Variables established at book level?

I have looked before but not found any Frame built-in capability that did this. BookVars is the best way to go here! I could not do without it. My most-oft-used add-on! :) Z -Original Message- From: framers-bounces at lists.frameusers.com [mailto:framers-boun...@lists.frameusers.com]

log out, logout or log off logoff

If it is a web site or something like that, I would use either "log out" or "log off" as the instruction. However, if it is a local program, then a simple "exit the program" or "exit" is better. Z -Original Message- From: framers-boun...@lists.frameusers.com [mailto:framers-bounces at

best price on Adobe Tech Comm Suite 2?

Amazon has it for $1699. Only 2 left in stock ... http://www.amazon.com/Adobe-Technical-Communication-Suite-2/dp/B001OBGLZ W/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8=1250609744=8-1 Z -Original Message- From: framers-boun...@lists.frameusers.com [mailto:framers-bounces at lists.frameusers.com] On Behalf Of

Frame Maker 9 and some questions about its indexing and page limits

Wow! That would drive me totally bonkers if it had happened to me ...!! Z -Original Message- From: framers-boun...@lists.frameusers.com [mailto:framers-bounces at lists.frameusers.com] On Behalf Of Art Campbell Sent: Wednesday, August 05, 2009 8:12 AM To: davec2468 at aim.com Cc: framers

Standard font for technical documentation

> For standard typefaces embedded in print PDF documents, I use Palatino Linotype for serifs, the new (free) Inconsolata-dk for monospaced, and any of a number of sans-serif typefaces--usually Arial, Verdana, Calibri., etc. Hi, Gary. Did you mean Inconsolata-dk or Incolsolata-dz? I have not seen

Soliciting hardware recommendations

>> If you get an Intel Core 2 Duo (or Core 2 Quad) system, running at >> 2.6GHz or higher, with 4GB of DDR2 RAM and 7200rpm drives >> (RAID 0 might >> be a bit of overkill but easy enough to do), Windows Vista Business >> 64-bit, and something like an nVidia 9600GT card or better, you will >>

Heading levels in a UG

I use a maximum of 4 ... anything more, and the heading numbering scheme gets quite clumsy and distracts from the content. Z -Original Message- From: framers-boun...@lists.frameusers.com [mailto:framers-bounces at lists.frameusers.com] On Behalf Of Evanth, Henrik Sent: Wednesday, July

Heading levels in a UG

Ah! 72 levels of headings are quite possible then. . . . I kid, I kid! :) Z -Original Message- From: framers-boun...@lists.frameusers.com [mailto:framers-bounces at lists.frameusers.com] On Behalf Of Mike Wickham Sent: Wednesday, July 15, 2009 2:24 PM To: Frame Users Subject: Re:

Soliciting hardware recommendations

Keep in mind that it is not necessarily obvious that the home-brew system is at fault. It may simply be a matter of re-installing the OS and applications if it is not too old a machine. What is the system motherboard, how much memory does it have, what are the drives, how old is it, what OS ...

Importing a Word Doc into Frame v9.0

This is my practice as well, although I don't go to a complete text file. What I do is read the RTF into Frame and then "copy/paste-special" paragraphs and text into a new document, applying proper paragraph formats as I go. Using my approach minimizes (but does not eliminate) overlooking

WEBINAR: Using FrameMaker and DITA with XDocs Content ManagementSystem

Art Campbell wrote: > Uh, Scott, this seems to be taking place at 10 a.m. PST, which means 7 a.m. EST... > Is that correct? Ummm ... 1pm Eastern. Z

Save As not working with Acrobat Pro 9.0- issue still not resolved

> To be as clear as possible, the "save as PDF" feature of FrameMaker 7 is not at all compatible with Acrobat 7, 8, or 9! > > - Dov Folks, I have to ask if this is categorically true for everybody ... because, my experience with "Save as PDF" to Acrobat has been just fine over the years. I

Converting PDF to Word

I use PDF Convertor Pro for PDF->Word conversions ... works reasonably well, but still needs a lot of cleaning up after the work is done. Might be easier to use Mif2Go to wrote the RTF for Word, from FrameMaker directly. Z -Original Message- From: framers-boun...@lists.frameusers.com

Converting PDF to Word

> Might be easier to use Mif2Go to wrote the RTF for Word, from FrameMaker directly. Argh ... "wrote" should be "write". Z

