Re: Mac Keyboard Commands

[Bill Briggs]

At 1:54 PM -0400 6/26/07, Kenneth C. Benson wrote:
Ron Miller wrote:

 Mac keyboard command to select a row in a table.

Not sure, but I think it's the same as on PC: ESC THR (The wHole Row)

 I can verify that it is indeed the correct keystroke combo.

 There is also another (perhaps not well known) way to select a row (or column) 
using the mouse. If you put the mouse pointer close to a vertical cell 
boundary and double click it, you'll get the whole row selected. Similarly if 
you put it close to a horizontal cell boundary and double click it, you'll get 
the entire column selected. This saves you the bother of drag selection of a 
row or column.

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Re: Mac Keyboard Commands

[Ron Miller]

That's it. Thanks to all who responded so quickly.

This is one of those instances where it would have been nearly  
impossible to figure out on my own.


Ron

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On Jun 26, 2007, at 1:54 PM, Kenneth C. Benson wrote:


Ron Miller wrote:

 Mac keyboard command to select a row in a table.


Not sure, but I think it's the same as on PC: ESC THR (The wHole Row)

Kenneth Benson
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link to HTML doc from PDF

[Carol Wade]

Is it possible to add a link to an HTML document from a FrameMaker
document? My employer wants me to provide a link to the readme file from
the generated PDF.

 

(I'm on FrameMaker 7.2 and have Acrobat 8.)

 

Thanks y'all!

 

- Carol


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Re: Thumbtabs issue

[Radha Padmanabhan]

Thanks. I'll try this. I took the template packs for FM from Adobe's Website 
and learned about this feature. Have to look for some more details.
  Radha

Peter Gold [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
  If you search Google for framemaker thumb tab without quotes, you'll
find Brad Anderson's ground-breaking tutorial on exactly this process.

HTH

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 On 25/6/07 09:31, Radha Padmanabhan wrote:

  Hi Helping Hands,
 
  Ok. now I have to ask.
 
  I have a huge FM7.0 (Windows XP) manual with 5 guides. Every guide has
  Thumtabs for each chapter out of which only one guide's thumbtabs are 
  working
  properly. I have tried to figure out the mess, for so long. After a long 
  long
  search I could unfold the treasure-secret of markers Header/Footer $1 and
  Header/Footer $2. Ok.
 
  Now the problem is this. Each thumbtab is an image of a globe in which
  appear the chapter number. The marker contains only the chapter number but I
  am not at all able to figure out how the globe is moving up and down as the
  chapter number progresses.


   
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Re: Mac Keyboard Commands

[Ron Miller]

Yes, theEscape sequence worked fine.

For the record, I was trying to select a row in the table and it  
certainly is not intuitive with this keyboard. I was ready to connect  
my Windows keyboard out of frustration.


Thanks for all the tips.

Ron

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On Jun 26, 2007, at 6:11 PM, Lisa M. Balbes, Ph.D. wrote:

If you're running under Windows in Parallels, wouldn't you use the  
Windows command, not the Mac command?


I just tried it, and Escape t h r works for me (Frame 7.2, in  
Parallels on a MacBood Pro).


Lisa

At 12:36 PM -0400 6/26/07, Ron Miller wrote:

Hi:
I 'm working in Frame 7.1 running Windows in Parallels on a Mac  
Book Pro.


I can't seem to select a row in a table and I'm wondering if  
someone could give me the Mac keyboard command to select a row in  
a table.


Thanks,
Ron


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RE: Generating an outline from a written formatted document?

[Steve Rickaby]

At 09:48 -0600 27/6/07, Combs, Richard wrote:

You need  Enhance (www.sandybrook.com/enhance/). Among other features,
it gives you an outline view of your FM doc that works much like Word's
outline view -- you can promote/demote levels, move chunks around, etc.

