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Because you are posting this question to frameusers, I assume you are using
Framemaker as your authoring tool.
You can do this in several ways:
If the graphics don't require additional editting, in Frame you can open the
Graphics tools, select the anchored frame, select the Pen Pattern in the
I apologize for the OT nature of this question, but I wasn't sure where else to
ask this question.
I have some line drawings of our product to include in a small hardware guide.
I want to outline the illustrations in a heavier line, but I don't know how to
do it in a simple, efficient,
I should have offered more information:
I want to create an outline to the actual object similar to the box in this
illustration: http://www.khulsey.com/3_point_perspective_fig10.jpeg
The illustration was created in SolidWorks, which I then received from the
engineer in PDF format. I
Since you said that you have Illustrator available. Open the SolidWorks PDF
in Illustrator. Illustrator should recognize it as a vector image.
In Illustrator, select the objects you want and increase the line width to
the desired thickness.
Export it as JPEG and you should have what you are
I don't think the engineer saved it as a vectored drawing, because I can't seem
to select individual parts of the illustration. I'll see if he can do that, and
then I'll try it in Illustrator again.
Thanks, folks.
Nadine
--- On Wed, 5/6/09, David Spreadbury dspre...@yahoo.com wrote:
From:
Responding to Nadine, David Spreadbury wrote:
Since you said that you have Illustrator available. Open the SolidWorks PDF
in Illustrator. Illustrator should recognize it as a vector image.
In Illustrator, select the objects you want and increase the line width to
the desired thickness.
Ask the engineer to save it as WMF. That keeps it as a vector graphic
and you can relatively easily edit it in most drawing programs. (After
you open the WMF you need to ungroup it before you can edit it.) If the
engineer has some patience, ask him or her to save it in multiple
formats in case
If you can't select individual lines from the pdf in illustrator, try
using the Live Trace tool (technical illustration preset) to create a
new vector version of the illustration. Expand the result and you can
select and modify the stroke of individual lines.
Live Trace may be CS3 and newer
David Spreadbury wrote:
Since you said that you have Illustrator available. Open the SolidWorks PDF
in Illustrator. Illustrator should recognize it as a vector image.
In Illustrator, select the objects you want and increase the line width to
the desired thickness.
Export it as JPEG and
Fred,
I was going with what the original poster mentioned, assuming the customer
was specifying JPEG. I recently ran into this issue and am not having any
problems with the Illustrator-to-JPEG graphics.
Personally, I would opt for GIF, but not from Illustrator. I would export
the Illustrator file
I'd open the supplied PDF in Illustrator, select the object (you may
need to select lines and create an object), then bump the line width.
Or Live trace may work. Then SaveAs to create a new PDF.
As Fred and others pointed out, avoid JPG at all costs. You're already
in one of the most correct
Hello fellow Framers,
I've upgraded to FM9 recently and I've found an odd quirk. I wonder if
anyone else has seen the paragraph designer get stuck on a single panel?
I can be working along just fine, and suddenly the paragraph designer
refuses to switch views between Basic, Default Font,
I haven't used table footnotes in ages, but I have a need for them in a
current document.
Am I losing my mind, or have they always appeared only at the *end* of
the table, even when it spans pages? Pretty darn inconvenient if you've
got a footnote on the first page of the table and have to go 2
Hi Jen,
Yes, I've downloaded both FM9 updates. The second one successfully
fixed the missing Building Blocks, but this paragraph designer bug
persists.
Susan Corcoran
Technical Writer III
Honeywell Scanning Mobility
-Original Message-
From: Jenny Greenleaf
One answer is to not use the Table Footnote feature per se.
Instead, create a footer row (with spanned cells) and put autonumbered notes
inside it. Then in your table cells, insert cross-references to the numbers of
the notes. This approach allows you to reference the same note from multiple
Thanks.
Fred Berny's explanations remind me why I quit using table footnotes
years ago, and rewriting the documentation to avoid them.
Now I gotta fix these... Grrr Several tables in several files.
-Carla
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I don't know if this will resolve your specific issue, but I find that I must
reboot my computer at the end of the day every day; otherwise, FM (and other
Adobe products) tend to act in weird and unpredictable ways.
Nadine
--- On Wed, 5/6/09, Corcoran, Susan susan.corco...@honeywell.com
Hi Carla,
I had this problem recently. Here's how I 'faked' it.
I created a 'real' footnote reference in text outside the table, so the
footnote text appears at the bottom of the page with the other 'real'
footnotes. Then I 'hid' the footnote reference by making it white and very
small. Lastly I
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I apologize for the OT nature of this question, but I wasn't sure where else to
ask this question.
I have some line drawings of our product to include in a small hardware guide.
I want to outline the illustrations in a heavier line, but I don't know how to
do it in a simple, efficient,
Because you are posting this question to frameusers, I assume you are using
Framemaker as your authoring tool.
?
You can do this in several ways:
If the graphics don't require additional editting, in Frame you can open the
Graphics tools, select the anchored frame, select the Pen Pattern in the
I should have offered more information:
I want to create an outline to the actual object similar to the "box" in this
illustration: http://www.khulsey.com/3_point_perspective_fig10.jpeg
The illustration was created in SolidWorks, which I then received from the
engineer in PDF format. I
Since you said that you have Illustrator available. Open the SolidWorks PDF
in Illustrator. Illustrator should recognize it as a vector image.
