Large book, many imported graphics, all imported by reference.
Today FrameMaker 7.0 (Mac) reported on saving a file that graphics information
had been lost and asked me to report the problem to Adobe (Mac FrameMaker
problem - Adobe - ha-ha!). On checking the document, it turned out that three
At 08:04 -0700 5/4/07, Drew Little wrote:
I got that part fine, but the tabs stop at the edge of the page. is there a
way to make the tabs larger than the page size for bleed purposes? I am sure
it is something rather simple, but for the life of me, I can't figure it out.
Hi Drew... yes, it's
At 15:45 -0400 6/4/07, Art Campbell wrote:
Once you have a good EPS or PDF, in FM, put your cursor where you want
the anchor, like at the end of a paragraph. Then try importing the EPS
graphic using File Import File (importing by reference is the
preferred method). It'll pop into an anchored
At 16:42 -0400 9/4/07, Molly Keegan wrote:
Thanks for the tips. They did work on a paper I authored in Frame that was
a single document. They did not work for the multi-document book I'm
working on. Is there perhaps a difference when adding registration marks to
a book instead of a single
At 15:19 -0700 9/4/07, Gabrielle Burns wrote:
Mike Wickham's suggestion below helped me to determine that the equation
files created in Math Type 5 should be saved as file type Encapsulated
Postscript/TIFF (*.eps). It's the TIFF that made the difference.
I can understand your confusion: this is
At 08:36 +1000 10/4/07, Tina Poole wrote:
OK Dove, what does bubbamisa mean??? I'm guessin' something like crap! :) I
did add sort of a disclaimer that the reason I gave was questionable!
Let me save you the time of waiting for Dov to reply. It is - and I am sure he
will correct me if wrong -
to reapply the para format to
correct it.
On 3/30/07, Steve Rickaby [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I wonder if anyone can help me with an inexplicable irritation.
I have a para format with an under-rule graphic taken off the reference page
and applied with the Frame blow pgf feature in the Advanced
At 11:50 -0400 10/4/07, Art Campbell wrote:
There isn't a lot of white space in the container around the rule on
the Ref Page, is there?
No chance there's any other container there, maybe an empty/invisible one?
I've just pulled it apart, and, sadly, no. 'Sadly' because it would have been a
At 11:50 -0500 10/4/07, Mike Wickham wrote:
Grasping at straws, here, but I vaguely recall a problem I had with similar
reference line. After testing it, I had decided that I wanted to move the line
up closer to the text it followed. So I went to the reference page to tweak
it. I can't
At 22:07 -0700 10/4/07, Dov Isaacs wrote:
Grandmother's tale is best and most literal
translation from the Yiddish.
- Dov
PS:Dove is a bird; Dov is a bear.
And 'typo' is a contraction of 'typographical error' ;-)
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At 10:16 -0700 11/4/07, Rene Stephenson wrote:
We have the same problem with 2 similar BlockLine paragraph tags that use 2 pt
font w/ 6 pt space above and paragraph below pointing to a line on the
reference page. Both are aligned across all columns and sideheads.
Incientally, it doesn't happen
At 05:37 -0700 12/4/07, Rene Stephenson wrote:
We're moving toward automating the PDF creation process from our FM files,
though, and I don't know if we'll be able to get it fully automated if we're
having to run a plugin between importing from the settings file to switch
conditions and
At 13:43 +0100 12/4/07, Steve Rickaby wrote:
I think the original idea came from Hedley Finger, for which, thanks.
Grovel: it was Hayden Jones. Thanks anyway: Hedley's a hero too ;-)
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At 09:36 +0200 13/4/07, Reng, Winfried Dr. wrote:
I want to change the height of a text frame in an anchored frame. When I try
to change it from 0.661 cm to 0.265 cm with the Object properties window, I
get an error message: Resulting columns would be too short.
