Weird, sudden problem distilling postscript files

2006-03-21 Thread Ridder, Fred
Have you tried rebooting? The behavior you describe happened to a colleague recently but went away when he rebooted. My opinions only; I don't speak for Intel. Fred Ridder (fred dot ridder at intel dot com) Intel Parsippany, NJ -Original Message- From: framers-bounces+fred.r

Another spellchecker query

2006-03-24 Thread Ridder, Fred
one only for code listing paragraphs. We use lots of acronyms and abbreviations and find the small pain of the first full spell-check pass to be quite acceptable. My opinions only; I don't speak for Intel. Fred Ridder (fred dot ridder at intel dot com) Intel Parsippany, NJ -Original Mess

Find problem with font

2006-03-24 Thread Ridder, Fred
handled as a symbol font rather than a text font? My opinions only; I don't speak for Intel. Fred Ridder (fred dot ridder at intel dot com) Intel Parsippany, NJ -Original Message- From: framers-bounces+fred.ridder=intel@lists.frameusers.com [mailto:framers-bounces+fred.ridder=inte

converting text to html

2006-03-29 Thread Ridder, Fred
;. My opinions only; I don't speak for Intel. Fred Ridder (fred dot ridder at intel dot com) Intel Parsippany, NJ -Original Message- From: framers-bounces+fred.ridder=intel@lists.frameusers.com [mailto:framers-bounces+fred.ridder=intel.com at lists.frameusers.com] On Behalf O

Funny

2006-03-31 Thread Ridder, Fred
It's interesting to ponder how fast some of today's applications might run if developers still had the skills, tools, and inclination to write efficient code. Ever-increasing processor power and clock speeds have allowed many programmers to write ever more convoluted and bloated code. It's really

Lines wrapping properly in List of Figures

2006-05-02 Thread Ridder, Fred
y; I don't speak for Intel. Fred Ridder (fred dot ridder at intel dot com) Intel Parsippany, NJ -Original Message- From: framers-bounces+fred.ridder=intel@lists.frameusers.com [mailto:framers-bounces+fred.ridder=intel.com at lists.frameusers.com] On Behalf Of susan.mcdonald at

Page Number in Paragraph Style

2006-05-09 Thread Ridder, Fred
. The <$pagenum> and <$curpagenum> variables are simply not valid in autonumbering formats, which is why they are displayed as literal strings. My opinions only; I don't speak for Intel. Fred Ridder (fred dot ridder at intel dot com) Intel Parsippany, NJ -Original Message--

What do you use for PDF generation?

2006-05-22 Thread Ridder, Fred
hat permit this kind of operation, but those products cost thousands (rather than hundreds) of dollars. My opinions only; I don't speak for Intel. Fred Ridder (fred dot ridder at intel dot com) Intel Parsippany, NJ -Original Message- From: framers-bounces+fred.ridder=intel@

Mailto URLs in FM

2006-05-22 Thread Ridder, Fred
k for Intel. Fred Ridder (fred dot ridder at intel dot com) Staff Information Services Analyst Intel Parsippany, NJ -Original Message- From: framers-bounces+fred.ridder=intel@lists.frameusers.com [mailto:framers-bounces+fred.ridder=intel.com at lists.frameusers.com] On Behalf Of Yves Ba

Mailto URLs in FM

2006-05-22 Thread Ridder, Fred
Thanks for the update, Shlomo. It's always nice to learn that some of the annoyances we've lived with for so long are actually getting fixed. My opinions only; I don't speak for Intel. Fred Ridder (fred dot ridder at intel dot com) Intel Parsippany, NJ -Original Message---

Frame crashes on spell-check of one line of text

2006-05-25 Thread Ridder, Fred
Have you tried applying a character format that is defined with Language: None to suppress spell-checking? My opinions only; I don't speak for Intel. Fred Ridder (fred dot ridder at intel dot com) Intel Parsippany, NJ -Original Message- From: framers-bounces+fred.ridder=

numbering conundrum

2006-05-25 Thread Ridder, Fred
from Word documents before importing the content into FrameMaker. My opinions only; I don't speak for Intel. Fred Ridder (fred dot ridder at intel dot com) Intel Parsippany, NJ -Original Message- From: framers-bounces+fred.ridder=intel@lists.frameusers.com [mailto:framers-boun

frame to pdf question

2006-05-25 Thread Ridder, Fred
The bottom line is that you probably need to go into the PDF Setup dialog of each individual file to de-select the tags you no longer want picked up as bookmarks. My opinions only; I don't speak for Intel. Fred Ridder (fred dot ridder at intel dot com) Intel Parsippany, NJ -Origin

What do you use for PDF Generation?