Use of "please" in technical documentation and messages on screen

Mike Wickham wrote: > Actually, the way I would write the message avoids passive voice and omits > needless words. I would write, "Updating result list. Please wait..." This is how I'd do it too ... :) Z

Getting Rid of Font Change Warning

> >Before I go installing the SetPrint utility, I have a couple of >questions: > > > >- Can I imitate this utility by going to File > Print Setup and > >choosing Adobe PDF as the printer? > If you are there to make the change, you can. But a build > system can't. And personally, I find it way

Horizontal Range Braces

Thanks! I will give this a try today. Z -Original Message- From: Baruch Brodersen [mailto:baruch.broder...@bigbandnet.com] Sent: Tuesday, June 16, 2009 6:15 AM To: Syed Zaeem Hosain (Syed.Hosain at aeris.net); framers at lists.frameusers.com Subject: RE: Horizontal Range Braces Z, You

[OT]: RE:

Ah! I got "Mail undeliverable" messages (but didn't keep them to look further), so I presumed that it was the link. Thanks! Z -Original Message- From: framers-bounces at lists.frameusers.com [mailto:framers-boun...@lists.frameusers.com] On Behalf Of Lea Rush Sent: Tuesday, June 16,

Horizontal Range Braces

Hi, Baruch. Okay, I tried your response and this worked well enough that I think I can make do for what I am trying. Thanks! But ... a comment and questions that might help me do yet better: 1. I used the Color > Definition > ... to make a new color - it is not under the Special > ... (you did

Horizontal Range Braces

Hi, Baruch, I was aware of the character format capability (I use them in numbering for headings and text in the sidehead), but not the ability to select them in equations. My experience with the equations editor is extremely low - no reasons to use them till now! :) I will try all this out as

No subject

Hi, all. I am using FrameMaker 8 on a Windows Vista system. How can I insert a "horizontal range brace" character or graphic like the ones used in figure 3-4 on page 23 of this paper: "h t t p : / / w w w . c d g . o r g / resources / white_papers / MEID_EUIMID_Migration . p d f" (All

List of files w/i a directory

In a dos window: Dir /s > file.txt will do what you want. The "/s" means list subdirectories. BTW, in a dos window, doing: "Command /?" Lists all the options for that "command". Z -Original Message- From: framers-boun...@lists.frameusers.com [mailto:framers-bounces

Procedure How to Write a Manual!

Ah ... the old NUXI problem. :) > I also ran into "endian" while documenting a UNIX application. A > subject-matter expert (SME) patiently explained it to me, though my > impression at the time was that he was a little uncertain. Perhaps the > uncertainty was about the explanation itself, not

Thank you all so much

Sorry to hear this, Deirdre! Hope you find some other opportunity very soon. Z -Original Message- From: framers-boun...@lists.frameusers.com [mailto:framers-bounces at lists.frameusers.com] On Behalf Of Deirdre Reagan Sent: Thursday, April 30, 2009 1:28 PM To: framers at

Any experience Alfresco and/or other document management systems ...

Thanks, Troy! I appreciate the information. I am kicking off this project in the next few days to weeks. Yesterday, I went ahead and signed up for the Community Network access to see how it works ... Regards, Z -Original Message- From: Troy Fey [mailto:troy@opinicus.com] Sent:

Any experience Alfresco and/or other document management systems ...

Sorry for the off-topic, but sorta-related question. Does anyone have experience with the Alfresco system (www.alfresco.com) for use with distribution of documents? If so, can you comment on that (or other competitive products, etc.)? Here is the the context: We do most of our Technical

FM9 Buggy UI Behavior

Are you using the DVI connector or the VGA connector on the laptop (to connect to the external monitor - which I assume is an LCD monitor)? If not DVI, can you try that and see if the problem persists? Also, have you tried switching from dual-screen mode (where the output is on both screens) to

FM9 Buggy UI Behavior

I use a similar, albeit older, laptop - it is a Dell 820 with a nVidia Quadro 120 graphics card and an external Dell 24" LCD (at 1920 x 1200) and do not remember seeing these screen artifacts when I trialed FM 9. Since my trial license has expired, I cannot test again ... L One other thought

Technical Writing Certificate

In addition to courses, I would highly recommend buying and reading this book: http://www.scriptorium.com/books/techwrite101.html Plus, Scriptorium also has on-line courses on FrameMaker and technical writing: http://www.scriptorium.com/training/class_techwrite101.html. It is not a

Adding a shadow to text in Framemaker 7.1

If you do end up creating a graphic, then the best tool for this is from Xara Corporation. Check out www.xara.com for more information ... their Xara3D 6 will do this and much more for text stuff - including outstanding and easy shadow generation (for text and graphical objects). The price ($29

Font and Graphic problems after installing Acrobat 9.0

I would start by removing Adobe Type Manager from her system. It is an old, essentially unsupported Adobe product and was not *really* intended to be used after Windows NT or Windows 2000 (I forget which). ATM may be interacting improperly with the built-in font support inside Windows XP.

