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Making change bars ‘invisible’ in interim PDFs


Another tip on managing change bars efficiently!

If you want to preserve change bars in makeshift/interim PDFs, you can set their color to white in the Change Bar Properties dialog box (Format > Document > Change Bars), so that they are not visible in the PDFs. See this Help topic for more information about this dialog box.

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Later, if required, you can set the change bar color again to a visible color. You may, of course, want to clear the change bars once and for all before you generate the final PDF. See this blog post I did yesterday.

If you choose to make the change bars white, ensure that you don’t have a black background for the page numbers in the header/footer. Otherwise, white change bars will be visible alongside changed page numbers in the PDF.

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This entry was posted on January 7, 2011, 10:23 am and is filed under Best practices, FrameMaker, How to, TCS specific, Tips and tricks, Troubleshooting. You can follow any responses to this entry through RSS 2.0. You can leave a response, or trackback from your own site.

  1. #1 by Arnis Gubins on January 7, 2011 - 4:17 pm

    A more systematic approach would be to use FM’s colour Views capability.

    Create a new colour (or use a predefined one that you aren’t using in your document) and assign it to the change bar. Set this colour to be invisible in one of the six available Views (e.g. View 1) and visible in another (e.g. View 6). Then use the “esc v [view number]” keyboard shortcut to toggle the colour on or off (this is global and can be used on the Book file as well).

    This way the change bar, when it’s set to invisible, never gets sent to the PDF in the first place.

    • #2 by Samartha Vashishtha on January 8, 2011 - 3:17 pm

      Thanks for this useful tip, Arnis.

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