Endless crashes when trying to print book to file (Unstructured)

; > -Original Message- > From: > framers-bounces+david.shenton=smithsdetection.com at lists.frameusers.com > [mailto:framers-bounces+david.shenton=smithsdetection.com at lists.frameuse > rs.com] On Behalf Of Bodvar Bjorgvinsson > Sent: Thursday, December 21, 2006 4:55 AM > T

survey of apps wanted on Linux

supported by Linux (or vice versa). Bodvar Bjorgvinsson On 2/3/06, rebecca officer 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 li

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

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

Esc-m-p DLL - Update

changes to "At insertion point". I have not tried it with 7.0. My environment is XP SP2 Lang=IS,is (which has affect on many shortcuts, but seemingly until now, only those outside of the common ASCII 128 character set. Has anyone had a positive outcome for this on 7.2? Bodvar Bj

Esc-m-p DLL - Update

Tested with 7.0, 7.1 & 7.2 successfully. > > Regards > > --Paul Wilbraham > Aztex Training > > - Original Message - > From: "Bodvar Bjorgvinsson" > To: "Martinek, Carla" > Cc: "framers List" > Sent: Monday, February 13, 200

Distiller swaying lines of boxes with rounded corners

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

Conditional Pagination

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

Distiller swaying lines of boxes with rounded corners

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 wrote: > Bodvar, > > You wrote: > > >A weird problem: > > > >WinXP SP2. > >FM 7.2; Distiller 7.0 (with Acrobat 6.0 installed after

No "File > Import" option available

hate to have to reinstall FM. System WinXP SP2. Laptop dual screen. Bodvar Bjorgvinsson Supervisor Publishing Air Atlanta Icelandic

SOLVED: No "File > Import" option available

Sorry, silly me! It was only that View > Menus > Complete was off and Quick was on. Bodvar On 2/14/06, Bodvar Bjorgvinsson 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 imp

What is with the list?

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

What is with the list?

emblaze-vcon.com> > > www.emblaze-vcon.com <http://www.emblaze-vcon.com> > "Video Made Easy" > > -Original Message- > From: framers-bounces+davids=emblaze-vcon.com at lists.frameusers.com > [mailto:framers-bounces+davids=emblaze-vcon.com at lists.frameuse

File Management Question

the folder where you keep the folders? Best regards, Bodvar Bjorgvinsson On 2/20/06, John Huntington wrote: > Ooops, looks like this never went out! > > John Huntington wrote: > > Ridder, Fred wrote: > >> Well, if you do an Update Book operation, FrameMaker opens and

File Management Question

On 2/20/06, John Huntington wrote: > Bodvar Bjorgvinsson wrote: > > Odd. What does the Book file say? I am not quite clear based on your > > earlier post what is the problem. > > --- snipped --- > > Basically, I've been doing a lot of work on a book, and I cut a bu

Centered Figure Caption alignment

For centered text, use \st (thin space), \sn (en-space) or \sm (em-space) or a plain and simple space, instead of a tab character. Bodvar. On 2/22/06, Robert.Werner at appsense.com wrote: > Hi, > > I have created a centre aligned figure caption with a tab in the autonumber > after the

Is there a way to...

You can do it from within the book file window, but you better have all the files of the book open, because FM will check for xrefs and all kinds of links within every file of the book for every file you change the name of, and, if the files are closed, that would mean that FM would have to open

Setting page size to show bleeds

I found this out the other day. I feel it is a Distiller Bug. Maybe Adobe feels it is a feature? ;-) Seriously, why shouldn't we be allowed to distill a document with both crop marks AND bookmarks if we really want to? Bodvar On 2/27/06, Scott White wrote: > I bet that is it. Didn't know that

OT: Word to PDF

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, Tammy.VanBoening at jeppesen.com wrote: > Since we are blessed to have so many acrobat gurus on this list: > > Windows XP > Adobe

Setting Logical Page Numbering from FrameMaker

The practical thing about using roman numbering in front matter, back matter and generated pages and arabic in the body could be that it may speed up the process of getting to the actual "contents" of the book in acting as one more optical aid. Just my 2 cents... Bodvar On 1/17/06, Joe Malin

FM driving me crazy!