Elementary Autonumber Question

Lea saidRush : > I can't count the frustrations I have with autonumbering in Word. Indeed!! It's worst when it tries to read your mind. Z

[semi-OT] Anyone having problems with this morning's Acrobat andReader patches?

Lea Rush wrote: > Thank you for posting this, Art. Once I checked, I found that all my Start > Menu shortcuts were invalidated. They still exist, but they have no icon and > point to nothing. Quite fixable, but very strange. I had this happen too ... indeed strange. I did not bother to check to

OT: Cannot extract text from PDF

Jim Pinkham wrote: > Any possibility of printing, scanning, and OCRing (with Adobe Paper Capture or another tool) the document? Not an elegant solution, perhaps, but quite possibly faster than retyping, if this approach is feasible for you. Other similar possibilities: 1. Print/save the file as

FM 8 no longer generating PDFs with bookmarks for the AcrobatBookmarks pane

Hi, Dov. Please pardon my rant below ... not your personal fault at all! But, Adobe does seriously need to fix PDF generation from FrameMaker, IMHO. Dov wrote: > FrameMaker (exceptionally unfortunately) unlike InDesign, Illustrator, and Photoshop does NOT have the ability to directly export PDF

FM 8 no longer generating PDFs with bookmarks fortheAcrobatBookmarks pane

Thanks! I decided to submit my comments to that site ... just finished getting it written ... wonder if anything will come of it! Z Matt wrote (in response to my rant): > I think I may actually put this link into my email sig... (found by a "googling" Adobe Wish List) Adobe Wishlist:

FM 8 no longer generating PDFs with bookmarks fortheAcrobatBookmarks pane

Okay! :) BTW, my e-mail to the list bounced ... did yours do the same? I wonder if this one will come through ... Z -Original Message- From: Matt Sullivan [mailto:m...@grafixtraining.com] Sent: Wednesday, March 04, 2009 2:32 PM To: Syed Zaeem Hosain (Syed.Hosain at aeris.net); framers

Numbering question

ROFL. If any document needs *that* many independent counters, then it is probably too complicated for the audience to follow the numbering anyway! :) I think that KISS should be applied. I know that I have paragraph numbering up the wazoo in my tech specs, but 12 counters have been more than

Mouse-scrolling solutions

The Microsoft mouse drivers (built into the Intellipoint stuff) from version 6.0 onwards - currently at version 6.3 - worked very well for me for the scroll wheel support inside FrameMaker. With FrameMaker 7.2 and 8.0. on Windows XP SP2, SP3 and I am now on Windows Vista. I was going to test

OT :: Frame & Voice to Text software

> I'd highly recommend the Microsoft Natural Keyboard and a Logitech trackball as alternative controllers. I've used both for a long time and love 'em both, but you do need to adjust to them. I also *highly* recommend the Microsoft Natural keyboard. I have the classic fore-arm repetitive motion

PDF to Word Conversion

As you noted, the built-in support in Adobe Acrobat has, to write the PDF in Word format, is pretty darn limited for any serious documents. I have used PDF Convertor Professional (from www.nuance.com) to read PDF files into Word with much better results. However, the results STILL require a LOT

markups

> I have an OT questions -- when you mark up someone's document, or when > they mark up your document, how do you determine between "must change" > markups and "strongly recommend" markups? We require the reviewers to be clear in what they want! :) Separate, but related, all our technical

Frame reference book

> I am fairly new to Frame. I'm looking for a good book that will help me sharpen my Frame skills and also be a good reference guide. I have Frame 7.1. Any suggestions? I recommend "Publishing Fundamentals: Unstructured FrameMaker 8", by Sarah S. O'Keefe and Sheila A. Loring. You can get the

PDF Documentation

Both the Agilent examples are good demonstrations of how to do a screen-readable PDF. Very nice! The funniest part of this, though, is that I have the original printed version (of the AN-91-1 document only, not the second one) before the concept of PDF formats even existed! :) It was *totally*

