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Archive-name: frame/faq/part2
Version: 2.9a Last-modified: 1996/03/13 See reader questions & answers on this topic! - Help others by sharing your knowledge This is part 2 of 2 of the FrameMaker FAQ (Frequently Asked Question) list. To get part 1, send e-mail: To: mail-server@rtfm.mit.edu with body containing: send usenet/news.answers/frame/faq/part1 or ftp://rtfm.mit.edu/pub/usenet/news.answers/frame/faq/part1 or http://www.cis.ohio-state.edu/hypertext/faq/usenet/frame/faq/top.html ============================================================ * PAGE LAYOUT ------------------------------------------------------------ ** PAG-1: Is there any easy way to move one or more pages to a different place in the document? (Two layout models.) FM supports two basic layout models; let's call them "newspaper" and "term paper". In the term paper model, there's basically one story that flows from one page to the next; the pages themselves can be thought of as transient, existing only to divide up the flow. In the newspaper model, the pages exist independently of the stories, and you place the stories by reshaping the text columns and linking a column on page 1 to a column on another page. The newspaper model is also used for producing "forms". Overhead transparencies can be done with either model. In the newspaper model, you probably start out by using Page->Add Page to create the proper number of pages, then placing stories in the columns, and linking those columns to additional ones on later pages as necessary. Pages are not automatically generated when text flows out of a column (Autoconnect is off). There's no "easy" way to rearrange pages, but this model doesn't often require it. In the term paper model, you start with one page, and let a lengthening story automatically generate additional pages (Autoconnect is on). If style dictates that page break is required, you simply tag the next paragraph as "Start at Top"; this is probably built into the cataloged tag. In this model, you don't move "pages" around, you move bunches of sentences around (using Cut and Paste), and the pages adjust themselves automatically. Note that in the term paper model you DON'T want to use "Add Page" and you DO want to place any graphics in a anchored frame or table, so they'll move with the text, not stick to the page. Things can get complicated when you want an exception page in the middle of a term paper, such as a rotated page for a landscape formatted graphic. Additional points: - There is NO way to cut/copy and then paste a master page as a unit. - There is NO way to cut/copy and then paste a reference page as a unit. You can only add a new (empty) master/reference page, and then copy and paste objects from the source page. - There is NO way to add a new page (Page:Add Page) and simultaneously specify a desired master page. An added page ALWAYS gets master page "Right" (or "Left" in a 2-sided document as appropriate). If you want to add a page using a different master page you must first add it and then apply the master page using Page:Column Layout. If the desired master page has a different arrangement of text columns you will often end up with "orphan" text columns that you must delete. Contributor: David Cortesi <cortesi@informix.com> ------------------------------------------------------------ ** PAG-2: How do I force a page break? Ideally, you would have a unique tag that leads off the text on the new page (e.g., Head1), and you set this paragraph format to Start: Top of Page or Top of Column. However, this is not always appropriate. There are a few other solutions: *** A. Create a Paragraph tag called PageBreak, and set its point size to 4.0pt (smallest possible), Space Above to 0, and Space Below to 999pt. The huge space below forces the next paragraph to the top of the page. Contributor: <rgf@concurrent.co.uk> *** B. Create a Paragraph tag called PageBreak, and set its Start to Top of Page (or Column). Set the point size to 4.0pt (smallest possible), Space Above to 0, and Space Below to 0. Set the leading to the negative of the point size and the Space Above of the following paragraph. This causes the two paragraphs to overlap. Contributor: Lester C. Smalley *** C. Select the first paragraph that you want on the new page and do "ESC j P". Contributor: L. Daniel York <ldy@copley.mv.com> ------------------------------------------------------------ ** PAG-3: How can I change the page size of an existing document? Use ONE of the following methods: *** A. Edit the MIF file. To change master page sizes, save the file as a MIF document, and then edit the MIF file -- search-and-replace all instances of 8.5" x 11.0" with the desired measurements. Look for the attribute "PageSize". Save the MIF file, and then open it again in FrameMaker -- you will have to use the Page Layout dialog box to reapply Master Page --> Body Page formats, although perhaps you could use the Use Formats From dialog box, specifying the current document as the template and updating only the Page Layout. Also, after doing this, remember to reformat any tabs at the right end of the template's headers/footers. Contributors: Jonathan B. Horen <horen@rs.com> Anders Thulinc <ath@linkoping.trab.se> *** B. Copy formats. 1. Make a new document of the right size. 2. Save this document as a new name. 3. Open your old Template. 4. Go to the Master Pages of both documents, For each master page in the old template: - Create or go to that Master Page in the New document, - In the New document, Edit: Select All on Page and delete, - In the Old document, Edit: Select All on Page and copy, - In the New document, Paste. 5. In the New Document, Select Use Formats from the File menu and bring over everything EXCEPT the Page Layouts. Contributor: Alan S. Koch <ask@sei.cmu.edu> *** C. Frame's Method. A slightly different method is described in Using FrameMaker, Chapter 14: Specifying Page Layout, Changing a document's page size. Contributor: Ari Cohn <acohn@synopsys.com> ------------------------------------------------------------ ** PAG-4: I used a rotated (landscape) page for a large figure/table, but the figure keeps moving to a portrait page! If you have a document which contains a figure too wide for a portrait page, you can created a landscape master page for it to reside on. The problem is that when you add stuff on the pages before the landscape page, the landscape figure moves onto another (portrait) page, and the new text goes onto the landscape page. If you separate the landscape page from the flow, then the figure numbers get messed up. The easiest solution is to create the figure rotated in an anchored frame. You can use a large "scratch" page somewhere to create the figure of such a size that, when rotated, it will fit on your standard portrait page. Thus you won't need a custom master page. Turn off Cropping in the Special Anchored Frame dialog will allow the frame to extend beyond the margins, which might allow it to be edited on a portrait page. You need to rotate the figure back to horizontal whenever you need to edit it. Custom master pages in the middle of a document are a problem because you cannot integrate them into the automatic alternation of left/right master pages; you cannot create "alternative" left/right master pages. Contributor: Rob Weinberg <robertw@informix.com> ------------------------------------------------------------ ** PAG-5: How can I get text to flow around a graphic? This is described in the FM User Manual, Chapter: Controlling the Flow of Text, Flowing text around a graphic (Windows version: page 17-14; Unix version: page 15-11). ------------------------------------------------------------ ** PAG-6: What is the easiest way to do "this page intentionally left blank"? First go to your reference page and create a reference frame called "blank page". In this frame, put your text line, and make the frame large enough that the text will appear low enough down on the page, i.e. leave a couple of inches of white space in the frame above the text. Next, create a paragraph style with tag "blank", which is set to start at the top of a page, and has space below set to 1000 points, so that it will always have a page to itself. In the "advanced" page of paragraph format, set the "Frame Below" to "blank page". Henceforth you need only add or delete one paragraph. Contributor: Karen <karen@yc.estec.esa.nl> ------------------------------------------------------------ ** PAG-7: How can I control the spacing between the text and the top of the text frame? Make two paragraph formats: Tag: NegBelow Tag: NegAbove Space: Below: -99 pt Space: Above: 'x' pt Start: Top of Column where 'x' is a negative value, Next Tag: NegAbove such as -14 pt. Keep With: Next Keep With: Previous Varying the value of 'x' lets you control the space you want. Leave NegBelow empty. Start with the text in NegAbove. Contributor: Wim van Gijsel <wvgijsel@mswe.dnet.ms.philips.nl> ------------------------------------------------------------ ** PAG-8: How can I make a table or anchored frame span two columns? If the table appears at the top of the page, expand the table (or anchored frame) past the first column. Then place a blank anchored frame in the second column, and tell it to appear at the top of the column. (You can of course make a separate master page or rework the columns on the current page, but this will have to be re-done if the content changes and the table moves to another page.) Contributor: Mike Sierra <sierra@ora.com> ------------------------------------------------------------ ** PAG-9: How can I float a table to the top of the page, w/o blank space? Basically, I'd like the table to perform like an achored frame at the top of a page with the float mode on, i.e. I don't want big empty spaces. In your Table Format window, set the Start option for Float, set Orphan Rows for 99 (or some other high number), and set the Space Above to 500 (or some other high number). The Orphan Row setting will force the table rows to stay together, the Float option will allow text to flow around it, and the Space Above will force