RE: keep with next para

2008-02-04 Thread Diane Gaskill
No offense meant, Alan. I just thought you might like to know. And I was wrong too. He's been on the list since 93, same as me (I guess the Alzheimers must be setting in or I'd have remembered :-) Regards, Diane -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: pagination dilemma

2008-02-04 Thread Bodvar Bjorgvinsson
This has only happened to me in connection with footnotes and columns -- at least lately. Usually this happens when there is some sort of conflicting instructions regarding the behavior of the paragraphs resulting in the contents to cross over the bottom of the text frame instead of breaking

Re: Change bars that will not die and making RoboHelp for FrameMaker see

2008-02-04 Thread Bodvar Bjorgvinsson
You may have to check for conditional text. Revision bars are often set in some conditions. You may have to change that directly or just make the offending paragraph (object) unconditional. Also change bars may be the result of an element set to display the change bar, so if these documents are

Re: HELP - Deleting Multiple Master Pages in FrameMaker

2008-02-04 Thread Art Campbell
I've been using CleanImport for several years; it works well. Also... if you haven't already created a meta-book of all the files you need to change, this would be the time, so you can do them with one command. Art On Feb 4, 2008 10:34 AM, Mike Feimster [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: This might do

RE: Framers Digest, Vol 28, Issue 4

2008-02-04 Thread Orly Zimmerman
HI Paul, There is an HTML Options Table on your HTML reference page that controls how the pics are saved. I think you can change the pic format output options, but it would be the same for all the referenced pics. You could define otherwise for all embedded pics and so on. Alternatively, you

RE: Keyboard shortcut for copyright symbol

2008-02-04 Thread Dennis Brunnenmeyer
Hi... Make up a little table in Excel or Frame and print it...then laminate it and keep it nearby. These apply to almost every standard font when using a western style (USA) keyboard and the American English language. I can't speak for other keyboard layouts or other languages, but your

RE: HELP - Deleting Multiple Master Pages in FrameMaker

2008-02-04 Thread Fred Ridder
Mike Feimster suggested: This might do what you want. I've never tried it, but it looks interesting. http://www.electropubs.com/ez_cleanimport3.html Even if this specific tool isn't the best solution for you, it may be useful for you to take the same approach to the problem. Instead of

RE: oldie (was: keep with next para)

2008-02-04 Thread Diane Gaskill
Hi Graeme, My apologies. I thought you'd been on the list since about the time I joined but only had messages from you in my own archive for 5 years. But I do remember your messages about footnotes and endnotes and the fact that neither Frame Technology nor Adobe has not fixed them in all these

RE: Working with Images

2008-02-04 Thread Diane Gaskill
Excellent explanation John. I'll definitely save your message. Thanks lots, Diane -Original Message- From: John Sgammato [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Saturday, February 02, 2008 6:17 AM To: Diane Gaskill; framers@lists.frameusers.com Subject: RE: Working with Images When

Inter-chapter cross-references not found in PDF - Structured Frame

2008-02-04 Thread Valerie Lipow
I have generated a PDF of a book containing structured documents, in FM 7.1. I generated a single PDF from the book, not multiple PDFs for each document in the book. All cross-references use the CROSSREF element. Before generating the PDF, I eliminated all missing cross-references in the book.

Contract Opportunity

2008-02-04 Thread Johnson, Joyce
All - We are seeking a short-term contract writer, familiar with RoboHelp and FrameMaker to assist us with documenting hardware installation and software usage. We are located in northern Illinois. Please contact me off list if you are interested. Joyce Johnson [EMAIL PROTECTED]

RE: HELP - Deleting Multiple Master Pages in FrameMaker

2008-02-04 Thread Mike Feimster
This might do what you want. I've never tried it, but it looks interesting. http://www.electropubs.com/ez_cleanimport3.html Mike -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, February 01, 2008 5:06 PM To:

