a specific
variable or conditional text.
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Shmuel Wolfson
Andersen, Verner Engell VEA wrote:
> Hi
> We are goin to change all our Times New Roman 10 pt fonts to Verdana 9
> pt fonts.
> What is the easiest way to update all styles in the paragraph designer?
>
> Rig
While we are on the subject, what's the difference between Global Update
and Update All?
Regards,
Shmuel Wolfson
Yves Barbion wrote:
> That's a good idea, Shmuel, and to "make the change" at once, I would
> suggest this:
>
>1. In the Paragraph Design
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On 9/20/07, Shmuel Wolfson <[1]sbw at actcom.com> wrote:
How about the following:
Make a copy
iew. Go through each file and delete formats that do not appear in the
template (optional).
Regards,
Shmuel Wolfson
Andersen, Verner Engell VEA wrote:
> Shmuel
> I am going to update all paragraph tags (60 or so) in the whole manua
enter/acrobat/articles/acr7sd3dcontent.html
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Are you sure it's still available. I can't find this on Adobe's site,
and the link below is no longer available.
"To learn more
about the suite please visit
www.adobe.com/technicalcommunicationsuite."
Regards,
Shmuel Wolfson
Dov Isaacs wrote:
> ( BW)(CA-ADOBE-
Don't expect the bugs to be fixed until 8.x, where x is greater than
0.
Regards,
Shmuel Wolfson
Danny G Green wrote:
In June there was a posting about Acrobat 8 dropping pages, text,
and words when produced from FrameMaker 7.2. Is anyone still
having pro
Don't expect the bugs to be fixed until 8.x, where x is greater than 0.
Regards,
Shmuel Wolfson
Danny G Green wrote:
> In June there was a posting about Acrobat 8 dropping pages, text, and
> words when produced from FrameMaker 7.2. Is anyone still having
> problems?
>
&
Speaking of hyperlinks, I have a:
message URL http://
And when I click on it, it does not open a web browser. Basically, it's
a dead link.
Any ideas?
Regards,
Shmuel Wolfson
Steve Rickaby wrote:
> I have the solution for my posting below, although I don't understand it.
>
Is there a way to search for text with a change bar, you could do the
same thing with a simple AutoIt script. And AutoIt is free.
Regards,
Shmuel Wolfson
martin.smith at golehtek.com wrote:
> Hi Gunnar,
>
> This is rather easy to do if you have FrameScript. FrameScript is a
>
MWSnap is the best free screen capture utility I've seen yet. It has
that option.
Regards,
Shmuel Wolfson
Flato, Gillian wrote:
> Does anyone know how to take a screenshot so that the screenshot
> includes the mouse and where it's pointing to?
>
>
> Thank you,
&g
First do a shift/save all, then a shift/close all.
Regards,
Shmuel Wolfson
Harold Winberg wrote:
> Hello Framers
>
>
>
> I am working in a Book file with over 400 chapters.
>
>
>
> I am using IXgen and opening all files to perform updates.
>
>
>
>
I recommend Steve Wiseman.
He's a Mif2Go expert.
swiseman at context.co.il
Regards,
Shmuel Wolfson
052-763-7133
Jim Owens wrote:
> We're currently using WWP 2003 to generate CHM from our Frame docs, but
> since there's no support past FM 7.2, we're evaluating our
You can edit the "cmds.cfg" file if you want to change the ESCAPE
shortcut sequences.
The file is very hard to read in Notepad, but when you open it in a good
text editor (Crimson, SciTE, or Notepad++) it's much easier to read.
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Shmuel Wolfson
052-763-7133
Klaus Da
Why don't you try the Auto-text plug-in here:
http://www.siliconprairiesoftware.com/Products.html
It's only $10.
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Shmuel Wolfson
052-763-7133
Mike Wickham wrote:
>> Looking for a solution, my web search turns up ImpGraph Plugins:
>>
>> http://ho
only have the disk for 7.0. If I install 7.0 will Frame download updates
for 7.2?
Any ideas or suggestions would be appreciated?
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Shmuel Wolfson
052-763-7133
reinstalling software.