Steve Kubis at SiliconPrairie has a pack of outline tools, too. I have not used 
them, so I cannot comment on how effective they are.

http://www.siliconprairiesoftware.com/Products.html

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Re: link to HTML doc from PDF

[Syed Zaeem Hosain]

Yes, as long as the HTML file has a URL, that it can be reached by, on an
accessible host. I use the Special-Hypertext...-Command from the menu
and select goto URL for this purpose, enter the URL in the Syntax
section of the pop-up in FrameMaker.

It works very well. The output PDF has a hyperlink to that URL that is
clickable and reachable with the default browser.

If the HTML is not on a host (with a URL), then I suppose the command
Open Document (same menu access) *might* also work as long as the HTML
file is accessible by the reader of the PDF, but, since I have not tried
that, I am not sure of the outcome.

Hope this helps,

Z

Carol Wade wrote:

Is it possible to add a link to an HTML document from a FrameMaker
document? My employer wants me to provide a link to the readme file from
the generated PDF.

(I'm on FrameMaker 7.2 and have Acrobat 8.)

Thanks y'all!

- Carol


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Re: Mac Keyboard Commands

[Peter Gold]

Hi, Ron:

On 6/27/07, Ron Miller [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:

Yes, theEscape sequence worked fine.

For the record, I was trying to select a row in the table and it
certainly is not intuitive with this keyboard. I was ready to connect
my Windows keyboard out of frustration.


Did you try searching in FrameMaker Help for variations on select
table row (with or without quotes)? The topic Selection in Tables
has a table of the same shortcuts that several of us have posted here.

Don't overook the value of time spent wrestling with the karma of the
Help search too. There's a lot of stuff in Help, but it's not always
immediately obvious how to ask for it, or which of the returned topics
has the key to resolving your question.

Similarly, search phrases on Google also return lots of stuff that you
need to check and filter for your needs.



Thanks for all the tips.


Questions are always welcome on these forums. They do keep things
interesting, and they do get results. But... searching Help and Google
help you improve your own resource even more.

Regards,

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Finite Matters Patternstream

[Art Campbell]

If anyone has had any experience working with Finite Matters to
develop a Patternstream-based database publishing system, I'd
appreciate hearing about your experiences. Probably off-list, because
this is on the edge of OT, I think.

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RE: link to HTML doc from PDF

[Carol Wade]

Thanks Syed  Mike. The document will not be on an accessible server,
but will be in the same directory with the PDF.

When I tried what Mike suggested below, and clicked the link in the PDF,
a browser was opened with the following in the Address (URL) box:
http://readme4.5.html/
Obviously, that page was not found.

Did I miss something?

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Subject: RE: link to HTML doc from PDF

Yes. 

Insert a hypertext marker with the Command Go to URL where you want to
insert the hyperlink.

In the Syntax box enter message URL readme.html without the quotes.
This assumes that readme.html is in the same directory as the pdf. If
it's not, you can put in either a relative path, absolute path, or web
site url.

Mike

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Subject: link to HTML doc from PDF

Is it possible to add a link to an HTML document from a FrameMaker
document? My employer wants me to provide a link to the readme file from
the generated PDF.

 

(I'm on FrameMaker 7.2 and have Acrobat 8.)

 

Thanks y'all!

 

- Carol


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Acrobat 3D

[Fabio DiFrancesco]

Hi Framers, 

 

I'm currently using the trial version of Acrobat 3D, version 8.0. I'd like
to know the different ways to import a dynamic 3D file from the 3D Toolkit
to my source FrameMaker document. Also, once I generate my PDF document,
will the 3D model retain all of its dynamic features? Furthermore, any other
advice you may have for a first-time Acrobat 3D user would be greatly
appreciated.

 

Thank you, 

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RE: Acrobat 8 Forms Design - SOLVED

[Gillian Flato]

The problem was that I didn't have enough video ram in this computer. I
just upgraded to a 256mb PCI video card and it works great! 


-Gillian


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I am creating a form in Acrobat 8. It does this really annoying thing
where when you place a field, it takes forever. It starts in invisible
mode and then slowly fades into 100%. It does 4 views, 0%, 25% opacity,
50% opacity, 75% than 100%. In Designer 7, I just dragged the field and
dropped it in.
 
