FW: Anchored Frame Problem

[Jeff Coatsworth]

-----Original Message-----
From: Writer [mailto:generic668 at yahoo.ca] 
Sent: Monday, February 08, 2010 5:14 PM
To: Jeff Coatsworth
Subject: RE: Anchored Frame Problem

If you are using a paragraph tag specific to the anchored frame (that is, you're not attaching the anchor with the previous paragraph), you can decrease the space above and below the frame by adjusting the space above/below and the font size (even though there's no font) in the Paragraph Designer.

Nadine

--- On Mon, 2/8/10, Jeff Coatsworth <jeff.coatsworth at jonassoftware.com> wrote:

> From: Jeff Coatsworth <jeff.coatsworth at jonassoftware.com>
> Subject: RE: Anchored Frame Problem
> To: "Galanter, Lea" <Lea.Galanter at fticonsulting.com>, 
> "framers at lists.frameusers.com" <framers at lists.frameusers.com>
> Date: Monday, February 8, 2010, 5:00 PM Hi Lea,
> 
> It's when you use the "Anchoring Position: At Insertion Point" option 
> - that causes a new Distance above Baseline field to appear.
> 
> You don't need to do structured FM to use the FM to RH help 
> generation. I'd recommend that you check out RJ Jacquez's blog 
> (http://blogs.adobe.com/rjacquez/) for some good demos of how stuff 
> flows from FM to RH.
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: framers-bounces at lists.frameusers.com
> [mailto:framers-bounces at lists.frameusers.com]
> On Behalf Of Galanter, Lea
> Sent: Monday, February 08, 2010 4:49 PM
> To: framers at lists.frameusers.com
> Subject: Anchored Frame Problem
> 
> Hi Framers,
> 
>  
> 
> I'm hoping you can help me with a small problem. I'm using Frame 9 on 
> Windows 7, but I've had this problem with previous versions of Frame 
> as well, so it's not new. When using anchored frames, I am unable to 
> fix the distance of the frame from the surrounding text. The online 
> Help indicates that the Anchored Frame dialog box has a Distance above 
> Baseline option, but I see no such option in that dialog box. Not sure 
> why Adobe says that such an option exists when it clearly doesn't. 
> Does anyone know where this option may really be hiding.
> 
>  
> 
> I did have a thought that the option may be available only when using 
> structured Frame, but that doesn't seem to make sense to me. I have 
> not yet made the transition to structured Frame - no time to 
> transition the old files I inherited. But while I'm on the subject, we 
> bought TechCommSuite 2 and I'm going to use RoboHelp to create Help 
> files we never had for our product - should I transition my files to 
> structured Frame if I'm going to link my files to RoboHelp?
> 
>  
> 
> TIA!
> 
>  
> 
> Lea Galanter
> 
> Lead Technical Editor and Writer
> 
> F T I Technology
> 
> lea.galanter at fticonsulting.com
> <mailto:asinclaire at attenex.com>
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> 
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