Re: Table leaves a blank page and jumps to start at top of following page

2009-02-10 Thread Avraham Makeler
On Wed, Feb 11, 2009 at 9:52 AM, Avraham Makeler wrote: > >> Is the table defined with too many rows for the page? > Yes, I should have mentioned, the table is just longer than will fit in a > single page. > > (I had already collapsed into bed when I remembered that I had forgotten to > say that;

RE: Hedaing2TOC not showing correct

2009-02-10 Thread Nidhi Bansal
Yes, you are right. Can you please suggest me how to resolve the issue? Whenever I update my book, problem of tab character emerges. I have to manually remove the tab character. Regards, Nidhi Original Message- From: Linda G. Gallagher [mailto:lin...@techcomplus.com] Sent: Wednesday, Fe

Framemaker SDK and Framescript

2009-02-10 Thread Brewster, Christopher C
I'm a long-time Word user and have written countless large and small programs with Word VBA. Many are to add functionality to the program and many others are to perform such tasks as format conversion. I'm unclear if there's an equivalent for Framemaker. I'd like to hear from users of the SDK and F

Bylaws template for FM 8

2009-02-10 Thread Joe Malin
Hi! Looking for a bylaws template for FM 8. Is someone willing to share for free? -- Joe Malin Information Engineer Google Sent from: Mountain view Ca United States. ___ You are currently subscribed to Framers as arch...@mail-archive.com. Send list

New topic_ Converting Word to FMKR

2009-02-10 Thread Art Campbell
And once you have it in Frame, be sure to clean up the hidden Word characters by saving as MIF, opening, and saving that over the original FM file. It'll save you some angst later on. Art Art Campbell art.campbell at gmail.com "... In my opinion, there's nothing in this world be

Table leaves a blank page and jumps to start at top of following page

2009-02-10 Thread John Posada
This is true of the first row and the second row combine to be more than a page and they are defined as "Keep with nexr". Otherwise, regardless of the number of rows, the first rwo should at least stick to the first page, unless that row itself is bigger than a page. BTW...understand that unlike

Table leaves a blank page and jumps to start at top of following page

2009-02-10 Thread Art Campbell
How large are the cells that start off the table? If there's lots of content in the cells, and they're configured to Keep With Next... they will. Lots of times, in order to allow page breaks, you need to manually break large cells into multiple smaller ones (and remove rules, so they appear to be

Table leaves a blank page and jumps to start at top of following page

2009-02-10 Thread John Posada
Are the styles applied to the contents of the cell defined as Keep with Next? The problem could be is that they keep keeping. On Tue, Feb 10, 2009 at 5:08 PM, Avraham Makeler wrote: > Hi all, > > I have a table where the whole table jumps to start at the page that follows > the table's insertion

Bylaws template for FM 8

2009-02-10 Thread Joe Malin
Hi! Looking for a bylaws template for FM 8. Is someone willing to share for free? -- Joe Malin Information Engineer Google Sent from: Mountain view Ca United States.

Hedaing2TOC not showing correct

2009-02-10 Thread Linda G. Gallagher
I'm not sure if I'm understanding the problem, but it may be a tab character that is in front of one of the heading2 paragraphs in your content. Be sure to turn on View > Text Symbols and look for a Tab character (looks something like this > ) in your content. ~ Linda G.

New topic_ Converting Word to FMKR

2009-02-10 Thread Combs, Richard
Susan Curtzwiler wrote: > A couple of weeks ago, I successfully used "Import by copy into document" > from Word 2007 to FMKR 7. > Today, all I get in the conversion box is a list of files to choose and > it does not include Word 2007 as a lone option, only Word for Windows > 6.0/7.0. > Then,

Framemaker SDK and Framescript

2009-02-10 Thread Brewster, Christopher C
I'm a long-time Word user and have written countless large and small programs with Word VBA. Many are to add functionality to the program and many others are to perform such tasks as format conversion. I'm unclear if there's an equivalent for Framemaker. I'd like to hear from users of the SDK and F

Table leaves a blank page and jumps to start at top of following page

2009-02-10 Thread Deirdre Reagan
Is the table defined with too many rows for the page? On 2/10/09, Avraham Makeler wrote: > Hi all, > > I have a table where the whole table jumps to start at the page that follows > the table's insertion page, so leaving a blank page. So the table's anchor > point is left at the top of the blank

