Afterthoughts are always enlightening.
I don't think I've ever seen anyone reporting this problem describe the
other main applications - like MS office apps, and utilities, browsers,
messaging tools, background agents like Acrobat's watched folder daemon,
etc. - that are running at the same time
I remember FM in 1999 and also 1989!
It's not likely that Adobe will find and fix this longtime issue soon. But
if you haven't reported it to the bug site, and discussed it with tech
support, it's worth a try.
A kludgy workaround might be to create a Windows/DOS batch file that
launches FM and
hat.
>
> But yes, I will keep plugging away get permission to spend less that $100
> to automate and/or speed up some tasks (it's especially important for me as
> I am a lone writer).
>
> Alison
>
>
> -----Original Message-
> From: Framers On
> Behalf Of Peter Gold
&
his programs work.)
>
> I think I've been waiting for 18 months at this point... :-(((
>
> But thanks for the reminder, I'll send our local IT Admin another note
> asking him to follow up with HQ IT.
>
> Alison
>
>
>
> -Original Message-
> From: Framers On
For the future, silicon prairie software paragraph tools IIRC can do this
kind of fine-tuning. Also, creating and importing a skeleton MIF file with
only the settings you want can do it.
OTOH, bruises earned but doing real grunt work in the trenches give one the
best confidence. :) Congrats!
On
InDesign and some other apps IIRC can apply a no-break property to selected
text. FM text variables IIRC don't break. Have you tried creating your mark
as a variable?
On Tue, Jul 19, 2022, 12:21 PM Craig, Alison GLI/CA <
acr...@greenlightinnovation.com> wrote:
> Is there such a thing as a
"Escalate" is the magic word to remember and employ early-on whenever
dealing with corporate tech-support and customer-service resistance.
When I did Ashton-Tate dBASE tech support around 1987, a customer wanted
the legal department to rewrite the product license because it was going to
expire
cuts, including a
> number for how to enter weird things like non-breaking spaces and hyphens
> in fields. Feel free to adapt it to your own use.
>
> https://www.frameusers.com/uploads/2016/08/ShortcutInfo.zip
>
> On Wed, May 11, 2022 at 8:43 PM Peter Gold
> wrote:
>
&
I would never have looked for "Typing in dialog boxes".
This is about the difference between a program designer or engineer, and
authors who use the language that the program is designed to create and
publish content. There's always room to improve product technical docs,
right? That's what keeps
The more I dig into long-unused memory to look for what I used to know
about FM, the less I find, because there's too much dust and rust in the
way. Instead, I try a Web search, and find how true it is that "nothing
every dies on the internet." Have you tried something like "framemaker
What would you recommend instead of FM, Robert?
Hcexres, other than your past experience and familiarity, why FM? Is there
employment demand in your area?
On Wed, Feb 23, 2022, 5:57 PM Robert Lauriston wrote:
> Academic discount aside, FrameMaker's pretty far down on the list of
> things I'd
I couldn't quite remember the Generated List of…, but I was sure there was
something built into FM back in the early days. I’m guessing that the
poddy-thing just generates the list with a UI that reminds users of what's
available. Don't we love our FM community memory? It's very Jungian! :)
On
> > Thank you!!!
> >
> > Sent from my iPhone. Blame Steve Jobs for any typos.
> >
> >> On Dec 17, 2021, at 3:18 PM, Peter Gold
> wrote:
> >>
> >> Cudspan's "tocbreaker" might be the magic tool. Try a web search.
> >>
> >>>
ection
> > (other than off a cliff which is what I feel like doing right now), I
> > would most appreciate it.
> >
> > TIA,
> >
> > TVB
> >
> > Tammy Van Boening
> > Tammy dot vanboening at spectrumwritingllc dot com
> > www.spectru
>
> Tammy Van Boening
> Tammy dot vanboening at spectrumwritingllc dot com
> www.spectrumwritingllc.com
>
> > -Original Message-
> > From: Framers > bounces+tammyvb=spectrumwritingllc@lists.frameusers.com> On
> > Behalf Of Peter Gold
> > Sent: Friday, December
Have you tried duplicating, by copying and pasting the problem paragraphs,
to see if they retain the problem gremlins? If they don't, try deleting or;
hiding the bad ones one with a condition.
