RE: Weird Frame to PDF problem

Thanks for the unlocker. Seems a useful tool. I have similar pbms with files 'can't delete' quite often. Michael From: Sheila Carlisle [EMAIL PROTECTED] Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: framers@lists.frameusers.com Subject: RE: Weird Frame to PDF problem Date: Sun, 28 Jan 2007 11:10:59 -0800

Looking for books on Frame template design

Hi: I have decided to take the plunge into learning template design using Frame. Any suggestions on books/tutorials to get out of the land advanced intermediate/user I have been stuck in for sometime? :) I am going to DC to take class on XML, so naturally I am interested in Frame

Re: Looking for books on Frame template design

At 20:21 -0800 28/1/07, Greg Thompson wrote: I have decided to take the plunge into learning template design using Frame. Any suggestions on books/tutorials to get out of the land advanced intermediate/user I have been stuck in for sometime? :) It rather depends on what you mean by

Menus created via FDK/API in Simplified Chinese?

Further to Maxwell Hoffman's post on Kanji (Japanese )menus. Can anyone from Adobe Asia advise on customer FDK localization in Simplified Chinese. We are also looking for a quick solution with the FDK. The task is easy in single-byte with one line of code as shown below. The question Maxwell

Re: Looking for books on Frame template design

Hi, Greg: Adobe has FrameMaker templates available on Adobe.com. Search Google for Adobe FrameMaker Templates Primer. This link downloads the primer in PDF form: http://www.adobe.com/products/framemaker/tempseries/pdfs/primer.pdf This link goes to the template series of files:

RE: Weird Frame to PDF problem

Andrew, When I tried that, my system said that handle *.pdf is not recognized as a command. -Gillian -Original Message- From: Andrew Warren [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, January 26, 2007 6:31 PM To: Gillian Flato; framers@frameusers.com Subject: RE: Weird Frame to PDF

Re: Looking for books on Frame template design

Thanks Steve: I was thinking of the mechanistic aspects but thanks for broadening my horizon! Greg Thompson __ From: Steve Rickaby [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Greg Thompson [EMAIL PROTECTED] CC:

Re: Looking for books on Frame template design

Good Day Greg: Are you looking for books dealing with unstructured template design? If so, Scriptorium has a workbook at http://store.scriptorium.com/items/workbooks/fm102-unstructured-framemaker-7-template-design-workbook-fm102wb-all-detail.htm which may be what you seek. Best, Denise

Re: Reply vs. Reply All (Was TOUGH ONE)

Mike Wickham wrote: Like Michael, I often send replies to the original poster only, and not to the forum. It's not intentional. It's just that, of all the fora I visit on the Web, this is the only one that is not set by default to reply to the group. I never have to use the Reply All button

RE: High quality images

Dov, I tried this. FrameMake imports the tif as an empty graphic frame with the image file name in it. The image can be activated but only in a graphics program. And, what you see in FM is the same as you get in the PDF. Unless there is something I can't get FM 7.2 on Windows to display the TIF

Disappearing EPS Files

Hi, I'm having a strange Frame problem: Frame 7.2 Illustrator CS2 The original eps file was created in Illustrator 10. When I update the eps file in Illustrator CS2, the referenced graphic disappears in Frame. Has anyone heard of this? What can I do to fix this? Thanks, Nancy Adams

Re: Disappearing EPS Files

At 14:10 -0500 29/1/07, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: The original eps file was created in Illustrator 10. When I update the eps file in Illustrator CS2, the referenced graphic disappears in Frame. Has anyone heard of this? What can I do to fix this? Re-import it? -- Steve

Re: Disappearing EPS Files

You mean it disappears as in present but now shown, or disappears as in deleted/removed/nor present. If the first, what kind of preview are you specifying when you save or update the image? Needs to be a TIF or WMF preview, I think, in order for FM to display it. If the latter, could you post a

