Re: Book Set up and Pagination
Hi Pam, If you want to force the chapter-start to the right side, the technicians will need to print double-sided unfortunately. To do this, go to *Format Page Layout Pagination* (I work in FM10 so apologies if the menu items or options are slightly different, but I believe they're still the same) You want: - *Double Sided* - 1st Page Side = *Right* - Before saving and printing = *Make Page Count Even* - This option will leave a blank page at the end of the chapter if the text ends on a odd-numbered page. You may need to adjust your templates to match as well. HTH. Give me a shout if anything's not clear. Regards, Sam (fellow sole techwriter, and only FM user here) On 9 February 2015 at 22:43, Pam Harper phar...@bailiwick.com wrote: This is not one of the joys of being the only techwriter and Frame user here because this may be a simple question, but I’ve spent too many hours trying to figure this out, and so far no success. I develop manuals in Frame 12 that are PDF’d for cable and equipment technicians who must print them out before leaving for new installs. Usually I have set up the docs for single side with no right or left master pages (which looks awful when printed out). I’m working on a 180 page doc that I am setting up for a first page and left/right pages for every chapter in the book (although the first three don’t need that, I think). The first three sections of the doc are the cover (two pages—front and copyright), change page, and TOC. The fourth section, or chapter, is the installation chapter followed by separate appendices. How do I set up the book so that odd-numbered pages print out on the right side? I’d also would like to force each section to begin on the right side—how do I do that? Is putting in a blank page the only way to do that? This may not be too popular with technicians who already complain about the size of the docs. Pam Harper ___ You are currently subscribed to framers as samantha.n...@smoothwall.net. Send list messages to framers@lists.frameusers.com. To unsubscribe send a blank email to framers-unsubscr...@lists.frameusers.com or visit http://lists.frameusers.com/mailman/options/framers/samantha.nair%40smoothwall.net Send administrative questions to listad...@frameusers.com. Visit http://www.frameusers.com/ for more resources and info. -- Samantha Nair Software Technical Author *smoothwall* samantha.n...@smoothwall.com www.smoothwall.com Head Office : 1 John Charles Way, Leeds, LS12 6QA, United Kingdom Tech Office : Eagle Point, Little Park Farm Road, Fareham, PO15 5TD, United Kingdom US Office : 8008 Corporate Center Dr #410, Charlotte, NC 28226, United States Telephone: UK: +44 870-199-9500 US: +1 800-959-3760 https://www.facebook.com/smoothwall?ref=hl [image: http://s3-eu-west-1.amazonaws.com/smoothwallweb/twitter.png] https://twitter.com/Smoothwall [image: http://s3-eu-west-1.amazonaws.com/smoothwallweb/googleplus.png] https://plus.google.com/u/0/105975318877636922166/posts [image: circle_test] http://smoothwall.uservoice.com/forums/145832-general [image: linkedin_test] https://www.linkedin.com/company/smoothwall-ltd Smoothwall Limited is registered in England, Company Number: 4298247 and whose registered address is 1 John Charles Way, Leeds, LS12 6QA United Kingdom. This email and any attachments transmitted with it are confidential to the intended recipient(s) and may not be communicated to any other person or published by any means without the permission of Smoothwall Ltd. Any opinions stated in this message are solely those of the author. ___ You are currently subscribed to framers as arch...@mail-archive.com. Send list messages to framers@lists.frameusers.com. To unsubscribe send a blank email to framers-unsubscr...@lists.frameusers.com or visit http://lists.frameusers.com/mailman/options/framers/archive%40mail-archive.com Send administrative questions to listad...@frameusers.com. Visit http://www.frameusers.com/ for more resources and info.
Re: Book Set up and Pagination
Sorry. I meant Samantha gave you most of the answer. -- Shmuel Wolfson Technical Writer 052-763-7133 On 10-Feb-15 12:43 AM, Pam Harper wrote: This is not one of the joys of being the only techwriter and Frame user here because this may be a simple question, but I’ve spent too many hours trying to figure this out, and so far no success. I develop manuals in Frame 12 that are PDF’d for cable and equipment technicians who must print them out before leaving for new installs. Usually I have set up the docs for single side with no right or left master pages (which looks awful when printed out). I’m working on a 180 page doc that I am setting up for a first page and left/right pages for every chapter in the book (although the first three don’t need that, I think). The first three sections of the doc are the cover (two pages—front and copyright), change page, and TOC. The fourth section, or chapter, is the installation chapter followed by separate appendices. How do I set up the book so that odd-numbered pages print out on the right side? I’d also would like to force each section to begin on the right side—how do I do that? Is putting in a blank page the only way to do that? This may not be too popular with technicians who already complain about the size of the docs. Pam Harper ___ You are currently subscribed to framers as shmue...@gmail.com. Send list messages to framers@lists.frameusers.com. To unsubscribe send a blank email to framers-unsubscr...@lists.frameusers.com or visit http://lists.frameusers.com/mailman/options/framers/shmuelw1%40gmail.com Send administrative questions to listad...@frameusers.com. Visit http://www.frameusers.com/ for more resources and info. ___ You are currently subscribed to framers as arch...@mail-archive.com. Send list messages to framers@lists.frameusers.com. To unsubscribe send a blank email to framers-unsubscr...@lists.frameusers.com or visit http://lists.frameusers.com/mailman/options/framers/archive%40mail-archive.com Send administrative questions to listad...@frameusers.com. Visit http://www.frameusers.com/ for more resources and info.
