[Framers] autonumbers in Arabic
Hi all, We need to setup a template in Arabic. FM comes with three different numbering styles: , and . Anyone of you with experience with Arabic in FM who can tell me the difference? Thanks! Vriendelijke groet / Kind regards, Wim Hooghwinkel ___ This message is from the Framers mailing list Send messages to framers@lists.frameusers.com Visit the list's homepage at http://www.frameusers.com Archives located at http://www.mail-archive.com/framers%40lists.frameusers.com/ Subscribe and unsubscribe at http://lists.frameusers.com/listinfo.cgi/framers-frameusers.com Send administrative questions to listad...@frameusers.com
Re: [Framers] Table of Contents issue in FM-generated PDF
Hi Matt, are you using a character format on the headings? A hyperlink box to a paragraph may break where a character format starts. Vriendelijke groet / Kind regards, Wim Hooghwinkel ___ This message is from the Framers mailing list Send messages to framers@lists.frameusers.com Visit the list's homepage at http://www.frameusers.com Archives located at http://www.mail-archive.com/framers%40lists.frameusers.com/ Subscribe and unsubscribe at http://lists.frameusers.com/listinfo.cgi/framers-frameusers.com Send administrative questions to listad...@frameusers.com
Re: [Framers] Basic question: hyperlinks to paragraphs
Hi Bertrand, not sure if that will work, but did you try to use markers? Insert a marker (of your own type) at the target location and create a link (hyperlink or cross-ref) to that marker that displays the marker text. Additional benefit is that it will also allow you to create an 'index' of those markers in your publication. Else, best advise is to contact Rick Quatro and ask him to propose a script that will help you to insert those newlink and gotolink markers in asiple manner. He’s very good at that. A script is an investment, but ROI is very quick. Vriendelijke groet / Kind regards, Wim Hooghwinkel ___ This message is from the Framers mailing list Send messages to framers@lists.frameusers.com Visit the list's homepage at http://www.frameusers.com Archives located at http://www.mail-archive.com/framers%40lists.frameusers.com/ Subscribe and unsubscribe at http://lists.frameusers.com/listinfo.cgi/framers-frameusers.com Send administrative questions to listad...@frameusers.com
Re: [Framers] Character codes
Hi Doug, you could open the Character Palette in FM (used to be under file-utilities, in FM2019 it’s at Insert-character) and then find the character. It will display the different unicode codes. Vriendelijke groet / Kind regards, Wim Hooghwinkel ___ This message is from the Framers mailing list Send messages to framers@lists.frameusers.com Visit the list's homepage at http://www.frameusers.com Archives located at http://www.mail-archive.com/framers%40lists.frameusers.com/ Subscribe and unsubscribe at http://lists.frameusers.com/listinfo.cgi/framers-frameusers.com Send administrative questions to listad...@frameusers.com
Re: [Framers] image background problem
Hi Ken, support for transparency is better with newer FM versions, I’m not sure how FM10 yet supports PSD. Transparency should be supported when saving the PSD as EPS in Photoshop. In any case: be aware that transparency is NOT previewd on screen. Even not with newer FM versions (I think only from FM2019?). To test the transparency you need a PostScript printer - or print to PDF using a PostScript printer driver. If you use any non-postscript printer (inktjet etc) transparency won’t work. Vriendelijke groet / Kind regards, Wim Hooghwinkel > Op 17 sep. 2020, om 22:02 heeft framers-requ...@lists.frameusers.com het > volgende geschreven: > > But when I imported the new (psd) image to partly overlay another graphic > element on the first page of the FrameMaker 10 version of the newsletter, the > imported graphic still has that white area which overlays the other graphic > element. Which is what I don't want. ___ This message is from the Framers mailing list Send messages to framers@lists.frameusers.com Visit the list's homepage at http://www.frameusers.com Archives located at http://www.mail-archive.com/framers%40lists.frameusers.com/ Subscribe and unsubscribe at http://lists.frameusers.com/listinfo.cgi/framers-frameusers.com Send administrative questions to listad...@frameusers.com
Re: [Framers] FrameMaker 12 and Parallels on a Mac (running Windows 10)
Hi Z, i think the solution is to run Parallels with Graphics setting ’scaled’ in stead of 'Best for Retina'. The problem is that the FM user interface is not prepared for high-resolution display. This was only resolved by the Adobe development team with version FM 2017. Vriendelijke groet / Kind regards, Wim Hooghwinkel > Op 30 aug. 2020, om 22:02 heeft framers-requ...@lists.frameusers.com het > volgende geschreven: > > Is there anybody else running FM under Parallels without these problems? Is > there some setting (perhaps in the INI file for FM12) that could correct for > this? ___ This message is from the Framers mailing list Send messages to framers@lists.frameusers.com Visit the list's homepage at http://www.frameusers.com Archives located at http://www.mail-archive.com/framers%40lists.frameusers.com/ Subscribe and unsubscribe at http://lists.frameusers.com/listinfo.cgi/framers-frameusers.com Send administrative questions to listad...@frameusers.com
Re: [Framers] FrameMaker and transparency
Hi Ken, Short answer: yes it does. Fm supports transparency in EPS files. But: you don’t see it on screen. And, it only works when printing to a postscript printer (or pdf). Vriendelijke groet / Kind regards, Wim Hooghwinkel Fonto <http://www.fontoxml.com/> | DITAToo <http://www.ditatoo.com/> | FrameMaker <http://framemakerspecialist.nl/> | edc <http://www.easydoccontents.com/> | AEM <http://www.adobe.com/nl/products/xml-documentation-add-on-for-experience-manager.html> | MiramoPDF <https://www.miramo.com/english/overview/overview.html> Phone +31652036811 Skype wimhooghwinkel Twitter @idtp Web www.idtp.eu Check my LinkedIn <https://www.linkedin.com/in/hooghwinkel/> profile for latest updates - > Op 16 mei 2020, om 22:02 heeft framers-requ...@lists.frameusers.com het > volgende geschreven: > > Short question: Does FrameMaker 10 support transparency (i.e., no background) > in imported graphics or not? ___ This message is from the Framers mailing list Send messages to framers@lists.frameusers.com Visit the list's homepage at http://www.frameusers.com Archives located at http://www.mail-archive.com/framers%40lists.frameusers.com/ Subscribe and unsubscribe at http://lists.frameusers.com/listinfo.cgi/framers-frameusers.com Send administrative questions to listad...@frameusers.com
Re: [Framers] X-ref issue: FM links that work in the FM file but don't work in the PDF file
Hi Barry, a valid xref will always produce a link in PDF - unless (at the time of creating the pdf) the xref target can not be found - or the xref points to a file that’s not part of the current book. Best way to find broken links is to set the conditions for the whole book (as you need to have for the pdf), do an update and than do a search for 'unresolved cross references'. Or (depending on the FM vesion you have) open (all) the files and use the Cross-Reference pod, filter on External Cross references or Unresolves Cross References. This will give a nice overview. Vriendelijke groet / Kind regards, Wim Hooghwinkel > Op 15 mei 2020, om 22:02 heeft framers-requ...@lists.frameusers.com het > volgende geschreven: > >> Links that work in an FM file (i.e., when you double click on a link, >> clicking the resulting "Go to Source" button jumps you to the correct >> source) do NOT always work when the file is converted to PDF. ___ This message is from the Framers mailing list Send messages to framers@lists.frameusers.com Visit the list's homepage at http://www.frameusers.com Archives located at http://www.mail-archive.com/framers%40lists.frameusers.com/ Subscribe and unsubscribe at http://lists.frameusers.com/listinfo.cgi/framers-frameusers.com Send administrative questions to listad...@frameusers.com
Re: [Framers] running H/F
Hello Tom, not sure if this helps, but do you know that you can add multiple paragraph format names in your Running H/F definition? Separated by comma (I think). FM will pick up the first available form your content. So, for example, if your definition is <$paratext[Heading1,HeadingNN,TOC_Heading]> it will pick up Heading1 from a regular chapter, HeadingNN from your preface and TOC_Heading from your TOC. Or whatever naminhg you use. This way you can use the same H/F variable for different documents in your book and don’t need to restore after importing variables. Vriendelijke groet / Kind regards, Wim Hooghwinkel > Op 30 mrt. 2020, om 22:02 heeft framers-requ...@lists.frameusers.com het > volgende geschreven: > > > Every time I do a revision I use the rename book components that you did for > me to save tons of time. However, I still have to go through are revise the > headers. Normally, I change the header (includes document number) in one > chapter, then select all of the other parts of the document and import > variable definitions. This works, but I still have to go back to restore the > running H/F for the preface, TOC, and Glossaries (each of which has a > separate paragraph tag). If there was a script that integrated all of that > into one, or at least a way to import variable definitions while ignoring > those that have running headers that are different from the source document, > that could also be quite useful. ___ This message is from the Framers mailing list Send messages to framers@lists.frameusers.com Visit the list's homepage at http://www.frameusers.com Archives located at http://www.mail-archive.com/framers%40lists.frameusers.com/ Subscribe and unsubscribe at http://lists.frameusers.com/listinfo.cgi/framers-frameusers.com Send administrative questions to listad...@frameusers.com
Re: [Framers] FM19 Publish PDF Problem
Hi John, we had a similar issue lately - it turned out to be a Windows10 problem: running windows update solved it. Vriendelijke groet / Kind regards, Wim Hooghwinkel - ___ This message is from the Framers mailing list Send messages to framers@lists.frameusers.com Visit the list's homepage at http://www.frameusers.com Archives located at http://www.mail-archive.com/framers%40lists.frameusers.com/ Subscribe and unsubscribe at http://lists.frameusers.com/listinfo.cgi/framers-frameusers.com Send administrative questions to listad...@frameusers.com
Re: [Framers] Smart Paste
Hi Rick, the smart paste is a XSL defined in your structured application (for example for DITA: $STRUCTDIR\xml\DITA_1.2\app\technicalContent\xslt\h2d.xsl) So I guess you can modify that to your needs. As far as I understood, the original idea is that you copy something (from word) that is saved from the clipboard as HTML. Then this HTML is converted to (DITA) XML . So I’m not sure if that will work with copied XML. Vriendelijke groet / Kind regards, Wim Hooghwinkel > Op 9 sep. 2019, om 22:02 heeft framers-requ...@lists.frameusers.com het > volgende geschreven: > > Has anyone used the Smart Paste feature with their own style sheets? I am > trying to figure out if I can copy xml to the clipboard and paste it into > FrameMaker, transforming it using Smart Paste. I haven't had any success > figuring out how it all works. Any pointers would be appreciated. Thanks. ___ This message is from the Framers mailing list Send messages to framers@lists.frameusers.com Visit the list's homepage at http://www.frameusers.com Archives located at http://www.mail-archive.com/framers%40lists.frameusers.com/ Subscribe and unsubscribe at http://lists.frameusers.com/listinfo.cgi/framers-frameusers.com Send administrative questions to listad...@frameusers.com
Re: [Framers] Framers Digest, Vol 160, Issue 4
Hi Roger, as mentioned: there are other tools to convert Word to XML. One example is Convertoo (http://convertoo.net/ <http://convertoo.net/>) , from the makers of DITAToo. This tool will convert Word to DITA XML and does a very good job especially if your word doc is consistent in structure. Result is DITA XML that can be easily reworked in FrameMaker. HTH Vriendelijke groet / Kind regards, Wim Hooghwinkel > Op 22 jul. 2019, om 22:02 heeft framers-requ...@lists.frameusers.com het > volgende geschreven: > > Message: 1 > Date: Mon, 22 Jul 2019 13:18:00 +0100 > From: Roger Shuttleworth mailto:shutti...@gmail.com>> > To: Framers <mailto:framers@lists.frameusers.com>> > Subject: [Framers] OT: Word to XML > Message-ID: <7e58e876-d580-94b5-0cf8-833dea1de...@gmail.com > <mailto:7e58e876-d580-94b5-0cf8-833dea1de...@gmail.com>> > Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8; format=flowed > > Hello Framers > > This is somewhat off-topic as it doesn't directly concern FrameMaker > (though it could). Nevertheless, I know there are people on this list > who are much more knowledgeable than I, so here goes... > > I have a set of well over 100 Word documents (I know...) that I would > like to convert to simple XML (not the kind that Word exports!). They > are all four pages long and pretty consistent in terms of structure, and > paragraph styles are used for the most part, though not character > styles. If you were me, what methods would you look at? > > I have used structured FM for years and am familiar with DITA and > DocBook. I know that there is a route from Word doc > FrameMaker > > Structured FrameMaker > XML that would involve creating a conversion > table, a DTD, and a structured application. I have done that in the > past, though it was a few years ago. I realise that it would mean a lot > of up-front work to get it working, as well as ensuring that styles are > used fully and consistently in my source documents. > > But is that what you would recommend? > > I have FM11. Would a later version of FM add anything to that? > > Or is there a non-FrameMaker route that I am unaware of? I have done a > web search but not come up with much. Is there a route via HTML or XHTML? > > What about MIF2Go? I understand that it still works with FM11, but is it > capable of converting to XML? > > Any and all ideas would be welcome. I value your input as it will help > me avoid a lot of dead ends. > > Roger ___ This message is from the Framers mailing list Send messages to framers@lists.frameusers.com Visit the list's homepage at http://www.frameusers.com Archives located at http://www.mail-archive.com/framers%40lists.frameusers.com/ Subscribe and unsubscribe at http://lists.frameusers.com/listinfo.cgi/framers-frameusers.com Send administrative questions to listad...@frameusers.com
Re: [Framers] Framers Digest, Vol 157, Issue 7
My question concerns unstructured FM. So it’s no topics…. Vriendelijke groet / Kind regards, Wim Hooghwinkel > Op 10 apr. 2019, om 22:02 heeft framers-requ...@lists.frameusers.com het > volgende geschreven: > > Hi > this is the answer for 2017, I presume it is the same for 2019 > You need to edit the settings file. > Choose Edit then > Click the Style mappings tab > Under general settings > "Add all Topics to Table of contents" should be selected. > then in "Topic Name pattern" you should choose <$paratext> > > I think it is not possible to send a screen cap to the group, let me know > if you want a screen cap offline, or any more details ___ This message is from the Framers mailing list Send messages to framers@lists.frameusers.com Visit the list's homepage at http://www.frameusers.com Archives located at http://www.mail-archive.com/framers%40lists.frameusers.com/ Subscribe and unsubscribe at http://lists.frameusers.com/listinfo.cgi/framers-frameusers.com Send administrative questions to listad...@frameusers.com
[Framers] TOC pane in responsive HTML
Hi, I’m not so into HTML publishing - can someone explain how to get titles in the TOC pane of the responsive HTML 5 output, in stead of the file names? FM2019. (found this old thread but the links don’t work anymore : Re: [Framers] Publish Newbie - TOC pane in responsive HTML <https://www.mail-archive.com/search?l=framers@lists.frameusers.com=subject:%22Re%5C%3A+%5C%5BFramers%5C%5D+Publish+Newbie+%5C-+TOC+pane+in+responsive+HTML%22=newest>) Thanks, Vriendelijke groet / Kind regards, Wim Hooghwinkel ___ This message is from the Framers mailing list Send messages to framers@lists.frameusers.com Visit the list's homepage at http://www.frameusers.com Archives located at http://www.mail-archive.com/framers%40lists.frameusers.com/ Subscribe and unsubscribe at http://lists.frameusers.com/listinfo.cgi/framers-frameusers.com Send administrative questions to listad...@frameusers.com
Re: [Framers] DITA to FrameMaker Composite Template Location
Hi Rick, in your users folder is a file named ditafm-output.ini. In this file the path to your templates is defined. By default it is TemplateDir=$STRUCTDIR\xml\DITA\outputTemplates Vriendelijke groet / Kind regards, Wim Hooghwinkel FontoXML <http://www.fontoxml.com/> | DITAToo <http://www.ditatoo.com/> | FrameMaker <http://framemakerspecialist.nl/> | edc <http://www.easydoccontents.com/> | AEM <http://www.adobe.com/nl/products/xml-documentation-add-on-for-experience-manager.html> | MiramoPDF <https://www.miramo.com/english/overview/overview.html> Phone +31652036811 Skype wimhooghwinkel Twitter @idtp Web www.idtp.eu Check my LinkedIn <https://www.linkedin.com/in/hooghwinkel/> profile for latest updates - ___ This message is from the Framers mailing list Send messages to framers@lists.frameusers.com Visit the list's homepage at http://www.frameusers.com Archives located at http://www.mail-archive.com/framers%40lists.frameusers.com/ Subscribe and unsubscribe at http://lists.frameusers.com/listinfo.cgi/framers-frameusers.com Send administrative questions to listad...@frameusers.com
[Framers] EDD structured fm - how to test for a child element?
