Thank YOU, Karen, for reminding me I'm not alone with this problem...and of the
joys of plain-text posts. On the former, perhaps Megha can help us still. On
the latter, I should have remembered the pitfalls when I included the table.
I'll try to tap some old typewriter tabulation skills and give this another
shot:
I'm running into a seemingly strange phenomenon with FM 9. I'm working with a
lot of legacy documents that have formatting issues, and part of my workflow
involves importing and replacing formats using a template formatted the way I
wish it to be -- typically, with the very useful CleanImport plug-in.
In FM 9, I'm finding that when I do this import, I now get the unexpected side
effect that the symbol used in the Autonumber Format area of the Paragraph
Designer changes. For example:
Original Unintentionally
Format Font Modified Format Font
?\t Wingdings ?\t Wingdings
?\t Wingdings ?\t Wingdings
I'm not sure how or why this changes. I have developed a workaround. I go to my
source document, do a Global Update, Numbering Properties, for each of the
paragraph formats in question, applying this to all paragraphs in the source
document that have the individual tags in question. I am not changing the
formats in any way, simply re-applying them. Then I re-import the paragraph and
character formats to all of the remaining files, and then the paragraphs with
these various "list bullets," for want of a better term, are all restored to
normalcy.
So it's not the end of the world, just an unwelcome extra step. Any ideas?
Jim
-----Original Message-----
From: Karen Mann [mailto:[email protected]]
Sent: Wednesday, April 01, 2009 11:26 AM
To: Pinkham, Jim; framers at lists.frameusers.com; Megha Chaitanya
Subject: RE: Of Autonumbers, "Symbols," and FM 9
Thanks Jim, I had the same issue, legacy, importing etc but with the bullet and
symbol. When I applied the bullet tag my text went to Greek and the bullet
symbol was another symbol.
Ugh! I left out a step so when Megha tried to assist she could not.
Sorry Megha, I had so many deadlines and FM9 bugs were bouncing all over me.
In Paragraph Designer autonumber I highlighted the bullet, went to Character
map got the bullet, went to Character Designer sized the bullet and did Global
update, then did a global apply. Have been doing this for all docs. I did not
do a re-import. We do 99% legacy and they are very individual so most of the
time a template import is not effective.
I however do not have the CleanImport plug-in.
This "Framers" thing is the greatest!
Thanks all.
Karen M
Not an expert...
-----Original Message-----
From: framers-bounces at lists.frameusers.com
[mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Pinkham, Jim
Sent: Wednesday, April 01, 2009 10:44 AM
To: framers at lists.frameusers.com
Subject: Of Autonumbers, "Symbols," and FM 9
I'm running into a seemingly strange phenomenon with FM 9. I'm working with a
lot of legacy documents that have formatting issues, and part of my workflow
involves importing and replacing formats using a template formatted the way I
wish it to be -- typically, with the very useful CleanImport plug-in.
In FM 9, I'm finding that when I do this import, I now get the unexpected side
effect that the symbol used in the Autonumber Format area of the Paragraph
Designer changes. For example:
Original Format
Font
Unintentionally Modified Format
Font
?\t
Wingdings
?\t
Wingdings
?\t
Wingdings
?\t
Wingdings
I'm not sure how or why this changes. I have developed a workaround. I go to my
source document, do a Global Update, Numbering Properties, for each of the
paragraph formats in question, applying this to all paragraphs in the source
document that have the individual tags in question. I am not changing the
formats in any way, simply re-applying them. Then I re-import the paragraph and
character formats to all of the remaining files, and then the paragraphs with
these various "list bullets," for want of a better term, are all restored to
normalcy.
So it's not the end of the world, just an unwelcome extra step. Any ideas?
Jim
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