I might add that the "larger" printing size probably needs to be set either to the print shop's actual paper size, or something just under that. If you just go to the next larger ISO size (A4), it may be too big. You may end up having to define a custom page size. On Windows 2000 and XP Pro, as I recall, this requires drilling down from the obscure "Server Properties" feature ot the Printers menu. I can't provide further detail at the moment, because the PC here is Win7, and I can't quickly find where Mr.Bill has hidden it on Windows 7. ... View more

There are several "Before You Post" reminders to include this sort of  info, but people don't seem to notice them. One wonders if many of the seekers sailing in here are qualified to write anything, since they seem unable to read (not just posting hints, but the questions and suggestions from thread responders). That snark aside, if one jumps right into the FM General Discussion thread (and the Start a Discussion link), there are no obvious hints for posting on view. I was unable to quickly discover if the Jive software supports "Sticky" topics, commonly used for posting hints on other fora. The forum software isn't  from Adobe, they converted to a third-party provider a couple of years  ago. And it's worth noting that Search does work on Jive's own user forum, so the problem here is likely a local configuration issue, or some failure of the presumed periodic search indexing. If search worked, it would dramatically reduce the number of redundant questions, and would likely improve the odds of getting the necessary platform details when a new question arose (because search would turn up enough similar threads, with "platform please", that sentient seekers might catch a clue to contribute that data). ... View more

Adobe is a sophisticated software manufacturer -- maybe this could be demonstrated to advantage in the User Forums. For extra credit, they could get the Search function working properly. ... View more

Edit one of the component .fm files to revise the Master Pages, say: chapter1.fm. In the .book menu, select (highlight) all of other book component files except chapter1.fm. File > Import > Formats Import from Document: [chapter1.fm] Page Layouts (only) [Import] Caution: it is often the case that the book was done as separate files because some require different MP layouts, particularly for default pages "Left" and "Right" (the index might be 3-column, for example). Unless you know that all layouts are common, you can wreck the book. ... View more

... open and in view at the same time (in separate windows, not tabs on the same window) are these both open in the same instance of Frame, or are multiple copies of Frame running? ... View more

... tend to freeze ... Is it really freezing, or just getting glacially slow? How long have you waited before terminating the process? I don't have FM10, but historically, things that would cause glacial response are: really large images (very high res rasters in particular) - setting View > Options > View Options:  Display: [_] Graphics (off, might confirm) rotated images (even slightly off 0 degrees) [speculation] cropped images with Run-Around ON, where hidden image is under the text. Try turning Run-Around OFF on the graphical object (it's usually on by default). Since the problem is likely something else: What platform? Windows version, 32 or 64-bit. All MS font patches installed? What graphics subsystem (video card, driver, version)? ... View more

Are you using copy into document, or import from file? And if import, from what graphics file format? I suspect this wouldn't happen with an import, particularly from EPS. ... View more

There are resellers who claim to have new-in-box copies of Frame 7.x  available, usually at some premium price. How legitimate these offers  are, I couldn't say. If you want to take a chance on remaindered, presumably new-in-box copies of Windows 7.1 Frame, these appear to be the key numbers to look for: Adobe SKU: 27910435 EAN: 0718659345761 Amazon ASIN: B00019OWW2 ... View more

What is it that you are trying to accomplish with 7.1p114? It's possible that it might be done with a later version. Also, what platform? I don't instantly recognize 7.1p114 as being for a specific operating system. Frame 7 was available for Windows, Mac and Unix. There are resellers who claim to have new-in-box copies of Frame 7.x available, usually at some premium price. How legitimate these offers are, I couldn't say. _________ The first hit was for a Mac. ... View more

What's going on here? Numbering Properties (NPs) exist in each book component (.fm) file. They also exist for each book component in the .book file. These are apparently separate data structures, and can get out of sync. If you always set the NPs from the book menu, it's never your fault. However, there are circumstances in which Frame itself causes the problem. I don't know what did it in your case. In my case, it's usually Error 7103 crashes in one of the book body files. Usually after such a crash, the NPs are thrown out of sync for all the files after that in the book. How this happens is a mystery, but it's easy to fix. Just re-declare the NPs for each book component in the book file. Or just ignore the alert. ... View more

THEN in Acrobat PROFESSIONAL, export the image with the setting Determine Automatically. I am presuming (never tested it) this exports ALL the pixels that the image has in the PDF file. I wasn't aware of that export feature. Thanks for pointing it out. However, as you point out: My method is to create a PDF using a Distiller joboption with ALL downsampling and ALL compression OFF. Presumably the image is put into the PDF with all the pixels it has in the Frame file. That's key. By the time you've opened a PDF, the images may have already been resampled by the application (Frame) or by the print-to-PDF or Distill process. The generating application sees a simulated printer (generic PS,  PS with ADISTILL PPD, Adobe Distiller or Adobe PDF). The Job Options, aka Printer Setup settings, define the characteristics of this printer. The issue I was trying to resolve is that “resolution” is specified in multiple places when setting up a Job Option. It is likely that in the “Image” pane of the dialogs, the ppi settings are irrelevant once Downsample has been set to Off. But a “Resolution” is also set in the “General” pane, and the question is: what does that control? I'm pretty sure is sets the alignment grid for the pseudo printer. But it might also cause the generating app (Frame) to perform some down-sampling. That Resolution has to be set to something, so for a throw-away job like image recovery, it might as well be set to the maximum. ... View more

