Re: SVN creates a huge db

2008-12-24 Thread Bodvar Bjorgvinsson
year. Thanks for the wonderful correspondence in the year 2008, which is hurrying into history. God bless you all. Bodvar Bjorgvinsson. Iceland 2008/12/23 Mike Feimster mike.feims...@acstechnologies.com: Bodvar, It appears that the transactions folder is like a staging folder. I could see

Re: Are you creating PDFs for Linux?

2008-12-28 Thread Bodvar Bjorgvinsson
Does not this depend very much on what you want to include in the PDFs? Regular PDFs are no pain. I regularly pdf from various apps in Linux, but nothing really fancy, as I have not seen the need there yet. Most foreign PDFs have been no problem for me. Only a few times I have had problems with

Re: Are you creating PDFs for Linux?

2008-12-28 Thread Bodvar Bjorgvinsson
jdela...@comcast.net: Thank you, Bodvar. Could you post an example of syntax that you know works under Linux? Best, Jack Bodvar Bjorgvinsson wrote: Does not this depend very much on what you want to include in the PDFs? Regular PDFs are no pain. I regularly pdf from various apps in Linux

Re: Discretionary Hyphen Gripe

2009-01-05 Thread Bodvar Bjorgvinsson
) and then import the template's paragraph formats to all the other files in the book. Bodvar Bjorgvinsson 2008/12/31 Mike Wickham i...@mikewickham.com: Does anyone find discretionary hyphens as useless as I do? It appears that they only work if hyphenation is turned on in the paragraph style

Re: OT: question about paragraph reference and section symbols

2009-01-09 Thread Bodvar Bjorgvinsson
for that category, and then apply that system to each manual as the revising job allows. HTH, Bodvar Bjorgvinsson Air Atlanta Icelandic 2009/1/7 Deirdre Reagan deirdre.rea...@gmail.com: Hi all: Any aeronautics people on this list? If yes, (or even if no, feel free to weigh in) in text, when

Re: How do you create a new paragraph after a table?

2009-01-19 Thread Bodvar Bjorgvinsson
it originally? If so I would seriously think of splitting the file instead. Bodvar Bjorgvinsson 2009/1/19 Avraham Makeler amake...@gmail.com: Thanks for the responses. You could choose Special Page Break. The problem with that method is that FrameMaker removes the page break anytime you remove overrides

Re: Off List

2009-01-26 Thread Bodvar Bjorgvinsson
qualifies as a valid point for the list to discuss: What does and should the list stand for? Bodvar Bjorgvinsson 2009/1/25 Howard Rauch techtrans...@sbcglobal.net: One of the qualities of this list that I have always considered important was that it was devoted to the best ways for using FrameMaker

Re: Importing Multi Page Tiffs, How ??

2009-01-27 Thread Bodvar Bjorgvinsson
the tiff file and output a pdf file. See: http://www.remotesensing.org/libtiff/man/tiff2pdf.1.html Best regards, Bodvar Bjorgvinsson 2009/1/26 Richard Melanson rmelan...@spirecorp.com: An update or maybe a summation :-) The TIFF files I have been referring to are controlled by our Engineering

Re: Find and Replace Paragraph Format Feature

2009-01-27 Thread Bodvar Bjorgvinsson
script can be used to speed this up, but then you would have to have FrameScript installed. Bodvar Bjorgvinsson 2009/1/21 Eichelberger, Mark mark.eichelber...@aftech.fiserv.com: Folks, We noticed that when we generated the html output of our FM source files using ePublisher, the fonts for some

Re: Footnotes and paragraph formatting

2009-01-28 Thread Bodvar Bjorgvinsson
You can manage that too by setting the size and offset by experimenting with the size and offset percentage in Format Document Text Options dialog box. Try changing the size of Superscript to 70% and the offset to something that will not change the line height. Just remember that this will

Re: Modification Date Variable

2009-02-06 Thread Bodvar Bjorgvinsson
You could use a variable. Keep a single page fm file with only one variable, e.g. IssueDate. Update this and import into the book. Bodvar 2009/2/5 Joseph panoptico...@gmail.com: Hi all, In one of the books I am working on, I need to insert a date into each frame file when the text is

Re: Review of FrameMaker 9

2009-02-06 Thread Bodvar Bjorgvinsson
Thanks Sheila. Very helpful indeed. :-) Bodvar 2009/2/4 Sheila Loring lor...@scriptorium.com: Hi everyone, before you upgrade to FrameMaker 9, read my review at: http://www.scriptorium.com/palimpsest/2009/02/framemaker-9-review.html. Feel free to leave comments on the blog. -- Sheila

Re: Changing Paper size in template

2009-02-08 Thread Bodvar Bjorgvinsson
of contents, the font size etc. (too many things to mention), so that the margins can be up to approx. one cm larger but very seldom the huge margins that M$Word uses as default. Just print out one page and have a look at it (better at some distance). Bodvar Bjorgvinsson 2009/2/8 Caroline Tabach

Re: Desperately Need Legal FrameMaker 8!