2006-05-28 Thread Ridder, Fred
2 million hits, including more than 200,000 documents that deal with some aspect of computer security! My opinions only; I don't speak for Intel. Fred Ridder (fred dot ridder at intel dot com) Intel Parsippany, NJ -Original Message- From: framers-bounces+fred.ridder=intel@list

Disabling ad hoc formatting controls in FM

2006-11-01 Thread Ridder, Fred
Shlomo actually mentioned this specifically in his documentation for older versions of his Express Customization package. Pretty strange, but I guess once it's in the code it's there forever... -Original Message- From: framers-bounces+fred.ridder=intel@lists.frameusers.com [mailto:fr

Frame on PC = upgrade the Graphics Card?

2006-11-06 Thread Ridder, Fred
pixels have to get calculated for every frame and the frames need to be refreshed frequently. Rendering a static graphic image is not accelerated by a better graphics board. My opinions only; I don't speak for Intel. Fred Ridder (fred dot ridder at intel dot com) Intel Parsippan

Unexpected problem with straddling table cells

2006-11-17 Thread Ridder, Fred
pplied the same table format to each of the tables. No muss, no fuss. My opinions only; I don't speak for Intel. Fred Ridder (fred dot ridder at intel dot com) Staff Information Services Analyst Intel Parsippany, NJ -Original Message- From: framers-bounces+fred.ridder=intel@

Query on paragraph prrperties for a specific sentence

2006-11-29 Thread Ridder, Fred
s button and choosing "New Format". Or you can take the quick and dirty approach of applying the top of column property as a format override for this specific paragraph by clicking the "Apply" button. My opinions only; I don't speak for Intel. Fred Ridder (fred dot

TOC Chapter # Troubles

2006-10-02 Thread Ridder, Fred
t;$paranumonly> building block in the appropriate prototype entries in the reference pages of the appropriate generated file (TOC, LOF, LOT) rather than using local autonumbering in the paragraph formats of the generated file. My opinions only; I don't speak for Intel. Fred Ridder (fred dot

Issue in Optimizing PDF size

2006-10-07 Thread Ridder, Fred
eration. My opinions only; I don't speak for Intel. Fred Ridder (fred dot ridder at intel dot com) Intel Parsippany, NJ -Original Message- From: framers-bounces+fred.ridder=intel@lists.frameusers.com [mailto:framers-bounces+fred.ridder=intel.com at lists.frameusers.com] On Be

FrameLink

2006-10-10 Thread Ridder, Fred
FrameLink was a good product, and there was a separate version for FrameMaker+SGML. But Datalogics never did a version that worked with the structured mode of FrameMaker 7.x. Instead, they made a decision that as of the spring of 2005 they were no longer supporting the product. It's a dead end.

Adobe Acrobat PDF Writer does not make links

2006-10-12 Thread Ridder, Fred
Do you have the "Generate Acrobat Data" option enabled in the Print dialog? That's the most commonly missed essential setting... -Original Message- From: framers-bounces+fred.ridder=intel@lists.frameusers.com [mailto:framers-bounces+fred.ridder=intel.com at lists.frameusers.com] On B

Adobe Acrobat PDF Writer does not make links

2006-10-12 Thread Ridder, Fred
; printer, printing to a PostScript file and distilling, etc.) and you must use the setting I mentioned in my previous response. -Original Message- From: Ridder, Fred Sent: Thursday, October 12, 2006 9:55 AM To: 'Roopa Belur'; Framers Subject: RE: Adobe Acrobat PDF Writer d

Disappearing text using Save As to PDF

2006-10-16 Thread Ridder, Fred
/FrameMaker/Freeware/setPrint.htm This tool allows you to set up Adobe PDF as the default printer *within*FM*, while leaving your regular h/w printer as the default for all other applications. My opinions only; I don't speak for Intel. Fred Ridder (fred dot ridder at intel dot com) Intel Parsip

Continuous Numbering in framemaker

2006-10-16 Thread Ridder, Fred
One way is to insert an empty paragraph with a special tag at the end of the chapter file, and then use a cross-reference (with an x-ref format that picks up only the page number via the <$pagenum> building block) whenever you need the total page count. Fred Ridder (fred dot ridder at int