Re: Disappearing EPS Files

Nancy, Does the graphic disappear or do you see a grey box? Rick Quatro Carmen Publishing 585-659-8267 www.frameexpert.com Hi, I'm having a strange Frame problem: Frame 7.2 Illustrator CS2 The original eps file was created in Illustrator 10. When I update the eps file in Illustrator CS2,

RE: Disappearing EPS Files

Have you tried the keyboard sequence esc m p? (If the eps reappears, it has been positioned differently). Hanneke -Oorspronkelijk bericht- Van: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Namens [EMAIL PROTECTED] Verzonden: maandag 29 januari 2007 19:10 Aan: framers@frameusers.com

RE: Disappearing EPS Files

Sorry, I forgot: first select the eps in Frame (or the frame around it) and then the keybord sequence. -Oorspronkelijk bericht- Van: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Namens [EMAIL PROTECTED] Verzonden: maandag 29 januari 2007 19:10 Aan: framers@frameusers.com Onderwerp:

Disappearing EPS file - Take 2

Hi all, Wow, so many quick responses, thank you. The graphic appears on the master page and it is not in an anchored frame. There is no grey box, and the graphic disappears completely. It has been saved with a tiff preview, but it does not print either. Thanks, Nancy Adams

Re: Disappearing EPS file - Take 2

Try copying it in rather than importing by reference Art On 1/29/07, [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi all, Wow, so many quick responses, thank you. The graphic appears on the master page and it is not in an anchored frame. There is no grey box, and the graphic disappears

Re: Disappearing EPS file - Take 2

Hi Nancy, Try this: 1) Go to the master page where the graphic should be. 2) Click in the margin so there is not a text insertion point anywhere. 3) Choose Edit Select All on Page. 4) Hold the Shift key and deselect all of the visibly selected text frames, etc. 5) Choose Graphics Object

Fwd: Disappearing EPS file - Take 2

Frome In a message dated 1/29/2007 3:56:25 PM Eastern Standard Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: We see this too. It appears that updating the figures changes the bounding box (or something similar). So the figure is still there, it's just offset so much that it becomes invisible. Try a

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Hi all, Thanks for your responses. It does appear that there is some sort of bug... Indeed the graphic is there, but way off to the side, off the page. Sigh, I will have to reimport this into about 80 documents. Thanks, Nancy Adams ___ You are

RE: Weird Frame to PDF problem

Gillian Flato wrote: Handle is a command-line program; the command to find the process that has mypdf.pdf open is simply handle mypdf. If you're not comfortable with the DOS command line, Process Explorer is a GUI tool. After installing it, ctrl-F will open a search box into which

Re: Disappearing EPS file - Take 2

You know, now that I think of it, I can fix the template and then reimport the master pages to all of the files that need changing. :-) Thanks for your help! Nancy Adams ___ You are currently subscribed to Framers as [EMAIL PROTECTED] Send

Re: Disappearing EPS file - Take 2

From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] The graphic appears on the master page and it is not in an anchored frame. There is no grey box, and the graphic disappears completely. It has been saved with a tiff preview, but it does not print either. Are you sure it's disappeared? Maybe you're just seeing a white

RE: High quality images

Jon Harvey wrote: I tried this. FrameMake imports the tif as an empty graphic frame with the image file name in it. The image can be activated but only in a graphics program. Activated? It sounds like you're importing it as (or creating) an _object_ (i.e., linking with OLE) instead of

RE: High quality images

Matt, Several observations: (1) There is something drastically wrong with your RIP if it is slowing down when faced with compressed images. (2) How an image is compressed in a TIFF file is irrelevant in terms of what FrameMaker, the PostScript driver, and if you are using a PDF

RE: High quality images

Dov, one clarification/question regarding your advice for screen shots... In my commercial printing experience, I found TIFF to be a great option for bitmap files including screen shots. However, I always recommended staying away from the ZIP compression option. Though a lossless format, both

Plugin for enhanced find/change operations?