The error message starts with a
At 13:24 -0500 16/4/07, Natalie Bircher wrote:
Ah,yes. It is not a new window, it is a saved doc. Strange that FM saves the
zoom level, I think.
Not at all: thank goodness that it does. What would you want it to do?
For any specific template and any specific monitor, there is always an optimal
At 11:23 -0600 17/4/07, Van Boening, Tammy wrote:
I am sure that this is a job for Framescript, but darn it, you can do it
in Word without doing anything special (Print and under Print What,
select Styles), so I am hoping that you can do it on Framemaker. I want
to generate on a per file basis,
At 09:32 -0600 18/4/07, Van Boening, Tammy wrote:
Obviously, take with a grain of salt, but some interesting points,
nonetheless.
This is all we need: yet another set of web 'standards'.
The NYT site that the article refers to was a mess.
'While Microsoft's hybrid applications can only be
At 11:35 -0400 18/4/07, Molly Keegan wrote:
I am wondering how others keep track of changes made to their books. I am
the only technical writer at my company, and we have a rigorous system of
reviews such that people are looking at the manuals who don't edit/read them
regularly. Those engineers
At 11:13 -0600 18/4/07, Linda G. Gallagher wrote:
I'm hoping someone can shed some light on this. My client and I are both
seeing this odd and inconsistent behavior and neither of us can explain or
fix it. :o
Our template has side heads set up and several table styles.
Wasn't something like
At 13:44 -0600 18/4/07, Combs, Richard wrote:
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I inherited some documentation, and I get an error message
The Frutiger-Black Font is not available. Does anyone
know where I can download that font for free or does anyone
know anything about that font. I am using FM
At 09:16 +0200 19/4/07, Yves Barbion wrote:
Indeed, if a user downloads a pdf of one book, and not the other, the links
will not work, but I guess the user will be smart enough to download the
other guide and then use the navigational aids (TOC, IX, bookmarks, ...) of
the other guide.
Are you
At 05:51 -0700 19/4/07, Angela Akridge wrote:
That's a good point, but I'm not delivering via CD-ROM. The user downloads
the PDF from the company's website.
If you're responding to my point, then it should make no difference as long as
the recipient stored the cross-linked PDFs in the same
At 10:15 -0700 20/4/07, Pat Christenson wrote:
I have a client who wants to import HTML docs into FrameMaker. My guess is
that this will be a copy-and-paste with a lot of manual cleanup. Anybody have
any ideas on how to make this less painful?
HTML, or XHTML? If the latter, structured
At 08:16 +0200 22/4/07, Rob Shell wrote:
I am 6 months into the legendary Framemaker, I love it.
You are clearly a man of taste and fine discrimination.
I need a better manual. Is there such an animal?
Yes...
At 20:17 -0400 25/4/07, Diane Gaskill wrote:
Hello Frameratti,
I like that... but shouldn't it be 'Framerati'? You might be thinking of
'Frameretti', i.e. little Framers ;-)
Remember the old days when we had debates and comparisons between the dreaded
Word and Frame? Well, now it seems that
At 16:50 -0700 26/4/07, Melissa Clark wrote:
When the x-ref is split into two separate x-refs (one referencing the table
and one referencing the field), conditional text operates normally and as
expected; however, this then means twice as many x-refs.
I seem to remember hitting this problem a
At 11:46 -0700 26/4/07, Matt Sullivan wrote:
These days, Frame can work directly with the XML, and storing as .fm is
strictly optional. IMO, this undercuts much of AT's sales pitch.
If the [fairly imminent?] upcoming version of FrameMaker actually turns out to
be FrameMaker 8 and not FrameMaker
At 13:55 +1200 1/5/07, Alan Litchfield wrote:
I have both general business insurance with large public liability cover and
where necessary I get professional indemnity insurance. The professional
indemnity insurance is the one that is really expensive.
