filename in
the book, the file I clicked on moves within the book, at the end of
FM's rename and save process. The file I renamed stays in place.
Weird. And very annoying - my instinct is to end the renaming by
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most of the major bugs in Frame 8 been fixed? If
not, what are the ones that you feel are still the biggest problems?
Thanks for your always invaluable information!
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In a table cell with View-Text Symbols turned on, how do I search
for a blank space following the last alpha-numeric character and
preceding the section symbol? I know the keyboard strokes to search
for the tab symbol, forced return symbol, end-of-paragraph symbol,
etc., but none of my
Stuart, Dick, and all,
When I search for text using the backslash-f term with Wildcards
turned on, I receive a message that The item you are searching for
requires text in the Find text box. When I precede the backslash-f
term with a space, then I find every space in the entire doc--not
just
You are brilliant, Stuart! The space $ string is what I needed.
Carol
At 11:59 AM 3/5/2009, Stuart Rogers wrote:
However, you might be able to work with ' $' (space, dollar sign)
with wildcards turned on. That finds a space at the end of a
paragraph or cell (not the end of a line, as the Help
document. I'll probably need to do this once every
couple of years. The hard way would be to take the whole-book PDF and
manually extract each document to an individual file. Is there an easier way?
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Thanks Art and Jeremy. You definitely summed up my problem well. A
Frameuser wrote me offline to suggest that ARTS PDF Split Merge
Lite would do the job by splitting at the bookmark level. Because I
use two other ARTS plugins for PDFs, I have confidence in the
company, so that is probably a
that. Does
anyone know a workaround in Word that will help me identify all of
these graphic files? A macro? I am not a Word guru so all help is appreciated.
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Thanks to the folks who suggested that I convert the Word docs to
HTML to obtain the filenames for the graphics. If I remember, that
was a trick useful when the original graphics are not available
because saving to HTML causes Word to convert the graphics to gifs
and jpgs. But in doing so,
-standing problem.)
~I created a document in Frame9 and distilled it in both Distiller 7
and 9 and the bookmarks DO NOT display correctly in either PDF file.
Has anyone seen this problem on their Frame9 set-up? And fixed it?
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. It is resolved by closing down Frame
and restarting the program. Within a few minutes, the problem
returns. Very annoying and time consuming, especially while I am
designing templates. Any ideas?
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Hi Shlomo,
So far, five people has responded to my email indicating that they,
too, experience this problem with some regularity. Neither they nor
I have been able to identify any specific sequence that triggers the
freeze. However, yours is the first information I've received that
suggests
AM 4/14/2010, you wrote:
I know I can make a pgf with an individual webding character balloon
number, but my instructions will get past 10 in several tasks, so I
don't want to create twenty-some pgfs.
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12. Repeat when Adobe next does an automatic update.
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in functionality by upgrading to a
newer product.
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questions. If
there are better questions to ask, I know I can trust you to suggest them.
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, but that is not what this question is about. I think this
would have to be an add-on of some kind to Acrobat or a server-based
program. I've also posted this question to Planet PDF; if you can
recommend a better resource, please let me know.
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Thanks to everyone for pointing out Acrobat's watermark feature. I
think it will be perfect for applying a watermark that can't be
viewed until the document is printed.
The same client wanting the watermark wants his PDF documents to
contain Sharepoint links to other docs (tiffs, Word docs,
Ah, see that's why I asked. I don't know anything about Sharepoint,
so I didn't know those were required. If a person is already logged
in, do they still need to provide that information?
My client planned to make the links via Acrobat, so I suspect that if
he can link from Acrobat, I can
I create a character tag that I routinely label zz:change_bar. I'll
explain why later. The character tag sets everything AS IS except I
enable the change bars option.
Select each word or paragraph that you want to be marked with change
bars and apply the character tag.
When you are ready to
-service_12.html
Note that Customer Service phone #2 is for Licensing. There have been
a lot of questions on this list recently about licensing and activation.
HTH. If not, let us know.
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-up of my personally designed
templates. If anyone would be willing to share their Template folder
from an older version of InDesign, I'd really appreciate it. Thanks!
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I think I should know how to fix this but apparently not. I'm using
Acrobat 9 Pro Extended v 9.4.1. Problem: Bookmarks that I've manually
created in a PDF have a different zoom than the bookmarks set for the
PDF in Framemaker. For example, I may be viewing a page that displays
at 100% and then
I haven't seen a response to this, so I wanted to
comment that I have this happen in one particular
book as well. But unlike John's experience where
his entire xref turns blue, every time I
regenerate, I lose the blue character formatting
in some, but not all, of the xrefs. But when I
close
to
be, and forgive me in advance if I'm not using the correct
terminology. Can anyone help?