Does anyone know of a plugin, script or workaround that will allow me to find/change text character tags in one operation? I would like to apply a character tag to a particular character that is used in paragraphs of several different styles without changing the rest of the attributes. As

RE: High quality images

(1) Actually, with multiple 100+ Mb files and poster-sized or larger output, scaling, rotation, cropping and compression take on a whole new meaning. When the size of the cache exceeds that of the RAM on the output engine, it's like running Photoshop on 256Mb RAM...everything goes at the speed of

RE: High quality images

Matt, To directly answer your questions: (a) FrameMaker does NOT send the original compressed referenced file to the printer driver. It decompresses the image and sends that decompressed image to the driver. Thus, the original compression in the TIFF or JPEG or whatever matters not. The drive

RE: High quality images

Matt Sullivan wrote: For screen captures, my clients have the best success simply pasting from SnagIt, or their application of choice. As the files would almost never be modified in a bitmap editor, but simply re-captured, the image on disk is a bit redundant. Importing by reference is

Frame 6.0 Win - Mixed Page Numbers in TOC, Index... HELP

I am a new Frame 6.0 user. Question 1: My chapter page numbers are 1-2, 1-3, 2-1, 2-2, etc. My appendices uses letters, such as A-1, A-2, A-3, etc. I did not find anything in the help that tells me how to set up the reference page of the TOC and Index to properly pick up the correct prefix

RE: Plugin for enhanced find/change operations?

Thank you for your response. Unfortunately, it doesn't quite address my problem. Unless I'm missing something, the method you suggest copies all the character attributes, not just the tag name. I am trying set an Em Dash character tag with no text attributes, just the tag name. When I get

RE: High quality images

Hadn't thought of the multiple instance angle...good point. My clients have opted for the Cut/Paste (yes, groan all at once) because even the fast option of saving as TIFF and importing slows down a doc with 300 or more captures. They had more difficulty managing file names than managing files

RE: Plugin for enhanced find/change operations?

Oops, I meant to send this to the list, not just to Alison... -Original Message- From: Ridder, Fred Sent: Monday, January 29, 2007 8:02 PM To: 'Alison Carrico' Subject: RE: Plugin for enhanced find/change operations? It's true that if you use Copy Special to copy the character

Weird Frame to PDF problem

Thanks for the unlocker. Seems a useful tool. I have similar pbms with files 'can't delete' quite often. Michael >From: "Sheila Carlisle" >Reply-To: scarlisle at axialinfo.com >To: >Subject: RE: Weird Frame to PDF problem >Date: Sun, 28 Jan 2007 11:10:59 -0800 > >This little utility is a

Looking for books on Frame template design

At 20:21 -0800 28/1/07, Greg Thompson wrote: > I have decided to take the plunge into learning template design using Frame. > Any suggestions on books/tutorials to get out of the land advanced > intermediate/user I have been stuck in for sometime? :) It rather depends on what you mean by

Menus created via FDK/API in Simplified Chinese?

Further to Maxwell Hoffman's post on Kanji (Japanese )menus. Can anyone from Adobe Asia advise on customer FDK localization in Simplified Chinese. We are also looking for a quick solution with the FDK. The task is easy in single-byte with one line of code as shown below. The question Maxwell may

Looking for books on Frame template design

Hi, Greg: Adobe has FrameMaker templates available on Adobe.com. Search Google for Adobe FrameMaker Templates Primer. This link downloads the primer in PDF form: http://www.adobe.com/products/framemaker/tempseries/pdfs/primer.pdf This link goes to the template series of files:

Weird Frame to PDF problem

Andrew, When I tried that, my system said that "handle *.pdf" is not recognized as a command. -Gillian -Original Message- From: Andrew Warren [mailto:awar...@synaptics.com] Sent: Friday, January 26, 2007 6:31 PM To: Gillian Flato; framers at frameusers.com Subject: RE: Weird Frame

