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Re: graphic help

Hi, Gil:

You may find it useful in FM to create a separate FM storage file where you keep some anchored frame types to use as standards. For example you can have left, centered, right aligned, and cropped and uncropped, short and wide, tall and narrow, etc. Because some anchored frames are used with specific paragraph types, such as side-heading, run-in, etc., you can set each stored anchored frame in the most commonly used paragraphs. Whenever you need a particular frame and paragraph model, just copy to the clipboard from the storage file and paste into text in the working file, then select the frame and import the graphic.

Regarding changing graphic sizes in FM, it's really better to do the sizing in the application that created the graphic, or at least in a graphics application. If you standardize on graphic sizes, you'll always import at 100%. If you'll be creating WebWorks projects, you'll really need to have the graphics sized before importing into FM, or they'll revert to their original size when converted by WWP.

For highly-repetitive FM action sequences, FrameScript, and AutoText are useful utilities, depending on what you need to automate. For batch processing of graphics to a common size and other common actions, consider Photoshop, Paint Shop Pro, or other dedicated graphic tools.

If you haven't tried a Google search for framemaker graphic, batch processing graphics, and similar terms, take a look at the results you get. You'll see some links to these specific topics, and also to other FM information resources.

Two main reasons that FM and other robust tools are used for documentation is so that teams of authors can collaborate on files and other content, and for preparing documents for further processing, to help systems, PDF, etc.

HTH

Peter Gold
KnowHow ProServices

On Feb 7, 2005, at 1:19 PM, Gil Yaker wrote:

I'm new to this list, and I've only been using Frame for a little less than
6 months, but I've been a tech writer for about 10 years and never was at a
company that required a tool as robust as frame for delivering content. On
some discussion groups it seems that for writers, Framemaker is like this
beast of an application that eats people... I don't know about that. But I
do have a question:

Actually, let me get specific. Our document uses side headings. If you put
the cursor in the text column and import a large graphic that's wider than
the text column, I think Frame creates a graphic frame that's cropped to the
size of the text column. So then I have to change the graphic frame to
uncropped and size the graphic appropriately.

Short of asking is there an easier way to do this since I have ~50 full page
diagrams to import into my document, my question is more of 'what don't I
understand about how frame handles graphics, and what's the right way to
complete what I'm trying to do?' 


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