FM under Sheepshaver

2008-11-23 Thread Paul Findon
On 23 Nov 2008, at 06:04, James Monaco wrote: > Does anyone have any hints about running Framemaker 7 Mac under the > OS9 emulator Sheepshaver? It keeps crashing, while all other OS9 aps > run fine. > > I'm on digest so would appreciate direct response. Thanks. Pull out the WebDAV and

Text is RGB

2008-10-29 Thread Paul Findon
Windows XP Pro SP2 FrameMaker 7.1 Acrobat 5 When I create a PDF, black text becomes RGB. My printer won't accept this. Does anyone know how to fix this? Paul ___ You are currently subscribed to Framers as [EMAIL PROTECTED] Send list messages to

Russian Bookmarks Corrupt

2008-10-29 Thread Paul Findon
Windows XP Pro SP2 FrameMaker 8 Acrobat 8 When I print a Russian FM file to PDF, bookamrks are corupt. Does anyone know how to fix this? (This file started life in FM7, but I understand that FM8 converted all of the text to Unicode.) Paul ___

Re: Russian Bookmarks Corrupt

2008-10-29 Thread Paul Findon
On 29 Oct 2008, at 11:48, Paul Findon wrote: Windows XP Pro SP2 FrameMaker 8 Acrobat 8 When I print a Russian FM file to PDF, bookamrks are corupt. Does anyone know how to fix this? (This file started life in FM7, but I understand that FM8 converted all of the text to Unicode

Text is RGB

2008-10-29 Thread Paul Findon
Windows XP Pro SP2 FrameMaker 7.1 Acrobat 5 When I create a PDF, black text becomes RGB. My printer won't accept this. Does anyone know how to fix this? Paul

Russian Bookmarks Corrupt

2008-10-29 Thread Paul Findon
Windows XP Pro SP2 FrameMaker 8 Acrobat 8 When I print a Russian FM file to PDF, bookamrks are corupt. Does anyone know how to fix this? (This file started life in FM7, but I understand that FM8 converted all of the text to Unicode.) Paul

Russian Bookmarks Corrupt

2008-10-29 Thread Paul Findon
On 29 Oct 2008, at 11:48, Paul Findon wrote: > Windows XP Pro SP2 > FrameMaker 8 > Acrobat 8 > > When I print a Russian FM file to PDF, bookamrks are corupt. Does > anyone know how to fix this? > > (This file started life in FM7, but I understand that FM8 converted >

Migrating features over to InDesign

2008-09-29 Thread Paul Findon
Framers, Following the recent discussion of FM features migrating to InDesign, here's a snippet from an interview between Adobe Co-Chairman John Warnock and Conrad Taylor, BCS Electronic Publishing Specialist Group in 2004. Paul Interviewer: Adobe has found itself in the situation of

Migrating features over to InDesign

2008-09-29 Thread Paul Findon
Framers, Following the recent discussion of FM features migrating to InDesign, here's a snippet from an interview between Adobe Co-Chairman John Warnock and Conrad Taylor, BCS Electronic Publishing Specialist Group in 2004. Paul Interviewer: Adobe has found itself in the situation of

Re: InDesign and FrameMaker Text Entry Comparison (WAS: FrameMaker vs. InDesign, round CS4)

2008-09-26 Thread Paul Findon
Hi Peter, This is a good start, but, wait, there's more to it. While the power click brings an InDesign master-page text frame to the body page, where it works both like and differently from FM, you'll soon fill it to overflowing, and then... * You can only type to the bottom of the first

InDesign and FrameMaker Text Entry Comparison (WAS: FrameMaker vs. InDesign, round CS4)

2008-09-26 Thread Paul Findon
Hi Peter, > This is a good start, but, wait, there's more to it. While the "power > click" brings an InDesign master-page text frame to the body page, > where it works both like and differently from FM, you'll soon fill it > to overflowing, and then... > > * You can only type to the bottom of the

FrameMaker vs. InDesign, round CS4

2008-09-25 Thread Paul Findon
On 23 Sep 2008, at 21:05, quills at airmail.net wrote: > Every time I try the demo of InDesign I can't get past the part where > I make a page and look for where the text entry starts. As in, where > is the cursor for text? On the New Document dialog box, select Master Text Frame, then click

FrameMaker vs. InDesign, round CS4

2008-09-24 Thread Paul Findon
Hi Sarah, Not sure how strong it will be, but ID CS4 certainly appears to offer the tools that will allow some unstructured FM users to make the switch. Incidentally, it looks like Apple may have finally switched to InDesign for its user guides, which until now have been made with Mac

