Re: Missing Characters in PDF

2007-05-16 Thread rebecca officer
For me, a 100% reliable workaround (so far, but that's several years of the issue on and off) is to print the document to PS twice. The second one is always fine. Deleting the font cache file fixes the problem temporarily for me (yay!), but when it comes back, printing twice is much quicker than

Re: Do I need to jump into the Structured FM pool?

2007-05-18 Thread rebecca officer
Could you present your release notes in tables? That lets you use FM's sort function to split the bugs into resolved and not. You just have to have a column called something like status and then sort according to that. Then immediately before release, you can split the table up to make your 3

Re: Getting something ignored during spell checking

2007-05-30 Thread rebecca officer
If you replace the space before the .xml (etc) with a non-breaking space, then the spellchecker ignores it. The non-breaking spaces drop the quality of your layout a little, but for a developer guide I'd guess that wouldn't really be a problem. Cheers, Rebecca Van Boening, Tammy [EMAIL

Re: Need some FM tips

2007-06-19 Thread rebecca officer
b. After following a cross reference (Alt+Ctrl+Click), go back to the cross reference? If you get ToolbarPlus from www.microtype.com/resources.html it has a tool button for this. Cheers, Rebecca NOTICE: This message contains privileged and confidential information intended only for the use of

Re: creating a rotated master page

2007-07-04 Thread rebecca officer
Hi Leah Sidebars are a feature of a flow, not of an individual page. You can get text to act as if the sidebars aren't there by using the pagination settings in the paragraph designer. Select across all columns and sidebars. I'm at home so can't check on FM, but I think all you have to do with

Re: Inconsistency problem

2007-08-23 Thread rebecca officer
You need to make sure that all the files in the book have the same conditional text settings (and the same print setting for the color black). I'm not sure how to sort out the color black, but for the conditional text, the easiest is to get it right in one file then import the formats into all

Fwd: RE: deleting backup files

2007-08-29 Thread rebecca officer
I hung onto it. :-) Rebecca Diane Gaskill [EMAIL PROTECTED] 24/07/07 20:48 Ben, Why do you need a VB script? A simple batch file works fine. Run a DOS window from the directory you want to clean up and then run the following batch file. Copy the text to Notepad and save it as cleanfm.bat

cursor display oddity

2007-09-04 Thread rebecca officer
Hi everyone I just noticed something weird that our documents have probably been doing for years and just wondered if other people see the same weirdness. If we type a space at the beginning of a paragraph, the cursor looks like it jumps to the right margin. But it only looks that way. If we

RE: Using FrameScript to change footer text

2007-09-08 Thread rebecca officer
If they're currently constructed differently, you could redesign one template doc so that it uses variables and does work for all files, then import from that into all files in each book. Cheers, Rebecca Fred Ridder [EMAIL PROTECTED] 09/08/07 10:28 AM One aspect of well-designed templates is

RE: Broken xrefs

2007-09-16 Thread rebecca officer
Hi Kelly Very strange and worrying that FM didn't preserve the xrefs. You did update the book/s after making the changes? I do appreciate the suggestion of a hand-code fix in plain text, but there are far too many for a one-man shop...regards, Kelly. Are you sure? I'd expect that you could use

Re: Mapping of Word styles to Framemaker paragrahps

2007-09-20 Thread rebecca officer
Anyone know how to get it? The cudspan website seems to have vanished off the face of the web. :-( Thanks, Rebecca Yves Barbion [EMAIL PROTECTED] 09/20/07 11:32 PM I use Template Mapper for jobs like these. Template Mapper was developed by Chris Despopoulos

Re: Italics dropping out of TOC

2007-10-15 Thread rebecca officer
I did something similar to this a while ago. I wanted to fool framemaker into thinking a font family CourierItalic existed, so that it would preserve the italics in cross-references. To do that I added the following line to the [WindowsToFrameFontAliases] section of maker.ini Courier, Italic,

Re: Maintaining character tags in cross references

2007-12-18 Thread rebecca officer
Hi Jerilynne It's do-able but painful. I worked it out (with forum help :-) a while ago for preserving italics in courier font in xrefs. Basically, FM only preserves font family info in xrefs, so you have to fool it into thinking that the bold/italic/whatever form of the font is a separate

RE: Keeping Two Tables Together in Frame 6.0

2008-01-06 Thread rebecca officer
Hi Theresa Have you tried anchoring them in different paragraphs and setting the anchor of the second table to keep with previous? I'd expect that to do exactly what you want, as long as the second table's table style has 2 as its orphan row setting and the first table has a very high number

Re: can't print to PDF

2008-01-09 Thread rebecca officer
Hi Jon Check that you've got a FILE: port in your printer settings. Updating Acrobat can kill it, and FM can't make PDFs without it. 1. From the Start menu select Settings Printers and Faxes. 2. In the Printers and Faxes window, right-click on any printer and select Properties. 3.

