Re: Barcode font doesn't show up on PDF

2006-04-06 Thread Shlomo Perets
Nancy, You wrote: I use a barcode font in a Frame doc and then print the file using Acrobat Distiller. In the Distiller, I set the option to Embed all fonts. In the generated PDF file, the barcode font dissappears leaving a blank area. Any ideas on how I can fix this? Custom PostScript fonts

RE: FrameMaker Evangelist

2006-04-06 Thread Rita Muller
Hi RJ, Agreeing with the group here, it's great to have you! I attended the Help Authoring Seminar in Orlando in '02 when you introduced the first version of RH4FM. Never got to try it due to a software purchasing freeze right after I returned from the seminar, (h?) but enjoyed the

Re: FrameMaker Evangelist

2006-04-06 Thread Yves Barbion
Hello RJ, like my fellow Framers, I'm glad to see you back again. I remember you giving me some great (and swift) RH4FM support. And like John Posada, I liked RH4FM (and particularly its user interface) a lot more than WWP. Great product, too bad it didn't get beyond version 1.x. Good luck and

Re: Cannot Move This Type of Anchored Frame This Way.

2006-04-06 Thread Lynne A. Price
At 07:52 AM 4/4/2006, Peter Gold wrote: * Move into structured FM, where you can define this behavior. Peter, Alas, not quite. You can define a default of Run into Paragraph for anchored frames that result from importing an XML document. However, defaults for anchored frames created

Welcome, RJ

2006-04-06 Thread Beck, Charles
Hi all ( especially RJ), I get the listserve posts by digest, so I have to respond to everything a day or so later. I don't know you, RJ, but I'd like to add my voice to the chorus welcoming you. And to show you just how much I appreciate and value you, I'm going to start right in with a

RE: English Jargon - Intentionally Right Blank

2006-04-06 Thread John Smart
We spend a lot of time removing English jargon for airline safety. A big airline in Japan wrote - we see the Intentionally Left Bank page but there is no Intentionally Right Blank page. Bodvar Bjorgvinsson is correct, never assume foreigners can understand jargon. The English sign outside

Widows and Orphans in Bulleted List

2006-04-06 Thread pearlrosenberg
Hi Framers, I have a bulleted list style and have set widows and orphans to 2, but Frame lets the list break across pages with only 1 item on the next page. I've played around and set widows and orphans to 0 and also 3, but it makes no difference. Keep With Next and Previous are both

Is it OK to remove Body Paragraph tag

2006-04-06 Thread Sivia Atar
FrameMaker 7.0 We don't use the Body paragraph tag in our documents. We created a different tag, Regtext, that we use for our body text. My question is, is it OK to delete the paragraph tag from our templates and documents? The reason I ask is because I see that Body paragraph tag is on the

Re: English Jargon - FAA web site - Link Correction

2006-04-06 Thread John Smart
Framers - The correct FAA link needs an underscore - http://www.faa.gov/library/media_library/ Thanks Tanya ... -- John Smart and the MAXit Team Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] SMART Communications, Inc. 909 Third Avenue, New York, NY 10022 USA Tel: +1(212) 486-1894 -5GMT VM: +1(646) 495-3146

RE: questions on XML export

2006-04-06 Thread Wim Hooghwinkel \(Scriptware\)
Hello Lynn, thank you for your clarification. Met vriendelijke groet / kind regards, Wim Hooghwinkel [EMAIL PROTECTED] DTP and XML Management Scriptware bv http://www.scriptware.nl tel : +31 (0)23 548 48 84 fax : +31 (0)23 548 48 85 http://www.scriptware.nl [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Cannot Move This Type of Anchored Frame This Way.

