On Thu, 23 Oct 2008 16:22:27 -0600, "Linda G. Gallagher" <lindag at techcomplus.com> wrote:
>I have another question related to a layout that a client wants to use in >FM. Their documents are landscape, with two columns (not side heads). > >Sometimes a graphic, like a screenshot, is too big to fit in the column and >has to go across the columns. When I set the anchor tag to go across all >columns and the anchored frame to align left and not be cropped, I can get >the graphic to go across the two columns. Are there any other methods to get >the graphic across the two columns? I could not figure any others out. AFAIK, that's the only way, short of designing a special master page for every graphic like that. >After I do that, the text that came before the graphic spreads out across >the two columns above the graphic and the text that came after the graphic >spreads out into the two columns below the graphic. > >Is this normal for this type of layout? I rarely use two columns, and don't >have graphics that go across the two columns when I do. Yes, IMHO. >I think the client would prefer that the text in the left column continue >down the left column below the graphic, then continue to top of the right >column, then below the graphic in the right column. > >Is there a way to do that in FM? Not that I know of. But another possibility would be to set such graphics to go always to the top (or bottom) of the page. Then the question would be moot. ;-) HTH! -- Jeremy H. Griffith, at Omni Systems Inc. <jeremy at omsys.com> http://www.omsys.com/
