I’m posting this here as well as emailing Max direct because I know he’s a busy man and thought it might be useful to other ‘novices’ like myself.
I was having problems with pound signs and degree symbols changing to question marks after applying Max’s action. Solution: Edit the html output (when finished) in a text editor and change the question marks to entities using a chart like this one http://www.evolt.org/article/A_Simple_Character_Entity_Chart/17/21234/
I tried using the ‘source code snooper’ action to edit the html within FW but this didn’t appear to have worked when uploaded - I don’t know if Max’s action overrides this.
The colours of links changes when the action is applied. I’m guessing this is something to do with styles and the fact that I don’t have them set up correctly, but I don’t know how to fix this yet - any suggestions?
There is a problem with the way that Freeway generates external files
through the Actions API, and the net result is that unless your page
is set to one particular output character encoding, then you will have
any “high bit” character (anything above 127 on the ASCII code table)
appear as either the missing glyph character or some random character
you didn’t anticipate. I suspect that’s what’s going on here in 1.
In 2, are you using different link styles on the inserted element than
the rest of the page? Are you defining those styles in the inserted
element or on the main page into which the inserted element is
“injected”? If the styles aren’t in the parent page, then they don’t
exist, because the inserted part comes without the HEAD element, so
those styles would be missing. You can try switching on External
Stylesheets in the Output tab of the File / Document Setup dialog, and
see if that changes anything, but I believe that link styles are set
in the page HEAD regardless of this setting.
Walter
On May 21, 2010, at 7:28 AM, neil.west1 wrote:
I’m posting this here as well as emailing Max direct because I know
he’s a busy man and thought it might be useful to other ‘novices’
like myself.
I was having problems with pound signs and degree symbols
changing to question marks after applying Max’s action. Solution:
Edit the html output (when finished) in a text editor and change the
question marks to entities using a chart like this one http://www.evolt.org/article/A_Simple_Character_Entity_Chart/17/21234/
I tried using the ‘source code snooper’ action to edit the html
within FW but this didn’t appear to have worked when uploaded - I
don’t know if Max’s action overrides this.
The colours of links changes when the action is applied. I’m
guessing this is something to do with styles and the fact that I
don’t have them set up correctly, but I don’t know how to fix this
yet - any suggestions?