FM Plugin - Highlighting like Word?
Hello FrameFriends, We are switching from Word to FM (some of us are already using FM8), but my colleagues in Japan still want to be able to highlight things like they do in Word. (Old habits are hard to break, I guess.) So - I'm looking for an FM plug-in that will let you highlight text. Thanks in advance for any information you can provide. Best, Diane Gaskill Hitachi Data Systems
FM Plugin - Highlighting like Word?
Diane, In Acrobat you can do that. Just make a PDF for them and they can mark that up. Or they can use the track changes feature in Frame 8.0. Thank you, Gillian Flato Technical Writer (Software) nanometrics 1550 Buckeye Dr. Milpitas, CA. 95035 408.545.6316 408.232.5911 gflato at nanometrics.com -Original Message- From: framers-boun...@lists.frameusers.com [mailto:framers-bounces at lists.frameusers.com] On Behalf Of Diane Gaskill Sent: Tuesday, November 27, 2007 1:47 PM To: framers at lists.frameusers.com Subject: FM Plugin - Highlighting like Word? Hello FrameFriends, We are switching from Word to FM (some of us are already using FM8), but my colleagues in Japan still want to be able to highlight things like they do in Word. (Old habits are hard to break, I guess.) So - I'm looking for an FM plug-in that will let you highlight text. Thanks in advance for any information you can provide. Best, Diane Gaskill Hitachi Data Systems ___ You are currently subscribed to Framers as gflato at nanometrics.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/gflato%40nanometrics .com Send administrative questions to listadmin at frameusers.com. Visit http://www.frameusers.com/ for more resources and info.
FM Plugin - Highlighting like Word?
There isn't a quick and easy tool that sets the background yellow, but it's easy to create a character tag that has everything set to AsIs except the Font Color -- set that to whatever, and you're done. You can even use different colors for different people if you want... Art On Nov 27, 2007 4:46 PM, Diane Gaskill wrote: > Hello FrameFriends, > > We are switching from Word to FM (some of us are already using FM8), but my > colleagues in Japan still want to be able to highlight things like they do > in Word. (Old habits are hard to break, I guess.) > > So - I'm looking for an FM plug-in that will let you highlight text. > > Thanks in advance for any information you can provide. > > Best, > > Diane Gaskill > Hitachi Data Systems > > ___ > -- Art Campbell art.campbell at gmail.com "... In my opinion, there's nothing in this world beats a '52 Vincent and a redheaded girl." -- Richard Thompson No disclaimers apply. DoD 358
FM Plugin - Highlighting like Word?
Hi Gillian, Fred, and Art, They know about Acrobat and its capabilities, but they want to do it in the source. FM8's track changes feature has only two colors: red strikeout for deleted text and green underline for added text. Other than that, it works fine. Adobe's ads and the FM8 user's guide are a bit misleading. They call colored text "highlighting." Well, maybe in a generic sense, but it's what most people consider highlighting. What they are looking for is a way to identify different people who make edits to the same file. Word does that well (but not much else :-) Fred Ridder's idea about using conditional text might work. We'd just have to set up some tags with different colors. But Art's idea of a set of character tags might be the easiest way to go. Very easy to return to the original color by pressing F8. Ctrl-A - F8 - Enter would clean up a whole chapter in 5 seconds. I'll let the guys in Japan know. They don't have FM8 yet. Some of them don't have FM at all. The transition from Word to FM is going to be really interesting, I think. Thanks everybody. Diane -Original Message- From: Flato, Gillian [mailto:gfl...@nanometrics.com] Sent: Tuesday, November 27, 2007 2:35 PM To: Diane Gaskill; framers at lists.frameusers.com Subject: RE: FM Plugin - Highlighting like Word? Diane, In Acrobat you can do that. Just make a PDF for them and they can mark that up. Or they can use the track changes feature in Frame 8.0. Thank you, Gillian Flato Technical Writer (Software) nanometrics 1550 Buckeye Dr. Milpitas, CA. 95035 408.545.6316 408.232.5911 gflato at nanometrics.com -Original Message- From: framers-boun...@lists.frameusers.com [mailto:framers-bounces at lists.frameusers.com] On Behalf Of Diane Gaskill Sent: Tuesday, November 27, 2007 1:47 PM To: framers at lists.frameusers.com Subject: FM Plugin - Highlighting like Word? Hello FrameFriends, We are switching from Word to FM (some of us are already using FM8), but my colleagues in Japan still want to be able to highlight things like they do in Word. (Old habits are hard to break, I guess.) So - I'm looking for an FM plug-in that will let you highlight text. Thanks in advance for any information you can provide. Best, Diane Gaskill Hitachi Data Systems ___ You are currently subscribed to Framers as gflato at nanometrics.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/gflato%40nanometrics .com Send administrative questions to listadmin at frameusers.com. Visit http://www.frameusers.com/ for more resources and info.