InDesign CS4

2008-09-23 Thread Paul Findon
Well, well, well.. InDesign finally gets cross-references. There’s conditional text, too. http://www.adobe.com/products/indesign/features/ Paul ___ You are currently subscribed to Framers as [EMAIL PROTECTED] Send list messages to [EMAIL

Re: FrameMaker vs. InDesign, round CS4

2008-09-23 Thread Paul Findon
Hi Sarah, Not sure how strong it will be, but ID CS4 certainly appears to offer the tools that will allow some unstructured FM users to make the switch. Incidentally, it looks like Apple may have finally switched to InDesign for its user guides, which until now have been made with Mac

InDesign CS4

2008-09-23 Thread Paul Findon
Well, well, well.. InDesign finally gets cross-references. There?s conditional text, too. Paul

It's going to be brilliant, apparently.

2008-09-03 Thread Paul Findon
Adobe to unveil CS4 on 23 September. Will InDesign CS4 be a worthy alternative to FrameMaker? Paul ___ You are currently subscribed to Framers as [EMAIL PROTECTED] Send list messages to [EMAIL PROTECTED] To unsubscribe send a blank email to [EMAIL

It's going to be brilliant, apparently.

2008-09-03 Thread Paul Findon
Adobe to unveil CS4 on 23 September. Will InDesign CS4 be a worthy alternative to FrameMaker? Paul

Re: Changing Printers

2008-07-25 Thread Paul Findon
: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Art Campbell Sent: Thursday, July 24, 2008 11:32 AM To: Paul Findon Cc: FrameUsers List Subject: Re: Changing Printers Assuming you mostly work with PostScript printers and PDFs, if you set the system default printer to Adobe PDF

Changing Printers

2008-07-25 Thread Paul Findon
gt; > -Original Message- > From: framers-bounces at lists.frameusers.com > [mailto:framers-bounces at lists.frameusers.com] On Behalf Of Art > Campbell > Sent: Thursday, July 24, 2008 11:32 AM > To: Paul Findon > Cc: FrameUsers List > Subject: Re: Changing Printers &g

Changing Printers

2008-07-24 Thread Paul Findon
Framers, With Mac FrameMaker, changing the printer made no difference to FrameMaker in regard to fonts. With Windows FrameMaker, however, changing the printer causes FrameMaker to display the following somewhat worrying message: The font information for your system has changed. This

Changing Printers

2008-07-24 Thread Paul Findon
Framers, With Mac FrameMaker, changing the printer made no difference to FrameMaker in regard to fonts. With Windows FrameMaker, however, changing the printer causes FrameMaker to display the following somewhat worrying message: "The font information for your system has changed. This

Re: FrameMaker on Windows - Issues Discussed Today

2008-06-30 Thread Paul Findon
Hi Dov, Bit late getting back with this, but how do you like the glossy screen for reading, writing, etc? And can the 8710w drive your 30- inch Dell display? When I've used laptops in an office for any length of time, I've always plugged in a USB keyboard, so the keyboard is not a real deal

FrameMaker on Windows - Issues Discussed Today

2008-06-30 Thread Paul Findon
Hi Dov, Bit late getting back with this, but how do you like the glossy screen for reading, writing, etc? And can the 8710w drive your 30- inch Dell display? When I've used laptops in an office for any length of time, I've always plugged in a USB keyboard, so the keyboard is not a real deal

PDF Creation Add-on

2008-06-26 Thread Paul Findon
FM8 installs the PDF Creation Add-on. Is it best to uninstall this before installing Acrobat Pro 8 (along with CS3 Design Standard)? Paul ___ You are currently subscribed to Framers as [EMAIL PROTECTED] Send list messages to [EMAIL PROTECTED] To

PDF Creation Add-on

2008-06-26 Thread Paul Findon
FM8 installs the PDF Creation Add-on. Is it best to uninstall this before installing Acrobat Pro 8 (along with CS3 Design Standard)? Paul

Re: Arial being changed to ArialMT in PDF

2008-06-19 Thread Paul Findon
On 19 Jun 2008, at 05:47, Dov Isaacs wrote: You are getting exactly what you ask for (and deserve? :-) ) Spoken like a true survivor of the Type 1 Resistance :-) Paul The font name is Arial but the PostScript name inside the font (i.e., what displays inside of Acrobat or Reader) of that

