Mif2Go Question -- No .hhp file produced

2008-04-08 Thread Reng, Dr. Winfried
Hi, Incidentally a colleague had the same problem today. He had selected the wrong export format. Instead of MS HTML Help he had selected Standard HTML. Best regards Winfried > -Original Message- > From: framers-bounces at lists.frameusers.com > [mailto:framers-bounces at lists.frameus

Long running headers

2008-04-22 Thread Reng, Dr. Winfried
Hi, I also use 2 column tables. However, do you know how to automate this? Part of my header is the product name, and its length varies in different books. Best regards Winfried > -Original Message- > From: framers-bounces at lists.frameusers.com > [mailto:framers-bounces at lists.fram

Long running headers

2008-04-22 Thread Reng, Dr. Winfried
gards Winfried From: Yves Barbion [mailto:yves.barb...@gmail.com] Sent: Tuesday, April 22, 2008 8:57 AM To: Reng, Dr. Winfried Cc: framers at lists.frameusers.com Subject: Re: Long running headers What exactly would you like to automate, Winfried? O

best method to store template version

2008-04-23 Thread Reng, Dr. Winfried
Hi, I use a variable to store the template version. However, others preferred a more striking method. They would append the version (and/or date) to the template file name, e.g. template_080423.fm Best regards Winfried > -Original Message- > From: framers-bounces at lists.frameusers.com

FM 8 "Next pgf tag" having no effect...

2008-08-07 Thread Reng, Dr. Winfried
Hi Lin, This was fixed with FM 8.04 (8.0p277). In the Help menu click on Updates to download and install it. If that does not work, you'll find it on the Adobe web-site. Best regards Winfried > -Original Message- > From: owner-framers at omsys.com > [mailto:owner-framers at omsys.com]

Paragraph catalog sort order

2008-12-09 Thread Reng, Dr. Winfried
Hi, When the tag you want to access is the last one in a series, you could also use the Shift key to select the last item. Example: F9 Shift+t to select TH. Best regards Winfried > -Original Message- > From: framers-bounces at lists.frameusers.com > [mailto:framers-bounces at lists.fra

Archive searching and moving text inset files

2008-02-13 Thread Reng, Dr. Winfried
Hi Linda, I use TextPad: http://www.textpad.com/ Additionally to the other editors, which were cited (UltraEdit, ConTEXT, SciTE Text Editor, Crimson Editor, Programmer's File Editor), I have also heard of these: jEdit http://www.jedit.org/ MED http://www.med-editor.com/ NoteTab http://www.notetab

Find and Replace cross references

2008-02-20 Thread Reng, Dr. Winfried
Hi Deirdre, > So, the original author has hand typed the name of the document into > every.single.master.page (there's about 100 of them). Unfortunately > (s)he got the name wrong. You now know that you can use variables and how to insert them. However, why are there 100 master pages? Does each

Can hiding conditional text be set to use an "And" relationshipandnot an "Or" relationship?

2008-01-24 Thread Reng, Dr. Winfried
Hi, This feature does work in FM 8. However, it's not that clear to use. The order of conditions in the "Build" window is important. Brackets are not allowed. In your case you should just define: NOT"C" Then your line 4 will be hidden and all others shown. Best regards Winfried > -Origina

Using PDF Converter with Frame

2008-01-24 Thread Reng, Dr. Winfried
Hi Emmy, FM is bundled with Acrobat Distiller. So even, if you do not have Acrobat Standard/Professional/3D, you can create valid PDF files with all features you are used to and for which you rely on Acrobat. You do not need to create your PDF files with any other PDF converter. However, if you

Searching the archives

2008-07-03 Thread Reng, Dr. Winfried
Hi Lutz, The FrameUsers mails are also archived here: http://www.mail-archive.com/framers at lists.frameusers.com/ This archive has also a working search feature. Best regards Winfried > -Original Message- > From: framers-bounces at lists.frameusers.com > [mailto:framers-bounces at li

weird symbols in front of my Chapter Titles

2008-07-03 Thread Reng, Dr. Winfried
Hi Deirdre, Please correct me, if I'm wrong. Your markers appear in front of the chapter titles but not in the TOC, don't they? When a TOC has hyperlinks to headings, hyperlink markers are created only in the TOC. Therefore the markers in front of the chapter titles must be something different.

table heading on reference page

2008-07-24 Thread Reng, Dr. Winfried
Hi, I believe that there is a plug-in that copies a paragraph (with anchored frames/tables) from the reference page. Try out Reficons from Cudspan whether it does what you want: http://www.freeframers.org/freeware/cud/ Best regards Winfried > | Hi All, > | > | I need to get a fairly complicate

MIF statement for "Show as per Expression"

2008-07-30 Thread Reng, Dr. Winfried
Hi, FrameMaker 8.0p277 I sent some MIF files to our translation agency. When I got the translated files back I noticed that text in some table rows was not translated. Trados did not import the text in these rows. These table rows had a condition assigned which was set to "Hide". However, I did

FrameUsers mailing list dead?