In the UK I have found that it can be, but
At 11:08 +0100 4/5/07, Alexandra Wilowska wrote:
I would like to set things up so as to: map Preface Heading para to the
Preface First master page, then for each subsequent left/right page apply
Preface Left or Preface Right, until a Chapter Heading para is encountered,
whereupon map that para
At 23:53 +0200 4/5/07, Michael Müller-Hillebrand wrote:
So for a TOC you could define rules for the (unique) TOC paragraph formats to
switch to the custom masterpages in single page mode.
This is true, and your approach is valid. However, it is perhaps a special
case, particularly as the
At 13:22 -0700 15/5/07, Angela Akridge wrote:
Are there any gotchas with using text insets? For example, can I insert
xrefs so long as all books that use the text inset have the section to which
the text entity references? I assume that I'd need to regenerate to get the
appropriate page number as
At 12:40 -0700 15/5/07, Rene Stephenson wrote:
I have had secretaries apply for tech writer openings in my group. Internal
candidates always get phone screening, so I'd have to call them. I always
asked what they felt were their qualifications, and they all responded that
they had good English
At 12:58 -0400 17/5/07, Bill Swallow wrote:
Currently the DITA package for FM has a few limitations and bigs (for example,
stripping all XML comments from the files on use)
That sure sounds more like a big than a bug ;-)
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At 15:50 -0700 17/5/07, Chris Borokowski wrote:
I was excited by the social networking package that
is rumored to be part of Framemaker.next. In addition
to translating output into PDF and XML, the new
version will also automatically post it to your blog
or Myspace.
This is for real, Chris, or
At 08:25 -0700 21/5/07, Dov Isaacs wrote:
For what it is worth, there is no such thing as an Adobe PostScript Driver,
at least for the current versions of Windows. The driver used for the Adobe
PDF PostScript printer driver instance and for most printers supporting
PostScript is in fact the
At 12:11 -0500 23/5/07, Lin Surasky wrote:
For now, the question is, what's wrong with my conversion table that I
can't get the Description element to be wrapped properly around the
paragraphs and lists that follow a CR Title? If I specify E:Para as the
object(s) to be wrapped in the Description
At 10:28 -0400 24/5/07, Rick Quatro wrote:
I am trying to figure out how attribute-based Running H/F variables work. Here
is are examples of a couple in a document I have:
$attribute[Booktitle:book]
$attribute[Revision:book]
I assume that the first is looking for the value of the Booktitle
At 18:09 +0200 25/5/07, Mark Lawrence wrote:
The reason I am being so hesitant to just go out and buy the software and
subsribe to every training course available (other than cashflow) is that I am
basically unsure whether Framemaker will do the job I want it to, hence I will
try to describe
At 10:51 +0300 29/5/07, Shmuel Wolfson wrote:
I have a Frame document with several embedded CorelDraw graphics. In some of
the graphics, the text is very choppy. That is, each letter is a series of
short lines. This text looks very bad. In other CorelDraw graphics in the same
document, the
At 16:07 +0200 30/5/07, Mark Lawrence wrote:
I think I missed Shmuel's point as he was overtly discussing 'Print
Preview' and I think my need is somewhat different, so please allow me
to state it in more detail: what I tend to notice in Word is the poor
consistency of the texture of justified
Kenneth C. Benson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
It's decidedly a tradeoff: you'll give up certain aspects of automation and
long document support, but getting the text pretty is much easier. Indesign
has some XML capabilities, but I don't know much about them.
As in the song, 'Small, but a-growin''
My 10c...
At 15:38 -0400 30/5/07, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
After printing out the 600+ manual entitled Structured Application
Developer's Guide, I believe I have the general gist of what needs to be done.