2006-04-06 Thread Peter Gold
Hi, Lynne: Perhaps I was too brief in mentioning structured FM in the context. Thanks for the pointer! Regards, Peter Gold KnowHow ProServices At 12:23 PM -0700 4/4/06, Lynne A. Price wrote: At 07:52 AM 4/4/2006, Peter Gold wrote: * Move into structured FM, where you can

RE: FrameMaker Evangelist

2006-04-06 Thread Kevin Rusnak
Wow a FrameMaker Evangelist with a .Mac account. You really are good! Kevin C. Rusnak, CDIA+ E-Learning Development Specialist, Technical Services Hyland Software, Inc. 440.788.5609 440.788.5709 (fax) [EMAIL PROTECTED] www.onbase.com 28500 Clemens Road

Re: Widows and Orphans in Bulleted List

2006-04-06 Thread Yves Barbion
Hi Pearl, widows/orphans only works WITHIN the same paragraph. You could use Keep with previous but this will keep the complete list together. You could create 2 dedicated paragraph tags: listitem1 and listitem2 and use Keep with previous in one of them, but then again, this is not very elegant

Re: FrameMaker Evangelist / dashed lines in FrameMaker

2006-04-06 Thread Matthias . Dillier
Hi RJ and hi all Nice to here, that there is now a FrameMaker Evangelist at Adobe and that he is watching this list. Maybe this can help to stop the continuing rumors about FrameMaker being dead. So, I once more try an old question: - Bug in calculation of dashed lines In

Re: Is it OK to remove Body Paragraph tag

2006-04-06 Thread Rene Stephenson
All, Is there a way to change the default paragraph tag for text frames, etc., in the maker.ini file? Rene --- Rick Quatro [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Sivia, There is no harm in deleting the Body paragraph tag from your documents. If you create a text frame, its first paragraph is

RE: Is it OK to remove Body Paragraph tag

2006-04-06 Thread Lester C. Smalley
On Thursday, April 06, 2006 10:56 AM, Rene Stephenson wrote: | Is there a way to change the default paragraph tag for text | frames, etc., in the maker.ini file? | | Rene The answer is yes and no - you can not modify the behavior or names if you create new documents from the generic custom

Re: Is it OK to remove Body Paragraph tag

2006-04-06 Thread Rene Stephenson
...or maybe this is a case where SPS Auto-Text plugin would be helpful? Rene --- Rick Quatro [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi Rene, No there is not. If you are creating a lot of text frames (for callouts, etc.), you could create one, tag it correctly, and then copy it. Or, you could use a

Re: FrameMaker Evangelist

2006-04-06 Thread Bill Briggs
At 6:02 PM -0700 4/5/06, RJ Jacquez wrote: in general I believe that this is a great time to be a FrameMaker user I'm surprised that a Mac user can say such a thing with a straight face. I've got 13 years worth of FrameMaker collateral on my Mac and it's a profoundly unpleasant time to be a

FrameMaker on Mac

2006-04-06 Thread Stuart Rogers
Bill Briggs wrote: At 6:02 PM -0700 4/5/06, RJ Jacquez wrote: in general I believe that this is a great time to be a FrameMaker user I'm surprised that a Mac user can say such a thing with a straight face. I've got 13 years worth of FrameMaker collateral on my Mac and it's a profoundly

Re: FrameMaker on Mac

2006-04-06 Thread Bill Briggs
At 12:41 PM -0400 4/6/06, Stuart Rogers wrote: Bill Briggs wrote: At 6:02 PM -0700 4/5/06, RJ Jacquez wrote: in general I believe that this is a great time to be a FrameMaker user I'm surprised that a Mac user can say such a thing with a straight face. I've got 13 years worth of FrameMaker

Re: FrameMaker on Mac

2006-04-06 Thread Art Campbell
Too bad Jobs isn't as much a Mac fanatic as Mac fanatics are Art On 4/6/06, Bill Briggs [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: At 12:41 PM -0400 4/6/06, Stuart Rogers wrote: Bill Briggs wrote: At 6:02 PM -0700 4/5/06, RJ Jacquez wrote: in general I believe that this is a great time to be a FrameMaker

OT Re: FrameMaker on Mac

2006-04-06 Thread Bill Briggs
At this stage I wouldn't even speculate on what motivates Steve Jobs, or what he's fanatical about. And that may have changed since his close brush with the mortality (pancreatic cancer). One detects a change in his outlook. I don't know that we Mac users are fanatics. I switched from windows a

