hypertext command "message openfile" but keep first file open

2010-05-24 Thread Shlomo Perets
Yves, You wrote: >I'm trying to do the following: > >Insert a message client hypertext command in file A which opens file B. Both >files will be PDF documents (yes, I use PDF for presentations instead of >PowerPoint). > >I'm currently using the following command: >message openfile C:/temp/fileB.

Re: Sheeply docked at Linux FrameMaker

2010-05-24 Thread Alan T Litchfield
On 25/05/2010, at 1:56 PM, Hedley Finger wrote: I was just checking Adobe for updates to FM8 when I discovered that FM7.2 and FM8 are available for Unix (yep, you read that right). I thought all the Unix versions had been ditched a while ago (overcome by nostalgic tears for FM4 on HP-UX

Sheeply docked at Linux FrameMaker

2010-05-24 Thread Hedley Finger
I was just checking Adobe for updates to FM8 when I discovered that FM7.2 and FM8 are available for Unix (yep, you read that right). I thought all the Unix versions had been ditched a while ago (overcome by nostalgic tears for FM4 on HP-UX). Is this just Solaris or Oraclis or whatever, or c

Can the spelling checker be trusted?

2010-05-24 Thread Mike Wickham
> Starting from a file at the beginning of the book, did Spell Check for > entire book. Did not find error. > Once FM has checked a paragraph, it marks it so that time will not be wasted checking it again, unless the paragraph itself changes. So if the word is included in a paragraph that has a

Re: Can the spelling checker be trusted?

2010-05-24 Thread Jenny Greenleaf
Great ideas, thank you. Sadly I did do the option to reset all paragraphs. I even made sure to tear the pod away from the side so the sub-pod dialog might work. The paragraph is set to US English. There are no overrides on it. The word can't be in a dictionary since the spelling checker co

Can the spelling checker be trusted?

2010-05-24 Thread Jenny Greenleaf
Great ideas, thank you. Sadly I did do the option to reset all paragraphs. I even made sure to tear the pod away from the side so the sub-pod dialog might work. The paragraph is set to US English. There are no overrides on it. The word can't be in a dictionary since the spelling checker co

hypertext command "message openfile" but keep first file open

2010-05-24 Thread Yves Barbion
Hi group I'm trying to do the following: Insert a message client hypertext command in file A which opens file B. Both files will be PDF documents (yes, I use PDF for presentations instead of PowerPoint). I'm currently using the following command: message openfile C:/temp/fileB.pdf The command

Re: Can the spelling checker be trusted?

2010-05-24 Thread Mike Wickham
Starting from a file at the beginning of the book, did Spell Check for entire book. Did not find error. Once FM has checked a paragraph, it marks it so that time will not be wasted checking it again, unless the paragraph itself changes. So if the word is included in a paragraph that has alre

Re: Can the spelling checker be trusted?

2010-05-24 Thread Jenny Greenleaf
It does! It says it's name.no wait, this is Monday. Drat. I tried putting the cursor in various places around the miscreant word. It finds it only if it is in the same paragraph. The paragraph is only four lines long, but breaks across two pages. The cursor must be before the word, but not

Can the spelling checker be trusted?

2010-05-24 Thread Jenny Greenleaf
It does! It says it's name.no wait, this is Monday. Drat. I tried putting the cursor in various places around the miscreant word. It finds it only if it is in the same paragraph. The paragraph is only four lines long, but breaks across two pages. The cursor must be before the word, but not

Re: Can the spelling checker be trusted?

2010-05-24 Thread Alan T Litchfield
Didn't happen to have white stripes and go by the name of Freddie did it? Could explain explain the resurgence ;) Alan On 25/05/2010, at 10:35 AM, Scott Prentice wrote: Hi Jenny... This brings up my memory of "the evil dot." Back in 1995 or 6(?) (FM 4 or 5) I ran into a file that exhibit

RE: SAving frame files with numbers at the end

2010-05-24 Thread Lou Martindale
I had this problem earlier this spring. I believe I was using Frame 6.0 at the time. I found that renaming the file by just removing the number suffix I could open the file, but had missing graphics. After long, agonizing trial and error by my IT guy, we found out it was not corrupted graphics, it

Re: Can the spelling checker be trusted?

2010-05-24 Thread Scott Prentice
Hi Jenny... This brings up my memory of "the evil dot." Back in 1995 or 6(?) (FM 4 or 5) I ran into a file that exhibited similar strange behavior. I could search (forward) for a word that I knew was in the file, and it would never find it. But, if I searched backwards it found the word withou

Can the spelling checker be trusted?

2010-05-24 Thread Scott Prentice
Hi Jenny... This brings up my memory of "the evil dot." Back in 1995 or 6(?) (FM 4 or 5) I ran into a file that exhibited similar strange behavior. I could search (forward) for a word that I knew was in the file, and it would never find it. But, if I searched backwards it found the word without

RE: Can the spelling checker be trusted?