Hi all,
working on a EDD - I know how to test for siblings (like {before} or {after}
etc.) - but is there a way to test for child elements?
Rule I need:
if context is (my element has a child named ) then do …… etc.
thanks…!
Vriendelijke groet / Kind regards,
Wim Hooghwinkel
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Re: [Framers] FM 2017 Columns and Continued Lines
Hi Julie, you could use a (one column) table for each Part Number and the belonging references. Put the Part Number paragraph in the table header (or table title) and add the table continued variable. This will be repeated at the top of each column where the table breaks. Vriendelijke groet / Kind regards, Wim Hooghwinkel FontoXML <http://www.fontoxml.com/> | DITAToo <http://www.ditatoo.com/> | FrameMaker <http://framemakerspecialist.nl/> | edc <http://www.easydoccontents.com/> | AEM <http://www.adobe.com/nl/products/xml-documentation-add-on-for-experience-manager.html> | MiramoPDF <https://www.miramo.com/english/overview/overview.html> Phone +31652036811 Skype wimhooghwinkel Twitter @idtp Web www.idtp.eu Check my LinkedIn <https://www.linkedin.com/in/hooghwinkel/> profile for latest updates - > Op 27 aug. 2018, om 22:02 heeft framers-requ...@lists.frameusers.com het > volgende geschreven: > > I work in Unstructured FrameMaker 2017 and have no background with > scripting or automating tasks. There may not be a simple solution, but > figured it couldn't hurt to ask. > > I have a file I've imported from Word that contains a Part Number and then > a list of chapter references for the part. The part number and chapter > reference each have their own paragraph tag. The page is set up as 3 > columns and whenever the chapter references break over to a new column the > client wants the part number repeated with (CONT) added. > > The file I'm working on is 60 pages long and I have an additional file > approx same size yet to do. I can set it up manually, but would have to > redo everytime something is added or deleted to the file. > > Is there any automated way of making this happen or is manually the only > solution? > > Thanks/Julie ___ This message is from the Framers mailing list Send messages to framers@lists.frameusers.com Visit the list's homepage at http://www.frameusers.com Archives located at http://www.mail-archive.com/framers%40lists.frameusers.com/ Subscribe and unsubscribe at http://lists.frameusers.com/listinfo.cgi/framers-frameusers.com Send administrative questions to listad...@frameusers.com
Re: [Framers] SVG graphic with photograph not importing
Hi Lin, we had the same issue. Try to 'ungroup all' before saving as SVG. Vriendelijke groet / Kind regards, Wim Hooghwinkel - ___ This message is from the Framers mailing list Send messages to framers@lists.frameusers.com Visit the list's homepage at http://www.frameusers.com Archives located at http://www.mail-archive.com/framers%40lists.frameusers.com/ Subscribe and unsubscribe at http://lists.frameusers.com/listinfo.cgi/framers-frameusers.com Send administrative questions to listad...@frameusers.com
Re: [Framers] Graphic dpi on import from XML
Hi Rick, I don’t think there is by default. Normally, when you rescale an image in FM it saves the width and height propertys in the XML. So you if you can find out the right dimensions you could add those to the image element before opening. Vriendelijke groet / Kind regards, Wim Hooghwinkel FontoXML <http://www.fontoxml.com/> | DITAToo <http://www.ditatoo.com/> | FrameMaker <http://framemakerspecialist.nl/> | edc <http://www.easydoccontents.com/> | AEM <http://www.adobe.com/nl/products/xml-documentation-add-on-for-experience-manager.html> Phone +31652036811 Skype wimhooghwinkel Twitter @idtp Web www.idtp.eu Check my LinkedIn <https://www.linkedin.com/in/hooghwinkel/> profile for latest updates - > Op 20 jun. 2018, om 22:02 heeft framers-requ...@lists.frameusers.com het > volgende geschreven: > > Hi, > > > > I have some dita content that has references to some png files. When > FrameMaker opens the files, the images come in at 72 dpi. Is there a way to > specify a different value, like 96 dpi? Is there a read/write rule for this? > Thank you very much. > > > > Rick ___ This message is from the Framers mailing list Send messages to framers@lists.frameusers.com Visit the list's homepage at http://www.frameusers.com Archives located at http://www.mail-archive.com/framers%40lists.frameusers.com/ Subscribe and unsubscribe at http://lists.frameusers.com/listinfo.cgi/framers-frameusers.com Send administrative questions to listad...@frameusers.com
Re: [Framers] Adobe "support?"
Hi all, take your chance and fill in the survey - you may even win a price … Ok, too bad there’s no free form field to enter your comments, but may be you can find anotherw ay to express your frustrations… or try this one for support: tcsg...@adobe.com <mailto:tcsg...@adobe.com>. To take the survey: http://bit.ly/2rZPpsW <http://bit.ly/2rZPpsW> Good luck! Vriendelijke groet / Kind regards, Wim Hooghwinkel ___ This message is from the Framers mailing list Send messages to framers@lists.frameusers.com Visit the list's homepage at http://www.frameusers.com Archives located at http://www.mail-archive.com/framers%40lists.frameusers.com/ Subscribe and unsubscribe at http://lists.frameusers.com/listinfo.cgi/framers-frameusers.com Send administrative questions to listad...@frameusers.com
Re: [Framers] Setting up coloured text in Structure
Hi Fei Min, you should use paragraph and chatracter formats for your elements. Use the outputclass value to determine the format to use. Then change the formats in your template as needed. Vriendelijke groet / Kind regards, Wim Hooghwinkel FontoXML <http://www.fontoxml.com/> | DITAToo <http://www.ditatoo.com/> | FrameMaker <http://framemakerspecialist.nl/> | edc <http://www.easydoccontents.com/> | AEM <http://www.adobe.com/nl/products/xml-documentation-add-on-for-experience-manager.html> Phone +31652036811 Skype wimhooghwinkel Twitter @idtp Web www.idtp.eu Check my LinkedIn <https://www.linkedin.com/in/hooghwinkel/> profile for latest updates - ___ This message is from the Framers mailing list Send messages to framers@lists.frameusers.com Visit the list's homepage at http://www.frameusers.com Archives located at http://www.mail-archive.com/framers%40lists.frameusers.com/ Subscribe and unsubscribe at http://lists.frameusers.com/listinfo.cgi/framers-frameusers.com Send administrative questions to listad...@frameusers.com
Re: [Framers] Static image to video feature
The nice thing is that the pdf will be perfectly printable plus will be interactive when viewed online or on screen. Actually pdf files are more used for online viewing then for printing. Also, from FM you could use the same source to create html. Kind regards, Wim Hooghwinkel > Op 16 nov. 2017 om 22:04 heeft framers-requ...@lists.frameusers.com het > volgende geschreven: > > I think the only supported embedded format is MP4. > > Personally I find it perverse to use PDF as a container for anything > that's not printable, but I guess there's no more appropriate > single-file format. ___ This message is from the Framers mailing list Send messages to framers@lists.frameusers.com Visit the list's homepage at http://www.frameusers.com Archives located at http://www.mail-archive.com/framers%40lists.frameusers.com/ Subscribe and unsubscribe at http://lists.frameusers.com/listinfo.cgi/framers-frameusers.com Send administrative questions to listad...@frameusers.com
Re: [Framers] Static image to video feature
Hi Ken, first import the video file (check what formats are supported, MP4, Mpeg, etc) using the file-import dialog. Then right click the imported file and choose set poster to find an image that wil be displayed in the pdf. This image will be clickable and start the video. FM12 has a sample manual in the samples folder that shows this. I don’t think this sample is in FM11, but it works for the same. Vriendelijke groet / Kind regards, Wim Hooghwinkel ___ This message is from the Framers mailing list Send messages to framers@lists.frameusers.com Visit the list's homepage at http://www.frameusers.com Archives located at http://www.mail-archive.com/framers%40lists.frameusers.com/ Subscribe and unsubscribe at http://lists.frameusers.com/listinfo.cgi/framers-frameusers.com Send administrative questions to listad...@frameusers.com
[Framers] FM2017 - locations of conditional tags?
Hi all, up to FM2015 the 'add/edit condition tag’ window displayed a list of locations for the selected tag. In FM2017 the 'edit conditional tag' window doesn’t have this anymore. Is there now another way to display a list of locations of condtional tags - or is this a bug? Thanks, Vriendelijke groet / Kind regards, Wim Hooghwinkel ___ This message is from the Framers mailing list Send messages to framers@lists.frameusers.com Visit the list's homepage at http://www.frameusers.com Archives located at http://www.mail-archive.com/framers%40lists.frameusers.com/ Subscribe and unsubscribe at http://lists.frameusers.com/listinfo.cgi/framers-frameusers.com Send administrative questions to listad...@frameusers.com
Re: [Framers] OT: CMS Scope
Hi, you didn’t mention your name, what you describe is very organization centric. Try to look at it form a client perspective, from the users point of view. What do your users need? What do your clients need, both new and existing ones? That should be the staring point and, if you do that right, it will give enough ROI arguments to defend the idea of a unified content strategy. And think about content services. And, by the way, there’s no such thing as an Enterprise CMS that will cover all. Let everyone use their own systems but govern it centrally. Kind regards, Wim Hooghwinkel Information Energy, <http://www.informationenergy.org/program/> 17-18 mei 2017 in Utrecht! FontoXML <http://www.fontoxml.com/> | DITAToo <http://www.ditatoo.com/> | FrameMaker <http://framemakerspecialist.nl/> > > Hi All, > > What is the typical scope of coverage for an enterprise CMS? I'm trying to > establish ROI and just cannot see it for me as a tech writer in the > environment I'm in. Should a CMS only attempt to cover tech pubs? I admit > that I cannot see how it is possible to bring in all of the content sources > from all of the completely disconnected groups into one system and have that > facilitate any level of productivity. I do not see any possible return unless > all of the content sources feed the same system and support all of the > mechanisms (metadata, etc.) that would be required. > > We have several CMS and approaches to managing our IP, and you will easily > see that when something like a small accessory piece is discontinued or > changes, it is a monumental effort just to identify where that topic may be > discussed. The rest of this just illustrates the environment and sources of > content. > > SharePoint for the Intranet. IT bought the license, only certain modules, and > turned it loose to each department head to manage their own Intranet space. > It is an ad-hoc nightmare, not to mention that only about half the > departments moved their content into SharePoint so there is a mix. > > TeamSite to SiteCore for the website. This provides a form interface for the > person that enters page content and downloadable content. They are fed > information off-the-cuff by product marketing managers. There is no mechanism > for content reuse at all. It is an equal nightmare. > > The mechanical group has a "vault" that requires SolidWorks to access. There > is no file-level access that I can see. There is something similar for the > electronic design group. The programmers use a GIT repository. All of the > designs (PDF files) and software deliverables (executable/installation code) > ultimately gets manually copied to an accessible network folder under and > managed by corporate engineering services (CES). > > The production lines and our customer service group use whatever they want, > depending on the person, to develop mfg/assembly/test procedures, training > programs, etc. These are archived in department folders and managed by those > individual teams and may include videos, podcasts, webinars, PowerPoint, > Word, PDF, etc... > > The design engineers write design concepts such as theory of operation, > presentations, white papers, and other deeply technical stuff, using whatever > they want and keeping wherever (local HDD, random network). The product > marketing engineers/product managers write sales guides and application > notes, and support all user/marketing content. These teams pass their > deliverables directly to the Marketing/Web teams. The project managers are > using OneNote to collect project activities and all related documents that > may include Excel, Word, PPT, etc. files, or links to network folders and > other Intranet locations. > > Marcom uses Adobe creative suite, mostly InDesign and primarily contract the > work out. There is also all of the typical marketing stuff like banners, > magazine articles, video, webinars, etc... > The Pubs group uses unstructured FrameMaker and an old-fashioned book > paradigm to create user manuals, and they are directly under Marcom. There > are only a couple writers and each has their own product lines. Content > re-use mostly comes in the form of a document that covers a particular topic > or technology. For example, all of the boiler plate type stuff is in a > separate guide that is associate with a number of like products. > > Anything requiring revision control is managed in a Unix based ERP system > that also manages inventory, BOM structures, order entry, etc. There is a > "corporate" element of content as well. > > ___ This message is from the Framers mailing list Send messages to framers@lists.fr
[Framers] Include PDF in a book
Hi, I’m a bit confused about this: in a FM book I can add a .pdf file. But it doesn’t print with the .book. Anyone knows a runaround for this? Or is it just not possible (tried up to FM 2015). Vriendelijke groet / Kind regards, Wim Hooghwinkel ___ This message is from the Framers mailing list Send messages to framers@lists.frameusers.com Visit the list's homepage at http://www.frameusers.com Archives located at http://www.mail-archive.com/framers%40lists.frameusers.com/ Subscribe and unsubscribe at http://lists.frameusers.com/listinfo.cgi/framers-frameusers.com Send administrative questions to listad...@frameusers.com
Re: [Framers] How to get xml to use structured application
Hi Rick, in your structured application, add the Entities element and declare the Public ID and the (local) path to the DTD. (if you’re using the structured application designer, go to advanced settings and then it’s on the bottom of the screen) RE: However, the xml file has to be in the same folder as ixxus.dtd. Is there a way to avoid this requirement? Thank you very much. Vriendelijke groet / Kind regards, Wim Hooghwinkel ___ This message is from the Framers mailing list Send messages to framers@lists.frameusers.com Visit the list's homepage at http://www.frameusers.com Archives located at http://www.mail-archive.com/framers%40lists.frameusers.com/ Subscribe and unsubscribe at http://lists.frameusers.com/listinfo.cgi/framers-frameusers.com Send administrative questions to listad...@frameusers.com
[Framers] FM2015 - Repeat chaptertitlename variable contents?
