date:20110201

Hi Framers,
Windows XP, Frame 8.0p277, unstructured.
Thanks for the replies to my e-mail about conditionalized cross-references - 
that one is still not solved, unfortunately :(.
Now I have a new problem: When I type a slash (/) in a dialog box, it comes out 
as a bullet in my pdf. I have seen it in my index and in a variable. One 
strange thing though: My variable is OK in headings, but in body text the 
slashes come out as bullets in the pdf. In my Frame files everything looks OK.
Any ideas/suggestions how I can avoid this? (I tried putting a backslash before 
the slash, but that didn't change anything)

Thanks,
Christiane
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RE: Question about some FM plugins

2011-02-01 Thread Spectrum Writing

Thanks Mike. This was indeed similar to what I ran into. 

TVB

Tammy Van Boening
Owner/Principal
Spectrum Writing, LLC
www.spectrumwritingllc.com
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From: framers-boun...@lists.frameusers.com
[mailto:framers-boun...@lists.frameusers.com] On Behalf Of Mike Wickham
Sent: Monday, January 31, 2011 6:41 PM
To: framers@lists.frameusers.com
Subject: Re: Question about some FM plugins

I had the same or a similar problem. If I remember right, there were 
notices popping up that the programs were unregistered, but no menus to 
allow me to register them. I did something-- I forget what (deleting the 
*.fm files for the SP plugins in fminit?)-- that made the menus return, 
but entering the registration data would not stick and would be lost 
when I closed FrameMaker.

If I recall correctly, the fix was to find the various *.fm files 
belonging to the SP plugins in the fminit folder: AutoText.fm, 
CHARREG.fm, etc. Right-click on each one and choose File Properties 
Security Tab, and then set permissions for Users to allow everything. As 
I recall, they had read-only permissions set that were the cause of the 
problem.

Mike Wickham


On 1/31/2011 6:17 PM, Spectrum Writing wrote:
 All,



 I have also sent a message directly to Steve at Silicon Prairie, but I am
 hoping that I can also get an answer from this list. I must set up a
 client's environment with FM9.0 on a Win7 64-bit machine. The client wants
 their FM installation to have all the bells and whistles that mine has.
 This means that I must install the following Silicon Prairie plugins -
 AutoText, Master Page Tools, Paragraph Tools, Character Tools, and Table
 Tools. I am set up as an Administrator on the client's laptop on which I
am
 setting up this environment. I have downloaded and installed these plugins
 many times before w/out issue, but for the life of me, this time, I having
 some difficulty.



 For example, I downloaded the Master Pages Tools for FM9.x and I placed
the
 MPTools.dll in the plugins directory for FM and the MasterPage.fm document
 in the fminit directory for FM9 as you are supposed to do. I did not have
FM
 open at the time, but when I opened FM, I did not see the Tools menu
option
 in the FM main menu as expected. I closed FM and reopened and still no
luck.
 So, I opened the MasterPage.fm document and made an entry and when I tried
 to save the file, I got the message that the file could not be locked
 because I did not have Write permission, but I am set up as an
 Administrator. I closed FM and opened it by right-clicking on the desktop
 icon and selecting Run as Administrator and after FM opened, I opened
the
 MasterPage.fm file, made an entry in the file and was able to save it. OK,
 good, but the Tools menu option still is not displayed on the FM main
menu.
 I am expecting to see File Edit Format View Special Graphics Table Adobe
 RoboHelp AutoText Tools Webworks Window Help and instead, I am seeing File
 Edit Format View Special Graphics Table Adobe RoboHelp Webworks Window
Help.
 I don't have the options for Auto Text and Tools and I have properly
placed
 the dlls for the tools as well as the corresponding .fm files. I have
 confirmed that under View  Menus that Complete is selected.



 Has anyone run into this issue before and if so, how did you resolve it?



 TIA,



 TVB



 Tammy Van Boening

 Owner/Principal

 Spectrum Writing, LLC

 www.spectrumwritingllc.com

 i...@spectrumwritingllc.com



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RE: Question about some FM plugins


You are assuming that the missing registration that the notice is complaining 
about is a license registration. But it could also be that the registration in 
question is an entry in the Windows Registry, or a registration as a FrameMaker 
API Client in the corresponding section of the maker.ini file. Since you're 
dealing with plug-ins, my guess is that it's the latter. And if so, a further 
issue is whether the API Client registration is in the all users copy of 
maker.ini or the user-specific overlay maker.ini.
 
-Fred Ridder
 
 Date: Mon, 31 Jan 2011 19:41:24 -0600
 From: i...@mikewickham.com
 To: framers@lists.frameusers.com
 Subject: Re: Question about some FM plugins
 
 I had the same or a similar problem. If I remember right, there were 
 notices popping up that the programs were unregistered, but no menus to 
 allow me to register them. I did something-- I forget what (deleting the 
 *.fm files for the SP plugins in fminit?)-- that made the menus return, 
 but entering the registration data would not stick and would be lost 
 when I closed FrameMaker.
 
 If I recall correctly, the fix was to find the various *.fm files 
 belonging to the SP plugins in the fminit folder: AutoText.fm, 
 CHARREG.fm, etc. Right-click on each one and choose File Properties 
 Security Tab, and then set permissions for Users to allow everything. As 
 I recall, they had read-only permissions set that were the cause of the 
 problem.
 
 Mike Wickham
 
 
 On 1/31/2011 6:17 PM, Spectrum Writing wrote:
  All,
 
 
 
  I have also sent a message directly to Steve at Silicon Prairie, but I am
  hoping that I can also get an answer from this list. I must set up a
  client's environment with FM9.0 on a Win7 64-bit machine. The client wants
  their FM installation to have all the bells and whistles that mine has.
  This means that I must install the following Silicon Prairie plugins -
  AutoText, Master Page Tools, Paragraph Tools, Character Tools, and Table
  Tools. I am set up as an Administrator on the client's laptop on which I am
  setting up this environment. I have downloaded and installed these plugins
  many times before w/out issue, but for the life of me, this time, I having
  some difficulty.
 