RE: The dreaded Internal Error error meets the dreaded Adobe support, sigh

2008-01-13 Thread rebecca officer
Hi Emily How frustrating! I can't remember if you've tried this, but if not: can you PDF a completely new blank file? If not, I'd say either your Adobe PDF printer is stuffed, or FM is. Seeing as you can PDF okay from Word, my money's on FM. :-( You should be okay with uninstalling FM then

Re: Importing single variable values?

2008-01-13 Thread rebecca officer
Hi Charles If all your system variables have the same value in all files in the book, you can make an import-from FM file and delete the variables you don't want, then import variable definitions from that file. Problem is, you can't delete system variables. But you can with a mif fragment.

RE: Importing single variable values?

2008-01-14 Thread rebecca officer
You only need to muck with MIF files when importing variable formats because FM has this really annoying feature of not letting you remove the system variables, so a MIF fragment is the only way to make a template that doesn't have them. That's the problem with the third variant from Grant and

Re: MIF fragments

2008-01-15 Thread rebecca officer
Hi Kanti We've never used MIF fragments to create a new variable, only to change the values of existing variables. To do that, you just open the MIF fragment in FM, open your target book, select all the files in the book, and use File Import Formats to import the variable definitions from

RE: overlapping text frames

2008-01-15 Thread rebecca officer
Sounds to me like a magazine-type layout with text frames overlapping for deliberate effect. Am I right? Do you need to know how to select a text frame? Make sure View Borders is on, then Ctrl-click on the border of the frame. Then you can drag it out of the way, or delete it if it's a

Re: Change bars that will not die and making RoboHelp for FrameMaker see

2008-02-03 Thread rebecca officer
Can't help on RoboHelp, but for the change bars, check your paragraph styles don't have change bars set. It's on the Default Font tab of the paragraph designer. And ditto character styles. Cheers, Rebecca Thomas Scalise [EMAIL PROTECTED] 2/02/08 04:03 Esteemed colleagues, Two questions,

Re: HELP - Deleting Multiple Master Pages in FrameMaker

2008-02-03 Thread rebecca officer
And if you use a good text editor, you could search and replace on multiple MIF files at once. Very carefully, after backing them up first. Cheers, Rebecca Peter Gold [EMAIL PROTECTED] 2/02/08 11:37 Hi, Susan: Have you tried saving files as MIF, opening in a text editor, then deleting the

RE: Distiller 7 missing fonts

2008-02-06 Thread rebecca officer
Hi Roger I've got no idea what could be wrong with your font, but just thought I'd comment that we use that font and have no problems with embedding it. Our font files are dated 14/10/1999. Using FM7.0 and Win XP SP2. Did it work in the past for you, or is this the first time you've tried to

Re: Text string in title case?

2008-02-27 Thread rebecca officer
I'm using an old version of Shlomo Perets' extremely useful expanded toolbar and it has a button to change the selected string to sentence case. It says the keyboard shortcut is Alt+F2. That may be generic on all systems, even those without the toolbar. If so, you could use Mike's wildcard

Re: Unwanted re-ordering of files in booked publications

2008-03-04 Thread rebecca officer
Hi Rob I was building a heap of files into a large book today, and saw some of the files go out of order in the book. Mostly I'd have just assumed I'd carelessly dragged them, but your email prompted me to look a bit more closely. FM7.0, fully patched, XP SP 2. I found that I can reliably

Re: Menu name

2008-04-10 Thread rebecca officer
We've called them a tree menu in the past. That gets 944000 hits on google. Seems to be a javascript term. Expanding menu is also a javascript term but looks like it's not for those +/- menus. Cheers, Rebecca Flato, Gillian [EMAIL PROTECTED] 11/04/08 06:24 Does anyone know what to call the