Does anyone know how to turn this feature off?
 

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Re: Acrobat 3D

[Shlomo Perets]

Fabio,

You wrote:


I'm currently using the trial version of Acrobat 3D, version 8.0. I'd like
to know the different ways to import a dynamic 3D file from the 3D Toolkit
to my source FrameMaker document. Also, once I generate my PDF document,
will the 3D model retain all of its dynamic features? Furthermore, any other
advice you may have for a first-time Acrobat 3D user would be greatly
appreciated.



In addition to Alan Houser's reply, relating to the next version of FrameMaker:

3D Assistant (TimeSavers add-on) enables you to embed U3D files and define 
related views, links, bookmarks  JavaScript (including custom 
interactivity, menus and tools) through hypertext markers or referenced 
files, so that interactive 3D models, together with their specified 
features, are automatically present in the PDF file upon distilling.


Sample 3D-PDF files demonstrating capabilities and concepts are available 
at http://www.microtype.com/Showcase3DAsst.html

(all files authored in FM, no post-distilling steps taken in Acrobat).

This solution applies to all FrameMaker/Windows versions + Distiller 7 or 
higher + TimeSavers 4 or higher (with Distiller 8.1, PRC 3D files are 
supported in addition to U3D)




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Links in framemaker source files to PDFs?

[Steve Rickaby]

At 12:50 -0600 21/6/07, Van Boening, Tammy wrote:

>How do I need to set up my links in the Framemaker file and is there
>anything special that I need to do to the PDFs?

No-one else seems to have picked this up, so...

As far as I can remember, FrameMaker's message client works with absolute 
pathnames. Therefore, if you use a file name only [no path] in your hypertext 
marker, all the final PDFs must reside in the same folder for the links to 
work. If they do not reside in the same folder, then the message client 
pathnames must be full and absolute. Clearly this will make your resulting PDF 
file set very, very non-portable, so it would be much preferable to arrange for 
all linked files to end up in the same directory if possible. This would allow, 
for example, your CD-ROM file set to be copied onto a local drive and still 
work, as long as the relative locations of the component PDFs did not change.

-- 
Steve

Thumbtabs issue

[Steve Rickaby]

At 01:21 -0700 25/6/07, Radha Padmanabhan wrote:

>* Each chapter start has $header_footer1 set to the chapter no. (hard coded)
>* the thumbtab image in the master pages remain in the same position for every 
>chapter
>(Still the tabs move when seen in body pages )
>* the thumbtab image also holds a place (text frame?) for Runnung H/F4.

The technique is to place the thumbtab, as an anchored frame, in its own 
rotated frame(s) on the marker page, and then 'drive' it down the page by 
preceding it with a running h/f variable. There are a couple of techniques. You 
could be completely forgiven for being unable to fox it out ;-)

At 10:57 -0700 26/6/07, Pat Christenson wrote:

>The tutorial and lots of other useful stuff is listed on 
>http://www.frameusers.com/?q=taxonomy/term/66 but I can't get any of them to 
>open or download. I wanted to compare to the process I'm using. Help?

Looks like this part of the new website isn't totally debugged yet. I have a 
copy: mail me off list if you want one. I also used Brad's technique, in a 
modified form, in a recent book, and wrote it up in an article of my own. I can 
provide a copy of that to anyone who wants it if required.

-- 
Steve

Link on Index References in PDF

[feimin_lore...@amis.com]

This is my first time creating an index in FrameMaker in over 10 years, so 
I'm a bit out of touch. The last time I had to do this, we just printed 
the manual; we didn't publish it as a PDF.

Now I've discovered that when I have a "see" or "see also" reference in my 
index, the PDF version of the index creates a link from those words to the 
place where I put that index marker. For example, if my index entry has:

absolute data file
see .o file and .cfo file

then when someone clicks on "see", they jump to the place in text where I 
created the index marker. The index marker contains:

absolute data file:see .o file and 
.cfo file<$nopage>

Ideally, this is what I'd like it to do in the PDF:
link on the words ".o file" and ".cfo file" instead of on "see".
jump to the index entries for ".o file" and ".cfo file"

If we can't do that, I would settle for not having a link at all.

