Jean, Thanks for that information. Ive been tweaking the memory settings and finally got the frames to re-appear, though they're all quite cluttered. I guess I'll have to reset all the frames to anchor-as-character and place them appropriately.
Andy, I have been working on the Introduction to Base chapter. The frames contain screenshots and as Zoltan pointed out, they have been set as anchor-to-page. I should have changed the settings first before reviewing other things, but I did not know how frames work back then. I was wondering if the anchor settings for the OOoFrame style should be changed from 'anchor-to-page' to 'anchor-as-character' in the template. --Sowbhagya ________________________________ From: Jean Hollis Weber <[email protected]> To: [email protected] Sent: Wednesday, September 23, 2009 5:19:27 PM Subject: Re: [authors] Frames disappear Sowbhagya Sundaresan wrote: > Some of the frames in a OO Writer document I was working on disappeared > suddenly. Initially I was able to see those missing frames as the document > loaded. The text was not loaded at this point. Then when it was finished > loading and all the text was there, those frames just disappeared. > After scouting around a bit, I learnt that if they are set to 'Anchor to > page', there is a possibility that they might disappear. Does anyone know if > there's any way to make them re-appear? Im certain they still 'exist' in the > document, they r just not visible. I have seen this happen in long documents with lots of illustrations in frames. Actually I can see the frames themselves (because I have all the text, object, and table boundaries showing) but not the contents of the frames. Usually if I close the file and reopen it and DO NOTHING FOR A MINUTE OR TWO, the contents reappear in the frames. But not always. I know several ways to get the contents to show again, but I don't have time right now to find my explanation. When I do find it, I'll put it on the forum because this is a common problem. This first thing I would check is in Tools > Options > Memory. Changing some settings, eg "number of objects" in the cache may solve the problem. AFAIK, frames anchored "to page" only disappear when the doc becomes a subdoc in a master doc. --Jean