2008-07-31 Thread Reng, Dr. Winfried
s.com/pipermail/framers/ Now someone should fix that ... Best regards Winfried > -Original Message- > From: owner-framers at omsys.com > [mailto:owner-framers at omsys.com] On Behalf Of Combs, Richard > Sent: Wednesday, July 30, 2008 7:57 PM > To: Reng, Dr. Winfried;

Text insets

2008-06-19 Thread Reng, Dr. Winfried
Hi Richard, You asked whether FrameMaker 8 changes the paragraph format of a paragraph with a text inset although there is a non-breaking space between the text inset and the pilcrow of the container paragraph. I use this setup all the time. It worked in FrameMaker 7.x and it works equally well i

Global Update to a Table Format

2008-06-26 Thread Reng, Dr. Winfried
Hi Jona, In case in each of your table columns there is a specific paragraph format or a specific keyword you could do this: 1 Put the insertion point in a table column with the column width you want to have. Copy the column width with "Copy special". 2 Search for the paragraph format or key

Is there a way to paste text as default?

2008-03-05 Thread Reng, Dr. Winfried
Hi Marta, In the maker.ini file change the order of formats for ClipboardFormatsPriorities, so that TEXT comes first. Newer FM versions have 2 maker.ini files, one in the Program Files folder and one in your personal folder. This change in the maker.ini file works only for text which you copied i

site down

2008-05-05 Thread Reng, Dr. Winfried
Hi, But did you ever search anything in this archive? There is a separate file per month. You cannot search the whole archive in one go. In my oppinion not usable. Best regards Winfried > -Original Message- > From: framers-bounces at lists.frameusers.com > [mailto:framers-bounces at li

Trados support of FrameMaker 8

2008-05-05 Thread Reng, Dr. Winfried
Hi, I sent some files to our translation agency who is working with Trados, latest version with latest service pack (which supports FrameMaker 8). When I got the translated files back, I noticed that text which had a condition applied and which was hidden (so that it shouldn't get translated) was

Trados support of FrameMaker 8

2008-05-08 Thread Reng, Dr. Winfried
n the knowledge base search for these words: apostrophes grave accent 1603 Thanks also to Diane Gaskill for her support. Best regards Winfried > -Original Message- > From: framers-bounces at lists.frameusers.com > [mailto:framers-bounces at lists.frameusers.com] On Behalf Of

Booklet function with Framemaker

2008-05-20 Thread Reng, Dr. Winfried
Hi, A simple solution would be to create a regular PDF file and then print a booklet to a PDF file via Acrobat. CutePDF is cheap and is able to do this: http://www.cutepdf.com/ Best regards Winfried > -Original Message- > From: framers-bounces at lists.frameusers.com > [mailto:framer

Optimize preview of EPS files?

2008-05-29 Thread Reng, Dr. Winfried
Hi Yves, You could also add a preview via GhostScript (eventually also with Epstool). On this web-site various methods are described: http://www.dfanning.com/tips/postscript_preview.html Best regards Winfried > -Original Message- > From: framers-bounces at lists.frameusers.com > [mailt

Offtopic: Questionnaire about documentation

2008-11-26 Thread Reng, Dr. Winfried
Hi, I agree! When I added such a post card to a manual, I didn't get any response. Even when we combined this with a raffle. Years ago in a previous company I had the same question. I sent an e-mail to "key customers/users" and called them all. Best regards Winfried > -Original Message---

zipping an FM book

2008-10-06 Thread Reng, Dr. Winfried
Hi Deirdre, Did you unzip the book with all its chapters before you open the book? Or did you try to open the book file inside of Winzip? If the latter, it's clear. The book file will not have access to its chapter files. Best regards Winfried > -Original Message- > From: framers-bounce

