FrameMaker to PDF color shift problem
I need to use a slate blue color in a manual I'm creating -- rules and heading text. But no matter what color model I specify in FrameMaker, I get a garish cyan when the file is converted to PDF. This is only a problem with elements and text created in FrameMaker. Linked EPS files and screenshots are working just fine. And the color looks fine in FrameMaker; it only goes south in the PDF. For the record, I've tried Pantone spot and process, RGB, web-safe, you name it. And I just keep getting shades of cyan. I've tried FrameMaker 7 and 8, same result. I'm using Windows XP and WebWorks Rasterizer to create the .ps file for distilling. (The Adobe PDF driver crashes FrameMaker on this machine.) From within Distiller, I've selected the Leave Color Unchanged option, but no luck. Has anyone had experience with this sort of problem? Many thanks, --Donna Reynolds
Getting into Condition
John, If I understand your production cycle correctly, there may be an easier way than moving files around and tweaking your .book structure. I do something similar where I generate 2 books (call them A and B) from a set of common chapter files. I use a combination of two .book files (including corresponding separate TOC, LOF, LOT files) and conditional text to extract what I want for each book. This method minimizes duplicate files (e.g. two Introduction files) and minimizes what needs to be tagged as conditional. A given chapter file may contain context for: - only book A - only book B - both A and B Each .book file determines which chapter files are used in that book. Files that contain only A-specific content are included only the A.book file. Files that contain only B specific content are only in the B.book file. Files that contain content for both books are included in both .book files. Conditional text is only required in the files that are used in both books A and B. Content that is specific for only one book is must be marked with the appropriate conditional tag. This includes using conditional tags on my master pages for the book title. Content that is common to both books does not have to be tagged. When I want to update/print book A, I select all files in the A.book window, show A-conditional text, and hide all B-conditional text. Flip the conditional settings when building book B. If I did not use the two .book files, I would have a lot more conditional tagging to do. It really saves a ton of work. I have not tried this with four books, but I assume it works. I also don't use Structured Frame, so I can't comment on that. HTH -- Jeff Schweiner Hardware Engineering Writer Cray Inc. (715) 726-4801 John wrote: After years and years of working with FrameMaker, I am finally venturing into (for me) uncharted territory: the wild world of conditional text. I am not completely sure I understand what I am getting into, so I hope for some advice from this august body. I produce three types of deliverables from a single source, and am adding a fourth deliverable: Printed, OnlineDoc, OnlineHelp, and now Training. So far I have managed it all without conditions. The Training materials will have some content that is not in the others, so conditional text seems the way to go. My normal routine is to finish the writing phase and then to movine into production of each deliverable one at a time, moving the source files into a series of output folders for each deliverable. I go to Online Doc folder and generate the color PDF. Then I go to Print Doc folder and generate the hi-res B/W PDF. Then I go to Online Help, change the book structure around a bit, and generate help with Mif2Go. Now I am adding a fourth output, Training Materials, which will be PDF workbooks with another different book structure. Does it make sense to have four conditions (listed above), each of which is shown throughout the writing phase of the project, and then shown/hidden as I produce each of the deliverables? I hope to move into Structured FrameMaker soon - am I making that project more complex by introducing conditions now? A Lucky Strike! Extra question: the trainer wants x-refs to books in the printed doc set. I know how to keep live x-refs within the training materials, but I really can't imagine a way to keep good references to external books. John Sgammato Principal Technical Writer Imprivata, Inc. [v] (781) 674-2441
long target names in xref dialog
On Tue, Nov 11, 2008 at 10:56 AM, Laurie Little wrote: > We have a document that is set up with the H1s as the menu path name (so as > to facilitate auto-population of online help). > > Some of these paths are quite long, with the result that the targets listed > in the cross-reference dialog are indistinguishable because many start the > same way, and the dialog box is not resizable. > > We have identified a few workarounds for this, including manually creating > distinct cross-reference markers in the text, or (less desirable for this > project) changing the structure of the H1s. > > Does anyone have any other ideas? > Thanks, Someone has a free plugin that will modify the size of a lot of the dialogue boxes in Frame. It's listed as being good through about 7.1 or 7.2, but I think it'll work up to 8 (I'm trying it out now, in fact). http://www.daube.ch/docu/fmaker36.html -- Lin Sims
long target names in xref dialog
