Framemaker crashing when printing to ps file

2008-03-11 Thread Leah Smaller
Good morning list people, FM 7.0 Acrobat 5.0 I usually print our Users Guides to ps file and then distill with Acrobat Distiller to get a pdf file. Always works - except today... Framemaker froze after I clicked Print in the print dialog. No error message was generated; nothing indicated that

RE: Seeking effective doc compare solution for Vers A. vs. Vers D

2008-03-11 Thread David Spreadbury
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Re: Framemaker crashing when printing to ps file

2008-03-11 Thread Rene Stephenson
Assuming there aren't any Acrobat version/upgrade conflicts, most of the time this kind of odd stuff could be fixed by round-tripping the book and files through MIF: saving all the files and the book file out as .MIF, open the .MIF files and Save As .FM and .book (respectively) to overwrite the

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2008-03-11 Thread Veronica Kutt
Hello, Front Runner Training welcomes Shlomo Perets to Toronto to offer his specialized Acrobat and FrameMaker seminars. FrameMaker to Acrobat Advanced Techniques http://www.front-runner.com/training/outlines/workshops/Frame_to_Acrobat.htm l Monday May 26th-Tuesday May 27th $1,240 per person

importing/structuring docx into FrameMaker?

2008-03-11 Thread Jakob Fix
Hello, I was wondering if anybody is using the Structure current document functionality in FM8 to structure imported Office 2007 documents, and whether this method can be recommended, or whether there are shortcomings that one should know about before going down this route. -- cheers, Jakob.

PDFs as graphics and graphics out of SolidWorks

2008-03-11 Thread Linda G. Gallagher
Framers, FM 7.0 Acrobat 6.0 Win XP I appreciated all the help a couple of weeks ago on text insets and scripting. Now I have new questions related to a new client that is using SolidWorks CAD to create graphics for me to use in FM. So far I've tried importing graphics saved from SolidWorks as

Re: PDFs as graphics and graphics out of SolidWorks

2008-03-11 Thread Art Campbell
I just ended a year-long gig that included this, and the workflow we developed was: 1. Get the free Solidworks viewer application. (There's a free explorer tool that's also useful.) 2. From the Viewer, print the Solidworks file to an Acrobat printer instance to create a PDF using the appropriate

RE: PDFs as graphics and graphics out of SolidWorks

2008-03-11 Thread Linda G. Gallagher
These are not rendered, just the line drawings. Guess I should have said that. Sorry! I got another message offlist about changing my Distiller options. Duh!! I did that, and the .tif in the PDF output from FM now looks quite good. Thanks, Michael. The process that Art suggests might be an

Seeking effective doc compare solution for Vers A. vs. Vers D

2008-03-11 Thread David Spreadbury
Have you looked at creating PDFs of ver A and ver D. Then using Acrobat to do the compare? - Looking for last minute shopping deals? Find them fast with Yahoo! Search.

Framemaker crashing when printing to ps file

2008-03-11 Thread Rene Stephenson
Assuming there aren't any Acrobat version/upgrade conflicts, most of the time this kind of odd stuff could be fixed by round-tripping the book and files through MIF: saving all the files and the book file out as .MIF, open the .MIF files and Save As .FM and .book (respectively) to overwrite the

ANN: Front Runner Training (Toronto): Hosts Shlomo Perets' seminars

2008-03-11 Thread Veronica Kutt
Hello, Front Runner Training welcomes Shlomo Perets to Toronto to offer his specialized Acrobat and FrameMaker seminars. FrameMaker to Acrobat Advanced Techniques http://www.front-runner.com/training/outlines/workshops/Frame_to_Acrobat.htm l Monday May 26th-Tuesday May 27th $1,240 per person

importing/structuring docx into FrameMaker?

2008-03-11 Thread Jakob Fix
Hello, I was wondering if anybody is using the "Structure current document" functionality in FM8 to structure imported Office 2007 documents, and whether this method can be recommended, or whether there are shortcomings that one should know about before going down this route. -- cheers, Jakob.

PDFs as graphics and graphics out of SolidWorks

2008-03-11 Thread Linda G. Gallagher
Framers, FM 7.0 Acrobat 6.0 Win XP I appreciated all the help a couple of weeks ago on text insets and scripting. Now I have new questions related to a new client that is using SolidWorks CAD to create graphics for me to use in FM. So far I've tried importing graphics saved from SolidWorks as

PDFs as graphics and graphics out of SolidWorks

2008-03-11 Thread Art Campbell
I just ended a year-long gig that included this, and the workflow we developed was: 1. Get the free Solidworks viewer application. (There's a free explorer tool that's also useful.) 2. From the Viewer, print the Solidworks file to an Acrobat printer instance to create a PDF using the appropriate

PDFs as graphics and graphics out of SolidWorks

2008-03-11 Thread Linda G. Gallagher
These are not rendered, just the line drawings. Guess I should have said that. Sorry! I got another message offlist about changing my Distiller options. Duh!! I did that, and the .tif in the PDF output from FM now looks quite good. Thanks, Michael. The process that Art suggests might be an

PDFs as graphics and graphics out of SolidWorks

2008-03-11 Thread Combs, Richard
Linda G. Gallagher wrote: > These are not rendered, just the line drawings. Guess I > should have said that. Sorry! > > I got another message offlist about changing my Distiller > options. Duh!! I did that, and the .tif in the PDF output > from FM now looks quite good. > Thanks, Michael. >

Acrobat PDF Message

2008-03-11 Thread Danny G Green
All, I have been producing PDF files from FrameMaker 7 for some time and have just recently experienced this problem. After I produce a pdf file I will clean it up by deleting some blank pages within the document. When I delete a page I get this message "There was a problem reading this

Updating templates from 7.1

2008-03-11 Thread Butler, Darren J Ctr 584 CBSS/GBHAC
Hello Fellow Frame-Maniacs, Does anyone have any experiences updating pre-7.2 FM templates? We have templates that were created in Frame 6.0 and updated in 7.1. I?ve been told that these templates will not be completely compatible with FM 8.0; issues with generated lists, Master Pages, and

PDFs as graphics and graphics out of SolidWorks

2008-03-11 Thread Donald Rose
Linda, I have imported many "graphics" from Solid Works. One of the problems with Solid Works drafters is that they love their rendered drawings. If you can use line art they can export from Solid Works non-rendered, hidden lines hidden, iso (or whatever consistent angle you want) pdf files