 
 
  For example, I downloaded the Master Pages Tools for FM9.x and I placed the
  MPTools.dll in the plugins directory for FM and the MasterPage.fm document
  in the fminit directory for FM9 as you are supposed to do. I did not have FM
  open at the time, but when I opened FM, I did not see the Tools menu option
  in the FM main menu as expected. I closed FM and reopened and still no luck.
  So, I opened the MasterPage.fm document and made an entry and when I tried
  to save the file, I got the message that the file could not be locked
  because I did not have Write permission, but I am set up as an
  Administrator. I closed FM and opened it by right-clicking on the desktop
  icon and selecting Run as Administrator and after FM opened, I opened the
  MasterPage.fm file, made an entry in the file and was able to save it. OK,
  good, but the Tools menu option still is not displayed on the FM main menu.
  I am expecting to see File Edit Format View Special Graphics Table Adobe
  RoboHelp AutoText Tools Webworks Window Help and instead, I am seeing File
  Edit Format View Special Graphics Table Adobe RoboHelp Webworks Window Help.
  I don't have the options for Auto Text and Tools and I have properly placed
  the dlls for the tools as well as the corresponding .fm files. I have
  confirmed that under View Menus that Complete is selected.
 
 
 
  Has anyone run into this issue before and if so, how did you resolve it?
 
 
 
  TIA,
 
 
 
  TVB
 
 
 
  Tammy Van Boening
 
  Owner/Principal
 
  Spectrum Writing, LLC
 
  www.spectrumwritingllc.com
 
  i...@spectrumwritingllc.com
 
 
 
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RE: Slash in dialog boxes become bullets in pdf

OK, here are some more details:

* FrameMaker 8.0p277, unstructured

* Types of dialog boxes: Variable definitions and Index marker text.

* My variable format definition: SAILOR 6120/30/40/50 (just text, no 
character formats or anything)

* I think my index entry was I/O connector or something similar

* The font is a special company font (Type 1)

* I don't get any missing fonts messages in FrameMaker

* Another thing: I tried experimenting a bit. When the paragraph format 
had Weight = Bold, the problem was not there (that was the reason why my 
headings were OK). But since I can't have all my variables in bold,  I tried 
changing the variable definition with commas instead of slashes. Then I changed 
it back to slashes, and now the problem is gone! Exactly the same definition as 
before, but now I don't see the problem. Only trouble is: I am not very 
confident that the problem won't come back...
Regards,
Christiane

From: Roger Shuttleworth [mailto:rshuttlewo...@avbasesystems.com]
Sent: Tuesday, February 01, 2011 3:32 PM
To: Christiane Crety (CC)
Subject: Re: Slash in dialog boxes become bullets in pdf

Hi Christiane

You certainly are discovering some weird phenomena! It would help if you could 
give concrete examples, though. Can you post (to the list):
what version of FrameMaker
which dialog boxes you are referring to
the exact format for your variable
the character format definitions used in your variable, if any
what exactly you typed for your index entry
what fonts you are using, and the type (e.g. OpenType, Type 1, etc.)
whether you get any missing fonts messages in the  FM console

These details would help immensely in trying to help you.

Regards,
Roger

Roger Shuttleworth
Technical Documentation
AV-BASE Systems Inc.
1000 Air Ontario Drive, Suite 200
London, Ontario
N5V 3S4
Tel. 519 691-0919 ext. 330

From: Christiane Crety (CC) [mailto:c...@thrane.com]
To: framers@lists.frameusers.com [mailto:framers@lists.frameusers.com]
Sent: Tue, 01 Feb 2011 08:58:00 -0500
Subject: Slash in dialog boxes become bullets in pdf

Hi Framers,
Windows XP, Frame 8.0p277, unstructured.
Thanks for the replies to my e-mail about conditionalized cross-references - 
that one is still not solved, unfortunately :(.
Now I have a new problem: When I type a slash (/) in a dialog box, it comes out 
as a bullet in my pdf. I have seen it in my index and in a variable. One 
strange thing though: My variable is OK in headings, but in body text the 
slashes come out as bullets in the pdf. In my Frame files everything looks OK.
Any ideas/suggestions how I can avoid this? (I tried putting a backslash before 
the slash, but that didn't change anything)

Thanks,
Christiane
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Upgrading to TCS3 from FM9

2011-02-01 Thread John Sgammato

I am considering upgrading to TCS3. I do not have any TCS or any RoboHelp now, 
just FM9. I also have CS5 Design Premium.

TCS3 includes FM10, RH9, Acrobat, Captivate, and Photoshop. I already have 
Photoshop and Acrobat in CS5. I am a little anxious about adding them again 
when they are working fine already. 

It looks like a regular upgrade is $1299 for the whole package. I see no 
competitive upgrade deal or any upgrade that takes the CS5 into account. Does 
anyone here know of better deals on TCS3? I can wait awhile it the proce is 
likely to come down. 

John Sgammato
Principal Technical Writer
Imprivata, Inc
Read how Imprivata Rated Strong Positive in the 2010 Gartner Enterprise Single 
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Re: Question about some FM plugins

2011-02-01 Thread Mike Wickham




On 2/1/2011 9:10 AM, Fred Ridder wrote:
You are assuming that the missing registration that the notice is 
complaining about is a license registration. But it could also be that 
the registration in question is an entry in the Windows Registry, or a 
registration as a FrameMaker API Client in the corresponding section 
of the maker.ini file. Since you're dealing with plug-ins, my guess is 
that it's the latter. And if so, a further issue is whether the API 
Client registration is in the all users copy of maker.ini or the 
user-specific overlay maker.ini.




Except that the Silicon Prairie plugins don't use API clients, and even 
if they had, I had copied my my maker.ini file over to the new computer 
from a working installation. So they would have already been listed in 
there.


Anyway, the solution for me was to set the permissions on the previously 
mentioned files. There's no need to run FM in administrator mode.


Mike Wickham

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RE: [Violation] Annotations were found inside the BleedBox, TrimBox or ArtBox on the following pages and PDFX/1-a standard

2011-02-01 Thread Dov Isaacs

Joanna,

FrameMaker is not a graphic arts application. Its output is primarily RGB and 
the PostScript generated by the driver is not setup to generate PDF that will 
conform to the PDF/X-1a specification.

The PDF/X-1a specification doesn't allow for any of the cross reference stuff 
capabilities of PDF, annotations, embedded video, etc. It is strictly for 
old-style PDF CMYK and spot color printing without any transparency, layers, 
JPEG2000 compression, etc.

Unfortunately, the current FrameMaker save as CMYK PDF doesn't quite work 
right to yield a CMYK (plus spot color) PDF. The only workaround is to use 
Distiller settings to convert the RGB to CMYK, a somewhat risky proposition, or 
to use the color conversion features of Acrobat X Pro to selectively convert 
colors from RGB to CMYK and then, use the Acrobat X Pro preflight function to 
fix the file and create PDF/X-1a.

