Frame 12 conditional text bug

[rebecca officer]

Hi Gary

That's a good idea, thanks. We'll try it. Apart from anything else, it'll be really interesting to see if MIF files show the same bug.

About those crashes you mentioned, are they on Frame 12? We're seeing a lot of crashes too, but we haven't figured out a pattern to them yet. We're not exactly fans of Frame 12 right now!

Cheers
Rebecca


>>> "Zimmerman, Gary"  06/30/14 5:14 PM >>>
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Hi Rebecca,
 
Have you tried working in .mif files instead of .fm files and only saving to .fm when you're done for the day? 
 
When we have some conditional text problems that crash FM, a mif wash of the files often helps, and sometimes fixes the problem. If yours is a bug, then the mif wash won't help, because as soon as you're back in .fm you'll hit the bug again. But maybe if you save the file as a mif, then work in themif as much as you can, and only save as an .fm doc at the end, it would at least save you some time during development.
 
-- garyZ
 
From: framers-bounces at lists.frameusers.com [mailto:framers-bounces at lists.frameusers.com]On Behalf Of rebecca officer
Sent: Sunday, June 29, 2014 9:58 PM
To: framers at lists.frameusers.com
Subject: Frame 12 conditional text bug


 
Hi everyone

 

I've just posted this on Adobe's bug tracker ashttps://bugbase.adobe.com/index.cfm?event=selectBug&CFGRIDKEY=3783041 but wanted to see if anyone else is seeing it too.

 

We have unstructured FM 12 files that use Expressions to choose what conditional text to display. We also use text insets, especially as TOCs in chapters. When we update the text insets, conditional text displays that should be hidden according to the Expression. This means our documents suddenly display extra text!

 

Our text insets are set to update automatically when files open, so opening a file is often enough to trigger this bug.

 

Fortunately, we found a workaround: The display becomes correct if we turn the Expression off and then on again. For example, if we set the Show/Hide Conditional Text dialog to Show All and click Apply, then set it to show as per the desired Expression and click Apply, it'll display correctly. Until the next time we do something radical like opening the file.

The workaround is a lot better than nothing, but it means we have to keep changing the Show/Hide Conditional Text dialog, across books of thousands of pages. It's slowing us down enough to drive us batty.

 

Cheers

Rebecca


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