At 14:39 -0500 27/2/10, Rick Quatro wrote: >I thought maybe scripting could come to the rescue, since InDesign has a lot >of scripting choices (AppleScript on Mac, VBScript on PC, JavaScript on >both). My thought was to write a script that would loop through the >duplicated book's files and point them to the files in the duplicated >folder. Unfortunately, the fullName property for each book component is >read-only so you can't programmatically change it.
Ah. Bummer. >By the way, the paths to each component in a FrameMaker book are actually >stored internally as absolute, but when you open the book, FrameMaker >"resolves" the paths, and treats them as relative, if possible. That's interesting. You're the expert, so I'd never try to gainsay you, but I thought I'd see use of './' and ../' path notation in MUF (although I've not looked very hard). Maybe you mean that filenames are absolute in FrameMaker binary files. I am limited v-a-v FrameSccript, not just for time and lack of knowledge, but because my current configuration is FrameMaker on Mac. This will have to change soon enough, but I don't see the need to change (cost of new machine) until there is... well, good need. Thanks for the other interesting material. -- Steve _______________________________________________ You are currently subscribed to Framers as arch...@mail-archive.com. Send list messages to fram...@lists.frameusers.com. To unsubscribe send a blank email to framers-unsubscr...@lists.frameusers.com or visit http://lists.frameusers.com/mailman/options/framers/archive%40mail-archive.com Send administrative questions to listad...@frameusers.com. Visit http://www.frameusers.com/ for more resources and info.
