Re: default metadata

[Shlomo Perets]

Jon,

You wrote:

We regularly update our PDFs from our FrameMaker Book files. However,
each time we do, we have to enter the document description in the
Acrobat Document Properties dialog box. Is there a way for us to define
the metadata in FM such that Acrobat populates the Document Property
fields each time we create a new PDF? FrameScript perhaps?

We are using unstructured FM 7.2 and Acrobat 8.0 on Windows XP Pro.

When saving as PDF (or creating a PS file with Generate Acrobat Data 
turned): the Author, Title, Subject and Keywords fields can be set once in 
FrameMaker (File  File Info) -- at the book level (if you convert the book 
to a single PDF), or at the chapter level (when a book is converted to 
separate chapter PDFs) -- and populate the corresponding fields in  PDFs.

See http://www.microtype.com/ImprovePDF01.html for information on other 
fields and additional options.


Shlomo Perets

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Re: FrameMaker with WebWorks?

[John Pitt]

Callie,

I don't recognise your error, but I can assure you that 9.2 does work 
with FM 7.2. It is NOT supported, however, with FM 8, which was 
introduced after eP 9.2.

I suggest that you build a quick and dirty test project from scratch, 
using FM 7.2 and the default webworks template that you used to build 
your present projects (i.e., NOT your present project file). If that 
works without spitting out the same errors, you can be safely assured 
that the problem is elsewhere.

My guess is that an override made to your project in 9.1 conflicts with 
9.2. If so, you need to look closely at:
http://wiki.webworks.com/HelpCenter/Reference/XMLTransformChanges

There was a major technological change between 9.1 and 9.2, and this is 
probably the cause of your problem.

The wiki article seems fairly heavy stuff at first glance, so if you 
don't feel confident, enlist a tame developer to help :)

The advances in ww eP since 9.1/9.2 are enormous, so I highly recommend 
going to 2008.2.

HTH

jjj


+++
From: Callie Bertsche [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Hello Fellow Framers,

I'm wondering if others who use WebWorks as their online help software
in conjunction with FrameMaker have discovered whether WebWorks has
fixed their glitch that WW 9.2 does not work with FM (7.2, in our case).
We use FM 7.2 for documents, and WW 9.1 for online help, because we
can't get WW 9.2 to recognize FM files (we just get an error. Rough
translation: Need to update file. Okay? [Self hits Okay] Cannot open
project. Alien file format. [WW crash] Have others solved this by
upgrading to FM 8.0? Just curious.



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Anchored frame internal gap

[Shuttleworth, Roger]

Hello All

 

I'm sure this has been asked previously on the list, but I can't access the 
frameusers.com site.

 

Using Frame 7.1 on Windows XP.

 

By default, when a graphic is imported into an anchored frame, it appears to 
place a 6.0 pt internal gap between the anchored frame and the image. Is
there a way to change this default to zero?

 

Thanks.

 

Roger Shuttleworth

TVWorks Canada, Inc.

150 Dufferin Avenue

London, Ontario

N6A 5N6

Canada

519 963-4368

www.tvworks.com

 

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Re: Changing Printers

[Paul Findon]

Thanks to Art, Stuart, Fred, and Mike for your wise words.

We use only PostScript printers and virtually all output is to PDF  
these days, so I guess there's no need to worry.

Has anyone ever experienced a problem with a particular printer/font?

Paul


On 24 Jul 2008, at 21:36, Mike Feimster wrote:

 There is a plug-in called Set Print you can get at
 http://www.sundorne.com/FrameMaker/Freeware/setPrint.htm that  
 allows you
 set your Windows default printer to what you normally print to and  
 your
 FrameMaker default printer to Acrobat.

 Mike

 -Original Message-
 From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
 [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Art  
 Campbell
 Sent: Thursday, July 24, 2008 11:32 AM
 To: Paul Findon
 Cc: FrameUsers List
 Subject: Re: Changing Printers

 Assuming you mostly work with PostScript printers and PDFs, if you set
 the system default printer to Adobe PDF / Acrobat, you should be fine.

 The problem is that some printers have their own embedded fonts  
 that are
 different than the system's fonts or the system's versions of those
 fonts. They aren't part of the Windows system, but they can be  
 accessed
 on the printer. If the font appears to be available to the system as a
 remote resource, it'll use it. But it can't be embedded in a PDF, for
 instance, and won't travel with the file to another system that  
 doesn't
 use that printer.