Different endings when typing continuous letters

2006-10-23 Thread Ridder, Fred
trics parameter from its default "Off" to "On". (This item is about half-way down in the file, which is many hundreds of line long.) Remember to quit FrameMaker before editing maker.ini and to save the edited file as plain text if you are using a word processor to do the editing. My opinions only; I don't speak for Intel. Fred Ridder (fred dot ridder at intel dot com) Intel Parsippany, NJ

How do I add a Tab to a Marker using Glossary

2006-10-25 Thread Ridder, Fred
n. My opinions only; I don't speak for Intel. Fred Ridder (fred dot ridder at intel dot com) Intel Parsippany, NJ -Original Message- From: framers-bounces+fred.ridder=intel@lists.frameusers.com [mailto:framers-bounces+fred.ridder=intel.com at lists.frameusers.com] On Behalf O

page numbering

2006-10-28 Thread Ridder, Fred
page number system variable that you'll set to use numeric format beginning with "a" or "A", and the other half of which is the text string "131" (or "131-" if you prefer). You can either enter that text directly on the master page, or use the $volnum syste

Remove Change Bars

2006-10-30 Thread Ridder, Fred
to redraw the screen (boy, do I wish Adobe would fix *that* shortcoming of FrameMaker...). My opinions only; I don't speak for Intel. Fred Ridder (fred dot ridder at intel dot com) Intel Parsippany, NJ -Original Message- From: framers-bounces+fred.ridder=intel@lists

Disconnected Pages

2006-10-31 Thread Ridder, Fred
ppendixes as well as chapters, but there's not much downside to simply having different templates with different default master page designs for the different categories of book components. My opinions only; I don't speak for Intel. Fred Ridder (fred dot ridder at intel dot com) Intel P

Disconnected Pages

2006-10-31 Thread Ridder, Fred
es. You at least need to know how to specify multiple tag names in a $paratext variable. Not terribly fancy, I'll admit, but it's surprising how many Frame users don't know how to do that. My opinions only; I don't speak for Intel. Fred Ridder (fred dot ridder at intel

TOC and template

2006-09-06 Thread Ridder, Fred
that is "in the background", such as the header and footer frames on master pages. My opinions only; I don't speak for Intel. Fred Ridder (fred dot ridder at intel dot com) Intel Parsippany, NJ -Original Message- From: framers-bounces+fred.ridder=intel@lists

Getting the Euro Symbol in Frame

2006-09-08 Thread Ridder, Fred
be to export just the numerical data, and apply the Euro symbol as autonumbering that is attached to the paragraph tag you use for the price. My opinions only; I don't speak for Intel. Fred Ridder (fred dot ridder at intel dot com) Intel Parsippany, NJ -Original Message- From: frame

Options for cross-grading, Mac to PC

2006-09-14 Thread Ridder, Fred
enses for years. My opinions only; I don't speak for Intel. Fred Ridder (fred dot ridder at intel dot com) Intel Parsippany, NJ -Original Message- From: framers-bounces+fred.ridder=intel@lists.frameusers.com [mailto:framers-bounces+fred.ridder=intel.com at lists.frameusers.com

Options for cross-grading, Mac to PC

2006-09-14 Thread Ridder, Fred
uot;a number of years ago" by now. Time sure is fun when you're having files. ;^) My opinions only; I don't speak for Intel. Fred Ridder (fred dot ridder at intel dot com) Intel Parsippany, NJ -Original Message- From: Dov Isaacs [mailto:isa...@adobe.com] Sent: Thursday, Sep

Options for cross-grading, Mac to PC

2006-09-14 Thread Ridder, Fred
fore purchasing. My opinions only; I don't speak for Intel. Fred Ridder (fred dot ridder at intel dot com) Intel Parsippany, NJ -Original Message- From: Peter Gold [mailto:pe...@knowhowpro.com] Sent: Thursday, September 14, 2006 1:53 PM To: Ridder, Fred Cc: framers at fr

Error while trying to generate TOC

2006-09-21 Thread Ridder, Fred
ss-reference" message. My opinions only; I don't speak for Intel. Fred Ridder (fred dot ridder at intel dot com) Intel Parsippany, NJ -Original Message- From: framers-bounces+fred.ridder=intel@lists.frameusers.com [mailto:framers-bounces+fred.ridder=intel.com at lists