... the error had occurred and it was on a .eps graphic. ... Any suggestion to how I unassociate the font from the graphics? Off the top of my head, there are several choices, most of which rely on a vector editor [VE] (such as Adobe Illustrator): Open in VE on a platform with Helvetica installed. Re-save with embedded font. Open in VE on a platform with Helvetica installed. Convert type to outlines. Re-save. Open in VE. Change font used to some similar sans font that is on the Frame platform. Re-save (with embedding). Open in a raster editor (such as Photoshop), at suitably high res. Re-save as TIF (to preserve the original EPS). I often use fonts in imported EPS objects. But my rule is: either embed the fonts, or convert all type to outlines. ... View more

Another possibility is that Helvetica is used in a graphic or referenced  file that you've imported, but the font itself isn't embedded in the  graphic or on your system. And don't forget text insets. If the problem is that Helvetica is invoked by a graphical object, verification might be as simple as: View > View Options Display: [_] Graphics (off). Print to file or PDF. If the error goes away, it's coming in with an image. If it stays, it's in a text inset or somewhere else. ... View more

... and when I get to the second cell I hit New Marker; it's fast for me to do and not many mistakes are made. ... I've tryed highlighting the whole column and hitting New Marker ... If you decide to try some MIF hacking or scripting, your "whole column" attempt suggests that there's something you need to know about what the Marker dialog is doing. When you create an Index marker, you aren't just inserting the same Marker in each cell (although it seems like it). You are inserting a marker, of type Index, with custom Marker Text (which is what appears in the IX.fm file). The Marker Text does not need to match the source document text, although it often does. When you highlight some document text, that text is pre-loaded into the Marker Text: dialog. I have a similar problem with tables of call-out numbers, part numbers and part descriptions that need Cross-Ref markers that are identical in each column except for the cell content appended to the marker text. I've been working on and off on writing a Python program to take a plain text part list and convert it to a .fm document with table and markers. This requires learning a little MIF (although the thing slowing me down is also having to learn Python after decades away from programming). ... View more

Well, you do have to specify some resolution. Just make it high, say 1200 dpi or more. No, one of the settings is to Determine Automatically, which uses the resolution of the image IN the PDF. Where is that found? I just set up (in Distiller 9) a Job Option set named "Recover Images" (which I do expect to use from time to time). The following are the settings that seem to have some bearing on image preservation. I see these same dialog choices in FM9 Print Setup. ____________________________________ Distiller > Settings > Edit Adobe PDF Settings General Object Level Compression: [Off] Resolution: [72-4000] (<Note A>) Images Color Images Downsample: [Off] [9-2400] pixels per inch (<Note B>) Compression: [Off] <etc. for Gray and Bitmapped> Advanced Save original JPEG images in PDF if possible _____________________________________ Note A There is no "Resolution" choice for "Off" (or for "Determine Automatically"). But how much does this matter? I've always presumed that this setting primarily determines an alignment grid for object origin coordinates. Help is not very helpful, but does warn that large values can produce large PDF sizes? Why? Is there some implicit subsampling going on at low values? We use 600 for normal printing (as that's what our pub engine does). I use 1200 for image recovery. Note B Why is this ppi dialog not switched off when Downsample is Off? Does the value matter if "Off"? ... View more

Try printing the file, or just the page containing the image, to PDF; Before doing that, check the anchoring frame to make sure it's exposing all of the image needed. but be sure to set the PDF job options to an option that does NOT  compress bitmaps in anyway. Well, you do have to specify some resolution. Just make it high, say 1200 dpi or more. Adobe Illustrator can also open PDF pages, and extract individual page objects. I've recovered images this way, usually saved as EPS. You can also just view the PDF page in Acrobat Reader. If the permissions aren't set to block this, you can use Acrobat's graphics select tool to outline the image, zoom as needed (even if the image goes off screen), and use the Acro Copy function to snag the image to the clipboard (up to the Windows GDI limit, anyway, which used to be 32MB). If the image is small, or already low resolution, you can screen-scrape it right in Frame. Zoom to the desired level (with all of the image still on screen). Press [Alt+PrntScrn]. Your raster is now on the clipboard. Paste into your favorite raster image editor. Save as whatever raster file type is desired. ... View more

I have converted a FM document into MIF file  format. Why? FM has a graphic imported by copying into the document. Do you still have the originally imported image file? What format is it? In the  MIF file I can see the image like the following, <ImportObject ... =TIFF &II*\x00080000001000FE000400010000000000000000010300010000006009000001 010300010000….. Sounds like that's a raster object. Is there any way to convert the ImportObject inside the mif file into an image file ? What format image file? What is it that you need to do? ... View more

