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JuanSouza
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September 20, 2021
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Frame anchoring position and alignment modified during Book update procedure

  • September 20, 2021
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In FrameMaker 2020, including revision 3, when a book is updated (to generate the ToC and Indexes), the position of anchored frames gets modified. The most annoying case is when the anchoring position is changed from "Run into Paragraph" to "Below Current Line". This has an important impact on the text flow; i.e. this can push titles and markers to the next page, making the ToC and/or indexes show incorrect page references. This bug does not exist in FrameMaker 2019.

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    Winfried RengCommunity Expert
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    September 20, 2021

    Hi,

     

    FrameMaker does not generally change any anchoring positions. I use FM 2020 since it was released, and I did not notice such an issue. And I did not hear this from others.

    Could it be that you use object styles, and your applied object style changes the anchoring position of your anchored frames?

    Although the Update command should not apply object styles.

    Or did you import accidentally import object styles with Import Formats?

    Do you notice your issue with all your books?

    Do you have the latest FrameMaker update? The current version is 16.0.3.979. (You find this in Help | About.)

     

    Best regards

     

    Winfried

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    frameexpertCommunity Expert
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    September 21, 2021

    I have encountered the same bug with 2020 16.0.3.979. Has anyone reported this as a bug?

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    JuanSouzaAuthor
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    September 22, 2021

    I created a new unstructured book with a file with an anchored frame with anchoring position Run into Paragraph. (I used just the FrameMaker default templates.)

    Additionally TOC and index.

    When I update the book, the anchoring position is not changed.

    At least this is not sufficient to get your issue.


    Hi Winfried,

     

    I have placed a small book and a structured FM file (DITA-based) in the following link, so you can see the bug doing its thing when you update the book:

     

    https://drive.google.com/file/d/1TpV3UgV9sClKHmF9yZiLT--NJ6krQ1Yn/view?usp=sharing

     

    Just make sure to see the content of the FM file before you run the book update procedure.

     

    Regards,

    Juan

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