Perhaps the problem material falls on some kind of border or limit. Have
you tried creating a
Hi, David!
Great FM and ID user-community resource in your FM <-> ID <-> QXP feature
comparison chart! (Thanks for the attribution credit.)
Suggestions for updates:
I think there's more scripting support available for ID than those in the
table.
ID text frames offer auto-resize properties.
ID
Good suggestion, Robert!
However, dtptools' mif filter retains as much of the FM page layout as
possible, in addition to format names. Where FM format and object
properties aren't supported by ID, they are simulated to look as much alike
as possible. If content is reflowed in ID, the simulations
Hi, Frank!
Gillian's suggestion is great, but for the fact that it has been asked and
responded to often already. I suggest that you begin by searching for
"compare framemaker and indesign" on the Internet and on this forum as well
as Adobe's FrameMaker and Indesign forums, and Indesignsecrets
On Fri, Nov 5, 2021, 2:08 PM cuc tu wrote:
*When I change the para tag name of another format to TDS-H1, the graphic
gets cut off. TDS-H0, TDS-Hx and etc. work fine. (i.e., just changing the
tag name causes the problem)*
Is it possible that TDS-H1 properties are defined differently from TDS-H0
FM calculates space between paragraphs by honoring the larger of Space
Below and Space Above. If the cut-off occurs only when certain paragraph
formats precede the problematic Heading[#] perhaps the Space Below is the
cause.
Another possibility is that there's an invisible character in the first
Thanks for doing the research. This closes the open-ended mystery.
So, to continue using your FM v. 5.5.6 with new graphics, you could convert
them to gif.
On Tue, Nov 2, 2021, 9:12 PM Spencer Rugaber
wrote:
> I just tried a non-GIMP .gif, and it worked. My best guess is that my
> version
> of
Artificial intelligence will never best herd intelligence! :)
Did gifs made by other apps succeed, or only those made by GIMP?
On Sun, Oct 31, 2021, 12:04 PM Spencer Rugaber
wrote:
> Thanks your collective help, I have finally been able to import and save
> the troublesome image file. The
It's probably possible to identify internal differences among different
versions of jpg files by opening them with an appropriate editor.
On Tue, Oct 26, 2021, 8:31 PM Robert Lauriston wrote:
> There are various flavors of JPEG and TIFF, so the file extension
> doesn't tell you whether it's
Have you tried importing graphics that had been successfully imported into
older FM docs, into new FM docs? Success here could validate kind of source
graphic required by your current setup.
If you need an older jpg format, a graphic conversion app may work.
HTH
On Tue, Oct 26, 2021, 6:40 PM
Business models evolve. One reason to charge via ongoing subscriptions is
to finance the increasing ongoing development cost of the incremental
releases needed to keep current with industry's advances.
Some of Adobe's Creative Cloud subscription products have been offered on
intermittent
Are you saying that the translator used an as-yet unreleased version?
Possibly an NDA violation?
Is the secret download location a pre-release repository?
Shouldn't the translator return a client's project in the same release it
was submitted, or in MIF, to maintain compatibility?
On Thu, Oct
A good reason NOT to speed-read technically-dense material, is that one
tends to take humor seriously. For example, I'm imagining recalling retired
engineers refactoring original FM code into COBOL! :)
Thanks for the image, Steve!
IIRC, the original proposals for FM were made by
Affinity Publisher lacks FM- and iD- technical-authoring tools, like
x-refs, hierarchical running H/Fs, multi-file books.
The Serif AP user forum reveals that footnotes were added after being
requested. This stirs optimism that other feature requests will be
fulfilled ... in due time.
