[Framers] Machinations of .Portrait and .Landscape

[Peter Gold]

Yes, altering text frame size is a high-maintenance error-prone strategy.

One thing I've done, when really fine control is needed, is to work with
authors to get permission to edit text so it fits layout better. Depending
on the material, subject matter experts, perhaps even lawyers and marketers
might be needed to avoid changing meaning in unintended ways.

​There's a formal way to enter feature requests. Others on the list can
point you there.

If you're interested, InDesign has some features that FM lacks, which might
solve some of your problems, but probably won't make it worthwhile to
completely adopt it and abandon FM. ID has much more powerful, flexible,
and automated text-composition features​, which can help text fit itself
intelligently into frames. Also, its text frames offer properties and rules
that adjust height, width, or both, to suit text they contain.

HTH


On Fri, Feb 17, 2017 at 7:41 AM, Ant Davey <ant at ant-davey.com> wrote:

>    Hi All,
>
>    Is there a way to make the .Portrait and .Landscape commands in the
>    Reference pages work sensibly?
>
>    What I want to achieve is to have the content immediately after a
>    .Landscape paragraph appear on a Landscape oriented page.  I don't want
>    the specific page on which I place the marker (and those thereafter
>    until told otherwise) to be landscape.  Inevitably, there will be
>    changes to an earlier part of a document, which will alter the page
>    layout.
>
>    In the same vein, is there a way to retain overrides when Applying
>    Master Pages?  For neatness, to avoid widows and orphans or fit an
>    image with is descriptive text, I will sometimes lengthen the text
>    frame on a page.  Applying Master Pages, to get the .Landscape and
>    .Portrait commands to work will throw out all my little adjustments and
>    make their time saving benefits almost redundant.
>
>    If there are no workarounds for this, Adobe please consider these as
>    feature requests.
>
>    Many thanks,
>
>    Ant
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