Text characters missing in printed FrameMaker document or in PDF file

2008-10-16 Thread Reng, Dr. Winfried
Hi Marc, Probably this is caused by a bug caused by Microsoft. Microsoft published a hotfix some monthgs ago, which should fix your problem: http://blogs.adobe.com/techcomm/2008/07/hotfix_for_framemaker_1.html Before that hotfix the work-around was to remove the fntcache.dat file. That's no longe

Printing with line numbers

2008-10-16 Thread Reng, Dr. Winfried
Hi, There is the free FrameScript script InsertLineCounter.fsl which does that for you. Works very well. http://www.itl.eu/framescript_download.html?&L=1 Apart from that you could think of solutions with tables or additonal flows. Not very convenient. Best regards Winfried > -Original Mes

Importing FM Text

2008-10-20 Thread Reng, Dr. Winfried
Hi Nina, Are your cross-references really intra-file, meaning that they point to another paragraph not in the same chapter but in the same file which you import? Then that's no problem. However, if the cross-references point to another one of the 50 files of the same chapter, then you will get pr

Unresolved Cross Reference

2008-10-21 Thread Reng, Dr. Winfried
Hi, Do you get any messages, when you open all files (missing graphics etc.)? In this case FrameMaker cannot open the files with the cross-reference target. It cannot check whether the cross-reference target exists and will give you the error message. Open all files, before your update or print t

Reasons for using graphic and table anchor tags

2008-10-24 Thread Reng, Dr. Winfried
Hi, Additional reasons to the ones already mentioned: o Sometimes a table or anchored frame has to move to the next page as there is not enough space on the page with the anchor. At least when the anchored frame is set to "Below Current Line" the line with the paragraph moves also to th

Standard tags for technical templates

2008-10-29 Thread Reng, Dr. Winfried
Hi, Of course there may be situations, when a starting paragraph for a set of steps may be needed. I use this to specify more space before the first step. Without knowing the numbering settings all these e-mails about the purpose of these paragraph formats are pure speculation. Nancy, could you c

Importing docs from Word question

2009-04-28 Thread Reng, Dr. Winfried
Hi, If you have all graphics embedded in a FrameMaker file, you could export them via Mif2Go. As far as I know also the demo version would work. However, that would not import them as referenced graphics. If I were you, I would write a script. Best regards Winfried > -Original Message

Missing registration marks

2009-12-07 Thread Reng, Dr. Winfried
Hi, That's not fully correct. You can do either of the following: o Deactivate "Generate Acrobat Data" as Linda said. o Or you can have "Generate Acrobat Data" activated and set the margins to 0 in Acrobat in "Document | Crop Pages". This way you do not need to create 2 PDF files out of Fram

How To Delete Condition Tags in a Book

2009-12-10 Thread Reng, Dr. Winfried
Hi, I'd say FindChangeSpecial is best for this job. Very convenient. Very good, when your template has been updated and format names or format usage have changed. FindChangeSpecial allows you to delete or exchange these formats: Paragraph formats Character formats Cross reference definitions Table

Easy find for soft Returns?

2007-11-02 Thread Reng, Dr. Winfried
Hi Paul, To find soft returns enter "\r" in the Find window. You do not need to set any other options like Wildcards etc. This is also described in the online help: Searching for special characters and nonprinting symbols Best regards Winfried > -Original Message- > From: framers-bounc

Bug: FrameMaker 8 changes dash \= in paragraph numbering of FM 7 MIF

2007-11-16 Thread Reng, Dr. Winfried
Hi, Our translation agency uses Trados, which cannot handle FM 8 files yet. Therefore I converted everything to FM 7 MIF files (new option in Save As). When I got the files back, I noticed that the dashes which I defined in the paragraph numbering to mark the list items are exchanged by: '?? In FM

Bug: FrameMaker 8 changes dash \= in paragraph numbering of FM 7 MIF

2007-11-16 Thread Reng, Dr. Winfried
Hi Sarah, Yes. I noticed this em space problem also with the running HF variables. (Already posted.) Best regards Winfried > -Original Message- > From: Sarah O'Keefe [mailto:okeefe at scriptorium.com] > Sent: Friday, November 16, 2007 2:38 PM > To: Reng, Dr. Win

Generating PDF from Frame 7.2 results in random broken links in PDF

2007-11-21 Thread Reng, Dr. Winfried
Hi, Check the options in "Format | Document | Optimize PDF Size" and in "Format | Document | PDF Setup | Links". Eventually "Create Named Destinations for All Paragraphs" is switched off or the file was optimized. Then links might be unresolved. Best regards Winfried > -Original Message

FM Plugin - Highlighting like Word?