Screen Capture

Brian Lamborn wrote: > I am creating some manuals and I need to include some screen shots of our configuration software. Any recommendations on which screen capture software works best? I just use the built-in Windows capabilities (works well for me) ... some others here like Snag-It. Z

FM8 seems to be sluggish on my PC

Hi, Rick. In the recent past, after I upgraded to Vista, I examined the actual physical (i.e., not paged to disk) memory being used while I have had some large FM documents open, and that was not an issue, as far as I could tell. However, I was thinking of bumping the memory up anyway, so I will

FM8 seems to be sluggish on my PC

Fred Ridder said: ? The 32-bit versions of Vista can only address 3 GB of memory, so more than that amount doesn't improve performance unless you're running the 64-bit (Ultimate) version of Vista. Yup! But you don't have to go all the way to Ultimate 64. Just as an FYI, there is a Vista

Adobe announces FM9 and Tech Comm Suite 2

Acrobat 9 Pro Extended is indeed available a separate product. Note: I don't know whether it has the PDF workflow capability in it or not, or how well it integrates with FrameMaker 9 - when purchased without TCS 2.0 that is. Z Clint Owen wrote: > Does anyone know if the PDF review feature will

TOOL: Very inexpensive alternative to Illustrator etc.

I agree completely! Last December, I bought their suite of three tools (Xara Extreme 4, Webstyle 4, and Xara 3D 6) for $119 as I recall (special for the holidays) and it was money well spent, IMHO. I liked it to the point where I decided not expense it to my company and just license it myself (so

FM8 seems to be sluggish on my PC

> I often have lots of dialog boxes open (e.g. paragraph/character designer, marker window), and I do not notice anything special. Specifically jumping around with the insertion mark or selecting text is fast. > I have FM 8.0p277, 1 GB RAM, Windows 2000 Professional. > Therefore I do not think

FM8 seems to be sluggish on my PC

This pretty much sums up what I saw with some testing too, but I did not go to the level of detail that you have done here! I think that the constant "refresh" of information inside the Para and Char Designer boxes is what causes the slowdown. Thanks for the detailed information, Mike! Z

FM8 seems to be sluggish on my PC

Richard Combs wrote: > Your explanation makes sense, and suggests that the degree of slowdown will depend on how many different pgf and char tags the cursor moves through. There's a lot of information displayed in the Designer dialogs, and if it changes every few characters or lines... I *think*

How do you create a new paragraph after a table?

Sharon Burton wrote: > Inserting page breaks for copy-fitting while you are crating content results > in a large amount of rework in the future, as added content will move page > breaks around and must manually be managed. Very, very true! I am an old school writer and was taught to get the

Greater Than Or Equal To symbol in Frame 8 on XP pro

Another possibility. I have been thinking of buying this font (link below) rather than use "Symbol", but have held off since I would not have a major need for most of this stuff yet. But they do *seem* to look reasonable ... anyone want to spring for it and let us know how good this font is (at

Easiest way to rename all linked graphics without having torescale?

Years ago, I wrote a little DOS command utility that changes one string to another on a large set of files, without having to open each one in an editor. It is a very limited program (in that you have to be careful to NOT have an overlap in the "from" and "to" strings" and you have to be

the values of Variables: only per document and not per book?

Foor book-level variables control, I *strongly* recommend the BookVars plugin by Leximation! I use this all the time for my documents - it is the best add-on I have for FrameMaker. Please see www.leximation.com for the details. Z -Original Message- Hi all, I am new to this group, and

FM 8 upgrade woes: some solutions

Sorry to hear about the problems you have had, but ... I guess everyone has their own particular experiences that will differ. On both my older XP system, and now my rebuilt Vista system, FM 8 crashes FAR less frequently than FM 7 (any of the 7.0, 7.1 or 7.2 versions). I find it to be much more

OT: correct symbol to use

> I have gone with "1(a)...(c)" for now, but you are right, "1(a) to 1(c)" is more correct. > I do like that idea though Stuart, how about 1(a...c)? > Cheers > Alan Ummm ... I think the "1(a) to 1(c)" is best. The "1(a...c)" is a bit too unusual looking and *could* lead to confusion. The

Re-installing FM 8 onto a new drive ...