Re: How FM use impacts purchasing decisions

2008-06-19 Thread Paul Findon
Hi Rene, If Adobe had done the right thing by its customers and given us FrameMaker for Mac OS X, we wouldn't be having this conversation, but... I know several people who run Windows FrameMaker on their Intel Macs with Parallels. I've not tried it with FrameMaker, but My son had been on

Re: How FM use impacts purchasing decisions

2008-06-19 Thread Paul Findon
On 19 Jun 2008, at 21:06, Rene Stephenson wrote: You're right, Dennis. I checked with an IT guru buddy who has done a lot of reworks of Vista machines when his clients got bitten by one of its bugs and wanted to roll back to XP, and he said it was a complete nightmare, every single

Arial being changed to ArialMT in PDF

2008-06-19 Thread Paul Findon
On 19 Jun 2008, at 05:47, Dov Isaacs wrote: > You are getting exactly what you ask for (and deserve? :-) ) Spoken like a true survivor of the Type 1 Resistance :-) Paul > The font name is "Arial" but the "PostScript name" inside the font > (i.e., what displays inside of Acrobat or Reader) of

How FM use impacts purchasing decisions

2008-06-19 Thread Paul Findon
On 19 Jun 2008, at 16:37, Peter Gold wrote: > Windows XP won't be shipped with Intel Macs after the end of June, I > believe. I guess you mean Dell PCs? Paul

How FM use impacts purchasing decisions

2008-06-19 Thread Paul Findon
Hi Rene, If Adobe had done the right thing by its customers and given us FrameMaker for Mac OS X, we wouldn't be having this conversation, but... I know several people who run Windows FrameMaker on their Intel Macs with Parallels. I've not tried it with FrameMaker, but My son had been on

How FM use impacts purchasing decisions

2008-06-19 Thread Paul Findon
On 19 Jun 2008, at 21:06, Rene Stephenson wrote: > You're right, Dennis. I checked with an IT guru buddy who has done > a lot of reworks of Vista machines when his clients got bitten by > one of its bugs and wanted to roll back to XP, and he said it was a > complete nightmare, every single

Re: Adobe Garamond font in bold doesn't distill properly

2008-06-17 Thread Paul Findon
On 17 Jun 2008, at 19:13, Linda G. Gallagher wrote: I created a new template recently and selected Adobe Garamond for my body text. I created a bold character tag and set it to As Is, then selected Bold for the weight. When I created a PDF, all of the bold text was all weird (oddly

Adobe Garamond font in bold doesn't distill properly

2008-06-17 Thread Paul Findon
On 17 Jun 2008, at 19:13, Linda G. Gallagher wrote: > > I created a new template recently and selected Adobe Garamond for > my body > text. I created a bold character tag and set it to As Is, then > selected Bold > for the weight. When I created a PDF, all of the bold text was all > weird >

Re: adding user variables to the TOC

2008-06-16 Thread Paul Findon
Hi Deidre, The TOC collects paragraphs by style, so you can include user variables in a TOC by applying the appropriate paragraph tag. However, in my quick test, FrameMaker doesn't collect paras on master pages. Someone on this may be able to suggest a workaround to help you achieve what

adding user variables to the TOC

2008-06-16 Thread Paul Findon
Hi Deidre, The TOC collects paragraphs by style, so you can include user variables in a TOC by applying the appropriate paragraph tag. However, in my quick test, FrameMaker doesn't collect paras on master pages. Someone on this may be able to suggest a workaround to help you achieve what

OT: free viewer/converter software for Mac

2008-06-11 Thread Paul Findon
On 10 Jun 2008, at 22:04, Dave Reynolds wrote: > Not Frame related, but I thought some of the Mac users might be > able to > help. My wife is a teacher and uses a Mac at school. She has > bought an > educational program that imports digital images, but only as bmp > files. As Alan says,

table and figure captions

2008-06-11 Thread Paul Findon
On 11 Jun 2008, at 15:46, Peter Gold wrote: > One problem to be aware of when using single-cell tables with titles > for graphics: If you specify paragraphs in the table-title area for > generated TOCs, they will not be in the expected order because FM > collects them from the page after it

Re: OT: free viewer/converter software for Mac

2008-06-10 Thread Paul Findon
On 10 Jun 2008, at 22:04, Dave Reynolds wrote: Not Frame related, but I thought some of the Mac users might be able to help. My wife is a teacher and uses a Mac at school. She has bought an educational program that imports digital images, but only as bmp files. As Alan says,

