When I say that the FrameMaker UI needs to be "modernized," this one of the things that I mean. FrameMaker needs a "pasteboard" like other DTP applications.
Rick > I've been trying to set up a bleed margin on a rectangular graphical > ornament on the master page. The visual appearance of the ornament is > required to be a .25 point rule 'flush' with the page edge. (Uh-huh). > Thought someone might be interested in the problem and one possible > solution... > > Try this: on a master page, use the graphics tools to draw a rectangle. > Now use the nudge keys to nudge it off the right-hand side of the page. No > problem. > > Now try the same thing with a horizontal line: no problem. > > Now try it with a vertical line. Uh? Seems like FrameMaker's coded so that > a graphic object is not allowed to be made invisible by moving it > completely off the visible page. Makes sense, I guess, *but the rule is > applied even if the object being made 'invisible' is part of a group*. > This means that it's impossible to set up a bleed area for a rectangular > ornament by grouping a thick line with the right-hand edge of the thin > rectangle. > > Workaround A: create a solid rectangle, then mask it with a white > rectangle to leave the required borders, and nudge it off the page edge? > Nope: this doesn't work with other solid color on the page, as a > transparent object is required. > > Workaround B: create the rectangle by grouping four lines of differing > thicknesses? Nope: fails the 'object cannot be made invisible even if part > of a group' rule. > > Workaround C: try the same sort of thing with graphics boxes with solid > borders. Fails for more or less the same reasons - an object cannot be > made completely invisible. > > Workaround D: create the required graphical object elsewhere and import it > into the master page. Bingo! An anchored frame in a text frame can be > nudged off the visible page, therefore so can its contents. This allows > precise positioning of the imported object, even if some of it is off the > page edge. > -- > Steve > _______________________________________________
