Text insets

[Roger Shuttleworth]

Hi Jeremy and Framers

Thanks for not chewing me up in my surmisings about the order of flows.

I seem to recall reading an article some years ago (around the FrameMaker 5 timeframe) that described the structure of a Frame document. If I recall correctly, it described the doc in terms of layers, where flows, text frames, anchored frames, etc. exist in separate layers, but the layers appear visually in the two (x and y) dimensions on a page.

Does anyone remember such a document? Maybe I dreamt it?

Roger

Roger Shuttleworth
Technical Documentation
AV-BASE Systems Inc.
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From: Jeremy H. Griffith [mailto:jeremy at omsys.com]
To: framers at lists.frameusers.com
Sent: Sat, 14 Apr 2012 10:38:26 -0400
Subject: Re: Text insets

On Fri, 13 Apr 2012 16:54:21 +0200, "Markus Drenckhan" 
  <info at dkpress.de> wrote:
  
  >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. 
  
  Interesting!  Thanks for digging that out!
  
  >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.
  
  You should be OK if you keep the same values, but swap 
  them around.  That is, don't make up new values; you 
  are almost certain to duplicate a value used elsewhere.
  But if you keep the same set of values and just reorder
  them, you should be fine.
  
  That's something that could be done by a very simple 
  plugin, or maybe just a FrameScript or ExtendScript.  
  I'd write it myself as a freebie if I had time.  Any 
  other FDK folks out there who want to?
  
  -- Jeremy H. Griffith, at Omni Systems Inc.
    <jeremy at omsys.com>  http://www.omsys.com/
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