I posted a few illustrations of unfortunate font choice a while back. Here’s an example of a poor choice of special effect applied to an otherwise perfectly reasonable font. Don’t get carried away with those fun filters, kids! Or just suit yourself. 😉
Because I disable commenting on posts a short while after publication (due to insane quantities of spam), this comment was left by Ryan Bernard on an unrelated post, but it’s potentially useful, so bears getting a post of its own:
I read you posts about tables going blank in FrameMaker. The solutions you presented did not work for me. What worked was to use File > Save As PDF and when you get the PDF properties dialog, turn off “Tagged PDFs” settings. I believe this is the little mischief maker we have all been looking for… It worked for me in multiple instances, without fiddling with anything else. I believe Tagging is used for disability presentation or whatever it’s called. Some applications/clients may require that, but most don’t in my experience.
Other possible solutions to this problem are described in these posts:
This user manual came with some hardware Dave bought a few years ago.
A slim 20 page volume, It included 3 erratum slips and an extra chapter as inserts — 5 pages in total. All, I suspect, carefully added at the correct locations in the original manual by hand.
This excerpt from the manual that came with our fridge freezer is a great example of why you should never click Accept All on documentation reviews. (See the last line.)
Here’s a trick that comes in useful if, say, you have a blank Word doc you want to populate quickly to check out formatting and layout. A simple command will dump a block of sample text into your Word doc. You just type it in to the main document and press Return, no opening special dialogs or VB windows or anything.