Opening Acrobat 7.0 files in earlier versions

2006-09-29 Thread Ridder, Fred
. In order to retain backwards compatibility when saving a PDF from a new version of Acrobat, you must initiate the final save from the Advanced>Optimize PDF dialog where you have set the desired compatibility. My opinions only; I don't speak for Intel. Fred Ridder (fred dot ridder at intel

Page break paragraph style

2007-04-03 Thread Ridder, Fred
an see the paragraph easily and won't be tempted to use it as a regular text paragraph. My opinions only; I don't speak for Intel. Fred Ridder (fred dot ridder at intel dot com) Intel Parsippany, NJ -Original Message- From: framers-bounces+fred.ridder=intel@

Quick Access Bar and Security

2007-04-06 Thread Ridder, Fred
next time. If this is not happening, then my guess is that the users don't have proper permissions for their Application Data directories so that their personal maker.ini isn't getting saved. My opinions only; I don't speak for Intel. Fred Ridder (fred dot ridder at intel dot

Registration Marks and PDF generation

2007-04-09 Thread Ridder, Fred
gical, actually. My opinions only; I don't speak for Intel. Fred Ridder (fred dot ridder at intel dot com) Intel Parsippany, NJ -Original Message- From: framers-bounces+fred.ridder=intel@lists.frameusers.com [mailto:framers-bounces+fred.ridder=intel.com at lists.frameusers.com] On

FrameMaker, Missing fonts

2007-04-17 Thread Ridder, Fred
f are *not* changed-- that's the whole point of the "remember names" option. Only after opening the file with "remember names" turned off would you find the substituted font specified by name in the file itself. My opinions only; I don't speak for Intel. Fred Ridder

Resize anchored frame to fit graphic

2007-04-18 Thread Ridder, Fred
t, but if you don't like it (and you've got an appropriate compiler handy) you can use the provided source code to make your own DLL that does *exactly* what you want. My opinions only; I don't speak for Intel. Fred Ridder (fred dot ridder at intel dot com) Intel Parsippany,

FM, paste special text option

2007-04-23 Thread Ridder, Fred
is that you can accomplish this with the standard Paste command rather than having to use Paste Special with its extra keystrokes or extra mouse clicks. My opinions only; I don't speak for Intel. Fred Ridder (fred dot ridder at intel dot com) Intel Parsippany, NJ -Original Message--

pasting text from FM to FM

2007-04-23 Thread Ridder, Fred
internal to FrameMaker and retains all formatting. My opinions only; I don't speak for Intel. Fred Ridder (fred dot ridder at intel dot com) Intel Parsippany, NJ -Original Message- From: framers-bounces+fred.ridder=intel@lists.frameusers.com [mailto:framers-bounces+fred.r

pasting text from FM to FM

2007-04-23 Thread Ridder, Fred
st as often when pasting into Outlook as with FrameMaker. My opinions only; I don't speak for Intel. Fred Ridder (fred dot ridder at intel dot com) Intel Parsippany, NJ From: Rene Stephenson [mailto:rinnie1 at yahoo.com] Sent: Monday

Problems with "Save as function"

2007-04-23 Thread Ridder, Fred
age (or the next page from what's reported in the log file) that Distiller doesn't like. If you can't find any page numbers in the log file, you may need to use a "reduction by halves" method of printing ever-smaller page ranges to zero in on the offending page(s).

Setting up a half page doc to print crop marks

2007-04-25 Thread Ridder, Fred
And remember to turn off the Generate Acrobat Data option in the Print dialog, since that option suppresses registration and crop marks. My opinions only; I don't speak for Intel. Fred Ridder (fred dot ridder at intel dot com) Intel Parsippany, NJ -Original Message- From: fr

first impressions of FrameMaker 8

2007-08-24 Thread Ridder, Fred
"Umpteen years"??? It's barely been two years since 7.2 (although I'll admit that it has been about 5 years since 7.0 as the last major version release). And IMO FM8.0 includes several pretty major new features and capabilities, although from your perspective it may be easy to dismiss them as "

Structured Book imported to FM 8 fails to Distill to PDF w/Acrobat 8

2007-08-25 Thread Ridder, Fred
I think you mean turn the Tagged PDF option OFF rather than on. Or at least that was the case for Acrobat 6 and 7, where the tagged PDF option seemed to cause distiller to crash on specific documents for many users. And it may help to have Val tell us what method is being used to create the PDF.

