Oh, that might be good... will try when we upgrade very shortly (still on FM 9).
Thanks, K At 2:21 PM -0400 10/8/12, Rick Quatro wrote: >Hi Karen, > >I think Richard's formula is better because I did not account for more than >2 columns. Or, if you have FrameMaker 10 or above, you can put your cursor >in a paragraph in the column and run the snippet below: > >#target framemaker >var doc = app.ActiveDoc; >var pgf = doc.TextSelection.beg.obj; >var width = pgf.InTextObj.Width; >alert ((width / 65536) + ' points or ' + (width / 65536 / 72) + ' inches'); > >Please let me know if you have any questions or comments. Thank you very >much. > >Rick > >Rick Quatro >Carmen Publishing Inc. >585-283-5045 >rick at frameexpert.com > > > > >Hi Framers, > >One of our master page layouts got nudged so that a column was very slightly >narrower than it should be (probably an accidental frame-handle grab). We >found this out by hand-measuring print output. > >By selecting the Object Properties item from the Graphics menu, I can see >the width and height of a text frame, the number of columns it contains, and >the gap between those columns, in the Customize Text Frame dialog. I could >presume that if those items are correct, theoretically the column width is >correct. But where can I see the actual width of the columns to confirm it? > >Thanks, >Karen >_______________________________________________