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Correct. The only printers that are listed in the Control Panel's
Printers area are one installed by Snag-It and the Dell printer that
my network shares. (The guy who helps manage my network and router
installed that Dell printer to the laptop.)
Carol
At 01:03 PM 10/23/2011, you wrote:
Are
matter if I'm using a PDF
generated from Framemaker or one downloaded from Adobe's site.
I've read through Adobe's Help forums and can't find a solution. Has
anyone had and successfully resolved this problem?:
Carol
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I'm running Frame 9 on Win7 and have experienced a lot of
unreliability in Frame's Find function. I don't use conditional text
or text insets, and the text I'm trying to find is not a variable or
specially formatted. Frame is just blind to it sometimes. I can
position the cursor immediately
Ah, that does explain my similar experience. I thought it was just me
doing something wrong. I'm in FM9 now and have discovered that you do
indeed need to select all files in the book and then set the job
options. If I remember correctly, in FM8, all you had to do was
select the book file.
Autotext add-on, I don't think that it does what I need. I have a
vague memory of MSWord or some elderly word processor (the only kind
I'm familiar with since I'm elderly) having this functionality.
Any ideas?
Carol
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As I indicated in the restrictions, I don't want to do more than
type the word. I'm aware that variables would work, but there are a
zillion instances of these words and I do not want to locate and
insert a variable for each instance. For this exercise, I was hoping
to learn about scripts,
Tammy, if you have Shlomo Peret's enhanced toolbar, one of its tools
is to copy a table width to the clipboard. (If I'm mistkane here and
is a Frame feature, I apologize. I've copied my .ini file and
plug-ins from so many versions of FM I no longer know which tool goes
with what plugin.)
So
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Does anyone know if the problem occurs when using the Print Selected
Files option in unstructured FM11? Or does it only occur when using
the Print Book option?
Carol
At 11:00 AM 9/27/2012, you wrote:
This issue occurs when a user who is running FrameMaker11 in
unstructured mode and tries to
.
To make insertion easier, create a NoPrint character format (where the
color is set to an invisible one), then create a variable named 0, which
has: NoPrint0
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for your creative suggestions. I'm always in awe of the
problem-solving capabilities of this list. If we put the collective talent
of this list to work on world problems, well
Carol
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vendor who could manage this conversion?
Thanks, as always, for your help.
Carol
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Hi Mollye,
Thanks for your comments. Unfortunately, my client doesn't know what he
wants other than to reduce the twice yearly expense of printing the Spanish
version of this book. I maintain this manual in FrameMaker and the gal who
maintains the Spanish version works in PageMaker. I think
Headley, I use Silicon Prairie Software's MasterPage Tools to do
this. I'm really pleased with their product.
http://www.siliconprairiesoftware.com/
Carol
On 11/21/2006 6:04:58 PM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Is there some way to do this automagically? Or do I have to write a
FrameScript
happens for the default colors). So changing any
of the default colors from the UI doesn't seem to be an option. Any other way?
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wrote:
Forgive me for stating the obvious, but won't merely defining the
green you want as a custom color work for you?
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Sigh. I thought I'd have a look at ePublisher to see how it compares
price-wise to RoboHelp. Maybe I'm missing something on their Web
site, but it appears that the only way to find out the price is to
give them my contact information first via a form. I object to that
practice on principal.
about this in the next week or so and
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all is to click the button twice. Can anyone else
reproduce this behavior?
Does anyone know how to dock the Object Designer alongside the
Paragraph Design and Character Designer pod/panels? It doesn't seem
to be dockable.
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Matt, yes I am using RH's Multiscreen output. I'm annoyed at the
differences in the out-of-box options for the various device outputs.
There doesn't appear to be a unified set that retains the same
color scheme or other skin characteristics. But my biggest whine is
that RH10 treats the device
I'm so glad other people have commented about their dislike of this
feature. I hate it too. But it isn't that the text isn't sharp,
it's that it has a white drop-shadow. Adobe, please make this go away
on the next version or tell us if we can change it ourselves. It has
made it very difficult
Nancy, consider creating markers for all headings, regardless of
whether you plan to use them or not. Let RoboHelp break them into
topics. Then in your RoboHelp TOC and browse sequences, just include
the topics that you want. Yes, the unwanted ones will go along for
the ride when the file is
There is a discussion of how to use markers in Framemaker to control
page breaks in RoboHelp at
http://help.adobe.com/en_US/robohelp/robohtml/WS9F91508B-AC18-4b72-8FFB-B639F73F4741.html
As with most things, there are many ways to achieve the desired
outcome. Often combinations of ways work
There are several problems with the HTML5 layouts supplied with RH10:
~They are not consistently formatted across
mobile device layouts; a client wanting output
for all mobile devices will have to put up with
different color schemes, different branding,
etc. for each device he wants to output
works fine and I use it as the standard way to produce PDFs from FM.
