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| Formatting TOC in FM 9 | 11/24/2009 | Wayne Johnson |
Q: Wayne, I am not new to FrameMaker but I am new to FM 9. I cannot format the TOC. I want this: ...
A: Marion Try the following: Go to the REFERENCE PAGE of the TOC and scroll down until you see ...
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| Formatting TOC in FM 9 | 11/23/2009 | Wayne Johnson |
Q: Wayne, I am not new to FrameMaker but I am new to FM 9. I cannot format the TOC. I want this: ...
A: Marion I don't have Frame 9 - but this is what worked for Frame 7 1. Update your TOC 2. Then on the ...
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| public class for multiple threads | 11/14/2009 | Neal Ziring |
Q: I have question about overwrite in multiple threads, I have to calculate the average of time that ...
A: OMu, [This question arrived under the category "Framemaker", but I'm going to assume that it is ...
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| Two versions of same document | 11/12/2009 | Wayne Johnson |
Q: I want to create two versions of the same document, one with the text hidden (and page numbers not ...
A: Elisabeth Try the following: Use a copy of your actual document. 1. Select some text. 2. Go to the ...
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| Formatting a FrameMaker Table of Contents | 11/10/2009 | Wayne Johnson |
Q: In my Framemaker book, my chapter headings consist of both the autonumbered chapter number paragraph ...
A: Karen You need to send me your Framemaker Book - 2 or 3 files including plus your TOC (as I need to ...
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| Framemaker - Doubt in Bookmarks display | 11/10/2009 | Wayne Johnson |
Q: I have a FM book created in Framemaker 6.0. I have included 'Chapter name', 'Heading1' and ...
A: Padma The only other thing I can suggest is the following: If you "Open" the document in Adobe ...
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| Framemaker - Doubt in Bookmarks display | 11/6/2009 | Wayne Johnson |
Q: I have a FM book created in Framemaker 6.0. I have included 'Chapter name', 'Heading1' and ...
A: Padma In the Framemaker Print Screen - with the "Generate PDF Acrobat Data" box checked. Select "PDF ...
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| Frame Maker | 11/4/2009 | Wayne Johnson |
Q: To convert the .fm files (in a book) to .mif files what should i do? Is there any software to be ...
A: Maheswari I don't have any experience with Robohelp - so I cannot help you with that subject. My ...
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| Convert Imported GFX to referenced images .. easy way? | 10/27/2009 | Wayne Johnson |
Q: I've been using FrameMaker for several years, and have a quandry. For context, I'm using version 8: ...
A: Jeremy First thing I would do is try and copy the files to your desktop and work on it there, then ...
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| Framemaker page question | 10/7/2009 | Wayne Johnson |
Q: I have this problem where if I have a two page TOC or two page LOP and I want to make the pages ...
A: Lun I am sorry but I cannot visualize what you want to do? 1. If the TOC is 1 page - do you want it ...
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| Page no in frame maker | 10/3/2009 | Wayne Johnson |
Q: I want to add page no in book as page X of Y, where X is no of page and Y is total no of pages.If I ...
A: Bhakti You are going to have to create a variable and make cross-references to the variable: ...
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| paragraph designer stops | 10/2/2009 | Wayne Johnson |
Q: I'm using Framemaker 9, I'm working on a 500 page document with some 4000 photo's, generated by a ...
A: Fons With that many photo's in 1 document - that becomes a very large file, especially if they are ...
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| Problems with PDF page numbering | 9/22/2009 | Wayne Johnson |
Q: When I generate a PDF from a Framemaker 8.0 document, the page numbering scheme in the PDF header is ...
A: Lynda - The page number is handled by Framemaker not pdf. The pdf is only a "copy" of your Frame ...
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| Framemaker | 9/9/2009 | Wayne Johnson |
Q: One more question. If you need multiple chapters in one document, do you have to save each chapter ...
A: Cathy You will have to save the chapter as a seperate file if you want to restart number or change ...
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| Framemaker | 9/9/2009 | Wayne Johnson |
Q: One more question. I would like to highlight text in Frame. Is there any way to do that other than ...
A: Cathy 3 ways you can do this. 1. Create a style and chose the color you want as part of the ...
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| Scale or not to scale (vector grapics) | 9/9/2009 | Wayne Johnson |
Q: Out of habit, I have always scaled vector grapics to size before importing into FrameMaker just like ...
A: G With vector graphics - I would try "scaling" a vector graphic in Framemaker and see if the results ...
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| Chapter numbering in Framemaker 9 | 9/8/2009 | Wayne Johnson |
Q: I am trying to convert a Word document into Frame. I have the styles set up and most of the ...
A: Cathy I have no experience with Framemaker 9 - so my information is based on Framemaker 7. As far as ...
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| PDF opens to index page | 9/3/2009 | Wayne Johnson |
Q: After generating .pdf files for the most recent revisions of my documents, the .pdf opens to the ...
A: Lisa I have had the same problem also - what I think you need to do and what each person will need ...
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| Frame and CMMs | 8/27/2009 | Wayne Johnson |
Q: My company wants to write CMMs. I come from the maintenance back ground of the airlines and have ...
A: George 1. The aviation industry writes to a standard called ATA ISPEC 2200. This manual is ...
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| Doubts in PDF conversion and PS driver installation | 8/27/2009 | Wayne Johnson |
Q: I have installed FM 6.0 in my system. When installing Adobe PS Driver, it asked me to select a ...