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

Two Frame Issues

On 1/25/06, Doug 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 this/ >

Problems with special characters

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 wrote: > Dear all, > > I have a tough time finding shortcuts for

Font Problem

them all in a flash. I 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 wrote: > At 20:33 -0400 29/7/06, Eduardo F. Cidade, Sr. wrote: > > >Action to date: > >I

PDFs: How big is too big?

It all depends on where in the world your market is. I can speak from my experience only -- our company is spread all over the continents, and we get people complaining when the connections are slow, like in many hotels etc, but at the same time we build on Intranet access from all our bases. In

Arabic Framemaker resource needed

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 wrote: > Fram

Hiding Pages?

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

Colour question

experience having worked at both sides. Bodvar Bjorgvinsson. On 6/10/06, Dov Isaacs 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

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

at we need 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

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

ab towards the end of the line and using hard spaces and em spaces in between tabs, I could make it work. But IMVHO (in my very humble opinion), Adobe really should go about adding optional tab lengths to the tabs, so that a line will automatically break within a tab. Thanks again, Bodvar Bjorgvins

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

m there. I just don't know enough yet... :-( Bodvar On 6/14/06, Art Campbell 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

Localization and switch to A4 paper

s not been discussed in any detail before, at least not for the last four years. HTH, Bodvar Bjorgvinsson Air Atlanta Icelandic, "The Airline for the Airlines" http://www.airatlanta.com. On 6/23/06, Melanie Raney wrote: > Hi all, > My group is in the process of figuring out what is inv

How do I get wildcards to work in Replace?

surrounded by smart quotes. Any way to get around this? Bodvar Bjorgvinsson Air Atlanta Icelandic

TOCs at beginning of each chapter

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

FrameMaker 6 and Distiller font embedding problem

...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 --

Advice for Upgrading Windows Computer

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

how to insert product logo in master pages

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

how to insert product logo in master pages

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 wrote: > There is one very good reason to reference your logo. If it ever changes, you > want to change it once and have that change

Distiller F key Violation

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 wrote: > Bodvar, > > You wrote: > > >I had a small book I made in Aug 2005 which had

sluggish scrolling

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 me

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

Thanks, Lynn. Bodvar On 5/9/06, Lynne A. Price 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 chan

Old Pagemaker Files

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

printing framemaker documents

It's the same, plus, when printing from Acrobat, set it to automatically rotate. Works for me. Bodvar On 5/9/06, frame user 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 landscape or

Dual Monitors for Structured Frame

This is a Windows setting. Right click on desktop, then click Properties, then click Settings. If you don't come up with a window showing both desktops, you will have to scroll the options. The rest varies between graphic adaptors, I think. Your IT people should be able to help you there. Best

figure titles in webworks

I am not [yet] into WebWorks and I don't know whether the code example you give is an automatic conversion by the application or whether this is something you decide (in your rules). But I have a BIG general question here (to the list): Why use Microsoft arbitrary code instead of the generic

figure titles in webworks

Hi Lilah, On 5/18/06, Lilah Johnson wrote: > Hi Bodvar- > Actually, this is the code generated by WebWorks, and it is supposed to be > simple > HTML. I was afraid sol > I did not personally write the HTML. I am sure I could tweak the HTML as you > suggested (and thanks so much for the

What do you use for PDF generation?

Actually I had to use it when Acrobat (5) failed. It handled "non-standard" pages much better. I could highly recommend it, but they aren't paying me any... ;-) . I believe there are some free out there, e.g. these open source: http://www.reportlab.org/

numbering conundrum

Have you tried MIFfing the file and study the part there after 7.3? Maybe you could find something in there. But this is why I am in favor of nested numbering, like: <$volnum><$chapnum>< >< >, etc. (note the space between the brackets). Say you have a five level numbering, starting with the

'Bold' not inserted in Character Formats

again. Could this (opening an unstructured file in Structured FM with a lot of structured files open) be a problem? Best regards, Bodvar Bjorgvinsson Supervisor Publications Air Atlanta Icelandic

Which should we purchase, PhotoShop or Illustrator

distortion of the image. Bodvar Bjorgvinsson On 5/26/06, Joe Malin wrote: > My $.02 > > Cleaning up graphics is one of Photoshop's target tasks. If you have the > money, Photoshop is the way to go. > > Creative Suite is worth the price, since it includes Photoshop, > Illustra

