Re: Polish in FrameMaker

2006-03-08 Thread Yves Barbion
Hello Ann, it was Windows and yes! It works as you described. I keep referring my trainees to you for special issues like these, but apparantly, they keep forgetting your name, so they always come back to me . ;-) I did notice a difference between Frame 7.0 and 7.2, however. When I pasted the

Save as PDF in Frame 7.2

2006-03-08 Thread Yves Barbion
Hello Framers, I have the following situation: Frame 7.0 installed on my system (Windows XP), together with Acrobat 6. Frame 7.1 and 7.2 were added later. In Frame 7.0, Save as PDF (using the Adobe PDF printer driver instance) works fine. When I try this in Frame 7.1 or 7.2, I get the known

Re: Line width in inported graphics slightly diminishing in FM generated PDFs

2006-03-08 Thread Paul Findon
On 8 Mar 2006, at 00:52, Yosuke Ichikawa wrote: We're using Acrobat's preflight feature to check for lines thinner than 0.2 pts. The thinnest lines in our .eps graphics are exactly 0.2 pts, but when we import these graphics in FM and check the PDFs created from FM, Acrobat preflight says the

equations oozing out from shrink-wrapping

2006-03-08 Thread Gevene Hertz
Hi, I am now working in FrameMaker 7.0, but this problem occurred, sporadically, when we had older versions. I know it happens with our long user guides (300-400 pages, 15-20 chapters), but it may also happen in shorter documents. When I shrinkwrap the equations, everything looks nice. And of

finding CR origin from marker

2006-03-08 Thread Zimerman Orly
HI All, I am working on a book, where there are lots of Cross Reference markers. I need to work backwards for some items. For a few of the markers (the upside T's), I need to find out where the source is (i.e. what is the opposite of Control-Shift-click) that brings the user to the current

Re: Line width in inported graphics slightly diminishing in FM generated PDFs

2006-03-08 Thread Steve Rickaby
At 09:52 +0900 8/3/06, Yosuke Ichikawa wrote: We're using Acrobat's preflight feature to check for lines thinner than 0.2 pts. The thinnest lines in our .eps graphics are exactly 0.2 pts, but when we import these graphics in FM and check the PDFs created from FM, Acrobat preflight says the

Re: finding CR origin from marker

2006-03-08 Thread Steve Rickaby
At 13:54 +0200 8/3/06, Zimerman Orly wrote: I am working on a book, where there are lots of Cross Reference markers. I need to work backwards for some items. For a few of the markers (the upside T's), I need to find out where the source is (i.e. what is the opposite of Control-Shift-click) that

Re: equations oozing out from shrink-wrapping

2006-03-08 Thread Rick Quatro
Hi Gevene, I used to see this occasionally with imported graphics, particularly EPS files in a cross-platform environment. The imported graphics would be shifted in the anchored frame. In some instances, they would be shifted so far to the left or top that it would appear that the graphic was

RE: List of insets

2006-03-08 Thread Spreadbury, David
Frank, Bruce Foster's Archive will do exactly what you want. I don't have his contact information at hand but you can find a link to his tools on the Framers page. -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] m] On Behalf Of Frank Harper Sent: Wednesday, March 08,

FrameMaker ROI: Finding Real Examples

2006-03-08 Thread Scott Abel
Help Framers! Anyone know of any online resources (articles, etc.) that might help me paint a picture of the ROI possible when moving from unstructured FrameMaker to Structured FrameMaker XML authoring? I need to be able able to reference a real organization by name. Thanks in advance. The

RE: Figure numbering

2006-03-08 Thread Kristina McCook
It also depends on what kind of book you're doing this on, and the specification it involves. For instance, I am doing an Illustrated Parts Breakdown (IPB) right now that is being numbered like #1, but only because it is a standalone IPB. In some cases, this IPB could be Chapter 7 in an even

