Framers Template repository? Was: Re: Foxy stuff on master pages

[Valerie Lipow]

If anyone has one or more templates demonstrating the type of Master
pages/Reference pages discussed in the parent subject, if they're not
copyrighted, and if you're authorized and willing to disseminate them to the
group, would you please store a copy in the Framers' file archive? I would
love to study how they're designed, and I suspect others would like to study
them as well.

Val

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Valerie Lipow
vallipow at gmail.com

On 8/7/07, Steve Rickaby <srickaby at wordmongers.demon.co.uk> wrote:
>
> Hi Framers
>
> In off-group discussions with Angela and others, it's become only too
> clear that it's possible to create clever stuff on master pages that is
> obvious to its designer but to no-one else ;-) For example, the auto
> thumbtabs stuff which came up recently on the group, or anything that
> involves a template with complex frames on master pages. Because this often
> involves overlaying transparent objects, it can create a maintenance
> headache for whoever comes afterwards, as recently witnessed by someone on
> the group who had to get an expert to fox out how their template was working
> [that was a thumbtabs thing]. It's real important therefore to document how
> the template works, if only in a few lines.
>
> In the case I'm discussing with Angela, switchable page backgrounds, when
> the technique is working there are multiple conditionalised anchored frames
> on a master page, all the same size, all overlaying each other, and with
> their boundaries and anchors nudged outside the displayed area to create the
> required crop margins. That sort of thing would be enough to fox anyone.
>
> A way to ensure that the description travels around with the template is
> to add one or more extra reference pages called 'Notes' or somesuch, and put
> a brief potted description of how the template - or it's more foxy features
> - operates there. That way the 'docs' can only be lost if someone
> deliberately deletes the relevant reference page(s).
>
> When massing with multiple frames on master pages, it's a lot easier to
> see what's going on if you give the various frames a temporary - and
> different - fill pattern and/or colored border. When you've finished
> dickering with them, you can use the Find > anchored frame feature to select
> them one by one and remove the decorations. I use this when building frames
> for moving thumbtabs to get the stacking order for the various frames
> correct.
>
> Hope this helps someone.
>
> --
> Steve
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