2007-11-28 Thread Reng, Dr. Winfried
Hi Diane, > to set up some tags with different colors. But Art's idea of a set of > character tags might be the easiest way to go. Very easy to > return to the > original color by pressing F8. Ctrl-A - F8 - Enter would > clean up a whole > chapter in 5 seconds. Be careful: o All paragraphs

Slightly OT -- CE Safety symbol font?

2007-10-25 Thread Reng, Dr. Winfried
Hi Art, Do you mean the symbols which are available here? http://www.cptec.org/symbols.html There you can download various collections of warning/safety symbols. Best regards Winfried > -Original Message- > From: framers-bounces+wreng=tycoint.com at lists.frameusers.com > [mailto:frame

Slightly OT -- CE Safety symbol font?

2007-10-25 Thread Reng, Dr. Winfried
> -Original Message- > From: Art Campbell [mailto:art.campbell at gmail.com] > Sent: Thursday, October 25, 2007 5:12 PM > To: Reng, Dr. Winfried > Cc: Framers; Free Framers List > Subject: Re: Slightly OT -- CE Safety symbol font? > > > Winifried, > I don't se

Slightly OT -- CE Safety symbol font?

2007-10-25 Thread Reng, Dr. Winfried
click on: Alle Symbole Gefahrstoffkennzeichnung als Download all symbols labeling hazardous materials Best regards Winfried > -Original Message- > From: Stuart Rogers [mailto:srogers at phoenix-geophysics.com] > Sent: Thursday, October 25, 2007 5:49 PM > To: Reng, Dr. Winfrie

Bug: em space in variable in FrameMaker 8

2007-10-30 Thread Reng, Dr. Winfried
Hi, In my header I have a variable which also contains an em space. I notice that in FrameMaker 8 in files in FrameMaker 7 format this em space is replaced by ? on body pages. In the variable definition only a thick vertical bar is shown instead of my em space. (In FrameMaker 7 this was displayed

Questions on viewing conditional text

2007-10-31 Thread Reng, Dr. Winfried
Hi, > > Second question: Is there a way to specify to FM that the > > bullets have to be included with the conditional text? > > Select the entire paragraph instead of just the text in it. If the paragraph with bullet or any other autonumbering is the last one in a text flow (e.g. in a table c

RE: Importing docs from Word question

2009-04-28 Thread Reng, Dr. Winfried
Hi, If you have all graphics embedded in a FrameMaker file, you could export them via Mif2Go. As far as I know also the demo version would work. However, that would not import them as referenced graphics. If I were you, I would write a script. Best regards Winfried > -Original Message

RE: Exporting the paths of graphics used

2009-05-20 Thread Reng, Dr. Winfried
Hi Susan, Be careful when sorting a table. All hypertext markers get deleted. When you to use the sorted list as a "hyperlink file" this procedure is not a good idea. I guess, an alphabetical list of paragraphs is best (as Richard Combs already suggested). You can add such a file for a single fi

RE: transparent background graphics

2009-06-02 Thread Reng, Dr. Winfried
Hi Ken, It's not very difficult to get images with transparent background in FrameMaker. What you have to do: o Only if you have a raster image: Create a mask in Photoshop/ Corel PhotoPaint/Paintshop Pro. Everything outside of the mask will be transparent in the final PDF file. o Save the imag

RE: Converting PDF to Word

2009-07-07 Thread Reng, Dr. Winfried
Hi Lea, You do not need to convert to Word via PDF. Either export directly from FrameMaker (is supposed to be improved in the last versions) or use Mif2Go ($ 295, http://www.omsys.com). Best regards Winfried > -Original Message- > From: framers-boun...@lists.frameusers.com > [mailto:fr

RE: Soliciting hardware recommendations

2009-07-15 Thread Reng, Dr. Winfried
Hi, > If you get an Intel Core 2 Duo (or Core 2 Quad) system, running at > 2.6GHz or higher, with 4GB of DDR2 RAM and 7200rpm drives > (RAID 0 might > be a bit of overkill but easy enough to do), Windows Vista Business > 64-bit, and something like an nVidia 9600GT card or better, you will > have

