Landscape Tables in a Portrait Style Book
Brad Anderson
brad at frameusers.com
Mon Mar 22 12:04:32 PDT 2010
No. It'll work in 9 just fine.
Thanks,
Brad
On Mar 22, 2010, at 1:42 PM, Alison Craig wrote:
> I'd love to try it but it says it's for FM8 and I have FM9 - isn't this a problem?
>
> Alison Craig, Technical Writer
> Ultrasonix Medical Corporation
> Tel: (604) 279-8550, ext 127
> E-mail: alison.craig at ultrasonix.com
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Brad Anderson [mailto:brad at frameusers.com]
> Sent: Monday, March 22, 2010 11:38 AM
> To: Alison Craig
> Cc: Brad Anderson; framers at lists.frameusers.com
> Subject: Re: Landscape Tables in a Portrait Style Book
>
> Alison,
>
> I just posted an example of what I think you're trying to do. Give this a try and let me know if this works for you.
>
> http://www.beyondprint.com/2010/03/automating-landscape-tables-in-a-portrait-document/
>
> Thanks,
>
> Brad
>
> On Mar 22, 2010, at 12:40 PM, Alison Craig wrote:
>
>> Version: FM9 (9.0p237)
>> Unstructured
>> OS: XP Pro with SP3
>> FM Experience: 10 months
>> Tech Comm Experience: 15 years
>>
>>
>> I am condensing a bunch of repeated table content into 2 or 3 tables. Due to the data format and my page size, I would like to use Landscape format tables in a Portrait format manual.
>>
>> Using my Scriptorium book, I played around with their instructions but that actually made the entire Appendix Landscape which is not what I want/need as there will be a some regular title/text content that should be Portrait style, including the Appendix Heading.
>>
>> My book files use Master Pages set up with right and left pages (these were configured by a contractor as I didn't have the experience to set this up on my own). I understand the concepts of what was done but perhaps not all the details which is why I tried the Scriptorium book to sort this out.
>>
>> I think what I need are several text flows within the Appendix so that I can format the "table text flows" as Landscape but leave the rest of the document (including all Headers and Footers) as Portrait.
>>
>> I've thought about using Text Insets to bring in the tables but I'm not sure how I would insert them in Landscape format - although I think I could create them that way in my existing Text Inset file.
>>
>> FYI: I use table titles before the table (to which the table is anchored). I type in the title and format it with a Table Para tag that numbers the table based on Chapter/Appendix and the table number within the Chapter/Appendix (eg, Table 3-1: xxx, Table B-4: xxx).
>>
>> Any and all suggestions would be appreciated.
>>
>> Alison
>>
>> Alison Craig, Technical Writer
>> Ultrasonix Medical Corporation
>> Tel: (604) 279-8550, ext 127
>> E-mail: alison.craig at ultrasonix.com<mailto:alison.craig at ultrasonix.com>
>>
>>
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