Announce: Mr. XML Publisher for DocBook

2008-02-04 Thread Steve Whitlatch
This announcement might be of interest to structured FrameMaker users who use DocBook XML. The Mr. XML Publisher for DocBook website can produce documentation in many formats, but for PDF you probably want to use your local Acrobat software. That's what I do when using FrameMaker. Announcing

RE: oldie

2008-02-04 Thread Grant Hogarth
I started on the list as [EMAIL PROTECTED] from about Sept 1990 or so... I think I've used FM on every platform Frame made it for since V2.0 (but then again, I had to) Grant -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Hedley Finger Sent: Monday,

Re: oldie

2008-02-04 Thread Hedley Finger
At Tuesday, 5/02/2008, 07:05 AM;, you wrote: raises hand I've been on it since it was hosted on uunet; I forget what year. After that I recall three volunteer admins at different universities before Brad came along... ;-) Who else? Me, me, me! I've used FM from v. 3.0 on every platform

Re: oldie (was: keep with next para)

2008-02-04 Thread Jeremy H. Griffith
On Mon, 4 Feb 2008 03:51:08 -0800, Diane Gaskill [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I wonder how many of us there are still on the list from those olden days. raises hand I've been on it since it was hosted on uunet; I forget what year. After that I recall three volunteer admins at different

RE: oldie

2008-02-04 Thread Lester C. Smalley
I don't remember when I started reading and posting to the Frame list, but I do remember it was on UUNet. I started working with FrameMaker in 1988-89, and have used it on Sun Solaris and OpenLook; Sun, IBM and HP XWindows; Mac; and Windows. I got training at Frame Technology's locations on

Re: oldie

2008-02-04 Thread Susan Modlin
I was [EMAIL PROTECTED] starting in Jan, 1991. Porting the 2.1 tutorial to Open Look was my first project. The 3.0 Win/OL doc rewrite was the next. ...Susan - Original Message From: Grant Hogarth [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Hedley Finger [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: Framers List [EMAIL PROTECTED]

System rebuild - can not print book

2008-02-04 Thread Pete Rourke
Ok, so I'm thinking I am a total stooge. I have FM8 XP Pro on Desktop and primary = laptop. I did a flush and fill on laptop to clear out the cobwebs. I replaced FM8 and Adobe PDF printer, and the entire FM book directory, all fonts and images. From the freshly rebuilt laptop, FM comes

RE: System rebuild - can not print book

2008-02-04 Thread Pete Rourke
Thanks William for the response. I checked all text frames Pg 1= Title, Pg2 = Disclaimer, Page 3 = Table of Contents, none having the Postscript Code checked. Other ideas? Thanks again Pete Rourke Chandler, AZ -Original Message- From: William Abernathy [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent:

RE: System rebuild - can not print book

2008-02-04 Thread Pete Rourke
Thanks William, I looked through the master pages, they were all clean as well. So I printed each of the individual 23 files in the book to PDF, without one hiccup. So I have a feeling the guilty file is book file. So I'm thinking of assembling all of the 23 files, and importing them into a

Inter-chapter cross-references not found in PDF - Structured Frame

2008-02-04 Thread Valerie Lipow
I have generated a PDF of a book containing structured documents, in FM 7.1. I generated a single PDF from the book, not multiple PDFs for each document in the book. All cross-references use the CROSSREF element. Before generating the PDF, I eliminated all missing cross-references in the book.

