On Thursday, December 22, 2005 10:31 AM, David ARNOULT - Marketing Operations wrote:
| Hello everybody, | | Is there a possibility in FM to define a character style with | a background color? Objective would be to define a character | style with a grey background to mean a button in a software | to click, for instance... Like in Word when you highlight a | text in yellow... has anyone done this before in FM v7.1 on PC? | | Thanks for your expertise! | | David ARNOULT | Marketing Operations FrameMaker does not support this directly. Frame can only "highlight" text with a colored background when the info is in a table cell, but you will have placement issues. There's a huge kludge to do what you want if the text is really free-form, and that involves drawing separate colored rectangles and sending the behind the text (note that the text frame must be transparent), but it is a royal pain in the *ss to manage. My company developed a DLL client (using the FDK) that can automate the second choice based on specific character tags. If you'd like more info, feel free to contact me offline for details. - Lester ------------------------------------------------------- Lester C. Smalley Email: lsmalley AT infocon DOT com Information Consultants, Inc. Phone: 302-239-2942 FAX: 302-239-1712 Yorklyn, DE 19736 Web: www.infocon.com -------------------------------------------------------