FM Plugin - Highlighting like Word?
Hi Diane, > to set up some tags with different colors. But Art's idea of a set of > character tags might be the easiest way to go. Very easy to > return to the > original color by pressing F8. Ctrl-A - F8 - Enter would > clean up a whole > chapter in 5 seconds. Be careful: o All paragraphs will have the character format of the very first paragraph as override. Test it yourself. Of course you can import paragraph formats and remove overrides again to get rid of these overrides. o You will also remove all other applied character formats. Best regards Winfried
FM Plugin - Highlighting like Word?
Acrobat 8.0's shared review capability tags each person's comments with their name, plus it allows everyone to see each other's comments. I have converted a lot of Word forms to Interactive PDFs here. I hear a lot of, "I want to be able to do exactly the same thing that I could do in Word in Acrobat" from my colleagues. Many times I have had to tell them something like, "You get 50 great new features with Adobe forms, but you will have to give up three good features from Word. Sorry, that's progress." They don't like it, but they have to deal with it. Just stand firm, Dianne. Tell them that the advantages of Frame are numerous and they're just going to have to grow up and deal with losing crappy Word (of course, you can be more diplomatic when you say it if you want to ) If they insist on Frame, then like Fred said, use conditional text where each person gets their own condition with their own color. But why would you let someone else touch your Frame files? I won't. That's why I only give engineers Acrobat files. -Gillian -Original Message- From: Diane Gaskill [mailto:dgcal...@earthlink.net] Sent: Wednesday, November 28, 2007 3:34 AM To: Flato, Gillian; Diane Gaskill; framers at lists.frameusers.com Subject: RE: FM Plugin - Highlighting like Word? Hi Gillian, Fred, and Art, They know about Acrobat and its capabilities, but they want to do it in the source. FM8's track changes feature has only two colors: red strikeout for deleted text and green underline for added text. Other than that, it works fine. Adobe's ads and the FM8 user's guide are a bit misleading. They call colored text "highlighting." Well, maybe in a generic sense, but it's what most people consider highlighting. What they are looking for is a way to identify different people who make edits to the same file. Word does that well (but not much else :-) Fred Ridder's idea about using conditional text might work. We'd just have to set up some tags with different colors. But Art's idea of a set of character tags might be the easiest way to go. Very easy to return to the original color by pressing F8. Ctrl-A - F8 - Enter would clean up a whole chapter in 5 seconds. I'll let the guys in Japan know. They don't have FM8 yet. Some of them don't have FM at all. The transition from Word to FM is going to be really interesting, I think. Thanks everybody. Diane -Original Message- From: Flato, Gillian [mailto:gfl...@nanometrics.com] Sent: Tuesday, November 27, 2007 2:35 PM To: Diane Gaskill; framers at lists.frameusers.com Subject: RE: FM Plugin - Highlighting like Word? Diane, In Acrobat you can do that. Just make a PDF for them and they can mark that up. Or they can use the track changes feature in Frame 8.0. Thank you, Gillian Flato Technical Writer (Software) nanometrics 1550 Buckeye Dr. Milpitas, CA. 95035 408.545.6316 408.232.5911 gflato at nanometrics.com -Original Message- From: framers-boun...@lists.frameusers.com [mailto:framers-bounces at lists.frameusers.com] On Behalf Of Diane Gaskill Sent: Tuesday, November 27, 2007 1:47 PM To: framers at lists.frameusers.com Subject: FM Plugin - Highlighting like Word? Hello FrameFriends, We are switching from Word to FM (some of us are already using FM8), but my colleagues in Japan still want to be able to highlight things like they do in Word. (Old habits are hard to break, I guess.) So - I'm looking for an FM plug-in that will let you highlight text. Thanks in advance for any information you can provide. Best, Diane Gaskill Hitachi Data Systems ___ You are currently subscribed to Framers as gflato at nanometrics.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/gflato%40nanometrics .com Send administrative questions to listadmin at frameusers.com. Visit http://www.frameusers.com/ for more resources and info.
