Frame Truncation Bug Workaround

[walter.crockett@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx]

Bill Swallow and Terry Smith recently helped me solve a problem that has
driven me nuts for more than a year: When you import a large horizontal
graphic into FrameMaker and then rotate it so that it fills the full page
vertically, Frame clips off the top and bottom ends of the graphic. This is
a known, but obscure, bug of longstanding.

To work around it, you can reduce the size to about 90 percent, but doing
this makes the detailed data model diagrams I work with very difficult to
read. You can also rotate the graphic in advance in Paint Shop Pro, but
because these are vector images that I need to import from Word, turning
them into GIFs and TIFFs makes them less legible.

Bill and Terry came up with two workarounds.

Bill's: Rotate the master page in Frame (Format > Customize Layout > Rotate
Page Clockwise), and then rotate the text box on the master page in the
opposite direction (otherwise the picture will still come in sideways). When
you create a PDF, or print the document, the page is not rotated. I use a
hypertext marker (alert [ {ThisPage} << /Rotate 90 >> /PUT) on the body page
to rotate it in the PDF view so people can read the diagram without
contorting themselves. This all works like a charm.

Terry's: Create an EPS file and import the EPS into Frame. To do this I had
to print the Word document to a .prn file, distill it, save the PDF as EPS
(making sure to click Settings and select Include Preview so that it would
be visible in Frame), create an anchored frame, and import the EPS image
into FrameMaker. This works fine too, and when you rotate the EPS Frame does
not truncate it. 

I tend to use Bill's solution 90 percent of the time because it is less
complicated once your master pages are set. However, copying these bizarre
Word picture objects can sometimes do weird things to them, like replacing
dotted lines with solid lines. In that case, I use Terry's EPS solution.

Walter Crockett  

  

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