the table to the top of the next page. Contributor: Kim L. Shank <klshank@dg35dpahrb.er.usgs.gov> ============================================================ * PRINTING NOTE: If you try to print a book in FM4, all chapter files must be converted to FM4 first. Refer to question FIL-8. ------------------------------------------------------------ ** PRT-1: How can I print "DRAFT" on the background of every page? *** A. Add "DRAFT" rotated 45 degrees to the master page (FM4) Go to the master page. Use the text line tool in the graphics palette to create a DRAFT line. Rotate it 45 or 60 degrees, counter-clockwise. Size as appropriate. You may want to color it yellow (prints as light grey on some printers). In FM 4 you can apply a custom color. Using the CMYK model, set C, M and Y to 0%. The percentage of K (black) that you choose is now a percentage of gray. On an HP 4M, 5% K prints watermarks at about the right darkness. Make sure that the text columns for the body text have Fill set to None, not solid white. *** B. Insert Postscript code into your document On the master page, create a new text rectangle. Add the following text: FM3: (DRAFT) /Times-Roman /B -52 /UL .8 #include "$FMHOME/.fminit2.0.ps/docs/BigFill.ps FM4: (DRAFT) /Times-Roman /B -52 /UL .8 gray 1 #include "$FMHOME/fminit/usenglish/samples/postscript/BigRGB.ps where $FMHOME is the pathname of your $FMHOME directory. Select the text rectangle and choose Format Flow. Select PostScript Code and choose OK. Go to the body pages and print. The arguments are: 1 = string to print, in parenthesis, e.g. (PRELIMINARY) 2 = font desired: /font, e.g. /Times-Roman 3 = mode code where /W = fill width, /H = fill height, /B = fill both, expands the characters to fill the text rectangle 4 = rotate value from -180 to +180 where positive = counterclockwise, negative = clockwise 5 = starting corner: /LL /LR /UR /UL where LL = lower left, etc. 6 = grayscale value from 0 to 1 where 0 = black, 1 = white 7 = line color formats: [ red green blue ] or gray [] means no outline, [1 1 1] or 1 means white 8 = line width (in points) if negative number, prints outline on top of fill Read the .ps files for more info. The size of the text is determined by the size of the text rectangle and the "mode code" argument. For Mac users: Obtain the file BigFill.ps from somewhere and put it in the same folder as your document. Then follow the above instructions, except use: #include "BigFill.ps" *** C. Update the FMlpr script The "Printer Name" field on the print box is passed to the FMlpr script. A printername of xxx:yyy calls FMlpr.xxx with a printername of yyy (xxx is translated to lowercase). This allows supporting multiple paper trays, fax modems, draft printing etc., merely by adding scripts into $FMHOME/.fminit2.0. The FMlpr.draft script will print "DRAFT" in the background of every page. Note that the FMlpr.draft file must be made executable (chmod a+x FMlpr.draft). Access via ftp://ftp.frame.com/pub/techsup/framers/unix/fmlpr/draft.lpr Contributor: Graham Williams <gjw@csis.dit.csiro.au> Bob Weissman <bobw@procase.com> ------------------------------------------------------------ ** PRT-2: How can I print with the "-h" switch in FM3.0/3.1? In FM2.1, you could place "ps -h" in the Printer Name box in the Print dialog, to get a file printed without a header (Unix or similar systems). In FM3.0, the printer script was changed. To restore this feature, edit $FMHOME/.fminit2.0.ps/FMlpr (FM3) or $FMHOME/fminit/FMlpr (FM4), and change occurrences of "$PRINTER" to $PRINTER in the lpr commands. This allows multiple arguments to be passed to lpr, instead of passing the entire text to the -d or -P switch. ------------------------------------------------------------ ** PRT-3: How can I set the default printer name? Refer to FrameMaker Reference manual, Page D-5, Resources for the "Print dialog box". Add the following line to your .Xdefaults file: Maker.printerName: {printername} NOTE: This will affect any document which has not yet been stored with a printer name. If a document was Saved with a printer name, the saved name will be used. The printer name will be saved with the document when: you save after you print the document, and in the Print dialog, the PrinterName edit box contained something even marginally different from what is specified by your Maker.printerName: (either because you changed it, or because it had previously been saved that way) e.g. "34b" vs. "34b -h" The printer name will NOT be saved with the document when: you save after you print the document, and in the Print dialog, the PrinterName edit box was IDENTICAL to what is specified by your Maker.printerName: (either because you changed it, or because it had previously been saved that way) If you build templates, you must be sure there is NOT a printer name saved in the templates, or people's defaults will not affect them. To remove the PrinterName from a document that has one saved with one: 1. Open the document. 2. Select File:Print 3. Change the Printer Name edit box to be IDENTICAL to Maker.printerName: in YOUR .Xdefaults 4. Click OK (print the document.) 5. Select File:Save Contributor: Alan S. Koch <ask@sei.cmu.edu> ------------------------------------------------------------ ** PRT-4: How can I print pages in pamphlet/booklet/signature order? Pamphlet/booklet/signature order is where two logical pages are printed on each side of a physical sheet of paper, double-sided, and the pages are folded and stapled in the middle. For a 2-sheet, 8 page booklet, the page order would be: 8 & 1, 2 & 7, 6 & 3, 4 & 5. *** A. PSUtils PSUtils is a package of utilities to manipulate PostScript files. Page selection and rearrangement are supported, including arrangement into signatures for booklet printing, and page merging for 2up/4up/8up/9up printing. psbook rearranges pages into signatures psselect selects pages and page ranges pstops performs general page rearrangement and selection psnup uses pstops to merge multiple pages per sheet epsffit fits an EPSF file to a given bounding box PSutils is available from ftp://ftp.dcs.ed.ac.uk/pub/ajcd/psutils.tar.Z It is written by Angus Duggan. The package is also available in the news:comp.sources.misc archives, or mail a message to archie@archie.unl.edu with the single body line of prog psutils Contributors: Angus Duggan <ajcd@dcs.ed.ac.uk Robert Pincus <robert@atmos.washington.edu> David Cortesi <cortesi@helium.informix.com> *** B. DynoPage (Mac) On the Macintosh, the DynoPage 2.0 software will do this. It also prints many other formats, such as 2-up, 6-up, etc. A free demo disk is available. Contact: Portfolio Software Tel: +1 800-729-3966 10062 Miller Avenue Fax: +1 408-252-0440 Suite 20 Applelink: PORTFOLIO Cupertino, CA 95014-3466 USA CompuServe: 75300,520 America Online: Portfolio *** C. Double Up and Double Up Professional (Windows) On Windows, the Double Up software will do this. (A Unix version is in Beta Test.) Contact: Legend Communications Inc. Tel: +1 800-668-7077 54 Rosedale Avenue CompuServe: 73220,2006 Brampton ON L6X 1K1, Canada ------------------------------------------------------------ ** PRT-5: Is there a way to print certain pages or ranges from a book or file, besides the one-range-at-a-time printing via FM? *** A. psxlate (Unix) The "psxlate" program can extract a whole bunch of pages and organizations from DSC compliant PostScript, which Frame is. The program is contained in the software package called "psroff" (the non-Adobe TranScript program). The output of psxlate is standard out, so it can be redirected to the printer or to a file for later printing. The software is available at ftp://ftp.uu.net/usenet/comp.sources.unix/volume24/psroff3.0/ Contributor: brown@wi.extrel.com *** B. Tempo II Plus (Macintosh) The macro program Tempo II Plus includes a macro that allows you to specify multiple page ranges for a single printing. You enter the list of ranges into a window, issue the print command, and the macro feeds the ranges one at a time to the printer, checking periodically to see if the current range is finished. The macro works with all standard Mac applications, not just FrameMaker. Affinity MicroSystems Ltd. Tel: +1 800-367-6771, +1 303-442-4840 Email: affinity@henge.com Fax: +1 303-442-4999 Contributor: Graeme Forbes <forbes@mailhost.tcs.tulane.edu> ------------------------------------------------------------ ** PRT-6: How can I print double-sided on a printer that supports it? *** A. HP LaserJet IIISi Have FMlpr (or manually) insert this line somewhere near the top of the temp PostScript file (probably after %%EndComments): statusdict begin false settumble true setduplexmode end Then to keep the DOS users happy, insert somewhere near the end: statusdict begin false setduplexmode end Contributor: Nate Stelton <etan@tellabs.com> There is an FMlpr.duplex script written: ftp://ftp.frame.com/pub/techsup/framers/unix/fmlpr/duplex.lpr ------------------------------------------------------------ ** PRT-7: Can I print FM files on a 9-bin dot-matrix printer? I got Frame for Windows to correctly print on a 9-pin dot matrix printer at high speed (i.e. without the printer resorting to graphics mode)! Here is what I have discovered for the Epson 9-pin driver (a fairly recent one I downloaded from Microsoft about 6 months ago): 1) The printer setup options in either Windows or Frame must be put at medium resolution 120x72 (not high resolution 120x144 as you might expect, nor 60x72). 2) I then use a fixed pitch printer font that is native to the printer driver such as Roman 12cpi. If you try to print this in most font sizes, say a large 24 pt., Frame/Windows will substitute a scalable font such as Courier or Times. But if you ask for exactly the right font size, it will use the printer font. Finding the font size that does this is easy. Just paste the same line into an empty document in a half dozen different sizes, and watch while it prints. I use 12 pt for Roman 12cpi, and 15 pt for Roman 10 cpi. The printer will then kick out of graphics mode and really fly (near letter quality and especially in draft). When doing other fonts and drawings it will properly resort to graphics mode. Circles drawn with Frame will be circular, so it obviously is aware of the unequal vertical and horizontal printer dot pitch. Unfortunately, imported bit images and clip art of circles will print as ovals, but this is somewhat understandable. 