Hi Doug,
I started to email you back to say that this is exactly what I've been
doing to no avail, when I noticed one little thing that was *not*
exactly what I've been doing. In step 2, I have been choosing Print
PDF Setup.
The interesting thing is that the PDF Setup dialog box looks exactly
The real issue is that the end of flow marker (the section symbol ยง) ending the
final paragraph can not be conditionalized, or more accurately, can not be
hidden.
If that final paragraph has an autonumber format, I think the solution of an
unnumbered empty paragraph is a better choice as it
Framers,
Frequently, I find on EBay, an upgrade software package
that will allow upgrading FM'er to vers. 7.1...
However, I have not been able to determine what
basic version this upgrade applies to...
For example, will the FM'er Upgrade 7.1 bring a
basic version 6.0, up to 7.1?
Or stretching
Hi Ariel,
another option would be to include the graphic and the caption in a table. I
use a dedicated table format to do this (Table Tag: graphic). It's a
single-column table which has two rows, no ruling, no shading. I put the
graphic in the first row and the caption in the second. You can
Hello All,
I don't seem to find a way to format the page numbers for Index levels. I
formatted the Index levels (Paragraph designer) and want the page numbers to
take the same formatting (same font, style, size). I am still at the beginner's
level...please help.
Thanks,
Suman
Hi Suman,
check the reference page named IX in your index. There, you will see the
building block $pagenum. Apply a character tag to this building block and
update the index.
Good luck and best regards
--
Yves Barbion
Technical Writer
Adobe-Certified FrameMaker Instructor
At 05:58 -0700 30/5/06, Peter Courlis wrote:
Frequently, I find on EBay, an upgrade software package that will allow
upgrading FM'er to vers. 7.1... However, I have not been able to determine
what basic version this upgrade applies to... For example, will the FM'er
Upgrade 7.1 bring a basic
MIF is to FM as RTF is to DOC. It is a plain text version of a binary
FM file.
Take an FM document and save as MIF, then open in a text editor such
as Wordpad, Crimson, Text, or something other than FM. You'll see
what it looks like.
I've been a technical writer for about seven years and have
Hi, Don:
This is a little extra effort, but should solve your problem:
* Create a paragraph format for the caption that is the
cross-reference source which appears at the top of the graphic. Set
the text color White.
* Create a cross-reference to the white caption paragraph below the
But you can save all files in the book in .fm format in one operation, too.
Simply hold down the Shift key when you pull down the File menu from
the book window, and you'll find that the one-file operations are now
indicated as applying to all files in book. Open them all, save them all,
or close
Help!
Some FrameMaker files look good but print a single line of garbage
letters per page (for reams of paper) to a Xerox printer but are OK
printing to the HP printer. I suspect that some of my FM crashes and
recovered files might have embedded something in those files but I do
not know how to
That sounds like a printer driver issue and nothing to do with FrameMaker.
Try deleting and reinstalling the printer with a new driver. You can
usually locate drivers from Windows Update or the manufacturer's web site.
I've had a similar issue with a Konica printer which isn't compatible with
Help!
Some FrameMaker files look good but print a single line of garbage
letters per page (for reams of paper) to a Xerox printer but are OK
printing to the HP printer. I suspect that some of my FM crashes and
recovered files might have embedded something in those files but I do
not know how
Clear your print queue, then reboot your printer
Some FrameMaker files look good but print a single line of
garbage
letters per page (for reams of paper) to a Xerox printer but are
John Posada
Senior Technical Writer
So long and thanks for all the fish.
We tried all suggestions and now suspect that the printer is the problem
since it randomly scans or does not scan correctly. Thank you all for
inputs! Judy
-Original Message-
From: John Posada [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Tuesday, May 30, 2006 11:33 AM
To: Stuart Rogers; Judy Keene
Don wrote:
I don't really mind this work-around, except that placing a
caption above an illustration is very nonstandard and may
require an explanation in the preface.