Thanks Stuart - I've received two offline suggestions along these lines and am looking at it right now! Thanks for all the on- and off-line responses! Laurie -Original Message- From: Stuart Rogers [mailto:srog...@phoenix-geophysics.com] Sent: Tuesday, November 11, 2008 2:18 PM To: Laurie Little Cc: framers at lists.frameusers.com Subject: Re: long target names in xref dialog Laurie Little wrote: > We have a document that is set up with the H1s as the menu path name (so as > to facilitate auto-population of online help). > > Some of these paths are quite long, with the result that the targets listed > in the cross-reference dialog are indistinguishable because many start the > same way, and the dialog box is not resizable. > > We have identified a few workarounds for this, including manually creating > distinct cross-reference markers in the text, or (less desirable for this > project) changing the structure of the H1s. > > Does anyone have any other ideas? > Thanks, > You could use a Resource Editor like http://angusj.com/resourcehacker/ to resize your x-ref_main dialog box to accommodate longer names. Make a backup of fmdlg.dll in Program Files > Adobe > Framemaker > fminit before you mess with it though! HTH, -- Stuart Rogers Technical Communicator Phoenix Geophysics Limited Toronto, ON, Canada +1 (416) 491-7340 x 325 srogers phoenix-geophysics com "No drug, not even alcohol, causes the fundamental ills of society. If we're looking for the source of our troubles, we shouldn't test people for drugs, we should test them for stupidity, ignorance, greed and love of power." ? P.J. O?Rourke
long target names in xref dialog
Laurie Little wrote: > We have a document that is set up with the H1s as the menu path name (so as > to facilitate auto-population of online help). > > Some of these paths are quite long, with the result that the targets listed > in the cross-reference dialog are indistinguishable because many start the > same way, and the dialog box is not resizable. > > We have identified a few workarounds for this, including manually creating > distinct cross-reference markers in the text, or (less desirable for this > project) changing the structure of the H1s. > > Does anyone have any other ideas? > Thanks, > You could use a Resource Editor like http://angusj.com/resourcehacker/ to resize your x-ref_main dialog box to accommodate longer names. Make a backup of fmdlg.dll in Program Files > Adobe > Framemaker > fminit before you mess with it though! HTH, -- Stuart Rogers Technical Communicator Phoenix Geophysics Limited Toronto, ON, Canada +1 (416) 491-7340 x 325 srogers phoenix-geophysics com "No drug, not even alcohol, causes the fundamental ills of society. If we're looking for the source of our troubles, we shouldn't test people for drugs, we should test them for stupidity, ignorance, greed and love of power." ? P.J. O?Rourke
Wild Card Searches
The Frame search (wild card) feature is based upon grep. It's not a real implementation, or a full implementation in any stretch of the imagination. It's not fully documented as a search engine because it's only a small feature of the program. However, if you spend sometime studying how grep works, then you will understand how Wildcards are used. Think of character patterns. For instance the bracket wildcard allows you to search for characters except those in the brackets when you place a caret at the beginning of the string. You can search for specific patterns, or groups of patterns. For instance: [0-9]*. Searches for a numerical pattern which can consist of single digits or multiple digits ending with a period. If you are replacing or removing a manually created list for example. That pattern will find 1. as well as 100. as both fit the repeating pattern. You could also search for a alphabetic string with a specific pattern and replace it by pasting in a variable. Scott At 8:25 AM -0600 11/11/08, Joseph wrote: >Hi All, > >I am using Frame 8 and I would like to take advantage of the wild card >search functionality. For example, I discovered that I could strip out >empty paragraph tags by using \P\p. Unfortunately, I have not been able to >find much documentation about this feature. > >This leads me to the following questions. > >1. Does anyone know some good documentation about creating wild card >searches in FrameMaker? I found some basic information about the different >characters you can use to create one, but very little about constructing >useful searches. >2. In addition, what wild card searches does everyone use? > >-- >Sincerely, > >Joseph Lorenzini
Re: Wild Card Searches
The Frame search (wild card) feature is based upon grep. It's not a real implementation, or a full implementation in any stretch of the imagination. It's not fully documented as a search engine because it's only a small feature of the program. However, if you spend sometime studying how grep works, then you will understand how Wildcards are used. Think of character patterns. For instance the bracket wildcard allows you to search for characters except those in the brackets when you place a caret at the beginning of the string. You can search for specific patterns, or groups of patterns. For instance: [0-9]*. Searches for a numerical pattern which can consist of single digits or multiple digits ending with a period. If you are replacing or removing a manually created list for example. That pattern will find 1. as well as 100. as both fit the repeating pattern. You could also search for a alphabetic string with a specific pattern and replace it by pasting in a variable. Scott At 8:25 AM -0600 11/11/08, Joseph wrote: >Hi All, > >I am using Frame 8 and I would like to take advantage of the wild card >search functionality. For example, I discovered that I could strip out >empty paragraph tags by using \P\p. Unfortunately, I have not been able to >find much documentation about this feature. > >This leads me to the following questions. > >1. Does anyone know some good documentation about creating wild card >searches in FrameMaker? I found some basic information about the different >characters you can use to create one, but very little about constructing >useful searches. >2. In addition, what wild card searches does everyone use? > >-- >Sincerely, > >Joseph Lorenzini ___ You are currently subscribed to Framers as [EMAIL PROTECTED] Send list messages to [EMAIL PROTECTED] To unsubscribe send a blank email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] or visit http://lists.frameusers.com/mailman/options/framers/archive%40mail-archive.com Send administrative questions to [EMAIL PROTECTED] Visit http://www.frameusers.com/ for more resources and info.
