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Text skipping from right to left column

Forum|Forum|12 years ago
September 30, 2013
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I have a problem where sometimes if I'm working on a document with two columns on the same page, if the left column is not filled to the bottom, text from the bottom of the right column skips to the left. Has anyone else had this problem?

The page may look correct in Framemaker, but on export to Postscript, it happens, and sometimes it can be incredibly hard to notice before sending the file to the client.

Hope someone can shed some light on this

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Bob_Niland

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> The page may look correct in Framemaker, but on export to Postscript, ...

What platform & FM version?

I'm going to guess Windows.

What printer driver is configured during edit?

What printer driver is configured at Print-to-Ps?

If the "printer" changse, text flow layout can easily change.

Also if font download options change, my guess is there's some risk of flow layout changing.

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Winfried Reng

Community Expert

I do not know about Carstens' setup. I have Windowns 7, 32 bit, FrameMaker 11.0.2.384 (although I experienced this also with FrameMaker 10).

I have Sundorne's SetPrint utility installed to set the Adobe PDF printer as the default printer.

The problem might not be explained clearly. However, as I noticed it as well, I know what happens.

Main text frame with two-column-layout. Balance Columns is activated.

Then it happens again and again that some lines from the end of the second column are moved to the end of the first column. This is clearly a bug. There aren't any font or printer changes involved.

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FieryPantone

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I'll heroically reveal a mistake I made that's in this area … I was moving a document from a one-column + sidehead layout to a two-column, and couldn't work out why the body text was neatly spread between both columns instead of flowing to fill first the left and then the right. I tracked down "Balance columns" and turned it off without achieving anything: then noticed I had some headings (defined for the original layout) set to "across all columns and sideheads". D'oh!

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Winfried Reng

Community Expert

Hi Carstens,

Yes. I also have this problem from time to time.

I noticed this with FrameMaker 10 and now also with FrameMaker 11. Extremely annoying.

How can you rely on that the text is where it is supposed to be with such a bug.

MIF washing fixes this issue. However, not for long ...

Or deactivate the setting „Balance Columns“ in your main text frame.

Best regards

Winfried

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fashionable_Eclipse1587Author

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Thank you!

What do you do in MIF to prevent it from happening? Does it come back if you do changes in FrameMaker?

Deactivating Balance Columns, does that fix the problem permanently? I think that's what we need to do then

Thank you!

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Winfried Reng

Community Expert

MIF washing just moves the text back into the second column. This is not a permanent fix.

I do not know when the text from the end of the second column jumps to the end of the first column again (updating the book, editing the file ...).

As far as I remember deactivating Balance Columns fixes this issue permanently.

Please test it and report here, whether that helped.

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