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December 21, 2011
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I conditionalized my graphics in FM to not display before linking; still have space where graphic wa

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Using FM10/RH9/Windows XP

I conditionalized all of my graphics in Framemaker to not display before I linked the book file to RH.  On the Conversion Settings dialog box in the FrameMaker Settings list box, I selected Other Settings and then selected the Apply FrameMaker Conditional Text Build Expression so that the anchored frame would not display as an empty line in RH.  But the space is there. This used to work fine.

In FM, all images are wrapped in a fig tag. Everything looks great in FM, great in RH, not so great in FlashHelp.

Thanks for the help.

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    Jeff_Coatsworth
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    Jeff_CoatsworthCommunity Expert
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    December 21, 2011

    Do you have multiple conditions applied to the content in FM? There have been some reports of linked FM books not handling this.

    If not, do you have the Show/Hide settings in FM set to not display the text markers on the conditionalize content?

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    cvgsAuthor
    Inspiring
    December 21, 2011

    We are using conditional text to put a BETA watermark in the left margin of the doc. No other conditions than that.

    I actually used FrameSLT to write a script to conditionalize the graphics. This is the expression I used:

    self::Fig[image]

    By text markers, do you mean the Show Condition Indicators on the Show/Hide Conditional Text dialog box?

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    cvgsAuthor
    Inspiring
    December 21, 2011

    In that case, the issue is probably in the particular FM pages that are misbehaving.

    Ah lists - there's a whole whack of posts about that issue. See the FM Integration forum, the TCS team blog, Matt Sullivan's blog, and Peter Grainge's website - it usually comes down to CSS tweaks. I bring all mine in as plain text - they're a bit messed up in their indentation, but I can live with it for now.


    I’m a veteran of the lists wars, but it seems with every release we make some kind of formatting change in FM and I forget that ramifications that it has on RH.

    Sigh.

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