Structure to non-structure.

Hello Framers. Think me nuts but is there an easy way to convert a structured document to non-structured? The original doc was converted directly from Word to structured. The reason I am asking is that I am involved in a panic project where we might not have a working structured

RE: Structure to non-structure.

While not totally crazy nor the optimal way to proceed, but it certainly is possible, and very easy. You don't say which version of FM you're using, but in FM 7.2 it is the last entry on the Special menu - Remove Structure from Flow I would save the resulting 'flat file' to a different name so

Re: Structure to non-structure.

Hi Harold: I'm not sure if I'm missing something here, but can't you generate a non-structured TOC and index even from a structured document? That's what I have. My TOC is based on paragraph styles, not elements, and your structured document still uses those. And although I'm using structured

Extracting copied-in graphics from documents

Hi Framers, A posting some weeks ago mentioned a utility that could extract graphics copied into FM files and restore them in their original format. I should have been paying more attention at the time, but can someone remind me what that utility is called? (I'm hoping it can do a better job

RE: Extracting copied-in graphics from documents

For the latter task, Geofrrey, I'd recommend you consult Extracting Images Embedded in Word Documents by Lyn Eggleston: http://graphicssoft.about.com/od/aboutgraphics/ss/extractword.htm. For the former, one of the accomplishments of Bruce Foster's Archive Plug-In is the ability to pull graphics

RE: Extracting copied-in graphics from documents

Hi Geoffrey, I'm not an expert on graphics but I've had success in the past using the Save as HTML function in both Frame and Word. Taking this option saves each image as a graphic file. In Frame, you can choose between GIF, JPEG and PNG as the graphic format. Specify which one to use on the

Re: Extracting copied-in graphics from documents

I would just use SnagIt from TechSmith and take new pictures from the Word docs. Joel On Fri, May 2, 2008 at 10:49 AM, Phil Heron [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi Geoffrey, I'm not an expert on graphics but I've had success in the past using the Save as HTML function in both Frame and Word.

Re: Large FM File

Asa - Is sounds like you are accommodating your vendor rather than the other way around. If your localization vendor is so inflexible, time to start shopping for another vendor. At least, that's how I see it. will white vialogy llc On May 2, 2008, at 7:06 AM, Åsa Johansson wrote: I can

Remove Overrides...doesn't

I have an obnoxious master page that prompts me to Remove Overrides every time I return to the body page. When I receive the Page Layout Warning, I dutifully click Remove Overrides. I see no visible change in the document. When I go back to the master page and return to the body page view, I

RE: Large FM File

I also have had problem-FrameMaker files where the author at the home office in Europe forgot to embed the images files before sending me the FM file. The result was lost time and effort. And to make matters worse, they sometimes sent me the image files themselves for me to embed, but the

Re: Remove Overrides...doesn't

Yes! Deirdre On 5/2/08, William Abernathy [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I have an obnoxious master page that prompts me to Remove Overrides every time I return to the body page. When I receive the Page Layout Warning, I dutifully click Remove Overrides. I see no visible change in the document.

RE: Large FM File

[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I also have had problem-FrameMaker files where the author at the home office in Europe forgot to embed the images files before sending me the FM file. The result was lost time and effort. And to make matters worse, they sometimes sent me the image files themselves

RE: Remove Overrides...doesn't

-Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of William Abernathy Sent: Friday, May 02, 2008 10:34 AM To: framers@lists.frameusers.com Subject: Remove Overrides...doesn't I have an obnoxious master page that prompts me to Remove Overrides

What is a text inset?

Hi All, I am learning FrameMaker 7.1. I have many times coming across posts mentioning text insets. I am confused. What is a text inset and how to insert it? Is a text insert different from a text frame? Please pardon me if my question sounds foolish. __ Smile

Re: What is a text inset?

Hi Neeraj: I'll answer this one because I'm working with text insets currently, so they're on my mind. A text inset is different from a text frame. It is text that resides in a separate file and can be used in one or more FrameMaker files. You insert the text inset by placing your cursor in

RE: What is a text inset?