Hi Framers, Adobe team, FM2015, book with folders: how to repeat, reuse, the <$chaptertitlename> variable contents in subsequent files in the folder. This variable displays the 'chapter title name' in the folder-template (as expected), but it displays the file name in other files. Can the contents be picked up by other files in the same folder? Or should this be a feature request for the next FM version? Vriendelijke groet / Kind regards, Wim Hooghwinkel ___ This message is from the Framers mailing list Send messages to framers@lists.frameusers.com Visit the list's homepage at http://www.frameusers.com Archives located at http://www.mail-archive.com/framers%40lists.frameusers.com/ Subscribe and unsubscribe at http://lists.frameusers.com/listinfo.cgi/framers-frameusers.com Send administrative questions to listad...@frameusers.com
Re: [Framers] Saving custom ruling and shading
Hi Nancy, You can not save custom ruling and shading in a table format. You have to set the ruling and shading in the Table designer. Or did you do that? Vriendelijke groet / Kind regards, Wim Hooghwinkel ___ This message is from the Framers mailing list Send messages to framers@lists.frameusers.com Visit the list's homepage at http://www.frameusers.com Archives located at http://www.mail-archive.com/framers%40lists.frameusers.com/ Subscribe and unsubscribe at http://lists.frameusers.com/listinfo.cgi/framers-frameusers.com Send administrative questions to listad...@frameusers.com
Re: [Framers] SVG exported from Adobe Illustrator is all black
Hi Yves, I’ve been struggling with SVGs in the past. It turns out that Adobe Illustrator SVG doesn’t show with FM - not sure why but is has to do with extra code that Illustrator adds. We used a software named 'svgcleaner' to remove all unnecessary code and that helped. If you open the SVG in inkscape you can try to figure out what part of the code creates the problem. Vriendelijke groet / Kind regards, Wim Hooghwinkel Information Energy <http://informationenergy.org/> | FontoXML <http://www.fontoxml.com/> | DITAToo <http://www.ditatoo.com/> | FrameMaker <http://framemakerspecialist.nl/> tel. +31652036811 Skype wimhooghwinkel Twitter @idtp @ien2016 www.idtp.eu > Op 24 aug. 2016, om 21:05 heeft framers-requ...@lists.frameusers.com het > volgende geschreven: > > SVG exported from Adobe Illustrator is all black ___ This message is from the Framers mailing list Send messages to framers@lists.frameusers.com Visit the list's homepage at http://www.frameusers.com Archives located at http://www.mail-archive.com/framers%40lists.frameusers.com/ Subscribe and unsubscribe at http://lists.frameusers.com/listinfo.cgi/framers-frameusers.com Send administrative questions to listad...@frameusers.com
[Framers] Subject: Need FrameMaker Language Help
Hi Rick, I’m not sure what you’re looking for, but if you edit the EDD and add the Language element (in PropertiesFont) you get the list of available languages as element to insert. No need to type manually. Update the EDD to current version (in your case FM11) to get the corresponding supported languages. For FM2015 the list will include arabic, hebrew, farsi, etc.. In MIF, all languages are written out in English. So if you need to check the correct language code, mark a paragraph with that language, save as MIF and read out what is written for Language. All other use of language coding (for example to use in the xml:lang attribute) is actually arbitrary and subject to what your client needs to confirm to. Vriendelijke groet / Kind regards, Wim Hooghwinkel ___ This message is from the Framers mailing list Send messages to framers@lists.frameusers.com Visit the list's homepage at http://www.frameusers.com Archives located at http://www.mail-archive.com/framers%40lists.frameusers.com/ Subscribe and unsubscribe at http://lists.frameusers.com/listinfo.cgi/framers-frameusers.com Send administrative questions to listad...@frameusers.com
[Framers] Subject: Special Characters in Variables
Hello Art, just typing a dash works for me. Or are you looking for other special characters? The contents of a variable should be unicode. Best approach for special characters (in any language) would be to type the text in a Unicode text editor, then copy and past it into the variable definition box. Vriendelijke groet / Kind regards, Wim Hooghwinkel ___ This message is from the Framers mailing list Send messages to framers@lists.frameusers.com Visit the list's homepage at http://www.frameusers.com Archives located at http://www.mail-archive.com/framers%40lists.frameusers.com/ Subscribe and unsubscribe at http://lists.frameusers.com/listinfo.cgi/framers-frameusers.com Send administrative questions to listad...@frameusers.com
Re: FrameMaker 9 Internal error 9004 issue
Did you try to open frame as administrator - maybe only once is enough. I think you need local administrator rights to work with FM. Also check your local user folder. That must be accessible and writable. Kind regards, Wim Hooghwinkel ___ 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.
Mif2go issue: invalid markup
Hi, do we still have some mif2go gurus out there? My mif2go conversion (FM11 to dita) creates invalid markup in some cases. Any help in solving this appreciated … My procedure has an image in a step. I expect it to be converted as: step cmd.../cmd info fig title ../title image/ /fig /info /step but in stead it comes out as: step cmd ../cmd fig title…/title info image / /fig /info /step As you can see, the info element starts inside the fig, but ends outside the fig element. Any idea…? Also, any suggestion for a smart script or SXLT that can solve this (in hundreds of topics …) appreciated. Thanks…. Vriendelijke groet / Kind regards, Wim Hooghwinkel ___ 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.
Building blocks for LOR
Hi, I’m looking for an overview of possible building blocks for a List Of References. For this special case I generate a list of referenced images. By default FM adds $referencename as building block. This results in the file name, plus (for bitmaps) the dpi setting. I’d like to add the dimensions (height-width), or percentage scaling. Anyone? Vriendelijke groet / Kind regards, Wim Hooghwinkel ___ 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.
cross-ref to marker(text)
Hi all, unstructured FM. Can I make a cross-ref to a (cross-ref, other) marker and display the marker text? Alternative could be to create a hypertext marker - but how can a Hypertext marker point to a another FM document that is part of the same book? Any other suggestions for the above? Client wants to make hyperlinks in the document that point to other or same FM files (like cross-refs) but wants to be able to use custom text. Thanks, Vriendelijke groet / Kind regards, Wim Hooghwinkel ___ 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.
SVG import FrameMaker 11
Hi, one of my clients reports an issue with SVG files in FM11. There’s no preview for imported SVG’s and re-importing gives a filter error. SVG’s are created in Illustrator (CS6). Anyone els seen this, what can be the cause? (note: the SVG’s displayed fine in previous FM version) Vriendelijke groet / Kind regards, Wim Hooghwinkel ___ 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: SVG import FrameMaker 11 failed
Som extra info: we found a logfile (empty), named svg2pdf.log after the svg import failed. does FM convert SVG to PDF to create a preview? Vriendelijke groet / Kind regards, Wim Hooghwinkel Op 13 mrt. 2015, om 11:26 heeft Wim Hooghwinkel - idtp w...@idtp.eu het volgende geschreven: Hi, one of my clients reports an issue with SVG files in FM11. There’s no preview for imported SVG’s and re-importing gives a filter error. SVG’s are created in Illustrator (CS6). Anyone els seen this, what can be the cause? (note: the SVG’s displayed fine in previous FM version) Vriendelijke groet / Kind regards, Wim Hooghwinkel ___ 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: Scrolling pages issue
Hi Dave, this is a 'well known' FrameMaker issue. It has to do with your image format (jpg?) and image color settings. We had similar issues with sRGB jpg images. Somehow FM has trouble translating the color information to screen presentation. You, and others experiencing the same, should report it to the FrameMaker development team (in cc) so they can do something about it for a next release. Vriendelijke groet / Kind regards, Wim Hooghwinkel Information Energy http://informationenergy.org/, June 3 2015 Closing the loop with FontoXML http://www.fontoxml.com/ DITA content management with DITAToo http://www.ditatoo.com/ tel. +31652036811 Skype wimhooghwinkel Twitter @idtp @ien2013 i...@idtp.eu www.idtp.eu ___ 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 on MacOS Retina display?
I also have screen resolution at 1440x900. Check your Parallels video configuration settings: I’ve set Resolution to 'scaled'. This way you don’t use the full retina resolution but the 'best’ for windows. Vriendelijke groet / Kind regards, Wim Hooghwinkel Information Energy http://informationenergy.org/, June 3 2015 Closing the loop with FontoXML http://www.fontoxml.com/ DITA content management with DITAToo http://www.ditatoo.com/ tel. +31652036811 Skype wimhooghwinkel Twitter @idtp @ien2013 i...@idtp.eu www.idtp.eu ___ 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: Customizing anchored frames in FM12 (unstructured)
Hi Tom, you can use the object style designer to create an object style that puts a border on the frame. Apply the object style just as you would apply a paragraph format. BTW: I would think that a table will scale when published to HTML for tablet use? It may depend on how you publish the Fm files. Vriendelijke groet / Kind regards, Wim Hooghwinkel Information Energy http://informationenergy.org/, June 3 2015 Closing the loop with FontoXML http://www.fontoxml.com/ DITA content management with DITAToo http://www.ditatoo.com/ tel. +31652036811 Skype wimhooghwinkel Twitter @idtp @ien2013 i...@idtp.eu www.idtp.eu Op 9 jan. 2015, om 19:00 heeft framers-requ...@lists.frameusers.com het volgende geschreven: 1) I would like to have a thin border around all graphic frames, but can't find anything within the FM help menus that tells me how to do this. ___ 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: two columns
Hi Rebecca, Frame has no section breaks. Instead you can use a paragraph format that spans both columns to 'break' the page (use the pagination tab of the paragraph designer and set the paragraph to be 'across all columns'). Columns will reflow above and start below again. Use that paragraph to anchor your table. Vriendelijke groet / Kind regards, Wim Hooghwinkel Op 8 dec. 2014, om 19:00 heeft framers-requ...@lists.frameusers.com het volgende geschreven: I am converting a two column word document into FrameMaker. The size and format must remain the same. Is there a way to add something like section breaks (continuous) in a FrameMaker document? I need to wrap a column previous to a table that spans both columns. Then I will continue using the left column that then again wraps into the right column. If anyone can help me I would be most grateful. ___ 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: Fm book with .xml files
Hi Tino, Yes, that’s what happens when the chapters are .fm files. In my case the chapters are .xml files. Vriendelijke groet / Kind regards, Wim Hooghwinkel Information Energy http://informationenergy.org/, June 3 2015 Closing the loop with FontoXML http://www.fontoxml.com/ DITA content management with DITAToo http://www.ditatoo.com/ tel. +31652036811 Skype wimhooghwinkel Twitter @idtp @ien2013 i...@idtp.eu www.idtp.eu Op 5 dec. 2014, om 01:53 heeft Heiko Haida i...@heiko-haida.de het volgende geschreven: Hi Wim, when I save a book file as XML, all chapters are included as entities (external references). Of course this is not a single file, but still it works. What is your problem with it? Best regards - Tino H. Haida, Berlin Wim Hooghwinkel - idtp: Hi, for a project we use a FM book with .xml files (not DITA, it's customized Docbook). The book file has valid XML structure (book, chapters etc). If I save the book to XML the referenced .xml files are omitted from the resulting XML. Any advice how to get a XML from the book file with all referenced .xml files in it? Vriendelijke groet / Kind regards, Wim Hooghwinkel Information Energy http://informationenergy.org/, June 3 2015 Closing the loop with FontoXML http://www.fontoxml.com/ DITA content management with DITAToo http://www.ditatoo.com/ tel. +31652036811 Skype wimhooghwinkel Twitter @idtp @ien2013 i...@idtp.eu mailto:i...@idtp.eu www.idtp.eu http://www.idtp.eu/ ___ 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.
