switch between 8.5x11 and A4 sized pages within the same book?

[Reng, Dr. Winfried]

Hi,

Another aspect which was not mentioned yet:
If you have two different templates, I assume that the
margins are kept for both paper sizes. That means that
the text frame for the main text flow has a different
width. That also means that tables which will extend
across the text frame width might be too wide in the
other template. Or graphics are too large.

I recommend to use a FrameScript script (which would not
be that complicated) to do this for you.

Or you make the text frame size fit to both paper sizes as
others had suggested.

Best regards

Winfried

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Subject: Re: switch between 8.5x11 and A4 sized pages within the same book?

You could try creating two separate templates (in FM files that are separate from the book and separate from each other). One template file is 8.5 x 11, and the other is A4. Both can contain all other attributes (paragraph styles, character styles, colour definitions, etc). Apply the first template when you want to create a PDF for the US market. Once that's complete, apply the second template to the book to create the PDF for the European market.

Alternatively, you could use a processor that ignores your FM settings (that is, you would set up all your formatting in the processor), and then generate two different outputs.

Nadine

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Subject: switch between 8.5x11 and A4 sized pages within the same book?

Fellow Framers,
I'm mostly a lurker, but have found the wealth of knowledge shared by this list's members to be quite helpful!

I have a manual (I'm on Frame 8) in which I've used conditional text to show/hide tables, text, parts lists depending on if it's for the American market or European.
This manual originated for a US-made product so it started life with 8.5x11 (US-letter size) pages. And it didn't even occur to me that it might need to be A4-sized for the European market.

Is there a good way to switch back and forth between A4 and 8.5x11 page sizes, depending on which version of a book you want to print?

I have the sneaking suspicion that I will have to break this into two separate books, but I figured I'd ask to see if anyone had recommendations.

Thanks,
Lise
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