I've been asked to re-work an old document and the source docs are in
FrameMaker 5. No problem, I thought, as version 7 should just upgrade them
but...
I'm getting errors and can't open the files. I can't decide whether the ZIP
files have been corrupted, or whether it's a FrameMaker issue and as
At 14:49 -0600 30/5/07, Combs, Richard wrote:
And, indulge my curmudgeonliness for a moment: Does the tech writing
profession really need more excuses for font fondling? :-o
Well, for my money, one of the great things about InD is the quality of layout
it produces without interference. Ok, you
At 14:29 -0700 30/5/07, Dov Isaacs wrote:
Or maybe you want an InDesign = 6 that supports all the wonderful FrameMaker
features that aren't already in InDesign. That would solve a whole bunch of
other problems such as Macintosh support, CMYK + spot color support,
transparency support, etc.
Gordon
I do have a copy of FrameMaker 5. Would you like to send me one document and
I will try and open it for you - on the grounds that you do not wish to
purchase the s/w if the docs are corrupted.
Best regards
--Paul Wilbraham
Aztex Training
0044 (0) 7977 464 561
Gordon McLean wrote:
I've been asked to re-work an old document and the source docs are in
FrameMaker 5. No problem, I thought, as version 7 should just upgrade them
but...
I'm getting errors and can't open the files. I can't decide whether the ZIP
files have been corrupted, or whether it's a
At 18:06 -0700 30/5/07, Janet Underwood wrote:
Can someone clarify for me the changes in the PDF job options? I'm using v.7.1
and when setting up a PDF, my options are eBook, Press, Print and Screen. A
friend is using v 7.2 and his options are High Quality Print, PDFA Draft,
PDFX1a2001,
At 19:08 -0500 30/5/07, Lin Surasky wrote:
I started by creating an EDD in FrameMaker. It's not particularly fancy,
but it meets the basic requirements for what I need right now. I tried
to save it as a DTD so I could move on to the next step of testing
imported XML. I was getting error messages,
Thanks to all who responded both on and off list.
Turns out the files themselves are corrupt, so looks like I'll be reworking
them from HTML into FrameMaker... Joy.
Much appreciated everyone, favours are owed!
Gordon
P.S. Lest anyone think otherwise, I haven't been active on the list recently
As far the rivers, there is an option in Word when using justified text to ge
t rid of the rivers. It does not look good on screen when using this option, bu
t the printed version is excellent. See the article below.
The name of the option below is for Word 2000. I can't find that option in
John Posada wrote:
Tammy...you don't have to go through that series of menu selections
to pick a variable.
From your keyboard, enter CTRL 0 to display the available variables
in the bottom space of your FM document..you can scroll thrtough the
list with your cursor keys.
Enter CTRL 0 L Enter
Hi, Steve-
Stick to the base
character set, alphanumerics, no spaces, for your element names.
Are hyphens okay? All my element names are alpha only, no spaces, but
two have hyphens in them...
I'm also going to try your suggestion of conditionalizing element defs
for use in the DTD. However,
Now that my somewhat robust computer has laughed hysterically and duly
chastened me and my folly, I'm here to tell you that even a meta-book
for one category won't work, apart from further scaling. FM tried
valiantly to add 1,696 chapter files to a book before indulging in
aforesaid laughter. It
Yeah, smaller meta-books might help. I've only gone up to a couple
hundred chapter files myself... ;- )
However, you may want to ping one of the script gurus (I always use
Rick Quatro) and tell him what you want to do and he'll tell you how
much (unless you're a script guru yourself). It'd
At 11:12 -0500 31/5/07, Lin Surasky wrote:
Stick to the base
character set, alphanumerics, no spaces, for your element names.
Are hyphens okay? All my element names are alpha only, no spaces, but
two have hyphens in them...
Not sure: check with the XML spec at the W3C site. It might be your
Thanks, Art -- That's a second vote for Framescript, and I'll look into
it further. And, yes, that many files was a gamble. I knew it, but I had
a little time to experiment. I'll also remain open to other suggestions.
Jim
-Original Message-
From: Art Campbell [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Well, what did you expect? This looks to me like a valid DTD,
although neither your EDD nor your DTD are exactly exciting.