RE: FrameMaker on Mac, NPR Talk of the Nation

2006-04-06 Thread Karen L. Zorn
Today's NPR Talk of the Nation is discussing the Mac and Windows OS. If the broadcast time has past for your time zone, you can listen to program over the web (http://www.npr.org/templates/rundowns/rundown.php?prgId=5). Karen L. Zorn Zorn Technologies, Inc. Mesa, AZ -Original Message-

Re: Is it OK to remove Body Paragraph tag

2006-04-06 Thread Mike Wickham
Is there a way to change the default paragraph tag for text frames, etc., in the maker.ini file? I don't know of a way to change the default paragraph tag, but you can change its default properties. If you load the custom document in the FMINIT directory, you can use the Paragraph Designer to

Re: Is it OK to remove Body Paragraph tag

2006-04-06 Thread Bill Briggs
At 4:12 PM +0300 4/6/06, Sivia Atar wrote: My question is, is it OK to delete the paragraph tag from our templates and documents? Actually, it's fraught with danger. You know that little tag on your mattress that you can't tear off? Well, the same people who will arrest you if you remove that

Re: OT Re: FrameMaker on Mac

2006-04-06 Thread Rick Quatro
Hi Bill, I appreciate your comments, but I would rather keep my primary application (FrameMaker), even if I had to run it on a foreign operating system like Windows XP. The ability to run FrameMaker on the Mac via Windows may be a compromise, but it has to be better than switching

Where's Framescript?

2006-04-06 Thread donandjudy1
Folks: As I head back into heavy FrameMaker use to attach another project, I've decided to check out Framescript in order to add macro creation ability, if nothing else, to my publishing capabilities. But lo and behold, my attempts to go to www.framescript.com has popped up no more than the old

Re: OT Re: FrameMaker on Mac

2006-04-06 Thread Bill Briggs
At 5:13 PM -0400 4/6/06, Rick Quatro wrote: And I think that the increased popularity of OS X would cause Apple's hardware sales to increase as well. Maybe, maybe not. That's the tough call. It didn't work in the clone era, and I'm not sure it would now. Don't forget that Apple is first and

RE: Where's Framescript?

2006-04-06 Thread Veronica Kütt
Hi there, FrameScript's website address is www.fml.com. I think that should work for you. Sincerely, Veronica Kütt President Front Runner Training A Division of Front Runner Publishing Solutions Inc. 416-515-0155 [EMAIL PROTECTED] Front Runner 21 St. Clair Avenue East, Suite 402 Toronto,

Re: OT Re: FrameMaker on Mac

2006-04-06 Thread Rick Quatro
True, Apple is a hardware company, but the real money in computers is in software. Just ask Bill Gates. The question is, how much hardware revenue would Apple lose by such a move? Do people buy Apple for the hardware or for the software experience? Hopefully, they would gain many customers that

Re: FrameMaker on Mac

2006-04-06 Thread Pat Christenson
On Apr 6, 2006, at 9:41 AM, Stuart Rogers wrote: Don't know if it will be good news to mac users or not... but it was reported in the paper today that Apple Computer Inc. released new software yesterday that lets users of its newest computers run Microsoft Corp.'s dominant Windows XP

FrameMaker Evangelist

2006-04-06 Thread Alan Litchfield
This is good news :) FM doesn't get anywhere near the promotion it needs in these parts. Maybe, RJ, you can squeeze in a working holiday to the Southern Hemisphere. Cheers Alan RJ Jacquez said: > Hi All, > > Just wanted to introduce myself to the group and share with you that as of > Monday,

FrameMaker Evangelist

2006-04-06 Thread Paul Findon
On 6 Apr 2006, at 10:02, RJ Jacquez wrote:\ > Thank you and I consider myself very fortunate to be back and to be > part of a great FrameMaker team, and in general I believe that this is > a great time to be a FrameMaker user and one of my main goals in my > new job is to promote the product