Requests
writingllc dot com
> www.spectrumwritingllc.com
>
> > -Original Message-
> > From: Framers > bounces+tammyvb=spectrumwritingllc@lists.frameusers.com> On
> > Behalf Of Peter Gold
> > Sent: Wednesday, October 13, 2021 1:34 PM
> > To: An email list
Egad, Tammy! Are you saying, "At least it hasn't gotten worse?" :)
On Wed, Oct 13, 2021 at 2:23 PM wrote:
> I just remember a conversation that I had with Dov many years ago when I
> was still attending conferences and even back then, I was lamenting about
> all that Adobe could do so wrong
In the old days, Adobe had beta-test (AKA pre-release) programs, for which
interested volunteers who represent a range of users from single-person
business to large enterprises with multiple seats, could apply. Is there a
FM beta-test program now? Is anyone on this list in the program? Of course
Is it possible that this is the result of either an honest typesetting or
composing error, or an intentional strategy to avoid breaking footnote
matter across pages? Does the client have a preference?
On Tue, Sep 28, 2021, 4:16 PM wrote:
OK, I know this is off-topic but because this list is
Just cite the "Friends" episode and provide a link to it? :)
On Tue, Sep 28, 2021, 4:16 PM wrote:
> OK, I know this is off-topic but because this list is filled with seasoned
> veterans of technical writing, I know I can get my answer here. I am
> working
> on the references for a client
Has anyone posted this to an Adobe bug list and brought it up with
tech/customer support? Even if this is "as designed" it's a buggy design
decision that needs to be revisited and remedied. On the surface, it seems
that it wasn't sufficiently user-tested before it was implemented.
On Thu, Sep 23,
Umm... Save and close all files, close and restart FM, maybe?
On Mon, Sep 13, 2021, 5:26 PM wrote:
> In Chapter 1 in my book, I have established the 8 different table formats
> that I need to properly document all the content in the book. I have every
> paragraph tag set up that I need, every
ng, Greenlight Innovation
> T +1 604 676 4000, Ext 160 F +1 604 676 4111 W
> greenlightinnovation.com
>
> -Original Message-
> From: Framers greenlightinnovation....@lists.frameusers.com> On Behalf Of Peter Gold
> Sent: Thursday, September 9, 2021 12:16 PM
Perhaps IT has a backup of the previous image?
On Thu, Sep 9, 2021, 12:54 PM A Craig wrote:
>
> Win 10
> FrameMaker: Monthly subscription
>
>
> During a recent (massive) IT update, all our computers were re-imaged.
> Unfortunately, I forgot to grab a copy of maker.ini for use after the "big
>
Maybe Silicon Prairie can provide certifications of some kind that would
be useful to your IT folks.
OTOH, consider saving correctly-formatted tables in a reference library
document, or on a reference page, where you can copy them from.
On Mon, Aug 30, 2021, 3:17 PM A Craig wrote:
>
> I'd
You're absolutely correct! Except that tables and figures aren't numbered!
The paragraphs that are used by tables as their titles, have numbering
properties. Figures have no numbering properties, but the paragraphs in
which figure frames are anchored do have those properties.
So, for all Vulcans,
ince I do not have an InDesign license, I cannot verify this myself ...
> may download a trial to check things out myself, but I am not familiar with
> InDesign, so this may be slow ...
>
> Z
>
> -Original Message-
> From: Framers
> On Behalf Of Peter Gold
> Sen
Hi, Robert!
For whatever reasons, I never needed or wanted to go to Github, until
now!!! Egad!
Now that I’ve seen this, I’m not going to wonder about it. I am sure I’m
not going down this rabbit hole. It reminds me of the scene in the Tom
Sawyer movie I saw as a kid, when the string ran out
There's a ton of thorough Affinity tutorials on YouTube, for Publisher and
the companion raster and vector graphic tools.
Publisher is probably NOT the FM replacement some of us might have been
dreaming about, BUT it's great competition for InDesign, sorry to say. :)
On Mon, Aug 16, 2021, 4:52
Such a simple and clean source doc-set in Word might be as trouble-free.
