Hi Lynne,
Thanks, it works perfectly. The name of the table format and the
attribute value are the same, so no problems there.
The reason I want to do it is that I format the text in the table based
on the type of table it is. It's not that much work to enter this
information - every time I choos
Daniel Emory wrote:
> Certainly I don't advocate the use of MIL specs for preparing
> commercial manuals. I do know, however, that most tech
> writers who produce manuals for commercial products remain
> blissfully unaware of the problems caused by their outputs.
A valid point. Although som
At 09:41 AM 10/20/2006, Daniel Osborn wrote:
>Thanks, it works perfectly. The name of the table format and the
>attribute value are the same, so no problems there.
Daniel,
Just remember that it is the user's responsibility to keep the attribute
value and table format the same.
--Lynn
Grusse WoK,
Besuchen Sie auf www.frameusers.com. Sie konnen daran Viele plug-ins
finden.
Wenn einer dass arbeitet wie Sie wunchen daran ist weiss ich nicht.
(Visit www.frameusers.com. You can find many plug-ins on it, but I do not
know
whether one that works as you want is on it.)
But as Neils
Spreadbury, David wrote:
> Pat, You want to set the Document Properties > Initial View to force
> the PDF to open on the specific page.
>
>
>
> From:
> framers-bounces+david.spreadbury=tellabs.com at lists.frameusers.com on
> behalf of Pat Christenson Sent: Wed 10
Certainly I don't advocate the use of MIL specs for
preparing commercial manuals. I do know, however, that
most tech writers who produce manuals for commercial
products remain blissfully unaware of the problems
caused by their outputs.
Unlike typical users of commercial products, most
users of MI
Joanne,
On the Basic page of the Table Designer, set Numbering to Column First.
--Lynne
At 09:35 AM 10/19/2006, That Darned Writer wrote:
>Hi Frame gurus... I may have known this but forgotten. I checked the
>archives and the online help and didn't see anything there, so I'm coming
>
Daniel Emory wrote:
> The fact is that the US military is the only true laboratory
> where technical documentation is subjected to extensive
> post-publication review to determine its effectiveness in the
> real world. Findings resulting from analyses of actual
> foul-ups lead to continuing
Hi,
I'm trying to set up the read/write rules for my XML files and have run
into a problem.
I've cheated a bit with DITA and am using the 'otherprops' attribute of
'table' to store the table format.
I'm using this rule:
attribute "otherprops" is fm property table format;
I set this
At 09:13 AM 10/19/2006, Daniel Osborn wrote:
>If you use the is fm property rule to translate a markup attribute to
>a FrameMaker property, the markup attribute does not also appear as a
>FrameMaker attribute.
>
>My question is, is there a way to do this so that the markup attribute
>does appea
Hi, Joaanne:
Define the Numbering attribute in the Basic Properties of the table
format in the table designer as Column First.
HTH
Regards,
Peter Gold
KnowHow ProServices
That Darned Writer wrote:
> Hi Frame gurus... I may have known this but forgotten. I checked the
> archiv
--- Shmuel Wolfson wrote:
> I always felt that "This Page Intentionally Left
> Blank" sounds a bit
> weird. Why would you intentionally leave a page
> blank? I vote to change
> it to "This Page Left Blank for Double-sided
> Printing."
What about the case whe
Hello,
We use Frame for basically what you're talking about, I believe. We
have several versions of our main software product and the previous
writers set up the documentation using variables and different color
text to indicate which words/paragraphs belongs to what version. It
works fairly we
Your "snip" below deleted from my original post the
main reason I gave for why intentionally blank pages
should be unambiguously labeled. The snipped part was:
"The fact that, more and more, technical manuals are
being delivered as computer files, not professionally
printed and bound paper documen
What he's saying is that FM files are "binary", which means they're not
composed entirely of printable characters (that's a simplified
explanation). You can't do the "normal" type of ClearCase operation on
them. That probably freaks him out. It shouldn't; I have used ClearCase
and other SCM product
Doh! That was it. Thanks, Peter.
Peter Gold wrote:
> Hi, Joaanne:
>
> Define the Numbering attribute in the Basic Properties of the table
> format in the table designer as Column First.
>
> HTH
>
> Regards,
>
> Peter Gold
> KnowHow ProServices
>
> That Darned Writer wrote:
.
