Re: Frame Truncation Bug Workaround

[Allen Schaaf <soundbyte@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Walter,

I to used to have this problem, but once I figured out the EPS method I 
haven't had a problem. The only problems are you can only import EPS a page 
at a time and the rendering time (I work off of a network drive) each time 
you cruise by the page.

What I have started doing is creating two files with the same name except 
the file extention.  I use the .tif until I'm ready to do the final and 
then I replace them with the EPS.


Allen Schaaf
Sr. Tech Writer
Fourelle Systems, Inc.

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At 03:14 PM 4/3/02, walter.crockett@ascentialsoftware.com wrote:

>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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