Sheesh - just printing it enabled you to grok it? That's fast work... ;-)
Since it
At 10:42 -0500 30/5/07, Kenneth C. Benson wrote:
Frame considers only one line at a time. ID understands that it can break URLs
at slashes and periods; Frame allows you to define break characters, but once
you've allowed (for example) breaks after slashes, you have no way to disallow
1/2 from
At 14:49 -0600 30/5/07, Combs, Richard wrote:
And, indulge my curmudgeonliness for a moment: Does the tech writing
profession really need more excuses for font fondling? :-o
Well, for my money, one of the great things about InD is the quality of layout
it produces without interference. Ok, you
At 14:29 -0700 30/5/07, Dov Isaacs wrote:
Or maybe you want an InDesign = 6 that supports all the wonderful FrameMaker
features that aren't already in InDesign. That would solve a whole bunch of
other problems such as Macintosh support, CMYK + spot color support,
transparency support, etc.
At 18:06 -0700 30/5/07, Janet Underwood wrote:
Can someone clarify for me the changes in the PDF job options? I'm using v.7.1
and when setting up a PDF, my options are eBook, Press, Print and Screen. A
friend is using v 7.2 and his options are High Quality Print, PDFA Draft,
PDFX1a2001,
At 19:08 -0500 30/5/07, Lin Surasky wrote:
I started by creating an EDD in FrameMaker. It's not particularly fancy,
but it meets the basic requirements for what I need right now. I tried
to save it as a DTD so I could move on to the next step of testing
imported XML. I was getting error messages,
At 11:12 -0500 31/5/07, Lin Surasky wrote:
Stick to the base
character set, alphanumerics, no spaces, for your element names.
Are hyphens okay? All my element names are alpha only, no spaces, but
two have hyphens in them...
Not sure: check with the XML spec at the W3C site. It might be your
At 11:32 -0500 31/5/07, Lin Surasky wrote:
Well, what did you expect? This looks to me like a valid DTD,
although neither your EDD nor your DTD are exactly exciting.
So sorry to bore you! ;-)
Joke.
That was my test to see if FrameMaker was having an issue or if it was ALL me.
It's mostly
At 09:56 +0100 8/6/07, Steve Rickaby wrote:
If you decide to follow the DocBook route, you might be interested in the
packaged DocBook product, DocFrame, from Scriptorium Press, which is designed
to take some of the pain out of using DocBook with FrameMaker:
http://www.scriptorium.com/docframe
At 12:03 -0400 13/6/07, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Is it possible to put building blocks inside a user variable? Ideally I'd
like to create a variable named CurrentYear that contains only the $year
building block. For reasons unknown, I'd like to do this without modifying
or using the existing
At 14:57 -0400 13/6/07, Ann Zdunczyk wrote:
I know some of you guys do indexing a lot. I have been asked to quote doing
an index in Pagemaker (sorry). There are 1300 terms that are to be listed in
the index. In Pagemaker, as in Framemaker, I would need to add an index
entry for each instance of
At 10:10 -0400 15/6/07, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
My framehating coworker requested that I send this question in. We use
automatic change bars every time we work on our files. Big ones, 10 pt
thickness, on the left side of the column. When my coworker works on a
file, it will add change bars in
I currently have a good sound working FrameMaker set-up with FrameMaker 7.0 and
Acrobat 6 Pro on Mac.
I may have to go to Acrobat 8 for non-FrameMaker reasons. As there have been
reports [Windows only?] of Acrobat 8 installations interfering with FrameMaker
PDF workflows, can anyone prompt me
At 12:46 -0400 19/6/07, John Sgammato wrote:
I keep a folder in Outlook called Tips Tricks, and when something
useful comes across a list like this, I just drag it in there. If the
email does not have a helpful title, then I forward it to myself and
rename it before saving it.
Seconded. Mine is
At 23:56 + 19/6/07, Bodvar Bjorgvinsson wrote:
I think I have seen a Bible DTD for XML, but not an EDD...
Well, this would give you a flying start if you needed to work up an EDD, as
FrameMaker will create an EDD from the DTD for you.
Am I over my head in this?