Re: Printing Error with FM

2008-06-05 Thread Paul Findon
On 5 Jun 2008, at 08:38, Michael Müller-Hillebrand wrote: Loosely connected to this: Is there a list available which Illustrator versions/levels were supported by which FrameMaker versions? From time to time I am confronted with people having Illustrator CS2/3 but still use FrameMaker 7.0

Re: Printing Error with FM

2008-06-05 Thread Paul Findon
On 5 Jun 2008, at 17:25, Dov Isaacs wrote: Let's try this again. FrameMaker does NOT, repeat does NOT, repeat one more time does NOT support the native Adobe Illustrator format; doesn't now, never did! It does support EPS and PDF saved from all versions of Adobe Illustrator including PDF

Printing Error with FM

2008-06-05 Thread Paul Findon
On 5 Jun 2008, at 08:38, Michael M?ller-Hillebrand wrote: > Loosely connected to this: > > Is there a list available which Illustrator versions/levels were > supported by which FrameMaker versions? > > From time to time I am confronted with people having Illustrator > CS2/3 but still use

Printing Error with FM

2008-06-05 Thread Paul Findon
On 5 Jun 2008, at 17:25, Dov Isaacs wrote: > Let's try this again. FrameMaker does NOT, repeat does NOT, repeat > one more time does NOT support the native Adobe Illustrator format; > doesn't now, never did! It does support EPS and PDF saved from all > versions of Adobe Illustrator including PDF

Re: Crossing out a table cell

2008-06-02 Thread Paul Findon
On 2 Jun 2008, at 18:19, Art Campbell wrote: If you want it to be editable, you can use two tags, one set flush left and the other on the lower, second line, set flush right. Then, put an anchored frame in the cell, set it to Outside Column, drag the frame so that it's a tad larger then the

Crossing out a table cell

2008-06-02 Thread Paul Findon
On 2 Jun 2008, at 18:19, Art Campbell wrote: > If you want it to be editable, you can use two tags, one set flush > left and the other on the lower, second line, set flush right. Then, put an anchored frame in the cell, set it to Outside Column, drag the frame so that it's a tad larger then

Re: Haven't we learnt anything about usability? [was Re: defaultreply-to-all ]

2008-05-20 Thread Paul Findon
On 19 May 2008, at 21:16, Mike Bradley wrote: Does this list have a moderator? Could you poll the list so that we can settle this the democratic way? I think Lisa Bronson took over as list mom in 2005. Before that it was Bradley Anderson. Neither have posted anything to this list for

Haven't we learnt anything about usability? [was "Re: default"reply-to-all" "]

2008-05-20 Thread Paul Findon
On 19 May 2008, at 21:16, Mike Bradley wrote: >> Does this list have a moderator? Could you poll the list so that >> we can settle > this the democratic way? I think Lisa Bronson took over as list mom in 2005. Before that it was Bradley Anderson. Neither have posted anything to this list for

Re: default reply-to-all (was Re: FrameMaker 8.0.3 Update Now Available (POSSIBLE WORKAROUND))

2008-05-16 Thread Paul Findon
On 15 May 2008, at 04:25, Jeremy H. Griffith wrote: On Wed, 14 May 2008 22:05:47 -0400, Alan Houser [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Which is worse? -- - You reply to a message on the list. Assuming that you are replying to the sender, you include information that is personal, privileged, or

Re: default reply-to-all (was Re: FrameMaker 8.0.3 Update NowAvailable (POSSIBLE WORKAROUND))

2008-05-16 Thread Paul Findon
2008, at 15:11, Combs, Richard wrote: Paul Findon wrote: On 15 May 2008, at 04:25, Jeremy H. Griffith wrote: On Wed, 14 May 2008 22:05:47 -0400, Alan Houser [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Which is worse? -- - You reply to a message on the list. Assuming that you are replying to the sender, you

Re: default reply-to-all (was Re: FrameMaker 8.0.3 Update NowAvailable (POSSIBLE WORKAROUND))

2008-05-16 Thread Paul Findon
On 16 May 2008, at 18:36, [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Paul Findon wrote (in part): Hedley is not asking for a reply-to-all. What he, I and, no doubt, others want is reply-to-list. In other words, when you click your Reply button, by default, messages are addressed to the list

default "reply-to-all" (was Re: FrameMaker 8.0.3 Update Now Available (POSSIBLE WORKAROUND))

