I'd look into FrameScript. There are many useful free scripts available, and you can write your own or contract someone to write them for you. I highly recommend Rick Quatro, whose wizardry has dramatically expanded what I can do with unstructured FrameMaker 12.
Two examples of easy, effective cleanup: * ArchiveFM.fso does pretty much what the late Bruce Foster's Archive plugin did - it takes all the files, images, and text insets in a book, even those referenced from distant folders, and puts them in a ZIP archive. In seconds you can blow away all those extra images that aren't used in a book. * TidyImport.fso enable you to clean up a doc with too many extra para and character tags by doing a CleanImport from a known good clean template or chapter. Not just those, but Para, Char, Table, Variable, x-ref, conditions, color defs, math defs, doc properties, object styles, reference pages and page layouts. FrameScript is $179 for a single license. See https://framescript.com/ On Thu, Apr 23, 2015 at 1:35 PM, <john.x.pos...@us.hsbc.com> wrote: > > Hi, guys...I'm using FM11 unstructured and I maintain quite a large > document set...10 books of 2,000 pages each give or take. > > Because of the amount of time I spend on housekeeping, I'm ready to take a > stab at adding plugins that will save me time. In addition, I may be > bringing in a team of 3-4 writers and I want the files to be as clean as > possible. When you evolve to 20,000 pages of document from an initial 195 > pages in 2 years, ya get careless at times. > > Now...I'm in a very locked down environment, so I know I'm in for a > battle...this very well can be a 3-6 month project and I may loose. > > Money is no object. I was able to easily justify a $500 application just to > check broken links (3 bullet points in an email) , but it took 4 months to > work through the process from "request to license". > > So...if I was to try to put together a shopping list together with as many > plugin components in as few different products as possible, what should > that be? > > Thanks > > John X Posada > AML Syst & Ops Supt Data Analyst | US FCC & RC Systems Control & Analytics > | HSBC North America Holdings Inc > 330 Madison Ave., NY NY > > _______________________________________________________________ > > > > > > Phone > Int: 212-525-5483 Ext: Personal Cellphone - 732-259-2874 > Fax > Conference Bridge - 877-304-0052, Code 74809254 > Email > john.x.pos...@us.hsbc.com > > _______________________________________________________________ > Protect our environment - please only print this if you have > to! > > > > > > ----------------------------------------- > ****************************************************************** > This E-mail is confidential. It may also be legally privileged. If > you are not the addressee you may not copy, forward, disclose or > use any part of it. If you have received this message in error, > please delete it and all copies from your system and notify the > sender immediately by return E-mail. > > Internet communications cannot be guaranteed to be timely, secure, > error or virus-free. The sender does not accept liability for any > errors or omissions. > ****************************************************************** > SAVE PAPER - THINK BEFORE YOU PRINT! > _______________________________________________ > > > You are currently subscribed to framers as john.sgamm...@actifio.com. > > Send list messages to framers@lists.frameusers.com. > > To unsubscribe send a blank email to > framers-unsubscr...@lists.frameusers.com > or visit > http://lists.frameusers.com/mailman/options/framers/john.sgammato%40actifio.com > > Send administrative questions to listad...@frameusers.com. Visit > http://www.frameusers.com/ for more resources and info. > -- <http://www.actifio.com/> *John Sgammato, Documentation Architect* *e* john.sgamm...@actifio.com *c* 508.927.2083 *t* @actifiodocs <http://twitter.com/actifiodocs> 333 Wyman Street, Waltham, MA 02451 <http://twitter.com/actifio> <http://www.linkedin.com/company/399246> <https://plus.google.com/102870897962348937868/posts> <http://www.youtube.com/user/actifio> <http://www.actifio.com/> *Radically simple copy data management * *.*
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