Very nonstandard? You've led a sheltered life. ;-)
In printed books, I've seen figure captions above, below, to the
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
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 the
PDF file and click the PDF tab.
I have searched through each Frame file by right-clicking and picking
Properties and clicking the Summary
Thank you Art, Fred, Anne, and the kind person who suggested to follow
Anne's tip to rename the old book to fix breaking cross-references. It
worked like a charm. Live long Framers, and prosper!
Nadine
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D'oh! There it is.
Thank you.
Homer
-- Original message --
From: Martha J Davidson [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Have you looked in File File Info with everything, including the top line
(book name) selected? That might show something you haven't seen.
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
Hi, Richard:
At 2:49 PM -0600 5/30/06, Combs, Richard wrote:
Don wrote:
I don't really mind this work-around, except that placing a
caption above an illustration is very nonstandard and may
require an explanation in the preface.
Very nonstandard? You've led a sheltered life. ;-)
In
Hello,
I'm writing a step procedure that involves over 10 steps. I have set
up one paragraph tag named
StepFirst, and another paragraph tag (for all subsequent steps) named
StepNext. The problem is, the
decimal points won't line up between the single-digit steps and the
double-digit
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
Lisa,
You wrote:
>I'm working on a Frame (7.0, Macintosh) document that will be delivered as
>a .pdf. The client wants the final .pdf file to contain links not only to
>other places within the book, but to images and files that are not part of
>the book. I've been playing with the hypertext
Hi Doug,
I started to email you back to say that this is exactly what I've been
doing to no avail, when I noticed one little thing that was *not*
exactly what I've been doing. In step 2, I have been choosing Print >
PDF Setup.
The interesting thing is that the PDF Setup dialog box looks exactly
The real issue is that the end of flow marker (the section symbol ?) ending the
final paragraph can not be conditionalized, or more accurately, can not be
hidden.
If that final paragraph has an autonumber format, I think the solution of an
unnumbered empty paragraph is a better choice as it
Framers,
Frequently, I find on EBay, an upgrade software package
that will allow upgrading FM'er to vers. 7.1...
However, I have not been able to determine what
"basic version" this upgrade applies to...
For example, will the FM'er Upgrade 7.1 bring a
basic version 6.0, up to 7.1?
Or stretching
Hi Ariel,
another option would be to include the graphic and the caption in a table. I
use a dedicated table format to do this (Table Tag: "graphic"). It's a
single-column table which has two rows, no ruling, no shading. I put the
graphic in the first row and the caption in the second. You can
Hello All,
I don't seem to find a way to format the page numbers for Index levels. I
formatted the Index levels (Paragraph designer) and want the page numbers to
take the same formatting (same font, style, size). I am still at the beginner's
level...please help.
Thanks,
Suman
Hi Suman,
check the reference page named IX in your index. There, you will see the
building block <$pagenum>. Apply a character tag to this building block and
update the index.
Good luck and best regards
--
Yves Barbion
Technical Writer
Adobe-Certified FrameMaker Instructor
At 05:58 -0700 30/5/06, Peter Courlis wrote:
>Frequently, I find on EBay, an upgrade software package that will allow
>upgrading FM'er to vers. 7.1... However, I have not been able to determine
>what "basic version" this upgrade applies to... For example, will the FM'er
>Upgrade 7.1 bring a
Hello fellow FrameUsers
I've been a technical writer for about seven years and have followed this
list off and on during that time. I've seen references to MIF files but I
have no understanding as to their purpose or use. If someone would care to
enlighten me, who knows, maybe I've been missing
Check out the MIF Reference Manual included with your FrameMaker
installation. It can be found in the Online Manuals folder in \Program
Files\Adobe\FrameMaker7.0\OnlineManuals.
-Original Message-
From: framers-bounces+david.spreadbury=tellabs@lists.frameusers.com
MIF is to FM as RTF is to DOC. It is a plain text version of a binary
FM file.
