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Re: Hidden frame

2007-02-06 Thread Steve Rickaby

At 15:34 -0600 5/2/07, Doug wrote:

Yes, for some reason my Right master page lost it's A name/was renamed
to HIDDEN.  And everytime I imported a new text inset it reapplied the
HIDDEN text frame name of all instances of the Right body page.
Bummer.  I fixed it by renaming the master page and then deleting the
HIDDEN body text frames.  Pain.

For real pain, you should have seen a document I was handed once. 600+ pages 
laid out left/right in which no frames connected, so that each page was set and 
balanced by hand. And with a further set of empty disconnected frames overlaid 
on each right page, making its contents unselectable (like yours).

It's author has seriously not 'got' the idea behind master pages. It left me 
wondering how much of the 'FrameMaker is antiquated' arguments stem from this 
sort of level of misunderstanding about how an application works.

-- 
Steve
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Re: Hidden frame

2007-02-06 Thread Whites

It might be humorous - and informative at the same time - if some  
Framer were to make a compilation of such horror stories. Being made  
aware of bad practices can be helpful - even to those of us who are  
(we hope) less incompetent.


My favorites were a pair of manuals I inherited from a colleague who  
complained incessantly about the bugs in FrameMaker. She was  
maintaining two completely separate 100-page manuals, identical in  
every respect except for the fact that the file paths in one  
contained backslashes for Windows users and the other contained  
forward slashes for Unix. And just to make the two manuals more  
laborious to maintain, EVERY index entry sported a pair of directly  
adjacent markers - one for $startrange and the other for  
$endrange.  When this particular writer left the company after a  
downsizing, I inherited the books in her office. Not surprisingly,  
her FrameMaker manual had never been opened.


I think it is very common for software users to rise just to the  
level of competence where they can do their tasks and never progress  
beyond that level.


Will White
One Lambda Inc


On Feb 6, 2007, at 1:24 AM, Steve Rickaby wrote:



Its author has seriously not 'got' the idea behind master pages. It  
left me wondering how much of the 'FrameMaker is antiquated'  
arguments stem from this sort of level of misunderstanding about  
how an application works.


--
Steve



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Auto Hide Element Boundaries?

2007-02-06 Thread Gordon McLean

Hi all,
 
Still finding my feet with Structured Framemaker.. is there a way to turn
off Element Boundaries when generating a PDF (save as PDF option)??
 
The boundaries are great to work with but my reviewers don't like them. How
do I get rid of them across an entire book before PDFing?
 
I've tried selecting all the files in the book and selecting the relevant
VIEW menu, but when I go back into the book and open a file, the boundaries
re-appear! 
 
Any suggestions?
 
Gordon
 
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Setting an autogenerated TOC inserted by refence to condition paper

2007-02-06 Thread Andersen, Verner Engell VEA

I use unstructured Framemaker 7.2:

I know that you can define chapter TOCs by using XREFs in a table. This is
however a bit tedious when your Heading/topics move around.

Right now I generate a standalone chapter TOC which I import by reference and
set to condition tag Paper. It would be nice if I could avoid the last step
of setting the TOC to paper and still keep the link by reference.

Have yóu any idea how (apart from the xref solution) I can make sure that I or
translators do not forget to set the TOC to condition tag paper?

Regards,
Verner Andersen
Technical Writer

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