In Illustrator, select the objects you want and increase the line width to
the desired thickness.
Export it as JPEG and you should have what you are
I don't think the engineer saved it as a vectored drawing, because I can't seem
to select individual parts of the illustration. I'll see if he can do that, and
then I'll try it in Illustrator again.
Thanks, folks.
Nadine
--- On Wed, 5/6/09, David Spreadbury wrote:
> From: David Spreadbury
Responding to Nadine, David Spreadbury wrote:
> Since you said that you have Illustrator available. Open the SolidWorks PDF
> in Illustrator. Illustrator should recognize it as a vector image.
>
> In Illustrator, select the objects you want and increase the line width to
> the desired
Ask the engineer to save it as WMF. That keeps it as a vector graphic
and you can relatively easily edit it in most drawing programs. (After
you open the WMF you need to ungroup it before you can edit it.) If the
engineer has some patience, ask him or her to save it in multiple
formats in case
Thanks, Shmuel.
You guys are awesome (and patient).
Nadine
--- On Wed, 5/6/09, Shmuel Wolfson wrote:
> From: Shmuel Wolfson
> Subject: Re: OT: Technical illustrations - Outlining a line drawing
> To: generic668 at yahoo.ca, "Framers"
> Received: Wednesday, May 6, 2009, 10:50 AM
> Ask the
If you can't select individual lines from the pdf in illustrator, try
using the Live Trace tool (technical illustration preset) to create a
new vector version of the illustration. Expand the result and you can
select and modify the stroke of individual lines.
Live Trace may be CS3 and newer
David Spreadbury wrote:
> Since you said that you have Illustrator available. Open the SolidWorks PDF
> in Illustrator. Illustrator should recognize it as a vector image.
>
> In Illustrator, select the objects you want and increase the line width to
> the desired thickness.
>
> Export it as JPEG
Fred,
I was going with what the original poster mentioned, assuming the customer
was specifying JPEG. I recently ran into this issue and am not having any
problems with the Illustrator-to-JPEG graphics.
Personally, I would opt for GIF, but not from Illustrator. I would export
the Illustrator file
I'd open the supplied PDF in Illustrator, select the object (you may
need to select lines and create an object), then bump the line width.
Or Live trace may work. Then SaveAs to create a new PDF.
As Fred and others pointed out, avoid JPG at all costs. You're already
in one of the most correct
Hello fellow Framers,
I've upgraded to FM9 recently and I've found an odd quirk. I wonder if
anyone else has seen the paragraph designer get stuck on a single panel?
I can be working along just fine, and suddenly the paragraph designer
refuses to switch views between Basic, Default Font,
I haven't used table footnotes in ages, but I have a need for them in a
current document.
Am I losing my mind, or have they always appeared only at the *end* of
the table, even when it spans pages? Pretty darn inconvenient if you've
got a footnote on the first page of the table and have to go 2
Hi Jen,
Yes, I've downloaded both FM9 updates. The second one successfully
fixed the missing Building Blocks, but this paragraph designer bug
persists.
Susan Corcoran
Technical Writer III
Honeywell Scanning & Mobility
> -Original Message-
> From: Jenny Greenleaf [mailto:jgreenleaf
One answer is to not use the Table Footnote feature per se.
Instead, create a footer row (with spanned cells) and put autonumbered notes
inside it. Then in your table cells, insert cross-references to the numbers of
the notes. This approach allows you to reference the same note from multiple
Hi Carla,
AFAIK, table footnotes have always behaved that way. We also have tables
in our manuals that span several pages and all of the footnotes are at
the bottom of the table. My big pet peeve is when the table is long
enough that the footnotes flip to the top of the next page, without
taking
Thanks.
Fred & Berny's explanations remind me why I quit using table footnotes
years ago, and rewriting the documentation to avoid them.
Now I gotta fix these... Grrr Several tables in several files.
-Carla
- CONFIDENTIAL-
This email and any files transmitted with it are confidential, and
I don't know if this will resolve your specific issue, but I find that I must
reboot my computer at the end of the day every day; otherwise, FM (and other
Adobe products) tend to act in weird and unpredictable ways.
Nadine
--- On Wed, 5/6/09, Corcoran, Susan wrote:
> From: Corcoran, Susan
Hi Carla,
I had this problem recently. Here's how I 'faked' it.
I created a 'real' footnote reference in text outside the table, so the
footnote text appears at the bottom of the page with the other 'real'
footnotes. Then I 'hid' the footnote reference by making it white and very
small. Lastly I
Hi All,
Has anyone any expertise in converting word docs to structured
framemaker. I have done a lot of converting unstructured frame to
structured frame using the conversion table and wondered whether I would
use the same process for word documents?
Thanks
Tracy
Good planets are hard
Hello everybody,
I just tried evaluating the Adobe Technical Communication Suite 2 and
found that RoboHelp 8 in particular did not produce consistent results.
I managed to corrupt every project I created only by continuously making
changes in the style mappings from FM to RH and then
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