Hi Paul, To be honest, I'm not sure how much the forum can help with something like this. Since it took you three days of complicated template building to get this far, I'm not sure that anyone is going to be able to help much without at least looking at the job, and possibly studying it for a while. Unfortunately, that kind of template building is generally beyond the scope of this forum, and of Support. (And please don't send the job to me; I simply don't have time to delve into it.) However, if anyone else on the forum wants to take a look, they are certainly welcome to do so. You can also inquire with Sales about Consulting work.
That said, it sounds like you're having an issue with keeps, and I think there are some answers in the FusionPro Tags Reference Guide. I quote from the section titled "About Cell Tag Attributes" (page 30 in my version): "A secondary function of the vstraddle attribute is keeping the rows together when a table flows from one page to another. This makes it possible to create a table that cannot be broken by 'vstraddling' all rows. If such a table does not fit in one text frame, FusionPro will not set the table during composition and, instead, will log it in the message file." So you should be able to use tags like <cell vstraddle=2> to keep the rows of a table together. For regular paragraphs, you can use the widows attribute of the <p> tag to keep lines together; a big number like <p widows="99"> should keep the entire paragraph together. You can also keep a paragraph with the next one using the keepnext="1" attribute (this is useful for things like headlines). Be aware that you can easily create a situation where the keep conditions can't be met. Please refer to the Tags Reference Guide for more info. If it's not a keeps issue, then it's a bit harder to solve. It's possible to do things, especially with tables, which confuse the composition engine and cause text to be overwritten. Often, such conditions are accompanied by warning messages in your log (.msg) file, so I would start by looking there for clues. Again, though, without seeing the job, it's hard to diagnose. (And again, please don't send it to me; I really don't have time to work on template building.) > Is there a way to see the formatted output AFTER the overflow page > breaks, so that I can examine the code? Everything I've found so far > to output or log only allows me to see the entire text flow, prior to > the page breaks. No, you can only "see" the values of variables (fields and rules); you can't peek into FusionPro's internal text-setting algorithms to see the page breaks. You can use Text Measurement to see how much space something would take up in a single rectangular text frame, but that doesn't take things like linked frames and runaround into account. Template building, especially for complicated jobs with tagged markup, can sometimes involve a lot of trial-and-error. A lot like programming. ;^) > Never thought I would say that I missed the days of <HTML> formatting. Hmm. Well, our markup is largely based on HTML. However, in HTML you don't have to worry about page breaks because a web "page" can have variable depth. There's a handy scroll bar in the browser to see more. Here, though, you're making output to be printed on physical pages of specific sizes, so page breaks do matter. Apples and oranges, so to speak. That said, any suggestions for improvements to make tagged markup better are welcome. We have been investigating ways to make table generation simpler, such as with an object-oriented JavaScript API, but that's not very high on the list at the moment. Dan +-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+- FusionPro 5.0 Now Available! Variable text on a curve and soft drop-shadows for variable text LIMITED TIME upgrade offer of $299 per license for current customers: http://fusionpro.printable.com/store/upgrade New licenses available for $599 each at: http://fusionpro.printable.com/store/ All FusionPro 5.0 customers to receive FusionPro 5.1 with Adobe Acrobat 8 and InDesign CS3 support when released for FREE. +-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+- -- Users of FusionPro Desktop have unlimited free email support. Contact Printable Support at [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- View FusionPro Knowledge Base, FusionPro Samples at www.printable.com/vdp/desktop.htm -- You are currently subscribed to fusionpro as: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To unsubscribe send a blank email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- -- Note: All e-mail sent to or from this address will be received or otherwise recorded by the e-mail recipients of this forum. It is subject to archival, monitoring or review by, and/or disclosure to someone other than the recipient. Our privacy policy is posted on www.printplanet.com --