2009-02-18 Thread Bodvar Bjorgvinsson
some three years ago. Then I only needed the upgrade. There is probably a lot on offer with the retailers. Best regards, Bodvar Bjorgvinsson Iceland 2009/2/17 Amy Barry aba...@xmcoinc.com: Good morning, all. The company I work for is growing rapidly and requires multiple copies

Re: Desperately Need Legal FrameMaker 8!

2009-02-19 Thread Bodvar Bjorgvinsson
IMHO this is the list where you get all the technical assistance you need anyway. For my part, Adobe can stop providing technical support for the last major release, except for keeping access to the patches. And that shouldn't cost them much; actually I think they still support older releases that

Re: List of Effective Sections

2009-03-10 Thread Bodvar Bjorgvinsson
to by the Authorities. Further, this method helps if you have to convert the document to any pageless format, like HTML. Best regards. Bodvar Bjorgvinsson Air Atlanta Icelandic 2009/3/9 Kristy Nolan kristy.no...@wnco.com: Hi, all! I just know there has to be a way to do this, but am hitting a wall

Re: Off topic - three general documentation questions

2009-03-17 Thread Bodvar Bjorgvinsson
Did you ever hear about duplex printing? ;-) Bodvar Bjorgvinsson 2009/3/17 Bill Swallow techcommd...@gmail.com: Why on earth would you have blank PDF page? Who's going to take it, print it, and bind it, and then use only the printout? -- Bill Swallow Twitter: @techcommdood Blog: http

Re: HTML Question

2009-03-31 Thread Bodvar Bjorgvinsson
. A third way would be to use CSS to fix an area for this box. Here there is a steeper learning curve. For HTML, XML, CSS, see, e.g.: http://www.w3schools.com/ and http://w3.org Bodvar Bjorgvinsson Air Atlanta Icelandic Iceland 2009/3/30 seawi...@aol.com: Does anyone know how to set up an HTML

Re: Thank you all so much

2009-05-01 Thread Bodvar Bjorgvinsson
version, on eBay. It should come cheap, but only buy an unopened copy. Keep in touch! All the best, Bodvar Bjorgvinsson Iceland Sincerely, Deirdre Reagan ___ You are currently subscribed to Framers as bod...@gmail.com. Send list messages

Re: embedding base 14 fonts

2009-05-18 Thread Bodvar Bjorgvinsson
Some info: http://desktoppub.about.com/od/glossary/g/base14fonts.htm HTH, Bodvar 2009/5/16 Ken Poshedly poshe...@bellsouth.net: The pdf I created for press publication of a quarterly journal for a nonprofit organization does not have all fonts -- especially base 14 fonts -- embedded, which

Re: embedding base 14 fonts

2009-05-18 Thread Bodvar Bjorgvinsson
have come across differences which can be annoying. Keep to the rule of embedding all fonts unless you are just making the pdf for web wiew for relatively new Windows computers only. Bodvar Bjorgvinsson 2009/5/18 Fred Ridder docu...@hotmail.com: For the record, the site Bodvar recommends souldn't

Re: FM to Acrobat conversion disaster

2009-05-18 Thread Bodvar Bjorgvinsson
David, I see that you have received a perfect answer, but I would just like to add that the size you are talking about is the standard European A4. (conversion between inches and cm: 2.54:1). Bodvar 2009/5/18 David Schor dsch...@gmail.com: Desperation time. I have a situation that's turning my

Re: Procedure How to Write a Manual

2009-05-19 Thread Bodvar Bjorgvinsson
On Facebook this would be tagged Like! by many. :-) Bodvar Bjorgvinsson 2009/5/18 stre...@rcn.com: If anyone can write a manual, why do you need to write a procedure for doing it? Let your boss do it if he thinks it's so easy. ___ You

Re: Procedure How to Write a Manual!

2009-05-22 Thread Bodvar Bjorgvinsson
I agree that the writer must love the language, but he/she must refrain from using words such as 'transmogrify' unless there is a very good reason for it _and_ you have the word explained in the Terms and Definitions section. ;-) Have KISS in mind - as much as practicable, when writing technical

Re: Error when updating Side-head tag in flow WITH side-heads

2009-05-22 Thread Bodvar Bjorgvinsson
Have you had a look at all your Master Pages? There might be one that you are not using but is assigned to text flow (A). Bodvar 2009/5/22 Lin Sims ljsims...@gmail.com: There's no doubt something I'm missing here, but for the life of me I don't know what it might be. I have a document with

Re: Big and Little Endians [was: Re: Procedure How to Write a Manual!]