- Dov


 -Original Message-
 From: framers-boun...@lists.frameusers.com 
 [mailto:framers-boun...@lists.frameusers.com] On Behalf Of
 Joanna Przystup
 Sent: Tuesday, February 01, 2011 2:10 AM
 To: framers@lists.frameusers.com
 Subject: [Violation] Annotations were found inside the BleedBox, TrimBox, or 
 ArtBox on the following
 pages and PDFX/1-a standard
 
 I have a problem with distilling ps file with the PDFX/1-a standard.
 Document is printed to ps from the FrameMaker application.
 
 While distilling file, Acrobat Distiller creates a log containing following
 message:
 [Violation] Annotations were found inside the BleedBox, TrimBox, or ArtBox
 on the following pages
 and therefore none PDF file is produced.
 
 I guess that it is related to the cross references. But what is strange - it
 doesn't appear in all of the books. When printed document is structured - it
 is printed well with the PDFX/1-a standard, and doesn't complain about
 annotations.
 
 I've found two solutions for now - but none of them is actually acceptable:
 -replace all cross references with text
 -do not select Generate Acrobat Data when printing
 
 I will appreciate your help with solving this problem
 
 Joanna
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RE: [Violation] Annotations were found inside the BleedBox, TrimBox or ArtBox on the following pages and PDFX/1-a standard

2011-02-01 Thread Rick Quatro

Even more unfortunate is that the feature list for FrameMaker 10 still says,
...pristine PDF output with CMYK support. Adobe should have the integrity
to remove this false claim from their marketing materials.

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

*** Frame Automation blog at http://frameautomation.com


Unfortunately, the current FrameMaker save as CMYK PDF doesn't quite work
right to yield a CMYK (plus spot color) PDF. The only workaround is to use
Distiller settings to convert the RGB to CMYK, a somewhat risky proposition,
or to use the color conversion features of Acrobat X Pro to selectively
convert colors from RGB to CMYK and then, use the Acrobat X Pro preflight
function to fix the file and create PDF/X-1a.

- Dov


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RE: [Violation] Annotations were found inside the BleedBox, TrimBox or ArtBox on the following pages and PDFX/1-a standard

You just have to use the Macintosh or Solaris version of FrameMaker 10 to get 
away from the Windows GDI. Oh, wait...  ;^)

-FR

 From: r...@rickquatro.com
 To: framers@lists.frameusers.com
 Subject: RE: [Violation] Annotations were found inside the BleedBox, TrimBox 
 or ArtBox on the following pages and PDFX/1-a standard
 Date: Tue, 1 Feb 2011 12:55:34 -0500

 Even more unfortunate is that the feature list for FrameMaker 10 still says,
 ...pristine PDF output with CMYK support. Adobe should have the integrity
 to remove this false claim from their marketing materials.

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

 *** Frame Automation blog at http://frameautomation.com

 Unfortunately, the current FrameMaker save as CMYK PDF doesn't quite work
 right to yield a CMYK (plus spot color) PDF. The only workaround is to use
 Distiller settings to convert the RGB to CMYK, a somewhat risky proposition,
 or to use the color conversion features of Acrobat X Pro to selectively
 convert colors from RGB to CMYK and then, use the Acrobat X Pro preflight
 function to fix the file and create PDF/X-1a.

 - Dov

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RE: thin black line on some images

2011-02-01 Thread Gray, Steven (EPS)


Is there an actual fix for this? I often get these with AI formatted files, and 
my past searches indicated that it was an old bug that wasn't going to be 
squashed. I adjusted my workflow (at least with line art) to include Photoshop 
for cropping and converting to something like PNG. If there's a way to save a 
couple of steps, I'm all ear...um...eyes.

Steve Gray

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 Date: Mon, 31 Jan 2011 19:59:40 +
 From: Bethany Lee bethany@lakeshore.com
 To: framers@lists.frameusers.com framers@lists.frameusers.com
 Subject: thin black line on some images
 Message-ID:
   46ccea057904f843a17c18e826c4a7390e4f5...@yoda.lakeshore.com
 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii
 
 I have seen this thread somewhere and searched the archives 
 but couldn't find it:
 I am using FM 9 (all patches installed), and when I print to 
 PDF, some images appear with a thin black line on the right 
 side. I had this once before, and fixed it (so I know there's 
 a simple solution), but my IT guy did something to my 
 computer and now they are back. Does anybody remember the 
 solution to this?
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Re: thin black line on some images

If you'd like to solve this, it'd be helpful to the rest of us if
you'd provide the standard system info: OS, versions of Frame and
Acrobat, amount of RAM, how you're importing the graphics, the
graphics file format, how you're creating the PDF, and so on.

Art

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On Mon, Jan 31, 2011 at 2:59 PM, Bethany Lee bethany@lakeshore.com wrote:
I have seen this thread somewhere and searched the archives but couldn't find
it:
I am using FM 9 (all patches installed), and when I print to PDF, some images
appear with a thin black line on the right side. I had this once before, and
fixed it (so I know there's a simple solution), but my IT guy did something
to my computer and now they are back. Does anybody remember the solution to
this?
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SV: [Violation] Annotations were found inside the BleedBox, TrimBox or ArtBox on the following pages and PDFX/1-a standard

2011-02-01 Thread Jacob Schäffer

Dov said:
 The only workaround is to use Distiller settings to convert the RGB to
CMYK, a somewhat risky proposition ... 

Not true, and Dov knows that. What Dov mean is that the only ADOBE
workaround for *prepress* PDF's is to ...

There are quite a few repair options out there in the wild cyperspace, and
I think Dov should have the chance to mention some of the very qualified
work-arounds for this problem, that's actually available for the Frame
users.

There are QUITE a few.

/Jacob


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Sendt: 1. februar 2011 15:25
Til: framers@lists.frameusers.com
Emne: RE: [Violation] Annotations were found inside the BleedBox, TrimBox
or ArtBox on the following pages and PDFX/1-a standard

Joanna,

FrameMaker is not a graphic arts application. Its output is primarily RGB
and the PostScript generated by the driver is not setup to generate PDF that
will conform to the PDF/X-1a specification.

The PDF/X-1a specification doesn't allow for any of the cross reference
stuff capabilities of PDF, annotations, embedded video, etc. It is strictly
for old-style PDF CMYK and spot color printing without any transparency,
layers, JPEG2000 compression, etc.


