mark at upwritenz
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mark at upwritenz
Community Beginner
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‎Sep 17, 2020
01:44 PM
Thank you All for your input. Thnx Winfried for creating the bug report. I shall just handle it as I have been doing Cheers, Mark
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‎Sep 14, 2020
10:58 PM
Hi, I have a 80 chapter book file that displays in a three 'tiers' tree in the LH side window. I use this constantly to organise files in the book. When I make a change to the Master Template, a paragraph style change for example, and want to apply that template to all files in the book, I do this using Import Formats. To do this all files must be visible in the tree view, that is all the + icons must be expanded out to - icons. In a larger book this is time consuming as I don't generally leave the tree view expanded fully as I'm working with it. Is there a way to 'expand all' and 'collapse all' in this LH side tree view? I have searched and can't fined where to do this. Thanks, Mark
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‎Feb 13, 2020
07:18 PM
Thanks for your suggestion Caroline. This may be possible. I shall give it a try and see how much time it will require to create .book files for a chapter and see where that takes me. Mark
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‎Feb 11, 2020
05:35 PM
Hi Caroline, Ok, I tried the procedure you suggest. I found the menu dropdown and all that, no problem, thank you. I have been approaching this the wrong way, or at least a different way. I may be wrong here, but after trying to create a miniTOC using your suggestion, it seems to me that one can only insert a MiniToc at the begining of a 'document'. To me, that means if I had a 20 page document I could put a miniTOC on say, the first page and all is good. But what I need to be able to do is to insert a miniTOC as the first page of a Chapter of documents in a 70 chapter technical manual. Each Chapter is made up of many separate documents and this is where I think I am coming unstuck. When I try to set up the MiniTOC as you suggest, with the para tags I need, I get a error saying that none of those tags are in the document. I assume this is because the document I am inserting the MiniTOC into is just a blank page. In this case I think it has to be this way because each document in the chapter may have 1 - 8 pages, with different headers and page numbering. I've placed each document in a folder hierachy within the FM Book as this automatically generates the 6 digit section / sub section and page numbers sucessfully. ( eg. 21-10-00) Can you see a flaw in my thinking here? Do you have any suggestions as to how I can maybe restructure the setup to achieve a easier minTOC? Thank you for your reply too BTW Mark.
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‎Feb 10, 2020
03:20 PM
How can one specify which documents FrameMaker 2019 uses to generate a Mini TOC? I have a Book with 80 Chapters, each chapter must have a Mini TOC with links to content para tags within the content of that chapter. At present, I select the chapter folder and insert a 'Stand Alone TOC' into that chapter. I then import a template to format the TOC paratags and then update the Book, select the Mini TOC to be populated, FM generates a Complete Book TOC into the mini TOC page, then I select all the chapters that are not applicable and delete those, leaving the mini TOC headings I want for that chapter only. This is arduous as the Complete Book TOC is 10 Pages now, and growing. There has to be a better way, what am I missing here?
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‎Oct 23, 2019
06:24 PM
Jeez frameexpert! Thanks, I won't tell you how long I've been looking. Now it seems very obvious.
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‎Oct 23, 2019
03:46 PM
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Hi Frame Users, I have a FrameMaker Book with multiple folders containing .fm files. While I'm developing the Book and sending chapters for review, I want to be able to publish only selected folders or files in the Book, not the whole Book file. I don't seem to be able to find out how to do this, can you help? (Framemaker 2019)
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‎Sep 29, 2019
09:36 PM
OK, thank you. I'll give that a try and see how it works.
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‎Sep 27, 2019
09:17 PM
Hi Community,
(using FrameMaker 2019)
I would like some help in formatting a particular style of background for a WARNING and CAUTION .
I have created a style which I set up in the paragraph designer and saved in the catalog that works well, thats no problem. I used the 'Numbering' tab in the designer to automatically put in the 'WARNING' at the paragraph begining.
BUT, the detail I can't get is the bold line around the background, like in the sample attached. I've set up the background using a Pgf.Box with the right color but I really need that bold border. Anyone have any ideas if or how I can achieve this? Thank you. Mark.
Warning & Caution Sample:
My Warning & Caution background so far:
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‎Jul 17, 2019
09:44 PM
1 Upvote
thank you BarbBinder, I will work through that and get back to you if I have any issues.
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‎Jul 17, 2019
09:42 PM
All good information, thank you
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‎Jul 17, 2019
09:41 PM
thanks Amitojsingh , I'll take a look at that.
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‎Jul 16, 2019
11:52 PM
Hi, I'm using Acrobat DC Pro. How can I set the .pdf document to print the current date on each printed page? I have a requirement that the output document from Framemaker 2019 be in .pdf format with hyper linked cross references. I intend the document to be available to the customer from our company portal. It can be viewed on the portal or pages can be printed. If pages are printed they must be date stamped with the current date. ie, the date the pages were printed. This will tie the pages with the Revision status of the document and give some control over printed copies. I have looked through the help section and also looked at the Acrobat DC help and a lot of the references to this are quite old. Is someone able to help me with this or perhaps point me to where this is explained? Thank you.
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‎Jul 16, 2019
09:39 PM
How can I set the .pdf output document to print the current date on each printed page? I have a requirement that the output document from Framemaker 2019 be in .pdf format with hyper linked cross references. I intend the document to be available to the customer from our company portal. It can be viewed on the portal or pages can be printed. If pages are printed they must be date stamped with the current date. ie, the date the pages were printed. This will tie the pages with the Revision status of the document and give some control over printed copies. I have looked through the help section and also looked at the Acrobat DC help and a lot of the references to this are quite old. Is someone able to help me with this or perhaps point me to where this is explained?
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