Re: Mac Keyboard Commands

2007-06-27 Thread Bill Briggs
At 1:54 PM -0400 6/26/07, Kenneth C. Benson wrote: Ron Miller wrote: Mac keyboard command to select a row in a table. Not sure, but I think it's the same as on PC: ESC THR (The wHole Row) I can verify that it is indeed the correct keystroke combo. There is also another (perhaps not well

Re: Mac Keyboard Commands

2007-06-27 Thread Ron Miller
That's it. Thanks to all who responded so quickly. This is one of those instances where it would have been nearly impossible to figure out on my own. Ron Ron Miller Freelance Technology Writing Since 1988 Contributing Editor, EContent Magazine email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] blog:

link to HTML doc from PDF

2007-06-27 Thread Carol Wade
Is it possible to add a link to an HTML document from a FrameMaker document? My employer wants me to provide a link to the readme file from the generated PDF. (I'm on FrameMaker 7.2 and have Acrobat 8.) Thanks y'all! - Carol NOTICE BY HEALTH LANGUAGE, INC. This message, as well as

Re: Thumbtabs issue

2007-06-27 Thread Radha Padmanabhan
Thanks. I'll try this. I took the template packs for FM from Adobe's Website and learned about this feature. Have to look for some more details. Radha Peter Gold [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: If you search Google for framemaker thumb tab without quotes, you'll find Brad Anderson's ground-breaking

Re: Mac Keyboard Commands

2007-06-27 Thread Ron Miller
Yes, theEscape sequence worked fine. For the record, I was trying to select a row in the table and it certainly is not intuitive with this keyboard. I was ready to connect my Windows keyboard out of frustration. Thanks for all the tips. Ron Ron Miller Freelance Technology Writing Since

RE: Generating an outline from a written formatted document?

2007-06-27 Thread Steve Rickaby
At 09:48 -0600 27/6/07, Combs, Richard wrote: You need Enhance (www.sandybrook.com/enhance/). Among other features, it gives you an outline view of your FM doc that works much like Word's outline view -- you can promote/demote levels, move chunks around, etc. Steve Kubis at SiliconPrairie has a

Re: link to HTML doc from PDF

2007-06-27 Thread Syed Zaeem Hosain
Yes, as long as the HTML file has a URL, that it can be reached by, on an accessible host. I use the Special-Hypertext...-Command from the menu and select goto URL for this purpose, enter the URL in the Syntax section of the pop-up in FrameMaker. It works very well. The output PDF has a

Re: Mac Keyboard Commands

2007-06-27 Thread Peter Gold
Hi, Ron: On 6/27/07, Ron Miller [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Yes, theEscape sequence worked fine. For the record, I was trying to select a row in the table and it certainly is not intuitive with this keyboard. I was ready to connect my Windows keyboard out of frustration. Did you try searching

Finite Matters Patternstream

2007-06-27 Thread Art Campbell
If anyone has had any experience working with Finite Matters to develop a Patternstream-based database publishing system, I'd appreciate hearing about your experiences. Probably off-list, because this is on the edge of OT, I think. Thanks, Art -- Art Campbell

RE: link to HTML doc from PDF

2007-06-27 Thread Carol Wade
Thanks Syed Mike. The document will not be on an accessible server, but will be in the same directory with the PDF. When I tried what Mike suggested below, and clicked the link in the PDF, a browser was opened with the following in the Address (URL) box: http://readme4.5.html/ Obviously, that

Acrobat 3D

2007-06-27 Thread Fabio DiFrancesco
Hi Framers, I'm currently using the trial version of Acrobat 3D, version 8.0. I'd like to know the different ways to import a dynamic 3D file from the 3D Toolkit to my source FrameMaker document. Also, once I generate my PDF document, will the 3D model retain all of its dynamic features?

RE: Acrobat 8 Forms Design - SOLVED

2007-06-27 Thread Gillian Flato
The problem was that I didn't have enough video ram in this computer. I just upgraded to a 256mb PCI video card and it works great! -Gillian -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Gillian Flato Sent: Tuesday, June 19, 2007 4:49 PM To: [EMAIL

Re: Acrobat 3D

2007-06-27 Thread Shlomo Perets
Fabio, You wrote: I'm currently using the trial version of Acrobat 3D, version 8.0. I'd like to know the different ways to import a dynamic 3D file from the 3D Toolkit to my source FrameMaker document. Also, once I generate my PDF document, will the 3D model retain all of its dynamic features?

Links in framemaker source files to PDFs?

2007-06-27 Thread Steve Rickaby
At 12:50 -0600 21/6/07, Van Boening, Tammy wrote: >How do I need to set up my links in the Framemaker file and is there >anything special that I need to do to the PDFs? No-one else seems to have picked this up, so... As far as I can remember, FrameMaker's message client works with absolute

Thumbtabs issue

2007-06-27 Thread Steve Rickaby
At 01:21 -0700 25/6/07, Radha Padmanabhan wrote: >* Each chapter start has $header_footer1 set to the chapter no. (hard coded) >* the thumbtab image in the master pages remain in the same position for every >chapter >(Still the tabs move when seen in body pages ) >* the thumbtab image also holds

Link on Index References in PDF

2007-06-27 Thread feimin_lore...@amis.com
This is my first time creating an index in FrameMaker in over 10 years, so I'm a bit out of touch. The last time I had to do this, we just printed the manual; we didn't publish it as a PDF. Now I've discovered that when I have a "see" or "see also" reference in my index, the PDF version of the

Mac Keyboard Commands

2007-06-27 Thread Ron Miller
Yes, theEscape sequence worked fine. For the record, I was trying to select a row in the table and it certainly is not intuitive with this keyboard. I was ready to connect my Windows keyboard out of frustration. Thanks for all the tips. Ron Ron Miller Freelance Technology Writing Since

Generating an outline from a written & formatted document?