>
> - Dov
>
>
>> -Original Message-
>> From: framers-bounces at lists.frameusers.com [mailto:framers-bounces at
>> lists.frameusers.com] On Behalf Of
>> Shmuel Wolfson
>> Sent: Sunday, December 07, 2008 2:08
This is a Windows Issue. FileBox eXtender is a free program that has
this feature. It's on the File Boxes tab in the preferences.
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Shmuel Wolfson
> Nancy Allison wrote:
>
>> Hi, everyone.
>>
>> I am working on a large manual with many graphics that
things that were defined differently in one doc than the other.
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Technical Writer
052-763-7133
Avraham Makeler wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> I am new to this group, and pretty new to FrameMaker (but I was a Word 2003
> guru, so that helps a bit...).
>
> My que
When I follow a link to another file in the FM book, it usually does not
close the current file. Other times it does close the current file. Is
this a bug or a feature, and how do I disable closing the current file?
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Shmuel Wolfson
Technical Writer
052-763-7133
export the book to Word or Help, there are all sorts of files types
there. IMHO you can delete all of them except for the INI files.
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Shmuel Wolfson
Technical Writer
052-763-7133
Avraham Makeler wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> My client backs up it FM files to VSS.
>
> I nee
In Annoyance 3, do you mean select the document or select the paragraph?
I would love it if the list of paragraphs would be alphabetic. That's a
very request from Adobe.
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Shmuel Wolfson
Technical Writer
052-763-7133
John Sgammato wrote:
> I am whiling away a snowy Bo
This would be a nice item to place on a the Adobe wish list. They should
be ordered alphabetically or by the way they are listed in the book.
Anything is better than a random order. The same with the paragraphs in
the list on the right.
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Shmuel Wolfson
Technical Writer
052-763-7133
I occasionally have the dreaded "Internal Error" after a search in FM,
then FM closes. Would extra RAM help? I have 1 GB of RAM now.
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Shmuel Wolfson
Error problem.
Would extra RAM help with this?
Regards,
Shmuel Wolfson
Bodvar Bjorgvinsson wrote:
> In large documents, bigger RAM can speed up the work but usually 1GB is ample.
>
> Which version FM and in what instances does this happen?
>
> Bodvar
>
> On Wed, Feb 6, 200
Here are two good text editors. They are much more powerful than Notepad.
SciTE Text Editor
Crimson Editor
Regards,
Shmuel Wolfson
Linda G. Gallagher wrote:
> Thanks, Rick.
>
> Any recommendation on a text editor? I don't think I have anything other
> than Notepad installe
have a "record macro" feature like word does?
Any info would be appreciated.
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Shmuel Wolfson
I've had it close when scrolling a document that has embedded Corel
graphics, when I scrolled too fast and did not wait for the embedded
graphics to appear.
Regards,
Shmuel Wolfson
052-763-7133
Pete Rourke wrote:
> Christopher - We are on the same version. I've never experience
Why would they come out with the Adobe Technical Writing Suite and then
just drop it?
Regards,
Shmuel Wolfson
Lin Surasky wrote:
> Gosh, has it been 4 months ALREADY? I didn't think this would come up again
> for oh, at least another week or so
> Where do
I wonder is these rumors are started by competitors. It's possible that
Adobe puts less development time into FM as they do their other more
profitable programs, but I think it's highly unlikely that they will
stop developing it entirely.
Regards,
Shmuel Wolfson
052-763-7133
Mi
ftware companies like
to perpetuate, in order to give people reasons to keep upgrading to new
versions. I think it's mostly psychological.
Do you buy a new car every time the next year's model comes out with a
few new features?
Regards,
Shmuel Wolfson
Peter Gold wrote:
> On Thu,
You could also try Macro Express. Anyone have an idea of how AutoIT
compares to Macro Express (besides the price).
Regards,
Shmuel Wolfson
Michael O'Neill wrote:
> You could probably do it with AutoIT, though it would take some practice
> to get right. If you have an engineer t
I was looking around and I see there are several Windows scripting tools
out there.
