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- From: fred@mks.com (Fred Kratky)
- Newsgroups: comp.text.frame
- Subject: Re: brochure formatting help
- Keywords: interposition
- Message-ID: <1992Aug21.134002.8173@mks.com>
- Date: 21 Aug 92 13:40:02 GMT
- References: <1992Aug17.160627.6874@crd.ge.com> <1992Aug18.170205.7647@mks.com> <1992Aug19.171548.7665@SSD.intel.com>
- Organization: Mortice Kern Systems Inc., Waterloo, Ontario, CANADA
- Lines: 38
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- In article <1992Aug19.171548.7665@SSD.intel.com> davidl@ssd.intel.com (David Levine) writes:
- >In article <1992Aug18.170205.7647@mks.com> fred@mks.com (Fred Kratky) writes:
- >
- >[Fred Kratky suggests two documents, one 5.5 x 8.5, the other 11 x 8.5,
- >and copying all the elements from each page in the little one to the
- >appropriate place in the big one.]
- >
- >This technique works (I used to use it) but it has a couple of
- >disadvantages. The biggest problem is that when you copy and paste
- >text columns, the pasted text column loses all connection to the
- >others. This can ruin your formatting if you have any paragraphs that
- >begin in one text column and end in another, or if you use any
- >autonumbering that spans text columns.
-
- I have never had a problem with formatting being ruined. I don't know
- about autonumbering, but that makes sense.
-
- >
- >To avoid these problems I modified this technique. Instead of making
- >the big document completely blank and copying the little document's
- >text columns to it, I make the big document with a series of empty text
- >columns connected in the appropriate order. Then I select all the TEXT
-
- I have two problems with this. A lot of the articles I produce run
- slightly over or under a full page so I have lots of little spaces to
- fill an small amounts of text to put somewhere. The result is that all
- pages start with an article and some contain the continuation of an
- article as well. I don't think that I can create a single flow under
- these conditions (or do I not understand flows properly??).
-
- The other is that the size of my publication changes each time. This
- would mean re-arranging the flow each time (or having multiple templates
- I suppose).
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