So sorry to bore you! ;-) That was my test to see if FrameMaker was
having an issue or if it was ALL me. It's mostly me, but this bare-bones
test proves there's
At 11:32 -0500 31/5/07, Lin Surasky wrote:
Well, what did you expect? This looks to me like a valid DTD,
although neither your EDD nor your DTD are exactly exciting.
So sorry to bore you! ;-)
Joke.
That was my test to see if FrameMaker was having an issue or if it was ALL me.
It's mostly
I am starting to get annoyed with FrameMaker. (Sorry for a lengthy message).
On a few occasions I have plagued the list with my complaints about FM
(mainly 7.2) crashing on printing a book to ps. I have now spent half
the day trying to produce an online PDF with bookmarks. No problem
printing to
What's your platform and Acrobat configuration?
On 5/31/07, Bodvar Bjorgvinsson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I am starting to get annoyed with FrameMaker. (Sorry for a lengthy message).
On a few occasions I have plagued the list with my complaints about FM
(mainly 7.2) crashing on printing a book
Hi Bodvar,
have you tried switching off Generate Tagged PDF in PDF Setup Tags?
Yves Barbion
Documentation Architect
Adobe-Certified FrameMaker Instructor
Scripto bvba
Asselsstraat 65
9031 Gent
Belgium
T: +32 494 12 01 89
F: +32 9 366 50 32
BTW (VAT) BE
Hello, All!
Now that we have created most of the pieces of our EDD, we are at the
stage where we are starting to create material and test the structure.
One dilemma I came across was that of character formats. How or where do
character formats get set up (EDD or formats document)? I
All,
We have a quick reference guide that uses a (US) legal-size landscape layout.
It is set up in FM as a custom page size 14x8 with 3 columns in the text
frame. It's to be printed duplex and then folded accordian-style. Initially, we
were going to be working with a professional printer,
From: Rene Stephenson [EMAIL PROTECTED]
We have a quick reference guide that uses a (US) legal-size landscape
layout. It is set up in FM as a custom page size 14x8 with 3 columns in the
text frame.
Legal is 8.5x14, not 8x14. Could that be the problem?
You can't really do much about how
Also, many printer drivers are set to shrink PDFs to fit, so it may be
coming out at 97% or so... Another thing the end user needs to know
about.
Just in passing, the 1/4 inch you mention is likely to be a hardware
limitation where the paper goes along the paper path or is gripped by
part of the
Kristy,
Since you already have the character formats set up in your template,
you can add similar elements to the EDD that reference the character
formats.
For example, you could create a key element that refers to the
appropriate character format. Make sure the element uses text range
Good point, but no - that's my typo. It's set to 14x8.5 - I just got in too
big of a hurry typing the post. :-\ SORRY
OK, so an advisory notice of sorts (ReadMe file, popup, etc.) looks like our
only option...
Rene
Kenneth C. Benson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
From: Rene Stephenson
From: Rene Stephenson [EMAIL PROTECTED]
OK, so an advisory notice of sorts (ReadMe file, popup, etc.) looks like
our only option...
Shouldn't be necessary. Your legal size document is no different--in terms
of printing from Acrobat--than anyone else's. If your customers are getting
strange
Unfortunately, there's just too much info to get it on letter size paper and
have it meet the minimum font specs...unless it goes to more than
front-and-back, in which case I am told there are issues with it being included
as a laminated item attached inside the cover of the product. We
Rene Stephenson wrote:
OK, so an advisory notice of sorts (ReadMe file, popup,
etc.) looks like our only option...
I have Acro 7, and in the Print dialog, Page Scaling defaults to Fit to
Printer Margins. My default HP printer has unprintable margins of, IIRC,
about .22 inches on the
I posted a similar message to the framers, Acrobat, and InDesign lists.
I had Frame 7.2 p158 and Acrobat 7.0.8 (not 7.0.9) installed for quite
some time with no problems. I then upgraded my CS2 with CS3 upgrade,
which came with Acrobat 8. I then got frequent, random Frame crashes
when PDFing as
If you replace the space before the .xml (etc) with a non-breaking
space, then the spellchecker ignores it. The non-breaking spaces drop
the quality of your layout a little, but for a developer guide I'd guess
that wouldn't really be a problem.