Re [ANN]: List of linked graphic file locations

2008-02-04 Thread frameusers
... take TOOLBOX for FrameMaker: Module: Booktransfer First step: Book transfer creates a list of all referenced files, Graphics and Textinsets saved in a txt file. Download and Trial: www.toolboxforme.com Georg Eck (CEO and ACE) ___ You are

oldie (was: keep with next para)

2008-02-04 Thread Alan Litchfield
Graeme R Forbes wrote: > >>Um, just an FYI, Graeme has been on this list for at least 5 years that I >>know of. > > This made me wonder. I find in my archives a message dated 10/28/93 > that referred to my previous postings complaining about FM's footnote > handling and the failure to fix the

Change bars that will not die and making RoboHelp for FrameMaker see

2008-02-04 Thread rebecca officer
Can't help on RoboHelp, but for the change bars, check your paragraph styles don't have change bars set. It's on the "Default Font" tab of the paragraph designer. And ditto character styles. Cheers, Rebecca >>> "Thomas Scalise" 2/02/08 04:03 >>> Esteemed colleagues, Two questions, please.

HELP - Deleting Multiple Master Pages in FrameMaker

2008-02-04 Thread rebecca officer
And if you use a good text editor, you could search and replace on multiple MIF files at once. Very carefully, after backing them up first. Cheers, Rebecca >>> "Peter Gold" 2/02/08 11:37 >>> Hi, Susan: Have you tried saving files as MIF, opening in a text editor, then deleting the unwanted

Working with Images: saving as HTML

2008-02-04 Thread Inbar, Paul
Hi all, First, thanks for a very informative thread. I have a question not so much about the best format, but about how Frame treats images imported by reference when saving Frame files as html (via Frame's Save as). This is in reference to an unstructured file in Frame 7.2. I find that when I

keep with next para

2008-02-04 Thread Diane Gaskill
No offense meant, Alan. I just thought you might like to know. And I was wrong too. He's been on the list since 93, same as me (I guess the Alzheimers must be setting in or I'd have remembered :-) Regards, Diane -Original Message- From: framers-boun...@lists.frameusers.com

Working with Images

2008-02-04 Thread Diane Gaskill
Excellent explanation John. I'll definitely save your message. Thanks lots, Diane -Original Message- From: John Sgammato [mailto:jsgamm...@imprivata.com] Sent: Saturday, February 02, 2008 6:17 AM To: Diane Gaskill; framers at lists.frameusers.com Subject: RE: Working with

oldie (was: keep with next para)

2008-02-04 Thread Diane Gaskill
Hi Graeme, My apologies. I thought you'd been on the list since about the time I joined but only had messages from you in my own archive for 5 years. But I do remember your messages about footnotes and endnotes and the fact that neither Frame Technology nor Adobe has not fixed them in all these

pagination dilemma

2008-02-04 Thread Bodvar Bjorgvinsson
This has only happened to me in connection with footnotes and columns -- at least lately. Usually this happens when there is some sort of conflicting instructions regarding the behavior of the paragraphs resulting in the contents to "cross over" the bottom of the text frame instead of breaking

Change bars that will not die and making RoboHelp for FrameMaker see

2008-02-04 Thread Bodvar Bjorgvinsson
You may have to check for conditional text. Revision bars are often set in some conditions. You may have to change that directly or just make the "offending" paragraph (object) unconditional. Also change bars may be the result of an element set to display the change bar, so if these documents are

HELP - Deleting Multiple Master Pages in FrameMaker

2008-02-04 Thread Mike Feimster
This might do what you want. I've never tried it, but it looks interesting. http://www.electropubs.com/ez_cleanimport3.html Mike -Original Message- From: framers-boun...@lists.frameusers.com [mailto:framers-bounces at lists.frameusers.com] On Behalf Of susan.mcdonald at teradyne.com

HELP - Deleting Multiple Master Pages in FrameMaker

2008-02-04 Thread Art Campbell
I've been using CleanImport for several years; it works well. Also... if you haven't already created a meta-book of all the files you need to change, this would be the time, so you can do them with one command. Art On Feb 4, 2008 10:34 AM, Mike Feimster wrote: > This might do what you want.