Re: Book Set up and Pagination
I see Pam gave you most of the answer. Just a few things to add: 1. If the first few sections do not have footers (front, copyright, change page), I would put them in the same chapter for your own convenience. The TOC should have headers/footers and generally has roman numeral page numbering (i, ii, iii). 2. There are two places to change the pagination, in the chapter file and in the book. In the book, you right-click and select pagination. In the chapter, you do it as Pam described. I always set my pagination in the book so as not to get confused. I'm not an expert on this and if anyone else has advice on it I'd love to hear. -- Shmuel Wolfson Technical Writer 052-763-7133 On 10-Feb-15 12:43 AM, Pam Harper wrote: This is not one of the joys of being the only techwriter and Frame user here because this may be a simple question, but I’ve spent too many hours trying to figure this out, and so far no success. I develop manuals in Frame 12 that are PDF’d for cable and equipment technicians who must print them out before leaving for new installs. Usually I have set up the docs for single side with no right or left master pages (which looks awful when printed out). I’m working on a 180 page doc that I am setting up for a first page and left/right pages for every chapter in the book (although the first three don’t need that, I think). The first three sections of the doc are the cover (two pages—front and copyright), change page, and TOC. The fourth section, or chapter, is the installation chapter followed by separate appendices. How do I set up the book so that odd-numbered pages print out on the right side? I’d also would like to force each section to begin on the right side—how do I do that? Is putting in a blank page the only way to do that? This may not be too popular with technicians who already complain about the size of the docs. Pam Harper ___ You are currently subscribed to framers as shmue...@gmail.com. Send list messages to framers@lists.frameusers.com. To unsubscribe send a blank email to framers-unsubscr...@lists.frameusers.com or visit http://lists.frameusers.com/mailman/options/framers/shmuelw1%40gmail.com Send administrative questions to listad...@frameusers.com. Visit http://www.frameusers.com/ for more resources and info. ___ You are currently subscribed to framers as arch...@mail-archive.com. Send list messages to framers@lists.frameusers.com. To unsubscribe send a blank email to framers-unsubscr...@lists.frameusers.com or visit http://lists.frameusers.com/mailman/options/framers/archive%40mail-archive.com Send administrative questions to listad...@frameusers.com. Visit http://www.frameusers.com/ for more resources and info.
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It sounds like you might be trying to include all of the content in the manual in one Framemaker file. If that is the case, then I recommend you break the content out into separate files; one for the cover, one for the change page and TOC (although I would put each of these in separate files because I'd want each to start on a righthand page), one for each chapter, and one for the appendices. Then add the files to a Framemaker book file. From there, follow Shmuel 's and Pamela's advice. Carol At 11:00 AM 2/10/2015, you wrote: Im working on a 180 page doc that I am setting up for a first page and left/right pages for every chapter in the book (although the first three dont need that, I think). The first three sections of the doc are the cover (two pagesfront and copyright), change page, and TOC. The fourth section, or chapter, is the installation chapter followed by separate appendices. How do I set up the book so that odd-numbered pages print out on the right side? Id also would like to force each section to begin on the right sidehow do I do that? Is putting in a blank page the only way to do that? ___ You are currently subscribed to framers as arch...@mail-archive.com. Send list messages to framers@lists.frameusers.com. To unsubscribe send a blank email to framers-unsubscr...@lists.frameusers.com or visit http://lists.frameusers.com/mailman/options/framers/archive%40mail-archive.com Send administrative questions to listad...@frameusers.com. Visit http://www.frameusers.com/ for more resources and info.