Framemaker 10 crashes when changing conditional text display setting

2011-11-09 Thread rebecca officer
Hi everyone We're getting Framemaker 10 crashes when changing conditional text display settings on some files (3 so far out of several hundred). It crashes, for example, when we toggle between build expressions and/or Show As Per Condition settings. Depending on file and display settings, it

RE: Framemaker 10 crashes when changing conditional text display setting

2011-11-09 Thread rebecca officer
prone to crashes. Best regards Winfried From: framers-boun...@lists.frameusers.com [mailto:framers-boun...@lists.frameusers.com] On Behalf Of rebecca officer Sent: Wednesday, November 09, 2011 7:24 AM To: framers@lists.frameusers.com Subject: Framemaker 10 crashes when changing conditional text

Re: Framemaker 10 crashes when changing conditional text display setting

2011-11-09 Thread rebecca officer
! Cheers Rebecca On 10/11/11 at 01:30, Roman Banks banks_ro...@yahoo.com wrote: Hi Rebecca, I had a similar problem 2-3 times with specific FM files. Usually, manually saving the files as MIF and then manually saving them back as FM10 solved the problem. HTH, Roman From: rebecca officer

Re: Framemaker 10 crashes when changing conditional text display setting - solved, kind of

2011-11-10 Thread rebecca officer
Hi everyone We've found workarounds (yay). Basically, it looks like the files were too complex for FM's liking. Two things to avoid: 1. multi-page tables with conditioned rows 2. a large amount of conditional text on the first page of a file, immediately following an imported TOC inset. That

RE: FrameMaker10 Graphics Problems and Strange Object Grouping Behavior

2011-11-10 Thread rebecca officer
We use Illustrator and import eps files. For block diagrams, you have to use a vector format, not something like jpg. About sending error reports to Adobe - Frame 10 doesn't do this automatically. You have to find the Framelog file that the error message lists, write up what you were doing,

Re: Conditional text and templates

2011-11-30 Thread rebecca officer
Hi Laura By template, I assume you mean paragraph styles etc? I think I'd deal with it by having two templates - default and custom - and importing settings from each in turn. I'd write the text with one template applied and then import the other to check it. You may already realise this,

ebooks from FM books - via robohelp or some other way?

2011-12-06 Thread rebecca officer
Hi everyone We've got multi-chapter documents where the source files are unstructured FM10 book files. We'd like to publish as epub files too. What software are people using for that? We've just played with Elmsoft's new EPubFm but it doesn't work on book files, just standalone FM files.

RE: ebooks from FM books - via robohelp or some other way?

2011-12-08 Thread rebecca officer
Subject: RE: ebooks from FM books - via robohelp or some other way? I’ve created epub files from unstructured FM7 documents using Webworks Epublisher Pro. From: framers-boun...@lists.frameusers.com [mailto:framers-boun...@lists.frameusers.com] On Behalf Of rebecca officer Sent: Monday

Re: Figure numbers that span all chapters in a book

2011-12-22 Thread rebecca officer
HI Doug Have a look at your chapter title paragraph format and make sure it doesn't reset F to 1. Cheers Rebecca Doug Edwards edward...@neb.rr.com 12/22/11 6:58 PM Season's greetings, fellow Framers! I'm using unstructured FM 8 on Windows XP, and I have a set of FM documents that currently

Re: Frame 9 buggy - Frame 10 as bad? Frame 11 on horizon?

2012-01-06 Thread rebecca officer
Hi Gay We've had Frame 10 crashes fairly consistently on a small number of files when changing conditional text display settings. It's been a major pain! We seem to have worked round it by doing all of these: - remove CT from the first page of the doc, esp CT that changes the number of pages -

RE: Recommended graphic file format for single-sourcing from Frame to Robohelp?

2012-01-15 Thread rebecca officer
PNGs are small files too. What's not to like? For screenshots, the quality difference between a jpeg and a png is really obvious. Jpeg just isn't designed for sharp boundaries. If you've got a heap of legacy files, you need a batch conversion tool. There may be great free ones out there, but

RE: Recommended graphic file format for single-sourcing from Frame to Robohelp?

2012-01-16 Thread rebecca officer
H. My experience is with WinXP (hey, if it works don't break it). I did test prints of screen captures as pngs and high-quality jpegs. The pngs were *much* sharper, esp when printed out. Then again, I was capturing text-heavy GUI screens, not webpages, and it was WinXP. Probably be a

RE: FM + CMS + SMEs w/o $$$?

