Re: [Framers] Retired

Finish line? The adventure begins. Actually, continues. The question is, what does the universe have in store for you next? May the force "to recognize the synchronicity of life" be with you. Ed On Mon, Nov 26, 2018 at 8:25 AM John Sgammato wrote: > congratulations on making it to the finish

Re: [Framers] Pros/Cons: Separate file per chapter, or one REALLY BIG FILE for an entire book

Also beneficial for multiple editors working on the same book in different chapters and configuration control when one chapter is changed often and others rarely change. I also have other elements such as large tables that are maintained externally or commonly used content managed as external

Re: [Framers] 114pp table

. It handles tables nicely. Ed Nodland San Diego Data Services On Thu, Aug 18, 2016 at 6:57 AM, Stamm, David <david.st...@gd-ms.com> wrote: > 2016-08-18-04T13:55Z > > John - > > Glad to hear that you're enjoying one of the hallmarks of FrameMaker. In > the "for

Re: [Framers] Thumb Tabs

the basic concept, but every time I have to adjust or it up setup it is a real pain. Ed Nodland On Wed, Aug 10, 2016 at 7:53 AM, Denis Daly <d.d...@icpnewtech.com> wrote: > Hi, > > For a new Technical User Guide, we are exploring the use of printed 'Thumb > T

Re: [Framers] I'm pretty sure the answer is structured content

I guess you are suggesting that "short term solution" is an oxymoron. Short term patch, short term fix, but a solution implies long term. The use of the words patch or fix, communicates to the customer that they need to start thinking long term. On Thu, Jul 28, 2016 at 1:01 PM,

Re: [Framers] I need a "hat" in an equation

. [image: Inline image 1] Ed Nodland San Diego Data Services On Sat, May 21, 2016 at 1:28 AM, Klaus Daube <fr...@daube.ch> wrote: > On 20 May 2016 at 12:05, Lin Sims wrote: > > > One of my engineers gave me a Word document that has an equation I need > to > &

Re: [Framers] Searching for content in FrameMaker files

On Sat, May 7, 2016 at 10:33 AM, Craig Ede wrote: > I suppose one might be searching on a phrase so breaks between words with > intervening mif tags, etc would pose a problem. Sentences are often split > in Mifs. > Where also had problems where inserted $Header$ variables

Re: How to Choose the Right Image File Format for Print

We use PDFs created in Illustrator. As I understand a single page illustrator and PDF file created by illustrator are identical or at least totally exchangeable. Ed Nodland On Thu, Mar 19, 2015 at 12:52 PM, Carol J. Elkins celk...@awrittenword.com wrote: Here is a really good article (I think

Re: secured PDFs

it function like a PDF would. For our print editions we run the source XML into Frame to produce the PDFs for commercial printing. Ed Nodland On Thu, Mar 5, 2015 at 10:14 AM, Carol J. Elkins celk...@awrittenword.com wrote: At 11:00 AM 3/4/2015, you wrote: We are using the certificate security

Re: online FrameMaker 12 Documentation totally revamped; in PDF

I agree. I downloaded the PDF instead. A lot of web content seems to be going the way of cell phone/small screen display. In the USA I see more and more sites starting to look like cell phone displays with less real information. It appears that instead of implementing responsive HTML,

Re: How do you get fractions in FM 12?

confusing. You can also reduce the font size and manually adjust the position by selecting the text and using ALT+ArrowKeys, e.g. move a small 3 up / move a small 16 down, for a nice looking 3/16. Ed Nodland sddat.com On Tue, Dec 9, 2014 at 8:12 AM, tom.beiswen...@emhartglass.com wrote: I have text

Problem converting Word doc into FM

Rebecca I use a two column masterpage. The text flows from one column to the next and my wide images and tables are wrapped in paragraphs that set the span all columns property. Ed Nodland San Diego Data Services sddat.com [image: Inline image 1] On Mon, Dec 8, 2014 at 6:36 AM, Frasure

