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Hi, all. In my 15 or so years of using FrameMaker, I've never had to work with pages in landscape orientation, so I'm struggling with the following problem.

My client has hired me to fix two FrameMaker books. The contractor who originally set up the files didn't know what she was doing in terms of Frame functionality (grrrrrr), and the client's staff have had a great deal of trouble generating TOCs, cross-references, and so on. I've been hired to clean up the mess, so to speak. But the client likes the look of the final pdfs, and wants to keep the appearance the same.

One book has literally hundreds of tables containing very technical content. Some tables (all in one chapter) are so wide that the page needs to be in landscape orientation.

This particular chapter contains close to 200 pages of tables, one per page, all landscape. Only the first two pages, which contain introductory info, are in portrait orientation.

Is there some way to combine everything in one chapter file? I've created master pages for Left Landscape and Right Landscape, and new paragraph tags for HeaderLandscape and FooterLandscape. But when I try to put everything in the same file, the portrait pages don't work, even though they have the correct master page.

Am I doing something wrong? Should I just keep the files separate? (If I do, I have to make sure the same chapter number appears in both - no problem.)

Also, what happens when I generate a pdf? Do I need to set up the landscape master pages in a certain way to get the landscape pages to appear and print correctly in a pdf?

Any tricks or tips would be greatly appreciated! Thanks in advance.

Gilda Spitz