Easiest way to update all paragraphs in a book

Hi We are goin to change all our Times New Roman 10 pt fonts to Verdana 9 pt fonts. What is the easiest way to update all styles in the paragraph designer? Right now, i have the following solutions: 1. Press ctrl+m and update each style in paragraph designer. Import formats to whole book. 2.

Mapping of Word styles to Framemaker paragrahps

All What is easietst way of mapping Word styles to Framemaker pagraphs when importing from Word to Framemaker? One solution is in Word to rename all Word styles to Framemaker paragraph names before importing. I was wondering whether there was an easier way, maybe a utility? Med venlig

Re: Easiest way to update all paragraphs in a book

How about the following: Make a copy of the file, and delete all par tags except for the one you want to change. Make the change, then import the par tags from that file (which should only include one style), to all the files in the book. I never tried this for par tags, but do these often

Re: Easiest way to update all paragraphs in a book

1. Press ctrl+m and update each style in paragraph designer. Import formats to whole book. 2. Save as .mif search and replace Times New Roman and 10 pt respectively. Save as .fm and import formats to whole book. If you do step 1, why do you have to do step 2? John Posada Senior Technical

Re: Easiest way to update all paragraphs in a book

Verner, Another easy way to do this is to maintain a separate template file (or use one of the chapters you've already changed). Make the modifications there, and then Execute Import Formats from the book level. (John: It's a numbered list of methods) Cheers, Art On 9/20/07, John Posada

Re: Easiest way to update all paragraphs in a book

That's a good idea, Shmuel, and to make the change at once, I would suggest this: 1. In the Paragraph Designer, click the *Default Font* tab. 2. Choose *Commands Set Window to As Is*. 3. Select *Family *Verdana and *Size *9 pt. 4. Choose *Commands Global Update Options*. 5.

RE: Easiest way to update all paragraphs in a book

If Times New Roman 10 pt is the font for all of the Paragraph Tags then easiest way is to open the Paragraph Designer. Click in the Margin of your document. Make sure it is the margin and none of the text blocks. In the Paragraph Designer change the font and the Point Size. Click update all and

Re: Mapping of Word styles to Framemaker paragrahps

I use Template Mapper for jobs like these. Template Mapper was developed by Chris Despopoulos http://www.telecable.es/personales/cud. It goes like this: 1. Open the Word file in FrameMaker (that's right, just open, not import). 2. Using Template Mapper, map the Word styles to the

Re: Mapping of Word styles to Framemaker paragrahps

Anyone know how to get it? The cudspan website seems to have vanished off the face of the web. :-( Thanks, Rebecca Yves Barbion [EMAIL PROTECTED] 09/20/07 11:32 PM I use Template Mapper for jobs like these. Template Mapper was developed by Chris Despopoulos

Re: Easiest way to update all paragraphs in a book

While we are on the subject, what's the difference between Global Update and Update All? Regards, Shmuel Wolfson Yves Barbion wrote: That's a good idea, Shmuel, and to make the change at once, I would suggest this: 1. In the Paragraph Designer, click the *Default Font* tab. 2. Choose

Global update for par tags

That's a good idea, Shmuel, and to make the change at once, I would suggest this: 1. In the Paragraph Designer, click the Default Font tab. 2. Choose Commands Set Window to As Is. 3. Select Family Verdana and Size 9 pt. 4. Choose Commands Global Update Options. 5.

RE: Mapping of Word styles to Framemaker paragrahps

[EMAIL PROTECTED] asked: What is easietst way of mapping Word styles to Framemaker pagraphs when importing from Word to Framemaker? One solution is in Word to rename all Word styles to Framemaker paragraph names before importing. I was wondering whether there was an easier way, maybe a

RE: Mapping of Word styles to Framemaker paragrahps

What Fred said. Also, if you are going to Structured Frame, you can import the word document and then use a conversion table to map the word styles to structured Frame elements. Mike -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] rs.com] On Behalf Of Fred Ridder

3D Graphics

I've been trying to insert a U3D file into a blank PDF as described in the link below, using Adobe Acrobat Professional 7.0.9. After I click OK, nothing appears in the PDF. Any ideas? Do I have to have the CAD program that created the U3D file on my computer?

