At 16:10 +0200 20/6/12, Yves Barbion wrote: >10.0.2.419 is the latest patch, so that's OK. Meanwhile, I have done some >tests with Fm 10 and earlier versions: 9, 8 and 7.2.
Thanks so much for going to all this trouble. >It is a weird problem indeed: I got the same result as your colleague when I >generated a PDF from Fm 10, 9 and 8 but the PDF from FrameMaker 7 was OK. ...as I found here with 7 for Mac... > But there is also something strange going on in the file itself. For example, > when I change the paratag of the WARNING! in the first table to CellBody, I > do see all the text in the PDF (your colleague may test this as well). I > also see all the text in the PDF when I change the paratag of the vanishing > paragraph (from CellBody to CellBody - Bold). So, I have been able to fix > this problem by applying and renaming the CellBody and CellBody - Bold > paratags: > >1. Apply CellBody - Bold to the vanishing paragraph. >2. Rename CellBody - Bold to CellBodyBold. >3. In the vanishing paragraph, change font weight Bold to Regular and Apply to >selection. >4. In the vanishing paragraph, rename CellBodyBold to Cellbody and Apply to >selection. >5. Rename CellBodyBold to CellBody - Bold again and Update All. >6. Put the text cursor in the vanishing paragraph and Update All paragraphs >tagged CellBody. >7. Generate PDF: everything OK. > >Phew, quite an experience to be back in the unstructured Fm world. Well, I can assure you that it's not usually *that* much of an experience! >In DITA, all the author needs to do is insert a <note> element and give it the >right @type attribute (caution, warning, tip etc.). All the rest (icons, >hazard statements, background shading...) is handled automagically by the >transformations and style sheets. As would happen in any well-formed structured application. I've not used DITA yet (currently sourcing a machine that will run FrameMaker 10), but I have written a structured app from the ground up, and yes, when well constructed, they can save you a load of work and enforce consistency. Your help is much appreciated, and will be lso by Claire when I pass this on. -- Steve
