Re: Header and other issues with FM 7.2 - Ideas requested
Loren, You wrote: We PDF multi-chapter, multi-header books using Framemaker 7.2 and Adobe Professional 7.0.8. We set up the bookmarks by chapter title and the first two heading styles. The bookmarks in the PDF docs correctly divide by chapter, but the heading1 and heading2 entries decide inconsistently to show up under the wrong chapter. Double-check the PDF setup of the offending documents as well as book's PDF setup. Also make sure that all content is in a single flow (i.e. no multiple flows, disconnected pages, or separate text frames). If all is OK, simply try recreating the PS file/saving as PDF and see whether it is the same (I came across cases where the nesting of bookmarks was incorrect, and simply recreating the PS file had solved this). Perhaps most visually distracting of all, the various alphabetical headers in the Index show up as a list of heading1s under the final body chapter in the Acrobat bookmarks panel. A similar problem is present in other PDFs authored with FrameMaker, when the index template has the Index title in a separate flow (current Apple manuals which demonstrate this are described at http://www.microtype.com/hmmms.html#0504 ). The template has to be modified so that only one flow exists in the index (also, the index title must reside on a body page). Shlomo Perets MicroType, http://www.microtype.com Training, consulting add-ons: FrameMaker, Structured FM and Acrobat ___ You are currently subscribed to Framers as [EMAIL PROTECTED] Send list messages to [EMAIL PROTECTED] To unsubscribe send a blank email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] or visit http://lists.frameusers.com/mailman/options/framers/archive%40mail-archive.com Send administrative questions to [EMAIL PROTECTED] Visit http://www.frameusers.com/ for more resources and info.
Header and other issues with FM 7.2 - Ideas requested
Loren, You wrote: >We PDF multi-chapter, multi-header books using Framemaker 7.2 and Adobe >Professional 7.0.8. We set up the bookmarks by chapter title and the >first two heading styles. The bookmarks in the PDF docs correctly divide >by chapter, but the heading1 and heading2 entries decide inconsistently >to show up under the wrong chapter. Double-check the PDF setup of the offending documents as well as book's PDF setup. Also make sure that all content is in a single flow (i.e. no multiple flows, disconnected pages, or separate text frames). If all is OK, simply try recreating the PS file/saving as PDF and see whether it is the same (I came across cases where the nesting of bookmarks was incorrect, and simply recreating the PS file had "solved" this). >Perhaps most visually distracting of >all, the various alphabetical headers in the Index show up as a list of >heading1s under the final body chapter in the Acrobat bookmarks panel. A similar problem is present in other PDFs authored with FrameMaker, when the index template has the Index title in a separate flow (current Apple manuals which demonstrate this are described at http://www.microtype.com/hmmms.html#0504 ). The template has to be modified so that only one flow exists in the index (also, the index title must reside on a body page). Shlomo Perets MicroType, http://www.microtype.com Training, consulting & add-ons: FrameMaker, Structured FM and Acrobat
Header and other issues with FM 7.2 - Ideas requested
The most common cause of mis-ordered PDF bookmarks (and specifically chapter headings that are in the wrong place relative to section headings) is the use of separate text frames that are not connected in the same flow. Is your chapter title positioned in the main text flow or in a separate frame? If it's in a separate frame, is that frame part of the same flow as the text, and is it connected to the beginning of the flow? If not, there's your problem--FrameMaker scans the default flow in a chapter file first, then any other flows that were added but not properly connected to the main flow. As to the index separators showing up in the bookmarks, the first question is whether these separators use the same paragraph tag as some other heading that you *want* in the bookmarks. If so, you need to retag the separators to a different style that is not in the "Include" list in the PDF Setup dialog. But if the separators have an appropriate tag name, the thing to check is the PDF Setup dialog *in* *the*index*file* itself, rather than just the book's PDF Setup dialog. One of the undocumented features of FrameMaker is that you can specify additional tags to include in the PDF bookmarks on a file-by-file basis by including them in the *file-level* PDF Setup. Adding a tag in the book-level PDF Setup ripples down into the PDF Setup properties for the individual component files, but changes in the individual files do not propagate upwards to the book-level properties. >From: "Loren R. Elks" >To: , >Subject: Header and other issues with FM 7.2 - Ideas requested >Date: Mon, 2 Oct 2006 13:37:10 -0400 > >Hi: > >We PDF multi-chapter, multi-header books using Framemaker 7.2 and Adobe >Professional 7.0.8. We set up the bookmarks by chapter title and the >first two heading styles. The bookmarks in the PDF docs correctly divide >by chapter, but the heading1 and heading2 entries decide inconsistently >to show up under the wrong chapter. Perhaps most visually distracting of >all, the various alphabetical headers in the Index show up as a list of >heading1s under the final body chapter in the Acrobat bookmarks panel. > >Can anyone help me with what we should do? > >Thanks, >Loren > > >** To unsubscribe, send a message to majordomo at omsys.com ** >** with "unsubscribe framers" (no quotes) in the body. ** _ Try the new Live Search today! http://imagine-windowslive.com/minisites/searchlaunch/?locale=en-us=WLMTAG