Fm book with .xml files
Hi, for a project we use a FM book with .xml files (not DITA, it's customized Docbook). The book file has valid XML structure (book, chapters etc). If I save the book to XML the referenced .xml files are omitted from the resulting XML. Any advice how to get a XML from the book file with all referenced .xml files in it? Vriendelijke groet / Kind regards, Wim Hooghwinkel Information Energy http://informationenergy.org/, June 3 2015 Closing the loop with FontoXML http://www.fontoxml.com/ DITA content management with DITAToo http://www.ditatoo.com/ tel. +31652036811 Skype wimhooghwinkel Twitter @idtp @ien2013 i...@idtp.eu www.idtp.eu ___ 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: Docbook bookfile
I’ll redefine my question: for a specific use case I’m investigating the option of using a docbook book file to let my client edit and maintain their docbook-based xml files in a book-like setting. Analog to the ditamap. Now when I open a docbook book file in FM, FM converts it directly to a FM book. All XML files are converted to fm files. That’s not what I want. I want the author to be able to open the docbook book file as XML, be able to edit the individual linked XML files and eventually save the complete book as FM book for publishing. So my question to current docbook FM users: has one of you found a solution for this, maybe a script or a way of working that resembles the topic based approach of DITA maps? Thanks, Vriendelijke groet / Kind regards, Wim Hooghwinkel ___ 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: Docbook bookfile
Thanks all … for your kind concerns about me trying to do a docbook experiment in the DITA ages …. I have been working with docbook (variants) already back in the FrameMaker 5.5 days, so support for docbook has been there in FM, I know. And it still is. In the early days this support was not based on round tripping the XML. My current client has inherited a simple, docbook based structured application. They maintain both a structured FM version (book with chapters) and individual XML files (one for each chapter). To get them working in a real single sourcing set up (that is, not having to maintain FM versions anymore) my first approach would be to mimic a ditamap or fm-book by using the docbook book doctype. This book can link to XML files, being the first step to topic based. But, as Alan points out, FM converts each component to a FM file when opening the book XML file. I have not been doing docbook or any other custom XML in FM for a long time, and being spoiled by all the DITA support suddenly feel a bit clumsy by trying to get a docbook book into FM. So, I was wondering if any of you already had found or made a solution for that. Eventually my client will move to DITA. But as they have a lot of current content it’s not feasible to start a conversion project now. We have to find a short term solution to let them continue working with the content as it is. Vriendelijke groet / Kind regards, Wim Hooghwinkel ___ 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: FM9 Crashes when Creating PDFs with files that Contain PDFs
Hi Alison, If you’re really sure that the FM files have not been changed, nor have the (PDF) images referenced, then it must be something in your system. Did you (or someone else) change a local printer or a network printer? Or did you remove, or update VISIO installation or MSoffice? Or change other software? It’s possible that the pdf files you created from visio use a font that is no longer available on your system. You won’t notice until it’s gone ... Another thing is remove all your temp files, and font cache files (search your PC). Your distiller folder has a cache, plus saved error messages. may be these can give a clue? Vriendelijke groet / Kind regards, Wim Hooghwinkel November 11-13 TcWorld 2014 http://conferences.tekom.de/tcworld14/ Closing the loop with FontoXML http://www.fontoxml.com/ DITA content management with DITAToo http://www.ditatoo.com/ tel. +31652036811 Skype wimhooghwinkel Twitter @idtp @ien2013 i...@idtp.eu www.idtp.eu ___ 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: Frame 9 Crashing - Can't Create PDFs
I don’t think FrameMaker dictionary has any influence on acrobat processing. dict refers to the postscript dictionary. xshow often relates to a font issue. Re-installing acrobat, actually the pdf printer driver, may help. Or check the settings in the acrobat distiller program (font locations, font settings). Is the pdf printer your default printer when saving to PDF? Try printing another document, does that give the same error? Vriendelijke groet / Kind regards, Wim Hooghwinkel November 11-13 TcWorld 2014 http://conferences.tekom.de/tcworld14/ Closing the loop with FontoXML http://www.fontoxml.com/ DITA content management with DITAToo http://www.ditatoo.com/ tel. +31652036811 Skype wimhooghwinkel Twitter @idtp @ien2013 i...@idtp.eu www.idtp.eu Op 22 okt. 2014, om 22:52 heeft Craig, Alison alison.cr...@ultrasonix.com het volgende geschreven: Actually, now that I look more closely at the log file contents, it says: Stack: -dict- /d Any chance that -dict- could refer to a problem with the dictionary file? Although why, or if, this would cause a problem, I don’t know. Alison From: Craig, Alison Sent: Wednesday, October 22, 2014 1:50 PM To: 'Wim Hooghwinkel - idtp' Cc: framers@lists.frameusers.com mailto:framers@lists.frameusers.com Subject: RE: Frame 9 Crashing - Can't Create PDFs Wim: The log file just states the following. And as the program seems to crash on Chapter 1 or 2, I don’t think it’s an image as I haven’t made any image changes in those chapters since I successfully created Review copies of the Book back in September. Alison %%[ ProductName: Distiller ]%% %%[ Error: typecheck; OffendingCommand: xshow ]%% Stack: -dict- /d %%[ Flushing: rest of job (to end-of-file) will be ignored ]%% %%[ Warning: PostScript error. No PDF file produced. ] %% From: Wim Hooghwinkel - idtp [mailto:w...@idtp.eu mailto:w...@idtp.eu] Sent: Wednesday, October 22, 2014 12:13 PM To: Craig, Alison Cc: framers@lists.frameusers.com mailto:framers@lists.frameusers.com Subject: Re: Frame 9 Crashing - Can't Create PDFs Hi Alison, this often relates to either a font issue or an image (or both). Can you check in the logfile what is just before the error message? Does the FM console give any messages (missing fonts…)? Vriendelijke groet / Kind regards, Wim Hooghwinkel November 11-13 TcWorld 2014 http://conferences.tekom.de/tcworld14/ Closing the loop with FontoXML http://www.fontoxml.com/ DITA content management with DITAToo http://www.ditatoo.com/ tel. +31652036811 Skype wimhooghwinkel Twitter @idtp @ien2013 i...@idtp.eu mailto:i...@idtp.eu www.idtp.eu http://www.idtp.eu/ ___ 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: Frame 9 Crashing - Can't Create PDFs
Does the FrameMaker log file (console.txt) give any messages? Vriendelijke groet / Kind regards, Wim Hooghwinkel November 11-13 TcWorld 2014 http://conferences.tekom.de/tcworld14/ Closing the loop with FontoXML http://www.fontoxml.com/ DITA content management with DITAToo http://www.ditatoo.com/ tel. +31652036811 Skype wimhooghwinkel Twitter @idtp @ien2013 i...@idtp.eu www.idtp.eu Op 22 okt. 2014, om 22:52 heeft Craig, Alison alison.cr...@ultrasonix.com het volgende geschreven: Actually, now that I look more closely at the log file contents, it says: Stack: -dict- /d Any chance that -dict- could refer to a problem with the dictionary file? Although why, or if, this would cause a problem, I don’t know. Alison From: Craig, Alison Sent: Wednesday, October 22, 2014 1:50 PM To: 'Wim Hooghwinkel - idtp' Cc: framers@lists.frameusers.com mailto:framers@lists.frameusers.com Subject: RE: Frame 9 Crashing - Can't Create PDFs Wim: The log file just states the following. And as the program seems to crash on Chapter 1 or 2, I don’t think it’s an image as I haven’t made any image changes in those chapters since I successfully created Review copies of the Book back in September. Alison %%[ ProductName: Distiller ]%% %%[ Error: typecheck; OffendingCommand: xshow ]%% Stack: -dict- /d %%[ Flushing: rest of job (to end-of-file) will be ignored ]%% %%[ Warning: PostScript error. No PDF file produced. ] %% From: Wim Hooghwinkel - idtp [mailto:w...@idtp.eu mailto:w...@idtp.eu] Sent: Wednesday, October 22, 2014 12:13 PM To: Craig, Alison Cc: framers@lists.frameusers.com mailto:framers@lists.frameusers.com Subject: Re: Frame 9 Crashing - Can't Create PDFs Hi Alison, this often relates to either a font issue or an image (or both). Can you check in the logfile what is just before the error message? Does the FM console give any messages (missing fonts…)? Vriendelijke groet / Kind regards, Wim Hooghwinkel November 11-13 TcWorld 2014 http://conferences.tekom.de/tcworld14/ Closing the loop with FontoXML http://www.fontoxml.com/ DITA content management with DITAToo http://www.ditatoo.com/ tel. +31652036811 Skype wimhooghwinkel Twitter @idtp @ien2013 i...@idtp.eu mailto:i...@idtp.eu www.idtp.eu http://www.idtp.eu/ ___ 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: Frame 9 Crashing - Can't Create PDFs
Hi Alison, this often relates to either a font issue or an image (or both). Can you check in the logfile what is just before the error message? Does the FM console give any messages (missing fonts…)? Vriendelijke groet / Kind regards, Wim Hooghwinkel November 11-13 TcWorld 2014 http://conferences.tekom.de/tcworld14/ Closing the loop with FontoXML http://www.fontoxml.com/ DITA content management with DITAToo http://www.ditatoo.com/ tel. +31652036811 Skype wimhooghwinkel Twitter @idtp @ien2013 i...@idtp.eu www.idtp.eu ___ 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: wrapping DITA steps in tables
Hi Rebecca,
interesting question. Theoretically it should be possible to 'translate’ the
steps element into a FrameMaker table, for presentation, just like we do with
the properties element.
It would put some heavy constraints on your content however, as each step must
have exactly one cmd and one info element.
You’ll need to adapt the read/write rules and the EDD. I just did a test and it
seems to work. Look at the constructs for the property element in the reference
rules and EDD to see how you can set it up. This what I’ve got in the rules
file:
/* steps */
element steps {
is fm table element;
fm property columns value is 2;
attribute props is fm property column widths;
}
fm element fm-stepsbody unwrap;
element step {
is fm table row element;
fm property row type value is Body;
}
element cmd is fm table cell element;
element info is fm table cell element;
(note: I used default FM DITA, not DITA-fmx yet)(note: I left out the table
heading ….)
To make it work in the EDD I made steps to be Element (Table), where general
rule is fm-stepsbody.
Then fm-stepsbody has step+ and step (Table Row) has cmd, info.
cmd and info are both Table Cell.
Actually, in a task topic this works like a charm and is a perfect template to
make 'clean' tasks.
Using (cmd, info) as the general rule for step makes inserting and adding steps
very easy.
In the WYSIWYG view I can see a table, while in the XML view I can see the
correct steps xml code.
Thanks for the suggestion ….
Then
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Re: Frame crash on Windows under parallels
Just a quick follow up: since I reported this I had no crash anymore. So, still waiting to be able to send a screen shot and report …. Vriendelijke groet / Kind regards, Wim Hooghwinkel Op 24 jun. 2014, om 19:24 heeft Adobe Technical Communication techc...@adobe.com het volgende geschreven: Just wanted to let ALL know that Adobe is looking into this issue reported by Wim. We are waiting for some screen-shots and more details from Wim. The moment we find the right solution, we will share with the group. Thanks for your support and patience. Warm Regards, Saibal Bhattacharjee Senior Product Marketing Manager, Adobe Systems Inc. image001.gif image002.png Technical Communication Suite | FrameMaker | RoboHelp image003.gif FrameMaker XML Author | FrameMaker Publishing Server | RoboHelp Server From: Wim Hooghwinkel - idtp [mailto:w...@idtp.eu] Sent: Tuesday, June 24, 2014 8:09 PM To: Alan Houser Cc: framers@lists.frameusers.com; Adobe Technical Communication Subject: Re: Frame crash on Windows under parallels Hi Alan, I also had the impression it had to do with the mouse. But lately it aso happened when my mouse was dead (battery…). Especially when a book is open (or a ditamap) and some pods/panels, the document screen gets smaller and can not show the complete page. Scrolling left or right causes a crash... Vriendelijke groet / Kind regards, Wim Hooghwinkel June 19-20 Congility 2014 - Closing the loop with FontoXML tel. +31652036811 Skype wimhooghwinkel Twitter @idtp @ien2013 i...@idtp.eu www.idtp.eu Op 24 jun. 2014, om 15:35 heeft Alan Houser a...@groupwellesley.com het volgende geschreven: I can tell you that you're not alone. :-( I'm running the same environment. Horizontal scroll on an unsaved file ... boom. Never fails. I see this most often in structured mode, but I do most of my work in that mode. I always assumed it was my Apple Magic Mouse(TM), but perhaps not. ___ 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.
OT: script to convert Images to SVG using AI
Hi all, I need to convert a bunch of images (all kinds: EPS, JPG, BMP etc) to SVG format. It works with Adobe Illustrator, but to do 700 images manually is a lot of work. Anyone familiar with Extendscript for AI who can help me writing a script? I also need to update the FM files afterwards. Or any other suggestions... Thanks, Vriendelijke groet / Kind regards, Wim Hooghwinkel ___ 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: script to convert Images to SVG using AI
Hi Craig, thanks, I already use that script. But I need to do some additional modifications to get correct SVG files: adapt drawing area to illustration borders and set resolution to 300 dpi. If someone can tell me how to add these to the script I’m (almost) done ... Vriendelijke groet / Kind regards, Wim Hooghwinkel June 19-20 Congility 2014 - Closing the loop with FontoXML tel. +31652036811 Skype wimhooghwinkel Twitter @idtp @ien2013 i...@idtp.eu www.idtp.eu Op 29 jun. 2014, om 20:22 heeft Craig Ede craig...@hotmail.com het volgende geschreven: AI CS6 includes a script called SaveDocAsSVG (Under File Scripts). This will save all open docs in AI to SVG. I did a test with three open docs and it took a little while, but all three docs were converted. Since it works with whatever docs are open I doubt that it cares what format they came in as. The ones that I used were AI files. Craig From: framers-boun...@lists.frameusers.com [mailto:framers-boun...@lists.frameusers.com] On Behalf Of Wim Hooghwinkel - idtp Sent: Sunday, June 29, 2014 4:35 AM To: framers@lists.frameusers.com Subject: OT: script to convert Images to SVG using AI Hi all, I need to convert a bunch of images (all kinds: EPS, JPG, BMP etc) to SVG format. It works with Adobe Illustrator, but to do 700 images manually is a lot of work. Anyone familiar with Extendscript for AI who can help me writing a script? I also need to update the FM files afterwards. Or any other suggestions... Thanks, Vriendelijke groet / Kind regards, Wim Hooghwinkel ___ 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.