 A

 On Thu, Jul 24, 2008 at 11:25 AM, Paul Findon [EMAIL PROTECTED]
 wrote:
 Framers,

 With Mac FrameMaker, changing the printer made no difference to
 FrameMaker in regard to fonts. With Windows FrameMaker, however,
 changing the printer causes FrameMaker to display the following
 somewhat worrying message: The font information for your system has
 changed. This change may affect the format and output of your
 documents.

 Can someone please explain what's actually occurring here, how to
 avoid any pitfalls, etc?

 Paul
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default metadata

[Shlomo Perets]

Jon,

You wrote:

>We regularly update our PDFs from our FrameMaker Book files. However,
>each time we do, we have to enter the document description in the
>Acrobat Document Properties dialog box. Is there a way for us to define
>the metadata in FM such that Acrobat populates the Document Property
>fields each time we create a new PDF? FrameScript perhaps?
>
>We are using unstructured FM 7.2 and Acrobat 8.0 on Windows XP Pro.

When saving as PDF (or creating a PS file with "Generate Acrobat Data" 
turned): the Author, Title, Subject and Keywords fields can be set once in 
FrameMaker (File > File Info) -- at the book level (if you convert the book 
to a single PDF), or at the chapter level (when a book is converted to 
separate chapter PDFs) -- and populate the corresponding fields in  PDFs.

See http://www.microtype.com/ImprovePDF01.html for information on other 
fields and additional options.


Shlomo Perets

MicroType, http://www.microtype.com * ToolbarPlus Express for FrameMaker
FrameMaker/Acrobat training & consulting * FrameMaker-to-Acrobat 
TimeSavers/Assistants

Question about WebWorks 2008.1 and FrameMaker 7.2 Transit Menu

[John Pitt]

Cecily,

1. ePPro is no longer on the FM menu.

The workflow that WebWorks now champion is to build and maintain your 
style templates using Pro; make a master stationery file using Pro; 
build your projects using ePX (Express) linked to that stationery file.

You can have 1 or 100s of projects linked to one stationery file, and 
when the stationery is changed, all projects have the option of updating 
with the updated stationery next time they are compiled. Instant change 
across an entire organisation's document set is possible with no pain.

I use this workflow to great effect, and amongst other things, it allows 
you to whip up a quick and dirty test project with a single file or book 
at any time.

See  for 
more details.

2. Transit is a plug-in that adds marker and conditional text 
functionality to Microsoft Word. FrameMaker does not use it because they 
are native functions.

HTH

jjj


++
From: "Beierle, Cecily" 
Subject: Question about WebWorks 2008.1 and FrameMaker 7.2 Transit
Menu

We have been using FrameMaker 7.2 with Windows XP, and WebWorks Pro 
(9.2) and
WebWorks Express (1.0, build 10234), and IE 6 or IE7.
I am testing the recent release of WebWorks Enterprise, 2008.1 (Pro and
Express).
The WebWorks menu in FrameMaker 7.2 used to list Generate Output (which
created a temporary project out of the current FrameMaker file), and
Launch... ePublisher Express and Launch ePublisher Pro.
With the recent release, however, WebWorks menu in FrameMaker lists only
ePublisher Express.
When I looked at the release notes, I saw was that the transit menu was
simplified in release 9.3 - that was the only mention that seemed related to
my problem.
The version of WebWorks Transit is 1.0.0 in both the old and the new
releases.

Can anyone please tell me if:
1. Should I see ePublisher Pro in my WebWorks menu in FrameMaker?
2. Is there a workaround to generate a temporary project from a current 
file?

-- 

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47 Gottenham St
Glebe NSW 2037
Ph: 02 9692 8096
Mob: 0438 92 8096
john at pitt.net.au
www.pitt.net.au

FrameMaker with WebWorks?

[John Pitt]

Callie,

I don't recognise your error, but I can assure you that 9.2 does work 
with FM 7.2. It is NOT supported, however, with FM 8, which was 
introduced after eP 9.2.

I suggest that you build a quick and dirty test project from scratch, 
using FM 7.2 and the default webworks template that you used to build 
your present projects (i.e., NOT your present project file). If that 
works without spitting out the same errors, you can be safely assured 
that the problem is elsewhere.