Unfortunately, the current FrameMaker save as CMYK PDF doesn't quite work
right to yield a CMYK (plus spot color) PDF. The only workaround is to use
Distiller settings to convert the RGB to CMYK, a somewhat risky proposition,
or to use the color conversion features of Acrobat X Pro to selectively
convert colors from RGB to CMYK and then, use the Acrobat X Pro preflight
function to fix the file and create PDF/X-1a.

- Dov


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[mailto:framers-boun...@lists.frameusers.com] On Behalf Of
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 Sent: Tuesday, February 01, 2011 2:10 AM
 To: framers@lists.frameusers.com
 Subject: [Violation] Annotations were found inside the BleedBox, TrimBox,
or ArtBox on the following
 pages and PDFX/1-a standard
 
 I have a problem with distilling ps file with the PDFX/1-a standard.
 Document is printed to ps from the FrameMaker application.
 
 While distilling file, Acrobat Distiller creates a log containing
following
 message:
 [Violation] Annotations were found inside the BleedBox, TrimBox, or
ArtBox
 on the following pages
 and therefore none PDF file is produced.
 
 I guess that it is related to the cross references. But what is strange -
it
 doesn't appear in all of the books. When printed document is structured -
it
 is printed well with the PDFX/1-a standard, and doesn't complain about
 annotations.
 
 I've found two solutions for now - but none of them is actually
acceptable:
 -replace all cross references with text
 -do not select Generate Acrobat Data when printing
 
 I will appreciate your help with solving this problem
 
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Re: thin black line on some images

2011-02-01 Thread Bernard Aschwanden (Publishing Smarter)

I remember that thread you mentioned but I can't find it either...

So what I'm remembering from the thread is that it had something to do
with layers in the Photoshop file randomly appearing on the
surface

But I also don't remember the fix because it hadn't happened to me.

What I'd try as a solution is either using an alternate format like
PNG or flattening the PSD.
An easy way to do this semi-automatically is with Dr. Brown's 1-2-3
script -- you can save your open PSD file in several formats and sizes
in one pass. http://www.russellbrown.com/scripts.html

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On Tue, Feb 1, 2011 at 3:24 PM, Bethany Lee bethany@lakeshore.com wrote:
Thanks for following up, Art. Here's the info:

OS: Windows Vista; 32 bit
FrameMaker 9
Adobe Acrobat 9 Pro Extended (I have TCS 2.5)
RAM: 4 GB
I import graphics from PhotoShop and Illustrator by reference using the .PSD
and .ai files; however, so far, I have only seen this happening to .PSD files
I print to PDF from FrameMaker, which distills it first
This thin black line is random. It does not appear on all images, and if I
recreate the PDF, it will appear on different images than the first time I
made the PDF.

-Original Message-
From: Art Campbell [mailto:art.campb...@gmail.com]
Sent: Tuesday, February 01, 2011 2:57 PM
To: Bethany Lee
Cc: framers@lists.frameusers.com
Subject: Re: thin black line on some images

Art

Art Campbell
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No disclaimers apply.
DoD 358

On Mon, Jan 31, 2011 at 2:59 PM, Bethany Lee bethany@lakeshore.com
wrote:
I have seen this thread somewhere and searched the archives but couldn't
find it:
I am using FM 9 (all patches installed), and when I print to PDF, some
images appear with a thin black line on the right side. I had this once
before, and fixed it (so I know there's a simple solution), but my IT guy
did something to my computer and now they are back. Does anybody remember
the solution to this?
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Formatting of multi-marker indexes...

2011-02-01 Thread Scott Prentice


Hi...

If you create an index from multiple marker types, is there a way to 
apply different formatting to the resulting entries from each marker 
type? Like, is there a way to assign one reference page to be the 
formatting for the Index markers and another reference page to be the 
formatting for the OtherIndex markers?


I'm thinking the answer is no .. but wanted to check with y'all.

Thanks,

...scott


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RE: Formatting of multi-marker indexes...

2011-02-01 Thread Combs, Richard

Scott Prentice wrote:
 
 If you create an index from multiple marker types, is there a way to
 apply different formatting to the resulting entries from each marker
 type? Like, is there a way to assign one reference page to be the
 formatting for the Index markers and another reference page to be the
 formatting for the OtherIndex markers?
 
 I'm thinking the answer is no .. but wanted to check with y'all.

It's not clear what you want to format. But in any case, you don't assign 
reference pages to anything. If you create an index, a text box containing the 
IX flow is created on a reference page (which by default is also named IX). The 
contents of the IX flow specify how the index is generated, ordered, and 
formatted. 

The IndexIX paragraph, which typically contains $pagenum, tells FM to 
include page-number references to markers of type Index. You can include 
another marker type in your index by creating a pgf like IndexIX, but named 
after the second marker type, e.g., OtherIndexIX. It can be formatted 
differently -- for instance, you could make it bold or italic -- but that 
formatting will be applied only to the page number. 

The Level1IX, Level2IX, etc., pgf formats are used for the index entries at 
those levels. So every 1st-level index entry will have the same pgf format, 
whether it's from an Index marker or an OtherIndex marker. 

If you want the text for an OtherIndex entry formatted differently, the 
solution is simple. But you have to do it in the marker text when you create 
the OtherIndex marker. You can include character formats, enclosed in angle 
brackets, in the marker text. For instance, let's say you have a char format 
named Other that formats the text the way you want the OtherIndex entries to 
look. To create an entry for configuration, put this in the marker text: 

OtherconfigurationDefault Para Font

These things, and a lot more that you can do, are reasonably well explained in 
the help/manual under Tables of Contents and Indexes. 

HTH!

Richard G. Combs
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Re: Formatting of multi-marker indexes...

2011-02-01 Thread Frank Stearns


On Tue, 1 Feb 2011, Scott Prentice wrote:


Hi...

If you create an index from multiple marker types, is there a way to apply 
different formatting to the resulting entries from each marker type? Like, is 
there a way to assign one reference page to be the formatting for the Index 
markers and another reference page to be the formatting for the OtherIndex 
markers?


I'm thinking the answer is no .. but wanted to check with y'all.


See Richard's excellent post on this.

To summarize, you'll need to embed format command information in each 
source marker.


small commercial

If you want to do this en masse, you could have IXgen selectively 
bring all the markers of a given type into its Editable Marker List 
utility, and then apply a character tag appropriate for the desired 
marker formatting. (In just a few mouse clicks this character tag 
could be applied to all the markers collected during this pass.)


Then, when you apply the Editable Marker List back to the source 
documents, IXgen will convert the character tagging into the embedded 
format commands needed by FM to format marker text in the 
final IX document.