> I use both FM 7.2 and 8 on the same Vista 32-bit system without problems. > I just open the version I want to use first. Curiosity question: I see a number of people keeping FM7.2 on their systems. Why? Wouldn't it be simpler to go to FM8 and be done with it? I don't have a need to send .fm or

Re-installing FM 8 onto a new drive ...

> > Wouldn't it be simpler to go to FM8 and be done with it? > Maybe. But. > - If FM 7.2 does everything you need, there might not be a reason to update. > - Not everybody can get the money for updates. While it might be relatively cheap to buy a single license, the cost grows quickly when you

Re-installing FM 8 onto a new drive ...

> I'm an Adobe trainer, so I need both versions depending on which version my client has. I also have InDesign CS2, CS3, and CS4 on my computer too. (The government is usually the last to upgrade...) Ah! Got it ... > > I am not sure I understand this exactly. Do you mean that when you did > > an

Re-installing FM 8 onto a new drive ...

> > Curiosity question: I see a number of people keeping FM7.2 on their > > systems. Why? Wouldn't it be simpler to go to FM8 and be done with it? I > > don't have a need to send .fm or .book files to people, but if I did, I > > could save it in FM7.2 format if needed (as far as I recall) from

Re-installing FM 8 onto a new drive ...

Hi, all. My laptop disk drive started acting flaky, so I had to put a new drive onto the system. In this process, I rebuilt my laptop using Windows Vista rather than Windows XP. I am now at the stage of re-installing FrameMaker 8 and have some questions (one a bit belated). 1. I assumed that

Re-installing FM 8 onto a new drive ...

stallation directory from my backups ... is there some file there that would solve this issue? Z From: framers-bounces at lists.frameusers.com on behalf of Syed Zaeem Hosain (syed.hos...@aeris.net) Sent: Wed 12/10/2008 8:59 AM To: framers at lists.frameusers.com S

Re-installing FM 8 onto a new drive ...

I think I will need to do that! Z From: John Posada [mailto:jposad...@gmail.com] Sent: Wed 12/10/2008 9:17 AM To: Syed Zaeem Hosain (Syed.Hosain at aeris.net) Cc: framers at lists.frameusers.com Subject: Re: Re-installing FM 8 onto a new drive ... Why don't

Re-installing FM 8 onto a new drive ...

Okay ... I am now in "Live Chat" with someone who says they can help. Z From: John Posada [mailto:jposad...@gmail.com] Sent: Wed 12/10/2008 9:17 AM To: Syed Zaeem Hosain (Syed.Hosain at aeris.net) Cc: framers at lists.frameusers.com Subject: Re: Re-installing

Re-installing FM 8 onto a new drive ...

Hi, Dov, et. al. > (1) FrameMaker 8 works fine on both Vista 32-bit and Vista 64-bit assuming that if you are running Acrobat, you are using at least Acrobat 8.1. Thanks for the info! I use Acrobat Pro 9, so that should be okay. But, I do have to re-install Acrobat next. And, deal with the

Re-installing FM 8 onto a new drive ...

I do not know about FM 7.2 and Vista - so maybe Dov can comment on that. But, at least, I can now confirm that FrameMaker 8 runs fine on Vista 32 bit. J The look and feel of the windows and pop-ups is a bit different, but that has to do with Vista being different from XP ... not FrameMaker.

Layoffs and Frame 9?

> On Wed, Dec 3, 2008 at 6:18 PM, John Hedtke wrote: > > Does anyone know if the Adobe layoffs are... > > Adobe? Layoffs? > > Googlegooglegoogle... here we go, in case anyone else hadn't heard and > wants to read up: > > http://www.google.ca/search?hl=en=adobe+layoff= Unless I am missing

Layoffs and Frame 9?

Oops, never mind (sorry!), I just saw this one: http://www.gskinner.com/blog/archives/2008/12/adobe_company_w.html Z > -Original Message- > From: Syed Zaeem Hosain (Syed.Hosain at aeris.net) > Sent: Wednesday, December 03, 2008 4:09 PM > To: 'Milan Davidovic'; John Hedtke > Cc: framers

Layoffs and Frame 9?

> On Wed, Dec 3, 2008 at 6:18 PM, John Hedtke wrote: > > Does anyone know if the Adobe layoffs are... > > Adobe? Layoffs? > > Googlegooglegoogle... here we go, in case anyone else hadn't heard and > wants to read up: > > http://www.google.ca/search?hl=en=adobe+layoff= > > -- > Milan Davidovic

How can I use variables in the autonumber format of paragraphs?

