But the sizing handles are visible on the sides and corners? ... View more

First of all, congratulations on deleting the preferences! It's a peculiar sequence. So you are trying to move a graphics frame... using the Selection tool (the black arrow) and pressing your mouse down inside the frame while simultaneously avoiding the doughnut in the middle? Working from left to right: the first red rectangle shows the Selection tool, the second shows the doughnut to avoid, the third shows the cursor inside the frame but away from the dreaded doughnut, and the fourth shows that the image is not locked. ... View more

Are you talking about unassigned frames? If so, be sure to place your cursor over the edge of the frame before pressing and dragging the mouse to move the objects. If you are referring to text or graphics frames which you can normally move from the middle, perhaps something is locked? You might try Object > Unlock all on Spread. If it's neither of these, a screen shot would be really helpful. You can add it to this thread by using the 7th button on the toolbar when you reply. As for erasing the preferences file, it's trickier than it sounds. Get your four fingers ready on your one hand, hovering over Shift, Control, Opt and Command. Double click the InDesign icon in the dock and then immediately press and hold down all four keys until it the following message appears. It usually takes me a few tries. ... View more

Are you trying to include chapter numbers in your table of contents? For a step-by-step tutorial, check out this blog post on "Adobe FrameMaker: Including Chapter Numbers in a Table of Contents" at http://blog.rockymountaintraining.com/adobe-framemaker-including-chapter-numbers-in-a-table-of-contents/. Barb Binder, Adobe Certified Instructor on FrameMaker http://www.RockyMountainTraining.com ... View more

@Matt: I'm quicker in Photoshop, and I can use Actions to automate a lot of the process. It's so darn clunky in FramerMaker—the "illustration" tools haven't been updated in 26 years! I did play with the canvas size, same result. @Arnis: Ummm, no... it didn't occur to me ... and it worked! It's the psd format that's the issue. I saved it as a png and the line is gone. And I can put that in my action, so it won't slow me down. Thank you!!! Once again, you earned your 10 points. Now what are you going to do with them? ... View more

Hi Matt! Long time, no talk. Hope you are doing well! I agree that you can set the defaults for new tables as you described. I was trying to confirm that Michael is correct in stating that he no longer needs multiple table formats, one each for 2, 3, and 4 column tables, since the number of rows and columns are not stored in the table designer. ~b ... View more

@Arnis, it's a eBook, so I'm fine with the RGB colorspace. I'm taking (and annotating) a bazillion screen shots so I don't want to use a format that will flatten my vector layers because if I get a correction I'll have to set up the whole shot again and then re-annotate. Using the .psd format means my files are editable. @Error7103, I tried evening out my pixel columns, same result. Thanks to both of you! ... View more

But the line is showing up in FrameMaker, before I ever get around the making the PDF! (That's a FrameMaker 11 screen shot up there.) I read the string on the horizonal line, and played with flattening the file, but got the same results. I'm leaning on the side of it being a FrameMaker issue: the same .psd image does not produce that line in InDesign so it's not in the .psd file, and while yes, the line shows up in Acrobat (I'm viewing it on Pro X), it's also visible in FM when the borders are hidden. Thanks for trying! ... View more

Hey Michael: Take a look at this post on Adobe FrameMaker Heading Rows: http://blog.rockymountaintraining.com/?p=159. Tables coming in from Word may look like they have header rows, but they don't repeat until you make them "official" header rows. The number of columns are not saved with a table format. ~Barb ... View more

I started this whole thing in Illustrator CS6, because I wanted a vector shape. I still can't make it work with the native .ai file or the recommended .eps file. I give up! Thanks for trying so hard. ... View more

Hey Van, thank you for responding. (And thank you to Jeff, Arnis, Peter and Mike!) I did set the fill afterwards, and thought that was conveyed by the screen shot above, showing the selected frame with the transparency settings in the Graphics Toolbar. I'm going to give up on this one for now, and submit "transparency support in native .psd and .ai files" (like we've had in InDesign for years) as a feature request for FM 12. ~barb ... View more