3) You MUST adjust the Frame Paragraph Format/Advanced Properties/Word Spacing. Set minimum=100%, Maximum=100%, and optimum=100%. If you don't do this, your characters will not be right under one and other (as they should be in a fixed pitch font), and strangely, you may get occasional weird vertical spacing between lines. I originally thought that tabs not placed at character boundaries were causing the horizontal problem, but that doesn't seem to be the case. It was the Word Spacing options. Notes: It may be that the above settings will work for proportional spaced fonts like Roman PS, but I have not tried it. And, I run with Adobe off, but I suspect that doesn't matter. Contributor: Russ Tront <tront@cs.sfu.ca> ------------------------------------------------------------ ** PRT-8: How can I have text that is displayed, but not printed? If you're using FM4, you can apply a color to the region of text that you want displayed, but never printed. Then when you open the print dialog, click on Set Up beside Separations. From there, just move the color that you don't want printed into the Don't Print column. After you click OK and return to the main print dialog, make sure you deselect Print Separations. When you print, you will simply see nothing on the page where your "colored" text appears on screen. FM does not reflow the text so you may see a gap. Contributor: Brent Gossett <bgossett@lsil.com> ------------------------------------------------------------ ** PRT-9: How can print to a non-PostScript printer? *** A. Use ghostscript You can use ghostscript to convert from PostScript to output for many popular printers, including Epson-compatibles, and HP-compatibles. *** B. Use a fax modem I was PC-Faxing a document directly from Frame through my internal modem using Eclipse-FAX software. Then, I noticed that one of the options on the Eclipse menu was "print." Voila! Eclipse apparently performed the necessary PS to TIF conversion and took care of printing the file beautifully on my (non-PostScript) HP DeskJet Plus. Contributors: Michael J Hardy <mhardy@acorn.co.uk> Karen Goeller <karen13@cerridwen.cc.bellcore.com> ------------------------------------------------------------ ** PRT-10: What kind of control do I have over documents distributed on-line in FrameMaker binary format? Following is a MIF file template that, after modifications, you can import into an open, unlocked FM file using the File/Import/File command. Currently, the file simply reaffirms FM default settings. I hope the file is easy to understand so modifications are easy. Nothing remarkable happens when you import the file. Your screen might refresh, but that's about it; nevertheless, after you lock it, the file will respond differently based on the changes you specified. Remember, you can lock and unlock FM files by typing, in sequence, <esc> Flk. Caution: If you configure a file so it cannot be unlocked, be sure to save a copy of the unmodified file. Your readers will not be able to unlock the file but neither will you. <MIFFile 4.00> <Document <DViewOnlyXRef GotoBehavior > # Default: X-refs behave like gotolink #<DViewOnlyXRef NotActive > # Disable hypertext in X-refs #<DViewOnlyXRef OpenBehavior > # X-ref links behave like openlink <DViewOnlySelect Yes > # Default #<DViewOnlySelect UserOnly > # Disable highlighting destination link #<DViewOnlySelect No > # Disable selecting text <DViewOnlyWinBorders Yes > # Default #<DViewOnlyWinBorders No > # Suppress scroll bars <DViewOnlyWinMenubar Yes > # Default #<DViewOnlyWinMenubar No > # Suppress menu-bar display under Unix <DViewOnlyWinPopup Yes > # Default #<DViewOnlyWinPopup No > # Disable popup hypertext commands <DViewOnlyWinPalette No > # Default #<DViewOnlyWinPalette Yes > # Document behaves like a palette #<DViewOnlyNoOp 0x313> # Disable printing #<DViewOnlyNoOp 0x321> # Disable cutting or clearing #<DViewOnlyNoOp 0x322> # Disable copying #<DViewOnlyNoOp 0xF00> # Disable unlocking the document > # end of Document Contributor: Robert Crews <72274.1243@CompuServe.COM> ============================================================ * FILTERS, IMPORT/EXPORT, POSTSCRIPT ------------------------------------------------------------ ** FIL-1: Where can I find a filter to convert <XXXXXX> to Frame? There is a document (FM format) that lists free, shareware, and commercial filters that convert to or from FM. The document is posted to this list when it is changed. The document is quite detailed, so PLEASE try to get the document and read it before asking on the network for a filter. There is too much information to include the whole filter document in the FAQ. (However, I have put info on some filters in later questions.) The filter list document and/or some of the free and shareware filters can be obtained at the sites listed below: http://sunasp1.cern.ch/frame/filters/filters.book_1.html ftp://ftp.irisa.fr/pub/FrameMaker/Filters/ ftp://ftp.cis.ksu.edu/pub/FUN/Filters/ ftp://sunbane.engrg.uwo.ca/pub/fun/filters/ ftp://ftp.uni-stuttgart.de/pub/unix/text-processing/framemaker/Filters/ ftp://ftp.frame.com/pub/techsup/framers/platform.ind/filterdoc/ ftp://ftp.frame.com/pub/techsup/framers/platform.ind/filters/ A mail server is available for most of the filters: To: ftpmail@uni-stuttgart.de body contains: help index The filters reside in the directory: /pub/unix/text-processing/framemaker/Filters The filters are packed and encoded in various ways (shar, .Z, tar), and unpacking programs are available from the mail server; see INDEX. If you do not have access to any of these methods, request the list by sending email to Ed van Leeuwen <Ed.van.Leeuwen@fel.tno.nl> or Phong Co <framers-request@uunet.uu.net>. Contributors: Ed van Leeuwen <Ed.van.Leeuwen@fel.tno.nl> Hansjuergen Paul <paul@iatge.de> Barbara Burr <Burr@rus.uni-stuttgart.de> ------------------------------------------------------------ ** FIL-2: How do I convert a Frame document from Mac to Sun? (etc.) The document file is the same on every platform that Frame supports, so there is no conversion. If you're having trouble, make sure that you are transferring in "binary" mode, not text mode, not MacBinary mode. If moving to the Mac, you will have to open FM and then open the file; double-clicking the file icon won't work. If the document does not show in the Open File dialog, press Option while choosing File Open. If the two platforms are running different versions (1.3/2.x/3.x), and/or you have to convert to an older version, write the file out in MIF format before transferring, and transfer in text mode. Except for the special case in the previous paragraph, you do not have to convert to MIF to transfer between platforms, unless you can only do the transfer in text mode. ------------------------------------------------------------ ** FIL-3: Why do my imported images show up as gray rectangles? There are a couple of reasons that this might occur. *** A. Transfering a file from <platform-A> to <platform-B>. Note that imported graphics may not display or print on the new platform; consult FM Reference Manual Appendix on "Using FrameMaker on Multiple Platforms." This occurs because the graphics are displayed using features of the operating system (such as QuickDraw routines on the Mac and PostScript on the NeXT) that are not available on every platform. If you "Copy File Into Document" when importing, and set the "Save FrameImage with Imported Graphic" attribute (in File:Preferences), your graphics will be displayed no matter what platform you're on. Although you cannot always import a given graphic format into a given platform's FrameMaker, once that graphic is imported with the FrameImage, its contents are displayable in any platform's FrameMaker. Again, consult the Reference Manual. Note that FrameImages are 72DPI bitmaps, so you can display the image, but you won't necessarily like what you get if you print it. *** B. Not enough memory. FM allocates memory for handling bitmaps. If it can't get enough memory, it will display images as grey rectangles. Try increasing the size of the X resource: Maker.clientBitmapSize: 2000000 Contributor: Ed van Leeuwen <E.v.Leeuwen@fel.tno.nl> (plus another individual) ------------------------------------------------------------ ** FIL-4: How can I automatically import a graphic file whose format is not recognized by FM, if I can how to do the conversion manually? Modify in $FMHOME/.fminit2.0 (FM3) or $FMHOME/fminit (FM4) the files suffixlist and MifRead. You can add any filters you want as long as they return a file in a format directly recognised by frame (mif, rasterfile, xwd...) Warning: if you translate in xwd or raster, frame will give a .rf extension to the resulting file (copied in the calling directory), EVEN if such a file already exists. The first time, you can't import, by copy, only by reference. Contributor: Bertrand Decouty ------------------------------------------------------------ ** FIL-5: How do I incorporate code fragments in a Frame doc? There is a filter called prog2mif to handle this. It is available with the other filters (see question FIL-1). The most difficult part is that tabs work differently in code text files than they do in FM. In code, tab usually goes to the next tab stop after the current column. In FM, tab goes to the next tab stop, according to the number of tabs on the line. Contributor: Janick Bergeron <janick@bcrkd13.bnr.ca> ------------------------------------------------------------ ** FIL-6: Are there any SGML converters for FM? *** A. MIF/SGML Conversion System (Unix) "MIF/SGML Conversion System" John Payne Avalanche Development Company Tel: +1 303-449-5032 947 Walnut Street Fax: +1 303-449-3246 Boulder, CO 80302 USA Internet: john@avalanche.com *** B. OmniMark (on all Frame platforms) OmniMark North America: 800-565-9465 Exoterica Corporation Tel: +1 613-722-1700 1545 Carling Avenue Fax: +1 