Updating individual TOC's

2010-09-08 Thread Wei Jiang (PT_CN)
Hello Fellow Framers, I have a FrameMaker book which contains over 20 chapters. Each chapter appears as a standalone FM files in the book, and is accompanied with a TOC file which is generated separately and also appears in the book file. I know how to update the generated TOC file for

RE: Round-tripping Chinese XML

2010-09-08 Thread Wei Jiang (PT_CN)
Hello Morgan, Have you properly set up the support for Simplified Chinese on your OS, assuming it is not already localized in Simplified Chinese? I'm also curious about the workflow that your translator has used to create the Chinese FM files? (I use the MIF - S-Tagger - Font Mapper route, it

RE: Round-tripping Chinese XML

2010-09-08 Thread Hayward, Morgan (Bolton)
Hi Wei Jiang, We are investigating whether or not it is possible to exchange XML files with our translators and take on the formatting in FrameMaker ourselves. Our translators currently convert our FrameMaker files to MIF and run it through their translation software. They then take the result

RE: Round-tripping Chinese XML

2010-09-08 Thread Wei Jiang (PT_CN)
Now I know what you meant. It seems to be a font issue. You should use a Simplified Chinese font, such as SimSun/SongTi. If this font is not available, you can also try Arial Unicode MS, which is a catch-all font default to be installed on all versions of Windows OS. Wei -Original

Re: Disappearing conditions in x-refs

2010-09-08 Thread Danny Lombardi
Hi Rick, I hear you. We've been using conditions on xrefs for some time with no problems. All of other projects use them without a hitch, which leads me to believe this is some kind of file corruption. From our troubleshooting, we've noticed that it has something to do with the HiddenOnline

OT - count pages

2010-09-08 Thread Wim Hooghwinkel - idtp
Hi, We need to count pages in appr 700 word documents. Does anyone know of a tool that counts pages in a folderstructure (windows)? Kind regards, vriendelijke groet, Wim Hooghwinkel iDTP - Technical Communication Consultant Adobe Certified Expert (ACE) in FrameMaker tel.

RE: OT - count pages

2010-09-08 Thread Wim Hooghwinkel - iDTP
Thanks, it's a possibility, but there are estimated 35000 pages . Kind regards, Wim Hooghwinkel Consultant technical communication iDTP - www.idtp.eu Sent from mobile -origineel bericht- Onderwerp: RE: OT - count pages Van: Wei Jiang \(PT_CN\) jia...@polytrans.com.cn Datum: 08-09-2010

RE: Round-tripping Chinese XML

2010-09-08 Thread Combs, Richard
Hayward, Morgan (Bolton) wrote: We are investigating whether or not it is possible to exchange XML files with our translators and take on the formatting in FrameMaker ourselves. Our translators currently convert our FrameMaker files to MIF and run it through their translation software.

Color Profile Error When Trying to Print to PDF

2010-09-08 Thread Fei Min Lorente
A colleague of mine is unable to produce a PDF from a FrameMaker book. She's got FrameMaker 7.2 (with the patches) on Windows XP SP3. We've tried Print Book (checked Generate Acrobat Data and used the Adobe PDF printer), and Save As PDF, and print to PostScript and run it through Distiller, and

Updating individual TOC's

2010-09-08 Thread Wei Jiang (PT_CN)
Hello Fellow Framers, I have a FrameMaker book which contains over 20 chapters. Each chapter appears as a standalone FM files in the book, and is accompanied with a TOC file which is generated separately and also appears in the book file. I know how to update the generated TOC file for

Round-tripping Chinese XML

2010-09-08 Thread Wei Jiang (PT_CN)
Hello Morgan, Have you properly set up the support for Simplified Chinese on your OS, assuming it is not already localized in Simplified Chinese? I'm also curious about the workflow that your translator has used to create the Chinese FM files? (I use the MIF - S-Tagger - Font Mapper route, it

Round-tripping Chinese XML

2010-09-08 Thread Wei Jiang (PT_CN)
Now I know what you meant. It seems to be a font issue. You should use a Simplified Chinese font, such as SimSun/SongTi. If this font is not available, you can also try Arial Unicode MS, which is a catch-all font default to be installed on all versions of Windows OS. Wei -Original

OT - count pages

2010-09-08 Thread Wim Hooghwinkel - idtp
Hi, We need to count pages in appr 700 word documents. Does anyone know of a tool that counts pages in a folderstructure (windows)? Kind regards, vriendelijke groet, Wim Hooghwinkel iDTP - Technical Communication Consultant Adobe Certified Expert (ACE) in FrameMaker tel. +31652036811

OT - count pages

2010-09-08 Thread Wim Hooghwinkel - iDTP
Thanks, it's a possibility, but there are estimated 35000 pages . Kind regards, Wim Hooghwinkel Consultant technical communication iDTP - www.idtp.eu Sent from mobile -origineel bericht- Onderwerp: RE: OT - count pages Van: "Wei Jiang \(PT_CN\)" Datum: 08-09-2010 12:01 One possible way

Round-tripping Chinese XML

2010-09-08 Thread Combs, Richard
Hayward, Morgan (Bolton) wrote: > We are investigating whether or not it is possible to exchange XML files > with our translators and take on the formatting in FrameMaker ourselves. > Our translators currently convert our FrameMaker files to MIF and run it > through their translation software.

Color Profile Error When Trying to Print to PDF

2010-09-08 Thread Fei Min Lorente
A colleague of mine is unable to produce a PDF from a FrameMaker book. She's got FrameMaker 7.2 (with the patches) on Windows XP SP3. We've tried Print Book (checked Generate Acrobat Data and used the Adobe PDF printer), and Save As PDF, and print to PostScript and run it through Distiller, and

OT - count pages

2010-09-08 Thread Wei Jiang (PT_CN)
One possible way to do this is: you search and see all the documents, select them all and right click and select "Combine supported files in Acrobat". You will get a combined PDF file, whose page count you can easily see in Acrobat. I have assumed that you have Acrobat properly installed. Wei

Font problem with Windows 7

2010-09-08 Thread boe...@gedok.com
Hello, Framers, I'm using Framemaker 8 and 9 (all Patches applied) under Windows inside Parallels on the Mac. A client wants us now to transfer his manuals into chinese. With Framemaker under Windows XP (SP3) it was nearly impossible to get the chinese characters into Framemaker, although

Round-tripping Chinese XML

2010-09-08 Thread Gaghan, Steven P.
Hi Morgan, You need to specify the Character Encoding in the XML file and also the Display Encoding in FrameMaker. The Structure Application Developer Reference explains this on pages 24 and 25. http://help.adobe.com/en_US/FrameMaker/8.0/structapp_dev_ref.pdf The guide was written for Frame 8,

Round-tripping Chinese XML

2010-09-08 Thread Kevin Farwell
Hello Morgan and Richard, Formatting requires almost no language skills. I have formatted tens of thousands of pages in 30 or so languages, and have not needed a translator at my desk with me. As long as a linguist is accessible by marked up PDF, fax or even telephone, you can get all of your