RE: Book pagination confusion

2011-03-24 Thread Fred Ridder
The behavior you describe is actually exactly appropriate for the way the pages in bound books were traditionally numbered. The whole point of the convention of using lower-case Roman numbers for the front matter was to have a different, independent numbering scheme that would not affect the

Recommended online tutorials for FrameMaker 10

2011-03-24 Thread Nancy Allison
Hi, all. A colleague is learning FrameMaker for the very first time. She has worked only in Word before. She will be learning FrameMeker 10 on a Windows 7 system. In April she will have 2 days of training, but she would like to get started earlier. Adobe doesn't seem to have a basic

Re: Strange command names in FM-10

2011-03-24 Thread Beverly Robinson
In framers Digest, Vol 65, Issue 23, Chantel Brathwaite wrote, If it isn't fixed, the response usually is - grammar fixes are low priority - even if the fix might take 5 minutes to make. Perhaps the low priority assumption might be at work here. I've had some success turning the low priority

Cross References not working in PDF

2011-03-24 Thread Berman, Robert
All, Our standard documentation is created in Unstructured FrameMaker 9 and printed to Adobe PDF. We are noticing that some of the cross references in the PDF file are not working. These could be cross references to figures, tables, or other sections within the manual. When we look at the

Generating a single FM document with conditional text from several documents

2011-03-24 Thread Wei Jiang (PT_CN)
Dear Framers, I was just wonder if this is any way to tool to compete this job: I have several FM documents which were edited from a same FM document, for several similar products, and I want o create a single FM document with conditional text for all these products. Can I? TIA! Wei

RE: Book pagination confusion

2011-03-24 Thread Tim Pann
Thank you for your insights Fred. Very helpful. The back story here is that I'm the Technical Trainer at my company, and the group I reside in is separate from the Technical Writers. In the process of generating training content I always write fully published instructional guides to distribute

Missing text insets that aren't missing

2011-03-24 Thread LG Lists
All, FM 8 (unstructured) Win XP I've created a book by copying over the files from another similar book, renaming the book, TOC, and IX files, then changing the text to suit the new book. Both the original book and the new one use lots of text insets. In the new book, I've replaced every

DPI Recommendation for Images

2011-03-24 Thread Alan T Litchfield
My immediate reaction was, read the archives. This topic has been rehashed many, many times in the past years. However, upon reflection the proposals beg a question (from me anyway). Why do you think you ought to be able to dictate what level of zoom the reader will be using in whatever pdf

Book pagination confusion

2011-03-24 Thread Alan T Litchfield
What Richard said has been my experience also. Never once have I had to continue numbering but in a different format. However on occasion I have had to start numbering with odd (as in in non-usual) numbering, especially when lawyers get involved. However... On 24/03/2011, at 5:47 PM, Combs,

Book pagination confusion

2011-03-24 Thread Fred Ridder
the number format? Very odd. I don?t like that Frame forces me to set Chap1?s first page at 7 rather than looking at the previous file. Tim -- next part -- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://lists.frameusers.com/pipermail/framers/attachments/20110324/00c95

Recommended online tutorials for FrameMaker 10

2011-03-24 Thread Nancy Allison
Hi, all. A colleague is learning FrameMaker for the very first time. She has worked only in Word before. She will be learning FrameMeker 10 on a Windows 7 system. In April she will have 2 days of training, but she would like to get started earlier. Adobe doesn't seem to have a basic

Strange command names in FM-10

2011-03-24 Thread Beverly Robinson
In framers Digest, Vol 65, Issue 23, Chantel Brathwaite wrote, " If it isn't fixed, the response usually is - grammar fixes are low priority - even if the fix might take 5 minutes to make. Perhaps the "low priority" assumption might be at work here." I've had some success turning the "low

Cross References not working in PDF

2011-03-24 Thread Berman, Robert
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Generating a single FM document with conditional text from several documents

2011-03-24 Thread Wei Jiang (PT_CN)
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Book pagination confusion

2011-03-24 Thread Tim Pann
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Missing text insets that aren't missing

2011-03-24 Thread LG Lists
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