RE: Standard font for technical documentation

2009-07-21 Thread Reng, Dr. Winfried
Hi, > My _personal_ preference leans to the new MS fonts (Cambria, > I think it > was) that were released with Vista, based on having edited two papers > that used them and from an IEEE Spectrum article about the > research involved > in their creation. I have not personally used the fonts (not

RE: Tab in multi-line TOC entry does not work

2009-09-29 Thread Reng, Dr. Winfried
Hi Nancy, Yes. As others already said, add more tabs between <$paratext> and <$chapnum>. However, you do not need 1 per line. You have to add as many tabs so that there will be at least the same number of tabs in the last line as in regular first lines. Examples: Figure 1.6:xtab1-8 Her

JOB - technical author in Sunbury/UK

2009-10-26 Thread Reng, Dr. Winfried
Hi, Our office in Sunbury in the UK is looking for a technical author. If you are interested, please reply to the contact at the bottom. Best regards Winfried --- 1. OVERALL PURPOSE OF JOB * Preparation of technical documents for safety products and systems, as part of a Re

RE: TOC generation in multiple language environment

2009-11-23 Thread Reng, Dr. Winfried
Hi Klaus, My solution is this: 1 In your TDM file on the reference pages set up an addtional new page. If you already have a page TDM then call the new page IVZ. 2 Copy everything from the TDM page to the new IVZ page. Change the name of the text frame to IVZ. 3 Copy the first paragraph a

RE: Ctrl key issues

2009-11-30 Thread Reng, Dr. Winfried
Hi, On my system (still Windows 2000) I can deactivate shortcuts for switching between different keyboard layouts. Very good as at least I switched to another layout now and then inadvertently. Best regards Winfried > -Original Message- > From: framers-boun...@lists.frameusers.com > [

RE: Missing registration marks

2009-12-07 Thread Reng, Dr. Winfried
Hi, That's not fully correct. You can do either of the following: o Deactivate "Generate Acrobat Data" as Linda said. o Or you can have "Generate Acrobat Data" activated and set the margins to 0 in Acrobat in "Document | Crop Pages". This way you do not need to create 2 PDF files out of Fram

RE: How To Delete Condition Tags in a Book

2009-12-09 Thread Reng, Dr. Winfried
Hi, I'd say FindChangeSpecial is best for this job. Very convenient. Very good, when your template has been updated and format names or format usage have changed. FindChangeSpecial allows you to delete or exchange these formats: Paragraph formats Character formats Cross reference definitions Table

RE: Text insets and trados translation workbench

2010-01-26 Thread Reng, Dr. Winfried
Hi Verner, I once had the same problem with a translator who used Trados. However, I cannot remember what he did to be able to translate the inset in the file, into which the inset was imported. Best regards Winfried > -Original Message- > From: framers-boun...@lists.frameusers.com > [m

RE: Unable to select, conditionalise, hide/show a variable in a text frame on left of master page

2010-02-01 Thread Reng, Dr. Winfried
Hi, I do not know, if this is related to your problem. I noticed a problem when importing the page layout with hidden text. I have a footer with text "draft" and the exact time. This text has a condition "draft". When I hide this condition and import the page layout into another file, the hidden t

RE: Shortcut Control keys - Part deux

2010-02-24 Thread Reng, Dr. Winfried
Hi Corinne, If your requirements aren't too extraordinary (e.g. open menus, hidden content, delayed capture), you can also use the common PRINT or ALT+PRINT shortcut and paste the screenshot from the clipboard into your favorite graphics software (CTRL+v). There you can do whatever you wanted t

RE: FrameScript/ script to convert mif>fm

2010-03-08 Thread Reng, Dr. Winfried
Hi, I use the [i]-frame modules from itl: http://www.i-frame.itl.info/en/feature-description/i-frame-modules/translation-pack.html One of these modules provides this feature. Very handy. But not free, therefore possibly not what you want. Best regards Winfried > -Original Message- > Fr

RE: Wrong conditional text displaying when using FM Track Changes facility

2010-03-31 Thread Reng, Dr. Winfried
Hi Heidi, I have the very same FrameMaker version (although on Windows 2000). I did exactly what you said: Created 3 conditions A, B, C. Enabled "Track Text Edits". Added text "108.00". I also added this text in a table cell. Then applied condition A to 10 and condition B to 8. Then I hid all cond

RE: change tracking annoyance

2010-04-08 Thread Reng, Dr. Winfried
Hi Fred, When you place the insertion point directly after a word and before a space and start typing regular characters, FM inserts the characters in green. As expected. When you then enter a space, FrameMaker overwrites the existing space (if you have "Smart Spaces" activated). That way the ex