2008-05-16 Thread Paul Findon
On 15 May 2008, at 04:25, Jeremy H. Griffith wrote: > On Wed, 14 May 2008 22:05:47 -0400, Alan Houser > > wrote: > >> Which is worse? -- >> >> - You reply to a message on the list. Assuming that you are >> replying to >> the sender, you include information that is personal, privileged, or >>

default "reply-to-all" (was Re: FrameMaker 8.0.3 Update NowAvailable (POSSIBLE WORKAROUND))

2008-05-16 Thread Paul Findon
mechanism. Paul On 16 May 2008, at 15:11, Combs, Richard wrote: > Paul Findon wrote: > >> On 15 May 2008, at 04:25, Jeremy H. Griffith wrote: >> >>> On Wed, 14 May 2008 22:05:47 -0400, Alan Houser >>> >>> wrote: >>> >>>

default "reply-to-all" (was Re: FrameMaker 8.0.3 Update NowAvailable (POSSIBLE WORKAROUND))

2008-05-16 Thread Paul Findon
On 16 May 2008, at 18:36, wrote: >> Paul Findon wrote (in part): >>> Hedley is not asking for a "reply-to-all." What he, I and, no doubt, >>> others want is "reply-to-list." In other words, when you click your >>> Reply button, by defa

Re: Searching Framers archives (was RE: FrameMaker on Japanese OS)

2008-05-14 Thread Paul Findon
Hi Richard, Thanks for the workarounds. You can use Google. Enter search string site:frameusers.com (sans quotes). Or you can browse the archives (by thread, subject, author, or date) at: http://lists.frameusers.com/pipermail/framers/ FWIW, I downloaded the archives to my Mac and searched

Searching Framers archives (was RE: FrameMaker on Japanese OS)

2008-05-14 Thread Paul Findon
Hi Richard, Thanks for the workarounds. > You can use Google. Enter " site:frameusers.com" (sans > quotes). Or you can browse the archives (by thread, subject, > author, or > date) at: http://lists.frameusers.com/pipermail/framers/ FWIW, I downloaded the archives to my Mac and searched them

Re: FrameMaker on Japanese OS

2008-05-13 Thread Paul Findon
odd. -Yosuke Paul Findon さんは書きました: Framers, I've installed Win FrameMaker 8.0 (Japanese) on a PC running the Japanese version of Windows XP. Everything seems to work OK except for a rather odd message in File Preferences General Nihongo Kinou Jouhou that says something along

FrameMaker on Japanese OS

2008-05-13 Thread Paul Findon
res, but as you say, the dialog is rather odd. > > > -Yosuke > > > > Paul Findon : >> Framers, >> >> I've installed Win FrameMaker 8.0 (Japanese) on a PC running the >> Japanese version of Windows XP. Everything seems to work OK except >> fo

FrameMaker on Japanese OS

2008-05-12 Thread Paul Findon
Framers, I've installed Win FrameMaker 8.0 (Japanese) on a PC running the Japanese version of Windows XP. Everything seems to work OK except for a rather odd message in File Preferences General Nihongo Kinou Jouhou that says something along the lines of although FrameMaker can display

FrameMaker on Japanese OS

2008-05-12 Thread Paul Findon
Framers, I've installed Win FrameMaker 8.0 (Japanese) on a PC running the Japanese version of Windows XP. Everything seems to work OK except for a rather odd message in File > Preferences > General > Nihongo Kinou > Jouhou that says something along the lines of "although FrameMaker can

Microsoft XP support

2008-04-30 Thread Paul Findon
On 28 Apr 2008, at 12:38, Austin Meredith wrote: > According to this morning's newspaper, Microsoft plans to discontinue > its support of XP on June 30th. Is this something we should be > discussing? According to this report, Dell, HP, and Lenovo may continue to offer XP under the terms of a

Japanese FrameMaker

2008-04-23 Thread Paul Findon
Framers, Mac FrameMaker 6 and 7 CDs contain a single installation file and when launched you get to choose English, German, French, or Japanese. Can anyone tell me if this is the same for Windows FrameMaker 8.0? I need the Japanese version ASAP. Tried the Adobe Japan online store, but it

Re: how to change PDF comment text font size?

2008-03-17 Thread Paul Findon
On 16 Mar 2008, at 12:23, Orly Zimmerman wrote: Is there any way to control the size of the text in the comments box when commenting on Comment enabled PDFs? Preferences Commenting Font Size works for me, but only for Notes. A colleague would like to add names to a floor plan created in

how to change PDF comment text font size?