Tried the eps with a clipping path, saved as a PDF. Same thing! ... View more

I'm in FrameMaker Unstructured 11.1 (patched today). Here's the file in PS (checkboard=transparency): That screen shot is a vector smart object, but I also rasterized it with the same result. Here is the same file imported into FrameMaker with the image background set to transparent: ... View more

Arnis! You are a genius! Thank you, thank you, thank you. ... View more

That sounded promising Arnis, but it didn't work. I saved the file as an .eps from both AI and PS, and as a .tif in PS and tried it out with all of them and had the same result. This is the PS .tif. Am I missing something obvious? My workaround was to "draw" the swoosh with the arc and line tools, but I just can't get the curve I need, and then a student asked me the exact same question yesterday. My workaround won't work for her logo. ... View more

That's certainly my impression too, Jeff, but it's 2012. Shouldn't it be supported? It used to be, but only as a .wmf file. It seems to have fallen off the feature set within the last few upgrades. ... View more

Are you trying to figure out how to add a watermark to a FrameMaker document? It seems like it should be so easy, but there's one default just waiting to trip you up. For a step-by-step tutorial on adding a watermark, see "Adobe FrameMaker: Adding a Watermark" at http://blog.rockymountaintraining.com/?p=2954. Barb Binder, Adobe Certified Instructor on FrameMaker http://www.RockyMountainTraining.com ... View more

Object styles are an awesome, powerful new feature in Adobe FrameMaker 11. If you'd like to get up to speed quickly, follow this step-by-step tutorial, "Adobe FrameMaker 11: A First Look at Object Styles" at http://blog.rockymountaintraining.com/?p=2928. Barb Binder, Adobe Certified Instructor on FrameMaker http://www.RockyMountainTraining.com ... View more

As you may have noticed, some of the magnification commands are missing from the FrameMaker 11 Zoom menu. I'm a huge fan of Fit Page in Window, but as of version 11.0.0.380, it's MIA. Here's a quick tutorial on using the keyboard shortcuts to handle all of your magnification needs: "Adobe FrameMaker 11: Missing Zoom Commands" at http://blog.rockymountaintraining.com/?p=2914. I guessing that once you master these shortcuts, you won't care about the menu anymore! Barb Binder, Adobe Certified Instructor on FrameMaker http://www.RockyMountainTraining.com ... View more

Or, I just explain to my clients that I will "fix" the footnotes on the final draft, and then let them fall where they may during edits. On the final draft, I will adjust the page breaks (ususally by adjusting the "Keep with" settings in Pagination properties) to ensure that my footnotes are on the same page as their references. Doing this too early will drive you nuts. The key to this approach is to be sure the client understands, and can wait until the final draft to see the corrected layout. ~Barb ... View more

Thanks Art. In my experience, converting to RTF first usually makes Frame drop a footnote or two (or more) in each chapter, and then I have to comb through to figure out which ones are missing... I'm trying to get back to the days of old (pre-7) when the footnotes simply behaved as expected. ~Barb ... View more

No, no, no, your title made it clear, but then I wasn't sure from the actual post. I was hoping that you could go ahead and create the named destination as specified, and then link to it from the other application. I've never run across your specific application, so now I'm just guessing. Did you try putting in a named destination in Frame, and then linking to it with the html-compliant #anchorname as in your example? ~Barb ... View more

Links within FrameMaker docs, yes. It's a two-step process. Specify a named destination: Click an insertion point where you want to link to go Special > Hypertext Command: Specify Named Destination and add newlink yourlinknamehere (substituting your link name for my words yourlinknamehere, of course) Click the New Hypertext Marker button Add the link to the named destination: Select the hypertext link hotspot (could be an otherwise empty frame, or an insertion pt within a para, or an insertion point within a character format within a para Special > Hypertext Command: Jump to Named Destination and add gotolink yourlinknamehere (substituting your link name for my words yourlinknamehere, of course) Click the New Hypertext Marker button You can test the link by pressing Control Alt and clicking on the hotspot. Barb Binder Adobe Certified Instructor Rocky Mountain Training ... View more