(This character tag/embed format command conversion feature was added 
in IXgen 7. And, as a sanity check, you can toggle between tagging and 
embeded commands before you apply the marker list.)


You could repeat this for each special marker type in use, assuming 
you had more than one othermarker type and wanted unique formatting 
for each.


/small commercial

Hope that helps,

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RE: thin black line on some images

2011-02-01 Thread Bethany Lee

Thanks for following up, Art. Here's the info:

OS: Windows Vista; 32 bit
FrameMaker 9
Adobe Acrobat 9 Pro Extended (I have TCS 2.5)
RAM: 4 GB
I import graphics from PhotoShop and Illustrator by reference using the .PSD 
and .ai files; however, so far, I have only seen this happening to .PSD files
I print to PDF from FrameMaker, which distills it first
This thin black line is random. It does not appear on all images, and if I 
recreate the PDF, it will appear on different images than the first time I made 
the PDF.



-Original Message-
From: Art Campbell [mailto:art.campb...@gmail.com] 
Sent: Tuesday, February 01, 2011 2:57 PM
To: Bethany Lee
Cc: framers@lists.frameusers.com
Subject: Re: thin black line on some images

If you'd like to solve this, it'd be helpful to the rest of us if
you'd provide the standard system info: OS, versions of Frame and
Acrobat, amount of RAM, how you're importing the graphics, the
graphics file format, how you're creating the PDF, and so on.

Art

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On Mon, Jan 31, 2011 at 2:59 PM, Bethany Lee bethany@lakeshore.com wrote:
 I have seen this thread somewhere and searched the archives but couldn't find 
 it:
 I am using FM 9 (all patches installed), and when I print to PDF, some images 
 appear with a thin black line on the right side. I had this once before, and 
 fixed it (so I know there's a simple solution), but my IT guy did something 
 to my computer and now they are back. Does anybody remember the solution to 
 this?
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Can a single footnote be used by more than one reference?

2011-02-01 Thread Brian Chan

I have a document, in which I have the same reference to a footnote in three 
different places. Can this be done? How?
 
Using structured Frame 9 on XP.
 
Thanks,
Brian 
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Re: thin black line on some images

2011-02-01 Thread Steve Johnson

If you're starting with AI why don't you export to EPS?

On Tue, Feb 1, 2011 at 12:31 PM, Gray, Steven (EPS)
sag...@tycoelectronics.com wrote:

 Is there an actual fix for this? I often get these with AI formatted files, 
 and my past searches indicated that it was an old bug that wasn't going to be 
 squashed. I adjusted my workflow (at least with line art) to include 
 Photoshop for cropping and converting to something like PNG. If there's a way 
 to save a couple of steps, I'm all ear...um...eyes.

 Steve Gray

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 Date: Mon, 31 Jan 2011 19:59:40 +
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 I have seen this thread somewhere and searched the archives
 but couldn't find it:
 I am using FM 9 (all patches installed), and when I print to
 PDF, some images appear with a thin black line on the right
 side. I had this once before, and fixed it (so I know there's
 a simple solution), but my IT guy did something to my
 computer and now they are back. Does anybody remember the
 solution to this?
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FM 10 Backward Compatibility

I've opened v6, v7, v8, and of course v9 files with v10. If you have any older 
ones, zip and email a sample to me and I can test it
out.

Bernard



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[mailto:framers-boun...@lists.frameusers.com] On Behalf Of Fred Ridder
Sent: January-31-11 15:06
To: poetessintexas at yahoo.com; framers at lists.frameusers.com
Subject: RE: FM 10 Backward Compatibility


FM10 should be able to open *any* .fm file, regardless of vintage. 
"Back-saving" from FM10 in a form that can be opened by older versions of 
FrameMaker is another matter, though...


> Date: Mon, 31 Jan 2011 05:30:27 -0800
> From: poetessintexas at yahoo.com
> Subject: FM 10 Backward Compatibility
> To: framers at lists.frameusers.com
> 
> I would like to know what the backward file compatibility of Frame10 is.  
> What is the oldest rev of FrameMaker whose files Frame10
can open natively, without the need for an intermediate conversion to MIF?
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Slash in dialog boxes become bullets in pdf

Hi Framers,
Windows XP, Frame 8.0p277, unstructured.
Thanks for the replies to my e-mail about conditionalized cross-references - 
that one is still not solved, unfortunately :(.
Now I have a new problem: When I type a slash (/) in a dialog box, it comes out 
as a bullet in my pdf. I have seen it in my index and in a variable. One 
strange thing though: My variable is OK in headings, but in body text the 
slashes come out as bullets in the pdf. In my Frame files everything looks OK.
Any ideas/suggestions how I can avoid this? (I tried putting a backslash before 
the slash, but that didn't change anything)

Thanks,
Christiane

Question about some FM plugins

2011-02-01 Thread Spectrum Writing

Thanks Mike. This was indeed similar to what I ran into. 

TVB

Tammy Van Boening
Owner/Principal
Spectrum Writing, LLC
www.spectrumwritingllc.com
info at spectrumwritingllc.com

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From: framers-boun...@lists.frameusers.com
[mailto:framers-bounces at lists.frameusers.com] On Behalf Of Mike Wickham
Sent: Monday, January 31, 2011 6:41 PM
To: framers at lists.frameusers.com
Subject: Re: Question about some FM plugins

I had the same or a similar problem. If I remember right, there were 
notices popping up that the programs were unregistered, but no menus to 
allow me to register them. I did something-- I forget what (deleting the 
*.fm files for the SP plugins in fminit?)-- that made the menus return, 
but entering the registration data would not stick and would be lost 
when I closed FrameMaker.

If I recall correctly, the fix was to find the various *.fm files 
belonging to the SP plugins in the fminit folder: AutoText.fm, 
CHARREG.fm, etc. Right-click on each one and choose File Properties> 
Security Tab, and then set permissions for Users to allow everything. As 
I recall, they had read-only permissions set that were the cause of the 
problem.