My guess is that an override made to your project in 9.1 conflicts with 
9.2. If so, you need to look closely at:


There was a major technological change between 9.1 and 9.2, and this is 
probably the cause of your problem.

The wiki article seems fairly heavy stuff at first glance, so if you 
don't feel confident, enlist a tame developer to help :)

The advances in ww eP since 9.1/9.2 are enormous, so I highly recommend 
going to 2008.2.

HTH

jjj


+++
From: "Callie Bertsche" 

Hello Fellow Framers,

I'm wondering if others who use WebWorks as their online help software
in conjunction with FrameMaker have discovered whether WebWorks has
fixed their glitch that WW 9.2 does not work with FM (7.2, in our case).
We use FM 7.2 for documents, and WW 9.1 for online help, because we
can't get WW 9.2 to recognize FM files (we just get an error. Rough
translation: "Need to update file. Okay?" [Self hits Okay] "Cannot open
project. Alien file format." [WW crash] Have others solved this by
upgrading to FM 8.0? Just curious.



-- 
_
John Pitt, technical writer
47 Gottenham St
Glebe NSW 2037
Ph: 02 9692 8096
Mob: 0438 92 8096
john at pitt.net.au
www.pitt.net.au

Anchored frame internal gap

[Shuttleworth, Roger]

Hello All



I'm sure this has been asked previously on the list, but I can't access the 
frameusers.com site.



Using Frame 7.1 on Windows XP.



By default, when a graphic is imported into an anchored frame, it appears to 
place a 6.0 pt internal gap between the anchored frame and the image. Is
there a way to change this default to zero?



Thanks.



Roger Shuttleworth

TVWorks Canada, Inc.

150 Dufferin Avenue

London, Ontario

N6A 5N6

Canada

519 963-4368

www.tvworks.com

Changing Printers

[Paul Findon]

Thanks to Art, Stuart, Fred, and Mike for your wise words.

We use only PostScript printers and virtually all output is to PDF  
these days, so I guess there's no need to worry.

Has anyone ever experienced a problem with a particular printer/font?

Paul


On 24 Jul 2008, at 21:36, Mike Feimster wrote:

> There is a plug-in called Set Print you can get at
> http://www.sundorne.com/FrameMaker/Freeware/setPrint.htm that  
> allows you
> set your Windows default printer to what you normally print to and  
> your
> FrameMaker default printer to Acrobat.
>
> Mike
>
> -Original Message-
> From: framers-bounces at lists.frameusers.com
> [mailto:framers-bounces at lists.frameusers.com] On Behalf Of Art  
> Campbell
> Sent: Thursday, July 24, 2008 11:32 AM
> To: Paul Findon
> Cc: FrameUsers List
> Subject: Re: Changing Printers
>
> Assuming you mostly work with PostScript printers and PDFs, if you set
> the system default printer to Adobe PDF / Acrobat, you should be fine.
>
> The problem is that some printers have their own embedded fonts  
> that are
> different than the system's fonts or the system's versions of those
> fonts. They aren't part of the Windows system, but they can be  
> accessed
> on the printer. If the font appears to be available to the system as a
> remote resource, it'll use it. But it can't be embedded in a PDF, for
> instance, and won't travel with the file to another system that  
> doesn't
> use that printer.
>
> A
>
> On Thu, Jul 24, 2008 at 11:25 AM, Paul Findon 
> wrote:
>> Framers,
>>
>> With Mac FrameMaker, changing the printer made no difference to
>> FrameMaker in regard to fonts. With Windows FrameMaker, however,
>> changing the printer causes FrameMaker to display the following
>> somewhat worrying message: "The font information for your system has
>> changed. This change may affect the format and output of your
>> documents."
>>
>> Can someone please explain what's actually occurring here, how to
>> avoid any pitfalls, etc?
>>
>> Paul
>> ___
>>
>
>
> --
> Art Campbell art.campbell at gmail.com
>  "... In my opinion, there's nothing in this world beats a '52 Vincent
> and a redheaded girl." -- Richard Thompson  No disclaimers apply.
>  DoD 358
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Changing Printers

[Art Campbell]

I would avoid any printer that uses a PostScript emulator rather than
Adobe PostScript like the plague, although they may have improved.
There are a few fonts that some people have found to be problematic,
but that's usually traced to a corrupted file or something similar,
like a Fontographer hack that doesn't work.