Re: New topic_ Converting Word to FMKR

2009-02-10 Thread Art Campbell
And once you have it in Frame, be sure to clean up the hidden Word characters by saving as MIF, opening, and saving that over the original FM file. It'll save you some angst later on. Art Art Campbell art.campb...@gmail.com "... In my opinion, there's nothing in this world beats

RE: Hedaing2TOC not showing correct

2009-02-10 Thread Linda G. Gallagher
I'm not sure if I'm understanding the problem, but it may be a tab character that is in front of one of the heading2 paragraphs in your content. Be sure to turn on View > Text Symbols and look for a Tab character (looks something like this > ) in your content. ~ Linda G.

RE: New topic_ Converting Word to FMKR

2009-02-10 Thread Combs, Richard
Susan Curtzwiler wrote: > A couple of weeks ago, I successfully used "Import by copy into document" > from Word 2007 to FMKR 7. > Today, all I get in the conversion box is a list of files to choose and > it does not include Word 2007 as a lone option, only Word for Windows > 6.0/7.0. > Then,

Table leaves a blank page and jumps to start at top of following page

2009-02-10 Thread Combs, Richard
Avraham Makeler wrote: > I have a table where the whole table jumps to start at the page that > follows > the table's insertion page, so leaving a blank page. So the table's anchor > point is left at the top of the blank page, and the actual table itself > starts at the top of the next page. > >

New topic_ Converting Word to FMKR

2009-02-10 Thread Susan Curtzwiler
Hi All A couple of weeks ago, I successfully used "Import by copy into document" from Word 2007 to FMKR 7. Today, all I get in the conversion box is a list of files to choose and it does not include Word 2007 as a lone option, only Word for Windows 6.0/7.0. Then, I get an error message: T

RE: Changed a format's tab stop & imported to 2nd doc--but 2nd doc's tabstop doesn't change

2009-02-10 Thread Robert Shelton
> -Original Message- > From: framers-boun...@lists.frameusers.com > [mailto:framers-boun...@lists.frameusers.com] On Behalf Of > cewi...@aep.com > > Hello all, > > I've got a FM book with several documents in it. In document > A, I changed a tab stop in my Header paragraph > format--i

RE: Frame reference book and Word --> FrameMaker

2009-02-10 Thread Jared Crawford
Hi, Sue. My FrameMaker training included Adobe's Classroom in a Book ( http://tinyurl.com/b3moea ), and FrameMaker's Help system. The Classroom in a Book series is excellent because it's a tutorial that forces you to bump into functionality that you might not otherwise be aware of. It comes wit

Hedaing2TOC not showing correct

2009-02-10 Thread Nidhi Bansal
Hi, I am facing problem with my Heading2TOC. Whenever I build my TOC in FrameMaker few of the heading2TOC is not showing correctly. It is in the format ... While few of the heading2TOC is coming correctly. I have tried with increasing my Border Width as my TOC is in border. Also changed

RE: Table leaves a blank page and jumps to start at top of following page

2009-02-10 Thread Combs, Richard
Avraham Makeler wrote: > I have a table where the whole table jumps to start at the page that > follows > the table's insertion page, so leaving a blank page. So the table's anchor > point is left at the top of the blank page, and the actual table itself > starts at the top of the next page. > >

Re: Table leaves a blank page and jumps to start at top of following page

2009-02-10 Thread John Posada
This is true of the first row and the second row combine to be more than a page and they are defined as "Keep with nexr". Otherwise, regardless of the number of rows, the first rwo should at least stick to the first page, unless that row itself is bigger than a page. BTW...understand that unlike

Re: Table leaves a blank page and jumps to start at top of following page

2009-02-10 Thread Art Campbell
How large are the cells that start off the table? If there's lots of content in the cells, and they're configured to Keep With Next... they will. Lots of times, in order to allow page breaks, you need to manually break large cells into multiple smaller ones (and remove rules, so they appear to be

Re: Table leaves a blank page and jumps to start at top of following page

2009-02-10 Thread Deirdre Reagan
Is the table defined with too many rows for the page? On 2/10/09, Avraham Makeler wrote: > Hi all, > > I have a table where the whole table jumps to start at the page that follows > the table's insertion page, so leaving a blank page. So the table's anchor > point is left at the top of the blank