Frame crash on Windows under parallels
Hi, I often get a frame crash when scrolling a page horizontally. Error message: Crash in HScrollTrack: 2044 This happens when I’m working with a remote screen (or beamer, while giving training…) or even on my laptop screen. I’m using Windows7 Ultimate running in Parallels (lots of memory and other space, all latest updates). Happens in FM10, 11 and 12. Anyone else seeing this - should I address Adobe or Parallels? thanks, Vriendelijke groet / Kind regards, Wim Hooghwinkel ___ 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: Frame crash on Windows under parallels
Hi Vikram, this is both in structured and unstructured mode. Not only FM12, same in FM10 and FM11. I’ll send you a screenshot later. Vriendelijke groet / Kind regards, Wim Hooghwinkel June 19-20 Congility 2014 - Closing the loop with FontoXML tel. +31652036811 Skype wimhooghwinkel Twitter @idtp @ien2013 i...@idtp.eu www.idtp.eu Op 24 jun. 2014, om 15:33 heeft TCS Support tcs...@adobe.com het volgende geschreven: Hello Wim, Good Afternoon !! Are you using Adobe Framemaker 12 in “Structured” or “Unstructured” Mode ? Can you share a screenshot of that Error Message (FM12 crash) ? Thanks, Vikram Gaur Adobe Support From: framers-boun...@lists.frameusers.com [mailto:framers-boun...@lists.frameusers.com] On Behalf Of Wim Hooghwinkel - idtp Sent: Tuesday, June 24, 2014 6:24 PM To: framers@lists.frameusers.com Cc: Adobe Technical Communication Subject: Frame crash on Windows under parallels Hi, I often get a frame crash when scrolling a page horizontally. Error message: Crash in HScrollTrack: 2044 This happens when I’m working with a remote screen (or beamer, while giving training…) or even on my laptop screen. I’m using Windows7 Ultimate running in Parallels (lots of memory and other space, all latest updates). Happens in FM10, 11 and 12. Anyone else seeing this - should I address Adobe or Parallels? thanks, Vriendelijke groet / Kind regards, Wim Hooghwinkel ___ 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: Frame crash on Windows under parallels
Hi Alan, I also had the impression it had to do with the mouse. But lately it aso happened when my mouse was dead (battery…). Especially when a book is open (or a ditamap) and some pods/panels, the document screen gets smaller and can not show the complete page. Scrolling left or right causes a crash... Vriendelijke groet / Kind regards, Wim Hooghwinkel June 19-20 Congility 2014 - Closing the loop with FontoXML tel. +31652036811 Skype wimhooghwinkel Twitter @idtp @ien2013 i...@idtp.eu www.idtp.eu Op 24 jun. 2014, om 15:35 heeft Alan Houser a...@groupwellesley.com het volgende geschreven: I can tell you that you're not alone. :-( I'm running the same environment. Horizontal scroll on an unsaved file ... boom. Never fails. I see this most often in structured mode, but I do most of my work in that mode. I always assumed it was my Apple Magic Mouse(TM), but perhaps not. ___ 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: Reproducible FM12 file corruption
I tried in FM 11 - same result. So t’s not bound to FM 12. Could it be that some short keys get mixed up? Vriendelijke groet / Kind regards, Wim Hooghwinkel June 19-20 Congility 2014 - Closing the loop with FontoXML tel. +31652036811 Skype wimhooghwinkel Twitter @idtp @ien2013 i...@idtp.eu www.idtp.eu Op 2 jun. 2014, om 19:00 heeft framers-requ...@lists.frameusers.com het volgende geschreven: Reproducible FM12 file corruption Vriendelijke groet / Kind regards, Wim Hooghwinkel June 19-20 Congility 2014 - Closing the loop with FontoXML tel. +31652036811 Skype wimhooghwinkel Twitter @idtp @ien2013 i...@idtp.eu www.idtp.eu ___ 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.
(no) Console file in FM11 and FM12
I’m not sure if this is a bug or by design - or if it’s just my computer: In Edit-Preferences, uncheck 'Show File Translation Errors'. Restart FrameMaker: there’s no console file anymore. The consfile.txt is empty. Anyone else seeing this? Vriendelijke groet / Kind regards, Wim Hooghwinkel 28-30 april in Seattle - Closing the loop with FontoXML tel. +31652036811 Skype wimhooghwinkel Twitter @idtp @ien2013 i...@idtp.eu www.idtp.eu ___ 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: (no) Console file in FM11 and FM12
Well, there’s more than just file translation errors. On startup there are messages generated by plugins (frame script a.o.). May not seem important but can be useful. More important for me is when publishing DITA to FMbooks, eiher by DITAfmx or DITAfm. I needed to debug this process but my consfile remained empty. It took me a while to find out that this setting caused all messages to disappear, not only the file translation errors but also messages generated by DITA-fmx. Hence I think this is a bug. If not, the setting should be named something like: omit console file. Vriendelijke groet / Kind regards, Wim Hooghwinkel 28-30 april in Seattle - Closing the loop with FontoXML tel. +31652036811 Skype wimhooghwinkel Twitter @idtp @ien2013 i...@idtp.eu www.idtp.eu Op 17 apr. 2014, om 17:05 heeft Fred Ridder docu...@hotmail.com het volgende geschreven: Umm, what would you expect to find in the console file if there is nothing to be reported to the console? What you usually find there are messages about file translation errors, and if you turn that reporting off, it only stands to reason that there will be nothing to be reported most of the time. -Fred Ridder ___ 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: TOC entry out of sequence
Hi Karen, could you explain how your files are set up - and in particular this erroneous file - why do you use separate disconnected frames for your headings? Do you place the frame you mention on the Body page or on the Master Page? Do you use multiple flows in your documents? If the Chapter heading and the Heading 1 are not in the same flow it will be impossible for FM to determine the correct order when generating the TOC. You could send me the files off-list if you want and I’ll have a look. Vriendelijke groet / Kind regards, Wim Hooghwinkel Information Energy – Leading Conference on Innovation in Knowledge and Information Exchange tel. +31652036811 Skype wimhooghwinkel Twitter @idtp @ien2013 i...@idtp.eu www.idtp.eu FrameMaker support: framema...@idtp.eu Op 27 mrt. 2014, om 18:00 heeft framers-requ...@lists.frameusers.com het volgende geschreven: The errant frame has NO flow tag. If I connect it at the end of the last frame in the document, it will gain flow A status. Should I manually assign flow B instead? Neither would place it correctly, but it would at least remain under its correct chapter. ___ 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: TOC entry out of sequence
Hi Karen, do you use the same master pages for each chapter? If it only happens in the last chapter, try to switch chapters and see what happens. Vriendelijke groet / Kind regards, Wim Hooghwinkel No idea how it got there, it appears in only a couple of my chapters. ___ 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: TOC entry out of sequence
Hi Karen, if you say : 'In the document, the frame in which the misplaced level 1 head resides is not positioned above that of the chapter head.’ do you mean that you’re using separate frames, just for headings or for the contents as well? We once had an issue with frames and numbering and it turned out that not the order of frames was important, but the sequence of how the content was added. What happens if you switch chapters, does always the last chapter give the same problem? Vriendelijke groet / Kind regards, Wim Hooghwinkel ___ 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: New ExtendScript samples for beginners
Hi Russ, good initiative, thanks! Vriendelijke groet / Kind regards, Wim Hooghwinkel Op 5 mrt. 2014, om 19:00 heeft framers-requ...@lists.frameusers.com het volgende geschreven: 2. ANN: New ExtendScript samples for beginners ___ 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.
script or utility to make page count a multiple of four
Hi, anyone knows of an existing (extend)script or utility that checks the nr of pages in a book and adds extra pages to make the page count a multiple of four? Vriendelijke groet / Kind regards, Wim Hooghwinkel ___ 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: Best CMS to use with DITA
Hi Gillian, There won’t be a best CMS to use with DITA in general. I all depends on your requirements. And budget… Oxygen is not a CMS, Oxygen is an authoring tool. Subversion is not a CMS either. For DITA you would not look for a document CMS - look for a Component Content Management System (CCMS) or any of the DITA CMS-es: Easy DTA (what are the issues you encounter?), DITAToo (budget, best price/quality ratio, integrates with FrameMaker), DocZone (SaaS), Bluestream (integrates with FM using DITA-FMx). For large scale implementations there’s Componize, Ixiasoft, SDL, etc.. Trados is not a CMS either, Trados is a translation tool. Since you’re on the FrameMaker list I presume you use FM as authoring and publishing tool. Then either DITAToo or Bluestream would be a good choice. Both easy to install and good fit for a small team. If you need help, contact me off list. Vriendelijke groet / Kind regards, Wim Hooghwinkel Information Energy 2013 – Leading Conference on Innovation in Knowledge and Information Exchange IEn2013 tel. +31652036811 Skype wimhooghwinkel Twitter @idtp @ien2013 i...@idtp.eu www.idtp.eu FrameMaker support: framema...@idtp.eu ___ 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: FM12 has char format in xref been fixed?
FrameMaker (since FM9) fully supports Unicode. If you need special characters (like um) in your content it’s not necessary to use dingbats or other symbol fonts, just use the unicode character. These will be visible in xrefs just like any other character - depending on the font you use of course. That should be a unicode font. Vriendelijke groet / Kind regards, Wim Hooghwinkel Op 4 feb. 2014, om 19:00 heeft framers-requ...@lists.frameusers.com het volgende geschreven: Can anyone tell me if FM12 has fixed the problem in which character formats in source text are lost in cross-references to that source text? That one little fix would be a tipping point for me to upgrade to FM12. If not, has anyone found a better workaround than the one in the Frame archives that requires defining in maker.ini an entirely new version of the font for every font face that uses italics? ___ 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.
Subject: Re: Character Tag As Is setting--isn't
Try this one: while you're in the character designer press Shift+F8. All values will be set to As Is. You can modify the format and apply - or update all. But Matt is right: when you first click 'Apply', all current values of the selected text will be shown and if you next click 'update all' , these values will be stored. So the correct order of working is, even with text selected, press Shift+F8, make only the necessary changes and click 'Update All', not apply. You can test this by selecting some text, apply a character format, press Shift+F8 and then without modifying choose 'Update All'. Next time you apply the same format nothing happens: all is set to as is. But I second Matts workflow tip: click outside the text flow to create or modify character tags. Only then you'll be sure to get what you want. Vriendelijke groet / Kind regards, Wim Hooghwinkel ___ 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.
Subject: Re: Character Tag "As Is" setting--isn't
Try this one: while you're in the character designer press Shift+F8. All values will be set to As Is. You can modify the format and apply - or update all. But Matt is right: when you first click 'Apply', all current values of the selected text will be shown and if you next click 'update all' , these values will be stored. So the correct order of working is, even with text selected, press Shift+F8, make only the necessary changes and click 'Update All', not apply. You can test this by selecting some text, apply a character format, press Shift+F8 and then without modifying choose 'Update All'. Next time you apply the same format nothing happens: all is set to as is. But I second Matts workflow tip: click outside the text flow to create or modify character tags. Only then you'll be sure to get what you want. Vriendelijke groet / Kind regards, Wim Hooghwinkel -- next part -- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://lists.frameusers.com/pipermail/framers/attachments/20131120/83ffc5a7/attachment.html>
[framemaker-dita] Change default image placement
Hi Scott, yes, this is exactly how it works. But my client wants to insert an in and set the anchoring at insertion point (placement= 'inline'). My solution now is to first insert the , then wrap in in . Vriendelijke groet / Kind regards, Wim Hooghwinkel Information Energy 2013 ? Leading Conference on Innovation in Knowledge and Information Exchange IEn2013 tel. +31652036811 Skype wimhooghwinkel Twitter @idtp @ien2013 info at idtp.eu www.idtp.eu FrameMaker support: framemaker at idtp.eu Op 1 nov. 2013, om 17:52 heeft Scott Prentice het volgende geschreven: > Hi Wim... > > In this case I'd expect default FM to act the same way as DITA-FMx .. > > - Inserting a , auto-inserts and sets @placement to "break" > which sets the anchoring position to "below current line" > - Inserting an (outside of a ) sets @placement to the value > defined as the default in the EDD, and sets the anchoring position to "below > current line" (if @placement='break') or "at insertion point" (if > @placement='inline') > > If it's not doing either of those then the setting is probably hard-coded in > the DLL and there's nothing you can do about it (aside from possibly writing > a plugin or ExtendScript to run after inserting the image and changing the > setting based on the default @placement value). > > Cheers, > > ...scott -- next part -- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://lists.frameusers.com/pipermail/framers/attachments/20131101/62b48570/attachment.html>
Change default image placement
Hi all, The default behavior of FM when inserting an image is to place (the anchored frame) at 'below current line'. For my application I'd like the default to be 'inline'. Anybody knows of a way to enforce FM to change this behavior in a structured application? Setting the default attribute on the Image element doesn't help. This is FM10. Can someone advise on an extend script to achieve this? Vriendelijke groet / Kind regards, Wim Hooghwinkel -- next part -- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://lists.frameusers.com/pipermail/framers/attachments/20131101/fe457bb2/attachment.html>
Re: Insert image as H/F variable - script
Is that still true for the latest FM versions? I have some extend scripts running without issues. Vriendelijke groet / Kind regards, Wim Hooghwinkel Op 23 okt. 2013, om 18:03 heeft Robert Lauriston rob...@lauriston.com het volgende geschreven: ExtendScript is buggy, unsupported, and only partially documented. ___ 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.