2009-05-22 Thread Bodvar Bjorgvinsson
Now I finally understand and, consequently revoke my warning words against using 'endianess' in a manual. :D What? I understand it, why shouldn't everyone else? :-/ Böðvar -- Enlightened on a Friday 2009/5/22 Jeremy H. Griffith jer...@omsys.com: On Fri, 22 May 2009 13:36:11 +, Bodvar

Re:

2009-06-16 Thread Bodvar Bjorgvinsson
Syed, I suspect this figure is made in TeX/LaTeX or some other application using a special font for this purpose. You might probably find a font somewhere but most likely at a cost. TeX/LaTeX comes for free as in beer and as in speech, including a lot of fonts. So, not much help here. :-(

Re: Diagonal line in a header cell

2009-08-18 Thread Bodvar Bjorgvinsson
. If you have more tables that need the same line just copy and paste the anchored frame. HTH, Bodvar Bjorgvinsson -- Life is not only a game -- it is also a dance on roses. --Fleksnes (Rolv Wesenlund) 2009/8/11 Stephen O'Brien sobr...@innovmetric.com: Hi, I have a table with titles

Re: Automatic Output Generation of FrameMaker Documents

2009-08-18 Thread Bodvar Bjorgvinsson
Fei Min, Have you considered FrameScript? There are a lot of guys on this list that could help with that (not me, though :-( ). Bodvar Bjorgvinsson 2009/8/17 Fei Min Lorente feimin.lore...@onsemi.com: We're in the final (hopefully) stages of setting up our FrameMaker documentation set

Re: Multiple toc in a book file?

2009-08-27 Thread Bodvar Bjorgvinsson
2009/8/27 Studio Smalbro stu...@smalbro.dk: Is it possible to have more than one toc in a book file? Am running FM 7 best regards Bjørn No problem at all, and you can place them wherever you want in the book. I have done a lot of books with chapter ToCs for each chapter and a book ToC.

Re: Multiple toc in a book file?

2009-08-27 Thread Bodvar Bjorgvinsson
TOC or start with the first heading in that specific chapter? Gary On Thu, Aug 27, 2009 at 2:54 PM, Bodvar Bjorgvinsson bod...@gmail.com wrote: 2009/8/27 Studio Smalbro stu...@smalbro.dk: Is it possible to have more than one toc in a book file? Am running FM 7 best regards Bjørn

Re: Has anyone used Subversion for FrameMaker document control?

2009-09-27 Thread Bodvar Bjorgvinsson
applications, but with FrameMaker, that is no problem as FM has its own comparison tool My ten months experience says four thumbs up. Only take time to carefully organize your file structure before you begin any serious work with the SVN. HTH, Bodvar Bjorgvinsson 2009/9/27 qui...@airmail.net

Re: Any advantage to upgrade-FM7.2 to FM9?

2009-09-30 Thread Bodvar Bjorgvinsson
the cost to the management. And as we are writing in English only... As for the other question, some people are using FM 6 today, so FM 7.2 should not be a problem as such in the next few years. I am waiting for FM for Linux! ;-) Brgds, Bodvar Bjorgvinsson Iceland 2009/9/30 Flato, Gillian gfl

Re: Beware the Inadvertent Global Search and Replace

2009-10-15 Thread Bodvar Bjorgvinsson
human behaviour sufficiently into consideration. A very dangerous feature, indeed. Bodvar Bjorgvinsson 2009/10/14 David Dorbin ddor...@gmail.com: Argh. Before I had Frame 9, I had Frame 7, and I used to would Find things thusly: 1. Press Ctrl-f 2. Start typing the text to find. 3. Press

Re: Adobe's upgrade rort

2009-10-20 Thread Bodvar Bjorgvinsson
In the US versions I have laid my hands on there is the option of several languages and, AFAIK, there is no difference between the issues, but I have not bought anything more recent than 7.2. For the main question: Have I ever talked about Big-Business-Feudal-System? Dov, don't read this: The

Re: Strategy for reading list

2009-10-27 Thread Bodvar Bjorgvinsson
years ago). Bodvar Bjorgvinsson Iceland 2009/10/26 Gordon Maney gma...@mestek.com: I greatly appreciate the value to be found in this mailing list. I admit I am really accustomed to using web forums, and have no experience using lists such as this. It has been hard for me to engage

Re: SGML Parsing error - ATA iSpec 2200

2009-10-30 Thread Bodvar Bjorgvinsson
?) into an empty SGML element. One other thing: I see that chg = N. Would that mean that there is no change in this element and its subelements? Is that overriding anything? I am not sure this is helping much, but I hope so. :-) Best regards, Bodvar Bjorgvinsson Iceland -- Life is not only a game