Mike Wickham


On 1/31/2011 6:17 PM, Spectrum Writing wrote:
> All,
>
>
>
> I have also sent a message directly to Steve at Silicon Prairie, but I am
> hoping that I can also get an answer from this list. I must set up a
> client's environment with FM9.0 on a Win7 64-bit machine. The client wants
> their FM installation to have all the "bells and whistles" that mine has.
> This means that I must install the following Silicon Prairie plugins -
> AutoText, Master Page Tools, Paragraph Tools, Character Tools, and Table
> Tools. I am set up as an Administrator on the client's laptop on which I
am
> setting up this environment. I have downloaded and installed these plugins
> many times before w/out issue, but for the life of me, this time, I having
> some difficulty.
>
>
>
> For example, I downloaded the Master Pages Tools for FM9.x and I placed
the
> MPTools.dll in the plugins directory for FM and the MasterPage.fm document
> in the fminit directory for FM9 as you are supposed to do. I did not have
FM
> open at the time, but when I opened FM, I did not see the Tools menu
option
> in the FM main menu as expected. I closed FM and reopened and still no
luck.
> So, I opened the MasterPage.fm document and made an entry and when I tried
> to save the file, I got the message that the file could not be locked
> because I did not have Write permission, but I am set up as an
> Administrator. I closed FM and opened it by right-clicking on the desktop
> icon and selecting "Run as Administrator" and after FM opened, I opened
the
> MasterPage.fm file, made an entry in the file and was able to save it. OK,
> good, but the Tools menu option still is not displayed on the FM main
menu.
> I am expecting to see File Edit Format View Special Graphics Table Adobe
> RoboHelp AutoText Tools Webworks Window Help and instead, I am seeing File
> Edit Format View Special Graphics Table Adobe RoboHelp Webworks Window
Help.
> I don't have the options for Auto Text and Tools and I have properly
placed
> the dlls for the tools as well as the corresponding .fm files. I have
> confirmed that under View>  Menus that Complete is selected.
>
>
>
> Has anyone run into this issue before and if so, how did you resolve it?
>
>
>
> TIA,
>
>
>
> TVB
>
>
>
> Tammy Van Boening
>
> Owner/Principal
>
> Spectrum Writing, LLC
>
> www.spectrumwritingllc.com
>
> info at spectrumwritingllc.com
>
>
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Question about some FM plugins


You are assuming that the missing registration that the notice is complaining 
about is a license registration. But it could also be that the registration in 
question is an entry in the Windows Registry, or a registration as a FrameMaker 
"API Client" in the corresponding section of the maker.ini file. Since you're 
dealing with plug-ins, my guess is that it's the latter. And if so, a further 
issue is whether the API Client registration is in the "all users" copy of 
maker.ini or the user-specific "overlay" maker.ini.

-Fred Ridder

> Date: Mon, 31 Jan 2011 19:41:24 -0600
> From: info at mikewickham.com
> To: framers at lists.frameusers.com
> Subject: Re: Question about some FM plugins
> 
> I had the same or a similar problem. If I remember right, there were 
> notices popping up that the programs were unregistered, but no menus to 
> allow me to register them. I did something-- I forget what (deleting the 
> *.fm files for the SP plugins in fminit?)-- that made the menus return, 
> but entering the registration data would not stick and would be lost 
> when I closed FrameMaker.
> 
> If I recall correctly, the fix was to find the various *.fm files 
> belonging to the SP plugins in the fminit folder: AutoText.fm, 
> CHARREG.fm, etc. Right-click on each one and choose File Properties> 
> Security Tab, and then set permissions for Users to allow everything. As 
> I recall, they had read-only permissions set that were the cause of the 
> problem.
> 
> Mike Wickham
> 
> 
> On 1/31/2011 6:17 PM, Spectrum Writing wrote:
> > All,
> >
> >
> >
> > I have also sent a message directly to Steve at Silicon Prairie, but I am
> > hoping that I can also get an answer from this list. I must set up a
> > client's environment with FM9.0 on a Win7 64-bit machine. The client wants
> > their FM installation to have all the "bells and whistles" that mine has.
> > This means that I must install the following Silicon Prairie plugins -
> > AutoText, Master Page Tools, Paragraph Tools, Character Tools, and Table
> > Tools. I am set up as an Administrator on the client's laptop on which I am
> > setting up this environment. I have downloaded and installed these plugins
> > many times before w/out issue, but for the life of me, this time, I having
> > some difficulty.
> >
> >
> >
> > For example, I downloaded the Master Pages Tools for FM9.x and I placed the
> > MPTools.dll in the plugins directory for FM and the MasterPage.fm document
> > in the fminit directory for FM9 as you are supposed to do. I did not have FM
> > open at the time, but when I opened FM, I did not see the Tools menu option
> > in the FM main menu as expected. I closed FM and reopened and still no luck.
> > So, I opened the MasterPage.fm document and made an entry and when I tried
> > to save the file, I got the message that the file could not be locked
> > because I did not have Write permission, but I am set up as an
> > Administrator. I closed FM and opened it by right-clicking on the desktop
> > icon and selecting "Run as Administrator" and after FM opened, I opened the
> > MasterPage.fm file, made an entry in the file and was able to save it. OK,
> > good, but the Tools menu option still is not displayed on the FM main menu.
> > I am expecting to see File Edit Format View Special Graphics Table Adobe
> > RoboHelp AutoText Tools Webworks Window Help and instead, I am seeing File
> > Edit Format View Special Graphics Table Adobe RoboHelp Webworks Window Help.
> > I don't have the options for Auto Text and Tools and I have properly placed
> > the dlls for the tools as well as the corresponding .fm files. I have
> > confirmed that under View> Menus that Complete is selected.
> >
> >
> >
> > Has anyone run into this issue before and if so, how did you resolve it?
> >
> >
> >
> > TIA,
> >
> >
> >
> > TVB
> >
> >
> >
> > Tammy Van Boening
> >
> > Owner/Principal
> >
> > Spectrum Writing, LLC
> >
> > www.spectrumwritingllc.com
> >
> > info at spectrumwritingllc.com
> >
> >
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Slash in dialog boxes become bullets in pdf

OK, here are some more details:

* FrameMaker 8.0p277, unstructured

* Types of dialog boxes: Variable definitions and Index marker text.

* My variable format definition: SAILOR 6120/30/40/50 (just text, no 
character formats or anything)

* I think my index entry was "I/O connector" or something similar

* The font is a special company font (Type 1)

* I don't get any missing fonts messages in FrameMaker

* Another thing: I tried experimenting a bit. When the paragraph format 
had Weight = Bold, the problem was not there (that was the reason why my 
headings were OK). But since I can't have all my variables in bold,  I tried 
changing the variable definition with commas instead of slashes. Then I changed 
it back to slashes, and now the problem is gone! Exactly the same definition as 
before, but now I don't see the problem. Only trouble is: I am not very 
confident that the problem won't come back...
Regards,
Christiane

From: Roger Shuttleworth [mailto:rshuttlewo...@avbasesystems.com]
Sent: Tuesday, February 01, 2011 3:32 PM
To: Christiane Crety (CC)
Subject: Re: Slash in dialog boxes become bullets in pdf

Hi Christiane

You certainly are discovering some weird phenomena! It would help if you could 
give concrete examples, though. Can you post (to the list):
what version of FrameMaker
which dialog boxes you are referring to
the exact format for your variable
the character format definitions used in your variable, if any
what exactly you typed for your index entry
what fonts you are using, and the type (e.g. OpenType, Type 1, etc.)
whether you get any missing fonts messages in the  FM console

These details would help immensely in trying to help you.