Cheers, Rebecca
>>> "Van Boening, Tammy" 31/05/07
From: "Janet Underwood"
> Can someone clarify for me the changes in the PDF job options? I'm using
v.7.1 and when setting up a PDF, my options are eBook, Press, Print and
Screen. A friend is using v 7.2 and his options are High Quality Print, PDFA
Draft, PDFX1a2001, PDFX32002,
I've been asked to re-work an old document and the source docs are in
FrameMaker 5. No problem, I thought, as version 7 should just upgrade them
but...
I'm getting errors and can't open the files. I can't decide whether the ZIP
files have been corrupted, or whether it's a FrameMaker issue and as
At 14:49 -0600 30/5/07, Combs, Richard wrote:
>And, indulge my curmudgeonliness for a moment: Does the tech writing
>profession really need more excuses for font fondling? :-o
Well, for my money, one of the great things about InD is the quality of layout
it produces without interference. Ok,
At 14:29 -0700 30/5/07, Dov Isaacs wrote:
>Or maybe you want an InDesign >= 6 that supports all the wonderful FrameMaker
>features that aren't already in InDesign. That would solve a whole bunch of
>other problems such as Macintosh support, CMYK + spot color support,
>transparency support,
Gordon McLean wrote:
> I've been asked to re-work an old document and the source docs are in
> FrameMaker 5. No problem, I thought, as version 7 should just upgrade them
> but...
>
> I'm getting errors and can't open the files. I can't decide whether the ZIP
> files have been corrupted, or
At 18:06 -0700 30/5/07, Janet Underwood wrote:
>Can someone clarify for me the changes in the PDF job options? I'm using v.7.1
>and when setting up a PDF, my options are eBook, Press, Print and Screen. A
>friend is using v 7.2 and his options are High Quality Print, PDFA Draft,
>PDFX1a2001,
At 19:08 -0500 30/5/07, Lin Surasky wrote:
>I started by creating an EDD in FrameMaker. It's not particularly fancy,
>but it meets the basic requirements for what I need right now. I tried
>to save it as a DTD so I could move on to the next step of testing
>imported XML. I was getting error
Thanks to all who responded both on and off list.
Turns out the files themselves are corrupt, so looks like I'll be reworking
them from HTML into FrameMaker... Joy.
Much appreciated everyone, favours are owed!
Gordon
P.S. Lest anyone think otherwise, I haven't been active on the list recently
As far the "rivers," there is an option in Word when using justified text to ge
t rid of the rivers. It does not look good on screen when using this option, bu
t the printed version is excellent. See the article below.
The name of the option below is for Word 2000. I can't find that option in
John Posada wrote:
> Tammy...you don't have to go through that series of menu selections
> to pick a variable.
>
>>From your keyboard, enter 0 to display the available variables
> in the bottom space of your FM document..you can scroll thrtough the
> list with your cursor keys.
>
> Enter 0
Hi, Steve-
> Stick to the base
> character set, alphanumerics, no spaces, for your element names.
Are hyphens okay? All my element names are alpha only, no spaces, but
two have hyphens in them...
I'm also going to try your suggestion of conditionalizing element defs
for use in the DTD.
Now that my somewhat robust computer has laughed hysterically and duly
chastened me and my folly, I'm here to tell you that even a meta-book
for one category won't work, apart from further scaling. FM tried
valiantly to add 1,696 chapter files to a book before indulging in
aforesaid laughter. It
Yeah, smaller meta-books might help. I've only gone up to a couple
hundred chapter files myself... ;- )
However, you may want to ping one of the script gurus (I always use
Rick Quatro) and tell him what you want to do and he'll tell you how
much (unless you're a script guru yourself). It'd
At 11:12 -0500 31/5/07, Lin Surasky wrote:
> > Stick to the base
>> character set, alphanumerics, no spaces, for your element names.
>
>Are hyphens okay? All my element names are alpha only, no spaces, but
>two have hyphens in them...
Not sure: check with the XML spec at the W3C site. It might be
Thanks, Art -- That's a second vote for Framescript, and I'll look into
it further. And, yes, that many files was a gamble. I knew it, but I had
a little time to experiment. I'll also remain open to other suggestions.
