I would add after your 3rd bullet, to close FM and re-open. Roger that. All in all,  quite messy but it's done. Now I'm ready to buy third-party SW. You don't know messy. Try copying the unopened files to a different directory tier, then renaming them with the file manager, then opening the book file. ______ Had a co-worker do that. Once. ... View more

... trying to import xml into frame ... Import how? import by reference? copy into document? text inset? paste into flow? paste with formatting? ... View more

If all the referenced imports are UP and not down in the original directory, AND the new directory is in the same parent dir, you can just copy the .book and .fm component files to the new dir. We do this routinely, because all imports are two levels up, then down. You can also rename the .book file with no issues. However; rename the .fm files from the book menu. We do this routinely. But the safest way (without aftermarket tools) is: Open the book and all component files in the source dir. Save each component .fm file to the new dir, and close each after saving. Save the .book file to the new dir, and close. Be sure to NOT do any saves in the original dir. You might even make a backup of the original files before starting the cloning. The new copy of the .book is looking in the new local dir for the components. The import references in the components were all adjusted on save, and point correctly. ... View more

... Word, InDesign, Scribus, LaTeX, and Flare ... What? You didn't consider troff or Interleaf (by whatever name now known)? I hear [t|g|un]roff even has Unicode support now. ... is a much more responsive company for tech support than Adobe ... All seriousness aside, if the project or enterprise workplan requires reliable, responsive, vendor support, that is a real factor in the decision, as is their roadmap for the product. ______ Speaking of which, has Adobe said anything about a release map after 10? The Adobe India operation does, at least, seem to be more than just a "dead software division" (which, alas, was the case for another company I worked for). ... View more

... there is no need for the first figure or table in a chapter to start at  the number 1. He is simply saying that the first figure or table in a  chapter should have a special tag, one who's LOF/T tag also displays the  chapter number. True, and unless explicitly resetting the counter to 1 in the autonumber, such as "F:Figure\ <n=1>", use a more generic format name like Figure.Initial. It will get spun as Figure.InitialLOF for auto-generated the ..LOF.fm file. ... View more

So, im assuming the only way around this is to take out Chapter tags  completely and only refence the chapter number within the Figure tag and  generate one long list... Not necessarily. Apart from the obvious solution of some script to redact the empty headings from the generated file, you might be able to employ a first-instance formatting. You'd use ordinary paragraph format "Figure.1" for the first figure in each chapter, then "Figure" thereafter. Generated format FigureLOF would be the normal: <indent>Fig. #: Figure text<tab and/or leaders>pagenum Generated format Figure.1LOF would be (all one paragraph with forced return <): Chapter #: Chapter Title< <indent>Fig. 1: Figure.1 text<tab and/or leaders>pagenum ________ Caveat - I've never needed nor attempted this. ... View more

Work-around #3: Use an ordinary dash. Apply a Character Format, named, say "En-metrics". Specify "As-Is" for all but Spread and Stretch, which are set to emulate the desired en-dash. ... View more

Does your problem have any similarity to this one? Photoshop Images displaying a horizontal line http://forums.adobe.com/message/3498011 ... View more

Because the images are imported by reference in Fm10, saving to mif should save only a reference, not any image manipulation But the MIF would contain any attributes or transforms specified (run-around, scaling, rotation, border, etc.) Are there any new controls on imported objects in FM10? Transparency? Stroke weight override? Color model controls? If so, even if none are used, is FM10 encoding some default value for a new control? Of course, the whole point of MIF is that unknown elements from the future are supposed to be ignored (although perhaps reported) when opening a time-traveling MIF in the past. ... View more

I would appreciate experiences from people that have actually worked in translations... Another [beneficial] discovery of the Conditional Text approach: For anchored frames or tables that need to be switched on and off, It turns out that the anchor glyph (the inverted "T") can have a condition code applied just to it. In my case, this means that where the anchoring text need not change, but what is anchored to it does, I don't need to replicate any text adjacent to the anchor (or replicate the entire sentence or paragraph). I probably will anchor the two alternate frames at different places in the paragraph, so the anchors are more easily selected. Caveat: having both turned on is apt to be messy. For Adobe, I do suggest implementing Layers in future releases since they are very helpful in many other programs they have. Adobe Forums > FrameMaker > FrameMaker Feature Requests Chances are layers aren't the ideal way to handle multi-lingual documents (or ideal for enough users to make it worthwhile). You probably want a 2-up display, with the original language in one place on the screen, and the current translated language in another (rather than one on top of the other). If your goal is 1:1 page content matching, you could get side-by-side authoring now, using conditional text and interleaving entire pages of content. I note that in the real world, for short documents, they usually arrive with all the languages visible. Each language may be in its own "chapter", or it may be one of those hideous fold-ups with one lang per fold, but each language scattered across multiple folds. ... View more

