Cross-reference nightmare - help needed

2007-03-22 Thread Sage DeRosier
HELP! Here we are on the bleeding edge of a deadline and my production guru who puts together our master PDF from multiple files of multiple stand-alone books has encountered one file with suddenly +70 broken cross-references to multiple different files (both from inside that file's original

Re: Cross-reference nightmare - help needed

2007-03-22 Thread Art Campbell
In addition to Rene's ideas, I'd try to build the PDF with all component files open to eliminate any network delays, hangs, etc. Art On 3/22/07, Rene Stephenson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Before reinserting, try just opening the FM files in the book, make sure any condition tags are set to the

globally removing attributes

2007-03-22 Thread Gail Smith
I have copied the contents of one structured document and pasted it into a different template. The elements are different. The original elements had many attributes that carried into the new document. When I change the element, the attributes from the old element remain. I know you can globally

Multiple types of page numbering?

2007-03-22 Thread mcowan
Does anyone know how I can solve the following problem? Document needs to have the typical page number with small romans for the TOC, TOF, etc and Arabic numbering for the other chapters in the book. (That's no problem) HOWEVER, the problem come in when our contract requires us to have the

RE: Cross-reference nightmare - help needed

2007-03-22 Thread White, William
Hi Sage If you have tried all the obvious things, here's one more possibility. I've encountered FM documents with cross-references that have become corrupted because the the X-Refs contain legacy filenames for the target documents. I presume this arises because an earlier user renamed the target

Re: Multiple types of page numbering?

2007-03-22 Thread Art Campbell
Margie, Put a tag -- any format will do, although you may want to create a unique one -- on the last page of the book. Type something in it, then change the Font properties to white, so it's invisible. Save the file. In the footers on the master pages of your chapters, set up your page number

RE: Multiple types of page numbering?

2007-03-22 Thread Van Boening, Tammy
Well, This will require some new paragraph tags to be set up, but it can work. Let me understand one thing first - do you want page # of total pages in the book, or page # of page (based on page count in the file)? I think you want the first one, so: For the first scenario (page # of total

Re: Cross-reference nightmare - help needed

2007-03-22 Thread William Abernathy
Another possibility is that there has been a change in the file hierarchy between the Frame document and the linked files. Have there been any changes to the names or the permissions on the targeted files or the directories in which they reside, or has the master Frame file been moved?

Clipboard formats priorities

2007-03-22 Thread David Shaked (Wernick)
I want to change the default Edit Paste format to Text. Per the instructions that appeared on the list recently, I edited the maker.ini file. I changed ClipboardFormatsPriorities=FILE, OLE 2, EMF, META, DIB, BMP, MIF, RTF, TEXT to ClipboardFormatsPriorities=FILE, TEXT, OLE 2, EMF, META, DIB,

Replace Paragraph Tags

2007-03-22 Thread Howard Rauch
I reorganizing and formatting for my client a manual that was prepared by out-of-country firm. Both firms are using FrameMaker 7.0, but the source firm uses a different format from the one my client uses. Importing text and reassigning my client's paragraph tags to the source text, but I am

RE: Clipboard formats priorities

2007-03-22 Thread David Shaked (Wernick)
Never mind - I searched the archives some more and found that Fred Ridder answered the question on March 2. Notice that the maker.ini item starts with the word clipboard, which refers to the Windows clipboard. FrameMaker only uses the Windows clipboard when pasting content that was copied in

Re: Framescript capabalities

2007-03-22 Thread Jeremy H. Griffith
On Thu, 22 Mar 2007 22:52:33 -0400, Frank Elmore [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Yes, you can do this with FrameScript. You would need to come up with a naming scheme for the new files you would create. With FrameScript, you can scan through all the documents in a book for tables and figures. When

Re: Replace Paragraph Tags

2007-03-22 Thread Alan Litchfield
Use Paragraph Tools. http://www.siliconprairiesoftware.com/Products.html Alan Howard Rauch wrote: I reorganizing and formatting for my client a manual that was prepared by out-of-country firm. Both firms are using FrameMaker 7.0, but the source firm uses a different format from the one my

Re: Footnote placement improvement for practical and aesthetic reasons

2007-03-22 Thread Graeme R Forbes
Hedley's suggestions for improving Frame's footnote handling are all very good ones, but the chances of them being implemented are nil, I think. Some of us have been complaining about FM's note handling for, oh, 14 years, and I have quite a collection of nice messages spanning that period from

RE: Replace Paragraph Tags

2007-03-22 Thread Diane Gaskill
Howard, Whoa. Stop. You are doing this the hard way. And you don't have to do a global SR. There is a much easier way. 1. Import the new text. 2. Click on any paragraph with the ameritem tag. 3. in the para designer, replace the name ameritem with the name albody. 4. Click Update All. Do

Footnote placement improvement for practical and aesthetic reasons

2007-03-22 Thread hedley.fin...@myob.com
As well as allowing multiple short footnotes on a line, Adobe could allow long footnotes to flow from a right to the left following page. It could also balance footnotes on facing pages. If a footnote reference is on a right page, it should flow back a long footnote onto the facing left page.