Re: A giggle from the Adobe website

I get it now. All this time they thought I was not using Framemaker. From wiki: An end user of a computer system http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/End_user_of_a_computer_system or software is someone who uses it. I will let them know I am an end-user. That could explain why we get answers that are

Re: Filling up blank space in a Framemaker page

There is a paragraph pagination setting, start top of page. Apply it to the element that you want to have start on the top of the next page. Ed Nodland [image: Inline image 1] On Thu, Aug 14, 2014 at 11:06 AM, Apurva Bahadur apu...@writxt.com wrote: Dear All, Is there a way to stretch

Re: Where is the EDD created?

definitions specifying the location of your template and EDD files to your application. Ed Nodland San Diego Data Services On Thu, Aug 14, 2014 at 9:31 AM, Theresa de Valence t...@bstw.com wrote: I'm taking everyone's advice (thank you) and starting with a new EDD. Where do I save the EDD

Re: anchored text frames in sideheads

methods for this. Ed Nodland San Diego Data Services On Tue, Aug 12, 2014 at 6:43 AM, John Sgammato john.sgamm...@actifio.com wrote: I just posted a question about importing formats from a sidehead-enabled template. Here's a related question: Assuming we can make the sidehead template work

Re: importing master pages, but not getting Room for Sideheads (FM12 unst)

://forums.adobe.com/message/4209683 will help. It says, Sideheads are a flow property (effectively a document level property, not any individual text frame). If they were enabled in the MasterPage, but not showing on the Body pages, then the Body pages had an override (i.e. it was turned off there). Ed Nodland

Re: FM Crashed and now it doesn't ask for Application

this. *From:* framers-boun...@lists.frameusers.com [mailto: framers-boun...@lists.frameusers.com] *On Behalf Of *Ed Nodland *Sent:* August-04-14 7:28 PM *To:* framers@lists.frameusers.com *Subject:* FM Crashed and now it doesn't ask for Application While changing a font FM crashed. Now

FM Crashed and now it doesn't ask for Application

masterpage=standard . . . . I had a problem a year ago when my DOCTYPE was !DOCTYPE book . . . Frame automatically applied the docbook application, so I changed it and my root element to chapter or lmbook as applicable. Does anyone know why it would not ask for the application after a crash? Ed

Re: File not appearing in Set Structured Application dropdown

Identification (Dangerous Goods List)/title 9 section pageid=air.3 id=air.3.1 ref=1 10 sectnum3.1/sectnum 11 titleGeneral/title Ed Nodland San Diego Data Services sddat.com On Wed, Jul 30, 2014 at 5:59 PM, Heiko Haida i...@heiko-haida.de wrote: Hi Angela, I am not sure if I understand

Re: FM12: Quirks in Find/replace using RegEx (Perl)

I work with on a windows environment and write Perl scripts regularly to adjust HTML, MIF, XML and other UTF-8 files using RegEx. Sometimes its a single file other times a folder structure of files. IF you need a small perl script I be glad to donate to this group. Ed Nodland sddat.com On Tue

Re: XML/EDD Vertical Text Placement in Structured Frame 12

Tim I would use the footer with markers. Here are a couple of references. http://help.adobe.com/en_US/FrameMaker/9.0/Using/WS2937A033-EFF3-4d85-BBB3-98214B54950D.html and page 111 for read/write rules in http://help.adobe.com/en_US/FrameMaker/9.0/StructuredDev/Structure_Dev_Reference.pdf Ed

Re: What do you all recommend for showing space characters?