RE: Strategy for Handling Conditional Text

2010-04-12 Thread Reng, Dr. Winfried
Hi, > Electropubs.com has a nifty little plug-in called Clean > Import that lets you replace existing formats with the ones > you import (all kinds of formats or just the ones you > select). So you could delete the unneeded conditions from one > file and then Clean Import conditions from it to

RE: Utility for Book-Level Searches for Tracked Text Edits

2010-04-27 Thread Reng, Dr. Winfried
Hi, > Format > Document > Change Bars shows that something on the > line changed, but isn't specific about what changed. Can be > searched for using the Find dialog though. Change bars are a character property. Therefore you can search for them on the book level. In the Find dialog select "Ch

RE: Graphics quality - Mif2Go

2010-04-29 Thread Reng, Dr. Winfried
Hi Mathieu, As far as I know, attachments are not allowed in this mailing list. However, your attachment could not answer questions like these: o Which graphic format do you use in FrameMaker? o Are the graphics referenced? o What is the content of the anchored frames with the graphics? Only a

RE: Paragraphs wrapping prematurely

2010-05-03 Thread Reng, Dr. Winfried
Hi, Check also this setting in your maker.ini file: DisplayUsingPrinterMetrics=On If this setting is set to Off, the characters are displayed and spaced for high readability. However, this might result in text lines which are shorter than when printed. When this setting is On, the characters

RE: Frame's File Comparison Feature

2010-05-05 Thread Reng, Dr. Winfried
Hi, > What you're considering is (or should be) neither necessary > nor desirable. Your translation vendor should be using a > translation memory (and you should request a copy of it, > since you've paid for it, so that you're not locked into this > vendor because it's holding your translation

RE: MIF File Import

2010-05-06 Thread Reng, Dr. Winfried
Hi Grace, Actually you can start with a MIF file which was saved from FrameMaker. However, you must delete _everything_ which is not relevant to the formats which you want to change. Use a regular text editor for this. You must import such a MIF snippet (that's the term which is used for such par

RE: Frame's File Comparison Feature

2010-05-06 Thread Reng, Dr. Winfried
ctions. Or someone wrote a plug-in for this. I do not know.) Best regards Winfried > -Original Message- > From: Steve Johnson [mailto:chinask...@gmail.com] > Sent: Thursday, May 06, 2010 4:27 AM > To: Reng, Dr. Winfried > Cc: FrameMaker Forum > Subject: Re: Fra

RE: Slightly OT -- CE Safety symbol font?

2007-10-25 Thread Reng, Dr. Winfried
Hi Art, Do you mean the symbols which are available here? http://www.cptec.org/symbols.html There you can download various collections of warning/safety symbols. Best regards Winfried > -Original Message- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > ]On Behalf > Of Art Campb

RE: Slightly OT -- CE Safety symbol font?

2007-10-25 Thread Reng, Dr. Winfried
> -Original Message- > From: Art Campbell [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Thursday, October 25, 2007 5:12 PM > To: Reng, Dr. Winfried > Cc: Framers; Free Framers List > Subject: Re: Slightly OT -- CE Safety symbol font? > > > Winifried, > I don't see th

RE: Slightly OT -- CE Safety symbol font?

2007-10-25 Thread Reng, Dr. Winfried
click on: Alle Symbole Gefahrstoffkennzeichnung als Download all symbols labeling hazardous materials Best regards Winfried > -Original Message- > From: Stuart Rogers [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Thursday, October 25, 2007 5:49 PM > To: Reng, Dr. Winfried > Cc: Fr

Bug: em space in variable in FrameMaker 8

2007-10-30 Thread Reng, Dr. Winfried
Hi, In my header I have a variable which also contains an em space. I notice that in FrameMaker 8 in files in FrameMaker 7 format this em space is replaced by ? on body pages. In the variable definition only a thick vertical bar is shown instead of my em space. (In FrameMaker 7 this was displayed

RE: Questions on viewing conditional text

2007-10-31 Thread Reng, Dr. Winfried
Hi, > > Second question: Is there a way to specify to FM that the > > bullets have to be included with the conditional text? > > Select the entire paragraph instead of just the text in it. If the paragraph with bullet or any other autonumbering is the last one in a text flow (e.g. in a table c

RE: Easy find for soft Returns?