HELP - Deleting Multiple Master Pages in FrameMaker

2008-02-04 Thread Fred Ridder
Mike Feimster suggested: > This might do what you want. I've never tried it, but it looks > interesting. > > http://www.electropubs.com/ez_cleanimport3.html Even if this specific tool isn't the best solution for you, it may be useful for you to take the same approach to the problem. Instead of

Framers Digest, Vol 28, Issue 4

2008-02-04 Thread Orly Zimmerman
HI Paul, There is an HTML Options Table on your HTML reference page that controls how the pics are saved. I think you can change the pic format output options, but it would be the same for all the referenced pics. You could define otherwise for all embedded pics and so on. Alternatively, you

Contract Opportunity

2008-02-04 Thread Johnson, Joyce
All - We are seeking a short-term contract writer, familiar with RoboHelp and FrameMaker to assist us with documenting hardware installation and software usage. We are located in northern Illinois. Please contact me off list if you are interested. Joyce Johnson jjohnson at abc-sg.com

Inter-chapter cross-references not found in PDF - Structured Frame

2008-02-04 Thread Valerie Lipow
I have generated a PDF of a book containing structured documents, in FM 7.1. I generated a single PDF from the book, not multiple PDFs for each document in the book. All cross-references use the CROSSREF element. Before generating the PDF, I eliminated all missing cross-references in the book.

oldie (was: keep with next para)

2008-02-04 Thread Jeremy H. Griffith
On Mon, 4 Feb 2008 03:51:08 -0800, "Diane Gaskill" wrote: >I wonder how many of us there are still on the list from those >"olden" days. I've been on it since it was hosted on uunet; I forget what year. After that I recall three volunteer admins at different universities before Brad came

oldie

2008-02-04 Thread Grant Hogarth
I started on the list as CGH at frame.com from about Sept 1990 or so... I think I've used FM on every platform Frame made it for since V2.0 (but then again, I had to) Grant -Original Message- From: framers-boun...@lists.frameusers.com [mailto:framers-bounces at lists.frameusers.com]

oldie

2008-02-04 Thread Susan Modlin
I was sfm at frame.com starting in Jan, 1991. Porting the 2.1 tutorial to Open Look was my first project. The 3.0 Win/OL doc rewrite was the next. ...Susan - Original Message From: Grant Hogarth To: Hedley Finger Cc: Framers List Sent: Monday, February

System rebuild - can not print book

2008-02-04 Thread Pete Rourke
Ok, so I'm thinking I am a total stooge. I have FM8 XP Pro on Desktop and primary = laptop. I did a flush and fill on laptop to clear out the cobwebs. I replaced FM8 and Adobe PDF printer, and the entire FM book directory, all fonts and images. >From the freshly rebuilt laptop, FM comes up

oldie

2008-02-04 Thread Lester C. Smalley
I don't remember when I started reading and posting to the Frame list, but I do remember it was on UUNet. I started working with FrameMaker in 1988-89, and have used it on Sun Solaris and OpenLook; Sun, IBM and HP XWindows; Mac; and Windows. I got training at Frame Technology's locations on

System rebuild - can not print book

2008-02-04 Thread Pete Rourke
Thanks William for the response. I checked all text frames Pg 1= Title, Pg2 = Disclaimer, Page 3 = Table of Contents, none having the Postscript Code checked. Other ideas? Thanks again Pete Rourke Chandler, AZ -Original Message- From: William Abernathy [mailto:will...@inch.com] Sent:

System rebuild - can not print book

2008-02-04 Thread Pete Rourke
Thanks William, I looked through the master pages, they were all clean as well. So I printed each of the individual 23 files in the book to PDF, without one hiccup. So I have a feeling the guilty file is book file. So I'm thinking of assembling all of the 23 files, and importing them into a

Inter-chapter cross-references not found in PDF - Structured Frame

2008-02-04 Thread Valerie Lipow
I have generated a PDF of a book containing structured documents, in FM 7.1. I generated a single PDF from the book, not multiple PDFs for each document in the book. All cross-references use the CROSSREF element. Before generating the PDF, I eliminated all missing cross-references in the book.