>> ... that are easy to  switch off... This is not true. FrameMaker 9 and lower (not sure how much lower) all  have the ability to apply color and text decoration (such as  underlining) to each condition code, which can then be turned off or on  as required. Well, well. I had never noticed the "Hide Conditional Text Indicators" choice in the book View menu. Apart from the stability issue you raise, this makes extensive use of CCs vastly more practical. Thanks. This is why I come here. ... View more

Framemaker's description says it can handle multiple languages ... Yep. You can write the document in any one language ... and it  seems like it can do layering which Framemaker calls conditional  expressions that can be turned on of off as needed. Would this work? As it happens, I'm doing sort-of that right now. We need to generate two different versions of the English document depending on destination region. USA gets one. UK gets another. All the US customary units (often mis-named Imperial units) are switched off for the UK ed. But more in line with your problem, certain bits of industry jargon are conditionally tagged, so we can switch between US and UK nomenclature. With "both versions" visible, this causes the document to have a larger flow (repagination issues), and causes some flows (in anchored frames) to flow-under (out of sight) during editing. Also, unless you have FM10, you can't see which text is which, because you can't set visible indicators in the Condition Codes that are easy to switch off (you can use color if you can live with Print All Text as Black when pushing, which we can't). I think FM10 adds a CC feature that might handle this more elegantly. We've also had to settle on just one spelling dictionary (UK), because it's not trivial to switch an entire document from one dict to another, as it's defined in each paragraph format (although a batch switch could be scripted). In any case, we can live with the minor hassles, to avoid maintaining near-twin documents. But I can't imagine interleaving whole sentences or paragraphs of entirely different languages, particularly if the writer doesn't speak them all. Do text as insets? Probably won't work, due to Xrefs. Most publishers probably give the single-language source files to a translator. There are some things you can do to make life easier for translators. It's surprising how seldom they ask. I suspect that in some cases here, they are translating from our PDFs, because I get so few requests to run my pre-translation scripts. ... View more

You might want to check out Omni Systems mif2go product. That might imply that HTML export from Frame doesn't support straddles in tables. I just tried it, in both 7.1 and 9.0, and it worked perfectly. ... View more

Of course I had to do it the olde fashioned way and change the registry. Envars moved, permanently, from autoexec.bat to the Registry with WindowsME. So the UI is merely editing the Reg. The problem is that MS keeps changing the safe UI to edit these Reg values, and not documenting it. Just checking on Win7/64, Help has no help on the subject of TMP, TEMP, or even "environment variable" ... View more

FrameMaker just accesses whatever %tmp% is set to. And for those unfamiliar, TMP is an "environment variable". It's one of two (the other is TEMP) that define where the temp dir is. Set both, and to the same path, if not the same dir name. You can often improve system performance by putting TMP/TEMP on a dedicated spindle (which can also be set to delete without saving in the Recycle feature, and can be ignored during backups). Historically, environment vars were specified in AUTOEXEC.BAT. Mr.Bill keeps changing where that setup is hidden on Windows. You may have to reboot before it takes effect. Be sure to clean up where it used to be. ... View more

FM10. I don't have FM10, and haven't tried HTML generation since FM6 or so, but anyone who can help needs to know the version. but no ruling/borders and straddling information is reflected in the output HTML. The FM10 on-line help says, in the Troubleshooting and tips on HTML conversion Make sure the table formats you use have regular ruling lines defined for at least one body row. Otherwise, the HTML tables will have no lines around table cells. I would expect straddles to be converted to spans, since HTML has attributes for that. can you suggest some 3rd party sw? I'm not sure that's necessary or desired. Earlier versions of Frame used WebWorks Publisher. HTML generation is now built in. I don't know if you can even get WWP for FM10, or if it would provide any features not standard in FM10. ... View more

What version of Frame? Older versions use a third-party add-on that is likely substantially different from the current capability. ... View more

I use Adobe Acrobat 9 Pro to watermark all docs and photos. Can Acrobat establish a unique ID for each image in a PDF? (the import file name is presumably gone by then) Can you then provide Acro a list of text strings to WM into each image? ... View more

I've only ever done this in small numbers, by hand. It strikes me that there are two major ways to go. Frame watermark You can probably write (possibly obtain) a script that merely discovers the imported image file names, and then places that text over each image, perhaps as an outline font, perhaps as a translucent eps. Issues include: It will be on a layer, and could easily be removed. It won't be a real watermark (a modification of the image data). The more like a real WM you try to make it, the more difficult the script. Image watermark Search the web on "photoshop batch watermark". This may be the way to go. Be sure to work on copies of the images, and not the originals. ... View more