Here are three good ones:
AutoHotkey - free, has a record macro feature like Word
AutoIt v3 - free, good reviews
Macro Express - $40
I like the record feature, so I'm trying AutoHotkey first.
Regards,
S
it easy to use?
Regards,
Shmuel Wolfson
Peter Ring wrote:
> DZBatcher,
>
>http://www.datazone.com/dzbatcher2.html
>
> is your friend.
>
> kind regards
> Peter Ring
>
> Linda G. Gallagher wrote:
>
>> Framers,
>>
>> A client would like to b
Well if you want to just get the PDF Standard, you can always send the
PDF with a link to the PDF-XChange Viewer (free). With this tool you can
add comments to any PDF, including encrypted ones.
http://www.docu-track.com/downloads/users/
Regards,
Shmuel Wolfson
052-763-7133
Shlomo Perets
You can easily avoid this by using PureText. It removes all formatting
from the original text.
Regards,
Shmuel Wolfson
052-763-7133
Diane Schaefer wrote:
> Hi Isabelle,
>
> I recently made an amazing discovery regarding elusive, unavailable
> fonts:
>
> If you copy and pa
7;s set up, it works very fast and does a good job.
Regards,
Shmuel Wolfson
Fred Staal wrote:
> I am seeking assistance in the conversion of several Framemaker books,
> varying from 150 to 500 pages in length (with many graphics, tables), to
> reasonably cosmetic versions in Word.
You could make a simple batch file to delete the two FNTCACHE.DAT files
and put on the Quick Start section of the taskbar, or wherever it's
convenient for you. This doesn't completely automate the process, but
it's close.
Regards,
Shmuel Wolfson
Ken Stitzel wrote:
>
Does anyone know where I could get a list of Alt+ shortcuts?
Regards,
Shmuel Wolfson
Martinek, Carla wrote:
> I use them all the time, since they're application-independent.
>
> Also good to know:
>
> ALT+0153 = (tm)
> ALT+0174 = (r)
>
> -Carla
>
>
Here's a list I've compiled. This list was compiles mainly with Word in
mind. You have to check the support on FM.
Regards,
Shmuel Wolfson
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Free:
- PDF995
- CutePDF
http://www.acrosoftware.com/Products/CutePDF/Printer.asp
- Create PS file and use GSview (whic
move the whole table to the next page?
Regards,
Shmuel Wolfson
052-763-7133
Jim Owens wrote:
> If you want a page layout that FrameMaker cannot deliver automatically,
> then overriding the template for the printed output is your only option.
>
> The alternatives are to devise a templa
would start with a clean book with no overrides
(meaning if I wrote it from scratch), I can see the advantage to using
no overrides, and a special paragraph to force new pages, since there is
always that doubt about whether some overrides were added for
non-pagination reasons.
Regards,
Shmuel
See "Adding key sequences" in Customizing_Frame_Products.pdf, which is
located in your FM installation folder.
Good luck!
Regards,
Shmuel Wolfson
Callie Bertsche wrote:
> Hello Framers! It's my first post to the list! I've been gleaning useful
> knowledge from
Is there any way to search for FrameMaker overrides?
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Shmuel Wolfson
052-763-7133
For figures, you can have a paragraph (style such as Figure style) with
the next paragraph style defined as a Figure Caption style.
Regards,
Shmuel Wolfson
Shuttleworth, Roger wrote:
> Hello Deirdre
>
> The presence of a table caption is determined by the table format as shown
Speaking on fonts, does anyone have any info on any info on the various
types of fonts such as TrueType? What are the most common types?
Any info would be appreciated.
Regards,
Shmuel Wolfson
Paul Findon wrote:
> On 19 Jun 2008, at 05:47, Dov Isaacs wrote:
>
>
>> You are
I highly recommended using Sequential fields for numbering in Word. Read
the one page in Word's help on Sequential fields. Then use the Tech-Tav
macros (free) to quickly insert them.
Regards,
Shmuel Wolfson
Chinell, David F (GE EntSol, Security) wrote:
> Lester:
>
> An excelle
Is it possible to number figures across files within a book?