2008-03-17 Thread Paul Findon
On 16 Mar 2008, at 12:23, Orly Zimmerman wrote: > Is there any way to control the size of the text in the comments box > when commenting on Comment enabled PDFs? Preferences > Commenting > Font Size works for me, but only for Notes. > A colleague would like to add names to a floor plan created

Re: Text string in title case?

2008-02-29 Thread Paul Findon
Hi Tina, This is impossible with FrameMaker alone. I thought perhaps Spell Catcher could handle it, as it does have commands for changing case to Title style, but even that simply capitalises the first letter of each word. A job for AppleScript perhaps? (NG to you unless you use Mac

Text string in title case?

2008-02-29 Thread Paul Findon
Hi Tina, This is impossible with FrameMaker alone. I thought perhaps Spell Catcher could handle it, as it does have commands for changing case to Title style, but even that simply capitalises the first letter of each word. A job for AppleScript perhaps? (NG to you unless you use Mac

Re: Scripting pulling FM files from version control and creating PDFs

2008-02-21 Thread Paul Findon
On 21 Feb 2008, at 02:17, Linda G. Gallagher wrote: A client would like to be able to have a script that runs nightly that will do the following: - Pull FM files and books from their version control system (PVCS) - Maybe set conditions (not sure if this is needed yet) - Update the

Scripting pulling FM files from version control and creating PDFs

2008-02-21 Thread Paul Findon
On 21 Feb 2008, at 02:17, Linda G. Gallagher wrote: > A client would like to be able to have a script that runs nightly > that will > do the following: > > - Pull FM files and books from their version control system (PVCS) > > - Maybe set conditions (not sure if this is needed yet) > > - Update

Re: future of FrameMaker

2008-02-14 Thread Paul Findon
On 14 Feb 2008, at 14:52, Dov Isaacs wrote: On behalf of Adobe Systems Incorporated, let me assure you that FrameMaker remains under active development. A next major version is currently being developed. Shucks... ...I was just about to register saveframemakerpetition.org :-)) Paul

future of FrameMaker

2008-02-14 Thread Paul Findon
On 14 Feb 2008, at 14:52, Dov Isaacs wrote: > On behalf of Adobe Systems Incorporated, let me assure you that > FrameMaker remains under active development. A next major version > is currently being developed. Shucks... ...I was just about to register :-)) Paul

future of FrameMaker

2008-02-14 Thread Paul Findon
On 14 Feb 2008, at 18:22, Bernard Aschwanden wrote: > I'm at the FrameMaker Chautauqua in North Carolina right now. Adobe > is here. > They are talking about the future of the product. The development > team is > here. They are interviewing people and discussing requirements for the > future.

WINE (Was Re: future of FrameMaker)

2008-02-14 Thread Paul Findon
On 14 Feb 2008, at 21:22, Dov Isaacs wrote: > Just so nobody has any unwarranted expectations ... > > Regardless of whether you or I like it, the next major version > of FrameMaker will NOT support Macintosh natively for the exact > same reasons such support was discontinued in the first place. >

Re: also working with images

2008-02-13 Thread Paul Findon
On 13 Feb 2008, at 13:15, Milan Davidovic wrote: On 2/4/08, Mike Wickham [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: If you're on the Windows platform, and creating documents for press, EPS is really the only way to go for color graphics. With every other graphics format, Frame passes the graphics through

also working with images

2008-02-13 Thread Paul Findon
On 13 Feb 2008, at 13:15, Milan Davidovic wrote: > On 2/4/08, Mike Wickham wrote: >> If you're on the Windows platform, and creating documents for >> press, EPS is >> really the only way to go for color graphics. With every other >> graphics >> format, Frame passes the graphics through the

Keyboard shortcut for copyright symbol

2008-01-24 Thread Paul Findon
On 24 Jan 2008, at 16:19, Glenn Voyles wrote: > Just out of curiosity, does anyone use (or not use) ALT+0169 (or other > "alt" codes) for any particular reason? I use Option-G. It works in all apps and has done for a very, very long time. But then, I'm using Mac FrameMaker. Paul

Steve Skirsch

2007-11-13 Thread Paul Findon
up the Kirsch Fund for Waldenstrom's Research to fund research in to the disease. If you'd like to to donate to his fund, you can do so online at BrightLight: http://www.bringlight.com/projects/show/127 You can read a lot more at Steve's Web site: http://skirsch.com/ Paul Findon

