I’m new to Freeway pro and have a question about page length. I created several master pages to accommodate pages of different heights. Now I have to change the drop down menu on all the masters if I change the menu. Is there a better approach? Is it possible to make a single master page that accommodates different heights or is it possible to make a single drop down menu for several master pages?
Unless you’re worried about sticking a footer to the bottom of your page, the height of the master has little or no bearing on the pages derived from it. There are two reasons:
One, Freeway won’t publish a page with too much height. It always trims the output dimensions (not literally – but this is an implementation detail) to match the height of the lowest positioned element on the actual page. This means that you could set up your master page to a ridiculous height (to match the largest amount of content you can imagine) without any consequence.
Two, HTML pages don’t have any limits on height – they’re not made of paper, only code, and can stretch.
Oh, and there’s a third thing to think about: if you change the height of one of the child pages, the only thing that will be “detached” from the master are the page dimensions (and maybe some associated settings, like alignment). The master content will remain in place and editable on your master page for all child pages of that master.
Thanks for the reply Walter, I would like to have stat counter at the bottom of the pages, but if that isn’t possible to do with a single master page, I can position it manually on each page.
Let me know if there is a way to put a footer at the bottom of a master that will stick to the bottom of the page as other content expands the page.
The position of the stat counter (from the master page) is entirely independent of its content (also from the master page). So you could move the stat counter to be the lowest thing on each page as you adjust the content of each page, and nothing would be broken by this. If you were to alter the code of that stat counter somewhat, you might find that the update (done on the master) didn’t take on the children, but I would actually be surprised if that was always the case. Each element from the master page has two checkboxes in its Inspector: User Master Content and Use Master Settings.
As far as making a master page that contains an inline layout (which is what you would need to have in order to create a truly automatic footer) that’s strictly not possible, because all inline elements are no longer considered separate elements – they become content from a Master Page perspective, like the letter A or something. Thus unless you had a separate master page for each child page (which is entirely silly) you could not control the anything besides the position and size of the outermost box of an inline layout from the master page, because the moment you added any unique content at all to a child page, the content connection to the master would be broken.
Walter
On Oct 14, 2012, at 1:42 PM, David Phelps wrote:
Thanks for the reply Walter, I would like to have stat counter at the bottom of the pages, but if that isn’t possible to do with a single master page, I can position it manually on each page.
Let me know if there is a way to put a footer at the bottom of a master that will stick to the bottom of the page as other content expands the page.
Thanks once more Walter, I’m playing around with it now, and will either
move it on each page as you described, or change the stat counter code to
be less obtrusive and put it beside my drop down menu. That might be
easier, I don’t really need it at the bottom of the page, or for that
matter, I don’t need to see it at all.
I appreciate the help,
David
On Sun, Oct 14, 2012 at 12:55 PM, Walter Lee Davis email@hiddenwrote:
The position of the stat counter (from the master page) is entirely
independent of its content (also from the master page). So you could move
the stat counter to be the lowest thing on each page as you adjust the
content of each page, and nothing would be broken by this. If you were to
alter the code of that stat counter somewhat, you might find that the
update (done on the master) didn’t take on the children, but I would
actually be surprised if that was always the case. Each element from the
master page has two checkboxes in its Inspector: User Master Content and
Use Master Settings.
As far as making a master page that contains an inline layout (which is
what you would need to have in order to create a truly automatic footer)
that’s strictly not possible, because all inline elements are no longer
considered separate elements – they become content from a Master Page
perspective, like the letter A or something. Thus unless you had a separate
master page for each child page (which is entirely silly) you could not
control the anything besides the position and size of the outermost box of
an inline layout from the master page, because the moment you added any
unique content at all to a child page, the content connection to the master
would be broken.
Walter
On Oct 14, 2012, at 1:42 PM, David Phelps wrote:
Thanks for the reply Walter, I would like to have stat counter at the
bottom of the pages, but if that isn’t possible to do with a single master
page, I can position it manually on each page.
Let me know if there is a way to put a footer at the bottom of a master
that will stick to the bottom of the page as other content expands the page.