Hi Jeremy and Framers Thanks for not chewing me up in my surmisings about the order of flows.
I seem to recall reading an article some years ago (around the FrameMaker 5 timeframe) that described the structure of a Frame document. If I recall correctly, it described the doc in terms of layers, where flows, text frames, anchored frames, etc. exist in separate layers, but the layers appear visually in the two (x and y) dimensions on a page. Does anyone remember such a document? Maybe I dreamt it? Roger Roger Shuttleworth Technical Documentation AV-BASE Systems Inc. 1000 Air Ontario Drive, Suite 200 London, Ontario N5V 3S4 Tel. 519 691-0919 ext. 330 _____ From: Jeremy H. Griffith [mailto:[email protected]] To: framers at lists.frameusers.com Sent: Sat, 14 Apr 2012 10:38:26 -0400 Subject: Re: Text insets On Fri, 13 Apr 2012 16:54:21 +0200, "Markus Drenckhan" <info at dkpress.de> wrote: >thanks for your hint with the MIF file. I found out that >ist not the order of the text flow elements in the MIF file >but the value of the tag <TextRectID> that determines the >order of appearance. If I change that value I can change >the order of appearance. Interesting! Thanks for digging that out! >Unfortunately there are quite some frames with RectIDs >in my documents (more than text frames) and changing the >values proves to be a tricky matter with unforeseeable >effects. But it seems to be the way to go. You should be OK if you keep the same values, but swap them around. That is, don't make up new values; you are almost certain to duplicate a value used elsewhere. But if you keep the same set of values and just reorder them, you should be fine. That's something that could be done by a very simple plugin, or maybe just a FrameScript or ExtendScript. I'd write it myself as a freebie if I had time. Any other FDK folks out there who want to? -- Jeremy H. Griffith, at Omni Systems Inc. <jeremy at omsys.com> http://www.omsys.com/ _______________________________________________ You are currently subscribed to framers as rshuttleworth at avbasesystems.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/rshuttleworth%40avbasesystems.com Send administrative questions to listadmin at frameusers.com. Visit http://www.frameusers.com/ for more resources and info. -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://lists.frameusers.com/pipermail/framers/attachments/20120416/21ff9168/attachment.html>