RE: FrameMaker ROI: Finding Real Examples

2006-03-08 Thread Phil Heron
You could take a look at the Adobe FrameMaker Customer Stories web page http://www.adobe.com/products/framemaker/customerstories.html. This has case studies of quite a few Frame customers. Phil Heron Technical Writer - CODA www.coda.com -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: FrameMaker ROI: Finding Real Examples

2006-03-08 Thread Art Campbell
FM used to have a sales/sales support staff headquarterd at Adobe HQ with sales offices VARs around the country that provided these at the drop of a hat. Have you contacted them directly, or any FM VARs? Art On 3/8/06, Scott Abel [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Help Framers! Anyone know of any

Re: Figure numbering

2006-03-08 Thread Stuart Rogers
Gillian Flato wrote: How do you guys do figure numbering? 1. Figure 1,2,3 2. Figure 1-1, 1-2, ...2-1, 2-2 3. Figure 1-1...3-10...5-30 Currently, the book I am updating does #3. It stops counting at figure 325 and then starts at 1 again. I want to do number 2, so I want the Figure

RE: List of insets

2006-03-08 Thread Combs, Richard
Hmm. I'm looking at my post as sent out by the list, and the IOR excerpt is missing all the lines breaks. But when I reply to it to apologize, the quoted text looks like this, with line breaks right where they should be: ../lib-graphics/callflow-highlevel-overview.pdf 13

Re: Line width in inported graphics slightly diminishing in FM generated PDFs

2006-03-08 Thread Peter Gold
At 2:54 PM +0900 3/8/06, Yosuke Ichikawa wrote: Thank you for the tip, Peter. We tried .ai, but it was the same; and since we have a lot of graphics, we don't want to be saving them in .pdf. I believe that the file format of later releases of Illustrator is PDF. If you're saving your AI

Screen Shots from PDAs

2006-03-08 Thread Jessica . Nealon
I am curious to know if anyone on this lists has to work with screen shots taken from PDA devices. I have been struggling with this for a few years and think I have found the best formula, but it still doesn't print the way I would like. I use Microsoft Remote Display on my PC to run the

RE: Screen Shots from PDAs

2006-03-08 Thread Gillian Flato
I used Vidya Screen Capture software (cost: $10.00). This allowed me to take captures on the PFA. Then I had Microsoft ActiveSync on my system. This maintained a synced folder on my desktop so any capture I took I saved to the synced folder and then after the automatic sync, the captures were

Re: Screen Shots from PDAs

2006-03-08 Thread Bill Swallow
Fuzzy math explained: http://www.techwr-l.com/techwhirl/pdfs/Screen_Captures_102.pdf On 3/8/06, [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Anyway, the screen shot graphic defaults to 96 dpi. To get it into Frame at 100%, you have to use 168 dpi (=96x2); 96 dpi displays at 175%. This is for

RE: Line width in inported graphics slightly diminishing in FMgenerated PDFs

2006-03-08 Thread Dov Isaacs
I assume that the EPS files are being imported as EPS into FrameMaker, correct? FrameMaker does not modify the content of EPS imported into documents. It is passed directly to PostScript printers, which the Distiller acts as for purpose of creating PDF files. HOWEVER, when generating

Re: Screen Shots from PDAs

2006-03-08 Thread Stuart Rogers
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I am curious to know if anyone on this lists has to work with screen shots taken from PDA devices. I have only had to deal with Palm OS(tm) devices. I use ScreenShot Hack, $15 from http://linkesoft.com/screenshot/ It lets me run the application on the PDA and take

RE: Save as PDF in Frame 7.2

2006-03-08 Thread Dov Isaacs
FrameMaker 7.1/7.2's save as PDF facility should work perfectly fine with Acrobat 6 installed. I suspect that the save as PDF function is finding doggie droppings of versions of Acrobat or Distiller earlier than 6 on your system in the Windows registry. Conceptually, printing to the Adobe PDF