Re: Frame 9 MAJOR BUG

2009-12-30 Thread Bodvar Bjorgvinsson
don't need any specific backup system to retrieve the backed up files. They are kept just as any regular files on your computer. :-) And you can also add this even if you are an employee of a company. Have a blessed and prosperous 2010. Bodvar Bjorgvinsson Iceland 2009/12/30 Shmuel Wolfson shmue

Re: How to find Unavailable Fonts

2010-01-11 Thread Bodvar Bjorgvinsson
I have come across such anomalies. Then it has had to do with imported documents, like OLE linked Visio files or imported pdf files made on another system (older version of M$ Windoze, usually). I have just ignored it and everything will print OK. Never had a real problem with it. It seems as

Re: Printing to PS and distilling to PDF question

2010-03-09 Thread Bodvar Bjorgvinsson
Thanks, Dov. Very illuminating. Bodvar Bjorgvinsson 2010/3/8 Dov Isaacs isa...@adobe.com: A few comments about this issue: (1)     The Adobe PDF PostScript printer driver instance used to create PDF explicitly by printing or implicitly by the FrameMaker save as PDF feature has a special

Re: translating into Icelandic and Serbian?

2010-03-23 Thread Bodvar Bjorgvinsson
are IS/is for Icelandic. Bodvar Bjorgvinsson Iceland. 2010/3/23 LW White lwwhi...@hotmail.com: Using Frame9, DITA. A client translates into Icelandic and Serbian (among many other languages) but these are the only two that do not have corresponding Language values. What should be my approach--should I select

Re: translating into Icelandic and Serbian?

2010-03-24 Thread Bodvar Bjorgvinsson
, Psalms and Proverbia for the Icelandic Gideons. XML language settings are IS/is for Icelandic. Bodvar Bjorgvinsson Iceland. 2010/3/23 LW White lwwhi...@hotmail.com: Using Frame9, DITA. A client translates into Icelandic and Serbian (among many other languages) but these are the only

Re: insert generated list - TOC in content file

2010-04-09 Thread Bodvar Bjorgvinsson
Hi Björn, Just make the file as usual and then import it into the content file. And remove its reference from the Book file. I believe there are some instructions to be found in the Help. Hils dronningen fra mig! ;-) Böðvar Björgvinsson 2010/4/9 Studio Smalbro stu...@smalbro.dk: I need to

Re: Thought for the day

2010-05-26 Thread Bodvar Bjorgvinsson
I like miss steaks. ;-) Bodvar 2010/5/25 Flato, Gillian gfl...@nanometrics.com: Dew knot trussed yore spell chequer two fined awl yore mistakes. Thank you, Gillian Flato Technical Writer (Software) nanometrics 1550 Buckeye Dr. Milpitas, CA. 95035 *408.545.6316 7  408.232.5911 *

Re: [framescript-users] OT: File Permissions

2010-06-16 Thread Bodvar Bjorgvinsson
Maybe you need to log in as admin and change the file ownership from there if you don't have the rights with your regular login? Bodvar 2010/6/15 Rick Quatro frameexp...@truevine.net Hello Framers, Excuse the off-topic post, but I need a little direction with copying files from a hard

ANN: FM 6 and 7.2 on Ebay

2005-12-09 Thread Bodvar Bjorgvinsson
/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItemitem=7203505322ssPageName=ADME:B:SS:US:1 Seem to be genuine packages, but you better check yourselves. Both offer Int'l shipping (at extra cost). If you want to respond to me, please do so off-list. Bodvar Bjorgvinsson Iceland

Re: Bleeds

2005-12-17 Thread Bodvar Bjorgvinsson
No. The bleed should be no less that 2.5 - 3mm (a little bit depending on how accurate the printshop/binding company is). 5mm should be more than enough. There are 25.4mm to the inch, so 1/8in is just over 3mm. Best regards, Bodvar Bjorgvinsson On 12/15/05, Steve Rickaby [EMAIL PROTECTED

Fwd: Copying master page layouts and graphics

2005-12-17 Thread Bodvar Bjorgvinsson
Sorry, sent this only to Lester. Trying again. -- Forwarded message -- From: Bodvar Bjorgvinsson [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Dec 18, 2005 12:07 AM Subject: Re: Copying master page layouts and graphics To: Lester C. Smalley [EMAIL PROTECTED] On 12/16/05, Lester C. Smalley [EMAIL

Re: Those old book numbering blues

2005-12-27 Thread Bodvar Bjorgvinsson
Hi Steve, There is an excellent document on autonumbering at the FrameUsers.com. You will find it under the Website Subsections Downloads. Happy rest of Christmas (in Iceland we have 13 days of Christmas!). Bodvar --- On how the feast of the rebirth of the Sun became Christsmas, see:

FOUND: Re: What happened to Book Info [Was: What happened to Document Reports?]