Probably not, but where
At 03:56 -0500 20/6/07, Peter Gold wrote:
Is there any reason you can't just use two stone tablets and a chisel?G
Probably because you need the Finger of God, not a mere chisel.
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At 09:11 -0400 20/6/07, Parcell, Michelle wrote:
Thanks, Steve and Kimber, for the suggestion. Unfortunately, the problem was
that I *couldn't* remove it or change it - the tag wouldn't let me manipulate
it in any way. However, Winfried Reng did provide a solution that worked and
for which I
At 15:43 +0200 20/6/07, Reng, Winfried Dr. wrote:
I don't know when this flag gets set. In the MIF documentation
it mentions text insets. Eventually there was a text inset
before/after this paragraph which was deleted and the paragraph
retained its flag.
I had the same problem some time ago and
At 10:32 -0700 20/6/07, Daniel Doornbos wrote:
Now those comments show just how much you guys know about the Bible.
The 10 Commandments are in the Old Testament.
But Bodvar is working on the New Testament.
Ah... so that's what 'NT' stood for. I though it was a Windoze reference ;-)
The NT
At 12:55 -0500 20/6/07, Peter Gold wrote:
If you want to see an ambitious project, browse through
http://www.saintjohnsbible.org/. In the public TV documentary, I recall that
it took a heck of a long time, a lot of gifted folks working a lot of hours,
days, years, and a bunch of bucks to
At 13:45 -0700 20/6/07, Gillian Flato wrote:
I saw that, and was also thinking about it. I think it was a Monty
Python film. Moses was walking down the mountain holding three tablets.
He says, I give you the 15... and then one tablet drops and breaks. So
he amends his statement and says, I give
At 01:21 -0700 25/6/07, Radha Padmanabhan wrote:
* Each chapter start has $header_footer1 set to the chapter no. (hard coded)
* the thumbtab image in the master pages remain in the same position for every
chapter
(Still the tabs move when seen in body pages )
* the thumbtab image also holds a
At 09:48 -0600 27/6/07, Combs, Richard wrote:
You need Enhance (www.sandybrook.com/enhance/). Among other features,
it gives you an outline view of your FM doc that works much like Word's
outline view -- you can promote/demote levels, move chunks around, etc.
Steve Kubis at SiliconPrairie has a
At 13:01 -0600 7/7/07, Combs, Richard wrote:
I'm with Art. If I could think of a way to do what your client wants, I
wouldn't tell you as a matter of principle -- because it
_ought_not_to_be_done_.
That aside, here's a pointer if you really have to do it. FrameMaker won't let
you enter tables
At 09:17 -0500 10/7/07, Sam Beard wrote:
However, I have no real choice as to having three separate files (my second
point), because of our documentation control system. We number our documents
with a one-up system, including the month/year as the last four parts of an
eight-digit number. If
At 09:26 -0700 24/7/07, B Hechter wrote:
I have not yet found any selective backup synchronization software that meets
my needs, but, hey, maybe it's out there.
Retrospect?
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I'm probably breaking rules here by posting two queries in succession. Sorry.
Today is not a good day with FrameMaker. TGIF.
I am working up a template, and am seeing visibly inconsistent vertical spacing
between headings and body paras in the same document despite the fact that
there are no
At 18:14 -0400 31/7/07, John Sgammato wrote:
According to Adobe Support, FM8 docs can't be saved as FM7.2 docs, either.
What!! Backward compatibility has been dropped? Who's bright idea was that?
