Master Page Usage confusion

[Tim Pann]

Thank you to everybody who submitted suggestions. I just went through an exercise to learn Apply Master Pages and it works like a charm. :) I may look into the other suggestions too.

Great group!

Tim

-----Original Message-----
From: mueller23 at web.de [mailto:mueller23 at web.de] 
Sent: Tuesday, February 08, 2011 4:34 PM
To: framers at lists.frameusers.com
Cc: Tim Pann
Subject: Re: Master Page Usage confusion

Hello Tim,

> it seems that the only way to be sure that master page
> usage is correct is to check every single page.

You may want to check the FrameScript "Report: Master Page Usage".

http://www.i-frame.itl.info/en/feature-description/i-frame-modules/quality-pack/report-master-page-usage.html

Kind regards,
Klaus Müller, itl AG


--- Original Message ---
From: Tim Pann
Date: 08.02.2011 20:54
> Hello all,
> 
> I just discovered four pages in a long document I published almost a
> year ago that were missing appropriate headers. This happened because I
> inadvertently had an appendix-related master page applied, rather than
> Right/Left.
> 
> I'm not going to blame FrameMaker for my goof but I would like to know
> if anyone else finds setting Master Page Usage to be very confusing?
> Maybe it's just me, but it doesn't seem very "smart," meaning, I seem to
> have to keep going back and re-setting usage as pages add. Especially I
> find that when I apply a master page that changes the layout from
> portrait to landscape or vice-versa, I have to keep re-selecting pages
> that missed the conversion because the layout caused repagination.
> 
> Either way, it seems that the only way to be sure that master page usage
> is correct is to check every single page.
> 
> Am I missing something simple? I hope I'm explaining myself
> sufficiently.
> 
> Tim


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