Re: Table leaves a blank page and jumps to start at top of following page

2009-02-10 Thread John Posada
Are the styles applied to the contents of the cell defined as Keep with Next? The problem could be is that they keep keeping. On Tue, Feb 10, 2009 at 5:08 PM, Avraham Makeler wrote: > Hi all, > > I have a table where the whole table jumps to start at the page that follows > the table's insertion

Table leaves a blank page and jumps to start at top of following page

2009-02-10 Thread Avraham Makeler
Hi all, I have a table where the whole table jumps to start at the page that follows the table's insertion page, so leaving a blank page. So the table's anchor point is left at the top of the blank page, and the actual table itself starts at the top of the next page. What is going wrong? Thanks,

Getting earlier version of FM

2009-02-10 Thread qui...@airmail.net
I think that you should find out if they are creating SGML/XML files. If they are, then you need only save in that format. Saving in FM binary format wouldn't be necessary. If they are using FM binary then you can save backwards, or as MIF. Again if they are working in structured formats then

Changed a format's tab stop & imported to 2nd doc--but 2nd doc's tabstop doesn't change

2009-02-10 Thread Robert Shelton
> -Original Message- > From: framers-bounces at lists.frameusers.com > [mailto:framers-bounces at lists.frameusers.com] On Behalf Of > cewinch at aep.com > > Hello all, > > I've got a FM book with several documents in it. In document > A, I changed a tab stop in my Header paragraph >

RE: PDF to Word Conversion

2009-02-10 Thread Dov Isaacs
For the record, I NEVER said that PDF was designed to create manuals only for printing, but rather, that it is indeed a "final form file format." That implies neither just printing nor just viewing. It does imply a fairly static document layout, though, with the possibility of limited interactivity

PDF to Word Conversion

2009-02-10 Thread Dov Isaacs
For the record, I NEVER said that PDF was designed to create manuals only for printing, but rather, that it is indeed a "final form file format." That implies neither just printing nor just viewing. It does imply a fairly static document layout, though, with the possibility of limited interactivity

Hedaing2TOC not showing correct

2009-02-10 Thread Nidhi Bansal
Hi, I am facing problem with my Heading2TOC. Whenever I build my TOC in FrameMaker few of the heading2TOC is not showing correctly. It is in the format ... While few of the heading2TOC is coming correctly. I have tried with increasing my Border Width as my TOC is in border. Also changed

RE: PDF to Word Conversion

2009-02-10 Thread Diane Gaskill
Hi all, I normally would never contradict Jeremy or Dov, but I don't think it's fair to say that PDF is designed to create manuals only for printing. In the olden days, yes, but not now. We provide all our docs in PDF to our customers, but we designed our manuals to be used primarily on line. W

PDF to Word Conversion

2009-02-10 Thread Diane Gaskill
Hi all, I normally would never contradict Jeremy or Dov, but I don't think it's fair to say that PDF is designed to create manuals only for printing. In the olden days, yes, but not now. We provide all our docs in PDF to our customers, but we designed our manuals to be used primarily on line. W

Getting earlier version of FM

2009-02-10 Thread Art Campbell
Yes, that's all that should be required, with the provisio that 8 features that weren't in 6 (such as unicode support) are going to be inoperative if anyone should open it in 6 again. My own personal disclaimer: I'm just talking about file formats here, not SGML / XML / other structure elements tha

Getting earlier version of FM

2009-02-10 Thread Brewster, Christopher C
The project specification says Framemaker 6 + SGML. If FM 8 can handle this, that would be great. Would it only involve using "save as" instead of "save" so that I can specify the older file type? Chris -Original Message- From: Art Campbell [mailto:art.campb...@gmail.com] Sent: Tuesday, F

New topic_ Converting Word to FMKR

2009-02-10 Thread Susan Curtzwiler
Hi All A couple of weeks ago, I successfully used "Import by copy into document" from Word 2007 to FMKR 7. Today, all I get in the conversion box is a list of files to choose and it does not include Word 2007 as a lone option, only Word for Windows 6.0/7.0. Then, I get an error message: T

Getting earlier version of FM

2009-02-10 Thread Art Campbell
I suppose this is a dangerous question, but why do you think you need 6? FM 8 in Structured mode should open the 6 files nicely. And you should be able to back-save to a MIF format that 6 could (probably) open. Other than that, eBay. Art Art Campbell art.campbell at gmail.com ".