613-722-5706 Ottawa, ON K1Z 8P9 CANADA Internet: info@xgml.com OmniMark provides SGML support for FrameMaker and FrameBuilder through its rich development language. OmniMark's built-in SGML parser supports all SGML DTDs. *** C. fm2sgml - SMGL Export Filter for FrameBuilder The `SGML Export Filter for FrameBuilder' program (or `fb2sgml' for short) is a DTD independent export filter for FrameBuilder. It converts any structured FB document or selected elements thereof to SGML instances including graphics and tables (CALS). `fb2sgml' is an FB API client, that forms part of the FB user-interface. It can be used to export any FrameBuilder document conforming to any EDD. For more info, contact: John Eadie Computing Art Inc. Tel: +1 416-287-6811 or +1 604-922-5104 Fax: +1 604-922-5194 Email: jme@well.sf.ca.us | jme@c-art-w.wimsey.com Contributor: John Eadie <jme@well.sf.ca.us | jme@c-art-w.wimsey.com> *** D. DynaTag - MIF-to-SGML and DynaText Conversion Solution Electronic Book Technologies Tel: +1 401-421-9550 One Richmond Square Fax: +1 401-421-9551 Providence, RI 02901 USA Email: info@ebt.com WWW: http://www.ebt.com DynaTag provides a point-and-click environment for converting Frame MIF files into SGML and DynaText for online delivery. The DynaTag set-up program-- which is used to create a "project" that defines the MIF-to-SGML mappings for a particular class of documents--runs on Windows. Completed projects can be run in batch mode on Windows and the popular UNIX environments. Handles embedded Frame graphics. Powerful, easy-to-use, and inexpensive. Contributor: Kent Summers <kjs@ebt.com> ------------------------------------------------------------ ** FIL-7: I am having problems transferring PostScript in and out of FM. You can also get help from the folks on comp.lang.postscript and comp.sources.postscript newsgroups. The comp.lang.postscript FAQ is available via e-mail: To: mail-server@rtfm.mit.edu body contains: send usenet/news.answers/postscript/faq/part1-4 send usenet/news.answers/postscript/faq/part5-6 send usenet/news.answers/postscript/faq/part7-10 send usenet/news.answers/postscript/faq/part11 send usenet/news.answers/postscript/faq/part12 send usenet/news.answers/postscript/index *** A. Can't take FM3 PostScript and import into LaTex Comment out the following lines in the FM PostScript file, FMDOCUMENT procedure: setpapername manualfeed {true} {papersize} ifelse {manualpapersize} {false} ifelse {desperatepapersize} if Modify the size of the BoundingBox, needed especially for small FM figures. There are various methods to compute the proper size: 1) Use bbfig, which is a set of shell script and postscript programs that can calculate the datum for BoundingBox. One version that works is the copy modified by oliveria@down.engin.umich.edu (Roque Donizete de Oliveira) at 141.212.102.27 (knob2.engin.umich.edu) in the file pub/tmp/bbbig.tar.Z. It also comes with a few packages, eg. dvips, epsfig, etc. The version on NEXTSTEP can even allow mousing to define the BoundingBox and update the BoundingBox statement in the postscript program. This feature may also exist in some variants of bbfig. 2) Use ghostview read the coordinates of the lower left conner and upper right conner, by using mouse to point. 3) Use ps2epsi or pstoepsi. 4) Measure with a ruler in inch. The keys are that the lower left conner is not necessarily the lower left extreme of the page, whose coordinate is (0,0) and that the coordinates are in points (pt.) which is 1/72 inch, so 1 inch = 72 pt. The BoundingBox is the portion on the page that you want to insert. Replace %%BoundingBox: (atend) by %%BoundingBox: <x1> <y1> <x2> <y2> where <x1> <y1> <x2> <y2> are the values calculated. The old "%%BoundingBox:..."-line at the end of the PS-file can be deleted. Calculating the bounding box with ps2epsi did not work for FM3-generated PS-files, but bbfig does the job. There is a Unix shell script contributed by Peter Nuth that does a lot of the edits automatically. ftp://ftp.frame.com/pub/techsup/framers/platform.ind/filters/fixfm3ps.sh Contributors: Jan van der Steen <jansteen@cwi.n> Ingolf Markhof <markhof@ls12.informatik.uni-dortmund.de> Amir Samad <amir@skua.bu.edu> Peter R. Nuth <nuth@ai.mit.edu> Albert Pang <albert@brahms.INSL.McGill.CA> Sven Thelemann <thele@db.informatik.uni-kassel.de> Yu Shen <yshen@bmerhcbe.bnr.ca> *** B. Can't take FM4 PostScript and import into LaTex Similar to above for FM3, but different items need to be editted. There is a Unix shell script contributed by Peter Nuth that does the edits automatically. ftp://ftp.frame.com/pub/techsup/framers/platform.ind/filters/fixfm4ps.sh Contributors: Eric A. Brewer Peter R. Nuth <nuth@ai.mit.edu> *** C. Can't view FM PostScript in Ghostview. Change the first line of the FM PS file from %! to %!PS-Adobe-3.0 Contributor: brown@wi.extrel.com *** D. Converting PS to EPSI or EPSF. You can use "ps2epsi", which comes with and depends on Ghostscript. Ghostscript is part of the GNU package; consult the GNU license. Ghostscript for Unix is available via: ftp://prep.ai.mit.edu/pub/gnu/ ftp://ftp.cs.wisc.edu/pub/ghost/ghostscript-2.6.1.tar.gz Ghostscript for DOS/Windows is available via: ftp://prep.ai.mit.edu/pub/gnu/ ftp://ftp.cs.wisc.edu/pub/ghost/gsview10.zip ftp://ftp.cica.indiana.edu/pub/pc/win3/uploads/ ftp://oak.oakland.edu/pub/msdos/postscript/ Ghostscript for the Mac is available via: ftp://sumex-aim.stanford.edu/info-mac/grf/util/ eps-converter can translate ps files into Illustrator 3.2 eps files: ftp://sumex-aim.stanford.edu/info-mac/grf/util/ Some guidelines about EPSI files from Frame Tech Support: Here's the three possible EPS headers that FM 3.0 recognizes: (All PS code shown indented, so that it won't be interpreted when the FAQ is printed.) %!PS-Adobe-2.0 EPSF-1.2 %!PS-Adobe-2.0 EPSF-2.0 %!PS-Adobe-3.0 EPSF-3.0 FM does a character-by-character match, so there must be no typos. - File must have valid bounding box at head of file: %%BoundingBox: x y xx yy - EPSI preview must start with: %%BeginPreview: n m p q - EPSI preview must end with: %%EndImage %%EndPreview Also: the EPSI file must be a UNIX, not DOS file. (Each line ends in <cr>, not <cr><lf> ). So if you produce an EPSI file under unix, copy back to your PC as a binary file, just as you would do for Frame docs. Note that the EPSI preview must end with %%EndImage for MSwin Frame to view it correctly. The GhostScript ps2epsi on Unix produces good files. Peter Nuth had to write a simple filter to convert epsi files produced by MSwindows GSVIEW to Unix format and add the EndImage line. Contributors: Nelson Loyola <loyola@bnr.ca> Peter Nuth <nuth@ai.mit.edu> Graeme Forbes <forbes@mailhost.tcs.tulane.edu> *** E. Places with FM & PS materials The PostScript corner at the University of Zurich contains some material on FM, Display PostScript, Portable Document Format, and CERN WebMaker. http://www.unizh.ch/ps/PScorner.html Contributor: Peter Vollenweider <rzuvo@rzu.unizh.ch> ------------------------------------------------------------ ** FIL-8: How can I convert a group of files between FM binary and MIF? The following c-shell script converts all files named *.framemif (MIF format) to *.doc (FM binary format). If your files don't have the extension ".framemif", you can change "framemif" below to whatever extension your files use. It can be modified to do various fmbatch operations on multiple files. ftp://ftp.frame.com/pub/techsup/framers/platform.ind/filters/fmbatch.sh Contributor: Mike Kirsch <mkirsch@novell.com> ------------------------------------------------------------ ** FIL-9: How do I import ISO Latin1 (ISO-8859.1) text into FM? *** A. Use .Xdefaults Add the following line in $HOME/.Xdefauts: Maker.textCharacterEncoding: ISOLatin1 Altough file $FMHOME/.fminit2.0/xresources/Maker says ! CHARACTER ENCODING ! Use this resource if you want FrameMaker to save in 8-bit ! ISO-Latin text rather than in 7-bit ASCII text. !Maker.textCharacterEncoding: ISOLatin1 this works both for importing and saving as plain text. *** B. Use file suffix and MifRead Add a .is1 suffix to all ISO Latin1 encoded files. This is implemented by file $FMHOME/.fminit2.0/MifRead: ... case $1 in *.is1) $5/is1tomif <$1 >$2;; ... and files $FMHOME/bin/is1tomif and $FMHOME/bin/bin.<platform>/is1tomif. The file $FMHOME/.fminit2.0/suffixlist must contain a line with <is1> if you want MifRead to be called. *** C. Use preferences Someone mentioned the file $FMHOME/.fminit2.0/preferences; there is no such file in my installation but perhaps others have it; this is why it's worth mentioning anyway. *** D. Other tips and resources The file $FMHOME/.fminit2.0.ps/iso1.map contains a conversion table between ISO Latin1 and FrameMaker internal encoding; it can be used by your conversion programs. Note that a .mif file must be completely in ascii or in FrameMaker internal character encoding; you cannot put ISO Latin1 text in it, even in a <String `...'