Flare prices remind me of FM-UNIX prices of the 1990s.
Affinity offers ten-day free trials.
On Wed, Aug 11, 2021 at 7:42 PM Robert Lauriston
wrote:
> Ten years ago I found that Flare did an excellent job of
>
...
Thinking about the alternate routes through Affinity Publisher and InDesign
moved me to try this web search query: "affinity publisher compatibility
with other application file formats"
Some interesting results abide there. Marxware has some conversion tools,
as well as links to some
Have you considered opening and saving your FM 2015 (and earlier) files as
MIF and also as one or more common interchangeable formats, using books,
and/or scripts, to create a stored legacy?
It would be interesting to hear what you find about Affinity <-> InDesign
conversion. Dtptools' MIF Filter
AFAIK, the MIF Filter converter for InDesign, from dtptools.com, is the
only non-Adobe/non-FM tool that can read MIF into another proprietary
application's format. Some FM features are translated better than others.
You can subscribe to InDesign month-by-month whenever you need to use it.
Folks
atever) is just not
> going to work for me (on SS and doing some contract work).
> -- Ken in Atlanta
> **
> On Tuesday, August 10, 2021, 4:27:37 PM EDT, Peter Gold
> wrote:
>
> Hi, Sayed
>
> My FM roots began with v. 2.0 on Mac! Thanks for the lin
Hi, Sayed
My FM roots began with v. 2.0 on Mac! Thanks for the link to the FM -
Affinity comparison at fixthephoto. I found its information unhelpful from
a user's POV.
More power to you for having the ability to use major tools like LaTeX!
Hoping to hear from Böðvar on his Affinity
Sorry to hear of your bad experience, Bodvar. Good to hear that Adobe's
tech support agent did work hard to resolve the problems initially. Hoping
that if/when the expected failures occur, you'll get similar expert
assistance from Adobe.
I may not be the only one who's interested to hear of your
I remember when a techwhirler at Sun Computer posted on one of these
listservs long ago, the discovery that the common "Lorem ipsum" placeholder
text wasn't random gobbledegook, but in fact, it seemed to prove that
ancient scribes had composed it, since it seemed to translate to something
like,
t;
> > On Aug 6, 2021, at 10:37 PM, Lin Sims wrote:
> >
> > I think I mentioned it, earlier, but I no longer recall if Tammy tried
> it
> > or not.
> >
> >> On Fri, Aug 6, 2021 at 11:20 PM Peter Gold >
> >> wrote:
> >>
> >&
k trial run. For whatever reason, converting to html provided TWO PNG
> files, one that had a good quality and one that was just miserable. The
> good
> quality one is still raster, not vector, but it looked pretty good up to
> about 400% or so. On Fri, Aug 6, 2021 at 4:16 PM Peter Gold wrote: >
Lin harnessed the Force using Yoda-wisdom: "The sound of the right answer
comes from asking the right question! "
On Fri, Aug 6, 2021, 3:08 PM Lin Sims wrote:
> I think I found the answer for how to get the PNG files to a higher
> quality:
>
>
>-
>
>In Word, under File / Options /
Are there any options you or the SME author can set, which would affect the
equation editor's HTML output? If so, are there any meaningful
improvements? Any roads not yet taken?
On Fri, Aug 6, 2021, 12:04 PM Fred Ridder wrote:
> I suspect the answer is that whoever is creating the equations
On Thu, Aug 5, 2021 at 7:30 PM tammyvb spectrumwritingllc.com <
tamm...@spectrumwritingllc.com> wrote:
> Hi Lise,
>
> I won’t bore you with all the details, but unfortunately, a screen grab
> direct from the Word doc is not an option.
>
> Thanks for replying. . . Believe me, it just helps to know
MIF no question, but gotta consider the possible unfortunates who may have
to maintain the publication in Word.
On Wed, Aug 4, 2021, 12:48 PM Craig Ede wrote:
> Or, better, MIF.
>
> Craig
>
> ….snip….