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Regards,
Shmuel Wolfson
Why don't you just replace the period with a tiny graphic that looks
like a period. You could put it on your reference page.
Not the cleanest solution, but it's original :)
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Shmuel Wolfson
Rick Quatro wrote:
> Hi Darren,
>
> Instead of a list of paragr
were insufficiently
explained.
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Shmuel Wolfson
052-763-7133
Andersen, Verner Engell VEA wrote:
> Hi
> I am going to send out a questionnaire to our customers about
> documentation.
>
> I am interested in good advice, maybe a template or a sample
> questionnaire.
>
> I am
gards,
Shmuel Wolfson
-
Linda G. Gallagher wrote:
> Framers,
>
> I don't need convincing; I use specific tags to anchor all of my graphics
> and tables, but sometimes I find it hard to explain why. What are some of
> your reasons for always anchoring tables and graph
what I've heard about them. I have not
actually used Flare or structured Frame.
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Regards,
Shmuel Wolfson
>> Lately I read some postings on MadCap products. I'm not familiair with
>> those, just wondering how MadCap compares to FrameMaker. Is it competive
>> with
gards,
Shmuel Wolfson
Mollye Barrett wrote:
>Hi All,
>
>My client has many unstructred Frame books (average page count 700
> pages) with text insets and referenced graphics. They want to be able
> to do a couple of things that elude me...
>
>* Display change date on
How about saving the files as MIF and using a search and replace tool
that works on text files to change the path? Notepad++ has a global
search and replace for text files.
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Regards,
Shmuel Wolfson
Robert Evans wrote:
> The following will work if you have if you are working in, or h
book this problem does not occur.
Any ideas why this is happening or how to fix it? Also, how to you
adjust the size of the (superscript) number that refers to a table footnote?
--
Regards,
Shmuel Wolfson
Technical Writer
052-763-7133
Sometimes this happens when you have conditional text which is hidden.
If this is the case, AND you search for unresolved cross-references and
there are none, you can safely ignore this warning.
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Regards,
Shmuel Wolfson
Technical Writer
052-763-7133
Ben Hechter wrote:
> Can't fig
I use bold for referencing sections, instead of quotation marks. It
makes things much simpler as far where to put the comma, and this style
seems to be popular.
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Shmuel Wolfson
Technical Writer
052-763-7133
Nancy Allison wrote:
> Once more, this time with content!
>
>
It seems that the problem with the page numbering in the TOC was that
one paragraph was shifting to the next page when I updated the TOC, but
it was not shifting to the next page in the PDF. I haven't quite figured
out how that could have happened, but I solved the problem for now buy
reducing
I'm having two problems with a TOC (using Frame 9 p237).
1. The page numbers for a lot of the TOC entries are wrong. When I click
on the links they go to the right pages, but not the pages listed in the
TOC. It starts in the middle of one of the chapters - the page numbers
in the TOC is one pag
micrograms of silver.
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Regards,
Shmuel Wolfson
Technical Writer
052-763-7133
Lea Rush wrote:
> Hi Jeremy,
>
> I did a comparison of RH vs. Mif2Go at the beginning of the year, and the
> biggest difference I found was that RH supported Natural Language search.
> Does Mif2Go support t
I think the options that have been mentioned on the list are:
1. Use a FrameScript
2. Delete them from each file manually, then save the book as a MIF and
search for and delete the tags.
3. Save all the files as MIFs and delete the tags.
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Shmuel Wolfson
Technical Writer
052-763-7133
The
Pagination settings in the book file override the ones in each chapter,
so I recommend just setting them at the book level unless you have a
specific reason why you can't.
If you need more help, please let me know.
--
Regards,
Shmuel Wolfson
Technical Writer
Jakob Fix wrote:
>
For this reason and other reasons, it's a good idea to zip up each days
work, and save it with the date in the filename. This way you can always
revert to the previous day's work.
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Shmuel Wolfson
Technical Writer
052-763-7133
Galanter, Lea wrote:
> I'm not sure
net/
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Shmuel Wolfson
Technical Writer
052-763-7133
PDF XChange Viewer is a really easy-to-use (free) tool for commenting on
PDFs. It's something that you do not have to teach the reviewers. It's
self explanatory. And you do not have to "allow" users to comment on the
PDF in order to use this tool.