Reasons to Structure

2007-02-13 Thread Ridder, Fred
our Word documentation many before we transitioned to Frame, which was several years before we were acquired by Intel and even more years before Intel sold off that business unit and all those documents. My opinions only; I don't speak for Intel. Fred Ridder (fred dot ridder at intel do

Trouble with cross-references

2007-02-14 Thread Ridder, Fred
will be returned after you work on them. If you have the "Remember..." option turned off, you may be returning files that use very different fonts than they did when you received them--not a nice thing to do to a client's files. My opinions only; I don't speak for Intel. Fred Ridd

Book update takes too long

2007-02-27 Thread Ridder, Fred
anged to operate on "all files in book". Just remember that you'll need to save all the files after doing the book update to refresh the page numbering and paragraph numbering as stored in the files. My opinions only; I don't speak for Intel. Fred Ridder (fred dot ridde

Using Conditional Text in Books

2007-01-03 Thread Ridder, Fred
x27;t speak for Intel. Fred Ridder (fred dot ridder at intel dot com) Intel Parsippany, NJ -Original Message- From: framers-bounces+fred.ridder=intel@lists.frameusers.com [mailto:framers-bounces+fred.ridder=intel.com at lists.frameusers.com] On Behalf Of Laura Larson Sent: Wednesday,

book paginating woes

2007-01-09 Thread Ridder, Fred
tion from the pop-up menu. My opinions only; I don't speak for Intel. Fred Ridder (fred dot ridder at intel dot com) Intel Parsippany, NJ -Original Message- From: framers-bounces+fred.ridder=intel@lists.frameusers.com [mailto:framers-bounces+fred.ridder=intel.com at lists.frame

Updating chapter numbers

2007-01-18 Thread Ridder, Fred
o are list members will offer to send you a copy of their article or point you to some other website where it is still available. My opinions only; I don't speak for Intel. Fred Ridder (fred dot ridder at intel dot com) Intel Parsippany, NJ -Original Message- From: framers-boun

Purchasing Fonts

2007-01-19 Thread Ridder, Fred
ntrol Panel's Fonts tool. And there is no particular advantage to having the tool install the font in any location other than the default font folder. My opinions only; I don't speak for Intel. Fred Ridder (fred dot ridder at intel dot com) Intel Parsippany, NJ -Original Message

TOUGH ONE

2007-01-26 Thread Ridder, Fred
pplies the formatting as an override. If you want to change the definition of the paragraph formats, you want to look into the Global Updates Options. My opinions only; I don't speak for Intel. Fred Ridder (fred dot ridder at intel dot com) Intel Parsippany, NJ -Original Message- From:

Plugin for enhanced find/change operations?

2007-01-29 Thread Ridder, Fred
Oops, I meant to send this to the list, not just to Alison... -Original Message- From: Ridder, Fred Sent: Monday, January 29, 2007 8:02 PM To: 'Alison Carrico' Subject: RE: Plugin for enhanced find/change operations? It's true that if you use Copy Special to cop

FrameMaker 5.5.6 > Word > InDesign help needed

2007-01-31 Thread Ridder, Fred
s converted to EPS when you print the FrameMaker document, and you have the added benefit of a *much* better on-screen rendition of the graphic in FrameMaker. My opinions only; I don't speak for Intel. Fred Ridder (fred dot ridder at intel dot com) Intel Parsippany, NJ -Original M

Conditional Text Question

2007-07-10 Thread Ridder, Fred
g relate to other product versions, choose the delete option. -If you want to get serious, repeat the preceding step for the conditions that are specific to the current version of the product, but choose the "make unconditional" option. My opinions only; I don't speak for Inte

Splitting a long table into separate tables in FM 7.2

2007-07-17 Thread Ridder, Fred
rows. But if you screw up, you just have to paste in another copy of the original table and start over with the row deletions. My opinions only; I don't speak for Intel. Fred Ridder (fred dot ridder at intel dot com) Intel Parsippany, NJ (formerly) -Original Message- From: frame

Deciphering the autonumbering elements

2007-06-07 Thread Ridder, Fred
The "M" is a series label. FrameMaker lets you define multiple, independent numbering series which are distinguished by single-character labels. Upper-case and lower-case letters are different labels and you can also potentially use single digits and punctuation marks if you need more than 53 indep

Global Footer Change

2007-06-07 Thread Ridder, Fred
Pages before using Find. Maybe this is a case where saving everything as MIF and using a text editor makes the most sense? My opinions only; I don't speak for Intel. Fred Ridder (fred dot ridder at intel dot com) Intel Parsippany, NJ -Original Message- From: framers-bounces+f

What Causes Table Data To Run Off Page?

