Hide text in Framemaker?

[Ridder, Fred]

No reason not to. But you have to know you need to do it that way. 

-----Original Message-----
From: John Posada [mailto:jposada01 at yahoo.com] 
Sent: Thursday, August 10, 2006 10:44 AM
To: Ridder, Fred; framers at frameusers.com
Subject: RE: Hide text in Framemaker?

Hmm...hadn't thought of that. However, why NOT put it in a background
text frame?

> Nope, sorry, not unless you put the text in background
> (header/footer) text frames on the Master Page. Anything 
> you put in the placeholder body text frame on a Master Page 
> is only viewable on the Master Page itself; it does not 
> appear on a body page based on the Master Page.
> And since Master Pages cannot be printed, it is hard to make any 
> text you place on a Master Page visible to anyone outside the 
> FrameMaker environment.


John Posada
Senior Technical Writer

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