complicated graphics eps/cross references and structured framemaker.

[Lynne A. Price]

At 10:39 PM 4/23/2006, Noah Evans wrote:
>The gist of my problem is that I have a lot of complex graphical elements
>each with text captions which contain crossreferenced text. I was hoping to
>save the graphics and text boxes to eps together with a minimum of
>formatting from the Framemaker on the framemaker side but the
>crossreferences make that difficult(impossible?).

Noah,
   Sounds like you are facing two issues:

1) Designing how your XML will look. How will you use the XML files? Will 
all applications need to reference the graphic caption? If so, you'll 
either need to remove the caption from the EPS file, or duplicate the 
caption elsewhere in the element structure.

2) Getting FrameMaker to import or export the desired structure. Without a 
custom FDK client, FrameMaker treats an anchored frame as a single object. 
If the caption is within the anchored frame, you can create 
cross-references to it, but those cross-references will not round-trip.

>How do people normally
>deal with complicated graphics in structured Framemaker?

Many applications put the cross-reference in a paragraph preceding or 
following the graphic image. Some use a table in which the image is placed 
in one row and the caption in another.

         --Lynne



Lynne A. Price
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