2007-11-02 Thread Reng, Dr. Winfried
Hi Paul, To find soft returns enter "\r" in the Find window. You do not need to set any other options like Wildcards etc. This is also described in the online help: Searching for special characters and nonprinting symbols Best regards Winfried > -Original Message- > From: [EMAIL PROTEC

RE: Bug: FrameMaker 8 changes dash \= in paragraph numbering of FM 7 MIF

2007-11-16 Thread Reng, Dr. Winfried
Hi Sarah, Yes. I noticed this em space problem also with the running HF variables. (Already posted.) Best regards Winfried > -Original Message- > From: Sarah O'Keefe [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Friday, November 16, 2007 2:38 PM > To: Reng, Dr. Winfried;

Bug: FrameMaker 8 changes dash \= in paragraph numbering of FM 7 MIF

2007-11-16 Thread Reng, Dr. Winfried
Hi, Our translation agency uses Trados, which cannot handle FM 8 files yet. Therefore I converted everything to FM 7 MIF files (new option in Save As). When I got the files back, I noticed that the dashes which I defined in the paragraph numbering to mark the list items are exchanged by: 'Äì In FM

RE: Generating PDF from Frame 7.2 results in random broken links in PDF

2007-11-20 Thread Reng, Dr. Winfried
Hi, Check the options in "Format | Document | Optimize PDF Size" and in "Format | Document | PDF Setup | Links". Eventually "Create Named Destinations for All Paragraphs" is switched off or the file was optimized. Then links might be unresolved. Best regards Winfried > -Original Message

RE: FM Plugin - Highlighting like Word?

2007-11-28 Thread Reng, Dr. Winfried
Hi Diane, > to set up some tags with different colors. But Art's idea of a set of > character tags might be the easiest way to go. Very easy to > return to the > original color by pressing F8. Ctrl-A - F8 - Enter would > clean up a whole > chapter in 5 seconds. Be careful: o All paragraphs

RE: Can hiding conditional text be set to use an "And" relationshipandnot an "Or" relationship?

2008-01-24 Thread Reng, Dr. Winfried
Hi, This feature does work in FM 8. However, it's not that clear to use. The order of conditions in the "Build" window is important. Brackets are not allowed. In your case you should just define: NOT"C" Then your line 4 will be hidden and all others shown. Best regards Winfried > -Origina

RE: Using PDF Converter with Frame

2008-01-24 Thread Reng, Dr. Winfried
Hi Emmy, FM is bundled with Acrobat Distiller. So even, if you do not have Acrobat Standard/Professional/3D, you can create valid PDF files with all features you are used to and for which you rely on Acrobat. You do not need to create your PDF files with any other PDF converter. However, if you

RE: Archive searching and moving text inset files

2008-02-12 Thread Reng, Dr. Winfried
Hi Linda, I use TextPad: http://www.textpad.com/ Additionally to the other editors, which were cited (UltraEdit, ConTEXT, SciTE Text Editor, Crimson Editor, Programmer's File Editor), I have also heard of these: jEdit http://www.jedit.org/ MED http://www.med-editor.com/ NoteTab http://www.notetab

RE: Find and Replace cross references

2008-02-20 Thread Reng, Dr. Winfried
Hi Deirdre, > So, the original author has hand typed the name of the document into > every.single.master.page (there's about 100 of them). Unfortunately > (s)he got the name wrong. You now know that you can use variables and how to insert them. However, why are there 100 master pages? Does each

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

2008-03-05 Thread Reng, Dr. Winfried
Hi Marta, In the maker.ini file change the order of formats for ClipboardFormatsPriorities, so that TEXT comes first. Newer FM versions have 2 maker.ini files, one in the Program Files folder and one in your personal folder. This change in the maker.ini file works only for text which you copied i

RE: Mif2Go Question -- No .hhp file produced

2008-04-08 Thread Reng, Dr. Winfried
Hi, Incidentally a colleague had the same problem today. He had selected the wrong export format. Instead of MS HTML Help he had selected Standard HTML. Best regards Winfried > -Original Message- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of > Jeremy H. Griffith >

RE: Long running headers

2008-04-21 Thread Reng, Dr. Winfried
Hi, I also use 2 column tables. However, do you know how to automate this? Part of my header is the product name, and its length varies in different books. Best regards Winfried > -Original Message- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of > Yves Barbion > Se