At 15:20 -0700 31/7/07, Scott Prentice wrote:
The SaveAs dialog includes FM7.0 as an export
Anyone following this thread may remember that I was suffering from
inconsistent vertical spacing between headings and following paras when no
overrides were active, and that I found that creating a new document and
copying selected contents to it removed the problem. I did not find the cause
At 08:36 -0600 2/8/07, Combs, Richard wrote:
Are you sure you don't have Baseline Synchronization or Feather turned
on (in Format Page Layout Line Layout)? I've never used those
features (or Balance Columns in Column Layout), so I'm guessing -- but
they're my primary suspects (actually, my only
At 12:10 -0700 4/8/07, Angela Akridge wrote:
I use book-to-book xrefs. The xref formats look good. When I update my
books, Frame doesn't complain about broken links. However, after I
generate the pdf and test the book-to-book links, I get an error that
says the file can't be found. When I go to
At 18:29 +0200 6/8/07, Gunnar Carlsson wrote:
Does anyone know if there is an easy way to put a border around 1-2 words in a
sentence, for example to mark a button.
Example:Please press ABORT to leave this funcion. Here I would like to
have a thin border around ABORT. It is very simple
At 17:24 -0500 6/8/07, Peter Gold wrote:
It is perhaps a little easier to size and position a text line inside
an inline anchored frame, than a text frame. You can create the text
with the text line tool (the A tool on the Graphics tool panel), and
drag or paste it inside an anchored frame
At 17:11 -0700 6/8/07, Courtney Collins wrote:
I haven't ever tried this, but what about creating a box on the reference page
and using that instead of the lines that usually appear there? I'm home now,
but I will try ot tomorrow at work if I get time.
Not sure if this would work. The purpose
Hi Framers
In off-group discussions with Angela and others, it's become only too clear
that it's possible to create clever stuff on master pages that is obvious to
its designer but to no-one else ;-) For example, the auto thumbtabs stuff which
came up recently on the group, or anything that
At 10:06 +0100 7/8/07, Steve Rickaby wrote:
When massing with multiple frames on master pages, it's a lot easier to see
what's going on if you give the various frames a temporary - and different -
fill pattern and/or colored border. When you've finished dickering with them,
you can use
At 06:04 -0500 7/8/07, Peter Gold wrote:
Text lines accept character tags, but not paragraph tags.
I did not know that. Thanks ;-)
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At 08:41 -0500 7/8/07, Pinkham, Jim wrote:
(Yes, I know the chorus, Undo is for wimps! but I've been spoiled by all
those years in Word...
Yeah, Wurd tends to have that effect - but not in the sense you mean ;-)
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At 09:55 -0500 7/8/07, Pinkham, Jim wrote:
LOL. Thanks, Steve :) I'll not restart the tool wars by rising to the
bait on that one.
Wise man, wise man ;-)
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At 09:25 -0700 7/8/07, Valerie Lipow wrote:
If anyone has one or more templates demonstrating the type of Master
pages/Reference pages discussed in the parent subject, if they're not
copyrighted, and if you're authorized and willing to disseminate them to the
group, would you please store a copy
At 10:48 -0400 9/8/07, Brenda Waltermeyer wrote:
That is exactly what it does (rubbish). I need it to be included in the
numbering string not as a character style. I already have a character style
called ZHeadNum in the Character Format under Numbering tab in the Paragraph
designer. I need to
Apologies for OT posting. I've been trawling the Adobe site looking for
information on third-party plug-ins for Acrobat, as there is for example for
FrameMaker, but so far have not found anything.
. If anyone can point me to an Acrobat site like the Leximation FrameMaker
plug-in web pages, I'd
I am working on a book in which some letter pairs are underlined when 'view
symbols' is enabled. I don't recall having noticed this symbol before, so I
looked it up, and the user guide suggests that it indicates hyphenation
suppression [presumably manually applied?]
What strikes me as odd is
At 16:02 -0500 25/8/07, Noel Lashbrook wrote:
I am curious to know if anyone out there has a similar configuration that is
already running FrameMaker 7.0 successfully. I will be starting a course this
fall to learn the basics of FrameMaker 7.0.
Noel: got to the 'FrameMaker for OS X' group:
Can anyone shed any light on the possible causes of the following quick close
to the start of distillation of a large (221 MB) Ps book file?