I have a client who is building his index from a book of files and when he
goes to add the index file and hit update, he gets an error that states:
can't finsh creating the index there are duplicate filenameIX.fm file names.
He only sees the one that Frame is creating in the book. MAC OS10, Frame 7
Wolfgang Kühn wrote:
Hallo,
kennt jemand von Euch einen Trick bzw. ein Tool/PlugIn/Script mit
welchen ich die generierten Verzeichnisse (ToC/LoF/LoT/etc.) aus meiner
Suche über ein Buch ausklammern kann?
Danke
WoK
Translated by Babelfish:
someone knows a trick from you and/or a Tool/PlugIn/S
All,
My SCM guy is swearing that Framemaker and Clear Quest/Case don't play
nicely together. I am not even remotely knowledgeable enough about Clear
Quest/Case to refute any of his concerns. At previous gigs, we used
either CMVC and therefore, just checked in/out the PDFs (never had to
deal w/ the
Structured FrameMaker 7.0, Mac, OS X 10.4.8.
I am going nuts here.
I made a change to the height of the text frame on left/right master pages. I
reapplied the master pages: the body pages did not change.
Now get this: if I draw a small measuring line on a master page that is the
length of the
Hi, Oleg.
Oleg A. Paraschenko wrote:
Hi!
On Mon, 16 Oct 2006 10:54:00 -0700
Syed Zaeem Hosain <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
...
1. When I am working on a particular FM file with these file imports,
I'd like to "highlight" them (like with a gray background or something
like that) during my editin
Hi,
I'm trying to set up the read/write rules for my XML files and have run
into a problem.
I've cheated a bit with DITA and am using the 'otherprops' attribute of
'table' to store the table format.
I'm using this rule:
attribute "otherprops" is fm property table format;
I set t
Do NOT try posting jobs on the Adobe User-to-User
forums ...
- Dov
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> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Subject: Re: posting Frame jobs?
>
>
On Thu, 19 Oct 2006 12:05:23 +0200, Wolfgang Kühn <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>kennt jemand von Euch einen Trick bzw. ein Tool/PlugIn/Script mit
>welchen ich die generierten Verzeichnisse (ToC/LoF/LoT/etc.) aus meiner
>Suche über ein Buch ausklammern kann?
Babelfish says:
Subject: Ignore generate
Noah,
In your position, given one case that works and one that doesn't, I
would simplify the test document, EDD, DTD, template, and read/write rules
in stages until I found the significant difference between them.
--Lynne
At 07:41 PM 10/18/2006, Noah Evans wrote:
Well, I'm inching t
BOULDER, CO - OCTOBER 19, 2006 - ENLASO Corporation, a provider of
translation and localization solutions, today announced that
localization publishing expert Maxwell Hoffmann will be making a
presentation at the FrameMaker 2006 Chautauqua on November 9 in Austin,
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Hoffmann, who manages C
Wolfgang,
I don't know the answer but I ran your message through
http://babelfish.altavista.com/, so I could understand the question.
kennt jemand von Euch einen Trick bzw
someone knows a trick from you and/or
ein Tool/PlugIn/Script mit welchen ich die generierten Verzeichnisse
(ToC/LoF/LoT/et
Sorry- just found the answer:
http://www.adobe.com/support/downloads/detail.jsp?ftpID=2715
Should've googled first...(blush)
Cheers,
Neil
From: Neil Tubb
Sent: Thursday, October 19, 2006 1:21 PM
To: framers@lists.frameusers.com
Subject: Frame 7.1
Hi all,
I'm running Frame 7.1 on a Win XP box and it keeps crashing today when I
do book builds. The error output:
Internal Error: 7104, 4440200, 4439404, 6561597
FrameMaker 7.1.0 for Intel
Build: 7.1p114
Window System: MSWindows
Operating System: Windows NT 5.1 (major.minor.build: 5.1.
It's really based on whatever your company Style Guide says. So discuss
it with the people who write the Style Guide and come to a consensus.
Thanks,
Gillian
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Sent: Wednesday, October 18, 2006 10:
Hi Frame gurus... I may have known this but forgotten. I checked the
archives and the online help and didn't see anything there, so I'm
coming to the folks who know.
I have numbered lists that I need to convert to tables. Is there a way
to specify that the numbered lists show up in the cells d
Thanks Rick. That's exactly the sort of thing I needed.
