On 07/04/2011 08:24 AM, Peter Nermander wrote: >> One issue that I repeatedly come across is that of consistent frame size >> and position settings. > > Use guides. And snap the frames to the guides. (I'm not sure how it > works in 1.4, but when I used 1.3.5 you could unfortunately not snap > the starting corner of a frame to the guides. That was a bit > frustrating.) > > There is also the possibility to set the defaults for a text frame in > the document setup. Use a default that makes sense for most of the > frames you create. > > For a while I used two column frames, but I found it easier to instead > used two linked frames side by side. Multi column frames might be > useful when automatic text frames are used. > > > You could also try to put frames in the Scrapbook and pull them into > the document.
There are many ways to achieve some sort of automated/semi-automated frame generation. In addition to these already mentioned: - you could make your own template(s) with some sort of basic layout. - you can import pages and master pages from other documents. You might just use these as a resource for some copy/paste operations elsewhere in your document. For that matter, you can have more than one document open, then switch back and forth, copying/pasting as needed. - you could use a small script which creates a frame with the various parameters as you desire. There may be more, but at any rate, there are quite a few different ways which are clearly better than the manual way you are doing this. Greg