RE: Line width in inported graphics slightly diminishing in FM generated PDFs

2006-03-08 Thread Dov Isaacs
... Or you could change the preflight rules to allow a certain amount of tolerance. Allow 0.19 point as the lower limit instead of 0.20 point for linewidth. -Original Message- From: frameusers.com On Behalf Of Steve Rickaby Sent: Wednesday, March 08, 2006 3:34 AM To:

Re: Line width in imported graphics slightly diminishing in FM generated PDFs

2006-03-08 Thread Yosuke Ichikawa
Dov, Thank you for your comments. I wanted to be accurate, and I checked with our DTP person to tell me exactly what the matter was; in fact, we were having Acrobat Preflight problems with **.ai** files. There were NO problems with **.eps** files (yes, they are imported as eps, and they do not

Error installing FM 7.1p116

2006-03-08 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" 8/03/06 04:05 >>> Certainly not a

Line width in inported graphics slightly diminishing in FM generated PDFs

2006-03-08 Thread Yosuke Ichikawa
Hi, We're using Acrobat's preflight feature to check for lines thinner than 0.2 pts. The thinnest lines in our .eps graphics are exactly 0.2 pts, but when we import these graphics in FM and check the PDFs created from FM, Acrobat preflight says the graphics uses "0.199600pt" lines. PDFs of these

Line width in inported graphics slightly diminishing in FM generated PDFs

2006-03-08 Thread Yosuke Ichikawa
Thank you for the tip, Peter. We tried .ai, but it was the same; and since we have a lot of graphics, we don't want to be saving them in .pdf. I'm still curious why this happens, but for the practical matter at hand, we decided to use 0.21 pts for minimum line width in our graphics. Yosuke

Polish in FrameMaker

2006-03-08 Thread Yves Barbion
Hello Ann, it was Windows and yes! It works as you described. I keep referring my trainees to you for special issues like these, but apparantly, they keep forgetting your name, so they always come back to me . ;-) I did notice a difference between Frame 7.0 and 7.2, however. When I pasted the

Save as PDF in Frame 7.2

2006-03-08 Thread Yves Barbion
Hello Framers, I have the following situation: Frame 7.0 installed on my system (Windows XP), together with Acrobat 6. Frame 7.1 and 7.2 were added later. In Frame 7.0, Save as PDF (using the Adobe PDF printer driver instance) works fine. When I try this in Frame 7.1 or 7.2, I get the known

Line width in inported graphics slightly diminishing in FM generated PDFs

2006-03-08 Thread Paul Findon
On 8 Mar 2006, at 00:52, Yosuke Ichikawa wrote: > We're using Acrobat's preflight feature to check for lines thinner than > 0.2 pts. The thinnest lines in our .eps graphics are exactly 0.2 pts, > but when we import these graphics in FM and check the PDFs created from > FM, Acrobat preflight says

equations oozing out from shrink-wrapping

2006-03-08 Thread Gevene Hertz
Hi, I am now working in FrameMaker 7.0, but this problem occurred, sporadically, when we had older versions. I know it happens with our long user guides (300-400 pages, 15-20 chapters), but it may also happen in shorter documents. When I shrinkwrap the equations, everything looks nice. And of

finding CR origin from marker

2006-03-08 Thread Zimerman Orly
HI All, I am working on a book, where there are lots of Cross Reference markers. I need to work backwards for some items. For a few of the markers (the upside T's), I need to find out where the source is (i.e. what is the opposite of Control-Shift-click) that brings the user to the current

Line width in inported graphics slightly diminishing in FM generated PDFs

2006-03-08 Thread Steve Rickaby
At 09:52 +0900 8/3/06, Yosuke Ichikawa wrote: >We're using Acrobat's preflight feature to check for lines thinner than >0.2 pts. The thinnest lines in our .eps graphics are exactly 0.2 pts, >but when we import these graphics in FM and check the PDFs created from >FM, Acrobat preflight says the

finding CR origin from marker

2006-03-08 Thread Steve Rickaby
At 13:54 +0200 8/3/06, Zimerman Orly wrote: >I am working on a book, where there are lots of Cross Reference markers. >I need to work backwards for some items. >For a few of the markers (the upside T's), I need to find out where the source >is (i.e. what is the opposite of Control-Shift-click)

