Re: Dash It All! -- Lines in FM

[Keith Hood <klhra -at- yahoo -dot- com>]

Assuming 7.1 isn't too different from 7.0:  Look in
the references pages (View > Reference Pages) and the
paragraph styles. The lines may be put in the document
by a style that specifies a paragraph to be led or
followed by a rule or shape that is set on the
reference pages.

--- "Pinkham, Jim" <Jim -dot- Pinkham -at- voith -dot- com> wrote:

>  
> I'm running FM 7.1 and futzing helplessly with some
> rectangles that have
> dashed lines that I wish to convert to solid lines.
> I know there are
> workarounds, such as redrawing the rectangles from
> scratch, but I also
> want to know how dashed lines get applied, how to
> restore solid ones,
> and WHY attempts to change the setting are proving
> futile. I suspect
> it's something simple having to do with my
> combination of settings, but
> the results feel very random.
> 
> For example, when I select the rectangle, set fill
> to none, line width
> to 0.2, I get a solid red line. When I change the
> color to black, it
> becomes dashed again. When I set the pen to solid,
> the lines look solid
> in FM, but print as dashed in the PDF. 
> 
> When I set the pen to none, I see all my dashed
> lines in FM, but no
> amount of tinkering appears able to make them solid
> again. When I choose
> solid on the Set Dashed Line Pattern button on the
> graphics toolbar, the
> rectangle remains dashed. Same thing when I choose
> the Make Line Solid
> button at the top of my screen (the one with the
> checkmark on top of the
> solid line).
> 
> Closing FM and reopening doesn't seem to resolve
> either.
> 
> Any help on what to do would be appreciated.
> 
> Thanks,
> Jim
>
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