FrameMaker freaks me out

2014-01-23 Thread Steve Rickaby
At some point while editing yesterday, and I'm not sure what I was doing, *every chapter* in the book I'm working on started displaying all its text as if someone had picked it up and randomly scattered it across the page - complete loss of vertical leading, and sideways shifts as well. It was c

RE: FrameMaker freaks me out

2014-01-23 Thread Reng, Dr. Winfried
nal Message- > From: framers-boun...@lists.frameusers.com [mailto:framers- > boun...@lists.frameusers.com] On Behalf Of Steve Rickaby > Sent: Thursday, January 23, 2014 4:57 PM > To: framers@lists.frameusers.com > Subject: FrameMaker freaks me out > > At some point while editin

Re: FrameMaker freaks me out

2014-01-23 Thread Steve Rickaby
At 11:10 -0500 23/1/14, John Sgammato wrote: >I've seen it once or twice in the past 20 years - closing and restarting FM >worked. Then our statistics match, John - for me, once in 21 years ;-) >I attribute it to sunspots. Or in my case, possible cat fur. -- Steve ___

Re: FrameMaker freaks me out

2014-01-23 Thread David Spreadbury
Steve, Occasionally my FrameMaker display will go a little berserk. Nothing as serious, so far, as you relate, but similar. Also, there are times when I will delete a graphic, but it remains on the screen, and "I know I deleted it". It may be due to a long standing bug in Frame related to refresh

Re: FrameMaker freaks me out

2014-01-23 Thread Steve Rickaby
At 08:16 -0800 23/1/14, David Spreadbury wrote: >Occasionally my FrameMaker display will go a little berserk. Nothing as >serious, so far, as you relate, but similar. Also, there are times when I will >delete a graphic, but it remains on the screen, and "I know I deleted it". It >may be due to

RE: FrameMaker freaks me out

2014-01-23 Thread Syed Zaeem Hosain (syed.hos...@aeris.net)
Steve Rickaby wrote: > At some point while editing yesterday, and I'm not sure what I was doing, > *every chapter* in the book I'm working on started displaying all its text as > if someone had picked it up and randomly scattered it across the page - > complete loss of vertical leading, and side

RE: FrameMaker freaks me out

2014-01-23 Thread Steve Rickaby
At 10:42 -0800 23/1/14, Syed Zaeem Hosain (syed.hos...@aeris.net) wrote: >Since then, I have relied on two things: DropBox is my friend ;-) -- Steve ___ You are currently subscribed to framers as arch...@mail-archive.com. Send list messages to fram

RE: FrameMaker freaks me out

2014-01-23 Thread Syed Zaeem Hosain (syed.hos...@aeris.net)
> >Since then, I have relied on two things: > DropBox is my friend ;-) Yes, indeed! I do daily backups stored on multiple disks - both here and at home - for safety. I use DropBox, but not for these backup files ... yet ... Z ___ You are currentl

Re: FrameMaker freaks me out

2014-01-23 Thread John Sgammato
I've seen it once or twice in the past 20 years - closing and restarting FM worked. I attribute it to sunspots. On Thu, Jan 23, 2014 at 10:57 AM, Steve Rickaby < srick...@wordmongers.demon.co.uk> wrote: > At some point while editing yesterday, and I'm not sure what I was doing, > *every chapter*

RE: FrameMaker freaks me out

2014-01-23 Thread Harro de Jong
Steve Rickaby wrote: > At some point while editing yesterday, and I'm not sure what I was doing, > *every chapter* in the book I'm working on started displaying all its text as > if > someone had picked it up and randomly scattered it across the page - complete > loss of vertical leading, and si

RE: FrameMaker freaks me out

2014-01-27 Thread Davis, David
3 Date: Thu, 23 Jan 2014 19:34:35 + From: Steve Rickaby To: "Syed Zaeem Hosain (syed.hos...@aeris.net)" ,"framers@lists.frameusers.com" Subject: RE: FrameMaker freaks me out Message-ID: Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" A

RE: FrameMaker freaks me out

2014-01-27 Thread Steve Rickaby
At 16:11 + 23/1/14, Reng, Dr. Winfried wrote: >Fortunately I never experienced something like this. >What I would do immediately before closing files or >FrameMaker: Copy the whole folder to a temp folder. >If FrameMaker does not work correctly, it could also >damage the files when closing. G