FAQ Suggestions and Corrections

Dunno Len. If you can, post to the regular forum, see what the answer is, and post it back here for consideration. Honestly, I don't remember this topic coming up all that often to warrant a FAQ, but if you present the answer and a decent argument, I'll certainly consider adding it.

Cheers,

Sean

A new question for the PDF FAQ

Q: How do I create an anchor/cross-ref in Frame that shows as a named destination in Acrobat?



I know that I can open the PDF file in Acrobat and manually add the destinations, but this can be time consuming. I need specific names used so that our application can call the correct named destination when the PDF file is launched. I searched this forum and the Adobe site before posting this question.

Thanks!

You have posted in the wrong place. Please post in the regular FrameMaker forum as a new topic.

Cheers,

Sean

So I've taken on the mission in my writing group to find out if FrameMaker can effectively produce a four-color, Z-fold (or 11"x17"), layout-intensive installation guide. I know that there are other tools much more suited to this kind of document,
such as PageMaker, In Design, etc., but we are currently in the process of streamlining our whole operation including using single-sourcing tools to help us manage multiple projects that may have a lot of similarities. So it would be very cool to be
able to use just one application for all our print deliverables.
Has anyone tested the limits of FrameMaker in this way? Any success stories? Is it more pain than it's worth? I would love to hear about other people's experiences in this area. Thanks,

Gabe
gaad19@hotmail.com

Sorry Thomas, you're right. I forgot where I was.

I've posted my question in the forum topic "Help! Ugraded from 5.5 to 6.01, TOC problem" (yes the p is missing from upgraded). I've since found a solution and have added this information to my post.

Lynn

joe and Lynn,

You have both managed to post questions here concerning the use of FrameMaker. This is the FAQ forum for FM.

Read the text in red within the yellow box at the top of this page...

/Thomas

You just have to be a little quicker on the clicking finger to open a file from a Frame book. And yes, the first time it wanted me to just rename a file I was a little annoyed, too.

Here's my question about converting from 5.5 to 6.0.

Our Books consist of a TOC file, a Preface file, and then whatever number of chapters it takes. In the generated TOC, the page numbers for the chapters show up as 1-3, 2-3, 3-3, etc. That works just fine.

The problem is the Preface. The Preface follows from the TOC, the page numbering for each is in Roman numerals. The problem I'm having with 6.0 is that I can't seem to get rid of the - for the Preface in the generated TOC. The listings for the Preface show up as -iii, -iv, -v, instead of just iii, iv, v.

In 5.5 you defined the dash by typing \= into the dialog. I've tried all sorts of things in the 6.0 Numbering dialog, but to no avail.

How do I get rid of the - in my Preface TOC page numbers?

Lynn

Sean,

I am trying to post a message to Problems creating PDF's from Framemaker, but I guess the thread is now stopped.

Basically, I have recently encountered these problems:
1. While generating PDF's from Frame Maker using Save As, only half the chapters of a 10-chapter book appear OK. The rest are broken up, text is missing.Oddly enough, the cloured pictures are OK.

2. Secondly, before I can generate PDFs I have to reset my default printer to Adobe Distiller, then open each chapter independenly as FrameMaker keeps telling me it can not generate PDFs as fonts changed. I find this quite laborious opening each file and then saving it again to generate PDFS.

Any suggestions? Sorry if this is not the intended thread.
Joe

Good suggestion, Brian. I came to the FAQ for help with the $chapnum variable and alas! I found none. The Neuberger book distracted me from cursing the online Frame help. It also answered my questions. Another 5-to-6 kink that shows up frequently in the forum is the "I used to be able to open a file in a Frame book by double-clicking...now all I can do is rename..." Not a big problem, but it is something that bugs many people. Perhaps the FAQ could reassure them.

Jeanie

Sean, I got a suggestion for the FAQ...

It might be nice to address some of the more common issues regarding upgrading from 5.x.x to 6.0. I am sure there are issues, and a little 'heads-up' here might help.

Thanks