FM7 and OLE

[Tarlochan S. Nahal]

Thanks for the Frame.ini file tip. It works fine as far as cut and paste goes into Frame from other text sources such as Word. It is certainly better than "Special Paste" which we tend to forget at times and end up introducing a 'persona non grata' font.
 
Importing or pasting a Visio 7 drawing into Frame 7.2 is still a problem for which I found no viable solution. I certainly have not tried removing SP3 simply because I do not know how it will affect my system.
 
Frame is simply refusing to save any changes even if you simply double-clicked on a Visio drawing, got into the editing mode, but did not make any changes at all. For some reason Frame thinks you have made some changes to the Visio drawing which is not true. 
 
 
Regards
 
Tarlochan S. Nahal
 
Sr. Technical Writer


--- On Thu, 9/4/08, quills at airmail.net <quills at airmail.net> wrote:

From: quills at airmail.net <quills at airmail.net>
Subject: Re: FM7 and OLE
To: dspreadb at yahoo.com, framers at lists.frameusers.com, "Cal Callahan" <calarts at san.rr.com>
Cc: tnahal99 at yahoo.com
Date: Thursday, September 4, 2008, 6:51 AM

This is a default behavior in FrameMaker, and one that many users detest.

Fortunately, the programmers made it a behavior that can be customized.

Open the Maker.ini file in your FrameMaker directory.
Search for the string ClipboardFormatsPriorities

The list of formats behind this property dictate the preference of 
pasting a clipboard item.

Change the property to read as follows:
ClipboardFormatsPriorities=TEXT, FILE, OLE 2, EMF, META, DIB, BMP, MIF, RTF

This will make your past from the clipboard use plain text first, 
then default to the other formats in the order listed.

This will enable you to paste plain ASCII text directly from a copy 
paste operation.

Scott


At 7:42 PM -0700 9/3/08, David Spreadbury wrote:
>We had the same problem, pasted text from Word going into an 
>anchored frame, until we noticed the 'other' right-click paste 
>option "Paste Special."
>
>This option presents a new menu of what the Special represents. 
>Select Text and it should work.
>
>--- On Sat, 8/30/08, Cal Callahan <calarts at san.rr.com> wrote:
>
>From: Cal Callahan <calarts at san.rr.com>
>Subject: FM7 and OLE
>To: framers at lists.frameusers.com
>Cc: tnahal99 at yahoo.com
>Date: Saturday, August 30, 2008, 2:06 PM
>
>The problem is with MS OLE. You MIGHT work around it by removing SP3,
>although this didn't work for me. (That was the only suggested solution
I
>found in an extensive search of the web.)
>
>My problem, however, was a little different. After importing a Visio file,
>all attempts to copy & paste text from a Word doc into Frame resulted
in
>the
>text coming in an anchored frame. I got around it by running the text
>through OpenOfficeWriter first.
>
>I had no problems with Frame 8.
>
>I would very interested in hearing how anyone else resolved this problem.
>
>cal