RE: Mapping of Word styles to Framemaker paragrahps

Rebecca Officer asked: Anyone know how to get it? The cudspan website seems to have vanished off the face of the web. :-( From a message Jeremy Griffith posted to this list in June: There are a few tools that can aid in this, including the freeware cud MarkerWorker tool, available at:

Re: Mapping of Word styles to Framemaker paragrahps

http://siliconprairiesoftware.com/Products.html Paragraph Tools Paragraph Tools provides additional capabilities for working with paragraphs in FrameMaker documents. As a documentation set ages, it tends to get polluted with extra paragraph tags that are no longer used. Paragraph Tools can help.

RE: Mapping of Word styles to Framemaker paragrahps

Yves Barbion wrote: I use Template Mapper for jobs like these. Note that TemplateMapper was not one of the free plug-ins from Chris Despopoulos (cudspan). He used to charge $200 for it. What's also nice thing about this, is that you get clean FrameMaker files: the list of Paragraph Formats

Re: Broken xrefs

A suggestion: Get and use the BookUtils plug-in. Or save as MIF and do find and replace searches to correct Xrefs. ___ You are currently subscribed to Framers as [EMAIL PROTECTED] Send list messages to [EMAIL PROTECTED] To unsubscribe send a blank

RE: Easiest way to update all paragraphs in a book

Do you have more than one primary font? I have to make these kinds of changes often for clients who use both a sans serif and a serif font a simple Global Update will not work in that situation. I have found that the easiest solution is a Report Formats script run through Framescript. In

BookVars with Frame 8

Has anyone tried BookVars with Frame 8? Any problems? Thank you, mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Gillian Flato Technical Writer (Software) nanometrics 1550 Buckeye Dr. Milpitas, CA. 95035 (408.545.6316 7 408.232.5911 * [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] .com

RE: Keyboard shortcuts stop working

How the heck do you make it stop doing this, though??? I've used the Advanced Keyboard Settings to turn off the keyboard shortcuts for switching languages at least 150 times, and it always turns itself back on. Is the only solution to uninstall the non-English input languages? -Original

Re: Mapping of Word styles to Framemaker paragrahps

Hi Rebecca, I have Chris' e-mail, but am not sure how he feels about sharing it. I'll contact him and ask him to reply to the list with the contact info he's willing to provide. ...Susan - Original Message From: rebecca officer [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: framers@lists.frameusers.com Sent:

Re: Mapping of Word styles to Framemaker paragrahps

Chris' plugins are at .. http://www.freeframers.org/freeware/cud/ but TemplateMapper's not there .. I think you have to make a special arrangement for that one. ...scott Susan Modlin wrote: Hi Rebecca, I have Chris' e-mail, but am not sure how he feels about sharing it. I'll contact

Re: Mapping of Word styles to Framemaker paragrahps

You're right, Scott. TemplateMapper is available directly from Chris. The price is in the $200 range. Chris has a full-time job, so response can be a tad slow, but TemplateMapper still works like a charm. ...Susan - Original Message From: Scott Prentice [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Susan

RE: Easiest way to update all paragraphs in a book

Alison Carrico wrote: Do you have more than one primary font? I have to make these kinds of changes often for clients who use both a sans serif and a serif font a simple Global Update will not work in that situation. I have found that the easiest solution is a Report Formats script run

Re: BookVars with Frame 8

Hi Gillian... BookVars has not been updated (yet) to support FM8. It does seem to work fine as long as you're not using Unicode characters in your variables, although we haven't done extensive testing yet. The installer won't let you install to FM8, but if you have it installed on an earlier

Is 3D Distiller required to process U3D files in FM 8 ?

I'm playing with the eval version of FM 8, installed on a system that already has Acrobat 8.1 Pro installed. The FM 8 installation refused to install the embedded distiller because a more current version already existed. I've embedded a U3D file in a FM file, and everything looks good. The 3D

Re: Easiest way to update all paragraphs in a book

At 12:12 +0200 20/9/07, Shmuel Wolfson wrote: Make a copy of the file, and delete all par tags except for the one you want to change. Make the change, then import the par tags from that file (which should only include one style), to all the files in the book. I never tried this for par tags,

RE: Is 3D Distiller required to process U3D files in FM 8 ?

If you have ANY version of Acrobat 7 or 8 already installed on your system, you absolutely DON'T want the castrated version of Distiller that comes with FrameMaker 8! - Dov -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:framers- [EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Art Campbell

RE: Is 3D Distiller required to process U3D files in FM 8 ?