2005-12-30 Thread Bodvar Bjorgvinsson
Sorry again. What I am refering to is a plugin; http://home.comcast.net/~bruce.foster/BookInfo.htm. I was so familiar with having it showing that I had totally forgotten that it was a plugin. Recommend this plug-in, BTW. Bodvar On 12/30/05, Bodvar Bjorgvinsson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Sorry

Re: OT: Word to PDF

2006-01-13 Thread Bodvar Bjorgvinsson
Since no Acrobat guru has responded, maybe I should add my 2cents. Sometimes PDF995 (www.pdf995.com) has worked where Acrobat has failed. Bodvar On 1/11/06, [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Since we are blessed to have so many acrobat gurus on this list: Windows XP Adobe Acrobat

Re: FM driving me crazy!

2006-01-25 Thread Bodvar Bjorgvinsson
I had this problem with 7.0 once, but I was trying to set the properties from within the component file. Check the settings for the file in the book file. The book file overrides the settings in the component file and changes its settings. And, IIRC, the book file wants all its components to have

Re: Two Frame Issues

2006-01-26 Thread Bodvar Bjorgvinsson
On 1/25/06, Doug [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Also, sometimes when I use Notepad to edit my Maker.ini file, it becomes corrupted. The EOL markers seem to vanish, the whole thing becomes a jumble, and Frame doesn't work properly until I restore an uncorrupted version of the file. What's up with

Re: survey of apps wanted on Linux

2006-02-06 Thread Bodvar Bjorgvinsson
supported by Linux (or vice versa). Bodvar Bjorgvinsson On 2/3/06, rebecca officer [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi everyone Novell are pushing linux, and have a survey up to find out which Windows apps people really want on it. I thought some people might be interested in adding FM to the list

Re: Problem generating PDFs for the printer - it always comes out as RGB

2006-02-06 Thread Bodvar Bjorgvinsson
lines graphics mad within FM etc, I would check what your default printer is. It should be PDFMaker (Distiller). I have had no problems printing to my CMYK printer this way, either directly from FM 7.0 or 7.2 or by PDF-ing and printing from Acrobat or Reader. HTH. Bodvar Bjorgvinsson On 2/6/06

Re: Conditional Pagination

2006-02-10 Thread Bodvar Bjorgvinsson
care. After I generate a PDF, I usually need to add a blank page or two so that our imposition software works correctly. I just do that in Acrobat before running Quite Imposing. Mike -Original Message- From: Bodvar Bjorgvinsson [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, February 09

Re: Conditional Pagination

2006-02-10 Thread Bodvar Bjorgvinsson
E.G.: I have three manuals each consisting of some 100 files (the reason being to make it easier to revise). Each file may or may not end in a blank left page which we chose to have absolutely blank instead of a page consisting of the regular layout (header/footer and stuff) plus the text

Re: Esc-m-p DLL - Update

2006-02-13 Thread Bodvar Bjorgvinsson
with 7.0, 7.1 7.2 successfully. Regards --Paul Wilbraham Aztex Training - Original Message - From: Bodvar Bjorgvinsson [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Martinek, Carla [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: framers List framers@frameusers.com Sent: Monday, February 13, 2006 9:16 AM Subject: Re: Esc-m-p

Distiller swaying lines of boxes with rounded corners

2006-02-13 Thread Bodvar Bjorgvinsson
a long time ago, but not large scale, and I don't remember how it was solved. Any suggestions? Bodvar Bjorgvinsson Supervisor Publishing Air Atlanta Icelandic ___ You are currently subscribed to Framers as [EMAIL PROTECTED] To unsubscribe send a blank

Re: Conditional Pagination

2006-02-13 Thread Bodvar Bjorgvinsson
In the Reference pages add a reference page. Insert a Graphic Frame, almost the size of your regular page size (less a line or two) and name it something relative to its use, like Intentionally Blank. Put a text (with the text tool) above the frame with the name of the frame. Into the graphic

Re: Distiller swaying lines of boxes with rounded corners

2006-02-13 Thread Bodvar Bjorgvinsson
Seems like I haven't browsed through your website for a while, Shlomo. Thank you. I'll go about fixing this in the moringn. Nite. Bodvar On 2/13/06, Shlomo Perets [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Bodvar, You wrote: A weird problem: WinXP SP2. FM 7.2; Distiller 7.0 (with Acrobat 6.0 installed

No File Import option available

2006-02-14 Thread Bodvar Bjorgvinsson
to reinstall FM. System WinXP SP2. Laptop dual screen. Bodvar Bjorgvinsson Supervisor Publishing Air Atlanta Icelandic ___ You are currently subscribed to Framers as [EMAIL PROTECTED] Send list messages to [EMAIL PROTECTED] To unsubscribe send a blank

SOLVED: No File Import option available

2006-02-14 Thread Bodvar Bjorgvinsson
Sorry, silly me! It was only that View Menus Complete was off and Quick was on. Bodvar On 2/14/06, Bodvar Bjorgvinsson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On of our writers has lost the File Import option in his FM 7.2. He has only the import button, but this one only works for file import and my

What is with the list?

