Hi RJ and hi all Nice to here, that there is now a FrameMaker Evangelist at Adobe and that he is watching this list. Maybe this can help to stop the continuing rumors about FrameMaker being dead.
So, I once more try an old question: --------- Bug in calculation of dashed lines In FrameMaker 5.5.6 and 6.0 on NT and UNIX I encountered a problem with dashed lines. When you draw a polyline with many points on it and use a dashed line style, the line turns into a solid line, if there are many points one near the other which define the polyline. This is because FrameMaker begins a new dash-pattern at every point on the polyline. (You have the same problem with the edges of boxes etc.) I think that this is a bug in the algorithm to draw dashed lines. In PostScript, the dashed lines continue regularly regardless of the number of points on the polyline. The same behavior in Excel, SAS/GRAPH, different graphics packages ... ... . What do you think of this problem? Will there be a fix by Adobe or are there any workarounds? --------- I first posted this question to the list (and to some Adobe addresses) 5 years ago (April 2001) but I still have no solution for the problem and no answer from Adobe. The problem is still there in FrameMaker 7.0 but I did not test it with 7.1 or 7.2. The background is, that I wanted to use the plotting program Grace (see: http://plasma-gate.weizmann.ac.il/Grace/) which can output plots in mif-format. Sometime it would be very nice to be able to use mif to include and edit plots in FrameMaker instead of having to use eps, as I do now. But the described bug makes some of my plots (mostly 'business graphs') unusable, especially when I have to use black and white lineplots. Kind regards, Matthias This message is for information purposes only. It may not be secure or error-free. The Swiss National Bank does not accept legal responsibility for any consequences resulting from e-mail use. _______________________________________________ You are currently subscribed to Framers as [EMAIL PROTECTED] Send list messages to [EMAIL PROTECTED] To unsubscribe send a blank email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] or visit http://lists.frameusers.com/mailman/options/framers/archive%40mail-archive.com Send administrative questions to [EMAIL PROTECTED] Visit http://www.frameusers.com/ for more resources and info.