This case is somewhat palatable because if you click on "see", at least it 
takes you to somewhere that talks about .o files and .cfo files. However, 
I have another reference entry for "manipulating" which points readers to 
"changing", and since this is just a synonym and doesn't have a specifi 
context, it's rather confusing when it jumps to "Breakpoint Manipulation".

I'm using FrameMaker 7.2, the structured flavour (but I don't think that 
makes any difference in this case), on Windows XP.

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Mac Keyboard Commands

[Ron Miller]

Yes, theEscape sequence worked fine.

For the record, I was trying to select a row in the table and it  
certainly is not intuitive with this keyboard. I was ready to connect  
my Windows keyboard out of frustration.

Thanks for all the tips.

Ron

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On Jun 26, 2007, at 6:11 PM, Lisa M. Balbes, Ph.D. wrote:

> If you're running under Windows in Parallels, wouldn't you use the  
> Windows command, not the Mac command?
>
> I just tried it, and Escape t h r works for me (Frame 7.2, in  
> Parallels on a MacBood Pro).
>
> Lisa
>
> At 12:36 PM -0400 6/26/07, Ron Miller wrote:
>> Hi:
>> I 'm working in Frame 7.1 running Windows in Parallels on a Mac  
>> Book Pro.
>>
>> I can't seem to select a row in a table and I'm wondering if  
>> someone could give me the Mac keyboard command to select a row in  
>> a table.
>>
>> Thanks,
>> Ron
>>
>>
>> Ron Miller
>> Freelance Technology Writing Since 1988
>> Contributing Editor, EContent Magazine
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Generating an outline from a written & formatted document?

[Art Campbell]

A fairly quick and easy way to do this is to generate a TOC from the book file.
Then open and Save As one of the existing FM outline templates. Edit
the new file, changing the names of the paragraph tags to correspond
to the tag names used in the TOC.
Import the formats to the TOC, and edit out any tags that you don't
want to use.

If you want to, you can also just copy-and-paste the TOC info into an
empty outline template and do a series of Global Updates from the
Paragraph Designer to convert the XYZ_TOC tag to a Heading1

Art

On 6/26/07, Nina Rogers  wrote:
> Hi Framers!
>
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> you to quickly generate an outline of a document that has already been
> formatted and written? If not, is there a plug-in for this kind of
> thing?
>
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Generating an outline from a written & formatted document?

[Combs, Richard]

Nina Rogers wrote:

> Does FrameMaker have a feature similar to Word's feature that 
> enables you to quickly generate an outline of a document that 
> has already been formatted and written? If not, is there a 
> plug-in for this kind of thing?

You need  Enhance (www.sandybrook.com/enhance/). Among other features,
it gives you an outline view of your FM doc that works much like Word's
outline view -- you can promote/demote levels, move chunks around, etc. 

Highly recommended. 

HTH!
Richard


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Generating an outline from a written & formatted document?

[Steve Rickaby]

At 09:48 -0600 27/6/07, Combs, Richard wrote:

>You need  Enhance (www.sandybrook.com/enhance/). Among other features,
>it gives you an outline view of your FM doc that works much like Word's
>outline view -- you can promote/demote levels, move chunks around, etc.

Steve Kubis at SiliconPrairie has a pack of outline tools, too. I have not used 
them, so I cannot comment on how effective they are.



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Links in framemaker source files to PDFs?

[Steve Rickaby]

At 05:34 +0100 27/6/07, I wrote:

>As far as I can remember, FrameMaker's message client works with absolute 
>pathnames. Therefore, if you use a file name only [no path] in your hypertext 
>marker, all the final PDFs must reside in the same folder for the links to 
>work. If they do not reside in the same folder, then the message client 
>pathnames must be full and absolute. Clearly this will make your resulting PDF 
>file set very, very non-portable, so it would be much preferable to arrange 
>for all linked files to end up in the same directory if possible. This would 
>allow, for example, your CD-ROM file set to be copied onto a local drive and 
>still work, as long as the relative locations of the component PDFs did not 
>change.

