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Pieter_van_de_Sande
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January 5, 2010
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Generated files and layout

  • January 5, 2010
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After generating automatic documents in Frame9 suchs as TOC, List of Figures and the like I have saved these as templates. Trying to import these formats into newly generated documents will not import the chapter and pagenumbers nor their layout even though these have been included on the reference pages. Adjusting these afterwards often does not affect position, style or layout. More concrete: the numbers in front of the titles are specified yet missing, the page numbers are directly behind the titles instead of at the configured tab stop. Moreover, titles are in Arial, while the pagenums having the same paragraph tag are times new roman. Something I cannot seem to change.  Why does Frame not import the settings from the template or respond to my adjustments after updating. Sometimes it only partly updates.

Any help and ideas are welcome

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    Correct answer Be.eM

    The TOC seems to work but importing the correct formats from the

    TOC into the Index does not do anything for the paragraph tags. Still, I do not understand how it is possible that the marker taken from the text is correct while the page number after the tabstop is not. The paragraph tag is the same, yet the lay out is not? How is it possible that on one line the information is correctly layed out, while the next line of the same paragraph tag and info it is not?


    Pieter van de Sande wrote:

    The TOC seems to work but importing the correct formats from the TOC into the Index does not do anything for the paragraph tags. Still, I do not understand how it is possible that the marker taken from the text is correct while the page number after the tabstop is not. The paragraph tag is the same, yet the lay out is not? How is it possible that on one line the information is correctly layed out, while the next line of the same paragraph tag and info it is not?

    To be true, I don't fully understand the problem here. For TOC and Index entries, you get (and use) different paragraph styles. So what should the import of the TOC styles to the index do? A TOC reads paragraphs using a selected format, an index is created from markers.

    Both TOC and index have their own reference pages, and they (the reference pages) are where formatting happens. A TOC reference page, even if imported to an index, does nothing, it's simply not applied.

    You'll have to check the formatting of the respective entries on the TOC and SIX reference pages. If it's correct there, it will be correct in your document. If not, you'll experience what you experience now: it doesn't work as expected. One thing more you should check is the use of character styles in your headings, which are used in your TOC. Maybe a character style causes the Arial formatting in the TOC.

    Bernd

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    Be.eM
    Be.eM
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    January 5, 2010

    Pieter,

    you will have to re-generate/update those documents after importing formats. Then all the formatting used on the reference page will be applied to the generated entries. Which leads to the conclusion, that you'd better first import the formats, and then generate the documents in future

    Bernd

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    Pieter_van_de_SandeAuthor
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    January 5, 2010

    How can I import the formats when the documents do not exist (before generating them)? After all, they only come into existence after generation. Now, I create the documents using by adding them to the book, then import formats and adjust what's necessary.

    Be.eM
    Be.eM
    Inspiring
    January 5, 2010

    Pieter,

    you can add e.g. a TOC to a book at any moment, even when the chapters don't contain anything but empty pages. Sure, for getting a TOC, you'll have to generate it at first, but it doesn't need to contain anything. Try it this way:

    - Add/generate the required TOC to your book. Don't care about any formatting, save it, close it.

    - Open a fully formatted TOC of any other book, which you want to use as a format template.

    - Save this TOC to the folder of your new book, using "Save as...", and give it exactly the name the TOC of your new book has. The TOC you originally generated will be overwritten by the formatted version, which currently (of course) contains the wrong entries.

    - In the new book, generate/update your TOC. It will appear with the correct content and fully formatted.

    Bernd

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