Odd Page-down behavior

[Steve Rickaby]

At 10:49 -0700 24/4/06, Jim Light wrote:

>Sometimes when I open and start paging through a FrameMaker file, I'll
>get several pages in, press Page Down and instead of getting the next
>page, I'm taken back to the first page.
>
>This isn't a huge problem, and I have never noticed any serious
>consequences. It just happened again and I'm using the latest build
>(7.2b158).
>
>Is this just a quirk I should learn to love or can I prevent it?

Jim - as far as I can remember, this is a known bug caused by imported EPS graphics that's been present since at least V 5. I don't seem to have a note of the specific cause, or a workaround, other than turning off graphics display when you don't need it.

If this is indeed the same bug, Rick Quattro has a plug-in that fixes it. Here's his comments from last time round, to save him having to type them in again ;-)

At 08:21 -0500 10/12/05, Rick Quatro wrote:

>This is what I like to call FrameMaker's "Scroll Back Bug". It is a known bug explained by Adobe at
>
>http://www.adobe.com/supportservice/custsupport/SOLUTIONS/1a1fe.htm
>
>My automated solution for solving it is my RunaroundNone plugin. It is Windows only, and I think you are on the Mac. If you have FrameScript for the Mac, I can write a script that will basically duplicate its functionality. For details on what needs to be changed in the document, go to my Plugins page and click the RunaroundNone link. If you have to, you can save your documents as MIF and fix them in the MIF code.

At 08:52 -0500 10/12/05, Rick Quatro wrote:

>In the case of the Scroll Back Bug, the bottom line for fixing it is to set the Runaround properties for imported graphics to Don't Run Around. With a script, you can loop through all of the graphics in a document (or book), and change the Runaround property. You can also do this by changing the MIF file. You can search for this
>
><RunaroundType Contour>
>
>and replace with
>
><RunaroundType None>
>
>The other problem is that when you import a graphic, the Runaround value is set to Run around Contour by default. A FrameScript event script can be set to automatically change it to Don't Run Around whenever you import a graphic. This prevents the problem from reoccurring going forward.

-- 
Steve