How about ␣ (Unicode U+2423, decimal 9251, *open box*). Source: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Whitespace_character Visible Symbol. back in the 70's we used a ^ near the bottom of the line, but that was when writing out code on paper was done before punching it onto cards or paper tape. Ed

Re: Cannot insert the infinity symbol and other special character problems

Character Palete and then use the single, double and triple scroll buttons to move down to 221, then look in column E to find the infinity symbol. Click it to insert the character into your content. Ed Nodland On Thu, Feb 13, 2014 at 11:33 AM, Fei Min Lorente feimin.lore...@onsemi.com wrote: I’m

Re: Merry Christmas

Ditto to all you said, happy holidays from San Diego. Ed Nodland On Mon, Dec 23, 2013 at 4:54 PM, Böðvar Björgvinsson bod...@gmail.comwrote: Dear friends and colleagues on the FrameUsers List, I wish you a merry Christmas and a happy new year. And thank you for all the wonderful help you

Merry Christmas

Ditto to all you said, happy holidays from San Diego. Ed Nodland On Mon, Dec 23, 2013 at 4:54 PM, B??var Bj?rgvinsson wrote: > Dear friends and colleagues on the FrameUsers List, > > I wish you a merry Christmas and a happy new year. > And thank you for all the wonder

Re: Looking for FrameMaker SGML Help

about the XML structured processing than unstructured Frame itself. But thanks to you and Craig this year I'm getting pretty good with the features of unstructured Frame Editing as well. You have my number, give me a call. Ed Nodland On Thu, Nov 14, 2013 at 11:24 AM, Chris Despopoulos

Looking for FrameMaker SGML Help

about the XML structured processing than unstructured Frame itself. But thanks to you and Craig this year I'm getting pretty good with the features of unstructured Frame Editing as well. You have my number, give me a call. Ed Nodland On Thu, Nov 14, 2013 at 11:24 AM, Chris Despopoulos

Re: Structured FM11 Not translating horizontal tab character - #09;

#x0009/td did not work. Frame determined there was nothing really in the cell. I added a non-breaking space #00A0; before the tab, e.g. td valign=top colname=2 dotleader=2.2#x00A0;#x0009;/td Ed Nodland On Mon, Oct 28, 2013 at 7:00 AM, George, Brenda (CAI) bgeo...@federatedinv.com wrote: In my

Structured FM11 Not translating horizontal tab character -

For FM 11 I had to add xml:space="preserve" to my root element, e.g. In addition when I had a multi-column table and I have an empty cell with a dotleader like ... to guide the eye across the cell I use a decimal tab. The tagging did not work. Frame determined there was nothing

FM 11 ignores my XML Tab Characters

I'm using FM 10, but need to expand capacity and had a co-worker install FM 11. When we open our .XML files the #x0009; characters are ignored or dropped by FM 11. Works fine in FM10. We installed the 11.0.2.384 patch. I see an old post on the Abobe forum about FM 9 using #x0008; for a tab, but

FM 11 ignores my XML Tab Characters

I'm using FM 10, but need to expand capacity and had a co-worker install FM 11. When we open our .XML files the characters are ignored or dropped by FM 11. Works fine in FM10. We installed the 11.0.2.384 patch. I see an old post on the Abobe forum about FM 9 using for a tab, but 0009 works

Printing Color Images

that the image saved from Illustrator as a PDF format should display the spot colors but it does not. So the problem/solution might start there. Ed Nodland ___ You are currently subscribed to framers as arch...@mail-archive.com. Send list messages

Re: Printing Color Images

OK, Save As PDF was the trick. Thanks. Now most of the images work fine. The rest require a conversion of process to spot color changes in Illustrator. On Tue, Sep 10, 2013 at 7:46 PM, Ed Nodland enodl...@gmail.com wrote: This seems like it should be simple and done routinely by many others

Re: Printing Color Images

/uploads/7/8/5/3/7853240/spot_color_and_adobe_illustrator.pdf Best regards Tino H. Haida, Berlin Ed Nodland: This seems like it should be simple and done routinely by many others. I have an image of a flammable substance label. It has a pantone red, a pantone yellow, and black. I want

Printing Color Images

OK, Save As PDF was the trick. Thanks. Now most of the images work fine. The rest require a conversion of process to spot color changes in Illustrator. On Tue, Sep 10, 2013 at 7:46 PM, Ed Nodland wrote: > This seems like it should be simple and done routinely by many others. > &g