> statement and with the X resource previously mentionned and expect an automatic conversion. This is why you will need to make the conversion yourself if you have a program that generates .mif files derived from some text input, and that is not aware of the problem. There is a file that can help you with all of your tests. It contains a line for every character with the high bit on; the character itself is enclosed in [] and a description follows. All you have to do is look at what is inside the [] after the one or more steps of manipulation of this file by programs. Available at ftp://watsun.cc.columbia.edu/kermit/charsets/ Contributor: Charles Levert <charles@comm.polymtl.ca> ------------------------------------------------------------ ** FIL-10: How do I screendump a window with a menu? Refer to: ftp://ftp.frame.com/pub/techsup/framers/platform.ind/filters/scrdump.sh Contributors: Wayne T. Watson <wayne@netcom.com> Brad Fischer ------------------------------------------------------------ ** FIL-11: How do I convert MATLAB output to FM? Refer to: ftp://ftp.frame.com/pub/techsup/framers/platform.ind/filters/matlab.txt ------------------------------------------------------------ ** FIL-12: How do I convert FM to HTML? CERN keeps a list of HTML generating tools; see it for the latest info: http://www.w3.org/hypertext/WWW/Tools/Word_proc_filters.html#Framemaker Contributor: Axel Boldt <boldt@math.ucsb.edu> *** A. www_and_frame Designed to work with MifRead and MifWrite, uses perl, sgmls, and xlisp. Available now from: http://info.cern.ch/hypertext/WWW/Frame/fminit2.0/www_and_frame.html and in the future from: ftp://info.cern.ch/pub/www/contrib/www_and_frame-README ftp://info.cern.ch/pub/www/contrib/www_and_frame-0.2.tar.Z Contact: connolly@convex.com *** B. WebMaker 1.4 (free) CERN-developed version (1.4) available at: http://www.cern.ch/WebMaker/ The freeware version of CERN WebMaker will be available at least until the release of WebMaker 2.0 (see below). Support of the current CERN WebMaker version will be progressively transferred to Harlequin prior to the release of version 2.0. There will be a beta release of WebLinker, a WWW cross-reference management tool, by the end of March 95. A new version, 1.5, of CERN WebMaker will be released at this time to enable WebMaker users to incorporate the WebLinker solution into their WWW information management strategy. A selected list of bugs will be fixed for this release. This will be the last CERN release of WebMaker. Contact: webmaker@cern.ch *** C. WebMaker 2.0 (commercial) Harlequin Ltd., an international software house with headquarters in Cambridge, UK, will develop and market an industrial version of CERN WebMaker. WebMaker 2.0, to be released in September 95, will include new functionality and will be supported on UNIX, MS Windows and Apple Macintosh platforms, accompanied with a native GUI for each platform. Contact: webmaster@harlequin.com or web@harlequin.co.uk Tel: Tel: +44 (0)1223 873800 Fax: +44 (0)1223 872519 http://www.harlequin.com.uk/webmaker Offices in UK, USA, and Australia. *** D. fm2html http://info.cern.ch/hypertext/WWW/Tools/fm2html.html ftp://ftp.nta.no/pub/ http://www.nta.no/produkter/fm2html/Demo.book.html Contact: jons@nta.no *** E. miftran A MIF to HTML converter written in C. http://info.cern.ch/hypertext/WWW/Tools/miftran.html ftp://ftp.alumni.caltech.edu/pub/mcbeath/web/miftran/ Contact: jimmc@eskimo.com *** F. Quadralay WebWorks Publisher & HTML Lite FM5: WebWorks HTML Lite has been created especially for Frame Technology as a useful, basic functionality tool to convert FM documents into the Web's native HyperText Markup Language (HTML) format. HTML Lite features an easy to use graphical user interface within FM to allow one step conversion of FM documents. Lite converts cross references, hypertext links, and generated lists (TOC, Index, etc) with corresponding URLs (HTML Hyperlinks). It enables users to map paragraph and character styles to HTML tags and can generate references to GIF images imported by reference. Quadralay's WebWorks Publisher is a more advanced commercial Internet publishing product that enables users to design and maintain production-quality Web spaces. Publisher combines the ease-of-use of WebWorks' HTML Lite with a more powerful and complete set of production-level features that utilizes the full richness of FM and HTML. It gives users the ability to automatically convert graphics, tables, and equations; design and save complex style mappings for repeated use; and convert entire books and groups of files with a single operation. Ideal for designing and maintaining commercial Web spaces, WebWorks Publisher builds on the basic text and hyperlink conversion features of HTML Lite. Additional features of WebWorks Publisher include support for Frame variables; configurable image translation such as scaling, dpi, and transparency; and customized style set designing. The style designer enables users to create custom HTML tags, split documents to facilitate efficient network transfers and even provides a macro language for maintaining corporate material (logos, styles, etc.) Quadralay Tel: +1 512-305-0240 3925 West Braker Lane, Suite 337 Fax: +1 512-305-0248 Austin, TX USA 78759-5321 Email: info@quadralay.com WWW: http://www.quadralay.com ------------------------------------------------------------ ** FIL-13: How do I convert MS Excel charts to FM? More generally "How to produce EPSI files from MSWindows for inclusion in Frame?" The best way I found was to convert all Excel charts to EPSI files (Encapsulated Postscript with device independant bitmaps). I imported these files by reference (not by copy). This cuts down on the size of the Frame docs and avoids some problems with Frame losing graphics copied into the doc. You can still view and resize the graphics on screen under Unix and MSwindows. To produce an EPSI file from Excel: To print an EPS file from any MSwin application, you must have a PostScript printer driver loaded as one of your printers. Get the latest version (3.55 or greater) from Microsoft or Simtel archives. Select this driver under the control panel, and under Options, select "Encapsulated Postscript" and leave the file field blank. Don't make the mistake of just connecting the PS driver to a FILE port, and then assuming that this will produce a good EPS file. Then go back to Excel and set up your page for your chart. I printed charts alone, with no headers and footers, sized to fit about 6" wide. You don't want clutter at the top & bottom of the page. When you print, it will prompt you for the name of the file. This "EPS" file has a lousy bounding box that includes the entire page. Now if you want to get a real EPS or EPSI file with good bounding boxes, you must run it through "ps2epsi", which is part of the Ghostscript for Unix distribution. There's also a Ghostscript and GSview for MsWindows that produces EPSI files, but I have occasionally had problems then including those EPSI files into Frame documents. If you only care about EPS, and not EPSI with previews, then MSwin GSview is fine. Refer to question FIL-7, D, for details on PS to EPSI conversion and Ghostview. Contributor: Peter Nuth <nuth@ai.mit.edu> ------------------------------------------------------------ ** FIL-14: How do I get a better FM-to-Text conversion? *** A. MifMucker The MifMucker can do this and many other things. Available at: http://www.oac.uci.edu/indiv/ehood/mifmucker.doc.html It is a free perl application that can manipulate FM docs in numerous ways, including generating formatted ASCII (better than FM's ASCII dump), HTML, searching across any number of docs for regular expressions and reporting where things occured, generting MIF, and so on. Actually, there are about 8 filters for it currently, with more planned someday. It is designed to be completely modular. Additional filters that can convert between formats or modify the contents of the document can be added with no changes to the engine itself. You could conceivably write a filter to do just about anything to a FM doc, including sorting paragraphs which someone else was asking for. As an example, using a single MifMucker command (multiple filters) we can take V3.1 docs, convert them to V4.0 docs, apply a given template, move hanging anchored frames that used to be headings into the text flow to take advantage of V4.0's side-head feature, move paragraphs around to conform to a new style (frame titles below rather than above and so on) and upload back to binary. Our writers need not know MIF was ever involved. I wrote the MifMucker initially over a year ago, and had planned to make a big announcement about it to this newsgroup as well as others. Due to time constraints I never finished the documentation (there is some) and so much for my big announcement. The HTML filter is what I figured most people would be interested in, but the ASCII filter is quite sophisticated. It recreates an exact representation of your document (including line breaks, so hey if you're using a small font on a big page then the output will be greater than 80 chars). Anyway, it has its limitations, but works well for doing the above things. It is currently V1.0.1. You can ask me about how to write additional MifMucker filters to do particular things across thousands of FM docs, but PLEASE don't ask me to write the filters. (I'm behind schedule as it is :-) Contributor: Ken Harward <harward@convex.com> *** B. FM2A Frak Stearns Associates produces FM2A (FrameMaker to Ascii), a filter for generating fully formatted Ascii text from an FM doc, any version. Ascii text generation includes tables that look like tables, database export mode (for preparing FM tables for import to a spreadsheet or database). For a datasheet, send request to address below. Contact: Frank Stearns Associates Toll free in USA: 800-567-6421 17201 SE 38th Circle Outside USA: 360-892-3970 Camas, WA 98607 (USA) Fax: 360-253-1498 email: franks@fsatools.com ------------------------------------------------------------ ** FIL-15: How do I merge several PS files into a single PS file? Especially: How do I merge several PostScript files from a book into a single PostScript file when printing on a Mac? When printing a FM book on the Macintosh, the output consists of one Postscript file for each file of the book. If the whole book, however, shall be printed in pamphlet/booklet/signature order, a single PostScript file (with a single header and consistent font definitions) is necessary for a correct post-processing with the "PSUtils"-tools psbook and pstops. psconcat is a UNIX shell script that unifies the font definitions of several Mac PostScript files refering to a generic header and merges the generic header and the bodies of the PS files into a single file. psconcat is written by Gerald Spiegel <gerald@ira.uka.de> and available from: http://goethe.ira.uka.de/people/spiegel/utils/psconcat Contributor: Gerald Spiegel <gerald@ira.uka.de> ============================================================ * SPELLING, GRAMMAR, BIBLIOGRAPHYS, ENDNOTES, 3RD PARTY TOOLS, ETC. See also the "Frame Connections" catalog from Frame. Over 600 pages of third-party products, consultants, service bureaus, and training centers. Call Frame to request a copy. Contributor: Bob Morrisette <control@qms.ebay.sun.com> ------------------------------------------------------------ ** SGB-1: Are there any grammar checkers for FM? *** A. Grammatik 5.0 (Windows, Mac) WordPerfect Corporation Cindy, extension 22588 Mail Stop Q-300, Information Services Tel: +1 (800) 451-5151 1555 N. Technology Way Fax: +1 (801) 222-5077 Orem, UT 84057-2399 USA $99.00 Contributor: Lester Bautista <lab@tellabs.com> ------------------------------------------------------------ ** SGB-2: Do you know what happens if the spell checker finds "Interleaf" (a competitor to FrameMaker)? Yes, we do, but just in case, it gets posted every 3-4 months. ------------------------------------------------------------ ** SGB-3: How can I do bibliographies in FrameMaker? *** A. fmbib "fmbib" takes a Frame document (.mif format) as its input, with "Bibliography" markers embedded where the references occur. The marker text is that of a key word indexed into a bibliography database file, such as Scribe's ".bib" files. In fact, the program is compatible with Scribe bibliography files. The user can also specify on the command line one of several reference and bibliography styles. fmbib will then generate a new FM .mif file which is the actual bibliography. The original document is modified to contain cross-references to this new document. These references appear as visible text when the user updates cross-references in the original document. The program also aids in creating new bibliography database files. The sources have been built and tested under CMU's BSD4.3-compliant MACH OS, for Sun3, Sun4, Pmax, Vax, and IBM-RT workstations. It should be portable to any Unix box. Available at ftp://ftp.uni-stuttgart.de/pub/unix/text-processing/framemaker/Filters/fmbib.tar.Z Contributor: Craig Marcus *** B. BibFrame (Tommy Persson's version) BibFrame makes it possible to deal with references in FrameMaker in a general way. You do not have to enter your reference list by hand every time you write a document. Instead, the reference list is automatically generated from a data base with references. This ensure that your reference entries are in the right format. You do not have to bother with how things should be emphasized, abbreviated and so on. You have a database with references. The format of the references is the same format that is used by BibTeX. That means that people using LaTeX and FrameMaker can use the same data base. Currently it is possible to use the bibliography styles ``plain'', ``alpha'' and ``mapalike''. It ought to work on most Unix machines. This program require BibTeX to be present. Available by ftp://ftp.ida.liu.se/pub/bibframe/bibframe-0.4.1.tar.Z Contributor: Tommy Persson <tpe@ida.liu.se> *** C. BibFrame (Bryan Biegel's version) Another version of BibFrame is maintained by Bryan Biegel (BB). This BibFrame version (BB's) includes all of the features of Tommy Persson's (TP's) version described above, as well as extensive documentation for installation and use. It also has been updated to work with FrameMaker 4. As with TP's BibFrame, BB's version is intended for use on Unix machines, and requires both BibTeX and perl to be present (both of which can be down-loaded via anonymous ftp). Many bugs and robustness issues have been addressed in BB's version. Suggestions for further improvement are welcomed by the maintainer. BB's version includes the following bibliography styles: abbrv, alpha, draft, longkey, mapalike, plain, unsrt, quote, and short-cite mapalike. BB's version can handle "book" (multi-file) documents. Available at ftp://ftp.cs.umbc.edu/pub/elm/bibframe.tgz (gzipped tar file of the whole package), maintained by Ethan Miller. Contributor: Bryan Biegel <biegel@tigris.stanford.edu> Ethan L. Miller <elm@cs.umbc.edu> *** D. EndNote Plus Mac Endnote 1.6 ($149), Mac EndNote Plus 1.3 ($249) Niles & Associates, Inc. Internet: nilesinc@well.sf.ca.us 2000 Hearst Ave. Suite 20 CompuServe: 71172,653 Berkeley, CA 94709 USA AOL: NilesAssoc Tel: +1 510-649-8176 AppleLink: Niles.Assoc Fax: +1 510-649-8179 From the vendor: EndNote stores the bibliographic references in a database, so they can be resorted and reformatted in various different ways. Users copy a temporary citation into their Frame paper by choosing one or more references and copying onto the clipboard. When they paste into the paper, it's in a temporary citation format like this [Billosky, 1989 #43]. To format, a user must save their files as MIF, and then open and scan them in the EndNote program. This searches the files for brackets and matches them to the EndNote reference database. The user then chooses a bibliographic style (we supply several, including APA, Chicago, Nature and Vancouver), and Formats the paper. EndNote will make copies of each file, change the temporary citations to author-year or numeric format, and build a bibliography of the cited references at the end of the last file. From Todd R. Johnson <tj@cis.ohio-state.edu>: Although EndNote Plus is quite versatile and easy to use, it is extremely slow at processing MIF files. For example, a 14 page document with a few figures took several minutes to process. During this time EndNote takes over your Mac so that you can't even switch to another application. From: Graeme Forbes <forbes@mailhost.tcs.tulane.edu> Niles & Associates has discontinued EndNote and provided Endnote users with an upgrade path to EndNote Plus 2.0. EndNote Plus 2 processes MIF files at (my subjective impression) 4 to 5 times the speed of earlier versions of EndNote. ------------------------------------------------------------ ** SGB-4: Can FM produce automatically numbered endnotes? *** A. Producing endnotes from scratch Not directly. However, there is a work-around using cross-references. - Create an autonumbered paragraph type called "Endnote," with a number format of "E:[<n+>] " - Putting each note text in a paragraph of this type, at the end of the document. - Create a character style called "Endnote" which reduces the point size and enables the superscript attribute. This will be used for reference to the note in the main text. - Create a cross-reference format called "Endnote" with a format of <Endnote>[<$paranumonly>]<Default P Font> - In the body of the document, add a cross-reference to the Endnote paragraph that lists the reference. Unfortunately, if you rearrange the text, the notes will not automatically be re-arranged in the back of the document. When you are ready to produce the document, go to the beginning, use Edit Search/Find to search for "Cross-Reference of Format: Endnote". If you find an Endnote that is out of order, re-arrange the note text in the back of the document. Contributor: David Cortesi <cortesi@helium.informix.com> *** B. Converting footnotes to endnotes In FM4 (this should also work with earlier versions), with the file in which you want to make the conversion to the front, choose Generate/Book...-> List of Paragraphs and generate a list of your footnotes. Copy this list and paste it at the end of your original file. Then create the autonumbered paragraph type "Endnote" as described in SGB-4:A above and apply this paragraph format to all your endnotes (if you have multi-paragraph notes you will have to pass through your list of endnotes at this point and apply some other paragraph format to all but the first paragraph of each such note). Next, create a character style and x-ref format as described in SGB-4:A. Then go to the top of your document, choose Find/Change and select Footnote from the menu for the Find window. Clicking Find highlights the foonote reference number 1 in your text as well as the number and text of this footnote aty the bottom of the page. Choose Special->Cross-Reference, make sure the Endnote paragraph format is highlighted in the source type list and the Endnote cross-reference format is chosen in the Format box. Click the first entry in the Reference Source list and then click Replace. This removes footnote 1 from the bottom of the page and replaces the reference number in the text with a (visually indistinguishable) reference number that refers to the first paragraph in your list of endnotes. The remaining footnotes in your file are renumbered from 1, so you may continue through your paper repeating the above steps, working through the Reference Source list, until all footnotes have become endnotes. After you've done this it's a good idea to search through your document for "Cross Reference of Format:" to make sure you've got all the notes numbered and in the correct sequence. If you later move text about you may well disrupt the order of the endnote reference numbers in your text. Contributor: Graeme Forbes <forbes@mailhost.tcs.tulane.edu> ------------------------------------------------------------ ** SGB-5: Are there any plotting/charting packages that work with FM? *** A. GNUPlot Gnuplot version 3.4 can output graphs in MIF format, so that you can include them in Frame documents. This is superior to using EPS since you can see and edit the imported graphic. Gnuplot is excellent for plotting mathmatical functions. I prefer xvgr/xmgr for plotting data files. For more details, see the announcement in comp.graphics.gnuplot. Available by ftp://prep.ai.mit.edu/pub/gnu/ Contributor: Phil Endecott <endecotp@cs.man.ac.uk> *** B. TempleGraph TempleGraph generates the output in MIF format. Temple Graph was originally created at Temple University, but it is licensed to and sold by: Mihalisin Associates, Inc. Tel: +1 215-646-3814 600 Honey Run Rd. Ambler, PA 19002 USA Contributor: Bob Nehls <rn11195@sage.medtronic.com> *** C. Robochart Robochart is a generic flow diagram editor. You can create diagrams using hundreds of built-in or user-defined objects, connect them with several types of "rubber-band" flow lines, and add or edit label text for both objects and flows. You can create multilevel hierarchical diagrams, use multiple fonts and colors, and output in PostScript, EPSF, MIF, HPGL, or ASCII formats. Robochart is available for OpenWindows and Motif under Solaris 1.x and 2.x. Floating licenses are $850/first, $395/additional. An evaluation copy (the full program and HTML manual, with file save disabled) is available free via Internet, or