Vanishing Table Heading Cells

[Jim Light]

Rebecca,
I appreciate your taking the time to answer. However, Shlomo suggested
that this is a bug in FrameMaker and his workaround (print to a
PostScript file and distill that) worked like a charm.

The bug manifests itself when you have the combination of shaded cells,
PDF tagging is turned on in PDF setup, and you save as PDF. I need the
shading and tagging, so I used the workaround. I assume that turning off
tagging or unshading would work.

Thanks, Shlomo.
Thanks, Rebecca.
Thanks, Framers.

-----Original Message-----
From: rebecca officer [mailto:rebecca.officer at alliedtelesyn.co.nz] 
Sent: Sunday, April 09, 2006 3:00 PM
To: framers at lists.frameusers.com; Jim Light
Subject: Re: Vanishing Table Heading Cells

Could be the good old graphic print quality problem that causes random
text drop-out in PDFs. 

In Windows, open Properties for the Distiller / Adobe PDF printer
driver. On the general tab, click Printing Preferences, then Advanced.
Change Graphic Print Quality to 300 dpi. Click OK till you're back at
the Properties dialog. Then go to the Advanced tab. Click Printing
Defaults, then Advanced. Change that one to 300 dpi too.

If 300 dpi fixes the problem, try 600 dpi. That works for most people
(but not us). The setting is something to do with the granularity of
text placement, nothing to do with the dpi for graphics.

Cheers, Rebecca

>>> "Jim Light" <jlight at pillardata.com> 8/04/06 10:40:42 >>>
The text is fine in FM.
The properties of the text in the PDF are the same for the invisible
text as for the visible text. (!!!)

I tried re-importing table definitions, but that didn't help.

I copied the text to a new template and that didn't help.

I made a copy of a good table and copied the body rows into it. (These
tables have the same heading rows, so I can use a good one and just
change the body rows). This worked twice and then it didn't work. About
half of my table collection has this weird problem. 

At this point I am copying a good one and using it to recreate a bad one
over and over until they are all OK.

What on Earth is going on???

Jim

-----Original Message-----
From: Combs, Richard [mailto:richard.combs at Polycom.com] 
Sent: Friday, April 07, 2006 3:28 PM
To: Jim Light; framers at lists.frameusers.com 
Subject: RE: (no subject)

Jim Light wrote: 

> I have a problem that is making me crazy. There are a few 
> seemingly-random table heading cells whose text does not show 
> up in the PDF.

Just to be clear: the text is fine in FM, it just disappears in the PDF?

> *	I tried using the text editing tool in Acrobat, but the text I
> type in is invisible. 

With the TouchUp Text Tool selected, click in or select the "invisible"
text, right-click, and select Properties. Take a look at the info on the
Text tab, especially the font and fill. See if that gives you any hints.


<shrug />Can it wait until Monday? It's almost beer-thirty here. ;-)

Richard


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Richard G. Combs
Senior Technical Writer
Polycom, Inc.
richardDOTcombs AT polycomDOTcom
303-223-5111
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rgcombs AT gmailDOTcom
303-777-0436
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