AW: Line width in inported graphics slightly diminishing in FM generated PDFs

2006-03-08 Thread Reng, Winfried
Hi, > >We're using Acrobat's preflight feature to check for lines > thinner than > >0.2 pts. The thinnest lines in our .eps graphics are exactly 0.2 pts, > >but when we import these graphics in FM and check the PDFs > created from > >FM, Acrobat preflight says the graphics uses "0.199600pt"

equations oozing out from shrink-wrapping

2006-03-08 Thread Rick Quatro
Hi Gevene, I used to see this occasionally with imported graphics, particularly EPS files in a cross-platform environment. The imported graphics would be shifted in the anchored frame. In some instances, they would be shifted so far to the left or top that it would appear that the graphic was

List of insets

2006-03-08 Thread Frank Harper
FrameMaker 7.1 on a Win XP Pro platform. I have a three-book library that uses screen shots imported by reference. There are close to 800 graphic files in the directory. I know that not all of the files are being used and want to move the inactive ones out of the directory for space

List of insets

2006-03-08 Thread Spreadbury, David
Frank, Bruce Foster's Archive will do exactly what you want. I don't have his contact information at hand but you can find a link to his tools on the Framers page. -Original Message- From: framers-bounces+david.spreadbury=tellabs@lists.frameusers.com

FrameMaker ROI: Finding Real Examples

2006-03-08 Thread Scott Abel
Help Framers! Anyone know of any online resources (articles, etc.) that might help me paint a picture of the ROI possible when moving from unstructured FrameMaker to Structured FrameMaker XML authoring? I need to be able able to reference a real organization by name. Thanks in advance. The

Figure numbering

2006-03-08 Thread Kristina McCook
It also depends on what kind of book you're doing this on, and the specification it involves. For instance, I am doing an Illustrated Parts Breakdown (IPB) right now that is being numbered like #1, but only because it is a standalone IPB. In some cases, this IPB could be Chapter 7 in an even

List of insets

2006-03-08 Thread s...@e-sim.co.il
Frank Harper wrote: >>Does anyone know of a utility that can generate a list of files that are used in the FrameMaker documents?<< In FM 6.0, graphics imported by reference can be listed in the order they are found: Special > List of > References, select to include Imported Graphics Graphics

FrameMaker ROI: Finding Real Examples

2006-03-08 Thread Phil Heron
You could take a look at the Adobe FrameMaker Customer Stories web page http://www.adobe.com/products/framemaker/customerstories.html. This has case studies of quite a few Frame customers. Phil Heron Technical Writer - CODA www.coda.com -Original Message- From:

FrameMaker ROI: Finding Real Examples

2006-03-08 Thread Art Campbell
FM used to have a sales/sales support staff headquarterd at Adobe HQ with sales offices & VARs around the country that provided these at the drop of a hat. Have you contacted them directly, or any FM VARs? Art On 3/8/06, Scott Abel wrote: > Help Framers! > > Anyone know of any online resources

List of insets

2006-03-08 Thread Combs, Richard
Frank Harper wrote: > I have a three-book library that uses screen shots imported > by reference. There are close to 800 graphic files in the > directory. I know that not all of the files are being used > and want to move the inactive ones out of the directory for > space considerations. >

List of insets

2006-03-08 Thread Stuart Rogers
Frank Harper wrote: > FrameMaker 7.1 on a Win XP Pro platform. > > I have a three-book library that uses screen shots imported by > reference. There are close to 800 graphic files in the directory. I > know that not all of the files are being used and want to move the > inactive ones out of the