by mail for $25 (with printed manual, fee credited against first license). Digital Insight Tel: +1 805-583-3627 PO Box 533 Fax: +1 805-583-3809 Simi Valley, CA 93062-0533 USA Internet: rc-sales@digins.com WWW: http://www.csn.net/digins FTP: ftp://ftp.csn.net/digins *** D. xvgr/xmgr xvgr (Sun View) and xmgr (Motif) can be obtained via ftp://ftp.ccalmr.ogi.edu/CCALMR/pub/ xvgr can read single (X-Y), multiple (X-Y1,Y2,Y3) and error-bar (X-Y-DY) data in a pretty flexible format. The graph types include line, scattered plots, and bar charts among others. The user has complete control over fonts, legend locations, tick-marks, size of graph, output type, and zillions of other things. xvgr can produce MIF output, so you have full editing capability over the graph in FM. Contributor: Vallury Prabhakar <rustcat@sunrise.stanford.edu> *** E. Xmgf Xmgf is an Interactive tool for displaying image feature files in gf and other common CAD formats. Xmgf has a viewing window and controls the orientation and focal point of a viewing camera. Formats include NFF, OBJ, OFF, RAY, SLA, DXF, IGRIP, MINICAD. Xmgf auto-scales images, can have the viewing parameters stored in a file produce Xfig and Postscript and MIF output as well as RAYSHADE data files and PGM, PBM and XBM SunRaster and GIF image outputs. Xmgf can produce 3D objects in MIF format including Block, Sphere, Cones, Cylinders, etc. that are drawn shaded, wireframe, color, hidden line, and can be fully edited in FM. Xmgf is Shareware; contributions are welcome! Xmgf was written by Paul Hoad. Available at: ftp://ftp.x.org/contrib/applications/Xmgf/ Contributor: Paul Hoad <P.Hoad@ee.surrey.ac.uk> *** F. Visual Thought Visual Thought is a multipurpose UNIX diagramming & flowcharting tool, featuring editable drag-and-drop palettes, nearly 100 shapes, rubberbanding connections, complete text handling and graphical editing, colors and fonts limited only by the system, arbitary pan and zoom, full page layout capabilities, 100-level undo, "live" editing, image import, sound recording, and more. Output formats include MIF, EPSF, EPSI, TIFF, JPEG, GIF, and others. Users can create software design diagrams, flowcharts, plus dataflow, network, organizational, and circuit/logic diagrams for presentation and documentation graphics. Confluent offers a free evaluation CD-ROM. Confluent, Inc. Tel: +1 800-780-2838 132 Encline Court Tel: +1 415-586-8700 San Francisco, CA 94127 Fax: +1 415-586-8838 Email: info@confluent.com WWW: http://www.confluent.com Contributor: William Tseng <william@confluent.com> ------------------------------------------------------------ ** SGB-6: Is there a thesaurus that works with FM? FM4 includes a thesaurus program; choose Edit->Thesaurus. For folks using FM3, or for general references, here are some sources. *** A. Concise Oxford Dictionary/Oxford Thesaurus on CDROM I'm using - among others - the `Concise Oxford Dictionary/Oxford Thesaurus' (Electronic Book version, [EBROM = 8cm CDROM]) on Suns/Nexts. The CD costs ~ 100 DM in Germany (~ 60 US$). These EBROM CDs are intended for the various Electronic Book Player units (`Data Discman'), but can also be used under Unix using a retrieval software (we're selling such a retieval software, please contact info@tools.de for more information). Contributor: Juergen Keil <jk@tools.de> *** B. 1911 Roget's Thesaurus A seachable Roget's is available to those with forms-based Web browsers: http://tuna.uchicago.edu/forms_unrest/ROGET.html Thanks to Project Gutenberg, a copy of the 1911 Roget's Thesaurus has been made available at ftp://mrcnext.cso.uiuc.edu/etext/etext91/ or, if you must, ftp://mrcnext.cso.uiuc.edu/etext/etext91/ Please ftp the file during off-hours -- at times OTHER THAN 10:00 AM to 6:00 PM Central Standard Time (Daylight time in summer). You only need one of these, as roget13a.zip is roget13a.txt in a .ZIP file. Transfer the .zip file if possible, since it is half the size of the text file. Contributor: Darryl Okahata <darrylo@sr.hp.com> Graeme Forbes <forbes@mailhost.tcs.tulane.edu> ------------------------------------------------------------ ** SGB-7: How to use configuration management tools with FM? Note that was we need to document revision control, which is similar to but not identical to source code control. *** A. SCCS on binary (.fm, .doc) Just use SCCS in binary mode. Several people commented that the -b option would be required, some say it is used automatically. However, the s_dot files grow very quickly, even for very small changes. *** B. RCS on binary (.fm, .doc) May need to compile it to use GNU diff. FM4: In order to support binary files, requires RCS version 5 or later, compiled to use a diff that supports binary files, e.g. GNU diff. If your FM document contains any RCS keywords, e.g. $Header$, RCS will expand these inside the document, making the file unreadable to FM. To prevent this, use the -ko flag to co (or rcs). Contributor: Simon Pickup <simon@adacel.com.au> *** C. Convert to MIF The initial files are large, but do not grow as fast a binary. Since it is a text file, the standard SCCS variables can be used. Major disadvantage is the fiddly save/open procedure. This can be fixed with a shell around appropriate SCCS functions, using fmbatch. You can also modify the MifWrite filter to so to some processing when saved as MIF. *** D. Mezzanine Mezzanine is from a company called Saros. They call it "middleware", and it is a document management system, independent of any documentation package. It also enables a system administrator to determine which fields of information should be completed to identify a document, so that searches can then be made using these fields (e.g. project name, contract number, contractor, etc.). Saros Corporation, USA Tel: +1 206-646-1066 Fax: +1 206-462-0879 Saros Europe HQ, Naarden, the Netherlands Tel: +31-2159-42050 Fax: +31-2159-46452 *** E. CasewWare/CM CaseWare/CM is a set of tools used for configuration management and version control. One of the tool modules manages Frame documents, including (from the data sheet): Version control of Frame Documents Version control of Frame Books Automatic Dependency Management Full Document Configuration Management Support for FrameMaker Objects Frame Documents Frame Books Frame Live Links Frame Image Files CaseWare, Inc. Tel: +1 714-453-2200 108 Pacifica, Irvine, CA 92718 USA *** E. Other Possible Products/Vendors BOSS Document Manager DocuServer C-Quest Frame File Nova Manage ODMS Topic Papersight CMS See the Frame Connection catalog for more information. Call Frame and request this catalog if you do not have it. Contributors: John Townsend <jtown@fossa.navy.mil.nz> Karen Hutchins <karen@yc8.yc.estec.esa.nl> Reid Simpson <simpson@Xylogics.COM> Aaron L. Hoffmeyer <tr@cbnea.att.com> ------------------------------------------------------------ ** SGB-8: Are there any "spreadsheet" tools for FM tables? Highland Digital is currently shipping TablePro for SunOS, Solaris, and HPUX. TablePro requires FrameMaker 4.0 or greater. TablePro adds spreadsheet power to your FrameMaker tables. It works on any table in any Frame document and it is used like a regular spreadsheet. TablePro is accessed through additional menu options that appear on the regular FrameMaker Table pull-down menu. TablePro allows you to: - Enter values and formulas directly into cells in a regular Frame table. No need for extra documents or programs. - Perform calculations on cells using both formulas and values. The results of the formula appear in the same cell as the formula itself. The results are also available for use by other formulas. - Sort selected rows or columns in a table - Hide, display or delete formulas. - Automatically change formulas to account for changes made by adding, deleting, copying or sorting. Call or email for more information or an evaluation version. Contact: Sabrina Rouleau, +1 415-493-8550 x212, sabrina@highland.com ============================================================ * CONFIGURING FM, PLATFORM-SPECIFIC ISSUES See question FIL-2 for conversion between FM on various platforms. ------------------------------------------------------------ ** PLT-1: Various FM on X Window questions *** A. Displaying White Text on Black Background For FM3 on X, set up the following in your .Xdefaults file: Maker.colorDocs: False Maker*docBackground: black Maker*winRect.foreground: white For FM4 on X, set up the following in your .Xdefaults file: Maker*Black: White Maker*White: Black The Black and White words have to be exactly as typed (i.e., no Maker*Black: LightGrey). You DON'T need Maker*colorDocs: FALSE. To change colors of the menus, dialogs, borders, etc., try: Maker*foreground: FG Maker*background: BG Maker*winRect.foreground: FG Maker*winRect.background: TC where FG, BG & TC are your favourite fore/back/through colours. *** B. Other X Resources Look in the various files in $FMHOME/.fminit2.0/xresources . *** C. How come I can't type in any dialogs? Try setting the following attributes: Maker*focusOnMouse: True OpenWindows.FocusLenience: True Maker.olwmClickType: False OpenWindows.SetInput: followmouse Also, consult the Release Notes, particularly the section about configuring FM for different window managers. *** D. How can I prevent color flashing between applications? This has to do with the various X applications managing the colormap. Change the following X resources to True or False as appropriate to modify how FM deals with the colormap. noPrivateMap means "I dislike colormap flashing soooo much, that I would rather have you exit than even think of using a private color map." forcePrivateMap means "Don't even try to use the default colormap; create and use a private colormap without a second thought..." The forecePrivateMap resource was added in release 4.0.3 and is therefore not present in the xm4.0.1.P1m version. The private colormap is loaded such that the colorcells that Frame Maker wants are allocated at the bottom, and any cells left over are filled in with colors from the default. This scheme will reduce colormap flashing if other apps are using colors near the top of the map (the ones shared between