Barcode font doesn't show up on PDF

2006-04-06 Thread Shlomo Perets
Nancy, You wrote: >I use a barcode font in a Frame doc and then print the file using >Acrobat Distiller. >In the Distiller, I set the option to "Embed all fonts". In the >generated PDF file, >the barcode font dissappears leaving a blank area. Any ideas on how I >can fix this? Custom PostScript

FrameMaker Evangelist

2006-04-06 Thread Rita Muller
Hi RJ, Agreeing with the group here, it's great to have you! I attended the Help Authoring Seminar in Orlando in '02 when you introduced the first version of RH4FM. Never got to try it due to a software purchasing freeze right after I returned from the seminar, (h?) but enjoyed the

FrameMaker Evangelist

2006-04-06 Thread Yves Barbion
Hello RJ, like my "fellow Framers", I'm glad to "see" you back again. I remember you giving me some great (and swift) RH4FM support. And like John Posada, I liked RH4FM (and particularly its user interface) a lot more than WWP. Great product, too bad it didn't get beyond version 1.x. Good luck

Welcome, RJ

2006-04-06 Thread Beck, Charles
Hi all (& especially RJ), I get the listserve posts by digest, so I have to respond to everything a day or so later. I don't know you, RJ, but I'd like to add my voice to the chorus welcoming you. And to show you just how much I appreciate and value you, I'm going to start right in with a

English Jargon - Intentionally Right Blank

2006-04-06 Thread John Smart
We spend a lot of time removing English jargon for airline safety. A big airline in Japan wrote - "we see the Intentionally Left Bank page but there is no Intentionally Right Blank page". Bodvar Bjorgvinsson is correct, never assume foreigners can understand jargon. The English sign outside

Widows and Orphans in Bulleted List

2006-04-06 Thread pearlrosenb...@nc.rr.com
Hi Framers, I have a bulleted list style and have set widows and orphans to 2, but Frame lets the list break across pages with only 1 item on the next page. I've played around and set widows and orphans to 0 and also 3, but it makes no difference. Keep With Next and Previous are both

Is it OK to remove Body Paragraph tag

2006-04-06 Thread Sivia Atar
FrameMaker 7.0 We don't use the Body paragraph tag in our documents. We created a different tag, Regtext, that we use for our body text. My question is, is it OK to delete the paragraph tag from our templates and documents? The reason I ask is because I see that Body paragraph tag is on the

English Jargon - FAA web site - Link Correction

2006-04-06 Thread John Smart
Framers - The correct FAA link needs an underscore - http://www.faa.gov/library/media_library/ Thanks Tanya ... -- John Smart and the MAXit Team Email: jsmart at smartny.com SMART Communications, Inc. 909 Third Avenue, New York, NY 10022 USA Tel: +1(212) 486-1894 -5GMT VM: +1(646) 495-3146

questions on XML export

2006-04-06 Thread Wim Hooghwinkel (Scriptware)
Hello Lynn, thank you for your clarification. Met vriendelijke groet / kind regards, Wim Hooghwinkel wimh at scriptware.nl DTP and XML Management Scriptware bv http://www.scriptware.nl tel : +31 (0)23 548 48 84 fax : +31 (0)23 548 48 85 http://www.scriptware.nl info at scriptware.nl info at

Widows and Orphans in Bulleted List

2006-04-06 Thread David Flynn
Hi Pearl, I've faced this problem a few times... Try punching a "Enter key" or End of Line character at the end of the last bulleted entry. Thanks, David On 4/6/06, pearlrosenberg at nc.rr.com wrote: > > Hi Framers, > > I have a bulleted list style and have set widows and orphans to 2, but >

"Cannot Move This Type of Anchored Frame This Way."

