[Framers] Color Views: what are they FOR?

[Lin Sims]

Perfect sense. I think I used White to do that because the chapter/section
number was never going to be on top of a colored background and would thus
be effectively invisible. :D

On Wed, Jan 2, 2019 at 3:03 PM Magee, Anne (INT) <Anne.Magee at teledyne.com>
wrote:

> I don't really know what it's *meant* to be used for, but I can tell you
> what I used the "invisible" thing for.
>
> Hang on, this may get a little complicated.
>
> Our chapter title page displays the chapter number as an enormous number
> at the top right of the page, then the chapter title in a smaller font
> underneath. Because I could not find any way to put a paragraph break
> inside the paragraph design, I made this into two separate paragraph tags.
>
> That was fine until someone decided they wanted the paragraph number to be
> shown in PDF bookmarks.
>
> I don't know where I found this trick (I certainly didn't  invent it) but
> if I created an invisible colour view then applied the invisible character
> tag to the autonumber format of the chapter title paragraph, the chapter
> number was invisible in Framemaker and in the body of the PDF files, but
> was visible in the bookmarks.
>
> Hope that made sense.
> Anne
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Framers <framers-bounces+anne.magee=
> teledyne.com at lists.frameusers.com> On Behalf Of Lin Sims
> Sent: Wednesday, January 2, 2019 3:19 PM
> To: Frame Users <framers at lists.frameusers.com>
> Subject: [Framers] Color Views: what are they FOR?
>
> Over on the Adobe forums, I've been interacting with a someone new to
> Frame and was explaining how to set up and use conditions.
>
> Then Bob Niland and Arnis Gubbins chimed in talking about color views. A
> little experimentation has shown me what they DO. What I can't figure out
> (and maybe it's just New Year's brain fuzz) is what you use them FOR. OK,
> you can make something that is a particular color invisible, but the space
> it occupies is still there so, unlike using a condition, the document
> doesn't reflow. You're left with gaps. Not something I want in my documents
> and I don't see where it would be useful.
>
> So who has used it, and for what? Why would you choose it over using a
> condition instead?
>
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> Lin Sims
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