Insert image as H/F variable - script
Is that still true for the latest FM versions? I have some extend scripts running without issues. Vriendelijke groet / Kind regards, Wim Hooghwinkel Op 23 okt. 2013, om 18:03 heeft Robert Lauriston het volgende geschreven: > ExtendScript is buggy, unsupported, and only partially documented. -- next part -- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://lists.frameusers.com/pipermail/framers/attachments/20131024/f9f35db7/attachment.html>
Re: Dictionaries
Well, since FM9 default location for dictionaries is C:\Users\user\AppData\LocalLow\Adobe\Linguistics\UserDictionaries. This is used for FM9, FM10 and FM11, without specifying the FM version. Vriendelijke groet / Kind regards, Wim Hooghwinkel Information Energy 2013 – Leading Conference on Innovation in Knowledge and Information Exchange IEn2013 tel. +31652036811 Skype wimhooghwinkel Twitter @idtp @ien2013 i...@idtp.eu www.idtp.eu FrameMaker support: framema...@idtp.eu Op 23 okt. 2013, om 02:09 heeft Fred Ridder docu...@hotmail.com het volgende geschreven: Every FrameMaker installer I have used (from 5.5.6 through 9 so far) has always installed all the files in a separate, version-specific folder within the Program Files folder. I have never had a problem having two or even three different versions installed simultaneously using the default installs. Did you uninstall FM9 before installing FM11? Were your user directories saved within the FM9 install directory? If so, the install directory and any custom files within it should have remained exactly where they were as its own branch of your directory tree. Did you use a non-default installation directory for either the FM9 or FM11 installation? I can only see a potential problem if you used the same directory name for both installations and did not use non-default names for your user dictionaries. Are you sure the dictionaries are really gone, and not just in a different directory than where the newly installed FM11 expects to find them? -Fred Ridder ___ 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: Insert image as H/F variable - script
Well, I guess the current use case is fairly simple. Suppose we use a marker in the text: Header/Footer $1. This marker has as content the name of the image, let's say Pict0001. The Running H/F will display the text (Pict0001). So what we need is an extend script that replaces the H/F text with the actual image: Pict0001.jpg. As I'm still not able to write scripts - too busy with other things I guess - can someone advise me on such a script, would it be very difficult? In the workflow it should be automatically triggered once the XML is opened in FM (10), so that the use experiences it as 'real' H/F. We'll need a manual 'reload' action of course in case of repagination and content change. For ease of use we can put the complete path of the image in the marker of course, or use a relative path. Vriendelijke groet / Kind regards, Wim Hooghwinkel Op 18 okt. 2013, om 19:13 heeft David Artman da...@davidartman.com het volgende geschreven: Can you provide more details or an actual use case? We toggle between BW and color product logos in H/Fs using conditions on the anchor frames the images. But that's book-wide, not 'reactive' or variable based on chapter-specific content (i.e., paratext of a paratag). Original Message Subject: Insert image as H/F variable From: Wim Hooghwinkel - idtp w...@idtp.eu Date: Fri, October 18, 2013 4:29 am To: framers@lists.frameusers.com framers@lists.frameusers.com Hi, one of my clients wants to use images as (in) H/F variables. This can not be done using default FM functions, as a variable can not contain an image. Has anyone handled this kind of formatting and can give me some suggestions? Or may be someone has a script available to replace H/F with an image - I guess an image that should be taken from the content, just like a H/F takes the heading text from the content. Note: this is structured FM (XML, not DITA) and currently moving tom FM7 to FM10/11. thanks, Vriendelijke groet / Kind regards, Wim Hooghwinkel ___ 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.
Dictionaries
Hi, We noticed that installing FM11 overwrites user dictionaries that were created in FM9. I'd expect that a new installation of FM would keep existing dictionaries. Anyone else experienced this? Vriendelijke groet / Kind regards, Wim Hooghwinkel -- next part -- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://lists.frameusers.com/pipermail/framers/attachments/20131022/e9d20f61/attachment.html>
Dictionaries
Well, since FM9 default location for dictionaries is C:\Users\\AppData\LocalLow\Adobe\Linguistics\UserDictionaries. This is used for FM9, FM10 and FM11, without specifying the FM version. Vriendelijke groet / Kind regards, Wim Hooghwinkel Information Energy 2013 ? Leading Conference on Innovation in Knowledge and Information Exchange IEn2013 tel. +31652036811 Skype wimhooghwinkel Twitter @idtp @ien2013 info at idtp.eu www.idtp.eu FrameMaker support: framemaker at idtp.eu Op 23 okt. 2013, om 02:09 heeft Fred Ridder het volgende geschreven: > Every FrameMaker installer I have used (from 5.5.6 through 9 so far) has > always installed all the files in a separate, version-specific folder within > the Program Files folder. I have never had a problem having two or even three > different versions installed simultaneously using the default installs. > > Did you uninstall FM9 before installing FM11? Were your user directories > saved within the FM9 install directory? If so, the install directory and any > custom files within it should have remained exactly where they were as its > own branch of your directory tree. Did you use a non-default installation > directory for either the FM9 or FM11 installation? I can only see a potential > problem if you used the same directory name for both installations and did > not use non-default names for your user dictionaries. > > Are you sure the dictionaries are really gone, and not just in a different > directory than where the newly installed FM11 expects to find them? > > -Fred Ridder -- next part -- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://lists.frameusers.com/pipermail/framers/attachments/20131023/cca6c984/attachment.html>
Insert image as H/F variable - script
Well, I guess the current use case is fairly simple. Suppose we use a marker in the text: Header/Footer $1. This marker has as content the name of the image, let's say Pict0001. The Running H/F will display the text (Pict0001). So what we need is an extend script that replaces the H/F text with the actual image: Pict0001.jpg. As I'm still not able to write scripts - too busy with other things I guess - can someone advise me on such a script, would it be very difficult? In the workflow it should be automatically triggered once the XML is opened in FM (10), so that the use experiences it as 'real' H/F. We'll need a manual 'reload' action of course in case of repagination and content change. For ease of use we can put the complete path of the image in the marker of course, or use a relative path. Vriendelijke groet / Kind regards, Wim Hooghwinkel Op 18 okt. 2013, om 19:13 heeft David Artman het volgende geschreven: > Can you provide more details or an actual use case? > > We toggle between B and color product logos in H/Fs using conditions on the > anchor frames the images. But that's book-wide, not 'reactive' or variable > based on chapter-specific content (i.e., paratext of a paratag). > > Original Message > Subject: Insert image as H/F variable > From: Wim Hooghwinkel - idtp > Date: Fri, October 18, 2013 4:29 am > To: "framers at lists.frameusers.com" > > Hi, > > one of my clients wants to use images as (in) H/F variables. This can not be > done using default FM functions, as a variable can not contain an image. > > Has anyone handled this kind of formatting and can give me some suggestions? > Or may be someone has a script available to replace H/F with an image - I > guess an image that should be taken from the content, just like a H/F takes > the heading text from the content. > > Note: this is structured FM (XML, not DITA) and currently moving tom FM7 to > FM10/11. > > thanks, > > > Vriendelijke groet / Kind regards, > > Wim Hooghwinkel -- next part -- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://lists.frameusers.com/pipermail/framers/attachments/20131023/34b615be/attachment.html>
Dictionaries
Hi, We noticed that installing FM11 overwrites user dictionaries that were created in FM9. I'd expect that a new installation of FM would keep existing dictionaries. Anyone else experienced this? Vriendelijke groet / Kind regards, Wim Hooghwinkel___ 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.
Insert image as H/F variable
Hi, one of my clients wants to use images as (in) H/F variables. This can not be done using default FM functions, as a variable can not contain an image. Has anyone handled this kind of formatting and can give me some suggestions? Or may be someone has a script available to replace H/F with an image - I guess an image that should be taken from the content, just like a H/F takes the heading text from the content. Note: this is structured FM (XML, not DITA) and currently moving tom FM7 to FM10/11. thanks, Vriendelijke groet / Kind regards, Wim Hooghwinkel Information Energy 2013 – Leading Conference on Innovation in Knowledge and Information Exchange IEn2013 tel. +31652036811 Skype wimhooghwinkel Twitter @idtp @ien2013 i...@idtp.eu www.idtp.eu FrameMaker support: framema...@idtp.eu ___ 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.
Insert image as H/F variable
Hi, one of my clients wants to use images as (in) H/F variables. This can not be done using default FM functions, as a variable can not contain an image. Has anyone handled this kind of formatting and can give me some suggestions? Or may be someone has a script available to replace H/F with an image - I guess an image that should be taken from the content, just like a H/F takes the heading text from the content. Note: this is structured FM (XML, not DITA) and currently moving tom FM7 to FM10/11. thanks, Vriendelijke groet / Kind regards, Wim Hooghwinkel Information Energy 2013 ? Leading Conference on Innovation in Knowledge and Information Exchange IEn2013 tel. +31652036811 Skype wimhooghwinkel Twitter @idtp @ien2013 info at idtp.eu www.idtp.eu FrameMaker support: framemaker at idtp.eu -- next part -- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://lists.frameusers.com/pipermail/framers/attachments/20131018/89b59fd0/attachment.html>
Structured FrameMaker Developer's Guide for FM 11?
Does anyone know if there's an updated version of the Structured FrameMaker Developer's Guide or reference guide available somewhere that goes beyond FM9? The FrameMaker 11 help mentions: For more information, see the online manual, Developing Structured Applications with Adobe FrameMaker on the Adobe website,www.adobe.com/go/lr_FrameMaker_support_en. But that only shows the home page for help. There may be not that many changes, but it doesn't feel very professional to point my client to the FM9 manuals. Any other resources available? Thanks, Vriendelijke groet / Kind regards, Wim Hooghwinkel ___ 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.
Structured FrameMaker Developer's Guide for FM 11?