...but I was wrong:

At 11:35 -0500 27/6/07, Lisa M. Balbes, Ph.D. wrote:

>As much as I hate to disagree, the hypertext linking can be done with relative 
>pathnames as well.  I just checked, and "message openfile 
>_Addendum/Spreadsheets/Conversions.xls" works to open a spreadsheet in a 
>supplemental folder sent along with the pdf.

Always happy to learn new stuff about FrameMaker :-) However, the main point I 
was trying to make was that a hard-coded pathname will limit portability.

-- 
Steve

link to HTML doc from PDF

[Syed Zaeem Hosain]

Yes, as long as the HTML file has a URL, that it can be reached by, on an
accessible host. I use the "Special->Hypertext...->Command" from the menu
and select "goto URL" for this purpose, enter the URL in the "Syntax"
section of the pop-up in FrameMaker.

It works very well. The output PDF has a hyperlink to that URL that is
clickable and reachable with the default browser.

If the HTML is not on a host (with a URL), then I suppose the command
"Open Document" (same menu access) *might* also work as long as the HTML
file is accessible by the reader of the PDF, but, since I have not tried
that, I am not sure of the outcome.

Hope this helps,

Z

Carol Wade wrote:
> Is it possible to add a link to an HTML document from a FrameMaker
> document? My employer wants me to provide a link to the readme file from
> the generated PDF.
> 
> (I'm on FrameMaker 7.2 and have Acrobat 8.)
> 
> Thanks y'all!
> 
> - Carol
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Mac Keyboard Commands

[Peter Gold]

Hi, Ron:

On 6/27/07, Ron Miller  wrote:
> Yes, theEscape sequence worked fine.
>
> For the record, I was trying to select a row in the table and it
> certainly is not intuitive with this keyboard. I was ready to connect
> my Windows keyboard out of frustration.

Did you try searching in FrameMaker Help for variations on "select
table row" (with or without quotes)? The topic "Selection in Tables"
has a table of the same shortcuts that several of us have posted here.

Don't overook the value of time spent wrestling with the karma of the
Help search too. There's a lot of stuff in Help, but it's not always
immediately obvious how to ask for it, or which of the returned topics
has the key to resolving your question.

Similarly, search phrases on Google also return lots of stuff that you
need to check and filter for your needs.

>
> Thanks for all the tips.

Questions are always welcome on these forums. They do keep things
interesting, and they do get results. But... searching Help and Google
help you improve your own resource even more.

Regards,

Peter Gold
KnowHow ProServices

Finite Matters & Patternstream

[Art Campbell]

If anyone has had any experience working with Finite Matters to
develop a Patternstream-based database publishing system, I'd
appreciate hearing about your experiences. Probably off-list, because
this is on the edge of OT, I think.

Thanks,
Art


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Link on Index References in PDF

[Peter Gold]

Hi, Fei Min:

I think there's a FrameMaker plug-in or script that adds the ability
you want. Try searching Google and the various fora for variations on
see also plugin, FrameMaker plug-ins, etc.

I'm surprised that nobody's mentioned it by name, yet. Perhaps
re-titling your subject to something like "FrameMaker see-also TOC
enhancement needed," you'd get more focused responses.

Regards,

Peter Gold
KnowHow ProServices


On 6/27/07, FeiMin_Lorente at amis.com  wrote:
> This is my first time creating an index in FrameMaker in over 10 years, so
> I'm a bit out of touch. The last time I had to do this, we just printed
> the manual; we didn't publish it as a PDF.
>
> Now I've discovered that when I have a "see" or "see also" reference in my
> index, the PDF version of the index creates a link from those words to the
> place where I put that index marker. For example, if my index entry has:
>
> absolute data file
> see .o file and .cfo file
>
> then when someone clicks on "see", they jump to the place in text where I
> created the index marker. The index marker contains:
>
> absolute data file:see .o file and
> .cfo file<$nopage>
>
> Ideally, this is what I'd like it to do in the PDF:
> link on the words ".o file" and ".cfo file" instead of on "see".
> jump to the index entries for ".o file" and ".cfo file"
>
> If we can't do that, I would settle for not having a link at all.
>
> This case is somewhat palatable because if you click on "see", at least it
> takes you to somewhere that talks about .o files and .cfo files. However,
> I have another reference entry for "manipulating" which points readers to
> "changing", and since this is just a synonym and doesn't have a specifi
> context, it's rather confusing when it jumps to "Breakpoint Manipulation".
>
> I'm using FrameMaker 7.2, the structured flavour (but I don't think that
> makes any difference in this case), on Windows XP.
>
> Fei Min

