Text insets

[Markus Drenckhan]

Hello,

thanks for your hint with the MIF file. I found out that ist not the order of the text flow elements in the MIF file but the value of the tag <TextRectID> that determines the order of appearance. If I change that value I can change the order of appearance. Unfortunately there are quite some frames with RectIDs in my documents (more than text frames) and changing the values proves to be a tricky matter with unforeseeable effects. But it seems to be the way to go.

 

Thanks to all and

Servus from Austria

 

Markus Drenckhan

 

 

 

Von: Roger Shuttleworth [mailto:rshuttleworth at avbasesystems.com] 
Gesendet: Freitag, 13. April 2012 15:27
An: Markus Drenckhan
Betreff: Re: AW: Text insets

 

Hi Markus

Ordering the flows in terms of their position on a page makes no difference. If I recall correctly, flows have to be visualized  in a z-order (that is, a vertical dimension). That means that, however they appear on a page, they are actually separate layers, each one on top of the previous one.

However, if you save as MIF and then open the MIF in a text editor, you can identify each text flow:

<TextFlow 
 <TFTag `1_first'>
 <Notes 
 > # end of Notes
 <Para 
  <Unique 998321>
  <PgfTag `Body'>
  <ParaLine 
   <TextRectID 23>
  > # end of ParaLine
 > # end of Para
> # end of TextFlow

I suspect that if you cut/paste to change the order, that will reflect in the dialog when you want to import the flow. I just gave it a quick try, and it looks promising.

There may even be plugins that would do this for you...

Roger

Roger Shuttleworth
Technical Documentation
AV-BASE Systems Inc.
1000 Air Ontario Drive, Suite 200
London, Ontario
N5V 3S4
Tel. 519 691-0919 ext. 330

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