There are highly exceptional cases where Save as PDF fails (e.g.
producing very small pages), and then switching to PS+distill is the
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Does anyone use Adobe LiveCycle as a digital rights management (DRM)
solution for selling/distributing their documents? If so, I'd
appreciate your emailing me off-list so that I can ask a couple of questions.
Thanks in advance,
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Hi Alison,
So far, the only response has been from someone who uses LiveCycle
Designer for forms but has no experience with it for ecommerce. Like
you, I use Acrobat security for PDFs to prevent changing the docs or
copying the content to clipboard, but it cannot prevent copying the
entire
I'm sure that these points
and many other valid points were already made in
the different threads in so many forums]
Shlomo Perets
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the [H2 Sub Title]
paratag. But there are hundreds of them and I'd rather not.
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The reason that the child pages are in individual files is because
the client isn't sure yet how he wants to organize the content of the
book. Hundreds of diagrams that could be grouped in various ways. To
remain flexible, it made sense to create individual files that I
could organize at the
wrote:
Do I remember right that I can build a FM11 unstructured book that
can include non-FM files?
I can't find anything in the help, but maybe I do not recall the
name of the feature
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and Acrobat.)
Carol
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At 01:09 AM 6/20/2013, Harro de Jong wrote:
Carol J. Elkins wrote:
HOWEVER, I don't want all of the registration marks; I want only trim
marks. So I need to do this in Acrobat, not Frame. I cannot get
Acrobat set up to do this correctly. I've located the Add Printer
Marks toolbar, but I can't
. This is List Number 5
2.2.2.2.2. This is Heading 5
2.2.2.2.2.1. This is List Number 6
2.2.2.2.2.2. This is Heading 6
Carol
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I can second Mike's suggestion to watch RJ's video. I watched it
immediately after upgrading to Frame 9 and it made the paradigm shift
from Frame 7 so much smoother. A lot of people really struggled with
how to manage the pods and panels on the new UI, but RJ made it easy
to understand. Until
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Matt, thanks for the advise, but I think you
misunderstood. My client wants a Word template
that matches my Frame template. I don't plan to
parcel out the work; I'm doing it myself. As
the subject line indicates, I want to collaborate
with a Word guru, so my post was to find a Word
guru on
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Subject: can corrupted FM doc be opened in some other way?
I'm using FM11 on a Win7 box. I
to work in Frame
v7 and 8. I haven't tested it in FM11.
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. Is there some other way to open this file and get at the ASCII text?
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and then group them before copying the group to the final
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wondering if it has any
relation to the Adobe hack. It is a bit scary that the man knew my
name. I will not answer any incoming call from Skyp 661-748-024 from
this point forward.
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I checked their blog and LinkedIn URLs and can find no mention of who
won. Does anyone know? Did I win? Did you?
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Thanks for the link, Harro. And congratulations on being one of the winners!
Carol
At 11:00 AM 11/23/2013, you wrote:
the announcement just went up today:
https://blogs.adobe.com/techcomm/2013/11/congratulations-to-adobe-tech-comm-content-strategy-tool-survey-winners.html
evaluated them for documentation POD, the samples weren't good.
Any recent feedback from anyone?
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. No complicated reading order. So
for the life of me I can't figure out what to do to get the thing to
read to me. I never had a problem before Acrobat 11 and I've never
had to do anything to prepare the PDF.
Help!
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After I emailed this yesterday, I tested the PDF on my laptop (also
running Acrobat 11 Pro on Windows 7), and the Read Out Loud function
works fine. So the problem must be with the Acrobat installation on
my desktop CPU. I've run the Repair feature to no avail. It isn't
worth uninstalling and
Can anyone tell me if FM12 has fixed the problem in which character
formats in source text are lost in cross-references to that source
text? That one little fix would be a tipping point for me to upgrade
to FM12. If not, has anyone found a better workaround than the one in
the Frame archives
Best practice for setting up character formats is to set everything
As Is except the feature that you want the character tag to control.
