[Framers] Color Views: what are they FOR?

2019-01-02 Thread Alexandra Duffy
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Re: [Framers] Color Views: what are they FOR?

2019-01-02 Thread Stephen Rickaby
Lin I'd always assumed that they were a hangover from the days of lithographic printing, where separations had to be created... er... separately for each color plate. Like, 2-plate, 3-plate, 4-plate, 6-plate and so on. Even now when PDF is (I guess) a fairly universal pre-press format,

Re: [Framers] Color Views: what are they FOR?

2019-01-02 Thread Lin Sims
Perfect sense. I think I used White to do that because the chapter/section number was never going to be on top of a colored background and would thus be effectively invisible. :D On Wed, Jan 2, 2019 at 3:03 PM Magee, Anne (INT) wrote: > I don't really know what it's *meant* to be used for, but

Re: [Framers] Color Views: what are they FOR?

2019-01-02 Thread Magee, Anne (INT)
I don't really know what it's *meant* to be used for, but I can tell you what I used the "invisible" thing for. Hang on, this may get a little complicated. Our chapter title page displays the chapter number as an enormous number at the top right of the page, then the chapter title in a smaller

Re: [Framers] Color Views: what are they FOR?

2019-01-02 Thread Robert Lauriston
Making text invisible seems the kind of kludge Word fans come up with to work around its limitations. While it's technically possible it's hard to imagine a use case where there's not a much better solution. Among other problems, if the document ever fell into the hands of a non-expert user,

[Framers] Color Views: what are they FOR?

2019-01-02 Thread Lin Sims
Over on the Adobe forums, I've been interacting with a someone new to Frame and was explaining how to set up and use conditions. Then Bob Niland and Arnis Gubbins chimed in talking about color views. A little experimentation has shown me what they DO. What I can't figure out (and maybe it's just