Andrew Douglas Pitonyak wrote:
Frames have issues with respect to exporting to other formats, Doc is
one example. The problem is sufficiently problematic, that I rarely
ever use this method if I expect to EVER want to export the document
to another format.
The advantage of a frame, however, is that you can position the
graphic where you desire - and then have other text flow around the
frame.
I think that I noticed that 90% (or more) of the graphics are centered
on the page, and so is the caption. With this simple formatting, you
do NOT need a frame, or a table.
My recommendation is that for the common case, you anchor the graphic
as a character and then use a centered paragraph style for the figure.
Set the paragraph to keep with the next paragraph, which will contain
the caption.
If the figure can not be properly placed and used, then use an
alternative method, such as a frame, or a table.
When exporting ODT to DOC, I either use the picture graphic by its
lonesome and add a caption below or else place the graphic and its
caption in two or more table rows. The latter is useful when a
screenshot of a toolbar or horizontal menu might be in the top row, the
second row might have two or three columns for describing what those
icons or menus are named, and then the third row contains the figure
caption. This avoids using hard spaces or tabs for layout purposes for
the definition section of the figure. Having differing definitions for
tab settings could be a problem if their definitions are not identical
for different users.
I wanted to include some OOoAuthors chapters in my portfolio (DOC
format) on my recent Elance.com account--showing its editing changes,
etc. However that chapter used frames for most of its figures, and those
figure captions within frames were all messed up after the DOC
conversion. So, I made another ODT version and went in and just pulled
the pictures and their captions from the frames and inserted them into
tables for that conversion to DOC.
Usually, when a final destination is converting a ODT file to DOC and
then FrameMaker, I usually just use the pictures naked with captions,
unless some special formatting is desired, as mentioned above. In any
event, my version 7.0 of FrameMaker will lock up whenever even one ODT
frame was present after DOC conversion. It would literally suck the
FrameMaker's RAM and then the only way out would be to kill FrameMaker
via the Windows Task Manager.
Gary
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