Of course not! - Dov -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, September 20, 2007 5:05 PM To: Dov Isaacs Cc: Art Campbell; Frame Users; Free Framers List Subject: RE: Is 3D Distiller required to process U3D files in FM 8 ? Hi

Re: Is 3D Distiller required to process U3D files in FM 8 ?

Dov, OK, I'm certainly with you on that, but the question on the table is whether Acrobat 8 Pro can take 3D output from Frame and generate a 3D PDF Art On 9/20/07, Dov Isaacs [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: If you have ANY version of Acrobat 7 or 8 already installed on your system, you absolutely

OT: PDF question

I know this spills into the wide world of PDF, but my guess is that someone else has had this issue. From a book file (Framemaker 8, Acrobat 8 Standard), I need to generate a black and white print-ready PDF. I've got graphics and blue (hyperlinks) text. I'd like the blue text to come out as

RE: PDF question

No, there is no simple way to do that via either driver or joboptions. However, you can do what you want in Acrobat 7 Pro or Acrobat 8 Pro with the color conversion options. - Dov -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:framers- [EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Miriam

Re: PDF question

Hi, Miriam: In the FM file, if the links are colored with a character tag, you can redefine it to black in one chapter, then import only character formats to all files in the book. If the links are colored by applying the color as an override, use Find/Replace for Character Format (not Tag). In

Re: OT: PDF question

Hi Miriam! There are several ways to do it, but I think you get the best quality with: Print to PDF. On the Adobe PDF printer Properties dialog box, on the Paper/Quality tab, select Black White. Cheers, Art On 9/20/07, Miriam Lezak [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I know this spills into the wide

Easiest way to update all paragraphs in a book

Hi We are goin to change all our Times New Roman 10 pt fonts to Verdana 9 pt fonts. What is the easiest way to update all styles in the paragraph designer? Right now, i have the following solutions: 1. Press ctrl+m and update each style in paragraph designer. Import formats to whole book. 2.

Mapping of Word styles to Framemaker paragrahps

All What is easietst way of mapping Word styles to Framemaker pagraphs when importing from Word to Framemaker? One solution is in Word to rename all Word styles to Framemaker paragraph names before importing. I was wondering whether there was an easier way, maybe a utility? Med venlig hilsen

Easiest way to update all paragraphs in a book

How about the following: Make a copy of the file, and delete all par tags except for the one you want to change. Make the change, then import the par tags from that file (which should only include one style), to all the files in the book. I never tried this for par tags, but do these often for

Easiest way to update all paragraphs in a book

> 1. Press ctrl+m and update each style in paragraph designer. Import > formats to whole book. > 2. Save as .mif search and replace "Times New Roman" and "10 pt" > respectively. Save as .fm and import formats to whole book. If you do step 1, why do you have to do step 2? John Posada Senior

Easiest way to update all paragraphs in a book

Verner, Another easy way to do this is to maintain a separate template file (or use one of the chapters you've already changed). Make the modifications there, and then Execute Import Formats from the book level. (John: It's a numbered list of methods) Cheers, Art On 9/20/07, John Posada

Easiest way to update all paragraphs in a book

That's a good idea, Shmuel, and to "make the change" at once, I would suggest this: 1. In the Paragraph Designer, click the *Default Font* tab. 2. Choose *Commands > Set Window to As Is*. 3. Select *Family *Verdana and *Size *9 pt. 4. Choose *Commands > Global Update Options*. 5.

Easiest way to update all paragraphs in a book

If Times New Roman 10 pt is the font for all of the Paragraph Tags then easiest way is to open the Paragraph Designer. Click in the Margin of your document. Make sure it is the margin and none of the text blocks. In the Paragraph Designer change the font and the Point Size. Click update all and

Mapping of Word styles to Framemaker paragrahps

I use Template Mapper for jobs like these. Template Mapper was developed by Chris Despopoulos http://www.telecable.es/personales/cud. It goes like this: 1. Open the Word file in FrameMaker (that's right, just open, not import). 2. Using Template Mapper, map the Word styles to the

Mapping of Word styles to Framemaker paragrahps

Indeed, Chris seems to have disappeared. It's been a while since I've heard him and other FrameUsers have been looking for him as well (google for "Chris Despopoulos"). On 9/20/07, rebecca officer wrote: > > Anyone know how to get it? The cudspan website seems to have vanished > off the