2007-06-07 Thread Ridder, Fred
don't speak for Intel. Fred Ridder (fred dot ridder at intel dot com) Intel Parsippany, NJ -Original Message- From: framers-bounces+fred.ridder=intel@lists.frameusers.com [mailto:framers-bounces+fred.ridder=intel.com at lists.frameusers.com] On Behalf Of Angela Akridge Sent: Thur

Frame to pdf bookmark problem

2007-06-13 Thread Ridder, Fred
A similar question was asked and answered on-list last week. The most common cause of the behavior you describe is when the chapter title is in a separate frame that is not properly connected to the frame(s) for the main text flow. Check your master pages. -Original Message- From: frame

system variables inside a user variable?

2007-06-13 Thread Ridder, Fred
that contains the year across all files in a book takes only a few minutes, even for a large book, and you only need to change the value once a year. A manual solution works fine for me in this situation. My opinions only; I don't speak for Intel. Fred Ridder (fred dot ridder at intel dot com)

"Save as PDF" problems?

2007-06-14 Thread Ridder, Fred
my way of thinking a method that works properly every time is worth a lot more than a minor inconvenience. My opinions only; I don't speak for Intel. Fred Ridder (fred dot ridder at intel dot com) Intel Parsippany, NJ -Original Message- From: framers-bounces+fred.rid

BookName Variable Doesn't Appear in Xrefs

2007-06-19 Thread Ridder, Fred
whether the paragraph contains a user variable; all it looks for is a paragraph that is tagged with the tag name you specify. My opinions only; I don't speak for Intel. Fred Ridder (fred dot ridder at intel dot com) Intel Parsippany, NJ -Original Message- From: framers-bounces+f

Help cross-referencing two autonumbered series

2007-06-25 Thread Ridder, Fred
th the "paratag" tag. If you add this building block to your x-ref format (substituting the actual tag name of your parent step, of course) you should be home free. My opinions only; I don't speak for Intel. Fred Ridder (fred dot ridder at intel dot com) Intel Parsippany, NJ

anticipating a move to Structrued Frame

2007-03-16 Thread Ridder, Fred
speak for Intel. Fred Ridder (fred dot ridder at intel dot com) Intel Parsippany, NJ -Original Message- From: framers-bounces+fred.ridder=intel@lists.frameusers.com [mailto:framers-bounces+fred.ridder=intel.com at lists.frameusers.com] On Behalf Of Milan Davidovic Sent: Friday, March 16,

Save As PDF Was: RE: Strange PDF Problem

2007-03-20 Thread Ridder, Fred
DF printer your default. Personally, I never use Save As PDF. I'm a big fan of the watched folder approach for books or printing directly to the Adobe PDF virtual printer for single files. My opinions only; I don't speak for Intel. Fred Ridder (fred dot ridder at intel dot com)

Clipboard formats priorities

2007-03-23 Thread Ridder, Fred
only; I don't speak for Intel. Fred Ridder (fred dot ridder at intel dot com) Intel Parsippany, NJ -Original Message- From: framers-bounces+fred.ridder=intel@lists.frameusers.com [mailto:framers-bounces+fred.ridder=intel.com at lists.frameusers.com] On Behalf Of David Shaked (Wer

Change Bars

2007-03-26 Thread Ridder, Fred
long-standing bugs relating to searching for text in tables. My opinions only; I don't speak for Intel. Fred Ridder (fred dot ridder at intel dot com) Intel Parsippany, NJ -Original Message- From: framers-bounces+fred.ridder=intel@lists.frameusers.com [mailto:framers-bounces+f

continuing table headings

2007-05-02 Thread Ridder, Fred
And once you add the heading row, you'll need to re-type or copy-and-paste each of your existing headings into the cells of the new heading row before deleting the old pseudo- heading row. Or if you have a lot of tables to deal with, do yourself a big favor and buy a copy of list member Rick Quatr

Xref's from Tables don't work from text insets

2007-05-04 Thread Ridder, Fred
speak for Intel. Fred Ridder (fred dot ridder at intel dot com) Intel Parsippany, NJ -Original Message- From: framers-bounces+fred.ridder=intel@lists.frameusers.com [mailto:framers-bounces+fred.ridder=intel.com at lists.frameusers.com] On Behalf Of Ed Lightle Sent: Friday, May 04,