Does anyone know if there's an updated version of the Structured FrameMaker Developer's Guide or reference guide available somewhere that goes beyond FM9? The FrameMaker 11 help mentions: For more information, see the online manual, Developing Structured Applications with Adobe FrameMaker on the Adobe website,www.adobe.com/go/lr_FrameMaker_support_en. But that only shows the home page for help. There may be not that many changes, but it doesn't feel very professional to point my client to the FM9 manuals. Any other resources available? Thanks, Vriendelijke groet / Kind regards, Wim Hooghwinkel -- next part -- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://lists.frameusers.com/pipermail/framers/attachments/20131017/ed341aec/attachment.html>
script for batch PDF generation
Hi all, I'm looking for a way to automate the pdf generation of FM books (unstructured) in FM11. Use case: 6 books, each in 24 languages to be printed to PDF once a day. Has anyone such a script (ExtendScript) available or knows of a plugin that performs it? Would be nice if the script will allow additional modification like importing variable definitions etc. I'm not sure if FMBatch still exists and can work with FM11? any suggestion appreciated….. Vriendelijke groet / Kind regards, Wim Hooghwinkel Information Energy 2013 – Leading Conference on Innovation in Knowledge and Information Exchange IEn2013 tel. +31652036811 Skype wimhooghwinkel Twitter @idtp @ien2013 i...@idtp.eu www.idtp.eu FrameMaker support: framema...@idtp.eu Op 23 aug. 2013, om 19:00 heeft framers-requ...@lists.frameusers.com het volgende geschreven: Send framers mailing list submissions to framers@lists.frameusers.com To subscribe or unsubscribe via the World Wide Web, visit http://lists.frameusers.com/mailman/listinfo/framers or, via email, send a message with subject or body 'help' to framers-requ...@lists.frameusers.com You can reach the person managing the list at framers-ow...@lists.frameusers.com When replying, please edit your Subject line so it is more specific than Re: Contents of framers digest... Today's Topics: 1. Hypertext links not working (dave.st...@gdc4s.com) 2. RE: Hypertext links not working (dave.st...@gdc4s.com) -- Message: 1 Date: Thu, 22 Aug 2013 13:00:46 -0700 From: dave.st...@gdc4s.com To: framers@lists.frameusers.com Subject: Hypertext links not working Message-ID: 31a5a925033707429b15a6dac8bf48ba03541...@az25exm06.gddsi.com Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 2013-08-22-04T20:00Z Windows 7 Enterprise Service Pack 1 4?GB RAM 64-bit operating system FrameMaker 11.0.2.384 FrameMaker installed on workstation Folder and all files on a server on the local area network in accordance with corporate policy I am unable to consistently encode hypertext links among five files in one unstructured book. Here's how the files are arranged: NOTE: The .book file and all the target files are children of folder \Abc_Def. File BEGIN_HERE.fm is sibling of folder \Abc_Def and is to contain links to all four targets. Folder \Abc_Def File dir_Abc_Def.book File targetA.fm File targetB.fm File targetC.fm File targetD.fm File BEGIN_HERE.fm I moved File BEGIN_HERE.fm out of folder \Abc_Def because a recipient of the informational product (portable document format files) wants it that way. I am using a character tag to constrain both the newlinks and gotolinks to small amounts of text. Before I moved file BEGIN_HERE.fm out of folder \Abc_Def, crossreferences among all files worked flawlessly. My latest attempt has been to specify named destinations (for example, newlink dir_About.fm) and jumps to named destinations (for example, gotolink dir_About.fm). In the source .fm files, these jumps work only a small part of the time. In the deliverable .pdf files, they don't work at all. Dave Stamm Information Engineer -- Message: 2 Date: Fri, 23 Aug 2013 04:39:13 -0700 From: dave.st...@gdc4s.com To: rob...@lauriston.com Cc: framers@lists.frameusers.com Subject: RE: Hypertext links not working Message-ID: 31a5a925033707429b15a6dac8bf48ba03541...@az25exm06.gddsi.com Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii 2013-08-23-05T11:40Z Robert - Thanks for the info. I, too, haven't done this since years ago. So long ago, in fact that I've tracked down my materials from Shlomo Perets' training back in 2002. Yes, all the files are part of dir_Abc_Def.book. The odd thing, for myself, is that the child file, is outside the folder that contains the rest of the book. Nothing I've tried so far works, so I'm hoping that someone on the list can help me find the secret sauce that I'm missing from the recipe. Regards, Dave Stamm Information Engineer General Dynamics C4 Systems, Inc. -Original Message- From: robert.lauris...@gmail.com [mailto:robert.lauris...@gmail.com] On Behalf Of Robert Lauriston Sent: 2013-08-22-Thursday 16:24 To: Stamm, David-P45904 Cc: framers@lists.frameusers.com Subject: Re: Hypertext links not working I haven't done that sort of thing in some years, but it used to be that if you defined cross-references between .fm files in different directories, all the files had to be open when you saved a book as PDF. Also, the PDFs have to have the same relative directory relationship. If you have ./foo/foo.book and ./bar/bar.book, links in foo.pdf will be to ../bar/bar.pdf. If BEGIN_HERE.pdf is generated from an .fm file instead of a .book, that might be a problem
script for batch PDF generation
Hi all, I'm looking for a way to automate the pdf generation of FM books (unstructured) in FM11. Use case: 6 books, each in 24 languages to be printed to PDF once a day. Has anyone such a script (ExtendScript) available or knows of a plugin that performs it? Would be nice if the script will allow additional modification like importing variable definitions etc. I'm not sure if FMBatch still exists and can work with FM11? any suggestion appreciated?.. Vriendelijke groet / Kind regards, Wim Hooghwinkel Information Energy 2013 ? Leading Conference on Innovation in Knowledge and Information Exchange IEn2013 tel. +31652036811 Skype wimhooghwinkel Twitter @idtp @ien2013 info at idtp.eu www.idtp.eu FrameMaker support: framemaker at idtp.eu Op 23 aug. 2013, om 19:00 heeft framers-request at lists.frameusers.com het volgende geschreven: > Send framers mailing list submissions to > framers at lists.frameusers.com > > To subscribe or unsubscribe via the World Wide Web, visit > http://lists.frameusers.com/mailman/listinfo/framers > or, via email, send a message with subject or body 'help' to > framers-request at lists.frameusers.com > > You can reach the person managing the list at > framers-owner at lists.frameusers.com > > When replying, please edit your Subject line so it is more specific > than "Re: Contents of framers digest..." > > > Today's Topics: > > 1. Hypertext links not working (Dave.Stamm at gdc4s.com) > 2. RE: Hypertext links not working (Dave.Stamm at gdc4s.com) > > > -- > > Message: 1 > Date: Thu, 22 Aug 2013 13:00:46 -0700 > From: > To: > Subject: Hypertext links not working > Message-ID: > <31A5A925033707429B15A6DAC8BF48BA0354138F at AZ25EXM06.gddsi.com> > Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" > > 2013-08-22-04T20:00Z > > Windows 7 Enterprise Service Pack 1 > 4?GB RAM > 64-bit operating system > FrameMaker 11.0.2.384 > FrameMaker installed on workstation > Folder and all files on a server on the local area network in accordance with > corporate policy > > I am unable to consistently encode hypertext links among five files in one > unstructured book. > > Here's how the files are arranged: > > NOTE: The .book file and all the target files are "children" of folder > \Abc_Def. File BEGIN_HERE.fm is "sibling" of folder \Abc_Def and is to > contain links to all four targets. > > Folder \Abc_Def > File dir_Abc_Def.book > File targetA.fm > File targetB.fm > File targetC.fm > File targetD.fm > File BEGIN_HERE.fm > > I moved File BEGIN_HERE.fm out of folder \Abc_Def because a recipient of the > informational product (portable document format files) wants it that way. I > am using a character tag to constrain both the newlinks and gotolinks to > small amounts of text. Before I moved file BEGIN_HERE.fm out of folder > \Abc_Def, crossreferences among all files worked flawlessly. > > My latest attempt has been to specify named destinations (for example, > newlink dir_About.fm) and jumps to named destinations (for example, gotolink > dir_About.fm). > > In the source .fm files, these jumps work only a small part of the time. In > the deliverable .pdf files, they don't work at all. > > Dave Stamm > Information Engineer > > > > -- > > Message: 2 > Date: Fri, 23 Aug 2013 04:39:13 -0700 > From: > To: > Cc: framers at lists.frameusers.com > Subject: RE: Hypertext links not working > Message-ID: > <31A5A925033707429B15A6DAC8BF48BA0354167F at AZ25EXM06.gddsi.com> > Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" > > 2013-08-23-05T11:40Z > > Robert - > > Thanks for the info. I, too, haven't done this since years ago. So > long ago, in fact that I've tracked down my materials from Shlomo > Perets' training back in 2002. > > Yes, all the files are part of dir_Abc_Def.book. The odd thing, for > myself, is that the "child" file, is outside the folder that contains > the rest of the book. > > Nothing I've tried so far works, so I'm hoping that someone on the list > can help me find the "secret sauce" that I'm missing from the "recipe." > > Regards, > Dave Stamm > Information Engineer > General Dynamics C4 Systems, Inc. > > -Original Message- > From: robert.lauriston at gmail.com [mailto:robert.lauriston at gmail.com] On > Behalf Of Robert Lauriston > Sent: 2013-08-22-Thursday 16:24 > To: Stamm, David-P45904 > Cc: framers at lists.frame
FM11 license under parallels and bootcamp
Hi all, I'm using a macbook with bootcamp and Parallels. So I can either start up with Windows (bootcamp) or start Windows (and FM) from within the MacOS using Parallels. Parallels uses the bootcamp partition so the Windows environment is the same. Now the issue is that when I'v been working with FM 11 under Bootcamp and the next time I start FM 11 under Parallels FM thinks I'm using a trial and I need to register my FM license. Same the other way round. Anyone else seeing this, is there a work around? I don't have this with FM 10 or other licensed software. Vriendelijke groet / Kind regards, Wim Hooghwinkel Information Energy 2013 – Leading Conference on Innovation in Knowledge and Information Exchange IEn2013 tel. +31652036811 Skype wimhooghwinkel Twitter @idtp @ien2013 i...@idtp.eu www.idtp.eu FrameMaker support: framema...@idtp.eu ___ 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.
Template content for new DITA topics (FM 11)
Hi Framers, FM 11 - I'm Trying to find where I can change the default contents of a new DITA topic. Ay suggestions? This is plain FM 11, no DITA-FMx. Thanks, Vriendelijke groet / Kind regards, Wim Hooghwinkel Information Energy 2013 – Leading Conference on Innovation in Knowledge and Information Exchange IEn2013 tel. +31652036811 Skype wimhooghwinkel Twitter @idtp @ien2013 i...@idtp.eu www.idtp.eu FrameMaker support: framema...@idtp.eu ___ 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: Template content for new DITA topics (FM 11)
Hi Scott, well, the template file doesn't bring content. The default DITA topic types have blanc templates, but creating a new topic brings a basic structure (topic-title-topicmeta-body-relatedlinks). I'd like to know where that comes from? Same, inserting a steps element also adds step and cmd. That must be defined somewhere? I recall having seen it once, but I can't remember … For one of my projects I want to modify these default settings. Vriendelijke groet / Kind regards, Wim Hooghwinkel Information Energy 2013 – Leading Conference on Innovation in Knowledge and Information Exchange IEn2013 tel. +31652036811 Skype wimhooghwinkel Twitter @idtp @ien2013 i...@idtp.eu www.idtp.eu FrameMaker support: framema...@idtp.eu Op 10 jul. 2013, om 18:06 heeft Scott Prentice s...@leximation.com het volgende geschreven: Hi Wim... You'll want to modify the template file specified by the structured application you're using. After creating a topic, use StructureTools Set Structured Application to determine the structured application you're using .. then locate the structured application definition for that app (likely in the Global application definitions file .. StructureTools Edit Global Application Definitions). The application definition will reference the template file you'll want to modify. Note that there are different structure applications for each topic type, so you may need to modify multiple templates. Cheers, ...scott On 7/10/13 4:30 AM, Wim Hooghwinkel - idtp wrote: Hi Framers, FM 11 - I'm Trying to find where I can change the default contents of a new DITA topic. Ay suggestions? This is plain FM 11, no DITA-FMx. Thanks, Vriendelijke groet / Kind regards, Wim Hooghwinkel Information Energy 2013 – Leading Conference on Innovation in Knowledge and Information Exchange IEn2013 tel. +31652036811 Skype wimhooghwinkel Twitter @idtp @ien2013 i...@idtp.eu www.idtp.eu FrameMaker support: framema...@idtp.eu ___ 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: Template content for new DITA topics (FM 11) = strawman structure
Hi Matt, Is that what you call it? I was looking for boilerplate or something similar. It's not in the user guide. I found some mentions of it in the Reviewers guide, but not how to change it. Looking at the EDD it's the AutoInsertions element. Is the top level element always inserted based on the Doctype? Is it, in addition to inserting elements also possible to insert attributes, or content? Vriendelijke groet / Kind regards, Wim Hooghwinkel Information Energy 2013 – Leading Conference on Innovation in Knowledge and Information Exchange IEn2013 tel. +31652036811 Skype wimhooghwinkel Twitter @idtp @ien2013 i...@idtp.eu www.idtp.eu FrameMaker support: framema...@idtp.eu Op 10 jul. 2013, om 18:37 heeft Matt Sullivan m...@mattrsullivan.com het volgende geschreven: Check the FrameMaker 11 User's Guide (on the Fm product page) for an explanation of setting straw man structure. -Matt Matt R. Sullivan co-author Publishing Fundamentals: Unstructured FrameMaker 11 P: 714.798.7596 | C: 714.585.2335 | m...@mattrsullivan.com twitter.png@mattrsullivan linkedin.pngLinkedIn facebook.pngfacebook blog.pngmattrsullivan.com On Jul 10, 2013, at 9:15 AM, Wim Hooghwinkel - idtp w...@idtp.eu wrote: Hi Scott, well, the template file doesn't bring content. The default DITA topic types have blanc templates, but creating a new topic brings a basic structure (topic-title-topicmeta-body-relatedlinks). I'd like to know where that comes from? Same, inserting a steps element also adds step and cmd. That must be defined somewhere? I recall having seen it once, but I can't remember … For one of my projects I want to modify these default settings. Vriendelijke groet / Kind regards, Wim Hooghwinkel Information Energy 2013 – Leading Conference on Innovation in Knowledge and Information Exchange IEn2013 tel. +31652036811 Skype wimhooghwinkel Twitter @idtp @ien2013 i...@idtp.eu www.idtp.eu FrameMaker support: framema...@idtp.eu Op 10 jul. 2013, om 18:06 heeft Scott Prentice s...@leximation.com het volgende geschreven: Hi Wim... You'll want to modify the template file specified by the structured application you're using. After creating a topic, use StructureTools Set Structured Application to determine the structured application you're using .. then locate the structured application definition for that app (likely in the Global application definitions file .. StructureTools Edit Global Application Definitions). The application definition will reference the template file you'll want to modify. Note that there are different structure applications for each topic type, so you may need to modify multiple templates. Cheers, ...scott On 7/10/13 4:30 AM, Wim Hooghwinkel - idtp wrote: Hi Framers, FM 11 - I'm Trying to find where I can change the default contents of a new DITA topic. Ay suggestions? This is plain FM 11, no DITA-FMx. Thanks, Vriendelijke groet / Kind regards, Wim Hooghwinkel Information Energy 2013 – Leading Conference on Innovation in Knowledge and Information Exchange IEn2013 tel. +31652036811 Skype wimhooghwinkel Twitter @idtp @ien2013 i...@idtp.eu www.idtp.eu FrameMaker support: framema...@idtp.eu ___ You are currently subscribed to framers as m...@mattrsullivan.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/matt%40mattrsullivan.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.
