Framers, Thanks to Lyn Price, Richard Combs and Oran Petersen for providing help with recent questions, but I have an additional one regarding page sizes. See below for the original thread.
I have worked out for myself that the description changes to ?Custom? because I also swapped the height and width values of the A3 Tabloid page. As to the second part of my question, is it possible or not to have an A3-sized file in a mult-file book where the remainder are sized A4? What I would like is to be able to just switch a file between A4 and A3 at will, as I needed graphics that required the larger page-size. This does not appear to be possible without getting the ?Resulting columns would be too narrow? message. Any advice on how to get around this would be helpful, as at present the only option that I know works is to change *all* the files to A3 size just prior to printing the book, but I then have to remember not to save them in that size so I can reuse them for A4 books in the future. Regards, John Bevan ------------------------------------------------------------ ----- Original Message ----- From: "Combs, Richard" <[email protected]> To: <syntactics at ozemail.com.au>; <framers at lists.frameusers.com> Sent: Thursday, March 30, 2006 2:59 AM Subject: RE: Page Size John Bevan wrote: > I want to set up a file to be able to fit an A3-size graphic. > When I change the page size in FM (Format-Page Layout - Page > Size) and select A3 the dial ogue box shows 'Custom' (instead > of 'A3') Firstly, why is this?. Dunno. When I change to A3, close the Page Size dialog, and reopen it, it still says "A3 Tabloid." > Do I take it you can't switch page sizes on an ad hoc basis > to deal with odd-sized content? You can't mix page sizes in a file. Create a separate file for your A3 page(s) and set numbering properties appropriately. As a general rule, the phrase "on an ad hoc basis" should be avoided in all aspects of working with FrameMaker. :-) Richard ------ Richard G. Combs Senior Technical Writer Polycom, Inc. richardDOTcombs AT polycomDOTcom 303-223-5111 ------ rgcombs AT gmailDOTcom 303-777-0436 --------------------------------------------------------- Dear Framers, FM 7 on Win XP. I want to set up a file to be able to fit an A3-size graphic. When I change the page size in FM (Format?Page Layout ? Page Size) and select A3 the dialogue box shows ?Custom? (instead of ?A3?) Firstly, why is this?. But also if I then want to reverse the process and return to A4 format by repeating the above steps, I get the message ?Resulting columns would be too narrow?. I also tried changing the print set-up to reflect A4 but still got the same result. Do I take it you can?t switch page sizes on an ad hoc basis to deal with odd-sized content? John Bevan