Looking for books on Frame template design

Thanks Steve: I was thinking of the mechanistic aspects but thanks for broadening my horizon! Greg Thompson __ From: Steve Rickaby To: "Greg Thompson" CC: framers at FrameUsers.com Subject:

Reply vs. Reply All (Was TOUGH ONE)

Mike Wickham wrote: > Like Michael, I often send replies to the original poster only, and not > to the forum. It's not intentional. It's just that, of all the fora I > visit on the Web, this is the only one that is not set by default to > reply to the group. I never have to use the Reply All

Disappearing EPS Files

Hi, I'm having a strange Frame problem: Frame 7.2 Illustrator CS2 The original eps file was created in Illustrator 10. When I update the eps file in Illustrator CS2, the referenced graphic disappears in Frame. Has anyone heard of this? What can I do to fix this? Thanks, Nancy Adams

Disappearing EPS Files

At 14:10 -0500 29/1/07, ActionA at aol.com wrote: >The original eps file was created in Illustrator 10. When I update the eps >file in Illustrator CS2, the referenced graphic disappears in Frame. Has >anyone heard of this? What can I do to fix this? Re-import it? -- Steve

Disappearing EPS Files

You mean it disappears as in present but now shown, or disappears as in deleted/removed/nor present. If the first, what kind of preview are you specifying when you save or update the image? Needs to be a TIF or WMF preview, I think, in order for FM to display it. If the latter, could you post a

Disappearing EPS Files

Nancy, Does the graphic disappear or do you see a grey box? Rick Quatro Carmen Publishing 585-659-8267 www.frameexpert.com > Hi, > > I'm having a strange Frame problem: > > Frame 7.2 > Illustrator CS2 > > The original eps file was created in Illustrator 10. When I update the eps > file in

Disappearing EPS Files

Have you tried the keyboard sequence m p? (If the eps reappears, it has been positioned differently). Hanneke -Oorspronkelijk bericht- Van: framers-bounces+jgblom=xs4all.nl at lists.frameusers.com [mailto:framers-bounces+jgblom=xs4all.nl at lists.frameusers.com] Namens ActionA at

Disappearing EPS Files

Sorry, I forgot: first select the eps in Frame (or the frame around it) and then the keybord sequence. -Oorspronkelijk bericht- Van: framers-bounces+jgblom=xs4all.nl at lists.frameusers.com [mailto:framers-bounces+jgblom=xs4all.nl at lists.frameusers.com] Namens ActionA at aol.com

Disappearing EPS file - Take 2

Hi all, Wow, so many quick responses, thank you. The graphic appears on the master page and it is not in an anchored frame. There is no grey box, and the graphic disappears completely. It has been saved with a tiff preview, but it does not print either. Thanks, Nancy Adams

Disappearing EPS file - Take 2

Try copying it in rather than importing by reference Art On 1/29/07, ActionA at aol.com wrote: > Hi all, > > Wow, so many quick responses, thank you. > > The graphic appears on the master page and it is not in an anchored frame. > There is no grey box, and the graphic disappears completely.

Disappearing EPS file - Take 2

Hi Nancy, Try this: 1) Go to the master page where the graphic should be. 2) Click in the margin so there is not a text insertion point anywhere. 3) Choose Edit > Select All on Page. 4) Hold the Shift key and deselect all of the visibly selected text frames, etc. 5) Choose Graphics > Object

Fwd: Disappearing EPS file - Take 2

Frome In a message dated 1/29/2007 3:56:25 PM Eastern Standard Time, rebecca.officer at alliedtelesis.co.nz writes: We see this too. It appears that updating the figures changes the bounding box (or something similar). So the figure is still there, it's just offset so much that it becomes

(no subject)

Hi all, Thanks for your responses. It does appear that there is some sort of bug... Indeed the graphic is there, but way off to the side, off the page. Sigh, I will have to reimport this into about 80 documents. Thanks, Nancy Adams