--
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Shmuel Wolf
Good point Fred.
But you could take a dummy file which only has the new par tag (and no
other par tags) and import the par tags from that file to all the files
in the book. Then do the search and replace.
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Shmuel Wolfson
Technical Writer
052-763-7133
Fred Ridder wrote
When I make an index in FM, only the page number is hyperlinked.
Someone asked me to make the text in the index also hyperlinked.
Is this possible, and if so, how would I do this?
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Shmuel Wolfson
Technical Writer
052-763-7133
Good point.
In general, you don't want this. But we have some manual that have an
index consisting of a list of functions. In these cases, it would be
preferable to have the function name hyperlinked as well.
Is there any automatic way of doing this?
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Shmuel Wolfson
Tech
ng. I wish Adobe could figure out how to simplify
their interfaces.
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Shmuel Wolfson
Technical Writer
052-763-7133
Shlomo Perets wrote:
> Shmuel,
>
> You wrote:
>
> > When I make an index in FM, only the page number is hyperlinked.
> > Someone asked me to ma
(one for each of the icons). Define the par tags with a
reference graphic above or below the par.
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Shmuel Wolfson
Technical Writer
052-763-7133
Leah wrote:
> FM 7.0 ; Windows XP
>
> In one of our products, users can choose between 2 programming syntaxes.
> Until now we h
Notepad++ is free and you it has search and replace within entire
folders and subfolders.
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Shmuel Wolfson
Technical Writer
052-763-7133
David Spreadbury wrote:
> Verner,
> Probably the best way is through MIF.
>
> You could use a program like TextPad, sh
You can use PureText to paste the text in without formatting. It's faster
than pasting into Notepad, and is the equivalent.
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Shmuel Wolfson
Beck, Charles wrote:
Hi Guy,
OK, I checked with the writer in question, and he reported that what he
did was a copy-and-
I've found an interesting solution to the inadvertent "Change All"
problem in FM. You can shorten the Find dialog box on the right side, so
that the "Change All" button is hidden.
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Regards,
Shmuel Wolfson
052-763-7133
Is there a way to align the contents within a table cell to be centered
or to be aligned with the bottom of the table cell (as you can do in Word).
--
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Shmuel Wolfson
I put a copy of each manual in a separate directory, and create an
Acrobat index file. When searching the index file (.PDX), the searches
are very fast.
Regards,
Shmuel Wolfson
Gillian Flato wrote:
> Hey guys,
>
> Is anyone out there using source control with a search engine on to
I found a nice resource for writers that I wanted to share with the list:
http://owl.english.purdue.edu/handouts/index.html
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Regards,
Shmuel Wolfson
I meant to say I put a copy of each PDF in a separate directory, and
create an Acrobat index file of the PDFs.
Regards,
Shmuel Wolfson
Shmuel Wolfson wrote:
> I put a copy of each manual in a separate directory, and create an
> Acrobat index file. When searching the index file (.PDX
c. Is this
correct? Is there an easier way to do this?
Any advice is appreciated. Thanks
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Shmuel Wolfson
052-763-7133
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052-763-7133
to show only A
text.
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Shmuel Wolfson
052-763-7133
Original Message
I have three manuals that are mostly identical, Manual A, Manual B and
Manual C (for example).
I have 3 conditional text tags named A,B and C. When I print, I will
need to able to show only A
PureText is free and works in all applications.
[1]http://www.stevemiller.net/puretext/
Regards,
Shmuel Wolfson
052-763-7133
Combs, Richard wrote:
Steve Cavanaugh wrote:
There is an easier approach. HOVtext is a public domain
system utility that automatically strips formatting from
I always felt that "This Page Intentionally Left Blank" sounds a bit
weird. Why would you intentionally leave a page blank? I vote to change
it to "This Page Left Blank for Double-sided Printing."
