I am ruminating over a problem that I'd like to throw before the gurus here. It
is a FrameMaker issue only in that the source is in FrameMaker.
We want to modularize a book for online delivery, which will be in the form of
PDFs of book chunks. In a full-book online PDF, cross-references would
Then you need to move the TEXT so that it is the first option. I would
move FILE to last.
Bodvar
On 3/22/07, David Shaked (Wernick) [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
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
Our IT dept has suggested we get an Adobe support package for problems
with Framemaker. I personally always use this group instead and will
continue to do so. Will a support package help the rest of them with their
problems? And I don't know what kind of problems. We had a problem with
dropped
Hi Rebecca,
Compared to the Adobe.com knowledge bases and the Framer lists, I doubt
whether Adobe technical support will add much value for you. In my opinion,
a support package would likely be a waste of money. Tell them you want a
couple of automation FrameScript scripts instead :-).
Rick
Hi, Rebecca:
The most serious problem with becoming becoming known among your
colleagues for your FrameMaker expertise, it makes you a key resource
whose own productivity is reduced every time you are interrupted to
provide support to a co-worker.
Even if you only support one other worker,
Adobe was at the WritersUA conference this week in Long Beach, CA.
They were saying FM 8 is due this summer. They didn't have much to
say except we will should be happy with what it has. It looks like
they're trying to do some integration with FM, Captivate and Acrobat
in a manner similar
On the other hand, if you are the Frame guru in your department, it
makes you more valuable as a Tech Writer. If layoffs come and they have
to cut someone, the value you add may help save your job.
-Gillian
-Original Message-
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On
Behalf
Hello All,
I'm using Frame 7.2b144 on Windows XP.
We had some serious network issues starting sometime last Thursday or
so, continuing up until late last night/this morning. They seem to be
resolved for now, but we've had some strange issues come up since then.
For example, I have a
Hear!! Hear!! Avoid the master document at all costs. You are much
better off with a very long Word document even if those do get a little
squishy at times.
Bob Cermak
-Original Message-
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On
Behalf Of Mike Wickham
Sent: Wednesday, March
-Original Message-
From: William Gaffga
Sent: Thursday, March 29, 2007 8:41 AM
To: Framers
Subject: Re: Anything new about when the next release of
Framemaker will belaunched?
... After getting an answer about
something, DITA support I think, I jokingly said, So, if I told
Sam Beard wrote:
For example, I have a book with several chapters in it. A
couple of these chapters were corrupted in some manner and
two of them showed this same numbering issue. I resolved it
in one, but I'm not quite sure how, so I don't know how to
resolve it in the other. Instead
Hello,
I am new FrameMaker and have ended up with an extra page on a five
page document. I have tried pagination where it asks to if I want to
delete extra pages and that doesn't seem to make a difference. It is
a single sided document.
Thanks for any advice.
Kelley
Hi Kelley,
Three things to check:
1) Make sure there are no empty paragraphs on the last page.
2) Make sure that a custom master page is not applied to the last page.
3) Make sure that there are no graphics on the last page.
If that doesn't work, zip and send me the file and I will tell you
1) Have you saved the file? FrameMaker only deletes empty pages
at the end of a file when you do a Save.
2) Are you sure the page is really empty? Do you have the View
Text Symbols option turned on? If not, turn it on and see where
the silicet character (the end-of-flow character that looks
Yvonne asked:
I was recently asked to convert our FrameMaker template into a MS Word
template. Yes, I know this is backwards (and we all know the benefits of
Frame over Word).
Yvonne, I was recently faced with the very same situation. Like you, I
understand that telling other departments
I don't. Like I said in my head at the show, yeah, sure.
On Mar 29, 2007, at 10:04 AM, Dov Isaacs wrote:
-Original Message-
From: William Gaffga
Sent: Thursday, March 29, 2007 8:41 AM
To: Framers
Subject: Re: Anything new about when the next release of
Framemaker will belaunched?
I'm fairly excited by the thought of an updated and
newly more competitive Framemaker. With luck, Adobe
will leave the field strewn with the broken bodies of
Frame's competitors.
--- William Gaffga [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I don't.
User Interface design blog
http://user-advocacy.blogspot.com/
Fred and Richard,
Thanks much for the help! I did update the book and that, apparently,
was what I had done on the previous chapter that was messed up. It
worked on the second chapter and all is right with my numbering once
again.
Thanks much, again!
Samuel I. Beard, Jr.
Technical Writer
OI
Brad Simons wrote:
Then, I used a program called PDF to Word which is manufactured by a
company called Very PDF. (http://www.verypdf.com/pdf2word/index.html)
I tried that program one time, and it worked very well. However, it is
one-dimensional. My program of choice is PDF Converter. It
Rebecca,
I agree with Rick. I've been on this list since 1992 and have found the
expertise here to be more than sufficient for almost any question I've ever
posted. The only reason that I can think of to buy an Adobe support package
is that it might be cheaper to upgrade if you have multiple
From the tenor of a lot of the recent postings here, I can only
conclude that a lot of folks out there are not reading the FM Manual.
At all.
My suggestion is to keep a copy of the FM manual handy for bedroom --
or bathroom -- reading.
And don't forget the Quick Reference Card.