2006-02-20 Thread Bodvar Bjorgvinsson
I haven't had an e-mail from the list since the 15th. What happened? Will this e-mail get through? Or maybe everyone's problem is solved? Please respond directly to me and not to the list only. Best regards, Bodvar ___ You are currently subscribed

Re: What is with the list?

2006-02-21 Thread Bodvar Bjorgvinsson
Quite. But we had a fairly recent change of list servers, so that makes me somewhat more cautious, I guess. Next time, I will be quiet for 3 (three) days (plus the weekend). ;-) Bodvar. On 2/21/06, Diane Gaskill [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Bodvar, In my experience on this list since 1992, there

How do I get wildcards to work in Replace?

2006-03-01 Thread Bodvar Bjorgvinsson
by smart quotes. Any way to get around this? Bodvar Bjorgvinsson Air Atlanta Icelandic ___ You are currently subscribed to Framers as [EMAIL PROTECTED] Send list messages to [EMAIL PROTECTED] To unsubscribe send a blank email to [EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: TOCs at beginning of each chapter

2006-03-06 Thread Bodvar Bjorgvinsson
This method is only needed, IMHO, if you want the ToC to refer to the ToC, or if you have a very small ToC that will be sharing a page with the beginning of the chapter. But I agree: use only one book file. There is also the third alternative: make the individual ToCs for each chapter and add it

Re: Tables

2006-03-06 Thread Bodvar Bjorgvinsson
If the first row that is on the next page is too big to be placed on the page it breaks from it is normal. However there could be a setting in the Table Designer setting Orphan rows to something more than 1, that could be affecting the behaviour of your table. Bodvar. On 3/5/06, Shmuel [EMAIL

Re: FrameMaker 6 and Distiller font embedding problem

2006-03-07 Thread Bodvar Bjorgvinsson
...or in Explorer (on XP): C:\WINDOWS\Fonts\ where you will find the option File Install New Fonts instead of File New. For Windows XP and Win2K you should not use ATM for installing fonts. In Windows XP you must have full rights (near-administrator rights) to be able to install fonts -- same

Re: Advice for Upgrading Windows Computer

2006-03-10 Thread Bodvar Bjorgvinsson
All very good suggestions. One thing comes into mind though. I have a very good experience with Dual Processor PC. Comes in handy when PDF-ing large documents. It will only clog one processor, so you have the other free for doing other stuff in the meantime. Also: Two screens are almost a

Re: how to insert product logo in master pages

2006-03-13 Thread Bodvar Bjorgvinsson
There is no reason to reference a logo. They aren't that large. What I do is to add a graphic frame into a reference page (same as holds the lines) and name it Logo. Then I insert the logo by copy into document into that frame and trim as necessary. Next, I go to the master pages and make a

Re: how to insert product logo in master pages

2006-03-13 Thread Bodvar Bjorgvinsson
I agree, if the logo has the same proportions and all that allowes it to be placed exactly the same way -- which is very seldom. Bodvar On 3/13/06, John Sgammato [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: There is one very good reason to reference your logo. If it ever changes, you want to change it once and

Re: Distiller F key Violation

2006-03-13 Thread Bodvar Bjorgvinsson
Thank you Shlomo. This is what I needed to know. I am off vor a vacation now fot a 2 1/2 weeks and will have to check this out upon my return. In the meantime: God bless. Bodvar. On 3/13/06, Shlomo Perets [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Bodvar, You wrote: I had a small book I made in Aug 2005

Re: Question about a trademark superscript

2006-04-04 Thread Bodvar Bjorgvinsson
HTH? Well this certainly has. I don't think I have ever seen this documented (that you can microposition selected characters in a regular text frame). This opens up a lot of options for me. I am changing your name to Peter Goldmine. :-) Thank you, Bodvar On 4/3/06, Peter Gold [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: English Jargon - Intentionally Right Blank

2006-04-07 Thread Bodvar Bjorgvinsson
Right Blank page. Bodvar Bjorgvinsson is correct, never assume foreigners can understand jargon. The English sign outside the Wal*Mart in Beijing today (April 2006) reads, Flesh Juice, so never assume we can read foreign English. For Framers interested in an enlightened message about

Re: Move from Ventura to FrameMaker wise?