More Elegant Indexing Solution

2007-05-08 Thread Ridder, Fred
the page number emphasis as complex as you need to. My opinions only; I don't speak for Intel. Fred Ridder (fred dot ridder at intel dot com) Intel Parsippany, NJ -Original Message- From: framers-bounces+fred.ridder=intel@lists.frameusers.com [mailto:framers-bounces+fred.r

xref help

2007-05-08 Thread Ridder, Fred
x27;s because XML handles cross- references very differently than FrameMaker does internally. It has nothing to do with the item listing option that is set in the Cross-Reference dialog. My opinions only; I don't speak for Intel. Fred Ridder (fred dot ridder at intel dot com) Intel Pars

Frame crashes when generating a Glossary

2007-05-16 Thread Ridder, Fred
One well-documented cause of this behavior is markers that include returns. Check your markers. -Original Message- From: framers-bounces+fred.ridder=intel@lists.frameusers.com [mailto:framers-bounces+fred.ridder=intel.com at lists.frameusers.com] On Behalf Of Gillian Flato Sent: Wedn

Hiding graphics

2007-05-25 Thread Ridder, Fred
View>Options, bottom radio button. -Original Message- From: framers-bounces+fred.ridder=intel@lists.frameusers.com [mailto:framers-bounces+fred.ridder=intel.com at lists.frameusers.com] On Behalf Of John Posada Sent: Friday, May 25, 2007 6:19 PM To: framers at lists.frameusers.com Sub

RE: first impressions of FrameMaker 8

2007-08-24 Thread Ridder, Fred
"Umpteen years"??? It's barely been two years since 7.2 (although I'll admit that it has been about 5 years since 7.0 as the last major version release). And IMO FM8.0 includes several pretty major new features and capabilities, although from your perspective it may be easy to dismiss them as "

RE: Structured Book imported to FM 8 fails to Distill to PDF w/Acrobat 8

2007-08-25 Thread Ridder, Fred
I think you mean turn the Tagged PDF option OFF rather than on. Or at least that was the case for Acrobat 6 and 7, where the tagged PDF option seemed to cause distiller to crash on specific documents for many users. And it may help to have Val tell us what method is being used to create the PDF.

\ in cross reference

2005-12-04 Thread Ridder, Fred
that cannot be typed directly. Such things as en-dashes, em-dashes, non-breaking spaces, trademark symbols, etc. See Appendix A of the FrameMaker User Guide. My opinions only; I don't speak for Intel. Fred Ridder (fred dot ridder at intel dot com) Staff Information Services Analyst Intel Parsip

cut off graphic

2005-12-08 Thread Ridder, Fred
k for Intel. Fred Ridder (fred dot ridder at intel dot com) Staff Information Services Analyst Intel Parsippany, NJ From: framers-bounces+fred.ridder=intel.com at lists.frameusers.com [mailto:framers-bounces+fred.ridder=intel.com at lists.frameusers.co

Can't Open a FM File

2005-12-08 Thread Ridder, Fred
reallocate. In other words, the "backup" file is always one save behind the real working file, and the magnitude of the difference depends on how frequently you remember to do manual saves. My opinions only; I don't speak for Intel. Fred Ridder (fred dot ridder at intel dot com) I

Minor annoyance saving as PDF under FrameMaker 7.2b144

2005-12-09 Thread Ridder, Fred
Distiller doesn't close after you use Save As PDF because you shouldn't use that method to create your PDFs. My opinions only; I don't speak for Intel. Fred Ridder (fred dot ridder at intel dot com) Intel Parsippany, NJ -Original Message- From: framers-bounces+fr

FrameMaker's irritating habit of jumping pages

2005-12-10 Thread Ridder, Fred
The symptom sounds like the old "runaround graphics" bug from FrameMaker 5.5.6. But I thought that they fixed that in FM6. My opinions only; I don't speak for Intel. Fred Ridder (fred dot ridder at intel dot com) Intel Parsippany, NJ -Original Message- From: framers-boun

Numbering question on short books that are single files

2005-12-16 Thread Ridder, Fred
k when it comes time to publish. My opinions only; I don't speak for Intel. Fred Ridder (fred dot ridder at intel dot com) Staff Information Services Analyst Intel Parsippany, NJ -Original Message- From: framers-bounces+fred.ridder=intel@lists.frameusers.com [mailto:framers

TOC & IX files don't exist?