Figure numbering

2006-03-08 Thread Stuart Rogers
Gillian Flato wrote: > How do you guys do figure numbering? > > 1. Figure 1,2,3 > 2. Figure 1-1, 1-2, ...2-1, 2-2 > 3. Figure 1-1...3-10...5-30 > > Currently, the book I am updating does #3. It stops counting at figure > 325 and then starts at 1 again. I want to do number 2, so I want the

List of insets

2006-03-08 Thread Combs, Richard
Hmm. I'm looking at my post as sent out by the list, and the IOR excerpt is missing all the lines breaks. But when I reply to it to apologize, the quoted text looks like this, with line breaks right where they should be: > ../lib-graphics/callflow-highlevel-overview.pdf 13 >

Screen Shots from PDAs

2006-03-08 Thread jessica.nea...@handheld.com
I am curious to know if anyone on this lists has to work with screen shots taken from PDA devices. I have been struggling with this for a few years and think I have found the best formula, but it still doesn't print the way I would like. I use Microsoft Remote Display on my PC to run the

Screen Shots from PDAs

2006-03-08 Thread Art Campbell
I'd try two different things. First, I think you'll get better quality snaps of everything if you try one of the dedicated snapshot programs such as SnagIt. I usually save as a .png file, which imports into FM nicely and works well for both print and online without conversion. Second, I'd get

Screen Shots from PDAs

2006-03-08 Thread Gillian Flato
I used Vidya Screen Capture software (cost: $10.00). This allowed me to take captures on the PFA. Then I had Microsoft ActiveSync on my system. This maintained a synced folder on my desktop so any capture I took I saved to the synced folder and then after the automatic sync, the captures were

Screen Shots from PDAs

2006-03-08 Thread Bill Swallow
Fuzzy math explained: http://www.techwr-l.com/techwhirl/pdfs/Screen_Captures_102.pdf On 3/8/06, Jessica.Nealon at handheld.com wrote: > Anyway, the screen shot graphic defaults to 96 dpi. To get it into Frame > at 100%, you have to use 168 dpi (=96x2); 96 dpi displays at 175%. This is > for

Line width in inported graphics slightly diminishing in FMgenerated PDFs

2006-03-08 Thread Dov Isaacs
I assume that the EPS files are being imported as EPS into FrameMaker, correct? FrameMaker does not modify the content of EPS imported into documents. It is passed directly to PostScript printers, which the Distiller acts as for purpose of creating PDF files. HOWEVER, when generating

Screen Shots from PDAs

2006-03-08 Thread Stuart Rogers
Jessica.Nealon at handheld.com wrote: > I am curious to know if anyone on this lists has to work with screen shots > taken from PDA devices. I have only had to deal with Palm OS(tm) devices. I use ScreenShot Hack, $15 from http://linkesoft.com/screenshot/ It lets me run the application on the

Save as PDF in Frame 7.2

2006-03-08 Thread Dov Isaacs
FrameMaker 7.1/7.2's "save as PDF" facility should work perfectly fine with Acrobat 6 installed. I suspect that the "save as PDF" function is finding "doggie droppings" of versions of Acrobat or Distiller earlier than 6 on your system in the Windows registry. Conceptually, printing to the "Adobe

Line width in inported graphics slightly diminishing in FM generated PDFs

2006-03-08 Thread Dov Isaacs
... Or you could change the preflight rules to allow a certain amount of tolerance. Allow 0.19 point as the lower limit instead of 0.20 point for linewidth. > -Original Message- > From: frameusers.com On Behalf Of Steve Rickaby > Sent: Wednesday, March 08, 2006 3:34 AM > To: framers at

Line width in inported graphics slightly diminishing in FMgenerated PDFs

2006-03-08 Thread Dov Isaacs
> -Original Message- > From: frameusers.com On Behalf Of Reng, Winfried > Sent: Wednesday, March 08, 2006 4:19 AM > To: framers at FrameUsers.com > Subject: AW: Line width in inported graphics slightly > diminishing in FMgenerated PDFs > ... > > When I check the font size in my PDF