2006-04-11 Thread Bodvar Bjorgvinsson
On 4/11/06, John Wilcox [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Ventura Publisher was a feature-rich product long before FM was bought from Frame by Adobe, but after several years on nondevelopment by Xerox (after purchasing VP from Ventura Software), the market share was easily taken over by FM. Corel

ANN: Inexpensive copy on Ebay?

2006-04-15 Thread Bodvar Bjorgvinsson
this information. Advise to newbies: Do not bid until the last minutes, except just to check out how it works. Bodvar Bjorgvinsson (I have no personal interest in this. I am only conveying this information, as I myself have made use of this on several accounts, including buying FrameMaker copies

Re: sluggish scrolling

2006-05-07 Thread Bodvar Bjorgvinsson
This is a Windoze bug IMNSHO. It happens in other apps as well. e.g. M$ Excel. I don't have a wheel mouse, but clicking above or below the slide on the vertical scroll bar has the same effect some times when scrolling big tables or web pages. I thought XP had done with this, but It happened for

Is there a change in behaviour between FM 5, 6 and 7 EDD?

2006-05-09 Thread Bodvar Bjorgvinsson
(and the annoying setting that I have removed from most of the elements in my adaption of the EDD). So does anyone know whether there has been mad a change here in the paragraph formatting of a TABLE element between FM 7 and older? Bodvar Bjorgvinsson Supervisor Publications Air Atlanta Icelandic

Re: Is there a change in behaviour between FM 5, 6 and 7 EDD?

2006-05-09 Thread Bodvar Bjorgvinsson
Thanks, Lynn. Bodvar On 5/9/06, Lynne A. Price [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: At 04:09 AM 5/9/2006, Bodvar Bjorgvinsson wrote: So does anyone know whether there has been mad a change here in the paragraph formatting of a TABLE element between FM 7 and older? Bodvar, No change. Paragraph

Re: Old Pagemaker Files

2006-05-09 Thread Bodvar Bjorgvinsson
AFAIK, there were some big changes made in PM between version 4 and 5 and 5 and 6, but FM can only read down to 6.5. Up to 5 it was owned by Aldus. When I started with PM (in '95), I had some legacy Mac PM 4.0 files and my version was PC 5.0 which could convert the Mac files. When I upgraded to

Re: printing framemaker documents

2006-05-09 Thread Bodvar Bjorgvinsson
It's the same, plus, when printing from Acrobat, set it to automatically rotate. Works for me. Bodvar On 5/9/06, frame user [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi all, I have a new question about this. What if some pages are portrait and some landscape? It seem all the pages print the same way, all

Re: Is there a change in behaviour between FM 5, 6 and 7 EDD?

2006-05-09 Thread Bodvar Bjorgvinsson
That's exactly what happened. The formatting part seems to presuppose that the element works like an anchor, but it actually IS a table element. I am still going through the manual and will probably, before I start the next one, add an anchor element here. The graphics, though have a special

'Bold' not inserted in Character Formats

2006-05-26 Thread Bodvar Bjorgvinsson
! This is an unstructured document, but I am opening it in Structured FM, currently with a lot of structured files open that is rather time consuming to have to close and open again. Could this (opening an unstructured file in Structured FM with a lot of structured files open) be a problem? Best regards, Bodvar

Re: Arabic Framemaker resource needed

2006-06-08 Thread Bodvar Bjorgvinsson
language, you can also set a manual up using different flows, A and B, which would allow you e.g. to share a graphic. You set the A and B frames up on the master pages. Good luck. Bodvar Bjorgvinsson Supervisor Publishing Flght Support Air Atlanta Icelandic On 6/7/06, Robert Kern [EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: Hiding Pages?

2006-06-08 Thread Bodvar Bjorgvinsson
Why not maintain, as you say four books? Are the master pages different? Do they show the different brands (logoes or different text)? If that is the case, then I would suggest four book files with four sets of files which would be referencing by text inset the fifth (and main) set of files or

Re: Colour question

2006-06-11 Thread Bodvar Bjorgvinsson
experience having worked at both sides. Bodvar Bjorgvinsson. On 6/10/06, Dov Isaacs [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Lester is right! And also be aware that NO, repeat NO, repeat yet again NO Windows driver, whether PostScript or otherwise, can accept CMYK from applications, except for EPS passthrough

TOC made with XRef needs line break in middle of line(s)

2006-06-14 Thread Bodvar Bjorgvinsson
to be able to set a tabulator length, so that a line will brake within a tabulator. Is there any way of working this, a FrameScript or something? Can ToCBreaker be tricked into being applicable here? Thanks in advance, Bodvar Bjorgvinsson, Supervisor Publishing, Flight Support, Air Atlanta Icelandic

