Highlighting in M

[Diane Gaskill]

Hi Gillian,

Good idea about using conditions.  The folks in Japan don't use track changes in Word because it bloats up the files so badly so they came up with the highlighting method.  But it will be easy to make two conditions for this.

Thanks!

Diane

-----Original Message-----
>From: Gillian Flato <gflato at nanometrics.com>
>Sent: Jan 18, 2007 11:45 AM
>To: Diane Gaskill <dgcaller at earthlink.net>, Framers <framers at frameusers.com>
>Subject: RE: Highlighting in M
>
>Dianne,
>
>You can save the Frame file as a PDF. With Acrobat Pro 7.0 or 8.0, you
>can save the PDF for review and the writers in Japan will have similar
>tools to the Word doc with highlighting, notes and editing.
>
>Or, in Frame, you could create conditions, one for deleting, one for
>inserting etc.
>
>-Gillian Flato
>
>
>
>-----Original Message-----
>From: framers-bounces+gflato=nanometrics.com at lists.frameusers.com
>[mailto:framers-bounces+gflato=nanometrics.com at lists.frameusers.com] On
>Behalf Of Diane Gaskill
>Sent: Thursday, January 18, 2007 11:17 AM
>To: Framers
>Subject: Highlighting in M
>
>Grettings to all in Frameland,
>
>I have successfully convinced my company to switch from Word to FM, but
>there is a group of writers in Japan that would still like to have the
>highlighting feature that Word has. I'm sure you all know that this
>feature
>does not exist natively in FM, so I was wondering if any of you know of
>a
>plug-in for FM that would add this feature.
>
>Yes, I know that I can create a frame around the text, fill it with a
>contrasting color, and put it behind the text, but that is
>time-consuming
>and not really the best way to do this.  They want to use it along with
>Track Changes to zoom in on specific changes that have been made.  Those
>of
>you who know how the Track Changes feature in Word works, will probably
>understand why they want this.
>
>Thanks in advance for any recommendations you might have.
>
>Diane Gaskll
>HDS, Santa Clara, CA
>
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