Re: long target names in xref dialog
I have used Resource Hacker with Frame 6 and 8 to resize various dialog boxes, including the cross reference dialog. It's a very useful tool. And, yes, back up the fmdlg.dll before messing with it. Just in case! Let me know if you need any help with this. Cheers Dave Stuart Rogers wrote, on 12/11/2008 8:18 a.m.: > Laurie Little wrote: > >> We have a document that is set up with the H1s as the menu path name (so as >> to facilitate auto-population of online help). >> >> Some of these paths are quite long, with the result that the targets listed >> in the cross-reference dialog are indistinguishable because many start the >> same way, and the dialog box is not resizable. >> >> We have identified a few workarounds for this, including manually creating >> distinct cross-reference markers in the text, or (less desirable for this >> project) changing the structure of the H1s. >> >> Does anyone have any other ideas? >> Thanks, >> >> > > You could use a Resource Editor like http://angusj.com/resourcehacker/ > to resize your x-ref_main dialog box to accommodate longer names. > > Make a backup of fmdlg.dll in Program Files > Adobe > Framemaker > > fminit before you mess with it though! > > HTH, > > -- /\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\ Dave Reynolds Phone: (64) (3) 358 1029 Senior Technical Author Fax: (64) (3) 359 4632 Tait Electronics Ltd Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] PO Box 1645 Christchurch New Zealand === This email, including any attachments, is only for the intended addressee. It is subject to copyright, is confidential and may be the subject of legal or other privilege, none of which is waived or lost by reason of this transmission. If the receiver is not the intended addressee, please accept our apologies, notify us by return, delete all copies and perform no other act on the email. Unfortunately, we cannot warrant that the email has not been altered or corrupted during transmission. === ___ You are currently subscribed to Framers as [EMAIL PROTECTED] Send list messages to [EMAIL PROTECTED] To unsubscribe send a blank email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] or visit http://lists.frameusers.com/mailman/options/framers/archive%40mail-archive.com Send administrative questions to [EMAIL PROTECTED] Visit http://www.frameusers.com/ for more resources and info.
Re: long target names in xref dialog
On Tue, Nov 11, 2008 at 10:56 AM, Laurie Little <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > We have a document that is set up with the H1s as the menu path name (so as > to facilitate auto-population of online help). > > Some of these paths are quite long, with the result that the targets listed > in the cross-reference dialog are indistinguishable because many start the > same way, and the dialog box is not resizable. > > We have identified a few workarounds for this, including manually creating > distinct cross-reference markers in the text, or (less desirable for this > project) changing the structure of the H1s. > > Does anyone have any other ideas? > Thanks, Someone has a free plugin that will modify the size of a lot of the dialogue boxes in Frame. It's listed as being good through about 7.1 or 7.2, but I think it'll work up to 8 (I'm trying it out now, in fact). http://www.daube.ch/docu/fmaker36.html -- Lin Sims ___ You are currently subscribed to Framers as [EMAIL PROTECTED] Send list messages to [EMAIL PROTECTED] To unsubscribe send a blank email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] or visit http://lists.frameusers.com/mailman/options/framers/archive%40mail-archive.com Send administrative questions to [EMAIL PROTECTED] Visit http://www.frameusers.com/ for more resources and info.