N. Jain asked: I am learning FrameMaker 7.1. I have many times coming across posts mentioning text insets. I am confused. What is a text inset and how to insert it? Is a text insert different from a text frame? Please pardon me if my question sounds foolish. A text inset is a text flow

RE: Remove Overrides...doesn't

Art Campbell wrote: Also, look for hidden objects on the body (and the master) page that may be accurately triggering this. For instance, if there's a frame hidden in a layer under your main text frame, you wouldn't normally see it. Or if a background frame got dragged out of place by

Re: Remove Overrides...doesn't

Art suggested outputting to Mif and reopening, but I licked this thing before he could get back to me. The page I was working with was a book cover with a couple of frames on the master and a couple more in the body. The body page frames were tagged B and C, which did not appear anywhere else

Re: Extracting copied-in graphics from documents

On Fri, 2 May 2008 10:02:25 +1000, Geoffrey Marnell [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: A posting some weeks ago mentioned a utility that could extract graphics copied into FM files and restore them in their original format. I should have been paying more attention at the time, but can someone remind me

RE: Remove Overrides...doesn't

Stuart Rogers wrote: Here's a possible explanation for the appearance of your duplicate frames (as well as other accidentally duplicated items): Holding down the CTRL key changes the pointer from the solid smart select arrow to the hollow select object arrow. (These are the top two tools

Screenshots outside of windows

Does anyone know how to take screenshots when you're not in Windows. I've got a procedure where you have to boot from an install disk and ghost a drive. Anyone know how to take screenshots? Thank you, mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Gillian Flato Technical Writer (Software) nanometrics 1550

RE: What is a text inset?

Fred... I have used FrameMaker on and off for several years. However, I've never taken advantage of text insets. So I too have several questions: Must the source text be located only in another FrameMaker file? Does it require a special text frame in the target document, or can it be placed

Re: Extracting copied-in graphics from documents

As far as I know, the previous suggestion of simply saving the Word file as in HTML format is as simple and as *accurate* as you can get. I can't imagine why one would need a third-party utility or a screen shot application to do this, but then my imagination is limited to personal

RE: Screenshots outside of windows

Flato, Gillian wrote: Does anyone know how to take screenshots when you're not in Windows. I've got a procedure where you have to boot from an install disk and ghost a drive. Anyone know how to take screenshots? Gillian: A Google search for: screen capture dos will produce a list of

Re: Extracting copied-in graphics from documents

On Fri, 02 May 2008 13:45:07 -0700, Dennis Brunnenmeyer [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: As far as I know, the previous suggestion of simply saving the Word file as in HTML format is as simple and as *accurate* as you can get. I can't imagine why one would need a third-party utility or a screen shot

Re: Remove Overrides...doesn't

Combs, Richard wrote: Art Campbell wrote: Also, look for hidden objects on the body (and the master) page that may be accurately triggering this. For instance, if there's a frame hidden in a layer under your main text frame, you wouldn't normally see it. Or if a background frame got

Re: Extracting copied-in graphics from documents

A posting some weeks ago mentioned a utility that could extract graphics copied into FM files and restore them in their original format. I should have been paying more attention at the time, but can someone remind me what that utility is called? (I'm hoping it can do a better job than

Re: Extracting copied-in graphics from documents

Jeremy... You may very well be correct, especially with vector-based images. The document I was working with only had JPEG images of rather complex equipment. When I saved the document as HTML, the original, uncropped high-resolution JPEGs were there for the taking. Since the client did not

Large FM File

Hi Neil, Why do you ask? Have you been instructed to do this or did someone expound their worldly wisdom upon you? Alan Neil Tubb wrote: > Just a quick question- can anyone tell me why putting your entire 300+ > page manual into one FM file would make sense? I was always taught that >

Choosing colour profiles for PDF files

I am trying to understand the use of ICC colour profiles in colour management. My understanding is that any device that can record (camera) or present (monitor, inkjet printer, offset printer) has a colour profile describing its gamut under specified conditions. If you are doing colour work

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Structure to non-structure.

