Save FrameMaker 10 files to be read in Word

2012-04-18 Thread Andy Smith (WFL)
I've been told in the past that it's possible to export a FrameMaker file or book as a Word file. My client isn't very comfortable doing mark-ups on the PDFs I've been supplying him and he would rather work on a Word file so that he can edit the text and I can copy the edits back into Frame. I

FW: Save FrameMaker 10 files to be read in Word

2012-04-18 Thread Andy Smith (WFL)
Cancel that message. I've discovered that there is a different set of options when a file is open from when the book is open. Cheers Andy _ From: Andy Smith (WFL) [mailto:andy.sm...@wingedfeet.co.uk] Sent: 18 April 2012 15:23 To: 'framers@lists.frameusers.com' Subject: Save

Save FrameMaker 10 files to be read in Word

2012-04-18 Thread Andy Smith (WFL)
I've been told in the past that it's possible to export a FrameMaker file or book as a Word file. My client isn't very comfortable doing mark-ups on the PDFs I've been supplying him and he would rather work on a Word file so that he can edit the text and I can copy the edits back into Frame. I

FW: Save FrameMaker 10 files to be read in Word

2012-04-18 Thread Andy Smith (WFL)
Cancel that message. I've discovered that there is a different set of options when a file is open from when the book is open. Cheers Andy _ From: Andy Smith (WFL) [mailto:andy.sm...@wingedfeet.co.uk] Sent: 18 April 2012 15:23 To: 'framers at lists.frameusers.com' Subject: Save

RE: Numbering problems in a book

2012-04-05 Thread Andy Smith (WFL)
Thanks for this input and to the other replies that came back to me direct. You're right Fred, I was working on the format current page of total pages and I have since found out about having to make a cross reference to the last document in the book. (As an aside, I'm stunned that a piece if

Numbering problems in a book

2012-04-05 Thread Andy Smith (WFL)
Thanks for this input and to the other replies that came back to me direct. You're right Fred, I was working on the format of and I have since found out about having to make a cross reference to the last document in the book. (As an aside, I'm stunned that a piece if software in its tenth

Numbering problems in a book

2012-04-04 Thread Andy Smith (WFL)
Hi Frame 10, Windows 7, Is there some esoteric secret to getting the numbering to behave in a book? I've been bitten by this before so I've been quite careful this time only to access the numbering dialog through the book window. Despite that I still get a warning of conflicts between

Numbering problems in a book

2012-04-04 Thread Andy Smith (WFL)
Hi Frame 10, Windows 7, Is there some esoteric secret to getting the numbering to behave in a book? I've been bitten by this before so I've been quite careful this time only to access the numbering dialog through the book window. Despite that I still get a warning of conflicts between

FW: Unavailable fonts and greyed out section numbering tab

2012-02-27 Thread Andy Smith (WFL)
, and check the box. Save and close. The document should then open without error. -Original Message- From: framers-boun...@lists.frameusers.com [mailto:framers- boun...@lists.frameusers.com] On Behalf Of Andy Smith (WFL) Sent: Thursday, February 23, 2012 6:11 AM To: framers

FW: Unavailable fonts and greyed out section numbering tab

2012-02-27 Thread Andy Smith (WFL)
x. Save and close the document. Then open it again, and > check the box. Save and close. The document should then open without > error. > > -Original Message- > From: framers-bounces at lists.frameusers.com [mailto:framers- > bounces at lists.frameusers.com] On Behalf Of Andy Smit

RE: Book window displays file path

2012-02-23 Thread Andy Smith (WFL)
fixed now so thanks for the advice. I'll know what to look out for next time. Cheers Andy Incidentally, it is Frame 10, in Windows 7. _ From: framers-boun...@lists.frameusers.com [mailto:framers-boun...@lists.frameusers.com] On Behalf Of Andy Smith (WFL) Sent: 22 February

RE: Unavailable fonts and greyed out section numbering tab

2012-02-23 Thread Andy Smith (WFL)
on the printer you have selected at the time. Make sure you have Adobe PDF or another PostScript printer selected; more fonts should be available then. On Wed, Feb 22, 2012 at 1:05 PM, Andy Smith (WFL) andy.sm...@wingedfeet.co.uk wrote: Hi I've been working with a document

Book window displays file path

2012-02-23 Thread Andy Smith (WFL)
fixed now so thanks for the advice. I'll know what to look out for next time. Cheers Andy Incidentally, it is Frame 10, in Windows 7. _ From: framers-boun...@lists.frameusers.com [mailto:framers-bounces at lists.frameusers.com] On Behalf Of Andy Smith (WFL) Sent: 22 February 2012

Unavailable fonts and greyed out section numbering tab

2012-02-23 Thread Andy Smith (WFL)
to manually > change the offending fonts in no time. > > Also, which fonts are unavailable depends on the printer you have > selected at the time. Make sure you have Adobe PDF or another > PostScript printer selected; more fonts should be available then. > > On Wed, Fe