2006-04-06 Thread Peter Gold
Hi, Lynne: Perhaps I was too brief in mentioning structured FM in the context. Thanks for the pointer! Regards, Peter Gold KnowHow ProServices At 12:23 PM -0700 4/4/06, Lynne A. Price wrote: >At 07:52 AM 4/4/2006, Peter Gold wrote: >>* Move into structured FM, where you can

FrameMaker Evangelist

2006-04-06 Thread Kevin Rusnak
Wow a FrameMaker Evangelist with a .Mac account. You really are good! Kevin C. Rusnak, CDIA+ E-Learning Development Specialist, Technical Services Hyland Software, Inc. 440.788.5609 440.788.5709 (fax) kevin.rusnak at onbase.com www.onbase.com 28500 Clemens

Widows and Orphans in Bulleted List

2006-04-06 Thread Yves Barbion
Hi Pearl, widows/orphans only works WITHIN the same paragraph. You could use "Keep with previous" but this will keep the complete list together. You could create 2 dedicated paragraph tags: and and use "Keep with previous" in one of them, but then again, this is not very elegant either. --

Is it OK to remove Body Paragraph tag

2006-04-06 Thread Rick Quatro
Sivia, There is no harm in deleting the Body paragraph tag from your documents. If you create a text frame, its first paragraph is automatically tagged with "Body" but you can easily retag it to what is appropriate. You can also retag the main flow text frame on your master pages, although

FrameMaker Evangelist / dashed lines in FrameMaker

2006-04-06 Thread matthias.dill...@snb.ch
Hi RJ and hi all Nice to here, that there is now a FrameMaker Evangelist at Adobe and that he is watching this list. Maybe this can help to stop the continuing rumors about FrameMaker being dead. So, I once more try an old question: - Bug in calculation of dashed lines In

Is it OK to remove Body Paragraph tag

2006-04-06 Thread Rick Quatro
Hi Rene, No there is not. If you are creating a lot of text frames (for callouts, etc.), you could create one, tag it correctly, and then copy it. Or, you could use a script to change the format automatically. Rick > All, > > Is there a way to change the default paragraph tag for text frames,

Is it OK to remove Body Paragraph tag

2006-04-06 Thread Lester C. Smalley
On Thursday, April 06, 2006 10:56 AM, Rene Stephenson wrote: | Is there a way to change the default paragraph tag for text | frames, etc., in the maker.ini file? | | Rene The answer is "yes and no" - you can not modify the behavior or names if you create new documents from the generic custom

Is it OK to remove Body Paragraph tag

2006-04-06 Thread Rene Stephenson
...or maybe this is a case where SPS Auto-Text plugin would be helpful? Rene --- Rick Quatro wrote: > Hi Rene, > > No there is not. If you are creating a lot of text frames (for callouts, > > etc.), you could create one, tag it correctly, and then copy it. Or, you > > could use a script to

FrameMaker Evangelist

2006-04-06 Thread Bill Briggs
At 6:02 PM -0700 4/5/06, RJ Jacquez wrote: > in general I believe that this is a great time to be a FrameMaker user I'm surprised that a Mac user can say such a thing with a straight face. I've got 13 years worth of FrameMaker collateral on my Mac and it's a profoundly unpleasant time to be a

My Graphics are Resizing Themselves

2006-04-06 Thread Melanie Raney
Nancy, Did you solve your issue already? If not, I was thinking that you might try circumventing it... Try resizing your screen caps before inserting them in FM. As a general rule, I encourage everyone to do this. FM is not a friendly graphics-handling program. We use pngs too, but we actually

FrameMaker on Mac

2006-04-06 Thread Stuart Rogers
Bill Briggs wrote: > At 6:02 PM -0700 4/5/06, RJ Jacquez wrote: >> in general I believe that this is a great time to be a FrameMaker >> user > > I'm surprised that a Mac user can say such a thing with a straight > face. I've got 13 years worth of FrameMaker collateral on my Mac and > it's a

FrameMaker on Mac

2006-04-06 Thread Bill Briggs
At 12:41 PM -0400 4/6/06, Stuart Rogers wrote: >Bill Briggs wrote: >>At 6:02 PM -0700 4/5/06, RJ Jacquez wrote: >>>in general I believe that this is a great time to be a FrameMaker >>>user >> >>I'm surprised that a Mac user can say such a thing with a straight >>face. I've got 13 years worth of

