[Framers] Auto-assign color to change bars

[Reng Winfried]

Hi Lin,

The Change Bar properties are in Format | Document |
Change Bars. The properties are part of the Page Layout.
Therefore you can make these properties part of your template 
and import the Page Layout with the Change Bar Properties 
into other files.
Does this help or do you already know all this?

Best regards

Winfried

-----Original Message-----
From: Framers <framers-bounces+w.reng=carecom-solutions.com at lists.frameusers.com> On Behalf Of Lin Sims
Sent: Friday, August 30, 2019 4:54 PM
To: Monique Semp <monique.semp at earthlink.net>
Cc: An email list for people using Adobe FrameMaker software. <framers at lists.frameusers.com>
Subject: Re: [Framers] Auto-assign color to change bars

I must not have been clear.

I know you can reset the color using Change Bar Properties. The annoyance is you can only do it on a file-by-file or a book-by-book basis.

I don't want to have to go into Change Bar Properties to do this. I want it to be part of the default preferences I can set for FrameMaker, so that when I turn the automatic change bar property on, I don't also have to set the color and position, it is already set the way I want. In other words, I want to be able to go into something like the Preferences screen and say, make my change bars red anytime I have them on.

As I said, kinda petty, but I figure if they can automatically set it to default to Black, there's no reason the default color can't be set to some other color, right?

Oddly, I appear to have given the same response Monique gave back in February to someone in the Adobe Forums who wanted to do something similar.
:D Funny how things come around, innit?

On Fri, Aug 30, 2019 at 10:42 AM Monique Semp <monique.semp at earthlink.net>
wrote:

> Yes, one can change it, in the "Change Bar Properties". I'm betting 
> the "how" differs based on FrameMaker version, so perhaps check out 
> the image results for a google search:
> https://www.google.com/search?q=framemaker+change+bar+color&tbm=isch&s
> ource=hp&sa=X&ved=2ahUKEwiHsJ3Y6arkAhUJF6wKHcjOBdAQ7Al6BAgFECQ
> .
>
> -Monique
>
> On 8/30/19 7:34 AM, Lin Sims wrote:
>
> I find it very irritating that the change bar color defaults to Black, 
> when I want Red. Is there a command I can add to maker.ini or one of 
> the .cfg files that will make it default to red.
>
> Petty, I know, but it scratches at me.
>
>
>
>

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Lin Sims