Limitations of Product Aspect

This section describes known product aspect limitations and workarounds.

 

Changing system settings for colors and fonts for Page Designer

When you change the system settings for colors and fonts, restart the product to have the new settings applied to the Design page of Page Designer and the Palette view.

 

Unexpected string when pasting items on the Source page of Page Designer

Note: When you select Edit > Paste on the Source page of Page Designer, you may get an unexpected string, such as 'None'. To work around this problem, close the Properties view.

 

BiDi issues for WebArt Designer and Animated GIF Designer

Note:

WebArt Designer sometimes fails to create a logo image using a bidirectional language on Windows 2000. If you specify character spacing when you create a logo image of right-to-left characters, the width of the logo is incorrect. You must specify zero as the character spacing to have a correct logo image using bidirectional characters on Windows 2000.

Animated GIF Designer sometimes fails to create an animated banner using a bidirectional language on Windows 2000. If you specify character spacing when you create an animated banner of right-to-left characters, the width of the animated banner is incorrect. You must specify zero as character spacing to have a correct animated banner using bidirectional characters on Windows 2000.

 

Dropdown list on PageDesigner toolbar

Note: Page Designer has a drop-down control on its toolbar, such as a paragraph selection drop-down list. When Page Designer is opened, that drop-down list sometimes does not appear by default. To work around this problem, click other views, such as the Palette view.

 

Display of Page Designer attributes in Properties view

Note: When you click the Quick Edit view and then click Page Designer again, sometimes the Properties view displays a message saying "No Attributes are available." To work around this problem, close the Properties view and open it again.

 

Gray Source Page in PageDesigner

Note: When you open Page Designer and switch to the Source page, sometimes a gray window is displayed. To work around this problem, resize the window slightly so that the Source page is redrawn.

 

Preview of jsp pages with jsp include tags

Note: Page Designer shows an embedded document's contents in the Design page, such as fragment documents embedded by jsp include directives or actions, but they are not shown in the Preview page.

 

Design page's appearance of Jsp pages with separately located tags, Frame tags defined in embedded jsp document

Note: Page Designer cannot display embedded documents properly in the Design page when the parent document and embedded document are ill-formed. "Ill-formed" means that a HTML tag's start tag and end tag are located in separate files. Though they can work properly with an application server, Page Designer cannot display such embedded documents properly. Page Designer also cannot show embedded documents properly in the Design page when the embedded document has a <frame> or <frameset> tag.

 

Color selection for Linux

You can pick up a color on the screen from the Colors view, Properties view, and the Styles view; however, this function does not work on GTK window systems. Please select the Motif window system if you want to use the color selection function.

 

Deleting a Web project

Before you delete a Web project, close any files that are open in Page Designer.