Has anyone here experienced the same or similar ... Yes, but on FM7.1. ... or have any idea as to  what we can do to possibly avoid or eliminate these inconvenient,  frustrating, worrisome, and time-consuming errors? In my case "MIF wash" usually clears it up. Find a platform that can open the document. Save as MIF (as .mif, and NOT back into the .fm file). Close Frame*, or open the .mif in another instance of Frame. If stable, re-save as .fm to the original .fm. _______ * In case Frame's internal data structures are being corrupted. ... View more

"Error: Helvetica-Bold cannot be found. Font cannot be embedded." I  have gone thru the offending document in the book,  character-by-character, and cannot find a place where that is being  used. There are an astonishing number of places where font invocations can hide. Master pages. Reference Pages. Table Formats. Some of these cannot easily be found. I don't even want to use it. Do you know how I can find where the  font is being used? What I do is save the document as MIF, and open the MIF in a text editor. Search for "Helvetica". If you want to learn a little MIF, you can probably figure out where it's being invoked. But simply changing all instances of "Helvetica" to "Arial", saving the MIF, and re-opening it in Frame may be all that's required. ... View more

MW: So when you specify the new location for the first graphic, FM will automatically check that folder and find all the rest. That's been my experience on Windows Frame, up through FM7.0 on XP32 anyway. Lew@C: My  experience, as expected, was that it prompted for a new path to every  missing referenced graphic. That's been my experience with Unix Frame 7.1 on Solaris. If Windows is now following the brain-dead Unix behaviour, it would be interesting to know when that happened, and on what Windows platforms. We have the opposite problem, when bundling up a manual for translation. We need to simplicate the myriad import references to a single subdirectory below the .book and .fm files directory. To do this, we save as MIFs, then run scripts against the MIFs to: find all the imports build a copy script to copy the objects to ./imports/ then change all the refs in the MIFs ... View more

... doesn't seem to make it the same PDF file size like manually doing it in Acrobat. Although fine-tuning all (and there many) settings in Distiller may get you to the size you want, it may not get you all the way there. We still manually post-process PDFs in Acrobat (Examine Document, Save As Optimized), because I haven't found any Distiller controls that can strip all of the same unwanted meta-data, in particular image previews (thumbnails), but also EXIF data, hidden image content and the like, all of which can represent a substantial percentage of a PDF. ... View more

I have a generated TOC and want to include the entries for the Appendix. Is the Appendix part of the main document flow, or a separate .fm file? If a separate file, was it part of the .book when you generated the TOC from the Book menu? In either case, does the Appendix use unique header paragraph formats? Where they selected "Include Paragraphs Tagged" when you generated the TOC? I'm not sure what to use for the building block on the Reference page. Which Ref page? TOC? If the Appendix entries have unique Pgf Fmt names, say HeadApdx1, those names will appear as tge Pgf Fmt names of lines in the default ActiveTOC list, such as: HeadApdx1TOC For the Chapter I have: <content absent> And what "Chapter"? ... View more

This actually makes sense to me because it doesn't know where to find the other PDF. I might add that even when it works, it's pretty easy to break it, by renaming files or moving or copying the PDFs to a different directory relationship. Which you won't do, but the end user might. ... View more

The links work fine in Framemaker, but as soon as you create the PDF the link is broken. I've never tried it, but I'm guessing that you have to generate named destinations. For example, at the book menu, it would be: File > Print Book > Generate Acrobat Data > PDF Setup [Links] Create Named Destinations for All Paragraphs _______ "This option may significantly increase the size of the PDF file" ... View more

I have even less clue on what EFI and UEFI implementations do with PrntScrn, if anything. Slightly more clue: many newer machines will be using UEFI rather than BIOS, and some instances of UEFI support the PrntScrn key, which can copy the screen raster to a file on a USB device. On a newer PC, I'd check the system documentation for this feature, before going to the trouble of setting up a camera. ... View more

... Using the PS first / distill later method makes little difference - I'm still waiting several minutes, ... Yes, but how long in each phase? ... View more

I don't believe any Windows (or DOS) screen capture app can take a capture at the bios stage, no. It would require a custom BIOS to do that, because all that is running is BIOS firmware during those screens. However; historically, BIOS supported the [PrntScrn] key on the keyboard, and would dump a plain text copy of the current BIOS screen to the parallel (LPT) port. What happens on machines lacking LPT is unknown to me. I have even less clue on what EFI and UEFI implementations do with PrntScrn, if anything. The usual solution when you need an exact screen image is to use a digital camera. Use a shutter speed of 1/30 second or slower, to avoid any screen refresh or black-screen-insertion artifacts. Use whatever focal length provides the lowest pincushion or barrel distortion, usually telephoto. Use a tripod. Be on-axis. Use the self-portrait timer if you don't have a cable release. Set a custom white balance using an all-white screen. Since BIOS displays are 640x480, any Mpixel count over 1Mp will do to avoid sampling artifacts when you crop, de-rotate, resize or otherwise morph the image to the final 640x480. ... View more