%%[ Error: syntaxerror; OffendingCommand: o ]%%
%%[ Flushing: rest of job (to end-of-file) will be ignored ]%%
%%[ Warning: PostScript error. No PDF file
I wrote...
Can anyone shed any light on the possible causes of the following quick close
to the start of distillation of a large (221 MB) Ps book file?
%%[ Error: syntaxerror; OffendingCommand: o ]%%
%%[ Flushing: rest of job (to end-of-file) will be ignored ]%%
%%[ Warning: PostScript error.
At 15:58 -0400 27/8/07, Nina Rogers wrote:
My coworker has a book saved out on a network. I'm working in the same
version of Frame and keep getting this message when I try to save my
work:
The document was saved to a temporary file, but FM can't rename it to
have the correct name. The newer
At 20:51 + 28/8/07, Bodvar Bjorgvinsson wrote:
And to complicate things further, the eth and thorn and even an accented y
(which are all parts of the extended ASCII) seem to FrameMaker just as some
space character when it comes to hyphenating.
'Eth' and 'thorn' are letter names in
Dear FramerUsers
Is anyone aware of an issue that could cause character transposition when
moving FrameMaker documents containing FrameMaker equations from one platform
[Windows] to another [Mac]? Some embedded equations have suffered the following
character transpositions:
. Summation
MIF-washing the document in question, but it had no effect.
I'm stumped. Anyone any ideas?
At 16:58 +0100 2/9/07, Steve Rickaby wrote:
Is anyone aware of an issue that could cause character transposition when
moving FrameMaker documents containing FrameMaker equations from one platform
Further... if anyone is following this... there appear to two different Symbol
fonts:
. That installed here with FrameMaker 7.0 on Mac appears to be copyright Apple
Computer and also appears to be Unicode
. That used by the originator of the documents appears to be copyright
Monotype/Type
A friend suggest the following: 'Are you certain the author is using Symbol for
his equations? Other typefaces probably contain math symbols.'
He was right. I remembered where to go in the bowels of the Equation Editor to
find out the default fonts, and lo! The originator of the documents not
Hi Framers
I've just spent about half an hour trying to fox out why an A heading TOC
constructor was failing to have any effect whatsoever on the actual formatting
of the headings in the TOC. I'd put tabs in and take tabs out until I was blue
in the face, but the page numbers resolutely
Am working against the clock with a book that is undergoing last-minute design
changes on press day, so I have to use up two question tokens today...
I am forced to mix 1-column and 2-column layouts. I cannot use tables, as the
existing 1-c material that must go into 2-c already contains
At 13:13 +0100 12/9/07, Steve Rickaby wrote:
As we know from previous discussions here, the column layout is a flow
property rather than a page property, so I must use a B flow for the 2-c
material.
My question is, is there any way of preventing numbering streams from
restarting when the flow
At 08:34 -0500 12/9/07, Peter Gold wrote:
Did you try exporting to PDF? Sometimes the Fill None doesn't appear on
screen in FM, but does work in PDF.
Yes, I did, Peter. All attempts to get this frame to disappear in both
FrameMaker and the resulting PDF have so far failed, including:
.
At 10:14 -0400 13/9/07, Stuart Rogers wrote:
Steve wrote I am still, however, surprised that number streams reset
at the start of a flow within the same document, although I suppose
it makes some sort of sense.
It makes a lot of sense if you suppose that the original purpose of multiple
flows
At 10:01 -0400 13/9/07, Stuart Rogers wrote:
Just to ensure absolute clarity: Richard said to double-check the Table Cell
tab of the *Paragraph* designer; you say you checked the table definition,
which implies the Table designer. You have checked both places, right?
Just to underline what
At 11:20 -0400 12/9/07, Stuart Rogers wrote:
Steve Rickaby wrote:
I am forced to mix 1-column and 2-column layouts. I cannot use
tables, as the existing 1-c material that must go into 2-c already
contains tables.
As we know from previous discussions here, the column layout is a
flow property
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