2012-01-27 Thread rebecca officer
Something XML based? They edit in a free/cheap XML editor, you open the same files in FM and publish. I haven't done this so could be talking through a hole in my head but it sounds feasible. Steep learning curve for you but prob not for the developers. Cheers Rebecca On 27/01/12 at 10:11,

Re: Copying large data sets into tables

2012-01-31 Thread rebecca officer
Hi Andy If it isn't a complicated table layout, just convert it to paragraphs in Word, paste the text into FM and convert it back into a table. Cheers Rebecca On 31/01/12 at 03:23, Andy Smith (WFL) andy.sm...@wingedfeet.co.uk wrote: Hi Does anybody know if there is a quick way of

Re: snapshot of table in FM for use as image in EPUB ebooks

2012-02-04 Thread rebecca officer
Hi Ray Is your question about how to have both the snapshot and the original table in your FM doc, but have webworks only use the snapshot? If so, use conditional text. It was designed for stuff like that. Feel free to ask if you need more info. Cheers Rebecca On 2/02/12 at 01:37,

Re: hard coded path names for imported graphics and x-refs

2012-02-20 Thread rebecca officer
Hi Meg To prevent this, use Windows Explorer to copy your files instead of Save As. That seems to work ok. Cheers Rebecca meg miranda megmira...@yahoo.com 18/02/12 07:09 Number 2 is what I did. Yup that was it. Thanks Rick. Much appreciated. -meg From: Rick Quatro

Re: Cross-reference oddity in FM 9

2012-02-21 Thread rebecca officer
Hi Rene Schlomo's the expert on this, but I think your alternative font has to be an oblique/italics font, not just any different font. In his example of Univers-Condensed Oblique, FM preserves the oblique format in xrefs because the font only has oblique glyphs. Your HelveticaNeueLT Std Cn

RE: Follow up to Adding File Name Variable to Template question

2012-03-07 Thread rebecca officer
Hi Stephen On your master page, draw a text frame in the footer where you want the variable to go. When it asks what kind of frame, make it a background text frame. Then you can just put the variable in that frame like normal. Cheers Rebecca Owen, Clint clint.o...@craneaerospace.com

Re: Copy / paste table cells

2012-03-08 Thread rebecca officer
Hi Tim Have you saved the old file as MIF to try and clear out gremlins? And did you try going though other formats instead of Word - Frame? Eg Word - HTML - Frame? If that doesn't get you a better source file, then if the table layout isn't complicated, you should be able to convert the old

Re: best use of graphics in FM

2012-03-23 Thread rebecca officer
Hi Ken There're certainly a lot of better options than your flow! Working from PDFs, my I'm-in-a-hurry flow would be: 1. Open PDF at 100% 2. Open SnagIt. 3. Set snagit to automatically save files as PNGs with incrementing numbers in filenames. 4. Set snagit to capture a Region, which lets you

RE: Automatic ligatures

2012-03-26 Thread rebecca officer
if you have any issues, Adobe's only response will be to advise you to migrate to Windows 7, since that is the OS version that they support FrameMaker 10 on. Fortunately, my experience of Frame support has been better than that. They provided support for our activation issues and they've

RE: stability WAS: FYI: Deal for upgrading from FM7.x to FM10 ends June 15

2012-06-17 Thread rebecca officer
In contrast, we're using FM10 on WinXP and are seeing multiple crashes. We upgraded from FM7 which was stable as a rock. We think the new features in FM10 make it worth the upgrade, but we're not totally convinced! Cheers Rebecca Syed Zaeem Hosain (syed.hos...@aeris.net)

Single sourcing from Frame and a wiki ... or something ...