'Bold' not inserted in Character Formats

but now we have had a couple of years of SP2 and endless automatic upgrades. Maybe one of these have done something to harm the beautiflul relationship of the two? Bodvar On 5/26/06, Combs, Richard wrote: > Martha J Davidson wrote: > > > At 04:57 AM 5/26/2006, Bodvar Bjorgvinsson wrot

Internet explorer glitch

. Bodvar Bjorgvinsson Air Atlanta Icelandic On 11/15/06, Doug wrote: > After I upload a file update to my webserver, I like to test the > upload by downloading it using Internet Explorer. However, the file I > download is always the original version, not the update. FireFox > do

Headings (con't) in FM 7.2?

that would read a different header. However it is easy to see instances where this might create problems. So, I guess that my answer is not helping much. ;-) Bodvar Bjorgvinsson On 10/31/06, Gillespie, Terilyn wrote: > Hello All, > > > > I've searched and searched through archives

Creating a Folded Booklet

e for each numbered page and then have 3 or more master pages for the sheet. The printshop would have no problem with arranging that. As you see there are different approaches. HTH, Bodvar Bjorgvinsson On 10/4/06, Rebecca.L.Frasure at aphis.usda.gov wrote: > Is is possible to build a f

Columns in middle of chapter

the top to form the columns and one in full width at the bottom. Finally, you would have to tweak the frames (preferably on the master page) when you have the final contents ready, so that the shifting is on the right spot (start and end). Clumsy, but the only way I know to do it. HTH, Bodvar Bjorgvinsson

general publication quiestion

fers to them as just "Blank" with no page numbering reference. Good luck with the conversion. Bodvar Bjorgvinsson Air Atlanta Icelandic. On 10/16/06, Susan Curtzwiler wrote: > Hi all, > Is there any hard and fast rule that when you have a blank left page > before

Question on external formats and question on TOC settings

. I hope this will not scare you away from looking into the Structured FM. It has its definitive upsides for a lot of document types. Bodvar Bjorgvinsson Air Atlanta Icelandic. On 10/17/06, Paul Pehrson wrote: > Hello fellow Frame users, > > This is my first post to the list; I joined

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

e Bars settings in the originals and rerunning the compare. But the result is exactly the same for me. Are there any settings in the maker.ini that can change this to normal? Bodvar Bjorgvinsson Supervisor Publishing Air Atlanta Icelandic

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

e text frame on the Right page slightly to the > right, and on the Left page shift to the left. > > When FM places the change bars, it uses the margin width to determine > which side is closer to/farther from the edge, not the right/left page > setting as one would expect. >

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

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"

, this proves how immensely helpful this list is. Thanks again. Bodvar Bjorgvinsson Supervisor Publishing, Air Atlanta Icelandic. On 9/22/06, Ian Hawkins wrote: > On the Right and Left master pages, check the position of the text > frames. Try shifting the text frame on the Right page sl

Error while trying to generate TOC

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 wrote: > The keyboard shortcuts and character map info can be found in the online > manual

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

On 9/24/06, Karen Mardahl 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 a

TOC in structured Frame

that for you. So to your first question: No, except that you can refer to elements instead of paragraph tags. Best regards, Bodvar Bjorgvinsson On 9/27/06, Pallavi Nagesha wrote: > Hi > > Is there any special way you ought to create a TOC in structured frame? I > have defined

PDF 'rangecheck' error, FrameMaker 7.0: GONE AWAY

uses etc. I have at times had to tidy up the temp folders to get things going. Nothing to worry about, I should think. Bodvar Bjorgvinsson On 9/29/06, Steve Rickaby wrote: > At 21:16 +0100 26/9/06, Steve Rickaby wrote: > > >Can anyone shed any light on the following, which occurs aft

From A4 to A5 with trim marks

Why does he/she want 2x A5 with print marks on an A3? If your client wants this printed (why else the print marks) just have the print shop do this. No problem for them, and probably no or little extra cost. If you really want to do this as your client suggests, just print to ps (file) from FM

FrameMaker deals on eBay...