long target names in xref dialog
We have a document that is set up with the H1s as the menu path name (so as to facilitate auto-population of online help). Some of these paths are quite long, with the result that the targets listed in the cross-reference dialog are indistinguishable because many start the same way, and the dialog box is not resizable. We have identified a few workarounds for this, including manually creating distinct cross-reference markers in the text, or (less desirable for this project) changing the structure of the H1s. Does anyone have any other ideas? Thanks, Laurie Little Words That Work 905-947-1557 ___ You are currently subscribed to Framers as [EMAIL PROTECTED] Send list messages to [EMAIL PROTECTED] To unsubscribe send a blank email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] or visit http://lists.frameusers.com/mailman/options/framers/archive%40mail-archive.com Send administrative questions to [EMAIL PROTECTED] Visit http://www.frameusers.com/ for more resources and info.
Re: long target names in xref dialog
Laurie Little wrote: > We have a document that is set up with the H1s as the menu path name (so as > to facilitate auto-population of online help). > > Some of these paths are quite long, with the result that the targets listed > in the cross-reference dialog are indistinguishable because many start the > same way, and the dialog box is not resizable. > > We have identified a few workarounds for this, including manually creating > distinct cross-reference markers in the text, or (less desirable for this > project) changing the structure of the H1s. > > Does anyone have any other ideas? > Thanks, > You could use a Resource Editor like http://angusj.com/resourcehacker/ to resize your x-ref_main dialog box to accommodate longer names. Make a backup of fmdlg.dll in Program Files > Adobe > Framemaker > fminit before you mess with it though! HTH, -- Stuart Rogers Technical Communicator Phoenix Geophysics Limited Toronto, ON, Canada +1 (416) 491-7340 x 325 srogers phoenix-geophysics com "No drug, not even alcohol, causes the fundamental ills of society. If we're looking for the source of our troubles, we shouldn't test people for drugs, we should test them for stupidity, ignorance, greed and love of power." — P.J. O’Rourke ___ You are currently subscribed to Framers as [EMAIL PROTECTED] Send list messages to [EMAIL PROTECTED] To unsubscribe send a blank email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] or visit http://lists.frameusers.com/mailman/options/framers/archive%40mail-archive.com Send administrative questions to [EMAIL PROTECTED] Visit http://www.frameusers.com/ for more resources and info.
long target names in xref dialog
We have a document that is set up with the H1s as the menu path name (so as to facilitate auto-population of online help). Some of these paths are quite long, with the result that the targets listed in the cross-reference dialog are indistinguishable because many start the same way, and the dialog box is not resizable. We have identified a few workarounds for this, including manually creating distinct cross-reference markers in the text, or (less desirable for this project) changing the structure of the H1s. Does anyone have any other ideas? Thanks, Laurie Little Words That Work 905-947-1557
Wild Card Searches
Hi All, I am using Frame 8 and I would like to take advantage of the wild card search functionality. For example, I discovered that I could strip out empty paragraph tags by using \P\p. Unfortunately, I have not been able to find much documentation about this feature. This leads me to the following questions. 1. Does anyone know some good documentation about creating wild card searches in FrameMaker? I found some basic information about the different characters you can use to create one, but very little about constructing useful searches. 2. In addition, what wild card searches does everyone use? -- Sincerely, Joseph Lorenzini ___ You are currently subscribed to Framers as [EMAIL PROTECTED] Send list messages to [EMAIL PROTECTED] To unsubscribe send a blank email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] or visit http://lists.frameusers.com/mailman/options/framers/archive%40mail-archive.com Send administrative questions to [EMAIL PROTECTED] Visit http://www.frameusers.com/ for more resources and info.
Wild Card Searches
Hi All, I am using Frame 8 and I would like to take advantage of the wild card search functionality. For example, I discovered that I could strip out empty paragraph tags by using \P\p. Unfortunately, I have not been able to find much documentation about this feature. This leads me to the following questions. 1. Does anyone know some good documentation about creating wild card searches in FrameMaker? I found some basic information about the different characters you can use to create one, but very little about constructing useful searches. 2. In addition, what wild card searches does everyone use? -- Sincerely, Joseph Lorenzini
