RE: What folks today don't know...!

Subject: RE: What folks today don't know...!
From: "Lippincott, Richard" <RLippincott -at- as-e -dot- com>
To: William Sherman <bsherman77 -at- embarqmail -dot- com>, "techwr-l -at- lists -dot- techwr-l -dot- com" <techwr-l -at- lists -dot- techwr-l -dot- com>
Date: Thu, 7 Aug 2014 14:50:53 +0000

Ahhh....that makes sense.

One thing I do that helps cut down on the problem is this: before printing a final copy, I go to any given file in the book (typically I use the first one), and do a quick check for the following:

* Variable definitions OK?
* Page layouts correct? (In my case, this usually means checking to see if the correct product name and the required export control information is in the page footer)
* Cross reference formats good to go?
* Conditional text Show/Hide settings correct, and also "Show Condition Indicators" checkbox empty?

If so, then from the Main Menu I open File-->Import-->Formats, uncheck all the boxes except for variables, page layouts, cross reference formats, and conditional text settings. After that, import the formats from the file you're in to every other file in the book. Way faster than trying to fix each chapter individually.

You're now good to go. Hit Print and it should come out fine.

Good luck!



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-----Original Message-----
From: techwr-l-bounces+rlippincott=as-e -dot- com -at- lists -dot- techwr-l -dot- com [mailto:techwr-l-bounces+rlippincott=as-e -dot- com -at- lists -dot- techwr-l -dot- com] On Behalf Of William Sherman
Sent: Wednesday, August 06, 2014 11:23 PM
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Subject: Re: What folks today don't know...!

This is what I get for posting when I am tired. :-)


I was working in Books so I was thinking that there should be a quick way to do it in all the chapters and not having to remember to change that in each chapter after page 125 is passing through the printer. Of course, that would be something helpful, and it wouldn't be WYSIWYG then.

I have to go in and set each chapter to the correct conditions so that all flavors are not printed anyway, so I get it is irrelevant.


Of course, I didn't say that and a dozen people have let me know about the Show/Hide checkbox. I deserve that. At least several did it privately so I wouldn't be embarrassed. LOL


Good night, all, I think I'll get some sleep.


----- Original Message -----
From: rebecca officer
To: William Sherman
Sent: Tuesday, August 05, 2014 11:43 PM
Subject: Re: What folks today don't know...!


Hi Sherman

You realise that in the show/hide conditional text dialog box, that you can turn off "show condition indicators"? If you do that before you print, you don't get the colour.

Cheers
Rebecca

>>> "William Sherman" <bsherman77 -at- embarqmail -dot- com> 6/08/14 14:31 >>>
I was never crazy about conditional text in Frame, mainly because I never
had a project that needed it, I think.

But just recently, I have started to use it on a project with FrameMaker 10
and it seems to work much better than I remember in earlier versions. One
thing I'm not crazy about is that the only way I have found to make it stand
out is to have a condition have a color. But then, it prints in that color.
There needed to be a way to highlight conditional text so you knew it was
conditional without it having undesirable appearances in your document.




----- Original Message -----
From: "Gene Kim-Eng" <techwr -at- genek -dot- com>
To: <techwr-l -at- lists -dot- techwr-l -dot- com>
Sent: Monday, August 04, 2014 11:29 AM
Subject: Re: What folks today don't know...!


> The only thing I've never been able to find a solution for in Word that
> fully satisfied me was conditional text. But I'm not all that thrilled
> with conditional text in FrameMaker, either.
>
> Gene Kim-Eng
>


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