Landscape view in topic editor?

[Phlawm53]

Flare 7, Windows 7 64-bit.

Short Form: When editing a topic that's printed in Landscape mode, is it possible to also edit the topic in Landscape mode?

I've successfully created a Landscape page layout, in the project's TOC specified it as a topic's print output format: When gen'ed as a PDF target it comes out just fine. I've also specified it as the Target's Master Page Layout so even PDF previews are correctly oriented.

So far, so good.

But when editing the topic, I can't figure out how to view the pages in Landscape mode. So my horizontal positioning runs off the right side of the page border. I can live with this, but wonder if it's possible to tell the Topic Editor to display a Landscape topic correctly during editing.

Any ideas?

Cheers, thanks, & have a SUPER weekend,
Riley
SFO

[lacastle]

Do you have the layout and medium in the topic set to Print? Then you can select "fit width" at the bottom of the topic (by the font scaling section).

[Phlawm53]

Laura:

Thanks. I have now tried that and it didn't work.

Evidently the topic editor doesn't know that I'm working on a Landscape page layout even though previews and targets come out correctly. IF I right-click on the page, then select Edit Page Layout Document, Flare displays a Portrait EDIT replace master page with with page layout (RMGLandScapeSS.flpgl). It seems like I'm failing to completely inform Flare about the Master Page used for this topic, even though the topic is correctly oriented and formatted in a PDF preview or Target. (Lately this formerly very successful user of Flare has had a bunch of odd little difficulties, such as this one…)

Cheers & thanks 'gain,
Riley
SFO

[lacastle]

It seems like I'm failing to completely inform Flare about the Master Page used for this topic...

You mentioned Master Page, but it should really be PageLayout for PDF output. Was that a misspeak?

I currently have a landscape 8.5x14 pagelayout applied to some topics (via the TOC properties) in my project. when i have the "online" layout selected at the top of my topic, it looks like a regular web formatting. when i select "print" and change the medium to "print" (i have 2 print style mediums - one for pdf and one for word), the pagelayout is visible in my editor and it looks more like Word's Print Layout view. And this is all before i open a preview or generate an output.

IF I right-click on the page, then select Edit Page Layout Document, Flare displays a Portrait master page.

where are you right-clicking? in the topic or in the page layout editor? and again, you shouldn't have a master page for this.

Is the correct page layout applied to your topic via the TOC properties?

[Phlawm53]

Laura:

I'm working with Page Layouts as in "LandScapeSS.flpgl". In fact, in Content Explorer, I have no Master Page files. (I went back and added an EDIT to my original mis-stated post.)

Okay, so in Topic Editor If one right-clicks outside the text flow, a shortcut menu includes the choice Edit Page Layout Document. If I select that, Flare displays a Portrait FLPGL (Page Layout) file.

This despite the fact that in both the TOC and the PDF Target for this document, I have specified the Landscape page layout. And as I said, that is resulting in a Landscape oriented PDF preview / target.

But I'm evidently missing something because the Topic Editor refuses to display the topic in Landscape mode…

Cheers and thanks 'gain,
Riley
SFO

[TechnicalDisaster]

Is your project imported from FrameMaker? If so, your imported TOC items are linked to bookmarks within your topics, instead of the html file. When this happens, Flare cannot apply a landscape page to the xml editor but will generate a landscape page in your output.

Right click on your TOC item and choose Properties.
On the General tab, review your Link. If the link contains topicname.html#5432fsfs it is linked to bookmark. Remove the # and everything after. The topic should appear landscape after that.

[Phlawm53]

"TD":

Thanks. Actually no, the project was created from scratch.

I think I may understand some part of the problem. That is, that in an existing Flare from-scratch (as in nothing imported) project, I created a second TOC and target. The objective is to create a stand-alone Landscape variant of a chapter that exists as part of that the larger project.

My point being that having configured both the TOC and Target for the stand-alone Landscape document so that the PDF output is oriented and presented properly, the topic editor appears to be receiving "higher level" instructions from somewhere in the "parent" project. So the Landscape output works properly, but the topic is "ugly" when edited.

So unless lightning strikes, I'm just going to move on. (It's funny in a way but after about one year of having NO problems of consequence using Flare, I seem to lately be encountering a bunch of little "gotcha" issues such as this one…)

Cheers & thanks 'gain,
Riley
SFO