Jim
-Original Message-
From: Art Campbell
> Well, what did you expect? This looks to me like a valid DTD,
> although neither your EDD nor your DTD are exactly exciting.
>
So sorry to bore you! ;-) That was my test to see if FrameMaker was
having an issue or if it was ALL me. It's mostly me, but this bare-bones
test proves there's
At 11:32 -0500 31/5/07, Lin Surasky wrote:
>
> > Well, what did you expect? This looks to me like a valid DTD,
>> although neither your EDD nor your DTD are exactly exciting.
>>
>So sorry to bore you! ;-)
Joke.
>That was my test to see if FrameMaker was having an issue or if it was ALL me.
I am starting to get annoyed with FrameMaker. (Sorry for a lengthy message).
On a few occasions I have plagued the list with my complaints about FM
(mainly 7.2) crashing on printing a book to ps. I have now spent half
the day trying to produce an online PDF with bookmarks. No problem
printing to
What's your platform and Acrobat configuration?
On 5/31/07, Bodvar Bjorgvinsson wrote:
> I am starting to get annoyed with FrameMaker. (Sorry for a lengthy message).
>
> On a few occasions I have plagued the list with my complaints about FM
> (mainly 7.2) crashing on printing a book to ps. I
Hi Bodvar,
have you tried switching off "Generate Tagged PDF" in PDF Setup > Tags?
Yves Barbion
Documentation Architect
Adobe-Certified FrameMaker Instructor
Scripto bvba
Asselsstraat 65
9031 Gent
Belgium
T: +32 494 12 01 89
F: +32 9 366 50 32
BTW (VAT) BE
Hello, All!
Now that we have created most of the pieces of our EDD, we are at the
stage where we are starting to create material and test the structure.
One dilemma I came across was that of character formats. How or where do
character formats get set up (EDD or formats document)? I know how to
All,
We have a quick reference guide that uses a (US) legal-size landscape layout.
It is set up in FM as a custom page size 14x8" with 3 columns in the text
frame. It's to be printed duplex and then folded accordian-style. Initially, we
were going to be working with a professional printer,
From: "Rene Stephenson"
> We have a quick reference guide that uses a (US) legal-size landscape
layout. It is set up in FM as a custom page size 14x8" with 3 columns in the
text frame.
Legal is 8.5"x14", not 8"x14". Could that be the problem?
You can't really do much about
Also, many printer drivers are set to shrink PDFs to fit, so it may be
coming out at 97% or so... Another thing the end user needs to know
about.
Just in passing, the 1/4 inch you mention is likely to be a hardware
limitation where the paper goes along the paper path or is gripped by
part of the
Kristy,
Since you already have the character formats set up in your template,
you can add similar elements to the EDD that reference the character
formats.
For example, you could create a element that refers to the
appropriate character format. Make sure the element uses text range
formatting.
Good point, but no - that's my typo. It's set to 14x8.5" - I just got in too
big of a hurry typing the post. :-\ SORRY
OK, so an advisory notice of sorts (ReadMe file, popup, etc.) looks like our
only option...
Rene
"Kenneth C. Benson" wrote:
From: "Rene Stephenson"
> We have a quick
From: "Rene Stephenson"
> OK, so an advisory notice of sorts (ReadMe file, popup, etc.) looks like
our only option...
Shouldn't be necessary. Your legal size document is no different--in terms
of printing from Acrobat--than anyone else's. If your customers are getting
Rene Stephenson wrote:
> OK, so an advisory notice of sorts (ReadMe file, popup,
> etc.) looks like our only option...
I have Acro 7, and in the Print dialog, Page Scaling defaults to Fit to
Printer Margins. My default HP printer has unprintable margins of, IIRC,
about .22 inches on the
I posted a similar message to the framers, Acrobat, and InDesign lists.
I had Frame 7.2 p158 and Acrobat 7.0.8 (not 7.0.9) installed for quite
some time with no problems. I then upgraded my CS2 with CS3 upgrade,
which came with Acrobat 8. I then got frequent, random Frame crashes
when PDFing as
Unfortunately, there's just too much info to get it on letter size paper and
have it meet the minimum font specs...unless it goes to more than
front-and-back, in which case I am told there are issues with it being included
as a laminated item attached inside the cover of the product. We
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