FM11 license under parallels and bootcamp
Hi all, I'm using a macbook with bootcamp and Parallels. So I can either start up with Windows (bootcamp) or start Windows (and FM) from within the MacOS using Parallels. Parallels uses the bootcamp partition so the Windows environment is the same. Now the issue is that when I'v been working with FM 11 under Bootcamp and the next time I start FM 11 under Parallels FM thinks I'm using a trial and I need to register my FM license. Same the other way round. Anyone else seeing this, is there a work around? I don't have this with FM 10 or other licensed software. Vriendelijke groet / Kind regards, Wim Hooghwinkel Information Energy 2013 ? Leading Conference on Innovation in Knowledge and Information Exchange IEn2013 tel. +31652036811 Skype wimhooghwinkel Twitter @idtp @ien2013 info at idtp.eu www.idtp.eu FrameMaker support: framemaker at idtp.eu -- next part -- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://lists.frameusers.com/pipermail/framers/attachments/20130710/4add9250/attachment.html>
Template content for new DITA topics (FM 11)
Hi Framers, FM 11 - I'm Trying to find where I can change the default contents of a new DITA topic. Ay suggestions? This is plain FM 11, no DITA-FMx. Thanks, Vriendelijke groet / Kind regards, Wim Hooghwinkel Information Energy 2013 ? Leading Conference on Innovation in Knowledge and Information Exchange IEn2013 tel. +31652036811 Skype wimhooghwinkel Twitter @idtp @ien2013 info at idtp.eu www.idtp.eu FrameMaker support: framemaker at idtp.eu -- next part -- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://lists.frameusers.com/pipermail/framers/attachments/20130710/3a0e620c/attachment.html>
Template content for new DITA topics (FM 11)
Hi Scott, well, the template file doesn't bring content. The default DITA topic types have blanc templates, but creating a new topic brings a basic structure (topic-title-topicmeta-body-relatedlinks). I'd like to know where that comes from? Same, inserting a steps element also adds step and cmd. That must be defined somewhere? I recall having seen it once, but I can't remember ? For one of my projects I want to modify these default settings. Vriendelijke groet / Kind regards, Wim Hooghwinkel Information Energy 2013 ? Leading Conference on Innovation in Knowledge and Information Exchange IEn2013 tel. +31652036811 Skype wimhooghwinkel Twitter @idtp @ien2013 info at idtp.eu www.idtp.eu FrameMaker support: framemaker at idtp.eu Op 10 jul. 2013, om 18:06 heeft Scott Prentice het volgende geschreven: > Hi Wim... > > You'll want to modify the template file specified by the structured > application you're using. After creating a topic, use StructureTools > Set > Structured Application to determine the structured application you're using > .. then locate the structured application definition for that app (likely in > the "Global" application definitions file .. StructureTools > Edit Global > Application Definitions). The application definition will reference the > template file you'll want to modify. Note that there are different structure > applications for each topic type, so you may need to modify multiple > templates. > > Cheers, > > ...scott > > > On 7/10/13 4:30 AM, Wim Hooghwinkel - idtp wrote: >> Hi Framers, >> >> FM 11 - I'm Trying to find where I can change the default contents of a new >> DITA topic. Ay suggestions? This is plain FM 11, no DITA-FMx. >> >> Thanks, >> >> >> Vriendelijke groet / Kind regards, >> >> Wim Hooghwinkel >> >> Information Energy 2013 ? Leading Conference on Innovation in Knowledge and >> Information Exchange >> IEn2013 >> >> tel. +31652036811 >> Skype wimhooghwinkel >> Twitter @idtp @ien2013 >> info at idtp.eu >> www.idtp.eu >> >> FrameMaker support: framemaker at idtp.eu >> >> >> > -- next part -- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://lists.frameusers.com/pipermail/framers/attachments/20130710/894b6fb4/attachment.html>
Template content for new DITA topics (FM 11) = strawman structure
Hi Matt, Is that what you call it? I was looking for boilerplate or something similar. It's not in the user guide. I found some mentions of it in the Reviewers guide, but not how to change it. Looking at the EDD it's the AutoInsertions element. Is the top level element always inserted based on the Doctype? Is it, in addition to inserting elements also possible to insert attributes, or content? Vriendelijke groet / Kind regards, Wim Hooghwinkel Information Energy 2013 ? Leading Conference on Innovation in Knowledge and Information Exchange IEn2013 tel. +31652036811 Skype wimhooghwinkel Twitter @idtp @ien2013 info at idtp.eu www.idtp.eu FrameMaker support: framemaker at idtp.eu Op 10 jul. 2013, om 18:37 heeft Matt Sullivan het volgende geschreven: > Check the FrameMaker 11 User's Guide (on the Fm product page) for an > explanation of setting straw man structure. > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > -Matt > > Matt R. Sullivan > co-author Publishing Fundamentals: Unstructured FrameMaker 11 > P: 714.798.7596 | C: 714.585.2335 | matt at mattrsullivan.com > > @mattrsullivan LinkedIn facebook > mattrsullivan.com > > On Jul 10, 2013, at 9:15 AM, Wim Hooghwinkel - idtp wrote: > >> Hi Scott, >> >> well, the template file doesn't bring content. The default DITA topic types >> have blanc templates, but creating a new topic brings a basic structure >> (topic-title-topicmeta-body-relatedlinks). I'd like to know where that comes >> from? Same, inserting a steps element also adds step and cmd. That must be >> defined somewhere? I recall having seen it once, but I can't remember ? For >> one of my projects I want to modify these default settings. >> >> >> Vriendelijke groet / Kind regards, >> >> Wim Hooghwinkel >> >> Information Energy 2013 ? Leading Conference on Innovation in Knowledge and >> Information Exchange >> IEn2013 >> >> tel. +31652036811 >> Skype wimhooghwinkel >> Twitter @idtp @ien2013 >> info at idtp.eu >> www.idtp.eu >> >> FrameMaker support: framemaker at idtp.eu >> >> Op 10 jul. 2013, om 18:06 heeft Scott Prentice het >> volgende geschreven: >> >>> Hi Wim... >>> >>> You'll want to modify the template file specified by the structured >>> application you're using. After creating a topic, use StructureTools > Set >>> Structured Application to determine the structured application you're using >>> .. then locate the structured application definition for that app (likely >>> in the "Global" application definitions file .. StructureTools > Edit >>> Global Application Definitions). The application definition will reference >>> the template file you'll want to modify. Note that there are different >>> structure applications for each topic type, so you may need to modify >>> multiple templates. >>> >>> Cheers, >>> >>> ...scott >>> >>> >>> On 7/10/13 4:30 AM, Wim Hooghwinkel - idtp wrote: >>>> Hi Framers, >>>> >>>> FM 11 - I'm Trying to find where I can change the default contents of a >>>> new DITA topic. Ay suggestions? This is plain FM 11, no DITA-FMx. >>>> >>>> Thanks, >>>> >>>> >>>> Vriendelijke groet / Kind regards, >>>> >>>> Wim Hooghwinkel >>>> >>>> Information Energy 2013 ? Leading Conference on Innovation in Knowledge >>>> and Information Exchange >>>> IEn2013 >>>> >>>> tel. +31652036811 >>>> Skype wimhooghwinkel >>>> Twitter @idtp @ien2013 >>>> info at idtp.eu >>>> www.idtp.eu >>>> >>>> FrameMaker support: framemaker at idtp.eu >>>> >>>> >>>> >>> >> >> ___ >> >> >> You are currently subscribed to framers as matt at mattrsullivan.com. >> >> Send list messages to framers at lists.frameusers.com. >> >> To unsubscribe send a blank email to >> framers-unsubscribe at lists.frameusers.com >> or visit >> http://lists.frameusers.com/mailman/options/framers/matt%40mattrsullivan.com >> >> Send administrative questions to listadmin at frameusers.com. Visit >> http://www.frameusers.com/ for more resources and info. > -- next part -- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://lists.frameusers.com/pipermail/framers/attachments/20130710/384f5251/attachment.html>
Re: ANN: WS Utilities 2.00 (FM plugin) release
Hi Russ, looks good, thanks! Vriendelijke groet / Kind regards, Wim Hooghwinkel Op 21 mei 2013, om 19:00 heeft framers-requ...@lists.frameusers.com het volgende geschreven: Subject: ANN: WS Utilities 2.00 (FM plugin) release Message-ID: 20130521073511.27a792c0bf3172901570a5f4e87e410e.82b5c30f8b@email06.secureserver.net Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Hi, No corporate madness here, just a release of v2.00 of our West Street Utilities plugin for FM 8, 9, 10, and 11, structured or unstructured. This release adds a variety of features that make the plugin much more useful than before. To learn more and/or download a fully-functional trial version, please visit: http://www.weststreetconsulting.com/WSC_Utils.htm Thanks, Russ ___ 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.
ANN: WS Utilities 2.00 (FM plugin) release
Hi Russ, looks good, thanks! Vriendelijke groet / Kind regards, Wim Hooghwinkel Op 21 mei 2013, om 19:00 heeft framers-request at lists.frameusers.com het volgende geschreven: > Subject: ANN: WS Utilities 2.00 (FM plugin) release > Message-ID: > <20130521073511.27a792c0bf3172901570a5f4e87e410e.82b5c30f8b.wbe at > email06.secureserver.net> > > Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" > > Hi, > > No corporate madness here, just a release of v2.00 of our West Street > Utilities plugin for FM 8, 9, 10, and 11, structured or unstructured. > This release adds a variety of features that make the plugin much more > useful than before. To learn more and/or download a fully-functional > trial version, please visit: > > http://www.weststreetconsulting.com/WSC_Utils.htm > > Thanks, > Russ -- next part -- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://lists.frameusers.com/pipermail/framers/attachments/20130521/a59df35c/attachment.html>
Incorporating external documents containing tables, into a book
Hi John, In FrameMaker 10 (I'm not sure about previous versions) you can add non fm files to a FrameMaker book. They won't take up pagination etc but I think if you add a PDF it will be included in the final print. Or did you try that already? Vriendelijke groet / Kind regards, Wim Hooghwinkel Information Energy 2013 ? Leading Conference on Innovation in Knowledge and Information Exchange IEn2013 tel. +31652036811 Skype wimhooghwinkel Twitter @idtp @NLDITA @ien2013 info at idtp.eu www.idtp.eu FrameMaker support: framemaker at idtp.eu -- next part -- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://lists.frameusers.com/pipermail/framers/attachments/20130310/b80f8075/attachment.html>
RE: Relative vs. absolute links
Hi Peggy, it's your workflow that creates the confusion in references. You say: ''3) I opened all of the files in FM 9, therefore converting them to FM 9 format. I did my cleanup, including fixing the graphics path to the Graphics subfolder and fixing cross-reference links that were broken. In retrospect I believe cross-references within the same file were okay but cross-references between files were all broken.'' If you open the files individually in FM9, it can't resolve cross refs because these are in FM7 files. If you didn't change names (didn't you …?) best approach is to use a book file for all the docs, open the book in FM9, open all files in the book accepting all errors and then save al files in the book, next: update all references. Now at least the cross refs should be resolved. Then you say: ''4) When I finished my work I saved each individual file and the book file in MIF 7.0 format. I saved the MIF files in a different folder than the FM 9 files and copied the Graphics directory to the same folder as the MIF files.'' If you save a file in a different folder, all references will still point to the original locations. So saving the FM9 files in a FM7 folder will not let them point to the graphics folder in the FM7 folder. So you should first save, then move. Your paths are not 'changing to absolute' but are still relative, although pointing to the wrong folder. (note that when you read a MIF file all paths are written as absolute paths). You better use a book mover utility…. Vriendelijke groet / Kind regards, Wim Hooghwinkel Information Energy 2013 – Leading Conference on Innovation in Knowledge and Information Exchange IEn2013 tel. +31652036811 Skype wimhooghwinkel Twitter @idtp @NLDITA @ien2013 i...@idtp.eu www.idtp.eu FrameMaker support: framema...@idtp.eu ___ 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.
Relative vs. absolute links
Hi Peggy, it's your workflow that creates the confusion in references. You say: ''3) I opened all of the files in FM 9, therefore converting them to FM 9 format. I did my cleanup, including fixing the graphics path to the "Graphics" subfolder and fixing cross-reference links that were broken. In retrospect I believe cross-references within the same file were okay but cross-references between files were all broken.'' If you open the files individually in FM9, it can't resolve cross refs because these are in FM7 files. If you didn't change names (didn't you ??) best approach is to use a book file for all the docs, open the book in FM9, open all files in the book accepting all errors and then save al files in the book, next: update all references. Now at least the cross refs should be resolved. Then you say: ''4) When I finished my work I saved each individual file and the book file in MIF 7.0 format. I saved the MIF files in a different folder than the FM 9 files and copied the "Graphics" directory to the same folder as the MIF files.'' If you save a file in a different folder, all references will still point to the original locations. So saving the FM9 files in a FM7 folder will not let them point to the graphics folder in the FM7 folder. So you should first save, then move. Your paths are not 'changing to absolute' but are still relative, although pointing to the wrong folder. (note that when you read a MIF file all paths are written as absolute paths). You better use a book mover utility?. Vriendelijke groet / Kind regards, Wim Hooghwinkel Information Energy 2013 ? Leading Conference on Innovation in Knowledge and Information Exchange IEn2013 tel. +31652036811 Skype wimhooghwinkel Twitter @idtp @NLDITA @ien2013 info at idtp.eu www.idtp.eu FrameMaker support: framemaker at idtp.eu -- next part -- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://lists.frameusers.com/pipermail/framers/attachments/20130228/5a9b5156/attachment.html>
RE: Pagination FM 11
Hi Judy, don't forget to update the FM book after applying your conditional settings. You should always set the pagination properties from within the book file (as recommended procedure) and not from within individual files. Be sure to agree with overriding the individual file settings when updating the book. Do you make use of Master Page Mappings? It can help anyway to do the 'update and generate' command twice. If you still get unwanted empty pages you may check for empty lines or conditional text markers that still are on the 'empty' page. Also check your paragraph settings. If any paragraph uses a local 'start new page' setting it will keep starting a new page, even if the contents is conditionalized. If your heading has a 'start at right page' setting it will always start on a right page, even if you set the document (from within the book file) to 'start at next available page' and create an empty left page before. Most, if not all, cases of unwanted pagination are a result of one or more conflicting settings. Some people suggested strange objects or left over empty frames: that can occur if you put frames or graphic objects directly on the page. Best practice is always use anchored frames. These will move with the text and hide if made conditional. Vriendelijke groet / Kind regards, Wim Hooghwinkel Information Energy 2013 – Leading Conference on Innovation in Knowledge and Information Exchange IEn2013 tel. +31652036811 Skype wimhooghwinkel Twitter @idtp @NLDITA @ien2013 i...@idtp.eu www.idtp.eu FrameMaker support: framema...@idtp.eu ___ 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.
Pagination FM 11
Hi Judy, don't forget to update the FM book after applying your conditional settings. You should always set the pagination properties from within the book file (as recommended procedure) and not from within individual files. Be sure to agree with overriding the individual file settings when updating the book. Do you make use of Master Page Mappings? It can help anyway to do the 'update and generate' command twice. If you still get unwanted empty pages you may check for empty lines or conditional text markers that still are on the 'empty' page. Also check your paragraph settings. If any paragraph uses a local 'start new page' setting it will keep starting a new page, even if the contents is conditionalized. If your heading has a 'start at right page' setting it will always start on a right page, even if you set the document (from within the book file) to 'start at next available page' and create an empty left page before. Most, if not all, cases of unwanted pagination are a result of one or more conflicting settings. Some people suggested strange objects or left over empty frames: that can occur if you put frames or graphic objects directly on the page. Best practice is always use anchored frames. These will move with the text and hide if made conditional. Vriendelijke groet / Kind regards, Wim Hooghwinkel Information Energy 2013 ? Leading Conference on Innovation in Knowledge and Information Exchange IEn2013 tel. +31652036811 Skype wimhooghwinkel Twitter @idtp @NLDITA @ien2013 info at idtp.eu www.idtp.eu FrameMaker support: framemaker at idtp.eu -- next part -- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://lists.frameusers.com/pipermail/framers/attachments/20130201/16b7e9f1/attachment.html>