2012-06-25 Thread rebecca officer
Hi everyone Our docs team (4 of us) creates a many-thousand-page multi-chapter user manual in unstructured Frame. Lots of tables and cross-refs. Conditional text used to publish several variants. Published as PDFs a couple of times a year, delivered online. And the engineers (about 80)

RE: Cleaning up color definitions - killing fm_gen colors in the MIF files

2012-07-03 Thread rebecca officer
Rebecca, I would love to know how to unlock those fm_gen colors. I have hundreds of them. They are just junk littering my files. Thanks, Gillian From: rebecca officer [mailto:rebecca.offi...@alliedtelesis.co.nz] Sent: Tuesday, July 03, 2012 3:12 PM To: Gillian Flato Subject: RE: Cleaning up

Re: comparing variables in .fm files in FM10

2012-07-08 Thread rebecca officer
Take a screen snapshot of each variable pod and compare them from the snapshots. If you've got snagit, you can even use the scroll capture mode and get the whole pod in one snapshot. Cheers Rebecca Robert Lauriston rob...@lauriston.com 7/07/12 09:06 I inherited this book so I don't know

Re: Single sourcing from Frame and a wiki ... or something ...

2012-07-08 Thread rebecca officer
I just want to say thank you to everyone who's replied, both on and off-list. I'll get back to people individually, and I'll write up a summary of the options for the list, once I've got them more sorted out! Cheers Rebecca NOTICE: This message contains privileged and confidential information

Re: On educational discounts documentation issues

2012-08-23 Thread rebecca officer
Hi Rob I've grumbled on here about an FM10 crash a couple of times in the last year. An Adobe engineer got in touch each time. I was impressed! And the crash has been fixed in FM11 - I'm definitely impressed. I agree with you about printed manuals, though. We'll be buying a few copies of

Re: FrameMaker 11 Add ons - also for earlier versions!

2012-08-23 Thread rebecca officer
Echoing Scott's enthusiasm, I was delighted to see there's a version for FM10 too. Great! Cheers Rebecca Scott Prentice s...@leximation.com 14/08/12 09:05 Klaus... These are some wonderful resources that you've provided to the FM community! I'm particularly interested in the maker.ini and

Re: Problems comparing large books: due to memory issues--or what?

2012-08-23 Thread rebecca officer
You could also use a text editor to compare the MIF files. That'd get text changes, including changes in tables. Cheers Rebecca Stuart Rogers srog...@phoenix-geophysics.com 21/08/12 10:02 On 20/08/2012 2:36 PM, Fausset, Marilyn wrote: I have been comparing several FM books (specs bound for

Re: FrameMaker 10 Crashes When Saving a Book with Conditional Text and TT Edits

2012-09-03 Thread rebecca officer
Hi Joseph Try the trial version of FM11. FM10 has crashes around conditional text for us, and we can't reproduce them in FM11. It might be a different bug, but worth a try. If you aren't already doing this, a possible workaround in FM10 is to make sure you save the files before updating

RE: Unstructured to Structured: Question about retaining, paragraph formats

2012-09-13 Thread rebecca officer
Hi guys If you're planning to roundtrip through XML, with different authors using different XML editors, you'd need to have all the formatting in the EDD, right? Or am I on completely the wrong track in my ignorance? Thanks Rebecca Rick Quatro r...@rickquatro.com 14/09/12 10:02 I like

Re: Automatic PDF Form

2012-09-14 Thread rebecca officer
Would it work to make the checkbox from an autonumbered paragraph in a sidebar? You could use the Next Paragraph setting in the Para Designer to automatically insert them next to the paragraphs that need them. Cheers Rebecca David Artman da...@davidartman.com 14/09/12 06:23 Goal: Upon

RE: POLL: Which method do you use to apply bold and italics?

2006-01-16 Thread rebecca officer
Ditto, we use C. But we've managed to end up with a format named Bold too. We use that when we want to make something bold and one of the named formats doesn't apply. ;-( Using character formats isn't necessarily foolproof. Last week, someone accidentally updated one of our formats and made it

survey of apps wanted on Linux

2006-02-02 Thread rebecca officer
Hi everyone Novell are pushing linux, and have a survey up to find out which Windows apps people really want on it. I thought some people might be interested in adding FM to the list - especially those who've been using it on a MAC and don't want to convert to Windoze.

