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Montreal Techwriter Forum Posting Rules ======================================= Greetings! This is your monthly reminder of the posting rules on this list. If...
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Mar 1, 2004
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4038
Hi All, I've got a Frame document that I am developing that uses conditions extensively. For this project, Frame is largely acting as a content manager for...
kandis
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Mar 1, 2004
2:41 pm
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When I read posts like this it makes me glad we switched to a CMS tool and are not messing around in Frame, forcing it beyond what it was made to do. For those...
Bryan Zako
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Mar 1, 2004
2:59 pm
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No worries Bryan. I definitely realize that we are quickly coming to the end of Frame and WWP's usefulness. I'm really forcing both tools to do things they...
kandis
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Mar 1, 2004
3:11 pm
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It's possible with some workarounds and extra software. We have similar situations. We use a FrameScript script that creates temporary "composite conditions"...
Rick A. Henkel
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Mar 1, 2004
4:02 pm
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I get it, but I'd have to buy FrameScript. I've never worked with it. What do you do with it apart from compositing conditions? Is it useful? (Their website...
kandis
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Mar 1, 2004
4:22 pm
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Kandis, I don't know how many audiences you have, but I used to have documents with very few audiences, and I created conditions which included all possible...
France Baril
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Mar 1, 2004
5:06 pm
4044
We use it for all kinds of things to make life easier. * Adding table continuation variables to all the appropriate tables in a book * Changing the DPI of all...
Rick A. Henkel
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Mar 1, 2004
5:18 pm
4045
A position of Technical Writer - Technical Documentation and Communication Department-PRO03224 has just been posted in the "Join Cirque" section of ...
Crotogino, Tiffany
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Mar 2, 2004
3:48 pm
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Hey France, I have more audiences than that, but I think I'm going to have to create two more conditions to support those "composite" conditions. It's going to...
kandis
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Mar 2, 2004
3:55 pm
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Thanks Rick. I'm going to look into FrameScript more. It might allow us to do what we need to do at a more modest price tag than implementing a more...
kandis
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Mar 2, 2004
3:56 pm
4049
Just wanted to say thank you all for your references and recommendations. Much appreciated! Now, to sort through them all! :) -Susan ...
Susan Daoud
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Mar 3, 2004
3:30 pm
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I know several of you are pretty good at putting Acrobat through its paces, so I'm hoping you might have some suggestions for me. I created a master document +...
Crotogino, Tiffany
la_mayimba_
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Mar 3, 2004
4:01 pm
4051
I'm sure you already checked this (but god knows I have blonde days and overlook the obvious sometimes) - did you verify that the "Convert Internet Links"...
Susan Guttman
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Mar 3, 2004
4:06 pm
4052
The Circus has problems with Acrobat?!? Sorry, couldn't help myself, even if I'm repeating a joke. ... __________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo!...
Michel Thibodeau
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Mar 3, 2004
4:07 pm
4053
No worries: I was thinking it as I was writing it... Tiffany Crotogino ... From: Michel Thibodeau [mailto:michthibodeau@...] Sent: 3 March, 2004 11:07 AM...
Crotogino, Tiffany
la_mayimba_
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Mar 3, 2004
4:22 pm
4054
I'd like to say I have, but I haven't even been able to find such a creature! I've been through Distiller, I've been through the help file: nothing. Searched...
Crotogino, Tiffany
la_mayimba_
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Mar 3, 2004
4:23 pm
4055
Do you have the Acrobat icon on your Word menu bar? I'm sure, if you right-click the menus, you'll have the option to add it. So, open any Word doc, click the ...
Michel Thibodeau
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Mar 3, 2004
4:37 pm
4056
Michel, Wish that it were so. In fact, when I click the Adobe button, it simply asks we where I want to save my pdf and then takes off on its own...No options,...
Crotogino, Tiffany
la_mayimba_
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Mar 3, 2004
4:41 pm
4057
In my version of Acrobat(PDFMaker 5.0), you can find it in Word under the Acrobat menu: select Change Conversion Settings, then have a look in the Office tab...
Susan Guttman
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Mar 3, 2004
4:43 pm
4058
Bill, is that a lisp, or are you talking with your mouth full? <giggle> Tiffany, sorry, can't help you anymore. Unless! You said that you have sub-documents,...
Michel Thibodeau
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Mar 3, 2004
4:50 pm
4059
Thanks for helping me find that! Unfortunately, it doesn't solve my problem because it has indeed been checked all along... Tiffany Crotogino ... From: Susan...
Crotogino, Tiffany
la_mayimba_
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Mar 3, 2004
5:01 pm
4060
Hmm. In the PDF, are the links blue and clickable? i.e. you can click them and it opens a browser window but it throws you a 404 message? ... From: Crotogino,...
Susan Guttman
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Mar 3, 2004
5:04 pm
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Good idea, Michel, but that's not where my problem lies. The Master document and sub-documents themselves are behaving properly. The internal links within the...
Crotogino, Tiffany
la_mayimba_
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Mar 3, 2004
5:10 pm
4062
Well, commas are not normal URL language; I'm guessing that perhaps Adobe's analyzer determines the end of a URL as the point when the first non-URL-type...
Susan Guttman
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Mar 3, 2004
5:19 pm
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No. It's even weirder than that. It's set to open the link in a web browser (IE). It opens the intranet site but to a blank page. Our intranet template ...
Crotogino, Tiffany
la_mayimba_
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Mar 3, 2004
5:28 pm
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Well, that makes sense if the URLs are truncated (internal logic in the intranet site). But why, O why are the URLs being truncated, is the last unfathomable...
Susan Guttman
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Mar 3, 2004
5:32 pm
4065
Tiffany Crotogino is having trouble with Acrobat: <<I created a master document + sub-documents in MS Word 2002.>> First off, never use master documents in...
Geoff Hart
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Mar 3, 2004
6:37 pm
4066
Did you download the latest patch or upgrade. I've had that problem with Acrobat 6... I waited 3 weeks for the patch... good thing I still had an older version...
France Baril
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Mar 3, 2004
6:52 pm
4068
... The problem is that Word does not feed link information to Acrobat Distiller. You cannot get links to work at all in Word documents if you use Distiller. ...
Jim Royal
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Mar 3, 2004
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