Re: TOC made with XRef needs line break in middle of line(s)

2006-06-14 Thread Bodvar Bjorgvinsson
just don't know enough yet... :-( Bodvar On 6/14/06, Art Campbell [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: If you wanted uniform line lengths, I think a FrameScript that inserted a soft return XX characters from the start of a TOC line would be pretty easy to craft Art On 6/14/06, Bodvar Bjorgvinsson [EMAIL

Re: Problems with special characters

2006-07-05 Thread Bodvar Bjorgvinsson
CTRL-q-1 (without the dashes, and a lower case q) or in dialog boxes \xb1. Works for me in Icelandic (W-European). Bodvar Bjorgvinsson Supervisor Publishing Air Atlanta Icelandic. On 7/5/06, mathieu jacquet [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Dear all, I have a tough time finding shortcuts for special

Re: Font Problem

2006-07-30 Thread Bodvar Bjorgvinsson
have done this occasionally removing Arial and replacing with Helvetica. Works like a charm. God bless, Bodvar Bjorgvinsson Iceland On 7/30/06, Steve Rickaby [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: At 20:33 -0400 29/7/06, Eduardo F. Cidade, Sr. wrote: Action to date: I generated a list of referencesfonts

Character Format tag does not apply bold in Structured Autonumbering (once again)

2006-08-04 Thread Bodvar Bjorgvinsson
Hi all. I have earlier complained about problems with Character tags where bold becomes bolded or bold does not work at all, so therefore I have as much as possible tried in structured FM to use Characther change format elements. However, these elements can not be used on autonumbering, so

Character Format tag does not apply bold in Structured Autonumbering (once again)

2006-08-08 Thread Bodvar Bjorgvinsson
Hi all. I have earlier complained about problems with Character tags where bold becomes bolded or bold does not work at all, so therefore I have as much as possible tried in structured FM to use Characther change format elements. However, these elements can not be used on autonumbering, so

Re: Character Format tag does not apply bold in Structured Autonumbering (once again)

2006-08-08 Thread Bodvar Bjorgvinsson
it with the character designer, or printing to PDF or paper, or by increasing the zoom percentage? Some fonts at some magnifications don't always display bold properties on screen in FM. HTH Peter Gold KnowHow ProServices Bodvar Bjorgvinsson wrote: Hi all. I have earlier complained about problems

Additional Para Element disturbs numbering in parent element

2006-08-10 Thread Bodvar Bjorgvinsson
If context is: WarnNote[Numbered=No] Prefix: $attribute[MessageType: WarnNote]: Else No additional formatting. In all contexts. Text range. Font properties Weight: Bold Color: Note Bodvar Bjorgvinsson Supervisor Publications Air Atlanta Icelandic ___ You

SOLVED: Additional Para Element disturbs numbering in parent element

2006-08-10 Thread Bodvar Bjorgvinsson
in? Replies take only minutes. Bodvar On 8/10/06, Bodvar Bjorgvinsson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I have run into a really weird problem. In one of my EDDs I recently changed a WarnNote element (due to the fact that I never finished it properly in the first place as I wanted to see what we would be needing

Re: QUESTION: Creating a DIFF doc comparing 2 conditionalized versions of manual

2006-09-22 Thread Bodvar Bjorgvinsson
Comparing two documents (old and new) makes two conditional tags: in the new composite document, Deleted and Changed (or added, can't remember off the top of my head). The deleted one by default changes the deleted text (the one in the old document that you do not find in the new one) to

SOLVED: Change bars not conforming to the Side Closer to / Farther from Page Edge

2006-09-25 Thread Bodvar Bjorgvinsson
, this proves how immensely helpful this list is. Thanks again. Bodvar Bjorgvinsson Supervisor Publishing, Air Atlanta Icelandic. On 9/22/06, Ian Hawkins [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On the Right and Left master pages, check the position of the text frames. Try shifting the text frame on the Right page

Re: Error while trying to generate TOC

2006-09-25 Thread Bodvar Bjorgvinsson
A minor update: The control keys may not work in all language settings. I often have to do things differently on my IS language/keyboard settings. Bodvar On 9/21/06, Lester C. Smalley [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: The keyboard shortcuts and character map info can be found in the online manual

Re: QUESTION: Creating a DIFF doc comparing 2 conditionalized versions of manual

2006-09-25 Thread Bodvar Bjorgvinsson
On 9/24/06, Karen Mardahl [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi Grant Bodvar - do you do a compare of the entire FM book in one step? My complaint about the FM compare is that it is per chapter. I need to do the entire book. I am sure there is a FrameScript solution to such a task, but tell me - is there

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