Frame 12 conditional text bug

[Rick Quatro]

Hi Rebecca,

I don't like to offer scripting as a "solution" for this kind of problem,
but it can make the workaround much less painful. In other words, you could
possibly use a script to show/hide the conditions so that your workaround
would be implemented much faster. Please let me know if you have any
questions or comments. Thank you very much.

Rick

Rick Quatro

Carmen Publishing Inc.

585-366-4017

rick at frameexpert.com

 

From: framers-bounces at lists.frameusers.com
[mailto:framers-bounces at lists.frameusers.com] On Behalf Of rebecca officer
Sent: Monday, June 30, 2014 12:58 AM
To: framers at lists.frameusers.com
Subject: Frame 12 conditional text bug

 

Hi everyone

 

I've just posted this on Adobe's bug tracker as
https://bugbase.adobe.com/index.cfm?event=selectBug
<https://bugbase.adobe.com/index.cfm?event=selectBug&CFGRIDKEY=3783041>
&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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