Cross-reference nightmare - help needed

2007-03-22 Thread Sage DeRosier
HELP! Here we are on the bleeding edge of a deadline and my production guru who puts together our master PDF from multiple files of multiple stand-alone books has encountered one file with suddenly +70 broken cross-references to multiple different files (both from inside that file's original

Cross-reference nightmare - help needed

2007-03-22 Thread Rene Stephenson
Before reinserting, try just opening the FM files in the book, make sure any condition tags are set to the production settings, choose Edit>Update References and select All cross-references. HTH Rene Stephenson Sage DeRosier wrote: HELP! Here we are on the bleeding edge of a

Cross-reference nightmare - help needed

2007-03-22 Thread Art Campbell
In addition to Rene's ideas, I'd try to build the PDF with all component files open to eliminate any network delays, hangs, etc. Art On 3/22/07, Rene Stephenson wrote: > Before reinserting, try just opening the FM files in the book, make sure any > condition tags are set to the production

globally removing attributes

2007-03-22 Thread Gail Smith
I have copied the contents of one structured document and pasted it into a different template. The elements are different. The original elements had many attributes that carried into the new document. When I change the element, the attributes from the old element remain. I know you can globally

Multiple types of page numbering?

2007-03-22 Thread mco...@rcn.com
Does anyone know how I can solve the following problem? Document needs to have the typical page number with small romans for the TOC, TOF, etc and Arabic numbering for the other chapters in the book. (That's no problem) HOWEVER, the problem come in when our contract requires us to have the

Cross-reference nightmare - help needed

2007-03-22 Thread White, William
Hi Sage If you have tried all the obvious things, here's one more possibility. I've encountered FM documents with cross-references that have become corrupted because the the X-Refs contain legacy filenames for the target documents. I presume this arises because an earlier user renamed the target

Multiple types of page numbering?

2007-03-22 Thread Art Campbell
Margie, Put a tag -- any format will do, although you may want to create a unique one -- on the last page of the book. Type something in it, then change the Font properties to white, so it's invisible. Save the file. In the footers on the master pages of your chapters, set up your page number

Multiple types of page numbering?

2007-03-22 Thread Van Boening, Tammy
Well, This will require some new paragraph tags to be set up, but it can work. Let me understand one thing first - do you want page # of total pages in the book, or page # of page (based on page count in the file)? I think you want the first one, so: For the first scenario (page # of total

Cross-reference nightmare - help needed

2007-03-22 Thread William Abernathy
Another possibility is that there has been a change in the file hierarchy between the Frame document and the linked files. Have there been any changes to the names or the permissions on the targeted files or the directories in which they reside, or has the master Frame file been moved?

Clipboard formats priorities

2007-03-22 Thread David Shaked (Wernick)
I want to change the default Edit > Paste format to Text. Per the instructions that appeared on the list recently, I edited the maker.ini file. I changed ClipboardFormatsPriorities=FILE, OLE 2, EMF, META, DIB, BMP, MIF, RTF, TEXT to ClipboardFormatsPriorities=FILE, TEXT, OLE 2, EMF, META, DIB,

Replace Paragraph Tags

2007-03-22 Thread Howard Rauch
I reorganizing and formatting for my client a manual that was prepared by out-of-country firm. Both firms are using FrameMaker 7.0, but the source firm uses a different format from the one my client uses. Importing text and reassigning my client's paragraph tags to the source text, but I am

Framescript capabalities

2007-03-22 Thread Jeremy H. Griffith
On Thu, 22 Mar 2007 22:52:33 -0400, "Frank Elmore" wrote: >Yes, you can do this with FrameScript. You would need to come up with a >naming scheme for the new files you would create. With FrameScript, you can >scan through all the documents in a book for tables and figures. When you >find

Framescript capabalities

2007-03-22 Thread Frank Elmore
Yes, you can do this with FrameScript. You would need to come up with a naming scheme for the new files you would create. With FrameScript, you can scan through all the documents in a book for tables and figures. When you find one, you create a new document, copy the table/figure to the new