Trouble selecting multiple graphics

Tue Apr 9 12:08:24 PDT 2013

Karen,
Are all your graphics contained within the same graphic frame or are they in separate graphic frames on your page? If it's the latter what you are trying to do will not work. The software was never meant to work that way. If they are in the same graphic frame, selecting the graphic frame and pressing "Ctrl-A" has always worked for me.

Berny Gagne
Senior Technical Writer
RuggedCom - A Siemens Company
Concord. Ontario, Canada

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 From: Karen Robbins <karendesign at gmail.com>
To: Paul Wilbraham <paul.wilbraham at m-ais.com> 
Cc: framers at lists.frameusers.com 
Sent: Tuesday, April 9, 2013 2:50:18 PM
Subject: Re: Trouble selecting multiple graphics

Really? Then why does the online FrameMaker 11 help say (or seem to say) that you can? 
http://help.adobe.com/en_US/framemaker/using/WSd817046a44e105e21e63e3d11ab7f741c8-7ffb.html#WSd817046a44e105e21e63e3d11ab7f741c8-7fe9

And what the heck kind of workflow is that... making you click and copy/paste or whatever three, four, five times instead of once?

--Karen

On Tue, Apr 9, 2013 at 11:04 AM, Paul Wilbraham <paul.wilbraham at m-ais.com> wrote:

>Karen 
>You cannot select more than one graphic frame, anchored or unanchored, at a time. 
>  
>--Paul Wilbraham 
>On 09 April 2013 at 18:50 Karen Robbins <karendesign at gmail.com> wrote: 
>>
>>
>>Hi Framers, 
>>
>>I'm not able to select multiple graphic frame objects. Diagonal dragging to encompass the objects with an invisible border only selects the last one over which the cursor passes. Using the shift-click-drag method gives the same result. Clicking the individual items' edge, with and without any modifier key I can think of, gives the same result. These graphic frames are not anchored. They often overlap the main text flow frame, but are not fully within it. 
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>>Ctrl+A grabs the main flow and any graphic fully within its text frame, but no graphics that partly overlap the frame. On a page with no main flow elements, ctrl+A grabs all text frames but only two of three graphic frames. 
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>>I've tried both the smart arrow cursor and the dumb one. 
>>
>>What am I missing? 
>>
>>
Frame 11.0.1.382, Windows 7. 
>>
>>
>>Thanks, 
>>Karen 
>
>  

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