the two maps). If your system has multiple hardware colormaps, colormap flashing may never happen at all. Contributor: Steven Cox <spcox@frame.com> ------------------------------------------------------------ ** PLT-2: How do I open documents from the command line using an already running FrameMaker (and thus only a single license)? For Versions prior to Version 4: In the directory $FMHOME/source/openmaker/clclient the README contains information on how to build and use the clclient (Command Line Client) program. This program allows you to open documents from the command line using an already running FrameMaker. This is useful for desktop tools like Sun's FileManager which associate an application to be run with a document, allowing FrameMaker to be running just once, and communicating with this running FrameMaker to open further documents. For Version 4: Use $FMHOME/bin/fmclient from the command line to initiate FrameMaker or to use an already running FrameMaker. For example: fmclient -f paper.doc Fmclient appears to be the same as the older clclient, but is now part of the distribution. Note that you may need to tell fmclient which version of FrameMaker to run: for example, maker or imaker. The default is maker. Use the environment variable FM_PROGNAME to change this (for example, "setenv FM_PROGNAME imaker"). Contributor: Graham Williams <gjw@csis.dit.csiro.au> ------------------------------------------------------------ ** PLT-3: Where can I find keyboard shortcuts for [platform]? UNIX: Refer to (FM3) $FMHOME/.fminit2.0/kbmaps/README.kbmap for lots of info on keyboard mapping, and pointer to the various files used for mapping. (NeXT: /LocalAppls/FrameMaker.app/fminit2.0/......) UNIX: Print out (FM3) $FMHOME/.fminit2.0.ps/docs/QuickRef.doc or (FM4) $FMHOME/fminit/usenglish/Maker/ProductManuals/QuickRef/Chapters/Shortcuts MAC: There is a Quick Reference sheet for the Macintosh available from Frame Technologies. It was circulated recently in MIF format. ------------------------------------------------------------ ** PLT-4: How can I maximize battery life for FM on portables? *** A. Mac PowerBooks I had similar battery problems with my powerbook. Here is how I solved it. First, create a RAM disk and install FM on it (put only those items which FM needs to launch on the RAM disk). Install a minimum operating system on the RAM disk and configure the computer to boot from the RAM disk. With this configuration FM will not need to keep accessing the hard drive. On a Macintosh, I find I need 6mb for the RAM disk (2.3 for system, 2.5 for FM and remainder for document). The system takes 1.5 mb in addition to the RAM disk and FM needs 2mb to run. This implies you need at least 10mb of RAM- I have 12-for this to work. Not the best solution, but its the only one I've found that doesn't make me start cussing at my computer and FM. Contributor: John R. O'Hair <johair@afit.af.mil> ------------------------------------------------------------ ** PLT-5: Various FM-Windows Questions *** A: Can FM-Win run under Win-OS/2 3.0? From the OS/2 FAQ: To run Framemaker for Windows under Win-OS/2 3.0, patch the file MAKER.EXE (using PATCH or DEBUG). Around offset $1DDD1C ($1E0AFE for Framemaker 3.01) in the file you should see a series of hexadecimal bytes as follows: 9A FF FF 00 00 A8 20 75 17. Change the second to last byte from $75 to $EB. Contributor: Ren Maddox <lhmaddox@bnr.ca> *** B: Characters are not kerning correctly. When WINFAX is the selected printer driver, the TT font spacing goes all to hell. Type 1 fonts, though, work OK. Selecting a "real" printer fixes the problem, since FRAME claims the problem is with WINFAX not doing Windows GDI right, or some such. FM-Windows provides WYSIWYG by displaying on screen based on the current print capability. Contributors: Gary Newman <gnewman@xmx.com> Kyle Hor <khor@bnr.ca> *** C: Displaying White Text on Black Background Short answer: It cannot be done. FM-Windows follows the Microsoft Windows Multi-document Interface (MDI) specification. MDI gives applications the ability to open multiple documents at one time. This is very important for FrameMaker, especially when working with multiple documents contained in a book file. Following the MDI specification, there is no way to change the color of an application's document window without actually making that document black with white fonts. Doing so would cause the document to print black with white fonts also. The only 2 applications that can display documents with background colors other than white are Program Manager (a Microsoft application that cannot print), and Microsoft Word (a Microsoft application that *looks* like it uses MDI, but does not). Contributor: Naji Mouawad <nmouawad@barrow.uwaterloo.ca> ------------------------------------------------------------ ** PLT-6: FrameMaker does not display black text on an external color monitor connected to a Macintosh PowerBook. I recently discovered a strange problem when a color external monitor is plugged into my Macintosh PowerBook 180 and video mirroring is enabled (i.e. the two screens are supposed to display the same thing). Text which displays perfectly on the PowerBook screen (a monochrome display) is mostly absent on the color external monitor -- there are just white spaces where the text should have been. This problem does not occur if the text is displayed in any color other than black. The same problem even occurs with the text in the pull-down menus. I observed the problem using FM4; I do not know if it applies to earlier versions. Frame provided a simple work-around to the problem. You just have to go the the Preferences menu (under the File heading on the menu bar), and in that menu you must turn off the `Fast Text Cache' option. I was promised that the bug would be fixed in the next major release of Frame. Contributor: R. Nigel Horspool <nigelh@csr.uvic.ca> ------------------------------------------------------------ ** PLT-7: What can be done to make FM run faster on Macintoshes? - Turn off the Fast Text Cache. - Don't display the Paragraph and Character Designers when they are not being used. - Allocate more memory. Don't use virtual memory to do this; Frame will wear out your hard drive with paging and you'll grow old watching it pull down menus. - If you must use Virtual Memory, keep background activity on your Mac to a minimum. Applications that wake up periodically (like e-mail or alarm programs) will cause Frame to be paged out and back in. - Reduce inits. - Dismiss the modeless dialog boxes (any dialog boxes in which you do not have to choose OK or Cancel). - Keep tables simple. Numerous tables are OK, and 1- or 2-page tables are also OK. Avoid monsters (probably >5 pages); avoid fancy features like rotated text. - Keep running headers and footers simple. Place your page in the window so they aren't displayed, and scrolling will be much faster. The reason seems to be that every time a running header is *displayed*, Frame must search backwards to find its contents. - Don't generate TOCs or Indexes unneccesarily. When you must, plan it for the end of a session and quit and restart Frame afterwards. Once Frame's lost its memory to tables and generated docs, it never seems to find it again. Contributors: Karen Rickman, Frame Tech Support Mike Dustan <Mike_Dustan@sfu.ca> Blair MacIntyre <bm@cs.columbia.edu> ============================================================ * TEMPLATES AND CLIP ART ------------------------------------------------------------ ** TMP-1: Where can I get the FUN tape? The FUN tape contains some sample clip art and various useful programs and filters. It is available by ftp://ftp.cis.ksu.edu/pub/FUN/FUN_Tape-2.1 and ftp://ftp.irisa.fr/pub/ . Or, send a blank tape (size/format?) to: Frame Technology, Attn: FUN Tape, using address at top of FAQ. ------------------------------------------------------------ ** TMP-2: Where can I get a template for technical papers? There are two templates for IEEE format papers: ftp://tardis.cl.msu.edu/pub/frame/, ieee2.mif ftp://ftp.frame.com/pub/techsup/framers/platform.ind/template/, ieee2.mif Contributor: Alan D. Cabrera <adc@tardis.cl.msu.edu> ------------------------------------------------------------ ** TMP-3: Where can I get DTD template for FrameBuilder? FrameBuilder versions of the ISO 12083 SGML DTDs for articles and books are available at ftp://ftp.gmd.de/gmd/sgml/fbedds.tar.Z ftp://ftp.frame.com/pub/techsup/framers/platform.ind/template/ Also included are a few FrameBuilder "templates" for these document types containing layout information. The article template is in the style of a Kluwer journal article. ISO 12083 is a set of SGML DTDs for articles, books and serials. Contributor: Thomas F. Gordon <thomas.gordon@gmd.de> ------------------------------------------------------------ ** TMP-4: Where can I get additional Clip Art for FM? Note that most commercial clip art can be imported into FM. See also the FUN tape, question TMP-1. Desktop Graphics Collector 268 East 16th Street 1535 West Holt Suite 6 Pomona, CA 91768 USA Costa Mesa, CA 92627 USA +1 714-620-9014 3G Graphics Fusion Graphics 11410 N.E. 124th Street 1728 Moorpark Road Suite 6155 Thousand Oaks, CA 91360 USA Kirkland, Wa 98034 USA Tel & Fax: +1 805-494-8411 800-456-0234 Freemyers Design 575 Nelson Ave Oroville, CA 95965 USA +1 916-533-9365 Contributor: Anthony D Alston <ada@grumpy.mnfep.nn.inri.com> ------------------------------------------------------------ ** TMP-5: Where can I get a thesis template? Every school has their own thesis format; you should ask people at your school if *they* have one you can use. Here is a template customized for UC Berkeley thesis requirements: ftp://ftp.cs.berkeley.edu/ucb/raid/elm/thesisTemplate.tgz Contributor: Ethan Miller <elm@cs.berkeley.edu> =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- end of part 2 of 2; end of FAQ =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- User Contributions:Part1 - Part2 [ Usenet FAQs | Web FAQs | Documents | RFC Index ] Send corrections/additions to the FAQ Maintainer: sierra@ora.com
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