Regards,
Roger

Roger Shuttleworth
Technical Documentation
AV-BASE Systems Inc.
1000 Air Ontario Drive, Suite 200
London, Ontario
N5V 3S4
Tel. 519 691-0919 ext. 330

From: Christiane Crety (CC) [mailto:c...@thrane.com]
To: framers at lists.frameusers.com [mailto:framers at lists.frameusers.com]
Sent: Tue, 01 Feb 2011 08:58:00 -0500
Subject: Slash in dialog boxes become bullets in pdf

Hi Framers,
Windows XP, Frame 8.0p277, unstructured.
Thanks for the replies to my e-mail about conditionalized cross-references - 
that one is still not solved, unfortunately :(.
Now I have a new problem: When I type a slash (/) in a dialog box, it comes out 
as a bullet in my pdf. I have seen it in my index and in a variable. One 
strange thing though: My variable is OK in headings, but in body text the 
slashes come out as bullets in the pdf. In my Frame files everything looks OK.
Any ideas/suggestions how I can avoid this? (I tried putting a backslash before 
the slash, but that didn't change anything)

Thanks,
Christiane
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Upgrading to TCS3 from FM9

2011-02-01 Thread John Sgammato

I am considering upgrading to TCS3. I do not have any TCS or any RoboHelp now, 
just FM9. I also have CS5 Design Premium.

TCS3 includes FM10, RH9, Acrobat, Captivate, and Photoshop. I already have 
Photoshop and Acrobat in CS5. I am a little anxious about adding them again 
when they are working fine already. 

It looks like a regular upgrade is $1299 for the whole package. I see no 
competitive upgrade deal or any upgrade that takes the CS5 into account. Does 
anyone here know of better deals on TCS3? I can wait awhile it the proce is 
likely to come down. 

John Sgammato
Principal Technical Writer
Imprivata, Inc
Read how Imprivata Rated Strong Positive in the 2010 Gartner Enterprise Single 
Sign-On Marketscope!

Question about some FM plugins

2011-02-01 Thread Mike Wickham

On 2/1/2011 9:10 AM, Fred Ridder wrote:
> You are assuming that the missing registration that the notice is 
> complaining about is a license registration. But it could also be that 
> the registration in question is an entry in the Windows Registry, or a 
> registration as a FrameMaker "API Client" in the corresponding section 
> of the maker.ini file. Since you're dealing with plug-ins, my guess is 
> that it's the latter. And if so, a further issue is whether the API 
> Client registration is in the "all users" copy of maker.ini or the 
> user-specific "overlay" maker.ini.
>

Except that the Silicon Prairie plugins don't use API clients, and even 
if they had, I had copied my my maker.ini file over to the new computer 
from a working installation. So they would have already been listed in 
there.

Anyway, the solution for me was to set the permissions on the previously 
mentioned files. There's no need to run FM in administrator mode.

Mike Wickham

"[Violation] Annotations were found inside the BleedBox, TrimBox or ArtBox on the following pages" and PDFX/1-a standard

2011-02-01 Thread Dov Isaacs

Joanna,

FrameMaker is not a graphic arts application. Its output is primarily RGB and 
the PostScript generated by the driver is not setup to generate PDF that will 
conform to the PDF/X-1a specification.

The PDF/X-1a specification doesn't allow for any of the cross reference stuff 
capabilities of PDF, annotations, embedded video, etc. It is strictly for 
old-style PDF CMYK and spot color printing without any transparency, layers, 
JPEG2000 compression, etc.

Unfortunately, the current FrameMaker "save as CMYK PDF" doesn't quite work 
right to yield a CMYK (plus spot color) PDF. The only workaround is to use 
Distiller settings to convert the RGB to CMYK, a somewhat risky proposition, or 
to use the color conversion features of Acrobat X Pro to selectively convert 
colors from RGB to CMYK and then, use the Acrobat X Pro preflight function to 
"fix" the file and create PDF/X-1a.

- Dov


> -Original Message-
> From: framers-bounces at lists.frameusers.com [mailto:framers-bounces at 
> lists.frameusers.com] On Behalf Of
> Joanna Przystup
> Sent: Tuesday, February 01, 2011 2:10 AM
> To: framers at lists.frameusers.com
> Subject: "[Violation] Annotations were found inside the BleedBox, TrimBox, or 
> ArtBox on the following
> pages" and PDFX/1-a standard
> 
> I have a problem with distilling ps file with the PDFX/1-a standard.
> Document is printed to ps from the FrameMaker application.
> 
> While distilling file, Acrobat Distiller creates a log containing following
> message:
> "[Violation] Annotations were found inside the BleedBox, TrimBox, or ArtBox
> on the following pages"
> and therefore none PDF file is produced.
> 
> I guess that it is related to the cross references. But what is strange - it
> doesn't appear in all of the books. When printed document is structured - it
> is printed well with the PDFX/1-a standard, and doesn't complain about
> annotations.
> 
> I've found two solutions for now - but none of them is actually acceptable:
> -replace all cross references with text
> -do not select Generate Acrobat Data when printing
> 
> I will appreciate your help with solving this problem
> 
> Joanna

"[Violation] Annotations were found inside the BleedBox, TrimBox or ArtBox on the following pages" and PDFX/1-a standard

2011-02-01 Thread Rick Quatro

Even more unfortunate is that the feature list for FrameMaker 10 still says,
"...pristine PDF output with CMYK support." Adobe should have the integrity
to remove this false claim from their marketing materials.

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

*** Frame Automation blog at http://frameautomation.com


Unfortunately, the current FrameMaker "save as CMYK PDF" doesn't quite work
right to yield a CMYK (plus spot color) PDF. The only workaround is to use
Distiller settings to convert the RGB to CMYK, a somewhat risky proposition,
or to use the color conversion features of Acrobat X Pro to selectively
convert colors from RGB to CMYK and then, use the Acrobat X Pro preflight
function to "fix" the file and create PDF/X-1a.

