Good point, Scott, thank you.
I haven't seen this before, sorry...
The syntax in the XML file would be like this:
a) numeric example
Colspec colnum = 1 colname = 1 colwidth = 0.543in/
Colspec colnum = 2 colname = 2 colwidth = 3.984in/
b) proportional example
Colspec colnum = 1 colname
Thanks everyone who responded to this question. The conclusion is that we can't
expect FrameMaker to automatically size the column widths depending on the
cells' contents. The next best solution seems to be a post-processing script.
Maybe a preprocessing script is feasible, but since XML is
Fei Min...
Column widths can be percentages using the NN* format, if your r/w
rules file includes this rule ..
writer use proportional widths;
Cheers,
...scott
On 2/24/15 10:41 AM, Fei Min Lorente wrote:
Thanks everyone who responded to this question. The conclusion is that
we can’t
Hi Tino...
Yes .. that's exactly how it would work. Nice examples.
...scott
On 2/24/15 12:42 PM, Heiko Haida wrote:
Good point, Scott, thank you.
I haven't seen this before, sorry...
The syntax in the XML file would be like this:
a) numeric example
Colspec colnum = 1 colname = 1 colwidth
Fei Min...
FM won't auto-adjust table columns in any useful way. The only way I
know of is to write a script or plugin to analyze the contents of the
cells and do the width adjustment based on some predefined logic (widest
graphic, or amount of text, etc.).
Would love to hear I'm wrong ..
We've an internal perl script that sets up tables at a predefined table
width with the columns at predefined widths, but I'm pretty sure those
measurements are hard-coded into the script that creates the XML file from
the Excel spreadsheet. It's doable if you know what sizes you're working
with
Hi,
last time I had a closer look I found that FrameMaker would only support
the CALS table model with fixed numeric column widths, not with
percentages.
Although it may be possible to set the widths via scripting, the result
will probably not be satisfying at the first attempt. (...
Hi folks:
I found this discussion from 2008:
https://forums.adobe.com/message/1279946#1279946, and this helpful answer from
Russ Ward in 2010: https://forums.adobe.com/thread/577820?tstart=0, but I don't
see the solution that I'm looking for. My manager (a software development guy)
would like
