Answer: Re: Odd bug printing FM to PDF

2006-01-12 Thread hedley.fin...@myob.com
All: The hotspot behaviour in generated lists is user-unfriendly but works well for cross-references and index page numbers. A possible fix involving FrameScript follows: @ Create a new character format where all properties are set to null. @ Create a FrameScript event script

Answer: Re: Odd bug printing FM to PDF

2006-01-11 Thread Diane Gaskill
I'm not sure whetehr to call it a bug or not, but it's definitely a known problem. Anytime there is a character font change in the text of a link in the FM file, the link ends at that point. And of the text that includes the link does not completely define the destination, the link does not

Answer: Re: Odd bug printing FM to PDF

2006-01-11 Thread Combs, Richard
Diane Gaskill wrote: > I'm not sure whetehr to call it a bug or not, but it's > definitely a known problem. Anytime there is a character > font change in the text of a link in the FM file, the link > ends at that point. This is _neither_ a "bug" _nor_ a "known problem." To reiterate what

Answer: Re: Odd bug printing FM to PDF

2006-01-11 Thread Rick Quatro
What Richard says is true, but this designed behavior is not very useful for generated lists. For generated lists, it would have been better to have a mechanism that would ignore character property changes and make the whole paragraph a link. Rick Diane Gaskill wrote: > I'm not sure whetehr

Answer: Re: Odd bug printing FM to PDF

2006-01-11 Thread Joe Malin
] | On Behalf Of Combs, Richard | Sent: Wednesday, January 11, 2006 10:22 AM | To: framers at frameusers.com | Subject: RE: Answer: Re: Odd bug printing FM to PDF | | Diane Gaskill wrote: | | > I'm not sure whetehr to call it a bug or not, but it's | > definitely a known problem. A

Answer: Re: Odd bug printing FM to PDF

2006-01-11 Thread Combs, Richard
Rick Quatro wrote: > What Richard says is true, but this designed behavior is not > very useful for generated lists. For generated lists, it > would have been better to have a mechanism that would ignore > character property changes and make the whole paragraph a link. OK, granted -- maybe

Answer: Re: Odd bug printing FM to PDF

2006-01-11 Thread Jeremy H. Griffith
On Wed, 11 Jan 2006 13:57:36 -0500, "Rick Quatro" wrote: >What Richard says is true, but this designed behavior is not very useful for >generated lists. For generated lists, it would have been better to have a >mechanism that would ignore character property changes and make the whole

Answer: Re: Odd bug printing FM to PDF

2006-01-11 Thread Rick Quatro
For those interested, there is a possible FrameScript solution that would solve the problem in PDFs. A script could go through the TOC and look for lines with character property changes. It would duplicate the first Hypertext marker and insert it whereever there is a character property change.