RE: Framemaker 11 crashes when comparing books
Not answering the original question, but ... You can clean up hundreds of lock files in one swell foop. Just use Windows file explorer to search for .lck in the relevant folder, sort the results by date, check they're all from the time you opened the book, select them all, and delete. We've had a lot of practice at this lately! Cheers Rebecca ___ You are currently subscribed to framers as arch...@mail-archive.com. Send list messages to framers@lists.frameusers.com. To unsubscribe send a blank email to framers-unsubscr...@lists.frameusers.com or visit http://lists.frameusers.com/mailman/options/framers/archive%40mail-archive.com Send administrative questions to listad...@frameusers.com. Visit http://www.frameusers.com/ for more resources and info.
Re: Book Set up and Pagination
In FM itself, I set (for all book files) Format/Page Layout/Pagination: double-sided AND 1st page side: right AND Make Page Count Even. Each chapter/clause is a separate file in the book for this to work. After creating a PDF, I always open it and choose in Properties/initial view: Two-up (cover page) for Page layout and Fit Page for Magnification. This is for the PDF. If I print that PDF two-sided, it prints as you would want it to. ___ Marilyn Fausset Fausset and Associates, Inc. ___ You are currently subscribed to framers as arch...@mail-archive.com. Send list messages to framers@lists.frameusers.com. To unsubscribe send a blank email to framers-unsubscr...@lists.frameusers.com or visit http://lists.frameusers.com/mailman/options/framers/archive%40mail-archive.com Send administrative questions to listad...@frameusers.com. Visit http://www.frameusers.com/ for more resources and info.
Re: Book Set up and Pagination (Steve Waldenga)
Hi Pam, You may also need to open the reference pages (View Reference Pages) and map your right and left handed master pages to specific paragraph tags. My reference pages have the mapping table at the end. For starting sections on the right page, I think you could use the Paragraph Designer to edit the paragraph tag the section starts with (Heading1 for example). Set the Pagination setting's Start option to Top of Right Page. I use FrameMaker 9 but I think this should still be similar. Regards, Steve Waldenga Steve Waldenga / 王安祖 MitraStar Technology Corp. Creative Design Department +886-3-577-7998 ext. 55691 www.mitrastar.com Message: 2 Date: Tue, 10 Feb 2015 08:59:10 + From: Samantha Nair samantha.n...@smoothwall.net To: Pam Harper phar...@bailiwick.com Cc: framers@lists.frameusers.com framers@lists.frameusers.com Subject: Re: Book Set up and Pagination Message-ID: CAMzo5=nOjNELo=4rawuqtdujfvnf3ypeqaruhmgr+w3r399...@mail.gmail.com Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Hi Pam, If you want to force the chapter-start to the right side, the technicians will need to print double-sided unfortunately. To do this, go to *Format Page Layout Pagination* (I work in FM10 so apologies if the menu items or options are slightly different, but I believe they're still the same) You want: - *Double Sided* - 1st Page Side = *Right* - Before saving and printing = *Make Page Count Even* - This option will leave a blank page at the end of the chapter if the text ends on a odd-numbered page. You may need to adjust your templates to match as well. HTH. Give me a shout if anything's not clear. Regards, Sam (fellow sole techwriter, and only FM user here) On 9 February 2015 at 22:43, Pam Harper phar...@bailiwick.com wrote: This is not one of the joys of being the only techwriter and Frame user here because this may be a simple question, but I?ve spent too many hours trying to figure this out, and so far no success. I develop manuals in Frame 12 that are PDF?d for cable and equipment technicians who must print them out before leaving for new installs. Usually I have set up the docs for single side with no right or left master pages (which looks awful when printed out). I?m working on a 180 page doc that I am setting up for a first page and left/right pages for every chapter in the book (although the first three don?t need that, I think). The first three sections of the doc are the cover (two pages?front and copyright), change page, and TOC. The fourth section, or chapter, is the installation chapter followed by separate appendices. How do I set up the book so that odd-numbered pages print out on the right side? I?d also would like to force each section to begin on the right side?how do I do that? Is putting in a blank page the only way to do that? This may not be too popular with technicians who already complain about the size of the docs. Pam Harper This email and any files transmitted with it may contain information of MitraStar Technology Corporation that are privileged / confidential and intended solely for the use of the individual or entity to whom they are addressed. If you are not the named addressee you should not disseminate, disclose, distribute, copy, or use this e-mail. Please notify the sender immediately by e-mail if you have received this e-mail by mistake and delete this e-mail from your system. ___ You are currently subscribed to framers as arch...@mail-archive.com. Send list messages to framers@lists.frameusers.com. To unsubscribe send a blank email to framers-unsubscr...@lists.frameusers.com or visit http://lists.frameusers.com/mailman/options/framers/archive%40mail-archive.com Send administrative questions to listad...@frameusers.com. Visit http://www.frameusers.com/ for more resources and info.
