Re: Help with FrameMaker

["Tony G. Rocco" <trocco -at- NAVIS -dot- COM>]

The only thing I can tell you, Beth, is that you can color table cells
(Table>Custom Ruling & Shading). So, if you want to put the text in
single-cell tables and color the table cells, you can do that. Otherwise, I
don't think there is a way. You can automate the process if you have a
macro program like QuicKeys.

- tgr

PS: You can try asking Adobe if they know something.

- tgr

 At 2:39 PM -0600 12/15/97, Beth Friedman wrote:


>I've just been tossed in the deep end with FrameMaker 5.5 and
>Illustrator 7.0, and have spent the last couple of days getting up to
>speed on both programs.  FrameMaker is very impressive to me (I'm an
>advanced Word user) because it has a number of features built in that
>I have to do unnatural things to make Word do -- most particularly
>involving sidehead text.
>
>Unfortunately, I've been totally stymied by one thing that I need to
>do in Frame that is trivial in Word, and I can't imagine that it was
>left out -- or was it?
>
>I need to set up a paragraph tag (or style) that has a colored
>background.  At this point I don't care whether the text overprints or
>knocks out the background color, but I want the background color as
>part of the paragraph setup.  Ideally, I'd like a gradated fill for
>the background, but I understand that's asking a lot.  But there
>doesn't seem to be anything anywhere in the Frame documentation
>telling how to set up background color that's associated with text.
>Am I just missing it?  I hope so.
>
>Thanks in advance for any help.
>
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>Beth Friedman                                       bjf -at- wavefront -dot- com
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