Link on Index References in PDF

[Ian Hawkins]

It's called IndexRef, from www.sundorne.com. I think somebody must have 
replied to Fei Min personally because she has downloaded the evaluation 
version already.

I've been offline most of the day or I would have jumped in earlier.

Ian Hawkins
Sundorne Communications

Peter Gold wrote:
> Hi, Fei Min:
>
> I think there's a FrameMaker plug-in or script that adds the ability
> you want. Try searching Google and the various fora for variations on
> see also plugin, FrameMaker plug-ins, etc.
>
> I'm surprised that nobody's mentioned it by name, yet. Perhaps
> re-titling your subject to something like "FrameMaker see-also TOC
> enhancement needed," you'd get more focused responses.
> 
> Regards,
>
> Peter Gold
> KnowHow ProServices
>
>
> On 6/27/07, FeiMin_Lorente at amis.com  wrote:
>> This is my first time creating an index in FrameMaker in over 10 
>> years, so
>> I'm a bit out of touch. The last time I had to do this, we just printed
>> the manual; we didn't publish it as a PDF.
>>
>> Now I've discovered that when I have a "see" or "see also" reference 
>> in my
>> index, the PDF version of the index creates a link from those words 
>> to the
>> place where I put that index marker. For example, if my index entry has:
>>
>> absolute data file
>> see .o file and .cfo file
>>
>> then when someone clicks on "see", they jump to the place in text 
>> where I
>> created the index marker. The index marker contains:
>>
>> absolute data file:see .o file 
>> and
>> .cfo file<$nopage>
>>
>> Ideally, this is what I'd like it to do in the PDF:
>> link on the words ".o file" and ".cfo file" instead of on "see".
>> jump to the index entries for ".o file" and ".cfo file"
>>
>> If we can't do that, I would settle for not having a link at all.
>>
>> This case is somewhat palatable because if you click on "see", at 
>> least it
>> takes you to somewhere that talks about .o files and .cfo files. 
>> However,
>> I have another reference entry for "manipulating" which points 
>> readers to
>> "changing", and since this is just a synonym and doesn't have a specifi
>> context, it's rather confusing when it jumps to "Breakpoint 
>> Manipulation".
>>
>> I'm using FrameMaker 7.2, the structured flavour (but I don't think that
>> makes any difference in this case), on Windows XP.
>>
>> Fei Min
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link to HTML doc from PDF

[Carol Wade]

Thanks Syed & Mike. The document will not be on an accessible server,
but will be in the same directory with the PDF.

When I tried what Mike suggested below, and clicked the link in the PDF,
a browser was opened with the following in the Address (URL) box:
http://readme4.5.html/
Obviously, that page was not found.

Did I miss something?

-Original Message-
From: Mike Feimster [mailto:mike.feims...@acstechnologies.com] 
Sent: Wednesday, June 27, 2007 11:03 AM
To: Carol Wade; framers at frameusers.com
Subject: RE: link to HTML doc from PDF

Yes. 

Insert a hypertext marker with the Command "Go to URL" where you want to
insert the hyperlink.

In the Syntax box enter "message URL readme.html" without the quotes.
This assumes that readme.html is in the same directory as the pdf. If
it's not, you can put in either a relative path, absolute path, or web
site url.

