[Framers] Machinations of .Portrait and .Landscape

[Ant Davey]

   Thank you Peter,

   Making more master pages may have to be the way to go in the short
   term.  I can make editorial changes sometimes, but usually don't have
   the time to do that in my world.  Only one tech writer to many SMEs and
   other content providers.

   I already use InDesign for some of our outputs.  Frame is generally
   reserved for 'reports', which run into tens of pages (> 50).  Imported
   from Word, as the only text tool that our SMEs have access to (and a
   small understanding of how to use it effectively).

   Yes Rick, I really DO need to explore ExtendScript!

   Best regards,
   Ant

     On 17 February 2017 at 16:46 Peter Gold
     <peter at petergold.photography> wrote:

     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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