A: Priya What I think is happening is you have a conflict with the PRIMO PDF and the Framemaker ...
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| ==>FRAMEMAKER - Chapter numbers appearing twice after generating the pdf | 8/26/2009 | Wayne Johnson |
Q: When I print the FrameMaker book and generate a PDF, the chapter numbers of some chapters in the ...
A: Nidhi Since Bookmarks are generated from paragraph styles, the only thing I can think of is - you ...
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| Generating FrameMaker TOC | 8/18/2009 | Wayne Johnson |
Q: I am working with a 6,000 page book. It is split up into 17 chapters. The thing about this document ...
A: Desiree - When I get the Frame error message "Framemaker has encountered a serious problem and must ...
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| Generating FrameMaker TOC | 8/17/2009 | Wayne Johnson |
Q: I am working with a 6,000 page book. It is split up into 17 chapters. The thing about this document ...
A: Desiree What you can try is the following This is for Frame 7 - but should work for 8 or 9 also. A. ...
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| Convert WP to FM | 8/4/2009 | Wayne Johnson |
Q: My WordPerfect files have 2 columns - when I convert them to FrameMaker, the columns format is ...
A: Jenny I can only offer a few suggestions - since I don't have WordPerfect. The below is what I find ...
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| Searching for special characters in Frame | 7/30/2009 | Wayne Johnson |
Q: I'm using Frame 7.2 and need to look through a book for strings that include spaces and replace some ...
A: Paul When you want to do a find and replace of formating characters, (i.e. forced line breaks, tabs, ...
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| folders / cross refs | 7/28/2009 | Wayne Johnson |
Q: At work I have a folder structure that contains all kinds of training manuals that we use and they ...
A: Yvonne I might need a bit more information as to what you want to do, but I will try and give you 1 ...
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| Heading cells in tables | 7/16/2009 | Wayne Johnson |
Q: Is there any way I can change heading cells into body cells? For example if I have used heading ...
A: Lun I am not sure I understand the question - if the "Heading Cells" are true table heading rows ...
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| how to know version of fm | 7/13/2009 | Wayne Johnson |
Q: How do we know the version of framemaker in which the document is prepared?How to convert a document ...
A: Sri If you get something like the following message, when you try to open a Framemaker Document - ...
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| Body Text Over A Master Page Graphic | 7/7/2009 | Wayne Johnson |
Q: I need to create a template that has "Preliminary" or "Draft" in the background of every page, and ...
A: Kevin The easiest way to do it would be to just type the word DRAFT in the top Margin of the page or ...
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| FRAMEMAKER | 6/29/2009 | Wayne Johnson |
Q: I'd really appreciate if you would tell me how to set up my reference page to generate the following ...
A: Jenny When you generate the LEP it will not go into a Table - there will be 1 line for each ...
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| Framemaker: Esc MP and caps lock | 6/29/2009 | Neal Ziring |
Q: When I tried to position a figure, pressing Esc MP gave me a message about all Master pages being ...
A: Lun, > When I tried to position a figure, pressing Esc MP gave me a > message about all Master ...
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| TOC regenerates unwanted page after updating book | 6/29/2009 | Wayne Johnson |
Q: My TOC keeps on regenerating 1 unwanted blank page when I update the book. If I try to delete the ...
A: Lun If you go to HELP on the Frame Menu Bar and select "Search" and then type "blank pages" you will ...
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| Rectify | 6/29/2009 | Wayne Johnson |
Q: I have FrameMaker 8 version. I will open the book that the time Font missing alert come on the ...
A: A. Arul In the Framemaker Help file the following information is provided: You may get an alert ...
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| Clear Doubt | 6/27/2009 | Wayne Johnson |
Q: I Create PDF all font embedded in the PDF but character not display in the PDF file. I have which ...
A: A.Arul Sorry I am not much help when you are trying to create a pdf. I am not sure how you are ...
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| Doubt | 6/27/2009 | Neal Ziring |
Q: I Create PDF all font embedded in the PDF but character not display in the PDF file. I have which ...
A: Arul, I've seen this kind of problem before, but have never found a reliable fix for it. First ...
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| Using reference pages | 6/26/2009 | Wayne Johnson |
Q: I, once again, come to you with hat in hand... I am in the process of creating a "List of Effective ...
A: Walt Try the following Your reference page currently looks like this: <$chapnum>-<$pagenum> ...
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| FrameMaker | 6/26/2009 | Wayne Johnson |
Q: On acquisition of another company, we got FM 8.0 files. But we use FM 7.1. Can we open 8.0 files ...
A: Rao I don't have Frame 8 so my information is gong from Frame 6 to Frame 7, I am assuming that Frame ...
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| Find/Change function stops working | 6/25/2009 | Wayne Johnson |
Q: After using Framemaker 8 all day long for to open and close books and work on files, the Find/Change ...
A: Mary I am only using Frame 7 but once in awhile I get a "Fatal Error" and Frame must close message. ...
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| text frames inside anchored frames | 6/22/2009 | Wayne Johnson |
Q: I am new to framemaker and have just little by little progressed in using it. We have set up ...
A: LS Since I don't have Framemaker 9 I am only guessing as to what is going on. When Framemaker does ...
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| FM Auto-gen TOC - use tables or shading | 6/22/2009 | Wayne Johnson |
Q: I want to background-shade my ChapterTitleTOC entries in the auto-generated TOC. I attempted ...
A: Steve I have tried everything I know and there is no way to automatically accomplish the formatting ...
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