A3 Page Questions

[John Bevan]

Framers,

Thanks to Lyn Price, Richard Combs and Oran Petersen for providing help with recent questions, but I 
have an additional one regarding page sizes. See below for the original thread.

I have worked out for myself that the description changes to ‘Custom’ because I also swapped the 
height and width values of the A3 Tabloid page.

As to the second part of my question, is it possible or not to have an A3-sized file in a mult-file 
book where the remainder are sized A4?

What I would like is to be able to just switch a file between A4 and A3 at will, as I needed 
graphics that required the larger page-size. This does not appear to be possible without getting the 
‘Resulting columns would be too narrow’ message.

Any advice on how to get around this would be helpful, as at present the only option that I know 
works is to change *all* the files to A3 size just prior to printing the book, but I then have to 
remember not to save them in that size so I can reuse them for A4 books in the future.

Regards,



John Bevan

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From: "Combs, Richard" <richard.combs at Polycom.com>

To: <syntactics at ozemail.com.au>; <framers at lists.frameusers.com>

Sent: Thursday, March 30, 2006 2:59 AM

Subject: RE: Page Size



John Bevan wrote:

> I want to set up a file to be able to fit an A3-size graphic.
> When I change  the page size in FM (Format-Page Layout - Page
> Size) and select A3 the dial ogue box shows 'Custom' (instead
> of 'A3') Firstly, why is this?.

Dunno. When I change to A3, close the Page Size dialog, and reopen it,
it still says "A3 Tabloid."

> Do I take it you can't switch page sizes on an ad hoc basis
> to deal with odd-sized content?

You can't mix page sizes in a file. Create a separate file for your A3
page(s) and set numbering properties appropriately.

As a general rule, the phrase "on an ad hoc basis" should be avoided in
all aspects of working with FrameMaker. :-)

Richard


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

FM 7 on Win XP.
I want to set up a file to be able to fit an A3-size graphic. When I change the
page size in FM (Format—Page Layout – Page Size) and select A3 the dialogue box
shows ‘Custom’ (instead of ‘A3’) Firstly, why is this?.

But also if I then want to reverse the process and return to A4 format by
repeating the above steps, I get the message ‘Resulting columns would be too
narrow’. I also tried changing the print set-up to reflect A4 but still got the
same result.

Do I take it you can’t switch page sizes on an ad hoc basis to deal with
odd-sized content?

John Bevan