Re: Framemaker question

["Brierley, Sean" <Brierley -at- QUODATA -dot- COM>]

Hallo:

>>>-----Original Message-----
>>>From: Kim Estes [mailto:estesk -at- NATIONWIDE -dot- COM]

>>> I am working on a developer's reference manual and I have
>>>no idea how to use
>>>portrait and landscape pages for one of my chapters.
>>>Essentially one chapter
>>>within my manual will describe several process flow diagrams
>>>and our customer
>>>wants the diagrams placed right before the actual text. This
>>>poses a problem
>>>because our Framemaker lead says we have to create an entire
>>>chapter using
>>>either portrait or landscape pages--- not both. I find this
>>>hard to believe
>>>especially considering that Word has this functionality.

Ah-hem. FrameMaker and Word work quite differently. Honestly, Word is
slicker in many ways but FrameMaker, IMHO, more capable and *stable* for
long, tech docs. For example, to insert the landscape page in Word, would
you create a section break? Also, I have found, though others disagree, that
Word works best as one document, whereas FrameMaker works best as a bookfile
linking several separate documents.

With this latter thought in mind, I would recommend using an all-landscape
appendix with the process-flow diagrams. You could insert hypertext
cross-references, if needed.

I have not tried inserting landscape pages in a portrait chapter, per se,
but have use the Format|Customize Layout|Rotate Page command. Perhaps,
coupled with a new master page design, which uses a graphics frame and not a
text frame, the  effect could be easily accomplished.

>>>Has
>>>anyone every used
>>>landscape and portrait pages within a single chapter of a
>>>book?  If so, please
>>>let me know what I need to do.
>>>
>>>
>>>Thanks for any help I can get!
>>>Kim Estes

You might try posting to the Adobe FrameMaker user forum at
http://www.adobe.com/supportservice/custsupport/forums.html.

Good luck.

Sean
sean -at- quodata -dot- com

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