Easiest way to update all paragraphs in a book

While we are on the subject, what's the difference between Global Update and Update All? Regards, Shmuel Wolfson Yves Barbion wrote: > That's a good idea, Shmuel, and to "make the change" at once, I would > suggest this: > >1. In the Paragraph Designer, click the *Default Font* tab. >

Global update for par tags

That's a good idea, Shmuel, and to "make the change" at once, I would suggest this: 1. In the Paragraph Designer, click the Default Font tab. 2. Choose Commands > Set Window to As Is. 3. Select Family Verdana and Size 9 pt. 4. Choose Commands > Global Update Options. 5.

Easiest way to update all paragraphs in a book

So why can't you just save one file that has all your styles in it. Delete the files you don't want to use (optional). Save it as a "template." Make the changes to the styles you want. Import the par. tags (and only the par tags) to all the docs in the book via the book view. Go through each

Mapping of Word styles to Framemaker paragrahps

verner.andersen at radiometer.dk asked:> > What is easietst way of mapping Word styles to Framemaker > pagraphs when importing from Word to Framemaker? > > One solution is in Word to rename all Word styles to Framemaker > paragraph names before importing. > > I was wondering whether there was

Mapping of Word styles to Framemaker paragrahps

What Fred said. Also, if you are going to Structured Frame, you can import the word document and then use a conversion table to map the word styles to structured Frame elements. Mike -Original Message- From: framers-bounces+mike.feimster=acstechnologies.com at lists.frameusers.com

Easiest way to update all paragraphs in a book

Update All applies to a single paratag only. The UI is a bit misleading here. You should read what's below the button as well: "Update All Formats Tagged: ". On 9/20/07, Shmuel Wolfson wrote: > > While we are on the subject, what's the difference between Global Update > and Update All? > >

3D Graphics

I've been trying to insert a U3D file into a blank PDF as described in the link below, using Adobe Acrobat Professional 7.0.9. After I click OK, nothing appears in the PDF. Any ideas? Do I have to have the CAD program that created the U3D file on my computer?

Mapping of Word styles to Framemaker paragrahps

Rebecca Officer asked:> Anyone know how to get it? The cudspan website seems to have > vanished off the face of the web. :-(

Mapping of Word styles to Framemaker paragrahps

Yves Barbion wrote:> I use Template Mapper for jobs like these. Note that TemplateMapper was not one of the free plug-ins from Chris Despopoulos (cudspan). He used to charge $200 for it. > What's also nice thing about this, is that you get "clean" > FrameMaker files: the list of Paragraph

Mapping of Word styles to Framemaker paragrahps

http://siliconprairiesoftware.com/Products.html Paragraph Tools Paragraph Tools provides additional capabilities for working with paragraphs in FrameMaker documents. As a documentation set ages, it tends to get polluted with extra paragraph tags that are no longer used. Paragraph Tools can help.

Broken xrefs

A suggestion: Get and use the BookUtils plug-in. Or save as MIF and do find and replace searches to correct Xrefs.

Easiest way to update all paragraphs in a book

Do you have more than one primary font? I have to make these kinds of changes often for clients who use both a sans serif and a serif font & a simple Global Update will not work in that situation. I have found that the easiest solution is a "Report Formats" script run through Framescript. In

Mapping of Word styles to Framemaker paragrahps

Hi Rebecca, I have Chris' e-mail, but am not sure how he feels about sharing it. I'll contact him and ask him to reply to the list with the contact info he's willing to provide. ...Susan - Original Message From: rebecca officer To: framers at

BookVars with Frame 8

Has anyone tried BookVars with Frame 8? Any problems? Thank you, Gillian Flato Technical Writer (Software) nanometrics 1550 Buckeye Dr. Milpitas, CA. 95035 (408.545.6316 7 408.232.5911 * gflato at nanometrics

Keyboard shortcuts stop working

How the heck do you make it stop doing this, though??? I've used the "Advanced Keyboard Settings" to turn off the keyboard shortcuts for switching languages at least 150 times, and it always turns itself back on. Is the only solution to uninstall the non-English input languages?

