "Table Sheet" variable in
>your table title or table # paragraph.
Ah, thanks, I hoped there'd be something like that! Now to go back and search
the help again with the *right* key phrases. ;-)
At 09:39 AM 17/03/2011, Jerilynne \"MamaRed\" Knight wrote:
>Hey there Helen
>
>Did you want the specific ROW to indicate continued or the table itself? If
>the table itself, this approach will work. You insert the variable on the
>title row on the first page.
That is what I wanted but it
At 06:24 AM 7/05/2011, Owen, Clint wrote:
>Susan,
>
>I think that this is a web-based service, which means that we would not be
>able to use it for any proprietary or sensitive information. Virtually
>everything we do would be off limits.
>
>One of my co-workers suggested using a similar
Example:
For documentation and more information, visit http://freeadhocudf.org
breaks across the end of a line like this:
For documentation and more information, visit http://
freeadhocudf.org.
It seems the slash character behaves like a breaking hyphen but I can't seem to
find out how to
At 10:18 AM 12/05/2011, Fei Min Lorente wrote:
>Hi Helen:
>
>I don't know which version of FrameMaker you're using, so this might not
>be exactly the same. On FrameMaker 7.2, under the Format menu, there is
>a Document option. Choose Text Options. I have a field there that says
>"Allow Line Breaks
At 05:34 AM 11/10/2011, Galanter, Lea wrote:
>Huh? This is a list for people who use FrameMaker and you think most
>readers are not technical writers? Then who do you think is using
>FrameMaker? I'm interested in this discussion because it involves my
>work as an editor and writer. And just to add
At 08:52 AM 24/10/2011, Art Campbell wrote:
>Short answer is that you should probably uninstall acrobat and reinstall.
>
>I would use RevoUninstaller, a free utility, to make sure you get all
>components. Then reboot and reinstall.
+1 for RevoUninstaller
From bitter experience:
1. Uninstall
At 12:43 p.m. 11/12/2012, Matt Sullivan wrote:
>I'm in the process of finishing up the FM 11 book I'm updating in conjunction
>with Sarah O'Keefe.
>
>The book will again contain FM and tech comm resources in an appendix.
>
>I would like to make sure I don't miss anyone's favorites!
>
>Are any of
Hi group,
I have a very large book (40 chapters, 14 appendices + glossary, circa 1100
pp.) in FM 8 unstructured that I'm printing to PDF via the Adobe printer. All
goes perfectly except for one anomalous thing in Bookmarks, that I can't seem
to fix!
First a picture, then a few more words...
At 11:09 PM 7/06/2012, Helen Borrie wrote:
>Hi group,
>I have a very large book (40 chapters, 14 appendices + glossary, circa 1100
>pp.) in FM 8 unstructured that I'm printing to PDF via the Adobe printer. All
>goes perfectly except for one anomalous thing in Bookmarks, that
At 05:41 AM 21/11/2012, Stephen O'Brien wrote:
>
>We are several tech writers using books/documents on a server, containing
>images imported by reference (also on the server). Network file locking is
>activated. The network is relatively fast.
>
>Every day on the same workstation (FM9.0p.255,
At 03:21 PM 2/10/2012, Shelly Schneider wrote:
>An additional contractor has been brought on by my company. If I can find a
>low-price copy of FrameMaker, perhaps she won?t end up moving her docs to Word
>(shudder). I know folks on this list swear by FrameMaker 8. FrameMaker 9 was a
>bug-fest.
At 07:58 AM 7/09/2012, Studio Smalbro wrote:
>My FrameMaker 10 has a modified maker.ini which sets txt as primary format
>when pasting from clipboard. But now I need to be able to paste as unicode
>text. I need to paste russian text from a spreadsheet into FrameMaker without
>making all sorts
At 09:17 a.m. 19/04/2013, Alison Craig wrote:
>Content-Language: en-US
>Content-Type: multipart/alternative;
>
> boundary="_000_17474827509158478EE10BC6B977A3E30CC5A15342exchangeultra_"
>
>FM 9 Version: 9.0p255
>Unstructured
>OS: Windows 7, 64 bit
>
>Does anyone know if any kind of
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