Getting earlier version of FM

2009-02-10 Thread Brewster, Christopher C
I've been a sporadic user of Framemaker but trying to learn more about it in case a job pops up that needs it. I have version 8 as part of the Adobe Technical Communication Suite. Well, a job did pop up, but it needs version 6 + SGML. Since I'm a licensed user, is it possible to get an earlier vers

Re: Getting earlier version of FM

2009-02-10 Thread quills
I think that you should find out if they are creating SGML/XML files. If they are, then you need only save in that format. Saving in FM binary format wouldn't be necessary. If they are using FM binary then you can save backwards, or as MIF. Again if they are working in structured formats then

Getting earlier version of FM

2009-02-10 Thread Peter Gold
Hi, Christopher: On Tue, Feb 10, 2009 at 10:58 AM, Brewster, Christopher C wrote: > I've been a sporadic user of Framemaker but trying to learn more about > it in case a job pops up that needs it. I have version 8 as part of the > Adobe Technical Communication Suite. Well, a job did pop up, but i

Re: PDF to Word Conversion

2009-02-10 Thread Neeraj Jain
I completely agree with Ankur. Solid PDF Tools is perfect for converting up to 100 pages documents. We are using it in our organization. However, it fails miserably when asked to cover longish and complex documents. Smile lets you release negat

PDF to Word Conversion

2009-02-10 Thread Neeraj Jain
I completely agree with Ankur. Solid PDF Tools is perfect for converting up to 100 pages documents. We are using it in our organization. However, it fails miserably when asked to cover longish and complex documents. Smile lets you release negati

Re: Getting earlier version of FM

2009-02-10 Thread Peter Gold
Hi, Christopher: On Tue, Feb 10, 2009 at 10:58 AM, Brewster, Christopher C wrote: > I've been a sporadic user of Framemaker but trying to learn more about > it in case a job pops up that needs it. I have version 8 as part of the > Adobe Technical Communication Suite. Well, a job did pop up, but i

PDF to Word Conversion

2009-02-10 Thread Ankur Srivastava
Hi Charlene, I have used Solid PDF Tools converter for converting PDF to MS Word. This has yielded excellent results in terms of retaining the formatting, table and figure conversion, as well as editability. However, i am not sure for large docs extending up to 2000 pages, as is your case. HTH..

Re: Getting earlier version of FM

2009-02-10 Thread Art Campbell
Yes, that's all that should be required, with the provisio that 8 features that weren't in 6 (such as unicode support) are going to be inoperative if anyone should open it in 6 again. My own personal disclaimer: I'm just talking about file formats here, not SGML / XML / other structure elements tha

Frame reference book and Word --> FrameMaker

2009-02-10 Thread Jared Crawford
Hi, Sue. My FrameMaker training included Adobe's Classroom in a Book ( http://tinyurl.com/b3moea ), and FrameMaker's Help system. The Classroom in a Book series is excellent because it's a tutorial that forces you to bump into functionality that you might not otherwise be aware of. It comes wit

RE: Getting earlier version of FM

2009-02-10 Thread Brewster, Christopher C
The project specification says Framemaker 6 + SGML. If FM 8 can handle this, that would be great. Would it only involve using "save as" instead of "save" so that I can specify the older file type? Chris -Original Message- From: Art Campbell [mailto:art.campb...@gmail.com] Sent: Tuesday, F

Re: Getting earlier version of FM

2009-02-10 Thread Art Campbell
I suppose this is a dangerous question, but why do you think you need 6? FM 8 in Structured mode should open the 6 files nicely. And you should be able to back-save to a MIF format that 6 could (probably) open. Other than that, eBay. Art Art Campbell art.campb...@gmail.com "...

Getting earlier version of FM

2009-02-10 Thread Brewster, Christopher C
I've been a sporadic user of Framemaker but trying to learn more about it in case a job pops up that needs it. I have version 8 as part of the Adobe Technical Communication Suite. Well, a job did pop up, but it needs version 6 + SGML. Since I'm a licensed user, is it possible to get an earlier vers