Re: Importing Generated Files Into TOC

2006-02-21 Thread rebecca officer
Every time I try that and regenerate the file, the headings disappear and the lists are printed before my TOC headings. Yep - text before the actual TOC is preserved. Text after the TOC is not preserved. The easiest approach is to make each generated file a separate file in a book. But

Re: Frame files won't distill

2006-03-04 Thread rebecca officer
Hi Wendy If you haven't already, I'd try: - saving the misbehaving .fm files as .mif, opening the .mif and saving it as .fm again. - regenerating the TOC and (if it's generated) the index. Make sure all the files in the book are open at the time. - for the TOC, deleting page 14, to see if it

Re: TOCs at beginning of each chapter

2006-03-05 Thread rebecca officer
Hi David For your first technique, you have to add all the .fm files to the big book, not add the single-chapter books to it. We used this approach for a while, but found it a pain to have to keep opening and updating the small books. Also, you have to muck with your numbering scheme. In your

Re: Error installing FM 7.1p116

2006-03-07 Thread rebecca officer
Hi Art Have you dropped the Graphic Print Quality setting of your Distiller printer (in both places in the printer properties)? We had to drop ours to 300dpi to solve that problem, but it's been a permanent reliable fix. Cheers, Rebecca Art Campbell [EMAIL PROTECTED] 8/03/06 04:05 Certainly

Re: Find problem with font

2006-03-24 Thread rebecca officer
At a guess, you're using a character tag to apply the font, and that tag has language set to None. You can check (and change) this in the character designer. The same feature happens in the paragraph designer. Setting language to none stops FM from using a dictionary with it and therefore stops

Re: Vanishing Table Heading Cells

2006-04-09 Thread rebecca officer
Could be the good old graphic print quality problem that causes random text drop-out in PDFs. In Windows, open Properties for the Distiller / Adobe PDF printer driver. On the general tab, click Printing Preferences, then Advanced. Change Graphic Print Quality to 300 dpi. Click OK till you're

Re: OT: Including Acrobat Reader on Manual CD-ROM

2006-04-13 Thread rebecca officer
I'm pretty sure you can't do this with recent Reader versions for Windows. We used to, but now we provide an installation file and I'm pretty sure we changed because the software required the change. As you may have guessed, I don't deal with this bit of our process. The person who does is on

Re: OT: Including Acrobat Reader on Manual CD-ROM

2006-04-13 Thread rebecca officer
I'm pretty sure you can't do this with recent Reader versions for Windows. We used to, but now we provide an installation file and I'm pretty sure we changed because the software required the change. As you may have guessed, I don't deal with this bit of our process. The person who does is on

Re: renaming a variable

2006-04-14 Thread rebecca officer
But don't forget this method copies and replaces the formatting too, unless your variable definition sets the formatting. Cheers, Rebecca Peter Gold [EMAIL PROTECTED] 04/15/06 3:20 AM Hi, John: Have you tried Find/Replace, as: * Create the new variable. * Insert one instance of it. * Copy

Re: Intrenal Error

2006-04-25 Thread rebecca officer
Hi Ranvijay I don't know if anyone's replied to you off list, but I can't see any replies to the list so I thought I would reply. You need to give us different information. The image you attached got dropped by the list - the list won't accept any attachments. Also, FM gives internal errors

the 2 maker.ini files

2006-04-30 Thread rebecca officer
Hi everyone I'm confused. If I make a change to the maker.ini file in C:\Program Files\Adobe\FrameMaker7.0, do I also need to make the same change to the copy in C:\Documents and Settings\rebeccao\Application Data\Adobe\FrameMaker\7.0? I read Adobe's tech note

sluggish scrolling

2006-05-07 Thread rebecca officer
Hi folks This is just an annoyance, but I thought I'd ask in case I'm doing something horribly wrong. I'm doing a lot of work in an FM document that includes a 75-page long table, landscape format. When I use the mouse wheel to scroll from page to page, the response is mostly pretty jerky -

Re: What do you use for PDF Generation?

2006-05-28 Thread rebecca officer
Good grief - that google search for Documents and Settings\ filetype:pdf has 14 million hits!! Is there anything you can do to stop Word doing that when you print direct to Distiller? Cheers, Rebecca Shlomo Perets [EMAIL PROTECTED] 05/28/06 10:56 PM Dov Isaacs wrote: ... By the way, when

Re: AW: Conditional Text and Numbering

2006-05-29 Thread rebecca officer
Hi Winfried A thin blank line isn't quite the only fix. You can also try conditioning the paragraph mark of the *second-last* paragraph in the same way as the last paragraph. That way, when you hide the last paragraph, you also hide a paragraph mark. I think this only works if the last 2

Re: Links to captions in PDF

2006-05-30 Thread rebecca officer
We've been using captions above but want to go away from them. In our case, almost all figures have a lead-in paragraph, so using a caption can be very repetitive and breaks the flow. So we're going to be putting block labels by the lead-in paragraph and cross-referencing to them. That means