> Whoever maintains the newsletter going forward will need an FM version that
> can open
Whoever maintains the newsletter going forward will need an FM version that
can open existing newsletter versions. Consider exporting your work as RTF.
On Wed, Aug 4, 2021, 11:37 AM Ken Poshedly wrote:
> Hey gang,
> I'm now doing a company newsletter (contract job) and could use some help
> in
gt; www.spectrumwritingllc.com
>
> -Original Message-
> From: Framers
> On
> Behalf Of Peter Gold
> Sent: Monday, July 26, 2021 3:56 PM
> To: An email list for people using Adobe FrameMaker software.
>
> Subject: Re: [Framers] Adding a word to FM dictionary
>
> Stan
Standing out here on the sidelines of your battle, I can't help but wonder
if there's some kind of Windows cache issue that's at play. Actually not
"play" - more like evil. IIRC, in DOS days, some applications needed some
OS environment options, like "files=", or "threads=," customized, to
perform
Yy, Bernard! Yy, Carol! Yy, Rick! Frame marches on.
On Fri, Jul 9, 2021, 12:03 PM Carol J. Elkins
wrote:
> Hi everyone,
>
> I wanted to introduce you to the new FrameUsers List Mom. It is none
> other than (drum roll please)...
>
> Bernard Aschwanden
>
> Already well known and
Before this fades into the mists of history completely off-list, I want to
say thanks to Carol and Rick, and the many other folks in this FrameMaker
community for generously contributing to and sharing FM knowledge and lore.
We're all more productive and enlightened because of each other.
Thank,
I believe domain owners' contact information is publicly available at the
registrar.
On Sat, Jun 26, 2021, 1:24 PM A Craig wrote:
>
> First, many thanks to Carol and Risk for undertaking this task for the
> last few years. Those of us who use the list truly appreciate it.
>
> Second, when the
Is it possible that a post-processing script could do the corrections?
On Wed, Jun 23, 2021, 4:37 PM wrote:
> And yes, I know the "solution" would be to do all variables that require a
> subscript or superscript as an equation, but the budget and timing of this
> simply won't allow for it -
ck
>
> Rick Quatro
> Carmen Publishing Inc.
> 585-729-6746
> r...@frameexpert.com
> http://www.frameexpert.com/store
>
>
>
> -Original Message-----
> From: Framers
> On
> Behalf Of Peter Gold
> Sent: Thursday, June 17, 2021 11:24 AM
> To: An email li
One of the first FM lifesavers I heard about in the early days was Bruce
Foster's Archive utility. It copied FM document folders to specified
locations and adjusted reference links.
Perhaps someone on the list knows if it still works with recent Windows and
FM releases, where to find it, etc.
On
When I was a trainer, I always showed the FM outline template example files
in class, alongside the numbering pane of the paragraph designer. IOW, we
went to the source.
IIRC, web searches for FrameMaker auto numbering find good examples.
HTH
On Tue, Jun 15, 2021, 3:28 PM Lin Sims wrote:
> In
Is the Assistant font non-standard in some way?
On Mon, Jun 14, 2021, 4:08 AM Orly Zimmerman wrote:
> HI All,
> I'm running FM2020 on a Windows 10 system.
> My 4-page file (a brochure) includes some text (Fonts:
> kelson/assistant/etc) and graphics with transparencies.
> Due to this latest FM
Thanks for the chuckle, Wendy. Since you're talking about lawyers here,
perhaps cite an episode of "The Good Wife," in which Nathan Lane's
character advises the all-hands-on-deck team that's buried in zillions of
pages of discovery documents, that the key information they'll need to win
the giant
Argh... Ghosts and legacies of last-century engineering design. InDesign's
composition engine was born smart, and kept evolving. ID overall has gotten
closer and closer to FM technical authoring and book tool set.
But, the cost of migrating individual authors, tech-publishing departments,
and
When I've had to wrestle with this issue, if there was time, and
willingness to cooperate, I'd try to work with the author to re-write or
re-order the material. Yes, madness, but doesn't page beauty someone's
justify it.
