Archive for category FrameMaker

Clearing change bars in a FrameMaker book

Posted by Samartha Vashishtha in Best practices, FrameMaker, How to, TCS specific, Tips and tricks, Troubleshooting, Uncategorized on January 6, 2011

While generating the final PDF for publication, you must remove the change bars in a FrameMaker book. Before you remove the change bars, you should flatten any text insets that the book contains. Here’s information on how you can complete these two tasks…

change bar, change logging, document control, FrameMaker

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Find: Much beyond text…

Posted by Samartha Vashishtha in FrameMaker, How to, TCS specific, Tips and tricks on January 5, 2011

You can use the Find/Change feature in FrameMaker to look for many different kinds of objects across a book or in a document.

FrameMaker, search

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Fix broken cross-references in PDF files

Posted by Samartha Vashishtha in FrameMaker, How to, RoboHelp, TCS specific, Tips and tricks on January 5, 2011

Tweet It can be challenging to find broken cross-references in long documents — 500 pages, for example. Resolving the cross-reference(s) in the source FrameMaker file and then generating the PDF all over again isn’t the only way out. With Acrobat, you can easily fix broken cross-references in the PDF itself. Here’s how: In Acrobat, click Tools > [...]

FrameMaker, tips

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Searching for ‘missing’ text in FrameMaker documents

Posted by Samartha Vashishtha in Best practices, FrameMaker, How to, TCS specific, Tips and tricks, Troubleshooting on January 4, 2011

Consider these important cases while searching for text in a FrameMaker document or book…

FrameMaker, search, tips

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Interactive 3D models in PDF documents

Posted by Vikrant in Acrobat, FrameMaker, How to on January 3, 2011

Tweet A picture is worth a thousand words. How much would an interactive 3D Model be worth? See this sample 3D_Model PDF to help you decide. Universal 3D is a compressed file format for 3D computer graphics data, and Adobe Acrobat and Adobe Reader have support embedding and viewing these 3D models for some time [...]

3D, FrameMaker, PDF

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Setting up a Table of Contents in FrameMaker

Posted by Samartha Vashishtha in FrameMaker, How to, TCS specific, Troubleshooting on January 3, 2011

Asit Pant, a veteran technical communicator and FrameMaker community-member, shares valuable tips about setting up and formatting TOCs.

FrameMaker, references, TOC

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Embed a TOC in a FrameMaker document

Posted by Samartha Vashishtha in Best practices, FrameMaker, How to, TCS specific on December 31, 2010

Here’s an easy way to embed a file-level TOC in a FrameMaker document. We’ll generate a standalone TOC for the document and then import it by reference into the same document.

FrameMaker, TOC

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