Pat
On Oct 19, 2006, at 4:19 AM, Rick Quatro wrote:
Hi Pat,
If you open the PDF with Acrobat and choose View > Navigation Tabs >
Destinations, you will see a list of named destinations in the file.
FrameMaker usually creates a named de
For those who don't understand German, here is an English translation of the
question:
Hallo,
Hello,
kennt jemand von Euch einen Trick bzw. ein Tool/PlugIn/Script mit
Does anyone know of a trick or a Tool/PlugIn/Script with
welchen ich die generierten Verzeichnisse (ToC/LoF/LoT/etc.) aus meiner
Hi,
I'm trying to set up the read/write rules for my XML files and have run
into a problem.
I've cheated a bit with DITA and am using the 'otherprops' attribute of
'table' to store the table format.
I'm using this rule:
attribute "otherprops" is fm property table format;
I set t
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Hello. I have a document that spontaneously generates a border around the
first page only when I make the PDF. The book is made up of several files
and set at 5.5 x 8.5. I use Frame 6.0p405 on Win XP, and this occurs with
using either Adobe PDF 6 or 7 printers (I print to PS and use Distiller
Daniel Emory wrote:
> --- Charles Beck <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > Maybe I'm missing something, and then again, maybe I'm not.
> I too have
> > always considered it a strange paradox when I see the words
> "This page
> > intentionally left blank." But there is no need to use it.
> ===
I use standard FrameMaker 7.
I also publish multiple-volume sets for multiple locations. I document
software so the documents contain a system introduction, description of
customization and a description of every screen in the application. The
screens are grouped into menus. A screen can be
I see that you have got very good replies to your question, but
because you mention CSS, I gather that you are familiar with
HTML/XHTML/XML. At the same time the question rather implies that you
are not familiar with Structured FrameMaker.
Structured FrameMaker works in a similar way but much mor
Sorry to chime in late.
Here's how I've done it when I needed a documents page count elsewhere. A
paragraph with a format called PageCount placed on A REFERENCE PAGE!
Then you just put the page count variable as the only text. You then Xref
to the last document in a book. No need for blank
I publish in pdf and in printed formats. The people who read the pdf do
indeed think that the empty left page is a mistake, even though it has a
header and footer. In fact, they print from the pdf. So I changed the
format to delete empty pages. I don't print often anymore, but when I do,
I
Oops. I violated the "RE: Framers Digest" etiquette rule with that last post.
Here's a quick post so the topics list will show a response to the original
thread. Sorry about that.
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Hi Susan,
In the field of classified documentation the phrase "This page is
intentionally blank" is used to denote that there is no content on that
page and it is not a printing mitake. The strange thing is that the
blank page also carried the classification so you ended up with a page
classifie
Hi Kai,
You can do it with fcodes, as in:
static IntT fcodes[] = {KBD_STRIP_FLOWSTRUCTURE};
F_ApiFcodes(sizeof(fcodes)/sizeof(IntT), fcodes);
This will invoke it just as if you selected the menu path, so you'll need to
set the insertion point in the correct flow ahead of time. You also (pr
Pat,
You want to set the Document Properties > Initial View to force the PDF to open
on the specific page.
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Sent: Wed 10/18/2006 12:32 PM
To: framers List
Subject: Link from HTML to PDF
Hi -
My client wants
To each his own, I guess. It doesn't bother me one whit, aesthetically
or any other way--in fact, quite the opposite, because, as I said
before, it signals to me that it was, in fact, NOT a misprint or misfeed
of paper, especially if both a running header AND footer are used.
I respect the opinio
Hi Pat,
If you open the PDF with Acrobat and choose View > Navigation Tabs >
Destinations, you will see a list of named destinations in the file.
FrameMaker usually creates a named desination for each page in the form P.#,
where # is the page number. So, to open the PDF at page 3, you can use
I always felt that "This Page Intentionally Left Blank" sounds a bit
weird. Why would you intentionally leave a page blank? I vote to change
it to "This Page Left Blank for Double-sided Printing."
Regards,
Shmuel Wolfson
052-763-7133
Whites wrote:
Isn't there also a matter of aethetics? An e
Hallo WoK,
Diese Liste is normalerweise nur in Englisch gehalten...
Other than that, I'm not aware of any plugin that leaves out generated lists. U
got FrameScript?
-Niels
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