Tables in rotated text frames unselectable?

Brad Anderson brad at frameusers.com
Fri Dec 21 06:00:09 PST 2012


Christoph,

Rotate the text frame on the master page as well and then you'll be able to select the table cells as normal.

Brad


On Dec 18, 2012, at 11:35 PM, Christoph Korsmeier <christoph.korsmeier at werktext.eu> wrote:

> Hi everybody,
>  
> I've designed an FM10 masterpage with a rotated text flow (90° ccw).
> (The client wanted to accomodate large landscape tables in a portrait document).
>  
> Now when I apply this rotated masterpage to a body page, the tables on it can only be selected "whole", e.g. I can't select single rows, cells, or text inside them.
> This is the same in structured and unstructured documents.
> I can select single row, cell and text elements using the structure view, but nothing otherwise.
>  
> Is this a known bug in FrameMaker 10?
> Am I missing something else?
> Can anything be done to get it to work properly?
> 
> Best regards
> i. A. Christoph Korsmeier
> 
> Tel.-Durchwahl: 022 41 - 942 43 - 12
> E-Mail: christoph.korsmeier at werktext.eu

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