Steve Skirsch

2007-11-13 Thread Paul Findon
outcome and has set up the Kirsch Fund for Waldenstrom's Research to fund research in to the disease. If you'd like to to donate to his fund, you can do so online at BrightLight: <http://www.bringlight.com/projects/show/127> You can read a lot more at Steve's Web site: <http://skirsch.com/> Paul Findon

Frame's lame callouts

2007-11-13 Thread Paul Findon
On 13 Nov 2007, at 22:01, Ann Zdunczyk wrote: > > Another reason to use Text Frames rather than Graphical Text is if > you have > you documents translated this works MUCH better. I have seen do > done both > ways and if you use Graphical text the layout person has to > remember to see > if

Re: FM Search Tools

2007-11-07 Thread Paul Findon
On 7 Nov 2007, at 09:06, Shmuel Wolfson wrote: Does anyone have a recommendation of a free or cheap search tools that does a good job searching FM files? This won't help you because you're running Windows, but EasyFind by Devon Technologies is a great tool for searching the contents FM

FM Search Tools

2007-11-07 Thread Paul Findon
On 7 Nov 2007, at 09:06, Shmuel Wolfson wrote: > Does anyone have a recommendation of a free or cheap search tools > that does a good job searching FM files? This won't help you because you're running Windows, but EasyFind by Devon Technologies is a great tool for searching the contents FM

Re: Odd maths font problem... more

2007-09-04 Thread Paul Findon
On 4 Sep 2007, at 10:23, Steve Rickaby wrote: I have a workaround for the 'bad' equations, which is to use the author's PDFs and import them into the target FrameMaker document, but I absolutely need to diagnose this problem for the future. I have worked with FrameMaker equations

Odd maths font problem... more

2007-09-04 Thread Paul Findon
On 4 Sep 2007, at 10:23, Steve Rickaby wrote: > I have a workaround for the 'bad' equations, which is to use the > author's PDFs and import them into the target FrameMaker document, > but I absolutely need to diagnose this problem for the future. I > have worked with FrameMaker equations

Re: Learning FrameMaker 7.0 on Mactel (10.4.10) with Parallels/XP Home

2007-08-29 Thread Paul Findon
On 28 Aug 2007, at 14:03, Mark Poston wrote: I use FM7.2 8 on a daily basis on Windows XP Pro under Parallels. It has been a very stable environment for me. Using Parallels in Coherent mode means that FM sits nicely with my other Mac apps. I'd like to know how copy and paste, especially

Learning FrameMaker 7.0 on Mactel (10.4.10) with Parallels/XP Home

2007-08-29 Thread Paul Findon
On 28 Aug 2007, at 14:03, Mark Poston wrote: > I use FM7.2 & 8 on a daily basis on Windows XP Pro under Parallels. > It has > been a very stable environment for me. Using Parallels in Coherent > mode > means that FM sits nicely with my other Mac apps. I'd like to know how copy and paste,

Re: For Unstructured Framemaker users: FM8 migration plans

2007-08-10 Thread Paul Findon
Hi Ben, Since FM8 doesn't support Mac, we don't have any upgrade plans. Still, it would be nice to move up from FM6, and if Adobe did deliver FM for Mac OS X, we'd snap up 10 copies in a flash. We're not alone though, as Apple is still using Mac FM6 to produce its user guides, which is

For Unstructured Framemaker users: FM8 migration plans

2007-08-10 Thread Paul Findon
Hi Ben, Since FM8 doesn't support Mac, we don't have any upgrade plans. Still, it would be nice to move up from FM6, and if Adobe did deliver FM for Mac OS X, we'd snap up 10 copies in a flash. We're not alone though, as Apple is still using Mac FM6 to produce its user guides, which is

Re: Need 8 Install Help

2007-08-08 Thread Paul Findon
On 7 Aug 2007, at 18:55, Bodvar Bjorgvinsson wrote: I would buy the thing off the Adobe website if they only let me -- in a fair trade. I don't like being laughing stock of Adobe Finance Specialists (or whatever they are) who have set up their feudal system so that we, Europeans have to pay

Need 8 Install Help

2007-08-08 Thread Paul Findon
On 7 Aug 2007, at 18:55, Bodvar Bjorgvinsson wrote: > I would buy the thing off the Adobe website if they only let me -- in > a fair trade. I don't like being laughing stock of Adobe Finance > Specialists (or whatever they are) who have set up their feudal system > so that we, Europeans have to

Re: Acrobat 8 / Distiller on Mac

2007-06-19 Thread Paul Findon
On 16 Jun 2007, at 09:52, Steve Rickaby wrote: I currently have a good sound working FrameMaker set-up with FrameMaker 7.0 and Acrobat 6 Pro on Mac. I may have to go to Acrobat 8 for non-FrameMaker reasons. As there have been reports [Windows only?] of Acrobat 8 installations interfering

Re: How many FM users are there?

