Missing page numbers while generating PDF from Framemaker book

Error7103 wrote: We have seen a similar problem when the page# was at the right edge of the header or footer frame, and the tab that put it there was too far to the right.

This is an old problem. It comes from setting tab stop positions in paragraph formats with the cursor in the text frame on the TOC reference page. Nothing wrong with this, EXCEPT when the master page text frame has been made narrower than the reference page's text frame. One way to avoid the problem or to fix it, is to set tab stops in a paragraph in the body page text frame, so the width is correct. Another way is to set the tab stops accurately by number, rather than by eye. Visually, the reference page tab stop will look correct, but the generated TOC uses the master page text frame - if it's narrower than the reference frame, this problem occurs.

I seem to remember that this might have been fixed in more recent FM releases, but I think that's a false recovered memory, because this is not a bug, just a discrepancy in measurement. There's no way to expect that the prototype paragraph format on the TOC reference page can know if a tab stop will be out-of-bounds on the generated TOC page.

HTH

Regards,

Peter

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Peter Gold

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In another thread you claim that you are getting a hard error when printing to PDF - is what you get when you save as PDF dropping page numbers as described in this thread?