FrameMaker on Mac

2006-04-06 Thread Art Campbell
Too bad Jobs isn't as much a Mac fanatic as Mac fanatics are Art On 4/6/06, Bill Briggs wrote: > At 12:41 PM -0400 4/6/06, Stuart Rogers wrote: > >Bill Briggs wrote: > >>At 6:02 PM -0700 4/5/06, RJ Jacquez wrote: > >>>in general I believe that this is a great time to be a FrameMaker >

OT Re: FrameMaker on Mac

2006-04-06 Thread Bill Briggs
At this stage I wouldn't even speculate on what motivates Steve Jobs, or what he's fanatical about. And that may have changed since his close brush with the mortality (pancreatic cancer). One detects a change in his outlook. I don't know that we Mac users are fanatics. I switched from windows a

FrameMaker on Mac, NPR Talk of the Nation

2006-04-06 Thread Karen L. Zorn
Today's NPR Talk of the Nation is discussing the Mac and Windows OS. If the broadcast time has past for your time zone, you can listen to program over the web (http://www.npr.org/templates/rundowns/rundown.php?prgId=5). Karen L. Zorn Zorn Technologies, Inc. Mesa, AZ -Original Message-

Is it OK to remove Body Paragraph tag

2006-04-06 Thread Mike Wickham
> Is there a way to change the default paragraph tag for text frames, etc., > in the maker.ini file? I don't know of a way to change the default paragraph tag, but you can change its default properties. If you load the "custom" document in the FMINIT directory, you can use the Paragraph

Is it OK to remove Body Paragraph tag

2006-04-06 Thread Bill Briggs
At 4:12 PM +0300 4/6/06, Sivia Atar wrote: >My question is, is it OK to delete the paragraph tag from our templates and >documents? Actually, it's fraught with danger. You know that little tag on your mattress that you can't tear off? Well, the same people who will arrest you if you remove

OT - Illustrator actions

2006-04-06 Thread Diana Stock
Hello all, Since this is off topic of FrameMaker, I was wondering if anyone out there is very proficient with Illustrator CS. I am trying to create an action and it is not performing completely as I need it to. If anyone cares to give me some suggestions, please contact me off list. Many thanks

OT Re: FrameMaker on Mac

2006-04-06 Thread Rick Quatro
Hi Bill, I appreciate your comments, but I would rather keep my primary application (FrameMaker), even if I had to run it on a "foreign" operating system like Windows XP. The ability to run FrameMaker on the Mac via Windows may be a compromise, but it has to be better than switching

Where's Framescript?

2006-04-06 Thread donandjudy1
Folks: As I head back into heavy FrameMaker use to attach another project, I've decided to check out Framescript in order to add macro creation ability, if nothing else, to my publishing capabilities. But lo and behold, my attempts to go to www.framescript.com has popped up no more than the old

OT Re: FrameMaker on Mac

2006-04-06 Thread Bill Briggs
At 5:13 PM -0400 4/6/06, Rick Quatro wrote: >And I think that the increased popularity of OS X would cause Apple's hardware >sales to increase as well. Maybe, maybe not. That's the tough call. It didn't work in the "clone" era, and I'm not sure it would now. Don't forget that Apple is first

Where's Framescript?

2006-04-06 Thread Veronica Kütt
Hi there, FrameScript's website address is www.fml.com. I think that should work for you. Sincerely, Veronica K?tt President Front Runner Training A Division of Front Runner Publishing Solutions Inc. 416-515-0155 veronica at front-runner.com Front Runner 21 St. Clair Avenue East, Suite 402

OT Re: FrameMaker on Mac

2006-04-06 Thread Rick Quatro
True, Apple is a hardware company, but the real money in computers is in software. Just ask Bill Gates. The question is, how much hardware revenue would Apple lose by such a move? Do people buy Apple for the hardware or for the software experience? Hopefully, they would gain many customers that

FrameMaker on Mac

2006-04-06 Thread Pat Christenson
On Apr 6, 2006, at 9:41 AM, Stuart Rogers wrote: > > Don't know if it will be good news to mac users or not... but it was > reported in the paper today that "Apple Computer Inc. released new > software yesterday that lets users of its newest computers run > Microsoft Corp.'s dominant Windows XP