Hi, Rick. That is an interesting idea for sure! I will try it out. Thanks much, Z > -Original Message- > From: Rick Quatro [mailto:frameexpert at truevine.net] > Sent: Saturday, November 29, 2008 6:45 AM > To: Syed Zaeem Hosain (Syed.Hosain at aeris.net); framers at lists.frameusers.com

How can I use variables in the autonumber format of paragraphs?

Hi, all. (Using FrameMaker 8.0p277 on a Windows XP Pro SP3 system.) I am currently using the following autonumbering format to increment a counter for certain paragraphs: R:22.4a- This works well for my needs. However, the "22.4a" is actually the version number of the book

Fonts won't install

Ah! Good to know. Thanks ... interesting (and surprising) that the drivers for a video card can have this effect on fonts. Z > -Original Message- > From: David Boss [mailto:bosscomm at rogers.com] > Sent: Wednesday, November 12, 2008 11:26 PM > To: Syed Zaeem Hosain (Syed.Hosain at

Fonts won't install

> I moved to a new PC recently and now find that I can't install any type 1 > or opentype fonts. I get a message that "the font file may be damaged". The > files were copied from my old PC so I know they are fine. Windows XP SP3 (no > choice as that's what Dell provided). Any ideas? Please copy

Printing with line numbers

> Are they asking for this just to make it easier to pinpoint something on > a page, to avoid having to describe things as "the second sentence in > the third paragraph under 'Oblating the Retromizer'?" Some standard document formats need line numbers as part of their requirements. For example:

Printing with line numbers

> Syed.Hosain at aeris.net wrote: >>> Are they asking for this just to make it easier to pinpoint something on >>> a page, to avoid having to describe things as "the second sentence in >>> the third paragraph under 'Oblating the Retromizer'?" >> >> Some standard document formats need line numbers

Odd keyboard behavior

> For those of us using English, then, the fix is: > > SmartQuotes=''"" Get rid of this mistake!! > SmartQuotes=\xd4\xd5\xd2\xd3 > > That tells Frame to use its *internally-coded* characters, > and those it knows how to map to the real Unicode characters, > because in the MIF we get UTF-8 that

Odd keyboard behavior

> -Original Message- > From: Jeremy H. Griffith [mailto:jeremy at omsys.com] > Sent: Thursday, October 16, 2008 3:27 PM > To: framers at lists.frameusers.com > Cc: Syed Zaeem Hosain (Syed.Hosain at aeris.net) > Subject: Re: Odd keyboard behavior > > On Thu, 16 Oct 2008 08:56:28 -0600,

Can one selectively "remove" Change Bars in a Document?

Hi, all. Using FM 8 (latest version) on a Windows XP SP3 system. Is there any way to do selective removal of Change Bars? I.e., without removing them from the whole document (from the menu item that does this)? Reasons and comments: 1. In some of my specification documents, I explicit note

Can one selectively "remove" Change Bars in a Document?

Perfect! That worked like a charm. Thanks much! Z > -Original Message- > From: Shlomo Perets [mailto:shlomo2 at microtype.com] > Sent: Sunday, October 12, 2008 12:16 PM > To: Syed Zaeem Hosain (Syed.Hosain at aeris.net) > Cc: Framers at FrameUsers.com > Subject: Re: Can one selectively

Can one selectively "remove" Change Bars in a Document?

> Select the text you want to (de-)change-bar, then hit ESC, c, and h (in > sequence, none at the same time). This toggles the change bar on and off. Thanks! This seems to work in body in normal text paragraphs well, but has a bit of difficulty with text inside paragraphs ... I may need to do

zipping an FM book

> My colleague is attempting to WinZip his book. Every time in the > past, the book has zipped just fine. > > This time, when he opens the zipped file, the book doesn't recognize > any chapters. We've tried zipping it by itself, zipping it on a > different machine, and zipping the folder

PDFs -- to tag or not

> On Fri, Oct 3, 2008 at 11:41 AM, wrote: > > My experience has been very weird with this. FrameMaker 8 (latest > > patches) and Acrobat 8 Pro (latest patches) > > Interesting -- though in my case I'm on FM 7.2 and the issue I'm > facing isn't in FM or Acrobat themselves, but with another piece

Installing FM 7.2 and FM 8.0 on a PC

No problems with side-by-side installations of multiple versions of FM. Just remember that if you open an FM 7.2 document with FM 8, then it converts the file to the new format and will, I believe, make that file unusable in FM 7.2 from that point on. Also if you install 7.2 after installing 8,

Number of files edited in the Pull Down Menu

Hi, all. Can the default number of files in the history the Pull Down menu (under "Files->") be changed? It defaults to the last five files and books, and I'd like to increase that number to at least 9 (like many other Windows apps can be changed). I am using FrameMaker 8.0p277 on a Windows XP

Anchored frame internal gap

Hi, all. I am not receiving any e-mail from the Framers list - including the test I tried yesterday. Is the list operational, or is it me? Can someone please send me e-mail to let me know ... thanks!! Z

Test ...

