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_Siobhan_Ryan_
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March 11, 2009
Question

File-renaming functionality for book does not work as expected

  • March 11, 2009
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Adobe Framemaker 8.0

I am on Windows XP. Dell computer. Xerox printer.
I follow the basic instructions for renaming a file in a FM book (To change the name of a document in a book:

1. In the book window, select the file you want to rename, and then choose Edit > Rename File.

2. Type the new name of the file and press Return or Enter. When the alert message appears, click OK to update other files in the book.) but I do not get past step 1. Instead an error message comes up that says "The text cannot be changed. To change the name of this file, please display filenames."

What is meant here by "filenames" and how/where would one display such?
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    Art Campbell
    Inspiring
    April 1, 2009
    First, don't hijack a thread, even your own, and change the subject.

    Start a new one.

    Then: You supplied one of the key likely suspects in your email -- you're set up on a Xerox printer, but printing to the Adobe PDF printer. Two printers with different settings are likely to product different results.

    Set your system default printer to Adobe PDF and try that.

    Art
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    _Siobhan_Ryan_Author
    Participant
    April 1, 2009
    Adobe Framemaker 8.0

    I am on Windows XP. Dell computer. Xerox printer.

    I mark a text selection in Framemaker that I wish to have overlined, and I then check "Overline" in the Character Designer dialog. Then i apply the change locally to my selection by pressing Apply. I get the desired effect in FM. So why does this get overline get distorted when I convert/save my document as a .PDF? In PDF the overline looks like a strikethrough.
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    Art Campbell
    Inspiring
    March 12, 2009
    You could try the rename, but if the file had a question mark on its icon in the book, the program really can't find it.
    If you have the question mark, delete it from the book and save the book. Then rename the file on disk and add it to the book again.

    Just in passing, if the file you're talking about is your Table of Contents.... that should be an automatically-generated file that's named by the system. So it isn't anything that you'd really want to be playing this type of game with. Better to let the system maintain it... which would mean not renaming it.

    Art
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    _Siobhan_Ryan_Author
    Participant
    March 12, 2009
    Thank you indeed! I was with your help able to rename the file. However, the Book Error Log barked at me that it couldn't open BadFileName (a reference not to the file I renamed but another file which I not so elegantly dubbed "Conten ts" (with an unintended space between "n" and "t"--maybe this spacing is the reason behind its being dubbed bad?) since it could not be found. Should I disregard the error message or play along and rename "Conten ts" to "Contents". If that's all I need to do to get rid of the error message then of course, I'll do it. Thank you for answering my last question--whether or not you answer this one. Cheers, Siobhan
    Arnis Gubins
    Arnis Gubins
    Inspiring
    March 11, 2009
    Siobhan,

    The Book window has two different display modes for the component
    files. The first mode displays the file names (Display Filenames), the
    other displays the first paratag's contents in the file (Display
    Heading Text).

    You can toggle between these modes by clicking on the first
    button/icon in the lower right corner of the book window.

    You must be in the Display Filenames mode to change the FM file's
    name.
      apuwdm2
      apuwdm2
      Inspiring
      June 28, 2023

      Thank you in June 2023 for your tip from 2009 about the Display Filename mode in the FM book's menu.

      Regards,

      Apurva

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