Printing Color Images

e their own plates in the pdf as spot > colors. > > Pls see also: > > --> > http://karafintechteam.weebly.com/uploads/7/8/5/3/7853240/spot_color_and_adobe_illustrator.pdf > > Best regards > > Tino H. Haida, Berlin > > > > > > Ed Nodland: > > This seems like it s

Printing Color Images

I also suspect that the image saved from Illustrator as a PDF format should display the spot colors but it does not. So the problem/solution might start there. Ed Nodland -- next part -- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://lists.frameusers.com/pipermail/

Scaling Images

I have 130 images created in Illustrator and saved as PDFs In my XML I have image tags such as: img impby=ref impsize=1.0in 0.4in position=inline src=images\1537.pdf / without the impsize attribute My Read/Write rules is element img { is fm graphic element mygraphic; attribute src is fm

Scaling Images

I have 130 images created in Illustrator and saved as PDFs In my XML I have image tags such as: without the impsize attribute My Read/Write rules is element "img" { is fm graphic element "mygraphic"; attribute "src" is fm property file; attribute "width" is fm property width; attribute

Re: FrameMaker 10 Crashes Regularly, is unstructured FrameMaker 11 more stable

FM 9 used to crash on me whenever I had Frame on my second monitor and used the mouse thumbwheel. Took me a while to connect the dots on that one. Point is it can be an obscure cause. Ed On Tue, Aug 6, 2013 at 9:25 AM, Joseph Lorenzini jalo...@gmail.com wrote: Hi all, I have been using

FrameMaker 10 Crashes Regularly, is unstructured FrameMaker 11 more stable

FM 9 used to crash on me whenever I had Frame on my second monitor and used the mouse thumbwheel. Took me a while to connect the dots on that one. Point is it can be an obscure cause. Ed On Tue, Aug 6, 2013 at 9:25 AM, Joseph Lorenzini wrote: > Hi all, > > I have been using FM 10 for about

Fonts, Character Sets, Unicode and UTF-8 Explained

jargon as well, but I'd probably take it off line since it's not Frame specific. Ed Nodland *Additional References* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unicode https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/UTF-8 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comparison_of_Unicode_encodings https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki

Fonts, Character Sets, Unicode and UTF-8 Explained

e, programs, and processes that consume and display the data. I think Unicode and UTF-8 encoding are the best standards to use at this time. If the hexadecimal numbers like 2A3B are messing with your brain I can provide some insight on the decimal, binary, hexadecimal, byte, and bit jargon as well

Re: Custom Ruling and Shading of Tables via xml and EDD rules

something?_ * * * * * _Any suggestions?_ _ _ Ed Nodland ___ You are currently subscribed to framers as arch...@mail-archive.com. Send list messages to framers@lists.frameusers.com. To unsubscribe send a blank email to framers-unsubscr

Custom Ruling and Shading of Tables via xml and EDD rules

defined for a cell based on a Context Rule such as >> [class="cheader"]. >> >> _Am I missing something?_ >> >> * * * * * >> _Any suggestions?_ >> _ >> _ >> Ed Nodland >> >> >> >> -- next part -- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://lists.frameusers.com/pipermail/framers/attachments/20130710/9ce6ac21/attachment.html>

Custom Ruling and Shading of Tables via xml and EDD rules

suggestions?* * * Ed Nodland ___ You are currently subscribed to framers as arch...@mail-archive.com. Send list messages to framers@lists.frameusers.com. To unsubscribe send a blank email to framers-unsubscr...@lists.frameusers.com or visit http

Custom Ruling and Shading of Tables via xml and EDD rules

gs rather than being totally custom or XML attribute driven for specific rows or cells. I can change the markup or take a totally different approach but I nered the format to be driven by the XML data not manual activity in Framemaker aftrer opening the XML file.. *Any suggestions?* * * Ed Nodland

