[Framers] Automatic shrinkwrap?

[Rick Quatro]

Hi Scott and Lynne,

It actually happens "live"; when you scale the image, the anchored frame shrinkwraps to the imported image. My client has created a composite FrameMaker document from his ditamap and is formatting that for print, including scaling images, adding some FrameMaker objects, etc. I agree that this may not be the ideal workflow, but in my opinion, this should be an option that the user should be able to turn off. Thanks for the replies.

Rick

-----Original Message-----
From: Framers <framers-bounces+rick=rickquatro.com at lists.frameusers.com> On Behalf Of Scott Prentice
Sent: Tuesday, April 16, 2019 1:43 PM
To: framers at lists.frameusers.com
Subject: Re: [Framers] Automatic shrinkwrap?

Hi Lynne...

Nope .. anything other than a referenced image will be ignored. DITA doesn't support "graphic objects" and knows noting about a "frame" so those bits are not considered valid. Could try pasting from another file, but I'd bet it won't work. This isn't how the structure app (and DITA support) was intended to be used, so it's not supported.

Rick ..

I'm not exactly sure where this processing is done and how FM knows that the file is "DITA". If this processing is done "on save" then it's likely the import/export client. I think that FMx knows when you're in a binary file vs. XML and allows this flexibility in the binary file (would need to test to be sure).

If the customer wants to work in a DITA structured model in an FM binary file, I would create a new structure app that doesn't use the ditafm_app import/export client. That's not needed if they are sticking in the binary world, and may eliminate this processing.

Cheers,
...scott


On 4/16/19 10:26 AM, Lynne A. Price wrote:
> Scott,
>    What happens if you put a rectangle of the desired aframe size with 
> no border and no fill in the anchored frame? Will that hold the 
> desired space? Also, can you create the aframe with all desired 
> objects in another document and paste it where it's needed?
>     --Lynne
>
> On 4/16/2019 10:09 AM, Scott Prentice wrote:
>> While it would seem that you can use DITA as the model for a 
>> structured FM binary file, it's really not a good idea. There are a 
>> handful of areas (like this) that it's assuming you're working in 
>> XML, and will cause trouble. All I can suggest is that if you do want 
>> to put multiple objects in the frame, make sure that the first object 
>> is a referenced image and that image is large enough (extra white
>> space) to accommodate all of the expected content. That way the 
>> auto-shrinkwrap will size to that image, and *should* work reasonably.
>
>
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