2010-05-24 Thread Owen, Clint
We are still on FM 7.0, so this might not be applicable. We are also still on Win XP The behavior of spell checker described below sounds a lot like something that used to happen when I was using spell check and find-and-replace over and over on a very large document with lots of instances of the

Can the spelling checker be trusted?

2010-05-24 Thread Owen, Clint
We are still on FM 7.0, so this might not be applicable. We are also still on Win XP The behavior of spell checker described below sounds a lot like something that used to happen when I was using spell check and find-and-replace over and over on a very large document with lots of instances of the

Can the spelling checker be trusted?

2010-05-24 Thread Jenny Greenleaf
FM 9, fully patched. Running in a VM under Fusion on a MacBook Pro. Yikes! I was preparing a book for PDF production when I noticed a spelling error: include was spelled "imclude". I knew I had spell-checked the book numerous times and didn't understand why this was still there. I tried a few

Can the spelling checker be trusted?

2010-05-24 Thread Jenny Greenleaf
FM 9, fully patched. Running in a VM under Fusion on a MacBook Pro. Yikes! I was preparing a book for PDF production when I noticed a spelling error: include was spelled "imclude". I knew I had spell-checked the book numerous times and didn't understand why this was still there. I tried a few

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2010-05-24 Thread Lief Erickson
Hi Mary-- You can find all of the keyboard shortcuts for FM9 here: http://help.adobe.com/en_US/FrameMaker/9.0/Using/WSd817046a44e105e21e63e3d11ab7f7862b-7ffd.html Although some things have changed a bit, you can still use keyboard shortcuts for a lot of your work in FM9. -Lief -Original

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2010-05-24 Thread Lief Erickson
Hi Mary-- You can find all of the keyboard shortcuts for FM9 here: http://help.adobe.com/en_US/FrameMaker/9.0/Using/WSd817046a44e105e21e63e3d11ab7f7862b-7ffd.html Although some things have changed a bit, you can still use keyboard shortcuts for a lot of your work in FM9. -Lief -Original

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2010-05-24 Thread Mary Sheahan
Hi folks-- Is there a keyboard method to close pods&panels? To return them to the doc?  Count me in the long list of people with mixed feelings about FM9. I'm a long-time FM user who dropped offlist a few years ago; I'm back now that we finally got budgeted for an upgrade...big change. I love

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2010-05-24 Thread Mary Sheahan
Hi folks-- Is there a keyboard method to close pods&panels??To return them to the doc?? Count me in the long list of people with mixed feelings about FM9. I'm a long-time FM user who dropped offlist a few years ago; I'm back now that we finally got budgeted for an upgrade...big change. I love

Re: hypertext command "message openfile" but keep first file open

2010-05-24 Thread Shlomo Perets
Yves, You wrote: I'm trying to do the following: Insert a message client hypertext command in file A which opens file B. Both files will be PDF documents (yes, I use PDF for presentations instead of PowerPoint). I'm currently using the following command: message openfile C:/temp/fileB.pdf

SAving frame files with numbers at the end

2010-05-24 Thread Orly Zimmerman
HI Gillian, I had this problem with files that were created with older versions of visio, that were *embedded* in my fm file. I had this particular problem especially when I tried changing the conditional text settings. In one of the individual files, I had isolated the problematic figure and t

SAving frame files with numbers at the end

2010-05-24 Thread Lou Martindale
I had this problem earlier this spring. I believe I was using Frame 6.0 at the time. I found that renaming the file by just removing the number suffix I could open the file, but had missing graphics. After long, agonizing trial and error by my IT guy, we found out it was not corrupted graphics, it

hypertext command "message openfile" but keep first file open

2010-05-24 Thread Yves Barbion
Hi group I'm trying to do the following: Insert a message client hypertext command in file A which opens file B. Both files will be PDF documents (yes, I use PDF for presentations instead of PowerPoint). I'm currently using the following command: message openfile C:/temp/fileB.pdf The command

Frame 9 Spell Check Anomalies

2010-05-24 Thread Spectrum Writing
I, too, have noticed these "sliced" up suggestions in FM9 as the default suggestions. It's a very frequent annoyance with the FM9 spell checking functions and I have never encountered this before until FM9. I wouldn't mind a little insight to it myself. TVB Tammy Van Boening Owner/Principal Spect

RE: Frame 9 Spell Check Anomalies

2010-05-24 Thread Spectrum Writing
I, too, have noticed these "sliced" up suggestions in FM9 as the default suggestions. It's a very frequent annoyance with the FM9 spell checking functions and I have never encountered this before until FM9. I wouldn't mind a little insight to it myself. TVB Tammy Van Boening Owner/Principal Spect

RE: SAving frame files with numbers at the end

2010-05-24 Thread Orly Zimmerman
HI Gillian, I had this problem with files that were created with older versions of visio, that were *embedded* in my fm file. I had this particular problem especially when I tried changing the conditional text settings. In one of the individual files, I had isolated the problematic figure and t