2007-05-16 Thread Paul Findon
On 16 May 2007, at 16:00, Bernard Aschwanden wrote: Just as a further note to the info Max passed on, I'm happy to say that several of the features shown included some awesome tools that Frame has been missing for years. While it was demo of a pre- release and not all versions may make it

Re: switched printers -- now HelvObl prints with extra slant

2007-04-20 Thread Paul Findon
On 19 Apr 2007, at 17:52, L MORITSUGU wrote: Thanks very much for your suggestions. I fixed it, a day and a half later, after installing the fonts through Font Book, not directly into the System 9 Fonts folder (which I thought I'd read somewhere was the same thing, but maybe not). For

switched printers -- now HelvObl prints with extra slant

2007-04-20 Thread Paul Findon
On 19 Apr 2007, at 17:52, L MORITSUGU wrote: > Thanks very much for your suggestions. I fixed it, a day and a half > later, after installing the fonts through Font Book, not directly > into the System 9 Fonts folder (which I thought I'd read somewhere > was the same thing, but maybe not).

Re: switched printers -- now HelvObl prints with extra slant

2007-04-19 Thread Paul Findon
On 19 Apr 2007, at 07:00, fL MORITSUGU [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'm using FM 6.5, Mac, in Classic. I was printing to a Laserwriter Select 360, through an AsanteTalk bridge, and everything looked as it should. I've just switched to a Lexmark E120n laser printer. Now it prints Helvetica

switched printers -- now HelvObl prints with extra slant

2007-04-19 Thread Paul Findon
On 19 Apr 2007, at 07:00, f"L MORITSUGU" wrote: > I'm using FM 6.5, Mac, in Classic. I was printing to a Laserwriter > Select > 360, through an AsanteTalk bridge, and everything looked as it should. > > I've just switched to a Lexmark E120n laser printer. Now it prints > Helvetica > bold

Re: platform - technical solution

2007-03-01 Thread Paul Findon
On 28 Feb 2007, at 18:21, Chris Borokowski wrote: I'm sorry to post into this contentious topic, but I specialize in technical solutions, and here are a couple: Thanks, Chris. I look at all possibilities. I'm fairly tech. savvy, so if I was a solo FrameMaker user, something like Parallels

Re: Frame's future

2007-03-01 Thread Paul Findon
On 1 Mar 2007, at 14:00, Mike Wickham wrote: When someone stabs you in the back after you've been a very loyal customer for nearly 20 years, you don't normally go running back for more. So what action are you going to take against Apple for dropping Classic support from their Mactel

Re: Frame's future @ Mac/UNIX

2007-03-01 Thread Paul Findon
Steve Rickaby wrote: Although MacOS X has UNIX underpinnings, the difficult stuff relating to user interfaces, font access, output, etc. is all exclusive to MacOS X In other words, the difficult stuff has all been dealt with for GoLive, Illustrator, InDesign, etc. etc. So Adobe employs

Re: Frame's future @ Mac/UNIX

2007-03-01 Thread Paul Findon
On 1 Mar 2007, at 19:22, Dov Isaacs wrote: Hang on. Don't NeXTSTEP and Mac OS X both support Type 1 fonts? Hang on. Weren't NeXTSTEP app developers some of the first to port their apps to Mac OS X? How difficult could it be? Paul It is quite difficult because the similarities you describe

Re: Frame's future

2007-03-01 Thread Paul Findon
On 1 Mar 2007, at 14:00, Mike Wickham wrote: When someone stabs you in the back after you've been a very loyal customer for nearly 20 years, you don't normally go running back for more. So what action are you going to take against Apple for dropping Classic support from their Mactel

Re: Frame's future @ Mac/UNIX

2007-03-01 Thread Paul Findon
On 1 Mar 2007, at 17:12, Paul Findon wrote: In the early '90s, I made many a manual with Adobe FrameMaker 3.0 for NeXTSTEP. Whoops! In all the excitement I should have said Frame Technology FrameMaker 3.0 for NeXTSTEP. I wonder what ever happened to that code? Paul

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