Hello Framers. Think me nuts but is there an easy way to convert a structured document to non-structured? The original doc was converted directly from Word to structured. The reason I am asking is that I am involved in a panic project where we might not have a working structured document

Structure to non-structure.

Special > Remove Structure From Flow Rick Quatro Carmen Publishing 585-659-8267 www.frameexpert.com Hello Framers. Think me nuts but is there an easy way to convert a structured document to non-structured? The original doc was converted directly from Word to structured. The reason I am

Structure to non-structure.

While not totally crazy nor the optimal way to proceed, but it certainly is possible, and very easy. You don't say which version of FM you're using, but in FM 7.2 it is the last entry on the "Special" menu - Remove Structure from Flow I would save the resulting 'flat file' to a different name

Structure to non-structure.

Hi Harold: I'm not sure if I'm missing something here, but can't you generate a non-structured TOC and index even from a structured document? That's what I have. My TOC is based on paragraph styles, not elements, and your structured document still uses those. And although I'm using structured

Extracting copied-in graphics from documents

Hi Framers, A posting some weeks ago mentioned a utility that could extract graphics copied into FM files and restore them in their original format. I should have been paying more attention at the time, but can someone remind me what that utility is called? (I'm hoping it can do a better job than

Large FM File

I can only think of one thing and that is that our localisation cost would drop if we only had one big file instead of several. This is because the tool our localisation company uses for analysing 100% matches cannot handle book files, only individual files. That means that if the file name

Large FM File

Why does seeing one example mean it makes sense? What does your training and experience tell you. On 5/1/08, Neil Tubb wrote: > > Just a quick question- can anyone tell me why putting your entire 300+ > page manual into one FM file would make sense? I was always taught that > splitting it out

Extracting copied-in graphics from documents

For the latter task, Geofrrey, I'd recommend you consult "Extracting Images Embedded in Word Documents" by Lyn Eggleston: http://graphicssoft.about.com/od/aboutgraphics/ss/extractword.htm. For the former, one of the accomplishments of Bruce Foster's Archive Plug-In is the ability to pull graphics

Extracting copied-in graphics from documents

Hi Geoffrey, I'm not an expert on graphics but I've had success in the past using the "Save as HTML" function in both Frame and Word. Taking this option saves each image as a graphic file. In Frame, you can choose between GIF, JPEG and PNG as the graphic format. Specify which one to use on the

Extracting copied-in graphics from documents

I would just use SnagIt from TechSmith and take new pictures from the Word docs. Joel On Fri, May 2, 2008 at 10:49 AM, Phil Heron wrote: > Hi Geoffrey, > > I'm not an expert on graphics but I've had success in the past using the > "Save as HTML" function in both Frame and Word. Taking this

Large FM File

Asa - Is sounds like you are accommodating your vendor rather than the other way around. If your localization vendor is so inflexible, time to start shopping for another vendor. At least, that's how I see it. will white vialogy llc On May 2, 2008, at 7:06 AM, ?sa Johansson wrote: > I can

Remove Overrides...doesn't

I have an obnoxious master page that prompts me to Remove Overrides every time I return to the body page. When I receive the Page Layout Warning, I dutifully click "Remove Overrides." I see no visible change in the document. When I go back to the master page and return to the body page view, I

Large FM File

I also have had problem-FrameMaker files where the author at the home office in Europe forgot to embed the images files before sending me the FM file. The result was lost time and effort. And to make matters worse, they sometimes sent me the image files themselves for me to embed, but the

Remove Overrides...doesn't

Yes! Deirdre On 5/2/08, William Abernathy wrote: > I have an obnoxious master page that prompts me to Remove Overrides every > time I > return to the body page. When I receive the Page Layout Warning, I dutifully > click "Remove Overrides." I see no visible change in the document. When I go >

Remove Overrides...doesn't

Try "washing" the file by saving as MIF and reopening. Also, look for hidden objects on the body (and the master) page that may be accurately triggering this. For instance, if there's a frame hidden in a layer under your main text frame, you wouldn't normally see it. Or if a background frame got

