Hi Framers,
Klaus Daube reminded me a few days ago, that there are some "secret" features
in FrameMaker, that are still present in the product today, but are no longer
in the UI nor documented, especially "Freeze pagination" and "Open Heroic". I'm
currently going through them and discuss them with the product managers and
documentation team.
So, one of these "secret features" is "Freeze pagination": It's still present
in FM 2017 and can be accessed with Esc-p-z.
For those who do not know the feature: Let's say you have a 100-page document
with one text flow. On the master page you have a footer with a page count
variable (<$curpagenum>). Now you can "freeze pagination" which will disconnect
all text frames (that is, you get 100 disconnected pages with a Text Flow "A").
Now you can add new disconnected pages between other pages (called "point
pages"). Or if you are at the end of a page and add new content, a new page is
added right next to the current page with a connect text frame to the previous
page. The page number will show a "point page number" (e.g. when you add pages
after page 7, they will be numbered as 7.1, 7.2 etc.).
The idea of this feature back in the days was to create "revision pages"
("point pages").
That said, I understand how the feature works, but in more than 20 years I have
never used it myself (never had a use case for it) nor met anyone ever using it
and all people I have asked in the last days who know this feature told me the
same (never had a use case).
My question to you:
- Has anyone ever used this feature when it was still present in the UI many
versions back?
- Is anyone still using it?
- What is the use case scenario that you can think of where it still might be
useful?
Your feedback will help us to have a new look at this feature and discuss what
to do with it (bring it back to the UI and document it or keep it hidden or
maybe even remove it).
Looking forward to your feedback,
Stefan Gentz
Adobe Worldwide TechComm Evangelist
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