On Wed, Jun 9, 2021, 2:03 AM Klaus Daube wrote:
> On 8 Jun 2021 at 15:25,
You didn't say if the images are local or on a network. Local may load
quicker.
Have you considered a newer Mac OS, perhaps on a newer Mac, with
appropriate Parallels and Windows versions?
One other strategy, if the graphics are large, might be creating a
directory of low-resolution display
th a global Find/Change. As needed, you can either change
> the condition indicator for the Variable condition, or show or hide
> condition indicators.
>
> The special color is the only one of these methods that doesn't
> require you to make an appropriate setting before printing.
&g
I can't remember if variables can be defined with a character format. If
so, define a format with a color that you define as a non-printing color in
a color-definition set. If not, use Find to apply a format with a
non-printing color to the variables.
On Thu, May 27, 2021 at 6:52 PM A Craig
Any chance it's related to screen resolution, or a particular graphics
card?
On Tue, May 25, 2021, 11:21 AM Sheila Loring
wrote:
> My team has a chronic problem with equations in FrameMaker. They look fine
> in FrameMaker, but when converted to HTML in WebWorks ePublisher, the tops
> and/or
To Craig's point about informing template users (including my own future
self,) about gotchas, I used to place short conditionalized informative
notes in margin areas on master pages. The notes were turned on in the
saved templates, so they would not be missed on first use. If needed, they
would
I’m just wondering if your concern is in regard to printing on a printer
you control, or a print vendor. Registration IIRC relates to print
processes that involve multiple passes (AKA the old way.) Have you found
issues with misregistration on printers you control, or your client's
printers? If
You never know when attempting to speak for others, if you'll be right for
all of them. Just to set things right, Steve, I thank you for saying that!
:) The first FM I saw was v3 on a Mac in 1989. I took it personally when
Adobe stopped advancing FM Mac development. However, I’m pleased that
Yes, find the bottleneck first, if possible, then upgrade to fix the known
problem. In the last century, one new FM UNIX release was extremely
sluggish in any operation that involved printers. Of course, formating FM
text for the screen involves the printer. The culprit turned out to be a
routine
Hi, Lynne! I think that's what I suggested generally. Your specificity is
much more helpful!
On Mon, Mar 15, 2021, 11:48 AM Lynne A. Price wrote:
> Tammy,
>
> If I understand the issue, you are trying to make a single TOC entry
> that has the autonumber of the SectionNumber paragraph
Hi, Tammy:
The first thing that comes to my senior FM'ers mind is that your TOC
formats might be failing because perhaps your scheme is trying to
recalculate autonumbering in the generated TOC, instead of simply
extracting the numbering from the chapter file paragraphs.
I've always been a little
right, I always forget about those. F6, I think, will repeat the last
> action taken.
>
> On Mon, Mar 8, 2021 at 3:27 PM Peter Gold
> wrote:
>
> > I *k*n*o*w* that many of us share that Framer's gene that wants never to
> > believe that something can't be done, and that by
I *k*n*o*w* that many of us share that Framer's gene that wants never to
believe that something can't be done, and that by co-mingling bits and
scraps of tips and tricks, there *I*S* a way. So, here's my wild stab:
I seem to remember there's an Escape-key command sequence to repeat the
previous
If Flash still runs on your machine, can it export the videos to a more
common embeddable format?
If it can't export, perhaps you can run the videos in Flash on your machine
and record them with another tool. Yeah, lots of work, but probably easier
than starting from scratch.
If the existing
Lin, does FM recognize that imported reduced file size - by copy or
reference - PDFs as smaller?
On Wed, Dec 30, 2020, 4:43 PM Lin Sims wrote:
> I can tell you that exporting the Visio to PDF works perfectly. The export
> to SVG less so: as long as there are no stencil objects or grouped
My last FM experience was long before object styles were added, so this is
just a wild stab: is it possible to specify an aFrame
object style in MAKER.INI?