2007-06-27 Thread Art Campbell
A fairly quick and easy way to do this is to generate a TOC from the book file. Then open and Save As one of the existing FM outline templates. Edit the new file, changing the names of the paragraph tags to correspond to the tag names used in the TOC. Import the formats to the TOC, and edit out

Generating an outline from a written & formatted document?

2007-06-27 Thread Combs, Richard
Nina Rogers wrote: > Does FrameMaker have a feature similar to Word's feature that > enables you to quickly generate an outline of a document that > has already been formatted and written? If not, is there a > plug-in for this kind of thing? You need Enhance (www.sandybrook.com/enhance/).

Generating an outline from a written & formatted document?

2007-06-27 Thread Steve Rickaby
At 09:48 -0600 27/6/07, Combs, Richard wrote: >You need Enhance (www.sandybrook.com/enhance/). Among other features, >it gives you an outline view of your FM doc that works much like Word's >outline view -- you can promote/demote levels, move chunks around, etc. Steve Kubis at SiliconPrairie

Links in framemaker source files to PDFs?

2007-06-27 Thread Steve Rickaby
At 05:34 +0100 27/6/07, I wrote: >As far as I can remember, FrameMaker's message client works with absolute >pathnames. Therefore, if you use a file name only [no path] in your hypertext >marker, all the final PDFs must reside in the same folder for the links to >work. If they do not reside in

link to HTML doc from PDF

2007-06-27 Thread Syed Zaeem Hosain
Yes, as long as the HTML file has a URL, that it can be reached by, on an accessible host. I use the "Special->Hypertext...->Command" from the menu and select "goto URL" for this purpose, enter the URL in the "Syntax" section of the pop-up in FrameMaker. It works very well. The output PDF has a

Mac Keyboard Commands

2007-06-27 Thread Peter Gold
Hi, Ron: On 6/27/07, Ron Miller wrote: > Yes, theEscape sequence worked fine. > > For the record, I was trying to select a row in the table and it > certainly is not intuitive with this keyboard. I was ready to connect > my Windows keyboard out of frustration. Did you try searching in

Finite Matters & Patternstream

2007-06-27 Thread Art Campbell
If anyone has had any experience working with Finite Matters to develop a Patternstream-based database publishing system, I'd appreciate hearing about your experiences. Probably off-list, because this is on the edge of OT, I think. Thanks, Art -- Art Campbell

Link on Index References in PDF

2007-06-27 Thread Peter Gold
Hi, Fei Min: I think there's a FrameMaker plug-in or script that adds the ability you want. Try searching Google and the various fora for variations on see also plugin, FrameMaker plug-ins, etc. I'm surprised that nobody's mentioned it by name, yet. Perhaps re-titling your subject to something

Link on Index References in PDF

2007-06-27 Thread Ian Hawkins
It's called IndexRef, from www.sundorne.com. I think somebody must have replied to Fei Min personally because she has downloaded the evaluation version already. I've been offline most of the day or I would have jumped in earlier. Ian Hawkins Sundorne Communications Peter Gold wrote: > Hi, Fei

link to HTML doc from PDF

2007-06-27 Thread Carol Wade
Thanks Syed & Mike. The document will not be on an accessible server, but will be in the same directory with the PDF. When I tried what Mike suggested below, and clicked the link in the PDF, a browser was opened with the following in the Address (URL) box: http://readme4.5.html/ Obviously, that

Acrobat 3D

2007-06-27 Thread Fabio DiFrancesco
Hi Framers, I'm currently using the trial version of Acrobat 3D, version 8.0. I'd like to know the different ways to import a dynamic 3D file from the 3D Toolkit to my source FrameMaker document. Also, once I generate my PDF document, will the 3D model retain all of its dynamic features?

Acrobat 8 Forms Design - SOLVED

2007-06-27 Thread Gillian Flato
The problem was that I didn't have enough video ram in this computer. I just upgraded to a 256mb PCI video card and it works great! -Gillian -Original Message- From: framers-bounces+gflato=nanometrics@lists.frameusers.com [mailto:framers-bounces+gflato=nanometrics.com at

Acrobat 3D

2007-06-27 Thread Alan Houser
The capability to include "dynamic" Acrobat 3D files in FrameMaker is not yet available, but there is encouraging evidence that it may be available soon -- - Adobe demonstrated Acrobat 3D import capability at the 2007 STC Summit in Minneapolis, in a not-yet-released version of FrameMaker. The

link to HTML doc from PDF

2007-06-27 Thread Syed Zaeem Hosain
Hmmm ... What was the exact entry in the "message URL readme.html" in the Syntax box? Did you use/try a relative path (i.e., "message URL ./readme4.5.html") to make sure that it looked in the current directory rather than the default directory of the browser? If you did do that, then I am not