Removing custom row heights

[Heiko Haida]

Hi Craig, 

this kind of manipulation via MIF sounds like a very good idea. I did
not check, but I am pretty sure this would work. 

Best regards - 

Tino H. Haida 

Craig Ede: 

> I wasn't suggesting a table by table approach, but a search and replace approach of the kind Shmuel describes. Framemaker could do the search and replace, but Notepad++ is a lot more efficient. 
> 
> Notepad++ seems to work using search and replace as follows (for all tables). You could restrict it to the particular table setting you want removed if you'd like. 
> 
> Use the regular expression option. 
> 
> Set Find to <RowMinHeight *.*"> 
> 
> Set Replace to <RowMinHeight 0"> 
> 
> If you cut & paste a <RowMinHeight x.xxx"> line from the mif, you'll get the right space and tick marks. 
> 
> Here's a JPG showing the options selected in Notepad++. Do a Find Next to make sure you are getting what you want and then do a replace all. Retain a copy of your original file. 
> 
> Note that you can do the replace on a whole series of open documents. 
> 
> Craig 
> 
> FROM: Shmuel Wolfson [mailto:shmuelw1 at gmail.com] 
> SENT: Monday, July 07, 2014 11:42 AM
> TO: Craig Ede; Framers
> SUBJECT: Re: Removing custom row heights 
> 
> Yes, but this could take a long time if you have a lot of tables with a lot of rows. 
> 
> However, if you do the search and replace using a text editor that supports regular expressions (Notepad++, etc.) this could be a good solution. The regular expression to search for would be "RowMinHeight [0-9]*.[0-9]*" (without the quotes) and replace with RowMinHeight 0.
> 
> Shmuel Wolfson
> 
> Technical Writer
> 
> 052-763-7133
> 
> On 07-Jul-14 7:12 PM, Craig Ede wrote: 
> 
>> I set the row heights to zero, which I believe is the default. FrameMaker seems to take things over from there using the current paragraph tag to set the height to the minimum without obscuring text. 
>> 
>> If all your custom settings are the same (for example: "1.56789") you can do a simple search and replace in the mif. 
>> 
>> Replace: 
>> 
>> <RowMinHeight 1.56789"> 
>> 
>> with 
>> 
>> <RowMinHeight 0"> 
>> 
>> It looks to me like you could reset all tables by just removing the <RowMinHeight x.xxxxx> line from the mif. That would require a more sophisticated find value that used wildcards (or regexp) 
>> 
>> Try this on a copy of a file and see if that works for you. 
>> 
>> Craig 
>> 
>> FROM: framers-bounces at lists.frameusers.com [mailto:framers-bounces at lists.frameusers.com] ON BEHALF OF Christenson, Pat
>> SENT: Thursday, June 19, 2014 2:36 PM
>> TO: framers at lists.frameusers.com
>> SUBJECT: Removing custom row heights 
>> 
>> Almost all our tables have custom row heights - ugh! Does anyone know of a way to global reset the row heights to the defaults? I can't find anything in FrameMaker so I'm wondering if there's an add-on for it. 
>> 
>> FrameMaker 10, Windows 7 Professional 
>> 
>> Thanks! 
>> 
>> Pat Christenson 
>> 
>> Resource Coordinator 
>> 
>> Fitzgerald Marketing and Communications 
>> 
>> PChristenson at ftportfolios.com
 
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