On Mon, Dec 21, 2020, 11:49 AM Sparky Anderson
wrote:
> I've tried to update my MAKER.INI "Preferences" section with the following
> to
I like the part where it's revealed that memory isn't always accurate when
there's time to fact-check it. How familiar that is for me.
The good side is that doggedly chasing possible solutions often reveals new
insights through serendipity. Giving up early just plain isn't fun, but it
helps to
cument using the word "Software" in a heading that's pulled into the
> TOC.
> >
> > There's not a lot I can do about any of those changes, and as long as the
> > tried and true File > Print Book works, I've a viable workaround. It's
> just
> > that it's a lon
On Tue, Sep 15, 2020 at 3:31 PM Lin Sims wrote:
> Sometimes they do, and they also wander through the Adobe FrameMaker forum
> from time to time. I might ping Amitoj and ask him to read this thread and
> the concurrent thread there. Or enter a bug in the tracker, but this is
> such an oddball
IMO, a rounding error in the Save As > PDF vs Print > PDF, from your
assiduous testing and reporting, seems the most likely.
On Sat, Sep 12, 2020, 9:13 PM Lin Sims wrote:
> There were two markers in the source paragraphs, one for the TOC xref link
> and one for an Index marker. I moved the
the issue is.
>
> On Sat, Sep 12, 2020 at 3:14 PM Peter Gold
> wrote:
>
> > Well, now that you've discovered the exact pathway to that creates the
> > error, of course you're going to report it, so it gets on the list of
> fixes
> > needed. You can see my long memory
uses Distiller directly or something? I forget. But
> it worked!
>
>
> On Sat, Sep 12, 2020 at 1:32 PM Peter Gold
> wrote:
>
> > Hi, Lin:
> >
> > AHA! It's a secret plot of some kind. I remember there was a time long
> ago,
> > when FM's auto-correct would
reimaged and the problems continue.
>
> On Sat, Sep 12, 2020 at 8:47 AM Doug wrote:
>
> > Experiment by making changes to the source.
> >
> > For instance, insert Pulse Software before the word "Pulse", and PDF it
> > again. Observe the results. If the new
It's a no-brainer, Lin! It's "social distancing. :)
Seriously, I'm sure you have tried changing the source, say, with a
different word, or if it's a text variable try plain text, or is a
character tag applied, or if it's a corporate-name font, swap it, etc. Is
the font customized to apply special
If you save the FM book file, and the first file in the book, as MIF, then
open the MIF file as text, you may be able to find a joboptions statement
with Find/Search. Remember that sometimes words in MIF statements break
actross lines, so if necessary, search for a fragment of "joboptions." To
On Tue, Aug 25, 2020, 2:35 PM Theresa de Valence wrote:
> I know that some users of older Frame versions were looking for
> documentation. I've just discovered ONE(1.
>
...
When I first wrote the first line, I wrote
> "older Frame users"
> which I realized must constitute most of us!
>
It's
On Tue, Aug 25, 2020, 12:53 PM Lin Sims wrote:
> Oh, and while I have no idea if there is a freeware equivalent to InDesign,
>
A few freeware-alikes are briefly listed here:
https://www.maketecheasier.com/free-adobe-indesign-alternatives/
Not free, Affinity has a collection of design,
FM considers the default printer when it formats documents for on-screen
display. Perhaps selecting a less-demanding printer will speed up the
display. Also, try navigating to the document's last page, using the scroll
bar, find, or go to page command, then, going back to the beginning.
HTH.
On
On Tue, Jun 23, 2020, 11:32 AM wrote:
> Yes, the FM files were resaved before the PDF was regenerated the second
> time.
> Thanks for your response.
>
If the resaved FM files are only slightly larger than the earlier ones, the
generated PDFs may be just larger-enough to require an additional
Wild guesses:
One clue might be that 5kb growth is not much, IMO. Is it possible that the
second PDF is storing information about its generation history? Perhaps a
utility that compares the internals of the files has the answer.
Are the FM files changed or resaved before generating the second
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