When buying through such channels always check for the serial number. Scammers won't reply, as they fear they will be exposed. EBay gives you a certain security here if you do things the right way. Ask the seller the necessary questions before you buy and to that through the e-bay system, not by

FW: Graphics and Reference Pages

Thanks, Stuart. I had forgotten about this one. Downloaded it 2-3 years ago and did not have the time to use it. Did some testing just now and found that, seemingly, it can completely replace the awkward tables. I am going to give it a serious try, as I am in the middle of a manual which does a

Problems with the trial version of FrameMaker 8

I do not have that problem. When I start FM 8 trial i get a popup that my trial period has expired! Adobe is looking into the problem. Bodvar On 8/1/07, Gagne, Bernard (Bolton) wrote: > Good morning (EDT) all, > We have tried several times this morning to download the trial version > of Frame

How to delete trailing spaces in one go?

changed this erraneous behaviour in 8. There were several annoyances still in the Beta 2, and I don't think they took the time to finish correcting these. Bodvar On 8/3/07, Kenneth C. Benson wrote: > Bodvar Bjorgvinsson wrote: > > > but this results in the new \p taking on the paragrap

How to delete trailing spaces in one go?

On 8/3/07, Combs, Richard wrote: > Bodvar Bjorgvinsson wrote: > > > I thought I had seen in this list a discussion on how to > > remove trailing spaces that so often come with Word documents > > that are either imported into FrameMaker or opened by > > Fram

Need 8 Install Help

Same problem with me, also reported to the Team. No resolution yet. :-( Cost me two days of reworking into FM 7.2. Bodvar Bjorgvinsson On 8/1/07, Randall Larson-Maynard wrote: > I was a beta 8 tester. > > Beta 8 expired yesterday. I downloaded the trial 8 copy and installed. All >

Need 8 Install Help

Thanks for the notion here, Dov. I _think_ I did. Had to, really, because of rather narrow space on my HDs. But I did not uninstall until after downloading and maybe also unzipping the Trial version. There were no explanations in the Beta testers site that I recall telling about the proper

Heading with autonumber and square bullet

One way of messing with this would be to add a run-in heading with Dingbats before the other headings. Only allow for it when setting the indents and tabulature of the headings. Bodvar On 8/9/07, Steve Rickaby wrote: > At 17:14 +0200 9/8/07, Shmuel Wolfson wrote: > > >If you don't want to mess

first impressions of FrameMaker 8

Thanks, Sarah, Lot of things here to support my suspicion that Adobe should have waited a couple of months with this release. We will probably see more than a couple of patches soon. This registering thing: does it mean that we no longer can install the same FM on two computers like the license

Text lines disappearing below bottom of main text flow frame

on a Monday!). ;-) TBF Bodvar Bjorgvinsson

Text lines disappearing below bottom of main text flow frame

I found a posting since 2004 about the same thing. This happened when columns were set to balanced. Same here. There was never a reply to this posting. Is this a problem that others have experienced? Bodvar On 8/27/07, Bodvar Bjorgvinsson wrote: > I think this is an oldie, but I cannot f

Text lines disappearing below bottom of main text flow frame

nate the document. Odd as it seems, this often > clears up some unusual formatting issues that otherwise don't seem > solvable. > > Good luck! > > On Tuesday, August 28, 2007 09:06 AM, Bodvar Bjorgvinsson wrote: > > | I found a posting since 2004 about the same thing.

OT Re: Text lines disappearing below bottom of main text flow frame

r On 8/29/07, Steve Rickaby wrote: > At 20:51 +0000 28/8/07, Bodvar Bjorgvinsson wrote: > > >And to complicate things further, the eth and thorn and even an accented y > >(which are all parts of the extended ASCII) seem to FrameMaker just as some > >space character when

Help with footnote numbers

Tina, I will not repeat what others have already suggested, but in addition to that, you always have the option of applying a Character Format (Tag) to your footnotes or parts of them. Bodvar On 8/27/07, Tina Ricks wrote: > I'm looking for help with footnote reference numbers. The footnote

an apology (LinkedIn fiasco)

I, for one, was glad to accept. Now the rest of the week is ruined! :-( But it is Friday, so ... ;-) Bodvar On 8/31/07, Bill Swallow wrote: > All, > > Many of you whom I've conversed with through this list have been sent > invites for LinkedIn. This was not intentional. Somehow instead of >

a new Dell PC

I can recommend Dell Precision. I have had the Precision 450 Dual Processor with 2GB memory for three and a half years now, all internal hardware preinstalled (factory installed), except one extra (my old) hard drive. I have never had a better or more reliable PC (although my home assembled PC