Mapping of Word styles to Framemaker paragrahps

Chris' plugins are at .. http://www.freeframers.org/freeware/cud/ but TemplateMapper's not there .. I think you have to make a special arrangement for that one. ...scott Susan Modlin wrote: > Hi Rebecca, > > I have Chris' e-mail, but am not sure how he feels about sharing it. I'll >

Mapping of Word styles to Framemaker paragrahps

You're right, Scott. TemplateMapper is available directly from Chris. The price is in the $200 range. Chris has a full-time job, so response can be a tad slow, but TemplateMapper still works like a charm. ...Susan - Original Message From: Scott Prentice To: Susan

Easiest way to update all paragraphs in a book

Alison Carrico wrote:> Do you have more than one primary font? I have to make > these kinds of changes often for clients who use both a > sans serif and a serif font & a simple Global Update will > not work in that situation. I have found that the easiest > solution is a "Report Formats"

BookVars with Frame 8

Hi Gillian... BookVars has not been updated (yet) to support FM8. It does seem to work fine as long as you're not using Unicode characters in your variables, although we haven't done extensive testing yet. The installer won't let you install to FM8, but if you have it installed on an earlier

Is 3D Distiller required to process U3D files in FM 8 ?

I'm playing with the eval version of FM 8, installed on a system that already has Acrobat 8.1 Pro installed. The FM 8 installation refused to install the embedded distiller because a more current version already existed. I've embedded a U3D file in a FM file, and everything looks good. The 3D

Easiest way to update all paragraphs in a book

At 12:12 +0200 20/9/07, Shmuel Wolfson wrote: >Make a copy of the file, and delete all par tags except for the one you want >to change. Make the change, then import the par tags from that file (which >should only include one style), to all the files in the book. > >I never tried this for par

Is 3D Distiller required to process U3D files in FM 8 ?

If you have ANY version of Acrobat 7 or 8 already installed on your system, you absolutely DON'T want the castrated version of Distiller that comes with FrameMaker 8! - Dov > -Original Message- > From: framers-bounces+isaacs=adobe.com at lists.frameusers.com [mailto:framers- >

Is 3D Distiller required to process U3D files in FM 8 ?

Of course not! - Dov > -Original Message- > From: edecr01 at luther.edu [mailto:edecr01 at luther.edu] > Sent: Thursday, September 20, 2007 5:05 PM > To: Dov Isaacs > Cc: Art Campbell; Frame Users; Free Framers List > Subject: RE: Is 3D Distiller required to process U3D files in

Is 3D Distiller required to process U3D files in FM 8 ?

Dov, OK, I'm certainly with you on that, but the question on the table is whether Acrobat 8 Pro can take 3D output from Frame and generate a 3D PDF Art On 9/20/07, Dov Isaacs wrote: > If you have ANY version of Acrobat 7 or 8 already installed on > your system, you absolutely DON'T want the

OT: PDF question

I know this spills into the wide world of PDF, but my guess is that someone else has had this issue.

PDF question

No, there is no "simple" way to do that via either driver or joboptions. However, you can do what you want in Acrobat 7 Pro or Acrobat 8 Pro with the color conversion options. - Dov > -Original Message- > From: framers-bounces+isaacs=adobe.com at lists.frameusers.com

PDF question

Hi, Miriam: In the FM file, if the links are colored with a character tag, you can redefine it to black in one chapter, then import only character formats to all files in the book. If the links are colored by applying the color as an override, use Find/Replace for Character Format (not Tag). In

OT: PDF question

Hi Miriam! There are several ways to do it, but I think you get the best quality with: Print to PDF. On the Adobe PDF printer Properties dialog box, on the Paper/Quality tab, select Black & White. Cheers, Art On 9/20/07, Miriam Lezak wrote: > I know this spills into the wide world of PDF, but

OT: PDF question

The hard way, use The Bluebeam product and change each link text to black. I believe Bluebeam has better editing capabilities than Acrobat. - Original Message From: Miriam Lezak To: Framers Sent: Thursday, September 20, 2007 7:17:22 AM Subject: OT: PDF question I

3D Graphics

Anyone know about a list specially for structured frame? Thanks -Original Message- From: framers-bounces+lhs_emf=pacbell.net at lists.frameusers.com [mailto:framers-bounces+lhs_emf=pacbell@lists.frameusers.com] On Behalf Of Shmuel Wolfson Sent: Thursday, September 20, 2007 8:27 AM