FM Plugin - Highlighting like Word?
Hello FrameFriends, We are switching from Word to FM (some of us are already using FM8), but my colleagues in Japan still want to be able to highlight things like they do in Word. (Old habits are hard to break, I guess.) So - I'm looking for an FM plug-in that will let you highlight text. Thanks in advance for any information you can provide. Best, Diane Gaskill Hitachi Data Systems ___ You are currently subscribed to Framers as [EMAIL PROTECTED] Send list messages to [EMAIL PROTECTED] To unsubscribe send a blank email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] or visit http://lists.frameusers.com/mailman/options/framers/archive%40mail-archive.com Send administrative questions to [EMAIL PROTECTED] Visit http://www.frameusers.com/ for more resources and info.
RE: FM Plugin - Highlighting like Word?
Diane, In Acrobat you can do that. Just make a PDF for them and they can mark that up. Or they can use the track changes feature in Frame 8.0. Thank you, Gillian Flato Technical Writer (Software) nanometrics 1550 Buckeye Dr. Milpitas, CA. 95035 408.545.6316 408.232.5911 [EMAIL PROTECTED] -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Diane Gaskill Sent: Tuesday, November 27, 2007 1:47 PM To: framers@lists.frameusers.com Subject: FM Plugin - Highlighting like Word? Hello FrameFriends, We are switching from Word to FM (some of us are already using FM8), but my colleagues in Japan still want to be able to highlight things like they do in Word. (Old habits are hard to break, I guess.) So - I'm looking for an FM plug-in that will let you highlight text. Thanks in advance for any information you can provide. Best, Diane Gaskill Hitachi Data Systems ___ You are currently subscribed to Framers as [EMAIL PROTECTED] Send list messages to [EMAIL PROTECTED] To unsubscribe send a blank email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] or visit http://lists.frameusers.com/mailman/options/framers/gflato%40nanometrics .com Send administrative questions to [EMAIL PROTECTED] Visit http://www.frameusers.com/ for more resources and info. ___ You are currently subscribed to Framers as [EMAIL PROTECTED] Send list messages to [EMAIL PROTECTED] To unsubscribe send a blank email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] or visit http://lists.frameusers.com/mailman/options/framers/archive%40mail-archive.com Send administrative questions to [EMAIL PROTECTED] Visit http://www.frameusers.com/ for more resources and info.
Re: FM Plugin - Highlighting like Word?
There isn't a quick and easy tool that sets the background yellow, but it's easy to create a character tag that has everything set to AsIs except the Font Color -- set that to whatever, and you're done. You can even use different colors for different people if you want... Art On Nov 27, 2007 4:46 PM, Diane Gaskill <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hello FrameFriends, > > We are switching from Word to FM (some of us are already using FM8), but my > colleagues in Japan still want to be able to highlight things like they do > in Word. (Old habits are hard to break, I guess.) > > So - I'm looking for an FM plug-in that will let you highlight text. > > Thanks in advance for any information you can provide. > > Best, > > Diane Gaskill > Hitachi Data Systems > > ___ > -- Art Campbell [EMAIL PROTECTED] "... In my opinion, there's nothing in this world beats a '52 Vincent and a redheaded girl." -- Richard Thompson No disclaimers apply. DoD 358 ___ You are currently subscribed to Framers as [EMAIL PROTECTED] Send list messages to [EMAIL PROTECTED] To unsubscribe send a blank email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] or visit http://lists.frameusers.com/mailman/options/framers/archive%40mail-archive.com Send administrative questions to [EMAIL PROTECTED] Visit http://www.frameusers.com/ for more resources and info.
