mike scott [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] sez: > On 14 Aug 2008 at 14:02, McLauchlan, Kevin wrote: > ... > > That wasn't the part of the task that I was worried about. I was trying > > to figure out how to implement the automated (or even semi-automated) > > positioning and numbering of the bleed-blocks. > > I don't even remember how it was accomplished in FM - but it did depend > > on a craftily constructed model provided by a FrameMaker guru. I have > > long-since lost the templates-and-stuff, as well as the name of the > > guy... not that it matters because I'm not using FM these days. > > OK. I'm not sure this hasn't already been suggested. But how about a > page style for each block? This would specify a header (or footer), > and in the header put a frame with the correct number for each block, > and set the border/background as required. The frame position can be > where you want.
Yeah, that's pretty much the brute-force solution. My only problem with that solution is that I tend to use it for too many other things, which results in a horrible proliferation of styles. Let's say that I have three other things that I want to implement on-or-off for any given page (we'll ignore, for the moment, the situation where any styles are mutually exclusive) so to implement each of page-features A, B, C, I need to have page-styles: A-only B-only C-only A-and-B A-and-C B-and-C So far so good? Now let's assume that I might have 12 chapters in a book, each of which would need its own page style to implement the edge-bleed-thumb-tab thing that we've been discussing... Do I need mirrored page styles for odd and even pages, or do I wait until printing to have that done? Anyway... By my reckoning I would need the following page-styles: A-only-CH1 B-only-CH1 C-only-CH1 A-and-B-CH1 A-and-C-CH1 B-and-C-CH1 A-only-CH2 B-only-CH2 C-only-CH2 A-and-B-CH2 A-and-C-CH2 B-and-C-CH2 etc. ... all the way to... ...B-and-C-CH12 ...and, we're up to 72 page styles... so far. Double that if I need to mirror the facing pages explicitly, like this: ____________________________________ | |----| | | Ch | | | 1 | | |----| | | | Text text text text text | | text text text text text | | and more text and more | | text and more text and | | so on and so on and so on | | and so forth and yet more | | text on page 1 | | | | 1 | ____________________________________ ____________________________________ ____________________________________ |----| | | |----| | Ch | | | | Ch | | 1 | | | | 1 | |----| | | |----| | | | | | Text text text text text | | | | text text text text text | | (more fake text I'm just | | and more text and more | | too lazy to type) | | text and more text and | | | | so on and so on and so on | | | | and so forth and yet more | | | | text on page 2 | | | | | | | | 2 | | 3 | ____________________________________ ____________________________________ Try navigating that style list. Is it time for a bigger screen? Likely I'm overlooking something. :-) - Kevin The information contained in this electronic mail transmission may be privileged and confidential, and therefore, protected from disclosure. If you have received this communication in error, please notify us immediately by replying to this message and deleting it from your computer without copying or disclosing it. --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