2005-12-21 Thread Ridder, Fred
es it generates new, unformatted ones. My opinions only; I don't speak for Intel. Fred Ridder (fred dot ridder at intel dot com) Intel Parsippany, NJ -Original Message- From: framers-bounces+fred.ridder=intel@lists.frameusers.com [mailto:framers-bounces+fred.ridder=in

Weird problem with PDF

2005-12-27 Thread Ridder, Fred
DF bookmarks on a per-file basis, meaning that you need to look in the file that contains any unwanted bookmarks as well as double-checking the book-wide PDF setup. My opinions only; I don't speak for Intel. Fred Ridder (fred dot ridder at intel dot com) Intel Parsippany, NJ -Orig

[framers] Conditional text

2005-11-23 Thread Ridder, Fred
file is set up with the particular set of conditional text settings so that all you need to do is use File>Import>Formats to import them from the template into the file or book that you are working with. My opinions only; I don't speak for Intel. Fred Ridder (fred dot ridder at intel

question about commenting in Acrobat 7 Pro

2005-11-23 Thread Ridder, Fred
6) If you use a watched folder, you can set both the joboptions and the security for that folder. Setting up several watched folders supports different combinations of joboptions and security settings for different purposes. My opinions only; I don't speak for Intel. Fred Ridder (fred dot

Table of Contents Question

2005-11-23 Thread Ridder, Fred
t;$pagenum> in each of the prototype paragraphs. My opinions only; I don't speak for Intel. Fred Ridder (fred dot ridder at intel dot com) Intel Parsippany, NJ From: framers-bounces+fred.ridder=intel.com at lists.frameusers.com [mailto:frame

Table header rows don't repeat

2006-04-10 Thread Ridder, Fred
speak for Intel. Fred Ridder (fred dot ridder at intel dot com) Intel Parsippany, NJ -Original Message- From: framers-bounces+fred.ridder=intel@lists.frameusers.com [mailto:framers-bounces+fred.ridder=intel.com at lists.frameusers.com] On Behalf Of Zoe Lawson Sent: Monday, April 10, 2006

Dumb, obvious question

2006-04-14 Thread Ridder, Fred
g, and to Change "By Pasting". In this case what you're pasting is only the conditional test setting. My opinions only; I don't speak for Intel. Fred Ridder (fred dot ridder at intel dot com) Intel Parsippany, NJ -Original Message- From: framers-bounces+fred.ridder=i

Commenting in PDF files from Acrobat 6.0

2006-04-18 Thread Ridder, Fred
cause this is a post process step, you can use Acrobat 7.x to enable commenting on PDFs that were created with older versions of Acrobat. My opinions only; I don't speak for Intel. Fred Ridder (fred dot ridder at intel dot com) Intel Parsippany, NJ -Original Message

Index Formatting Question

2006-04-25 Thread Ridder, Fred
look cramped to me. My opinions only; I don't speak for Intel. Fred Ridder (fred dot ridder at intel dot com) Intel Parsippany, NJ -Original Message- From: framers-bounces+fred.ridder=intel@lists.frameusers.com [mailto:framers-bounces+fred.ridder=intel.com at lists.frameusers.com]

Visio (2003) drawings into FrameMaker (7.2, unstructured)?

2006-04-27 Thread Ridder, Fred
e file format for Illustrator. Illustrator can have problems with certain PDF file format versions and may not be able to successfully open and edit any given PDF file. My opinions only; I don't speak for Intel. Fred Ridder (fred dot ridder at intel dot com) Intel Parsippany, NJ ---

Unavailable font

2006-04-28 Thread Ridder, Fred
and then distilling it to PDF. My opinions only; I don't speak for Intel. Fred Ridder (fred dot ridder at intel dot com) Intel Parsippany, NJ -Original Message- From: framers-bounces+fred.ridder=intel@lists.frameusers.com [mailto:framers-bounces+fred.ridder=intel.com at lists.fr

Unavailable font

2006-04-28 Thread Ridder, Fred
r is nearly as fast as Save As PDF and is 100% reliable. My opinions only; I don't speak for Intel. Fred Ridder (fred dot ridder at intel dot com) Intel Parsippany, NJ -Original Message- From: framers-bounces+fred.ridder=intel@lists.frameusers.com [mailto:framers-bounces+fred

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