Hi Heidi, I am not seeing the deletion problem; when I show/hide the condition, everything works as it should. I do see the selection issue with the Left page text frame. I am not sure why this happens on the Left but not the Right page, but once your variable is in place, it shouldn't be a concern anyway. In fact, there is no reason to select the text on the master page; just click an insertion point on any body page, and choose Special > Variable. Select the variable from the list and click Edit Definition. After you edit the variable, click Change then Done, then click Done.
You could further simplify things by forgetting about the Watermark condition format altogether. When you want to hide the watermark, simply edit its definition and change it to a non-breaking space character (enter "\ " backslash-space in the variable Definition field). Please let me know if you have any questions or comments. Thank you very much. Rick Quatro Carmen Publishing Inc. 585-659-8267 [email protected] www.frameexpert.com http://www.frameexpert.com/peace/ -----Original Message----- From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Heidi Bailey Sent: Monday, February 01, 2010 8:07 AM To: [email protected] Subject: Unable to select, conditionalise, hide/show a variable in a text frame on left of master page Hi, Sorry for the long subject title, but this one is a bit hard to summarise. Windows XP, SP3, FM8p277. This was all re-installed in the last few days, thanks to my PC self-destructing. The problems existed before the crash and are just as annoying now. I have a vertical text frame on each master page (horizontal text frame rotated through 90Deg), which I use for watermarking. The text frame has a single paragraph (with tag Watermark applied). The paragraph contains a single-word variable (called Watermark), which says something like "Draft" or "Approval". The variable should have condition Watermark applied, which I can then hide or show as needed. In some of my documents, and now all of my template files, The watermark text frame misbehaves, particularly when placed on the LEFT of a page (not so much when it's on the right). Experimentation by someone with a great deal of patience reveals that the problem arises if the text frame is within 2.75 inches of the left margin. The misbehaviour is manifested as: -Text frame on LEFT of page: When trying to hide conditionalised variable text, the variable is completely deleted, or the condition is removed and the text not hidden. -Text frame on LEFT of page: When trying to select the variable, you cannot single-click it to select, nor double-click it to open the Variables dialog box. You can select the whole paragraph by triple-clicking, but I usually only want to select the variable. You can select the variable (according to my patient friend) by placing the cursor before the variable, then holding dhow Shift + pressing the right arrow key. -Text frame on RIGHT of page: Works perfectly normally when it comes to selecting. However, the removal of condition and/or variable does sometimes happen. I can send anyone willing to look at it a copy of misbehaving file. But if you have any idea of what to check, please let me know. Various things have been tried (such as turning off sidehead area, changing size of text frame and paragraph text, moving text frame to where things start to work again...). All help gratefully received! Cheers, Heidi Bailey Technical Author Oxford Semiconductor, Ltd A Subsidiary of PLX Technology, Inc. 25 Milton Park Abingdon Oxfordshire OX 14 4SH Registered in England no 2733820 Registered Address: As Above Tel: +44 (0)1235 824958 Email: [email protected] Web: www.plxtech.com _______________________________________________ You are currently subscribed to Framers as [email protected]. Send list messages to [email protected]. To unsubscribe send a blank email to [email protected] or visit http://lists.frameusers.com/mailman/options/framers/rick%40rickquatro.com Send administrative questions to [email protected]. Visit http://www.frameusers.com/ for more resources and info. _______________________________________________ You are currently subscribed to Framers as [email protected]. Send list messages to [email protected]. To unsubscribe send a blank email to [email protected] or visit http://lists.frameusers.com/mailman/options/framers/archive%40mail-archive.com Send administrative questions to [email protected]. Visit http://www.frameusers.com/ for more resources and info.
