Hi Karen, I think Richard's formula is better because I did not account for more than 2 columns. Or, if you have FrameMaker 10 or above, you can put your cursor in a paragraph in the column and run the snippet below:
#target framemaker var doc = app.ActiveDoc; var pgf = doc.TextSelection.beg.obj; var width = pgf.InTextObj.Width; alert ((width / 65536) + ' points or ' + (width / 65536 / 72) + ' inches'); Please let me know if you have any questions or comments. Thank you very much. Rick Rick Quatro Carmen Publishing Inc. 585-283-5045 [email protected] Hi Framers, One of our master page layouts got nudged so that a column was very slightly narrower than it should be (probably an accidental frame-handle grab). We found this out by hand-measuring print output. By selecting the Object Properties item from the Graphics menu, I can see the width and height of a text frame, the number of columns it contains, and the gap between those columns, in the Customize Text Frame dialog. I could presume that if those items are correct, theoretically the column width is correct. But where can I see the actual width of the columns to confirm it? Thanks, Karen _______________________________________________ _______________________________________________ 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.