Book window displays file path

2012-02-22 Thread Andy Smith (WFL)
Hi For some reason when I create a book I'm getting the full path in the book window instead of just the file name. I've created loads of books before and always only had the file name. Is there some setting that I've checked? I've looked at the help and it makes mention of an icon to Display

Unavailable fonts and greyed out section numbering tab

2012-02-22 Thread Andy Smith (WFL)
Hi I've been working with a document in a single file while it's been small enough but I now need to start putting in a ToC and Index so I've divided it up into sections. Unfortunately it's now throwing up some problems. * The first problem is that the document numbering window has

Book window displays file path

2012-02-22 Thread Andy Smith (WFL)
Hi For some reason when I create a book I'm getting the full path in the book window instead of just the file name. I've created loads of books before and always only had the file name. Is there some setting that I've checked? I've looked at the help and it makes mention of an icon to "Display

Unavailable fonts and greyed out section numbering tab

2012-02-22 Thread Andy Smith (WFL)
Hi I've been working with a document in a single file while it's been small enough but I now need to start putting in a ToC and Index so I've divided it up into sections. Unfortunately it's now throwing up some problems. * The first problem is that the document numbering window has

RE: Copying large data sets into tables

2012-02-01 Thread Andy Smith (WFL)
Hi all Thanks for all the support on importing tables from Word. In the end I went through the process convert to text, import and then convert back to table. There were a few frustrations of FrameMaker assuming the first line was a heading line and I still haven't figured out how to switch

Copying large data sets into tables

2012-02-01 Thread Andy Smith (WFL)
Hi all Thanks for all the support on importing tables from Word. In the end I went through the process convert to text, import and then convert back to table. There were a few frustrations of FrameMaker assuming the first line was a heading line and I still haven't figured out how to switch

Copying large data sets into tables

2012-01-30 Thread Andy Smith (WFL)
Hi Does anybody know if there is a quick way of copying large sets of table data from a Word doc into a FrameMaker 10 table? I've tried copying straight from the clipboard (Windows 7) but FrameMaker reports No table cells on the clipboard. I'm guessing that this means that FrameMaker is

Copying large data sets into tables

2012-01-30 Thread Andy Smith (WFL)
Hi Does anybody know if there is a quick way of copying large sets of table data from a Word doc into a FrameMaker 10 table? I've tried copying straight from the clipboard (Windows 7) but FrameMaker reports "No table cells on the clipboard." I'm guessing that this means that FrameMaker is

FrameMaker 10 workspaces and access to panels

2012-01-20 Thread Andy Smith (WFL)
Hi Does anybody know if it is possible to tell FrameMaker 10 allow me to use all the panels in one single workspace? I'm trying to find my way around and it's really difficult to find where that elusive function is if I can't see all the panels. Switching between different workspaces isn't

FrameMaker 10 workspaces and access to panels

2012-01-20 Thread Andy Smith (WFL)
Hi Does anybody know if it is possible to tell FrameMaker 10 allow me to use all the panels in one single workspace? I'm trying to find my way around and it's really difficult to find where that elusive function is if I can't see all the panels. Switching between different workspaces isn't

RE: Utilities for format management within FrameMaker

2012-01-19 Thread Andy Smith (WFL)
Thanks for all the feedback on the utilities, scripts and plugins. In the end I've bought Character Tools and Paragraph Tools from Silicon Prairie as I recall it was the formatting that gave me the grief last time. Cheers Andy W. Smith Winged Feet Ltd., Technical Writing, Documentation

Utilities for format management within FrameMaker

2012-01-19 Thread Andy Smith (WFL)
Thanks for all the feedback on the utilities, scripts and plugins. In the end I've bought Character Tools and Paragraph Tools from Silicon Prairie as I recall it was the formatting that gave me the grief last time. Cheers Andy W. Smith Winged Feet Ltd., Technical Writing, Documentation and

Utilities for format management within FrameMaker

2012-01-18 Thread Andy Smith (WFL)
Hi About a year ago, when I was registered on this list under a different account, someone told me about a guy who creates add-ons and utilities to help with format management and other tasks within FrameMaker. When I left my last job I thought I'd forwarded all this information to myself so I

Settings in the books vs. settings in chapters

2012-01-18 Thread Andy Smith (WFL)
Hi One of the long standing confusions I've had since using FrameMaker has always been know which settings are adjusted in the book and which settings are adjusted in the individual document. For instance I seem to remember that if I tried to make a change to page numbering in a document

Utilities for format management within FrameMaker

2012-01-18 Thread Andy Smith (WFL)
Hi About a year ago, when I was registered on this list under a different account, someone told me about a guy who creates add-ons and utilities to help with format management and other tasks within FrameMaker. When I left my last job I thought I'd forwarded all this information to myself so I

Settings in the books vs. settings in chapters

2012-01-18 Thread Andy Smith (WFL)
Hi One of the long standing confusions I've had since using FrameMaker has always been know which settings are adjusted in the book and which settings are adjusted in the individual document. For instance I seem to remember that if I tried to make a change to page numbering in a document within