I wonder if there's anyone here with FrameMaker experience, who I
could go off-list with?
I've been doing some moderately complex engineering documentation in
FM 3.1, with title blocks done by drawing unanchored frames on the Master
Page and putting tables filled with user-defined text variables into them,
then drawing the sheet borders directly on the Master Page. There are
usually at least two Master Pages in a document, one with a complete title
block used on the cover sheet, and a "Right" master page with a minimal
title block used on continuation sheets. I can send a few examples, in PDF
and editable FM format.
Now I need to do the same thing in OOo. G. R. Singleton
demonstrated that it's possible to draw a border outside a text column in
OOo, but that was right on the body page. The OOo user manual has some
hints that a Page Style can do a lot of what a FM Master Page can do, but if
it's possible to draw text columns in a Page Style that don't become part of
the main flow, and place graphic features in a Page Style that show up on
body pages using that style, and then position all that on the page with
exact dimensions, I don't see how to go about it. I could use a few hints
about where to start and what to read up on.
TIA,
Jack Carroll
Open Graphics Project
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