Customizing anchored frames in FM12 (unstructured)

[Gary Bankston]

place your anchored frame, use the graphics bar to set line fill and color

On Fri, Jan 9, 2015 at 9:06 AM,  <tom.beiswenger at emhartglass.com> wrote:
> What about the anchored frame. Is there a way to draw a border around the
> frame?
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> Tom Beiswenger
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> From:        Heiko Haida <info at heiko-haida.de>
> To:        framers at lists.frameusers.com
> Date:        01/09/2015 10:17 AM
> Subject:        Re: Customizing anchored frames in FM12 (unstructured)
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> Hi Tom,
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> I do not know any way to change the underlining parameters.
> I am not sure, but I guess this may not even be accessible via scripting as
> there are no plugins available for this purpose.
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> How about using the new "background color" feature or the "para box" feature
> instead of underlining? This may look well with a 10% black e.g.
> Or you could use a "frame below pgf", but the resulting line would always
> have a fixed length (like with footnotes).
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> Best regards - Tino H. Haida, Berlin
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> tom.beiswenger at emhartglass.com:
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> I am trying to make some design changes to our machine manuals. Currently,
> all graphics are in anchored frames that are placed within a special table.
> They look great in print, but tables don't scale well if you plan to also
> publish for use on a tablet.
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> I have 2 problems.
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> 1) I would like to have a thin border around all graphic frames, but can't
> find anything within the FM help menus that tells me how to do this.
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> 2) I want to have the figure capture underlined; however, when I choose
> "underline" in the paragraph designer (not numeric), the line is too close
> to the descenders in words containing g, y, p, etc. Is there a way to adjust
> the position of the underline so that it is just below a character's
> descender?
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> Tom Beiswenger
> Manager, Technical & Training Documentation, Project Manager - Inspection
> Business
> Emhart Glass Mfg. Inc.
> 1140 Sullivan St.
> Elmira, NY 14901
> PH: +607 735-4279
> FX: +607 734-8278
> Mobile: +607 769-4779
> Email:
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