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- From: senseman@lucy.brainlab.utsa.edu (David M. Senseman)
- Subject: Re: FrameMaker 3.1 Goes Crazy!
- Message-ID: <1992Dec30.032951.4697@ringer.cs.utsa.edu>
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- Organization: University of Texas at San Antonio
- References: <1992Dec29.040152.18074@ringer.cs.utsa.edu>
- Date: Wed, 30 Dec 1992 03:29:51 GMT
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- In article <1992Dec29.040152.18074@ringer.cs.utsa.edu> senseman@lucy.brainlab.utsa.edu (David M. Senseman) writes:
- >We have FrameMaker 3.1 running on several Indigos (XS24's)
- >under Irix 4.0.5F. Overall, it's a wonderful product. However,
- >now and then, for no apparent reason, the program completely
- >trashes the screen (it becomes a series of cross-hatched lines
- >on a grey screen).
-
- [stuff deleted]
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- Robert van Liere pointed out to me that they also see this error
- but only when they are working on a file that was created/modified
- on a Macintosh - never on one that was created on an SGI. When
- he mentioned this I realized that all my problems happened on files
- that I had previously created/modified on an IBM PC running
- FrameMaker 3.0 under MS Windows. In fact it was the ability
- of FrameMaker to run on SGI, IBM, Mac and SUN -- AND TO TRANSFER
- THE FILES *SEAMLESSLY* BACK AND FORTH -- that lead to us to standardize
- on FrameMaker. Rats....
-
- Everytime I open a document on my Indigo that was previously created
- on the IBM I get a warning about "unavailable fonts" -- this may
- (or may not) be a clue?
-
- Some SGI types have suggested a possible hardware problem with the
- graphics card (XS24) but I've seen this problem on three different
- machines in my lab (not mention Robert van Liere's machines).
- I'll bet it's in the way Frame is handling the "unavailble fonts"
- but since Frame doesn't provide source code, it's hard for a user
- to tell ;-)
-
- Once again, has anyone seen this "feature" :-?
-
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- (senseman@lonestar.utsa.edu) | from a freight car; but if he has a university
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