The fundamentally annoying thing is that Frame doesn't have "above current line" for anchored frames (AFs) or tables. Unless you use some run-in or at-insertion-point dodge, or you only need one AF/TBL per column (which could use top-of-column), ya gotta have an anchoring line of some sort above the AF/TBL. ... and the caption is below the graphic, the link jumps to the caption, displaying it at the top of the page. Hack: Use a tiny unique paragraph format for anchoring, with a to-be-invisible color View, say "Caption.Anchor", pt size 4, keep with next. Make the subject caption text the text of that Caption.Anchor paragraph. Anchor the frame or table to that. Put the visible caption paragraph on the next line (below the AF), or in the TBL, say, format "Caption.Visible", keep with previous. Make the text of Caption.Visible an Xref, <$paratex> (only) to Caption.Anchor. Have the TOC generate for Caption.Anchor. Make all hand-typed Xrefs use Caption.Anchor. Page loss to an invisible anchoring line* is minimal. The caption now appears to be below the frame. Hypertext links go to the top of the AF or TBL. _________ * This can cause slight topline mismatch in multi-column layouts. ... View more

Use your favorite search engine, restricted to site or domain: forums.adobe.com, to search for: "framemaker" and "caption". For example, this recent shaggy dog thread: A way to label graphics? http://forums.adobe.com/thread/781397?tstart=0 ... View more

I don't have FM10, and can't try this. Can you "escape" the "/" by using "\/"? (backslash forward slash) If not, can you use the x### hex code for that character? (don't have reference handy) ... View more

These documents do not get printed professionally and JPEG artifacts are  something we can easily live with, but we cannot live with HUGE  documents which is what TIFF or EPS give us without discernable graphic  quality (most of the usage is on-screen with one instance of printing  where 300 dpi JPEGs work fine). "Compression" options, including subsampling prior to, and mode, such as JPEG, are part of the PDF setup (whether save-as, print-to, or Distilling PS to PDF). I would expect no appreciable difference in size between doing the JPEG damage once, vs. doing it multiple times. I would expect fewer artifacts. We use EPS rasters for photo images. They compress during Distill. Another thing to do for reducing file size, by the way, is to use Acrobat Pro's "Examine Document" feature to remove what is entirely needless, and possibly sensitive metadata from the final PDF. In our files, this junk is mostly image previews/thumbnails. ... View more

I wouldn't go messing around trying to install a trial version on my production environment - Specifically, unless Adobe declares that this doesn't happen ... ... a "successful" install of the trial version might turn some pre-existing licensed products into trial versions. ... View more

I always do landscape pages as rotated content on normal portrait pages, and don't have FM10, but I can toss out a couple of comments that may or may not be breadcrumbs leading to the answer. First off, what version of Acrobat Pro, if installed? Using FrameMaker 10 on Windows XP Professional SP3 32 bit system ... That is a supported configuration for FM10, but unlike the others (VIsta SP1 and later), XP/32 has only RGB mode inside the Windows GDI. Any CMYK passed to it gets converted to RGB by Microsoft. And I'm assuming that the legacy GDI API even accepted CYMK data. My experience with CYMK on older Windows has been limited to the general impossibility of getting colors to match. If I check the Convert CMYK colors to RGB setting in the PDF  Setup for Selected Files dialog box, then the page orientation in the  PDF is correct, and the bookmarks are generated as they were in  FrameMaker 8. That presumably causes the CMYK conversion to be performed by Adobe prior to the GDI calls. Why color mode should have anything to do with page orientation and bookmark gen is a mystery. What prompted you to try that setting change? _________ And what happens when you print to PostScript file, and then Distill that? ... View more

I'd be grateful if anyone can tell me how to remove all character format overrides. There may be some new tools in FM10, but in earlier versions this appears to be surprisingly gnarly problem. Aftermarket tools may exist. The first thing I tried, which I expected to work, did not: delete unneeded fmts from the Character Catalog (this turns all applications of that format into local overrides) pick a paragraph instance (say, Body) that has one of those overrides, in the present pgf or elsewhere re-apply the pgf format (to set all Body back to stock) [Update All] I would have expected the UA to clear out local character overrides, but no. You have to select all of each pgf, and re-apply the pgf fmt. When I have to remediate legacy documents in my day job, I run into a lot of override issues (plus nonsensical pgf names and inconsistent application thereof, polluted catalogs, etc.). Frankly, the easiest way to fix this is to copy into a plaintext editor first (only because Unix Frame doesn't have Paste Special). On Windows, you can start with a clean template and Paste Special - Text. _______ If redundant character formats are the only problem with the documents at hand (seems unlikely), then a MIF edit may be the fastest solution. ... View more

How about this: Edit > Select All, then click the Default ¶ Font entry in the Character Format Catalog (aka ƒ Catalog). ... PS: Have not tried this major action myself. I have (in 7.0 and 7.1), and it sets the entire flow to the first paragraph format. This is probably not a desired outcome. ... View more