RE: FM Plugin - Highlighting like Word?
Hi Gillian, Fred, and Art, They know about Acrobat and its capabilities, but they want to do it in the source. FM8's track changes feature has only two colors: red strikeout for deleted text and green underline for added text. Other than that, it works fine. Adobe's ads and the FM8 user's guide are a bit misleading. They call colored text "highlighting." Well, maybe in a generic sense, but it's what most people consider highlighting. What they are looking for is a way to identify different people who make edits to the same file. Word does that well (but not much else :-) Fred Ridder's idea about using conditional text might work. We'd just have to set up some tags with different colors. But Art's idea of a set of character tags might be the easiest way to go. Very easy to return to the original color by pressing F8. Ctrl-A - F8 - Enter would clean up a whole chapter in 5 seconds. I'll let the guys in Japan know. They don't have FM8 yet. Some of them don't have FM at all. The transition from Word to FM is going to be really interesting, I think. Thanks everybody. Diane -Original Message- From: Flato, Gillian [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, November 27, 2007 2:35 PM To: Diane Gaskill; framers@lists.frameusers.com Subject: RE: FM Plugin - Highlighting like Word? Diane, In Acrobat you can do that. Just make a PDF for them and they can mark that up. Or they can use the track changes feature in Frame 8.0. Thank you, Gillian Flato Technical Writer (Software) nanometrics 1550 Buckeye Dr. Milpitas, CA. 95035 408.545.6316 408.232.5911 [EMAIL PROTECTED] -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Diane Gaskill Sent: Tuesday, November 27, 2007 1:47 PM To: framers@lists.frameusers.com Subject: FM Plugin - Highlighting like Word? Hello FrameFriends, We are switching from Word to FM (some of us are already using FM8), but my colleagues in Japan still want to be able to highlight things like they do in Word. (Old habits are hard to break, I guess.) So - I'm looking for an FM plug-in that will let you highlight text. Thanks in advance for any information you can provide. Best, Diane Gaskill Hitachi Data Systems ___ You are currently subscribed to Framers as [EMAIL PROTECTED] Send list messages to [EMAIL PROTECTED] To unsubscribe send a blank email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] or visit http://lists.frameusers.com/mailman/options/framers/gflato%40nanometrics .com Send administrative questions to [EMAIL PROTECTED] Visit http://www.frameusers.com/ for more resources and info. ___ You are currently subscribed to Framers as [EMAIL PROTECTED] Send list messages to [EMAIL PROTECTED] To unsubscribe send a blank email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] or visit http://lists.frameusers.com/mailman/options/framers/archive%40mail-archive.com Send administrative questions to [EMAIL PROTECTED] Visit http://www.frameusers.com/ for more resources and info.
RE: FM Plugin - Highlighting like Word?
Hi Diane, > to set up some tags with different colors. But Art's idea of a set of > character tags might be the easiest way to go. Very easy to > return to the > original color by pressing F8. Ctrl-A - F8 - Enter would > clean up a whole > chapter in 5 seconds. Be careful: o All paragraphs will have the character format of the very first paragraph as override. Test it yourself. Of course you can import paragraph formats and remove overrides again to get rid of these overrides. o You will also remove all other applied character formats. Best regards Winfried ___ You are currently subscribed to Framers as [EMAIL PROTECTED] Send list messages to [EMAIL PROTECTED] To unsubscribe send a blank email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] or visit http://lists.frameusers.com/mailman/options/framers/archive%40mail-archive.com Send administrative questions to [EMAIL PROTECTED] Visit http://www.frameusers.com/ for more resources and info.