Weird Frame to PDF problem

Gillian Flato wrote: > > Handle is a command-line program; the command to find the process that > > has mypdf.pdf open is simply "handle mypdf". > > > > If you're not comfortable with the DOS command line, Process Explorer > > is a GUI tool. After installing it, ctrl-F will open a search box

Disappearing EPS file - Take 2

You know, now that I think of it, I can fix the template and then reimport the master pages to all of the files that need changing. :-) Thanks for your help! Nancy Adams

Disappearing EPS file - Take 2

From: > The graphic appears on the master page and it is not in an anchored frame. > There is no grey box, and the graphic disappears completely. It has been saved > with a tiff preview, but it does not print either. Are you sure it's disappeared? Maybe you're just seeing a

Adobe hands over PDF specification to ISO

For those of you producing PDFs, Adobe's announcement today that they are turning over PDF to ISO should be very good news. No longer will Adobe be the one deciding what goes into the PDF specification, but a standards body will. The situation with PDF will be like other standards, such as TIFF

High quality images

Jon, I just tried this on my notebook system sitting in a hotel room on a business trip. Did screen shot Alt-PrtSc and pasted the result into a new document in Photoshop 9 (=CS2). Flattened the layers and saved as RGB TIFF with profile embedded and LZW compression (in this case, the profile

High quality images

Jon Harvey wrote: > I tried this. FrameMake imports the tif as an empty graphic > frame with the image file name in it. The image can be > activated but only in a graphics program. "Activated"? It sounds like you're importing it as (or creating) an _object_ (i.e., linking with OLE) instead

High quality images

Matt, Several observations: (1) There is something drastically wrong with your RIP if it is slowing down when faced with compressed images. (2) How an image is compressed in a TIFF file is irrelevant in terms of what FrameMaker, the PostScript driver, and if you are using a PDF

High quality images

Dov, one clarification/question regarding your advice for screen shots... In my commercial printing experience, I found TIFF to be a great option for bitmap files including screen shots. However, I always recommended staying away from the ZIP compression option. Though a "lossless" format, both

Plugin for enhanced find/change operations?

Does anyone know of a plugin, script or workaround that will allow me to find/change text & character tags in one operation? I would like to apply a character tag to a particular character that is used in paragraphs of several different styles without changing the rest of the attributes. As

High quality images

(1) Actually, with multiple 100+ Mb files and poster-sized or larger output, scaling, rotation, cropping and compression take on a whole new meaning. When the size of the cache exceeds that of the RAM on the output engine, it's like running Photoshop on 256Mb RAM...everything goes at the speed of

Frame 6.0 Win - Mixed Page Numbers in TOC, Index... HELP

I am a new Frame 6.0 user. Question 1: My chapter page numbers are 1-2, 1-3, 2-1, 2-2, etc. My appendices uses letters, such as A-1, A-2, A-3, etc. I did not find anything in the help that tells me how to set up the reference page of the TOC and Index to properly pick up the correct prefix

Plugin for enhanced find/change operations?

Thank you for your response. Unfortunately, it doesn't quite address my problem. Unless I'm missing something, the method you suggest copies all the character attributes, not just the tag name. I am trying set an "Em Dash" character tag with no text attributes, just the tag name. When I get

High quality images

Hadn't thought of the multiple instance angle...good point. My clients have opted for the Cut/Paste (yes, groan all at once) because even the fast option of saving as TIFF and importing slows down a doc with 300 or more captures. They had more difficulty managing file names than managing files

Plugin for enhanced find/change operations?

Oops, I meant to send this to the list, not just to Alison... -Original Message- From: Ridder, Fred Sent: Monday, January 29, 2007 8:02 PM To: 'Alison Carrico' Subject: RE: Plugin for enhanced find/change operations? It's true that if you use Copy Special to copy the character

High quality images

- Original Message - From: "Matt Sullivan" > Along those lines, another client refuses to import native .ai files and > instead uses EPS because of the .5 second delay in preview. The little > things count when multipled out hundreds of times! Funny, I began