Art



On Fri, Jul 25, 2008 at 11:16 AM, Paul Findon  wrote:
> Thanks to Art, Stuart, Fred, and Mike for your wise words.
>
> We use only PostScript printers and virtually all output is to PDF
> these days, so I guess there's no need to worry.
>
> Has anyone ever experienced a problem with a particular printer/font?
>
> Paul
>
>
> On 24 Jul 2008, at 21:36, Mike Feimster wrote:
>
>> There is a plug-in called Set Print you can get at
>> http://www.sundorne.com/FrameMaker/Freeware/setPrint.htm that
>> allows you
>> set your Windows default printer to what you normally print to and
>> your
>> FrameMaker default printer to Acrobat.
>>
>> Mike
>>
>> -Original Message-
>> From: framers-bounces at lists.frameusers.com
>> [mailto:framers-bounces at lists.frameusers.com] On Behalf Of Art
>> Campbell
>> Sent: Thursday, July 24, 2008 11:32 AM
>> To: Paul Findon
>> Cc: FrameUsers List
>> Subject: Re: Changing Printers
>>
>> Assuming you mostly work with PostScript printers and PDFs, if you set
>> the system default printer to Adobe PDF / Acrobat, you should be fine.
>>
>> The problem is that some printers have their own embedded fonts
>> that are
>> different than the system's fonts or the system's versions of those
>> fonts. They aren't part of the Windows system, but they can be
>> accessed
>> on the printer. If the font appears to be available to the system as a
>> remote resource, it'll use it. But it can't be embedded in a PDF, for
>> instance, and won't travel with the file to another system that
>> doesn't
>> use that printer.
>>
>> A
>>
>> On Thu, Jul 24, 2008 at 11:25 AM, Paul Findon 
>> wrote:
>>> Framers,
>>>
>>> With Mac FrameMaker, changing the printer made no difference to
>>> FrameMaker in regard to fonts. With Windows FrameMaker, however,
>>> changing the printer causes FrameMaker to display the following
>>> somewhat worrying message: "The font information for your system has
>>> changed. This change may affect the format and output of your
>>> documents."
>>>
>>> Can someone please explain what's actually occurring here, how to
>>> avoid any pitfalls, etc?
>>>
>>> Paul
>>> ___
>>>
>>
>>
>> --
>> Art Campbell art.campbell at gmail.com
>>  "... In my opinion, there's nothing in this world beats a '52 Vincent
>> and a redheaded girl." -- Richard Thompson  No disclaimers apply.
>>  DoD 358
>> ___
>>


-- 
Art Campbell art.campbell at gmail.com
 "... In my opinion, there's nothing in this world beats a '52 Vincent
and a redheaded girl." -- Richard Thompson
 No disclaimers apply.
 DoD 358

Anchored frame internal gap

[Rick Quatro]

Hi Roger,

Not with stock FrameMaker. There is a plugin called ImpGraph (I think) by 
Bruce Foster that allows you to set defaults for imported graphics, etc. You 
could also use FrameScript for this.

Rick Quatro
Carmen Publishing Inc
585-659-8267
www.frameexpert.com

> Hello All
>
> I'm sure this has been asked previously on the list, but I can't access 
> the frameusers.com site.
>
> Using Frame 7.1 on Windows XP.
>
> By default, when a graphic is imported into an anchored frame, it appears 
> to place a 6.0 pt internal gap between the anchored frame and the image. 
> Is
> there a way to change this default to zero?
>
> Thanks.
>
> Roger Shuttleworth
>
> TVWorks Canada, Inc.
>
> 150 Dufferin Avenue
>
> London, Ontario
>
> N6A 5N6
>
> Canada
>
> 519 963-4368
>
> www.tvworks.com
>
> 

Custom Ruling & Shading

[Lin Sims]

(As an aside -- wow! it's been a long time since I've been on this
list. I'm glad to be back at a gig where I get to use Frame!)

I'd like to set up a single cell table that sort-of mimics the look of
a terminal window. What I'd like is to have a double border, outside
medium width, darkish grey, inside thin, lighter grey. Is that even
possible? Help isn't being helpful.

Thanks.

Lin Sims

Sheet Sizes in Book

[Dodd, Frank J]

Is it possible to mix A and B size paper in a single FM book file?

Please excuse me if this has been asked before.

Frank