It is, you
I am ruminating over a problem that I'd like to throw before the gurus here. It
is a FrameMaker issue only in that the source is in FrameMaker.
We want to modularize a book for online delivery, which will be in the form of
PDFs of book chunks. In a full-book online PDF, cross-references would
Then you need to move the TEXT so that it is the first option. I would
move FILE to last.
Bodvar
On 3/22/07, David Shaked (Wernick) wrote:
> 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
Our IT dept has suggested we get an Adobe support package for problems
with Framemaker. I personally always use this group instead and will
continue to do so. Will a support package help the rest of them with their
problems? And I don't know what kind of problems. We had a problem with
dropped
Hi Rebecca,
Compared to the Adobe.com knowledge bases and the Framer lists, I doubt
whether Adobe technical support will add much value for you. In my opinion,
a support package would likely be a waste of money. Tell them you want a
couple of automation FrameScript scripts instead :-).
Rick
Hi, Rebecca:
The most serious problem with becoming becoming known among your
colleagues for your FrameMaker expertise, it makes you a key resource
whose own productivity is reduced every time you are interrupted to
provide support to a co-worker.
Even if you only support one other worker,
Adobe was at the WritersUA conference this week in Long Beach, CA.
They were saying FM 8 is due this summer. They didn't have much to
say except we will should be happy with what it has. It looks like
they're trying to do some integration with FM, Captivate and Acrobat
in a manner similar
On the other hand, if you are the Frame guru in your department, it
makes you more valuable as a Tech Writer. If layoffs come and they have
to cut someone, the value you add may help save your job.
-Gillian
-Original Message-
From:
> As for Blaze, I like it. After talking to Mike Hamilton (head of
> MadCap)
Mike's actually the VP of Product Management, but I'm sure he
appreciates the virtual promotion! ;-)
--
Bill Swallow
HATT List Owner
WWP-Users List Owner
Senior Member STC, TechValley Chapter
STC Single-Sourcing SIG
> -Original Message-
> From: William Gaffga
> Sent: Thursday, March 29, 2007 8:41 AM
> To: Framers
> Subject: Re: Anything new about when the next release of
> Framemaker will belaunched?
> ... After getting an answer about
> something, DITA support I think, I jokingly said, "So, if I
Sam Beard wrote:
> For example, I have a book with several chapters in it. A
> couple of these chapters were corrupted in some manner and
> two of them showed this same numbering issue. I resolved it
> in one, but I'm not quite sure how, so I don't know how to
> resolve it in the other.
Hello,
I am new FrameMaker and have ended up with an extra page on a five
page document. I have tried pagination where it asks to if I want to
delete extra pages and that doesn't seem to make a difference. It is
a single sided document.
Thanks for any advice.
Kelley
Hi Kelley,
Three things to check:
1) Make sure there are no empty paragraphs on the last page.
2) Make sure that a custom master page is not applied to the last page.
3) Make sure that there are no graphics on the last page.
If that doesn't work, zip and send me the file and I will tell you
1) Have you saved the file? FrameMaker only deletes empty pages
at the end of a file when you do a Save.
2) Are you sure the page is really empty? Do you have the View>
Text Symbols option turned on? If not, turn it on and see where
the "silicet" character (the end-of-flow character that looks
Yvonne asked:
"I was recently asked to convert our FrameMaker template into a MS Word
template. Yes, I know this is backwards (and we all know the benefits of
Frame over Word)."
Yvonne, I was recently faced with the very same situation. Like you, I
understand that telling other departments
Thanks guys!
I'm taking a class and there is so much to learn.
The special>delete page did the trick.
I didn't realize the option was there.
Kelley
On 3/29/07 1:59 PM, "Fred Ridder" wrote:
> 1) Have you saved the file? FrameMaker only deletes empty pages
> at the end of a file when you do a
I don't. Like I said in my head at the show, "yeah, sure."
On Mar 29, 2007, at 10:04 AM, Dov Isaacs wrote:
>
>
>> -Original Message-
>> From: William Gaffga
>> Sent: Thursday, March 29, 2007 8:41 AM
>> To: Framers
>> Subject: Re: Anything new about when the next release of
>> Framemaker
I'm fairly excited by the thought of an updated and
newly more competitive Framemaker. With luck, Adobe
will leave the field strewn with the broken bodies of
Frame's competitors.
--- William Gaffga wrote:
> I don't.
User Interface design blog
http://user-advocacy.blogspot.com/
Fred and Richard,
Thanks much for the help! I did update the book and that, apparently,
was what I had done on the previous chapter that was messed up. It
worked on the second chapter and all is right with my numbering once
again.
Thanks much, again!
Samuel I. Beard, Jr.
Technical Writer
OI
Brad Simons wrote:
"Then, I used a program called "PDF to Word" which is manufactured by a
company called Very PDF. (http://www.verypdf.com/pdf2word/index.html)"
I tried that program one time, and it worked very well. However, it is
one-dimensional. My program of choice is PDF Converter. It
Rebecca,
I agree with Rick. I've been on this list since 1992 and have found the
expertise here to be more than sufficient for almost any question I've ever
posted. The only reason that I can think of to buy an Adobe support package
is that it might be cheaper to upgrade if you have multiple
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