Hi Peter At 17:33 -0500 27/7/07, Peter Gold wrote:
>The Friday thing also struck me, it seems. I never got around to >suggesting what to ACTUALLY DO at the end of my long analytic look at >what possible combined workings of idiosyncratic font height >calculation, line height settings there might be to consider. Just ran >out of gas. Yeah, right, it gets me like that too. >I think I intended to say something like, "so, take a look >at these things, good luck, and Cheerio!"<G> Ok. >Your solution to do an internal-organ transplant to a new corpus is a >good approach, especially because it works. The WHY and HOW aspects of >the problem's appearing could return little useful information, unless >it's quick and easy to perform a few steps that can recreate the >problems. Um, yeah, you're probably right. Unfortunately, doing the organ transplant means that I'll have to copy/realign all the delicate precision page decorations like reverse-out folios, but it's do-able. But I need to UNDERSTAND! ;-) One thing I forgot to mention is that the source arrived as a single-sided document, all pages identical. I set it to double-sided and created the missing master page by copying the contents of the existing one to the new one [left -> right or the other way around, I forget]. That might be a factor. Ah, no, I remember... it isn't, because the originals, all one-sided, different font, show the same bug. Scratch that. >If you try the MIF "wash" technique (save to MIF, open the MIF, save >to FM) and that fixes the problem, the assumption is that there was >corruption that came out in the wash. Good idea: now tried, and mif-washing didn't have an effect on the problem. Rats. >While transplanting to a new file steps nicely away from the annoying >settings, it's not informative about the cause. Quite so. >Try this: > >Create a circle in FM, copy it. Create text on one side that says >"Meet Deadline, Go Home Happy and Have a Beer to Celebrate." On the >other side, create text that says "Drink Lots of Beers While Searching >all Possible Causes of Problem, be Happy as You Wave 'Bye-bye to the >Passing Deadline, Go Home Mellow, Avoid Despondence Over Missed >Deadline." Print to heavy stock. Cut out the circles. Glue >back-to-back. Flip in the air. Observe the text on visible side. If >you don't like it, try best two out of three flips, or, maybe three >out of five, or.....! The part of this solution that I like is the beer involvement factor. I will return to this on Monday. Or possible Tuesday. Thanks for your thoughts. -- Steve
