This sounds like the same issue that Mike Wickham reported last week. (See the thread starting with his message "FrameMaker 8 justification & auto letter spacing broken?" dated 8/7 if the list archive is working.) It appears that the Automatic Letter Spacing function is significantly broken in FrameMaker 8. Justification works OK if the function is disabled (meaning only inter-word spacing is adjusted to achieve justification), but does not justfy properly when you try to adjust letter spacing as well (which is, of course, the proper way to do professional looking justification...).
-Fred Ridder >From: "Tina Ricks" <kristina.ricks at verizon.net> >To: <framers at lists.frameusers.com> >Subject: Need help with text justification >Date: Wed, 15 Aug 2007 13:41:31 -0700 > >OK, I'm new to Frame 8 after a long hiatus (the last version I used was 6). > > > >I am laying out a printed book (no XML, nothing fancy, just a book for >print). The client wants the right and left edges justified. > > > >In the paragraph designer for my various styles, I've set the following: > > > >Basic tab: > >--Alignment is Justified. > > > >Advanced tab: > >--Automatic Hyphenation is selected. (I just accepted the defaults for the >hyphenation settings). > >--Allow Automatic Letter Spacing is selected (and again I took the system >defaults on the settings). > > > >The problem is that in Frame, on the screen, my right edge is knife-edge >perfect. Looks fabulous. Life is good. When I output to PDF or print >directly from Frame, the right edge is wiggly. It's not as ragged as it was >before with the text un-justified, but it certainly isn't what the client >wants. > > > >What setting have I missed? Any ideas? > > > >Tina > > > >tina ricks | kristina.ricks at verizon.net | 503-531-3233 > >technical writing and editing > > > >_______________________________________________ > > >You are currently subscribed to Framers as DocuDoc at hotmail.com. > >Send list messages to framers at lists.frameusers.com. > >To unsubscribe send a blank email to >framers-unsubscribe at lists.frameusers.com >or visit >http://lists.frameusers.com/mailman/options/framers/docudoc%40hotmail.com > >Send administrative questions to listadmin at frameusers.com. Visit >http://www.frameusers.com/ for more resources and info. _________________________________________________________________ More photos, more messages, more storage?get 2GB with Windows Live Hotmail. http://imagine-windowslive.com/hotmail/?locale=en-us&ocid=TXT_TAGHM_migration_HM_mini_2G_0507