Mike

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rs.com] On Behalf Of Carol Wade
Sent: Tuesday, June 26, 2007 3:56 PM
To: framers at frameusers.com
Subject: link to HTML doc from PDF

Is it possible to add a link to an HTML document from a FrameMaker
document? My employer wants me to provide a link to the readme file from
the generated PDF.



(I'm on FrameMaker 7.2 and have Acrobat 8.)



Thanks y'all!



- Carol


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Acrobat 3D

[Fabio DiFrancesco]

Hi Framers, 



I'm currently using the trial version of Acrobat 3D, version 8.0. I'd like
to know the different ways to import a dynamic 3D file from the 3D Toolkit
to my source FrameMaker document. Also, once I generate my PDF document,
will the 3D model retain all of its dynamic features? Furthermore, any other
advice you may have for a first-time Acrobat 3D user would be greatly
appreciated.



Thank you, 

Fabio.

Acrobat 8 Forms Design - SOLVED

[Gillian Flato]

The problem was that I didn't have enough video ram in this computer. I
just upgraded to a 256mb PCI video card and it works great! 


-Gillian


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[mailto:framers-bounces+gflato=nanometrics.com at lists.frameusers.com] On
Behalf Of Gillian Flato
Sent: Tuesday, June 19, 2007 4:49 PM
To: framers at FrameUsers.com
Subject: OT: Acrobat 8 Forms Design

I am creating a form in Acrobat 8. It does this really annoying thing
where when you place a field, it takes forever. It starts in invisible
mode and then slowly fades into 100%. It does 4 views, 0%, 25% opacity,
50% opacity, 75% than 100%. In Designer 7, I just dragged the field and
dropped it in.

Does anyone know how to turn this feature off?


Thank you,



 

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Acrobat 3D

[Alan Houser]

The capability to include "dynamic" Acrobat 3D files in FrameMaker is 
not yet available, but there is encouraging evidence that it may be 
available soon --

-  Adobe demonstrated Acrobat 3D import capability at the 2007 STC 
Summit in Minneapolis, in a not-yet-released version of FrameMaker. The 
imported Acrobat 3D model did retain its dynamic features in 
FrameMaker-generated PDF.

- In early May, Adobe publicly announced a beta program for a 
not-yet-released version of FrameMaker.

-Alan

Fabio DiFrancesco wrote:
> Hi Framers, 
>
>  
>
> I'm currently using the trial version of Acrobat 3D, version 8.0. I'd like
> to know the different ways to import a dynamic 3D file from the 3D Toolkit
> to my source FrameMaker document. Also, once I generate my PDF document,
> will the 3D model retain all of its dynamic features? Furthermore, any other
> advice you may have for a first-time Acrobat 3D user would be greatly
> appreciated.
>
>  
>
> Thank you, 
>
> Fabio.
>
>  
>   
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link to HTML doc from PDF

[Syed Zaeem Hosain]

Hmmm ...

What was the exact entry in the "message URL readme.html" in the Syntax
box?

Did you use/try a relative path (i.e., "message URL ./readme4.5.html")
to make sure that it looked in the current directory rather than the
default directory of the browser? If you did do that, then I am not sure
why it did not work.

Z

Carol Wade wrote:
> Thanks Syed & Mike. The document will not be on an accessible server,
> but will be in the same directory with the PDF.
> 
> When I tried what Mike suggested below, and clicked the link in the PDF,
> a browser was opened with the following in the Address (URL) box:
> http://readme4.5.html/
> Obviously, that page was not found.
> 
> Did I miss something?
> 
> -Original Message-
> From: Mike Feimster [mailto:mike.feimster at acstechnologies.com] 
> Sent: Wednesday, June 27, 2007 11:03 AM
> To: Carol Wade; framers at frameusers.com
> Subject: RE: link to HTML doc from PDF
> 
> Yes. 
> 
> Insert a hypertext marker with the Command "Go to URL" where you want to
> insert the hyperlink.
> 
> In the Syntax box enter "message URL readme.html" without the quotes.
> This assumes that readme.html is in the same directory as the pdf. If
> it's not, you can put in either a relative path, absolute path, or web
> site url.
> 
> Mike