PDF bookmark font is Arial not Arial-CE

IIRC, Acrobat does not support "foreign characters" in bookmarks, at least not in the older versions. I have not yet tested it in Acrobat 8. Bodvar On Dec 13, 2007 4:17 PM, Chinell, David F (GE Indust, Security) wrote: > I'm writing on behalf of a co-worker. > > OS: Windows XP > FrameMaker: 7.0

Replacing Framemaker

Very good reference indeed. IMHO, the main drawback of OOo vs M$Word is that it tries too much to imitate the latter. I use OOo a lot, but i find it much harder to work with than FrameMaker. It seems to default to arbitrary formatting rather than paragraph and character formatting tags, which it

Spell check error when trying to learn a word

I have had this error message many times but never taken the time to find out, because I usually don't have the time when this happens. Any help out there? Bodvar Bjorgvinsson On 2/2/07, Lester C. Smalley wrote: > Have you actually looked at the Spelling Checker Options, i.e., > cl

Spell check error when trying to learn a word

om > > > -Original Message- > > From: > > framers-bounces+pperkins=synergex.com at lists.frameusers.com > > [mailto:framers-bounces+pperkins=synergex.com at lists.frameusers > .com] On Behalf Of Bodvar Bjorgvinsson > > Sent: Friday, February 09, 2007 6:26 AM >

OT: Formatting Readmes with Groff/Latex

a bit more complex, as it includes xrefs etc, and I tend to avoid it as I always forget something about which keys to use to go here and there. Bodvar Bjorgvinsson On 2/14/07, Steve Rickaby wrote: > At 00:43 +1300 15/2/07, rebecca officer wrote: > > >Okay, I'll rise to that bai

Reasons to Structure

Matt, I do both structured and unstructured. The need for that depends IMHO on the contents and "structure" (or lack of) in the document(s). However, where I have been using structure (and then I ususally set all the formatting from within the EDD and avoid using paragraph format tags), all

color change in pdf file

On Windoze, you will only get rgb, as I understand it. If you really need the CMYK, you have to do that in Illustrator and save it to eps (with special settings). So I guess you are using FM 7.1 for Windows. Either try to make a RGB color from start, or you will have to use Illustrator or

Introducing Technical Writing, Tools, and Process to Teams in the Company

I would say this all depends you your audience and who you are making the documents for. Best start is to ask questions like you have done here. I did a presentation on FM a couple of years ago, really an introduction to FM where the audience was prospective writers and the heads of the

master pages not stable

in the middle of the file. However the master page is not applied automatically, you need to apply it as mentioned above. HTH, Bodvar Bjorgvinsson On 1/2/07, obair81 at comcast.net wrote: > For the first time ever, I am finding that frame is, on its own, changing the > application of master p

Translators and Word vs FM

On 1/4/07, Steve Rickaby wrote: > At 09:37 -0800 4/1/07, Daniel Doornbos wrote: > . Any European company that is interested in working for US clients should be > able to quote in US dollars. If they can't or won't, don't work with them. We > can, and do. > Like the US companies doing

Fwd: Troubles with FrameUsers list.

Are there more people that have problems with the list? (see FW'd messages). Bodvar -- Forwarded message -- From: Pedro Pastor <p...@ua.es> Date: Jan 9, 2007 2:48 PM Subject: RE: Troubles with FrameUsers list. To: Bodvar Bjorgvinsson Hi Bodvar, I think I did my subscr

(no subject)

). Hopefully it is as simple as that. HTH, Bodvar Bjorgvinsson Supervisor Publishing Air Atlanta Icelandic On 1/29/07, ActionA at aol.com wrote: > Hi all, > > Thanks for your responses. It does appear that there is some sort of bug... > Indeed the graphic is there, but way off to t

Any beta testers yet of FrameMaker 8?

Thanks very much. I have sent him an e-mail regarding the subject. Bodvar On 7/8/07, FeiMin_Lorente at amis.com wrote: > > Yes, I've been able to download a copy. I sent an email to this address: > Framemaker-beta at adobe.com > > If that's what you did, try my contact: Aseem Dokania (aseem at

Table formatting

I guess you are using the first cell for graphics, am I right? I have had some luck with using a sidehead paragraph tag for this purpose with font size and line space set to a minimum and the space below to a minus equaling the line size. The paragraph will call a certain graphic in the reference

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