Re: Embarrasing simple question - identifying current style

Place the cursor, Click format, hover over the drop down options, and wait a short moment. A popup will show a check mark next to the Font, Size, Style, Character, or Paragraph as you hover over them. Or click format, (Character or Paragraph), and the Designer, and the Designer panel will come

Embarrasing simple question - identifying current style

Place the cursor, Click format, hover over the drop down options, and wait a short moment. A popup will show a check mark next to the Font, Size, Style, Character, or Paragraph as you hover over them. Or click format, (Character or Paragraph), and the Designer, and the Designer panel will come

Re: Query about what happens in structured Frame

you the details, but I am willing to connect via a meeting app and show you the components of the DB to XML/HTML to Frame process. Ed Nodland On Fri, Jun 14, 2013 at 12:49 PM, Theresa de Valence t...@bstw.com wrote: Hello Framers, I’m in need of some basic advice. I’ve been using Frame for 20

Query about what happens in structured Frame

have time to teach you the details, but I am willing to connect via a meeting app and show you the components of the DB to XML/HTML to Frame process. Ed Nodland On Fri, Jun 14, 2013 at 12:49 PM, Theresa de Valence wrote: > Hello Framers, > > I?m in need of some basic advice. I?ve been using

OT: Corporate madness - Adobe software to be subscription only

I think my response is far from the mission of this forum but the statement below just hooked me, it is also a nice diversion from the daily work to read all the responses, and I bet our thoughts trickle back into Adobe. A previous post said: The problem with customers is that they cost money to

OT: Corporate madness - Adobe software to be subscription only

I think my response is far from the mission of this forum but the statement below just hooked me, it is also a nice diversion from the daily work to read all the responses, and I bet our thoughts trickle back into Adobe. A previous post said: "The problem with customers is that they cost money

Re: Where on Adobe is the info/link to renew my maintenance contract for FrameMaker?

If the problem you are having is the license expired bug this web page will provide the patch to correct the problem. http://helpx.adobe.com/framemaker/kb/cant-launch-framemaker-10.html Ed On Thu, Mar 21, 2013 at 11:28 AM, Matt Sullivan m...@mattrsullivan.comwrote: Here's the web page I

Where on Adobe is the info/link to renew my maintenance contract for FrameMaker?

If the problem you are having is the "license" expired" bug this web page will provide the patch to correct the problem. http://helpx.adobe.com/framemaker/kb/cant-launch-framemaker-10.html Ed On Thu, Mar 21, 2013 at 11:28 AM, Matt Sullivan wrote: > Here's the web page I was directed to? >

Frame versus XSL-FO

bility to create and maintain FO > stylesheets, you can never achieve the same level of formatting with FO > that you get from FM. You can get close, and if close is good enough (along > with other benefits of FO), then FO can be a good solution. > > Cheers, > > ...s

Frame versus XSL-FO

These are good inputs. The "site:" for searching was new to me. Thanks I think I will stay with Framemaker and upgrade to version 11. I hope Adobe improves the stability and UI issues as time goes on. I am curious if the high cost of XSL-FO development is due to FO being more difficult then

Frame versus XSL-FO

I have been using Framemaker to produce two 1000 page publications every October since 2006. Now I am faced with two issues. 1) Clean up my XML, EDD and template file for full round trip capabilities; and 2) Convert to a DITA structure prior to adding several other publications The DITA

Re: Tables in rotated text frames unselectable?

In FM10 you can select Format Customize Layout Rotate {Clock/Counter} then do your editing. Ed San Diego Data Services On Tue, Dec 18, 2012 at 9:35 PM, Christoph Korsmeier christoph.korsme...@werktext.eu wrote: ** Hi everybody, I've designed an FM10 masterpage with a rotated text flow

Tables in rotated text frames unselectable?

In FM10 you can select Format > Customize Layout > Rotate {Clock/Counter} then do your editing. Ed San Diego Data Services On Tue, Dec 18, 2012 at 9:35 PM, Christoph Korsmeier < christoph.korsmeier at werktext.eu> wrote: > ** > Hi everybody, > > I've designed an FM10 masterpage with a