Take an FM document and save as MIF, then open in a text editor such
as Wordpad, Crimson, Text, or something other than FM. You'll see
what it looks like.
> I've been a technical writer for about seven years and have
Greetings, all:
I have discovered a problem when generating PDF's from my illustrated book.
Ignorant of proper frame technique at the outset, I created anchored frames
through importing graphics and captioned them with a separate paragraph
immediately following the anchored frame. These captions
Hi, Don:
This is a little extra effort, but should solve your problem:
* Create a paragraph format for the caption that is the
cross-reference source which appears at the top of the graphic. Set
the text color White.
* Create a cross-reference to the white caption paragraph below the
I've found that with a book, I can use MIF Save and save the entire book rather
than having to save one chapter at a time. For me it has been a time (and grey
hair) saver
-Original Message-
From: John Posada [mailto:jposad...@yahoo.com]
Sent: May 30, 2006 10:03 AM
To: McKinney, Doug;
Some people use MIF to make changes to documents using a plain text editor
or a scripting language.
Chris
On 5/30/06, Morgan Morrissette wrote:
>
> I've found that with a book, I can use MIF Save and save the entire book
> rather than having to save one chapter at a time. For me it has been a
But you can save all files in the book in .fm format in one operation, too.
Simply hold down the Shift key when you pull down the File menu from
the book window, and you'll find that the one-file operations are now
indicated as applying to "all files in book". Open them all, save them all,
or
Help!
Some FrameMaker files look good but print a single line of garbage
letters per page (for reams of paper) to a Xerox printer but are OK
printing to the HP printer. I suspect that some of my FM crashes and
recovered files might have embedded something in those files but I do
not know how to
That sounds like a printer driver issue and nothing to do with FrameMaker.
Try deleting and reinstalling the printer with a new driver. You can
usually locate drivers from Windows Update or the manufacturer's web site.
I've had a similar issue with a Konica printer which isn't compatible with
The problem files printed fine a month on the same printer and now have
some kind of bit problem which is invisible (most likely due to crashes
and recoveries). Other FM files in the same book print fine on the Xerox
printer so does not look like a print driver problem.
-Original
> Help!
>
> Some FrameMaker files look good but print a single line of garbage
> letters per page (for reams of paper) to a Xerox printer but are OK
> printing to the HP printer. I suspect that some of my FM crashes and
> recovered files might have embedded something in those files but I do
>
Clear your print queue, then reboot your printer
> > Some FrameMaker files look good but print a single line of
> garbage
> > letters per page (for reams of paper) to a Xerox printer but are
John Posada
Senior Technical Writer
"So long and thanks for all the fish."
We tried all suggestions and now suspect that the printer is the problem
since it randomly scans or does not scan correctly. Thank you all for
inputs! Judy
-Original Message-
From: John Posada [mailto:jposad...@yahoo.com]
Sent: Tuesday, May 30, 2006 11:33 AM
To: Stuart Rogers; Judy
Don wrote:
> I don't really mind this work-around, except that placing a
> caption above an illustration is very nonstandard and may
> require an explanation in the preface.
"Very nonstandard"? You've led a sheltered life. ;-)
In printed books, I've seen figure captions above, below, to
Thank you Art, Fred, Anne, and the kind person who suggested to follow
Anne's tip to rename the old book to fix breaking cross-references. It
worked like a charm. Live long Framers, and prosper!
Nadine
Hi, Richard:
At 2:49 PM -0600 5/30/06, Combs, Richard wrote:
>Don wrote:
>
>> I don't really mind this work-around, except that placing a
>> caption above an illustration is very nonstandard and may
>> require an explanation in the preface.
>
>"Very nonstandard"? You've led a sheltered life.
Hello,
I'm writing a step procedure that involves over 10 steps. I have set
up one paragraph tag named
StepFirst, and another paragraph tag (for all subsequent steps) named
StepNext. The problem is, the
decimal points won't line up between the single-digit steps and the
double-digit
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