Re: keywords

2006-05-30 Thread rebecca officer
Did you look at the File menu File Info in the book file, as well as individual .fm files? Cheers, Rebecca [EMAIL PROTECTED] 31/05/06 11:49 A Frame book that I took over is mysteriously leaving out-of-date, unwanted words in the Keywords field that is visible in the PDF when you right-click

Re: Need semicolon-delimited list from FM table column

2006-06-14 Thread rebecca officer
There are probably more automated ways to do this, but this works: 1. select your column and copy it into a blank FM document to give you a 1-column table 2. convert the table to paragraphs 3. select your text, search for the paragraph mark (\p), and replace them all with a semicolon. Cheers,

RE: frame templates

2006-06-16 Thread rebecca officer
Have you tried reapplying the master pages through the format menu? At the least, it'd be interesting to see if that works. Cheers, Rebecca Anne Robotti [EMAIL PROTECTED] 06/17/06 5:23 AM After I make master page text frame changes, and go back to view body pages, frame no longer asks me

RE: Localization and switch to A4 paper

2006-06-24 Thread rebecca officer
Hi Melanie Why do you need the PDF to be the right size? On screen, it *really* doesn't matter whether it's A4 or letter, and as the others said, printers cope, so anyone who prints your work won't lose any of it. Unless you really need your users to be able to print at 100% with good-looking

Re: problems getting rid of Name Tree Dests

2006-07-05 Thread rebecca officer
Hi Karen A while ago we needed to track down multiple named destinations and someone in our group worked out how. He generated an Alphabetical List of Markers of type Cross-Ref, which includes the marker ID. Then he saved that as text and imported it into Excel. The IDs end up in one column that

Re: FM - tags and text boxes

2006-07-10 Thread rebecca officer
Hi Merry First, back your file up before you play with text frames on Master pages. You can get unexpected results. Also, remember that changing the text frame on a master page changes it for all pages that use that master page. You can change single body pages (in the same way as I describe

Re: FM - text boxes

2006-07-11 Thread rebecca officer
You can change the text frames on the Master pages till they're the way you want them to be, then force the body pages to use them. To do this, in Body page view, select Format menu Page layout Master Page Usage). But definitely save first! Cheers, Rebecca Merry Foxworth [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Deja Vu?? Was: Using SAVE AS PDF in FrameMaker 6.0

2006-07-18 Thread rebecca officer
According to Shlomo Perets' website (http://www.microtype.com/FM_bugs.html) people have reported issues with FM7.x and Save As PDF when using Win98, or tagged PDF, or custom page sizes, or Acrobat 6.x. We seem to be fine with it, but we're not using any of the above. ;-) Cheers, Rebecca Diane

Re: FM 7.2, Tables, and Find

2006-08-03 Thread rebecca officer
Yes, see the problem. :-( No, don't have a fix. :-(( But when it happens, I click on the beginning of the page it stopped at and re-start the search. That keeps it happy, at least for a moment. Cheers, Rebecca Mary Holder [EMAIL PROTECTED] 4/08/06 03:39 Hello Framers, I recently upgraded

Re: Cross-references in FM

2006-08-06 Thread rebecca officer
Yep, use hypertext links instead of xrefs. To make a link, first make the target, then create the link. To create target: 1. place insertion point at destination 2. select Special Hypertext 3. select Command Specify Named Destination 4. after newlink type a linkname (must be unique within

Re: FM Error: Cannot write to specified print file

2006-08-08 Thread rebecca officer
Hi Roger Make sure he has a FILE: port in his printer setup. Nothing has to use it, it just has to exist. To check if it exists, open up the properties for any printer and check the ports tab. If it doesn't exist, note the port that the printer is currently using, then add the FILE: port as a

Re: FM crashes when trying to save a certain .book as .mif

2006-08-08 Thread rebecca officer
We had a file crash a couple of weeks ago when saving to MIF. Turned out the problem was that it had a table of contents imported as a text inset at the start, and the second page of that had two copies of the text frame. Once we deleted the spare, problem gone. Cheers, Rebecca Aronsson,

Re: Table Title Alignment Issue

2006-08-10 Thread rebecca officer
Hi Kevin I agree with all the people who said to avoid tabs as a formatting aid, but just thought I'd point out that you can use tabs in a table. Just type Esc-Tab. As other said, the solution to your problem is to use Heading Rows instead of the table title. Also, you almost definitely should