RE: FM Plugin - Highlighting like Word?
Acrobat 8.0's shared review capability tags each person's comments with their name, plus it allows everyone to see each other's comments. I have converted a lot of Word forms to Interactive PDFs here. I hear a lot of, "I want to be able to do exactly the same thing that I could do in Word in Acrobat" from my colleagues. Many times I have had to tell them something like, "You get 50 great new features with Adobe forms, but you will have to give up three good features from Word. Sorry, that's progress." They don't like it, but they have to deal with it. Just stand firm, Dianne. Tell them that the advantages of Frame are numerous and they're just going to have to grow up and deal with losing crappy Word (of course, you can be more diplomatic when you say it if you want to ) If they insist on Frame, then like Fred said, use conditional text where each person gets their own condition with their own color. But why would you let someone else touch your Frame files? I won't. That's why I only give engineers Acrobat files. -Gillian -Original Message- From: Diane Gaskill [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, November 28, 2007 3:34 AM To: Flato, Gillian; Diane Gaskill; framers@lists.frameusers.com Subject: RE: FM Plugin - Highlighting like Word? Hi Gillian, Fred, and Art, They know about Acrobat and its capabilities, but they want to do it in the source. FM8's track changes feature has only two colors: red strikeout for deleted text and green underline for added text. Other than that, it works fine. Adobe's ads and the FM8 user's guide are a bit misleading. They call colored text "highlighting." Well, maybe in a generic sense, but it's what most people consider highlighting. What they are looking for is a way to identify different people who make edits to the same file. Word does that well (but not much else :-) Fred Ridder's idea about using conditional text might work. We'd just have to set up some tags with different colors. But Art's idea of a set of character tags might be the easiest way to go. Very easy to return to the original color by pressing F8. Ctrl-A - F8 - Enter would clean up a whole chapter in 5 seconds. I'll let the guys in Japan know. They don't have FM8 yet. Some of them don't have FM at all. The transition from Word to FM is going to be really interesting, I think. Thanks everybody. Diane -Original Message- From: Flato, Gillian [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, November 27, 2007 2:35 PM To: Diane Gaskill; framers@lists.frameusers.com Subject: RE: FM Plugin - Highlighting like Word? Diane, In Acrobat you can do that. Just make a PDF for them and they can mark that up. Or they can use the track changes feature in Frame 8.0. Thank you, Gillian Flato Technical Writer (Software) nanometrics 1550 Buckeye Dr. Milpitas, CA. 95035 408.545.6316 408.232.5911 [EMAIL PROTECTED] -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Diane Gaskill Sent: Tuesday, November 27, 2007 1:47 PM To: framers@lists.frameusers.com Subject: FM Plugin - Highlighting like Word? Hello FrameFriends, We are switching from Word to FM (some of us are already using FM8), but my colleagues in Japan still want to be able to highlight things like they do in Word. (Old habits are hard to break, I guess.) So - I'm looking for an FM plug-in that will let you highlight text. Thanks in advance for any information you can provide. Best, Diane Gaskill Hitachi Data Systems ___ You are currently subscribed to Framers as [EMAIL PROTECTED] Send list messages to [EMAIL PROTECTED] To unsubscribe send a blank email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] or visit http://lists.frameusers.com/mailman/options/framers/gflato%40nanometrics .com Send administrative questions to [EMAIL PROTECTED] Visit http://www.frameusers.com/ for more resources and info. ___ You are currently subscribed to Framers as [EMAIL PROTECTED] Send list messages to [EMAIL PROTECTED] To unsubscribe send a blank email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] or visit http://lists.frameusers.com/mailman/options/framers/archive%40mail-archive.com Send administrative questions to [EMAIL PROTECTED] Visit http://www.frameusers.com/ for more resources and info.
