Anchored Frame and Graphic Size

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4 total messages Started by macweaz Thu, 05 Mar 2009 10:12

#92

Author: macweaz
Date: Thu, 05 Mar 2009 10:12

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Hi!
Today I have some 'how to' questions about anchored frames and graphics:
1) Can I insert a specific image in a EDD to recall every time I need in my documents? I would like to put an image in an element and then insert the same element every time I want.
2) Can I set the size of an image or of an anchored frame (in one of my elements) in the edd or in the r/w rules?
These questions because I have to do somenthing like this:
<warning>
  <framesymbol>
     <imagesymbol>
     </imagesymbol>
  </framesymbol>
     <textwarning>
     </textwarning>
<warning>
where the size of the framesymbol and of the imagesymbol remain the same in every instance.
thank you.

Re: Anchored Frame and Graphic Size

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Author: Russ Ward
Date: Thu, 05 Mar 2009 13:19

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macweaz,

The answer to #1 is maybe. The EDD can't call a graphic directly, I don't believe; however, it could assign a paragraph format that calls a graphic from the reference pages. Look up "frame above" / "frame below" in the paragraph format areas of the user guide/help.

For #2, I think you could assign some defaults for size-related attributes in your r/w rules. I don't know how reliable that is, though, perhaps someone could comment. What you could do, though, is use a short XSLT stylesheet upon XML import to write explicit values for these attributes. Of course, this will not be applicable to authoring within FrameMaker, only importing XML.

A third-party tool you might find useful is Structure Snippets from Leximation:

 <http://www.leximation.com/tools/info/structuresnippets.php>

It allows you to store snippets of a structure tree later (such as an anchored frame element setup), much like a deluxe clipboard for structured content. It's a simple concept but I find it very useful for things like you've been talking about here. I'd recommend it highly for any structured FM author.

Russ

Re: Anchored Frame and Graphic Size

Author: macweaz
Date: Fri, 06 Mar 2009 10:53

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Can I have a nested Anchored Frame?

Re: Anchored Frame and Graphic Size

Author: Russ Ward
Date: Fri, 06 Mar 2009 12:47

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You can nest a text frame in an anchored frame, then another anchored frame in the text frame. There is no good way to represent this in XML, though.

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