I originally posted this question on Friday, but it didn't go through. (Switching to plain text now!) Thanks in advance for any feedback.
Deb Hardy <edittur at yahoo.com> wrote: For those of you who distribute your source files to OEM partners, would you be willing to share the basics of how you prepare your Frame files for rebranding? I think our rebranding efforts are going to be very simple, but I want to go into this feeling confident that I've picked the best approach. I would be extremely grateful if any of you who have successfully created re-brandable Frame files could share some wisdom. Here's what I'm thinking so far: * For company name (and product names, if it becomes necessary), we'll create a user variable. * For the corporate logo that appears on our cover page and in our running footers, we'll give our file a generic name like "corp_logo.gif" and instruct the OEM partners to replace this file with their own similarly sized corporate logo. Do both of these approaches seem reasonable and optimal? I'm particularly concerned about the logo-replacement issue. I'm pretty sure that images and anchored frames can't have user variables attached to them, so I'm sort of perplexed about any other option besides replacing the existing logo. It seems like there should be a better way than overwriting our file... Am I missing something obvious? Is there a good argument for using conditional text for this problem? I'm hesitant to add more conditional-text tags to our book, but I will happily do it if it turns out to be the best solution. I've Googled my little heart out searching for OEM/rebranding best practices, especially in terms of FrameMaker capabilities, and I'm coming up short. Thanks so much in advance for any advice you can offer! -deb h. __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com