Reference pages and masterpages!

So I figured out how to add a left master page, yet when it appears, I do not see that it is offset from the right master page. How do you make them offset. Also, I am adding the same heading at the top of the page (landscape page) and I need to apply both left and right master pages to the body pages. I have tried doing this, but it never appears. If someone knows what I am doing wrong please let me know. I have heard about the mapping feature in the reference page, but I am not that knowledgable of FM to understand what type in there.
kt

> I need it to be shifted to the left and the right shift to the right,
> so they are like building blocks (only way I can describe it).
You lost me with building blocks. Are you sure it's not just a matter of
viewing facing pages? If you've set up double-sided pages, you can view
them as facing pages or vertically (or horizontally), but they're still
double-sided regardless of the way you view them. If you want uneven
mirrored margins (like a bigger margin inside than outside), you just
need to position the frames on the master page where you want them. Best
to CTRL-click the frame on the master page and go to Graphics > Object
Properties and move/resize the frame by setting the numbers exactly.
> Is there a way to push a table downward
> on the page.
The text (including tables) is in a frame that comes from the master
page. Just put the frame where you want it. If you want to move the
table *inside* the frame, you can adjust the Space Above the table in
Table Designer, but Space Above only affects the space above the
beginning of the table (not space around the table on subsequent pages).
> the
> header is apart of the table,
A table header row is different from a page header. Previously, I
explained how to put a page header frame on your master page. If you
want a table header, Table > Add Rows or Columns > Add 1 Row To Heading.
Whatever you put in a header or footer row repeats on every page.
Kenneth Benson
Pegasus Type, Inc.
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can somebody help please? I have two documents that have same master pages. when i copy (drag and drop) two pages from one file into the other i get a master page copy over the page that i have copied. what is going on???
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A lot depends on the type of project. In ID my rule of thumb is if I need to modify an master page object in order to use it, it probably should not be on the master page. Remember, you don't need a pre-existing frame to place text or images in ID the way you do in Quark. Just use File > Place..., choose the content you want to place, and click, or click and drag, the loaded cursor where you want it. Click and drag will draw a frame to that shape. In the case of an image, since CS3 the frame will be proportional to the image and the image will be scaled to fit.
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If you have more text to place than will fit into the first frame, holding Shift when you click will add frames and pages as required to place the entire story, and any added frames will fill columns from top to bottom. What this means is that if you set your margins and column guides the size you ant your text blocks, you don't need master text frames at all except for text that won't get edited, like header and footer, or for special cases like two-language documents where you want parallel text flows side by side, or magazine-type layouts that use stock layouts with pre-positioned graphic frames and text that doesn't fill columns (but maybe not even then since text wrap can be used to control how the text flows around the graphics, though you might want to include frames for captions).
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My master pages have disappeared from the View menu in Frame Maker and I can't get to them. View does show body pages and reference pages.

Master pages went missing from my FrameMaker 12 setup about 4 days ago. I can see body and references pages. I have tried reinstalling. The master pages are missing from all of my FrameMaker documents, absolutely all of them. I have done two new installations of FM 12, no fix.

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I'm using Technical Communication Suite 3 (FrameMaker 10 and RoboHelp 9) and I can't figure out how to take "standard" caution/warning symbols (that currently appear in graphic frames on a FM reference page) and put them in anchored frames so that they will automatically appear when I link a FM book to RH.
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Hi,
I have started at a new job and have been experiencing issues with my index template here. After looking at all the template chapter files I noticed that any references to Table of Contents specifications, Index specifications and the HTML mapping table do not exist.
I did a test and put my index specs back onto the Chapter reference page and rebuilt my book and now the index works correctly.
Why would anyone delete this stuff off of the reference pages for the Chapter? I have never worked with any templates that has this information removed, including the ones that come with FrameMaker.
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I don't know how or who created the templates, there is no backup information for them. But by putting my index specs (as shown here) back on the reference page for the Chapter allows all of my index markers to appear. If I don't do this, I get some index hits with just a page number. I removed the old index, removed all the old markers and started fresh, and the problem still appeared, until I did this.
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Level3IX
Level2IX
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Is there a way to force FM to use a document's modified TOC reference page instead of it generating a second one when creating a separate TOC file?

Wes Edmonds wrote:
I modified the TOC reference page of the document I completed as follows:
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Is there any way to link page number with the reference page number within text in InDesign CC and CS6?

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How to read the information in the reference page

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openObjectId <$relfilename>:<$ObjectType> <$ObjectId>
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<$paratext>.....................Front
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The above is the information in the "TOC" reference page.
I don't understand the "Front" part. The paragraph tag of this part is H1_FrontCoverTOC. There is one chapter named Front Cover in my book file, but there is no paragraph tag named H1_FrontCoverTOC in any of the files in the book.

Except for the openObjectId line, all entries correspond to
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"ChapterTOC" describes how to format the TOC for the
paragraph tag "Chapter". That is, FM adds "TOC" at the end
of the tagname in the TOC to separate it from the tagname
used in the chapter files.
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ones. So, my guess is that some of your files at some time
has contained tags named "H1_FrontCover" (without "TOC").
If they don't any longer, and "H1_FrontCover" is not
included in the list of tags to generate the TOC for, you
can safely delete that entry.
Regarding "Front", that seems to be a manually added text
that will not serve any purpose. Is it normal text?
Only "building blocks" named "<$something>" will be
interpreted by FM and replaced by whatever the "something"
code stands for (see the manual).
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