I am not seeing any e-mails from this list for a week now! Is it still operational? Thanks! Z

need IBM Stryle Guide reference

Hi, Jim. I do not have the IBM style Guide, but some other references below ... hope this helps. Both "The Chicago Manual of Style, 14th Edition" and the "MLA Style Manual and Guide to Scholarly Publishing" are silent on the topic of gerunds. At least, there is no index entry for gerund. (MLA =

need IBM Stryle Guide reference

Ah! Here is additional stuff in the Microsoft Manual of Style that illustrates my concerns about using gerunds in body text. Hope this helps! Gerunds A gerund is the -ing form of a verb used as a noun. Use gerunds to form the titles of procedural Help topics.

Thank You

Hi, Deirdre. FWIW, I am on very few lists, but I find that reading this one is pretty essential. I spend about 50% of my time working on technical documents (using FrameMaker, of course) and I read every e-mail from this list, since it sometimes relates to something I need to know/learn about -

Deleting fntcache.dat no longer necessary: Windows Hotfix nowavailable

> Thanks for the info, Art. The link was not quite that obvious. But the > odd thing is that all the XP versions seem to assume SP4. I am running > SP2 and only new installations in my company are SP3. None is SP4. I > hope it will not result in some disaster. ;-) 1. There is no XP SP4 available

How FM use impacts purchasing decisions

> Am I correct to understand that anything more than 3GB of RAM is wasted unless you're running Vista? Generally speaking, yes, with almost all of the Windows XP versions (i.e., Windows XP 64-bit, of course!). You would need Vista 64-bit to get more than 4GB. Also, note that, in many cases,

How FM use impacts purchasing decisions

> > Am I correct to understand that anything more than 3GB of RAM is > wasted unless you're running Vista? > > Generally speaking, yes, with almost all of the Windows XP versions > (i.e., Windows XP 64-bit, of course!). You would need Vista 64-bit to > get more than 4GB. Argh! Above, I meant to

Adobe PDF failures ... backwards from what I had recently.

> It would be helpful if somewhere in your email you provided your FM > and Acrobat version levels, and other diag info such as if the files > are local or networked, how much RAM and temporary file space you have > on the system, if there are any unusual configurations in the document > files,

How FM use impacts purchasing decisions

Mike Bradley wrote: > > I don't know how you feel about Dell hardware etc., and I have no > > experience with their laptops myself, but until July 2 you can still > > order the Vostro models with WinXP installed. > > If you do this, be sure to order Office 2003, as well. I bought an XP > machine

Arial being changed to ArialMT in PDF

> Arial has strong similarities to Helvetica (although it really can't > be called a "knock-off" due to many differences in style, although the > Arial shipped these days has "set widths" that closely match those of > the Helvetica base fonts in PostScript printers) - very bland san serif > font

How FM use impacts purchasing decisions

> > Um ... All of the Office 2007 software (including Project and Visio and > > Groove, etc.) works perfectly fine on my Windows XP system (and on my > > Vista system, of course). > > I should have written more clearly. > > It's not that Office 2007 doesn't run on an XP system, it's that it has

Adobe PDF failures ... backwards from what I had recently.

Hi, all. Please pardon the long e-mail here! In the past, with FrameMaker 7.2 and Acrobat Pro 7, on the TAGS menu, I had to *uncheck* the "Generate Tagged PDF" to make it work without crashing. Then, with FrameMaker 8 and Acrobat Pro 8, on the TAGS menu, I had to *check* the "Generate Tagged

disagreement on overrides

> The way I've been "brought up" as a Frame user was to avoid overrides > wherever possible. I'm now working with a writer who is much more > liberal about overrides than I am. We currently work only on > unstructured Frame documents; output is PDF (to print from or for use > onscreen). Right now,

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