Bleed tabs - automation?
There is also a white paper called Atomatic Bleeding Thumb Tabs by Bradley W. Anderson, Falcon Interactive. It comes with instructions on how to make the template and it also has the FrameScript script for automation. I have only used it to set up the template without the automation (works like semiautomatic for me), as I don't have FrameScript. I think it is the same as was on www.FrameUsers.com > Downloads > White Papers, but the link seems broken now. Does anyone know where to find it? Best regards, Bodvar On 11/22/05, Steve Rickaby wrote: > Sarah O'Keefe and Sheila Loring's excellent FrameMaker 7 'complete reference' > book gives a method for setting up bleed tabs (thumbtabs) that requires > manual deletion of unnecessary tabs (i.e. all but the current chapter) in > production edit. Within structured FrameMaker, is there a way of automating > this? > > What is needed is a means of rendering objects visible/invisible depending on > their chapter number. Perhaps some way of making conditional tags sensitive > to their context in the book...? > > Another approach I've tried is to include a rotated B flow flush to the page > edge and insert the bleed tabs as conditionalised anchored frames. This > allows tabs to be turned on and off with conditions, but I don't like these > objects being on body pages, and it doesn't get round the issue of making > them sensitive to chapter number. > > Failing that, I guess it could be done using the feature for mapping master > pages to paragraphs, but I cannot see it working out very elegantly, as one > would have to hack some sort of 'hidden' mapping between chapter number and > paragraph tags. > > Any ideas, anyone? > --
Bleed tabs - automation?
Please try the link again. It is fixed, now. Warm regards, Lisa B. On 11/23/05, Bodvar Bjorgvinsson wrote: > There is also a white paper called Atomatic Bleeding Thumb Tabs by > Bradley W. Anderson, Falcon Interactive. It comes with instructions on > how to make the template and it also has the FrameScript script for > automation. I have only used it to set up the template without the > automation (works like semiautomatic for me), as I don't have > FrameScript. > > I think it is the same as was on www.FrameUsers.com > Downloads > > White Papers, but the link seems broken now. Does anyone know where to > find it? > > Best regards, > > Bodvar > > On 11/22/05, Steve Rickaby wrote: > > Sarah O'Keefe and Sheila Loring's excellent FrameMaker 7 'complete > > reference' book gives a method for setting up bleed tabs (thumbtabs) that > > requires manual deletion of unnecessary tabs (i.e. all but the current > > chapter) in production edit. Within structured FrameMaker, is there a way > > of automating this? > > > > What is needed is a means of rendering objects visible/invisible depending > > on their chapter number. Perhaps some way of making conditional tags > > sensitive to their context in the book...? > > > > Another approach I've tried is to include a rotated B flow flush to the > > page edge and insert the bleed tabs as conditionalised anchored frames. > > This allows tabs to be turned on and off with conditions, but I don't like > > these objects being on body pages, and it doesn't get round the issue of > > making them sensitive to chapter number. > > > > Failing that, I guess it could be done using the feature for mapping master > > pages to paragraphs, but I cannot see it working out very elegantly, as one > > would have to hack some sort of 'hidden' mapping between chapter number and > > paragraph tags. > > > > Any ideas, anyone? > > -- > ___ > > > You are currently subscribed to Framers as lisa.infocus at gmail.com. > > To unsubscribe send a blank email to > framers-unsubscribe at lists.frameusers.com > or visit > http://lists.frameusers.com/mailman/options/framers/lisa.infocus%40gmail.com > > Send administrative questions to lisa at frameusers.com. Visit > http://www.frameusers.com/ for more resources and info. >
Bleed tabs - automation?
>There is also a white paper called Atomatic Bleeding Thumb Tabs by >Bradley W. Anderson, Falcon Interactive. It comes with instructions on >how to make the template and it also has the FrameScript script for >automation. I have only used it to set up the template without the >automation (works like semiautomatic for me), as I don't have >FrameScript. > >I think it is the same as was on www.FrameUsers.com > Downloads > >White Papers, but the link seems broken now. Does anyone know where to >find it? Thanks, Bodvar - Rick Quattro sent me a copy of the relevant parts of it. -- Steve
Bleed tabs - automation?
Sarah O'Keefe and Sheila Loring's excellent FrameMaker 7 'complete reference' book gives a method for setting up bleed tabs (thumbtabs) that requires manual deletion of unnecessary tabs (i.e. all but the current chapter) in production edit. Within structured FrameMaker, is there a way of automating this? What is needed is a means of rendering objects visible/invisible depending on their chapter number. Perhaps some way of making conditional tags sensitive to their context in the book...? Another approach I've tried is to include a rotated B flow flush to the page edge and insert the bleed tabs as conditionalised anchored frames. This allows tabs to be turned on and off with conditions, but I don't like these objects being on body pages, and it doesn't get round the issue of making them sensitive to chapter number. Failing that, I guess it could be done using the feature for mapping master pages to paragraphs, but I cannot see it working out very elegantly, as one would have to hack some sort of 'hidden' mapping between chapter number and paragraph tags. Any ideas, anyone? -- Steve
Bleed tabs - automation?
On Tue, 22 Nov 2005 17:55:41 +, Steve Rickaby wrote: >Sarah O'Keefe and Sheila Loring's excellent FrameMaker 7 >'complete reference' book gives a method for setting up >bleed tabs (thumbtabs) that requires manual deletion of >unnecessary tabs (i.e. all but the current chapter) in >production edit. Within structured FrameMaker, is there >a way of automating this? Sounds to me like a FrameScript (or plugin) job. I'm sure Rick Quatro could cook one up in minutes... either way. He does good work at very reasonable prices. ;-) -- Jeremy H. Griffith, at Omni Systems Inc. http://www.omsys.com/