Regards,
Shmuel Wolfson
052-763-7133
Whites wrote:
> Isn't there al
Maybe we should change it to "This page intentionally left almost
completely blank," to be more technically accurate :)
Regards,
Shmuel Wolfson
052-763-7133
Combs, Richard wrote:
Daniel Emory wrote:
Certainly I don't advocate the use of MIL specs for preparing
com
Is there any problem using conditional text inside of a text inset?
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Shmuel Wolfson
052-763-7133
Ask them to save it as WMF or EMF. They retail the line quality.
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Shmuel Wolfson
Gagne, Bernard (Bolton) wrote:
> I am in the process of educating the engineers I work with over this issue.
> They are in the habit of giving me a JPEG image when I request a line
> drawing.
I have an Index with 2 blank pages at the end. I tried every possibility
under Pagination, Delete Blank pages, etc. Any ideas?
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Shmuel Wolfson
Roman" font and replaced it with another font.
Unfortunately, I still get the same message. Any ideas? It won't let me
update the book this way.
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Shmuel Wolfson
052-763-7133
turn off
"Remember Missing Fonts" temporarily.
Regards,
Shmuel Wolfson
052-763-7133
Art Campbell wrote:
> This should be all over the 'net, because it's a FAQ, but:
>
> If you don't care about the fonts, under FM Preferences, turn off
> "Remember Missi
finding it, I figured it couldn't hurt to turn off "Remember Missing
Fonts" temporarily.
Regards,
Shmuel Wolfson
052-763-7133
Art Campbell wrote:
> This should be all over the 'net, because it's a FAQ, but:
>
> If you don't care about the fonts, und
or if you have a color printer). All of them can be spotted on a black
and white printers by the underline.
Regards,
Shmuel Wolfson
Fred Wersan wrote:
> I've been thinking about using Framescript to do something to all
> edited text to make it stand out, for example, underli
Check the setting in your maker.ini:
ClipboardFormatsPriorities=TEXT, FILE, OLE 2, EMF, META, DIB, BMP, MIF, RTF
Try putting FILE before TEXT.
Regards,
Shmuel Wolfson
Shmuel Wolfson wrote:
>
> Original Message
> Subject: Re: paste special ...text opti
forget but which has been documented here
before.
Regards,
Shmuel Wolfson
Brenda Waltermeyer wrote:
> Using Windows XP, FrameMaker 7.2
>
> I am trying to add a graphic or a square bullet in front of all my headings.
>
> Example:
>
> ? 1.1 Heading 1
>
> Is
I think we should be happy that the new version has some significant
improvements and shows that Frame is NOT a dead or dying product,
instead of complaining about the lateness of the new features.
Regards,
Shmuel Wolfson
Alison Carrico wrote:
> In my business (document/software translat
I use PureText (similar to HovText) and am very happy with it.
http://www.stevemiller.net/puretext/
Regards,
Shmuel Wolfson
Steve Cavanaugh wrote:
> HovText is a System Tray tool that strips all formatting when you copy,
> thus providing a clean text past. http://hovtext.com/
>
n you import more than you need to, you can mess other things up.
Regards,
Shmuel Wolfson
052-763-7133
Laura Larson wrote:
> Is there a way to change the conditional text settings for all of the
> chapters in book at one time, rather than having to go in and reset each
> chapter fil
Another option is a single wide-screen monitor.
Regards,
Shmuel Wolfson
Sean Pollock wrote:
> ? I use dual monitors all the time. You just have to have a graphics card
> that supports it (has two outputs).
>
> -Original Message-
> From: framers-bounces+spolloc1
Strange.
I find importing Visio files as OLE objects (from Visio 2000 to FM 7.2)
to work just fine. When I try to File>Insert>File (by reference) it
doesn't recognize the Visio file format, and Visio is not in the list.
Perhaps my version of Visio is too old.
Regards,
Shmuel Wol
If it doesn't support right to left, I saw a set of fonts advertised
that claim that they add right to left functionality. Perhaps that will
work for Frame.
Regards,
Shmuel Wolfson
Reng, Winfried Dr. wrote:
> Hi Dov,
>
> I don't know whether it is allowed to tell that.
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