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Automatically sizing images to fit in a page

  • January 11, 2023
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Greeting to the FM community users,

 

Does Framemaker 16 have a feature to automatically resize images on a page to avoid blank spaces?

I am currently working on a FM document that has a large number of images, to be delivered as a PDF.

I would like to use the largest size of images that fit on the default left/right portrait layout page. However, the document also has text and tables, which often creates the blanks spaces as seen in the attached screenshot.

Trying to manually adjust the size of the image is taking a lot of time and slowing down the authoring process. I can already foresee that any additional text or images will need readjustment of image size to fill the white spaces.

Is there a feature that I could use to guide me about automatically fitting the image in the page as per the available white space?

 

Thanks in advance for your help and suggestion,

Regards,

Apurva

 

 

 

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Correct answer FrameMaker-dk

I would suggest using Object Styles. If one is to judge from your screenshot, most of your graphics are probably in the same size - they are just too large. Creating a number of Object Styles in different percentages would help you a lot.

There is also the option to right click and use "Fit to frame proportionally", but that will only work with 1 image in a frame. If you have more than one image, it won't work for you.

.... aaaand now is the time to vote for my humble suggestion here: https://tracker.adobe.com/#/view/FRMAKER-7848 🙂

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January 11, 2023

I would suggest using Object Styles. If one is to judge from your screenshot, most of your graphics are probably in the same size - they are just too large. Creating a number of Object Styles in different percentages would help you a lot.

There is also the option to right click and use "Fit to frame proportionally", but that will only work with 1 image in a frame. If you have more than one image, it won't work for you.

.... aaaand now is the time to vote for my humble suggestion here: https://tracker.adobe.com/#/view/FRMAKER-7848 🙂

Bjørn Smalbro - FrameMaker.dk
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    January 11, 2023

    Hi StudioSm,

     

    Thanks for your suggestion to implement several object styles to fit the images in the available space. Building on your idea, I should put even larger single images on a independent landscape pages. I already have the master pages for left and right landscape pages. Each image contains a lot of technical details that are difficult to view in a small size and my client would be very happy to look at giant images that fit elegantly in the manual without leaving any unused gaps. Yes, upvoted your suggestion in the link.

     

    Regards,

     

    Apurva

     

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      January 11, 2023

      Yes, that sounds about right. I did a job for a customer last year where the user guide also held a large number of complicated electrical diagrams. The user guide was published as pdf and I made a separate chapter in a very large page size for these diagrams. It worked quite well even if the pdf document changed paper size when the user reached the chapter with diagrams. You may eventually benefit from this - free - template pack I have my shop: https://framemaker.dk/en/shop/product/8-azul-all-page-sizes It has a lot of standard documents in different standard page sizes in portrait and landscape.

      Bjørn Smalbro - FrameMaker.dk
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      January 11, 2023

      It can be difficult to come up with an automatic algorithm for doing this. The best approach might be a script with a floating palette that would let you easily decrease the size of the image and frame with the click of a button. I don't have anything like this ready-made, but it may make for a useful script.

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