Re: Format A Auto-numbering

2006-08-14 Thread rebecca officer
Are you sure you haven't accidentally applied that paragraph tag to a paragraph of something else earlier in the chapter? To check, search for the paragraph tag name. Cheers, Rebecca Lorraine Kiewiet [EMAIL PROTECTED] 15/08/06 05:44 Yes. It certainly is Monday, and I've switched from coffee to

RE: how to enlarge conditional text window

2006-08-15 Thread rebecca officer
You also need to test THOROUGHLY if you do this. I played with a heap of the dialog boxes a while ago and everything seemed fine. Then next time I used Save As PDF, frame crashed. Sigh. Cheers, Rebecca Joe Malin [EMAIL PROTECTED] 16/08/06 12:11 I noted previously that most FM dialogs have both

Re: FM Installation

2006-08-24 Thread rebecca officer
Ugh. Upgrades can be a pain. I'd start by checking if you have a printer FILE: port. That's the port FM sends print jobs to when printing as postscript, which Save as PDF needs as an intermediate step. Updating/reinstalling Acrobat seems to clobber the port, for us anyway. If you don't have a

Re: Distiller Error Message

2006-08-24 Thread rebecca officer
What nasty image is on page 45? If you make a postscript file with just that page, can you distill that? Cheers, Rebecca Jennifer Randel [EMAIL PROTECTED] 25/08/06 07:42 Hi all, I have been sucessfully creating PDFs from FrameMaker today, but all of a sudden, I try to create one and I it

RE: character tags in cross reference text

2007-01-31 Thread rebecca officer
6474681 Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] www.radcom.com www.protocols.com -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of rebecca officer Sent: Wednesday, January 31, 2007 6:56 AM To: framers@lists.frameusers.com Subject: character tags in cross reference

RE: character tags in cross reference text

2007-01-31 Thread rebecca officer
/make a version of Courier that has the italics as its regular form. That should be do-able. If anyone knows how off the top of their head, I'd appreciate the info. Otherwise, I'll go play. Cheers, Rebecca Combs, Richard [EMAIL PROTECTED] 1/02/07 10:21 rebecca officer wrote: I just wondered

Re: Font size in Frame cross ref

2007-02-12 Thread rebecca officer
Hi David Check that someone hasn't applied a character tag to the offending headers. Even if they look the same as the others, it's possible someone applied a character tag and then overrode that character tag to make the headings look right. If they have, FM could be displaying the xref

RE: Vista and font cache

2007-02-13 Thread rebecca officer
Hi Dov Are you saying that deleting the font cache and rebooting should get rid of the symptoms for a while, regardless of the size of the font cache after reboot? My memory of last year's posts was that you had to also reduce the size of the font cache by deleting big unused fonts. I did that a

RE: Font size in Frame cross ref

2007-02-13 Thread rebecca officer
correctly. and it worked, was this correct method. Dave -Original Message- From: rebecca officer [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, February 12, 2007 4:41 PM To: framers@lists.frameusers.com; Shenton, David (DTRN) Subject: Re: Font size in Frame cross ref Hi David Check

Re: OT: Formatting Readmes with Groff/Latex

2007-02-14 Thread rebecca officer
Okay, I'll rise to that bait. Nothing like a nice cheerful OT war. I'll concede LaTeX's learning curve, and that its PDF support and font management sucks. But it does absolutely gorgeous equations. Easily. And it's got no bugs. And its bibliography engine is pretty cool. It's not the tool for

Re: Spelling Checker not checking table titles

2007-03-01 Thread rebecca officer
Look at the paragraph tag for your title text and check if the language is set to none. That stops the spellchecker from checking them. Cheers, Rebecca Mark Southee [EMAIL PROTECTED] 03/01/07 9:41 PM Have just noticed (and reproduced) that the spelling checker is not including table titles

RE: Spelling Checker not checking table titles

2007-03-01 Thread rebecca officer
for that Rebecca, but the language is set to US English. Cheers Mark -Original Message- From: rebecca officer [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: 01 March 2007 10:05 To: framers@lists.frameusers.com; Mark Southee Subject: Re: Spelling Checker not checking table titles Look at the paragraph tag for your

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