- Dov

"[Violation] Annotations were found inside the BleedBox, TrimBox or ArtBox on the following pages" and PDFX/1-a standard


You just have to use the Macintosh or Solaris version of FrameMaker 10 to get 
away from the Windows GDI. Oh, wait...  ;^)

-FR

> From: rick at rickquatro.com
> To: framers at lists.frameusers.com
> Subject: RE: "[Violation] Annotations were found inside the BleedBox, TrimBox 
> or ArtBox on the following pages" and PDFX/1-a standard
> Date: Tue, 1 Feb 2011 12:55:34 -0500
> 
> Even more unfortunate is that the feature list for FrameMaker 10 still says,
> "...pristine PDF output with CMYK support." Adobe should have the integrity
> to remove this false claim from their marketing materials.
> 
> Rick Quatro
> Carmen Publishing Inc.
> 585-659-8267
> rick at frameexpert.com
> 
> *** Frame Automation blog at http://frameautomation.com
> 
> 
> Unfortunately, the current FrameMaker "save as CMYK PDF" doesn't quite work
> right to yield a CMYK (plus spot color) PDF. The only workaround is to use
> Distiller settings to convert the RGB to CMYK, a somewhat risky proposition,
> or to use the color conversion features of Acrobat X Pro to selectively
> convert colors from RGB to CMYK and then, use the Acrobat X Pro preflight
> function to "fix" the file and create PDF/X-1a.
> 
> - Dov
> 
> 
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thin black line on some images

2011-02-01 Thread Gray, Steven (EPS)


Is there an actual fix for this? I often get these with AI formatted files, and 
my past searches indicated that it was an old bug that wasn't going to be 
squashed. I adjusted my workflow (at least with line art) to include Photoshop 
for cropping and converting to something like PNG. If there's a way to save a 
couple of steps, I'm all ear...um...eyes.

Steve Gray

> --
> 
> Message: 6
> Date: Mon, 31 Jan 2011 19:59:40 +
> From: Bethany Lee 
> To: "framers at lists.frameusers.com" 
> Subject: thin black line on some images
> Message-ID:
>   <46CCEA057904F843A17C18E826C4A7390E4F528A at Yoda.lakeshore.com>
> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii"
> 
> I have seen this thread somewhere and searched the archives 
> but couldn't find it:
> I am using FM 9 (all patches installed), and when I print to 
> PDF, some images appear with a thin black line on the right 
> side. I had this once before, and fixed it (so I know there's 
> a simple solution), but my IT guy did something to my 
> computer and now they are back. Does anybody remember the 
> solution to this?

thin black line on some images

If you'd like to solve this, it'd be helpful to the rest of us if
you'd provide the standard system info: OS, versions of Frame and
Acrobat, amount of RAM, how you're importing the graphics, the
graphics file format, how you're creating the PDF, and so on.

Art

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On Mon, Jan 31, 2011 at 2:59 PM, Bethany Lee  
wrote:
> I have seen this thread somewhere and searched the archives but couldn't find 
> it:
> I am using FM 9 (all patches installed), and when I print to PDF, some images 
> appear with a thin black line on the right side. I had this once before, and 
> fixed it (so I know there's a simple solution), but my IT guy did something 
> to my computer and now they are back. Does anybody remember the solution to 
> this?
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SV: "[Violation] Annotations were found inside the BleedBox, TrimBox or ArtBox on the following pages" and PDFX/1-a standard

2011-02-01 Thread Jacob Schäffer

Dov said:
< The only workaround is to use Distiller settings to convert the RGB to
CMYK, a somewhat risky proposition ... >

Not true, and Dov knows that. What Dov mean is that the only ADOBE
workaround for *prepress* PDF's is to ...

There are quite a few "repair" options out there in the wild cyperspace, and
I think Dov should have the chance to mention some of the very qualified
work-arounds for this problem, that's actually available for the Frame
users.

There are QUITE a few.

/Jacob


-Oprindelig meddelelse-
Fra: framers-bounces at lists.frameusers.com
[mailto:framers-bounces at lists.frameusers.com] P? vegne af Dov Isaacs
Sendt: 1. februar 2011 15:25
Til: framers at lists.frameusers.com
Emne: RE: "[Violation] Annotations were found inside the BleedBox, TrimBox
or ArtBox on the following pages" and PDFX/1-a standard

Joanna,

FrameMaker is not a graphic arts application. Its output is primarily RGB
and the PostScript generated by the driver is not setup to generate PDF that
will conform to the PDF/X-1a specification.

The PDF/X-1a specification doesn't allow for any of the cross reference
stuff capabilities of PDF, annotations, embedded video, etc. It is strictly
for old-style PDF CMYK and spot color printing without any transparency,
layers, JPEG2000 compression, etc.


Unfortunately, the current FrameMaker "save as CMYK PDF" doesn't quite work
right to yield a CMYK (plus spot color) PDF. The only workaround is to use
Distiller settings to convert the RGB to CMYK, a somewhat risky proposition,
or to use the color conversion features of Acrobat X Pro to selectively
convert colors from RGB to CMYK and then, use the Acrobat X Pro preflight
function to "fix" the file and create PDF/X-1a.

- Dov


> -Original Message-
> From: framers-bounces at lists.frameusers.com
[mailto:framers-bounces at lists.frameusers.com] On Behalf Of
> Joanna Przystup
> Sent: Tuesday, February 01, 2011 2:10 AM
> To: framers at lists.frameusers.com
> Subject: "[Violation] Annotations were found inside the BleedBox, TrimBox,
or ArtBox on the following
> pages" and PDFX/1-a standard
> 
> I have a problem with distilling ps file with the PDFX/1-a standard.
> Document is printed to ps from the FrameMaker application.
> 
> While distilling file, Acrobat Distiller creates a log containing
following
> message:
> "[Violation] Annotations were found inside the BleedBox, TrimBox, or
ArtBox
> on the following pages"
> and therefore none PDF file is produced.
> 
> I guess that it is related to the cross references. But what is strange -
it
> doesn't appear in all of the books. When printed document is structured -
it
> is printed well with the PDFX/1-a standard, and doesn't complain about
> annotations.
> 
> I've found two solutions for now - but none of them is actually
acceptable:
> -replace all cross references with text
> -do not select Generate Acrobat Data when printing
> 
> I will appreciate your help with solving this problem
> 
> Joanna
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Free webinar Wed

2011-02-01 Thread Sharon Burton

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thin black line on some images