Large FM File

poshedly at bellsouth.net wrote: > I also have had problem-FrameMaker files where the author at the home > office in Europe forgot to embed the images files before sending me the FM > file. > > The result was lost time and effort. And to make matters worse, they > sometimes sent me the image

Remove Overrides...doesn't

> -Original Message- > From: framers-bounces at lists.frameusers.com > [mailto:framers-bounces at lists.frameusers.com] On Behalf Of > William Abernathy > Sent: Friday, May 02, 2008 10:34 AM > To: framers at lists.frameusers.com > Subject: Remove Overrides...doesn't > > I have an

What is a text inset?

Hi All, I am learning FrameMaker 7.1. I have many times coming across posts mentioning text insets. I am confused. What is a text inset and how to insert it? Is a text insert different from a text frame? Please pardon me if my question sounds foolish. __ Smile

What is a text inset?

Hi Neeraj: I'll answer this one because I'm working with text insets currently, so they're on my mind. A text inset is different from a text frame. It is text that resides in a separate file and can be used in one or more FrameMaker files. You insert the text inset by placing your cursor in

What is a text inset?

N. Jain asked: > I am learning FrameMaker 7.1. I have many times coming across posts > mentioning text insets. I am confused. What is a text inset and how to insert > it? Is a text insert different from a text frame? Please pardon me if my > question sounds foolish. A text inset is a text

Remove Overrides...doesn't

Art Campbell wrote: > Also, look for hidden objects on the body (and the master) page that > may be accurately triggering this. For instance, if there's a frame > hidden in a layer under your main text frame, you wouldn't normally > see it. Or if a background frame got dragged out of place by

Remove Overrides...doesn't

Art suggested outputting to Mif and reopening, but I licked this thing before he could get back to me. The page I was working with was a book cover with a couple of frames on the master and a couple more in the body. The body page frames were tagged B and C, which did not appear anywhere else

Extracting copied-in graphics from documents

On Fri, 2 May 2008 10:02:25 +1000, "Geoffrey Marnell" wrote: >A posting some weeks ago mentioned a utility that could extract graphics >copied into FM files and restore them in their original format. I should >have been paying more attention at the time, but can someone remind me what >that

Remove Overrides...doesn't

Stuart Rogers wrote: > Here's a possible explanation for the appearance of your duplicate > frames (as well as other accidentally duplicated items): > > Holding down the CTRL key changes the pointer from the solid "smart > select" arrow to the hollow "select object" arrow. (These are the top >

Screenshots outside of windows

Does anyone know how to take screenshots when you're not in Windows. I've got a procedure where you have to boot from an install disk and ghost a drive. Anyone know how to take screenshots? Thank you, Gillian Flato Technical Writer (Software) nanometrics

What is a text inset?

Fred... I have used FrameMaker on and off for several years. However, I've never taken advantage of text insets. So I too have several questions: Must the source text be located only in another FrameMaker file? Does it require a special text frame in the target document, or can it be placed

Extracting copied-in graphics from documents

As far as I know, the previous suggestion of simply saving the Word file as in HTML format is as simple and as *accurate* as you can get. I can't imagine why one would need a third-party utility or a screen shot application to do this, but then my imagination is limited to personal

Remove Overrides...doesn't

Combs, Richard wrote: > Art Campbell wrote: > >> Also, look for hidden objects on the body (and the master) page that >> may be accurately triggering this. For instance, if there's a frame >> hidden in a layer under your main text frame, you wouldn't normally >> see it. Or if a background frame

Extracting copied-in graphics from documents

> A posting some weeks ago mentioned a utility that could extract graphics > copied into FM files and restore them in their original format. I should > have been paying more attention at the time, but can someone remind me > what > that utility is called? (I'm hoping it can do a better job than

Extracting copied-in graphics from documents

Jeremy... You may very well be correct, especially with vector-based images. The document I was working with only had JPEG images of rather complex equipment. When I saved the document as HTML, the original, uncropped high-resolution JPEGs were there for the taking. Since the client did not