RE: Long running headers

2008-04-22 Thread Reng, Dr. Winfried
gards Winfried From: Yves Barbion [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, April 22, 2008 8:57 AM To: Reng, Dr. Winfried Cc: framers@lists.frameusers.com Subject: Re: Long running headers What exactly would you like to automate, Win

RE: best method to store template version

2008-04-22 Thread Reng, Dr. Winfried
Hi, I use a variable to store the template version. However, others preferred a more striking method. They would append the version (and/or date) to the template file name, e.g. template_080423.fm Best regards Winfried > -Original Message- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [mailto:[EMAIL PRO

RE: site down

2008-05-05 Thread Reng, Dr. Winfried
Hi, But did you ever search anything in this archive? There is a separate file per month. You cannot search the whole archive in one go. In my oppinion not usable. Best regards Winfried > -Original Message- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of > McCallist

Trados support of FrameMaker 8

2008-05-05 Thread Reng, Dr. Winfried
Hi, I sent some files to our translation agency who is working with Trados, latest version with latest service pack (which supports FrameMaker 8). When I got the translated files back, I noticed that text which had a condition applied and which was hidden (so that it shouldn't get translated) was

RE: Trados support of FrameMaker 8

2008-05-08 Thread Reng, Dr. Winfried
n the knowledge base search for these words: apostrophes grave accent 1603 Thanks also to Diane Gaskill for her support. Best regards Winfried > -Original Message- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of > Reng, Dr. Winfried > Sent: Monday,

RE: Booklet function with Framemaker

2008-05-20 Thread Reng, Dr. Winfried
Hi, A simple solution would be to create a regular PDF file and then print a booklet to a PDF file via Acrobat. CutePDF is cheap and is able to do this: http://www.cutepdf.com/ Best regards Winfried > -Original Message- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf

RE: Optimize preview of EPS files?

2008-05-29 Thread Reng, Dr. Winfried
Hi Yves, You could also add a preview via GhostScript (eventually also with Epstool). On this web-site various methods are described: http://www.dfanning.com/tips/postscript_preview.html Best regards Winfried > -Original Message- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On

RE: Text insets

2008-06-18 Thread Reng, Dr. Winfried
Hi Richard, You asked whether FrameMaker 8 changes the paragraph format of a paragraph with a text inset although there is a non-breaking space between the text inset and the pilcrow of the container paragraph. I use this setup all the time. It worked in FrameMaker 7.x and it works equally well i

RE: Global Update to a Table Format

2008-06-26 Thread Reng, Dr. Winfried
Hi Jona, In case in each of your table columns there is a specific paragraph format or a specific keyword you could do this: 1 Put the insertion point in a table column with the column width you want to have. Copy the column width with "Copy special". 2 Search for the paragraph format or key

RE: Searching the archives

2008-07-03 Thread Reng, Dr. Winfried
Hi Lutz, The FrameUsers mails are also archived here: http://www.mail-archive.com/framers@lists.frameusers.com/ This archive has also a working search feature. Best regards Winfried > -Original Message- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of > Plueckhahn,

RE: weird symbols in front of my Chapter Titles

2008-07-03 Thread Reng, Dr. Winfried
Hi Deirdre, Please correct me, if I'm wrong. Your markers appear in front of the chapter titles but not in the TOC, don't they? When a TOC has hyperlinks to headings, hyperlink markers are created only in the TOC. Therefore the markers in front of the chapter titles must be something different.

RE: table heading on reference page

2008-07-24 Thread Reng, Dr. Winfried
Hi, I believe that there is a plug-in that copies a paragraph (with anchored frames/tables) from the reference page. Try out Reficons from Cudspan whether it does what you want: http://www.freeframers.org/freeware/cud/ Best regards Winfried > | Hi All, > | > | I need to get a fairly complicate

RE: zipping an FM book

2008-10-06 Thread Reng, Dr. Winfried
Hi Deirdre, Did you unzip the book with all its chapters before you open the book? Or did you try to open the book file inside of Winzip? If the latter, it's clear. The book file will not have access to its chapter files. Best regards Winfried > -Original Message- > From: [EMAIL PROTECT

RE: Text characters missing in printed FrameMaker document or in PDF file

2008-10-15 Thread Reng, Dr. Winfried
Hi Marc, Probably this is caused by a bug caused by Microsoft. Microsoft published a hotfix some monthgs ago, which should fix your problem: http://blogs.adobe.com/techcomm/2008/07/hotfix_for_framemaker_1.html Before that hotfix the work-around was to remove the fntcache.dat file. That's no longe

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