That would include setting the Font Family to As Is. So for Emphasis,
for example, the font family would be set to As Is and only the Angle
set to Italic.
-0700 4/2/14, Carol J. Elkins wrote:
Best practice for setting up character formats is to set
everything As Is except the feature that you want the character tag
to control. That would include setting the Font Family to As Is. So
for Emphasis, for example, the font family would be set
Thanks, Steve. My struggle right now is with cross-references to
paragraphs that, in addition to regular text, house hypertext links
formatted with a Character tag that makes the text blue; and
cross-references that house an italicized citation to a book. The
character-formatted text in those
document and manually change it back to NOT
make room for side heads. I'd just like to know what the shortcut is
so that I never, ever, ever do that again.
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I'm working in Frame 11, all patches applied. So if it's a bug, it is
persistent.
Carol
At 09:44 AM 2/26/2014, Craig Ede wrote:
I look forward to the responses to this since I have had the same
thing happen to me (on FM10). It may be a bug. Usually I immediately
close the document without
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I'm generating PDFs out of Frame 11 and opening them in Acrobat 11
Pro in a Windows environment. I've discovered that the text in
cross-references created in Framemaker cannot be annotated in Acrobat
using the Strikethrough Text tool or the Insert Text at Cursor tool,
and probably other tools
Craig,
Of course I revise any annotated cross-ref in the source FM document.
But the cross-references must be reviewed and annotated, if
necessary, in Acrobat. I give these PDFs to my clients for review and
THEY must be able to annotate them.
Carol
At 01:43 PM 3/27/2014, you wrote:
If it
Thanks for trying, Winfried. Unfortunately, text in the middle of the
cross-reference isn't annotatable. The I-beam cursor starts
red-lining wherever it is placed and the user can't segregate just
the text that they want to annotate from the surrounding text in the
cross-reference.
I think
-reference text.
You know that you can change your selected text when you press
the SHIFT key and the Left/Right arrow keys!
Best regards
Winfried
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With help from Winifried and Rick, I finally figured out what the
problem was and why I couldn't select text within a cross-reference
so that I could annotate it. What was not pointed out in anyone's
instructions is that you must have the I-beam/Arrow tool selected as
the default tool.
I've attended most of the Adobe Webinars about TCS5 and FM12 and am
getting close to being ready to upgrade from TCS 4 using FM11 and
RH10 to TCS5 using FM12 and RH11. I'm running Windows 7. To the best
of this group's collective knowledge, are there any gotchas that I
need to be aware of?
Last year I opted to subscribe to the Adobe Creative Cloud for
$29.99/month promotional. That has now jumped to $49.99/month, but it
provides access to every Adobe product I could want, including
Photoshop and Illustrator. But those products were part of TCS4, so
some people who already have
Framers,
I'm ready to print a wire-bound pocket-sized booklet that will be
top-bound (coil binding along the top of the book) so as to fit
nicely in one's pocket. In all my 18 years of doing this, this is the
first time I've run across having to publish a top-bound book, so I
have no
Thanks, everyone. I agree that this should be done by the printer and
I will contact him. It is easy enough for me to rotate the
even-numbered pages in the PDF (thanks, Robert!) , which will nicely
solve that problem if he doesn't want to do it himself. Rotating in
the PDF will prevent me from
When I need to convert a Word book into Frame, the workflow I use is
to print the Word book to PDF, open the PDF in Acrobat, and export
all of the graphics as .eps files. Then I import those by reference
into the FM book. (I rename them first to some meaningful filename.)
However, sometimes
, Robert Lauriston wrote:
You don't need to convert Word to PDF to extract images. Save the Word
doc as .docx if it's not already, make a copy, change the extension
from .docx to .zip, extract the files, and the images are all in
\word\media.
On Thu, Jun 5, 2014 at 11:53 AM, Carol J. Elkins
celk
You know, I tested the behavior of the Section number problem on this
book three times before I sent the email for help. Then I tested the
other five books (and 80 documents) in this series of books and the
Section number does not reset when the files are closed and reopened.
Then I tested the
Okay, I have finally made the problem reproducible. (Sorry for
innundating the list with these emails, but I'm pretty panicky right
now because I've based an entire library of books and documents to
rely on using the Section number in a specific type of
cross-reference that I've defined.)
Hi Rebecca,
Thanks for responding. It turns out that the Section numbering
property will work only for files that are nested under a book
folder. Unfortunately, Framemaker doesn't tell you that when you are
setting up the Section number. It happily does your bidding and then
when you
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