Using FrameScript to change footer text
If they're currently constructed differently, you could redesign one template doc so that it uses variables and does work for all files, then import from that into all files in each book. Cheers, Rebecca >>> "Fred Ridder" 09/08/07 10:28 AM >>> One aspect of well-designed templates is that the headers and footers should be identical (or I should say identically constructed, meaning built from the same system variables even if those variables will have different values in different chapters) across all or most of the files in a book. If that is the case, you only need to update the master pages in *one* file per book, and can then import that formatting (identified as Page Layouts in the Import Formats dialog) into all the other similar files in the book in a single operation. The ability to import various types of formatting from one file into a whole book's worth of files has always been one of FrameMaker's biggest strengths.. If the headers and footers are constructed differently from file to file, I think you're going to be stuck doing them manually because a script will only work properly if it is dealing with similar constructions. >From: "Kelly McDaniel" >To: >Subject: Using FrameScript to change footer text >Date: Fri, 7 Sep 2007 16:02:36 -0500 > >I'm running FrameMaker 7.0 and FrameScript. I need to change the footer >text from: "BrandX Reference Guide - Volume VII - Functions" to "BrandX >Reference Guide - Functions". > >Most books contain many, many files. Editing the Master Pages by hand is >a bear. Is there a scriptable method?...thanks. >___ > > >You are currently subscribed to Framers as DocuDoc at hotmail.com. > >Send list messages to framers at lists.frameusers.com. > >To unsubscribe send a blank email to >framers-unsubscribe at lists.frameusers.com >or visit >http://lists.frameusers.com/mailman/options/framers/docudoc%40hotmail.com > >Send administrative questions to listadmin at frameusers.com. Visit >http://www.frameusers.com/ for more resources and info. _ Get a FREE small business Web site and more from Microsoft? Office Live! http://clk.atdmt.com/MRT/go/aub0930003811mrt/direct/01/ ___ You are currently subscribed to Framers as rebecca.officer at alliedtelesis.co.nz. Send list messages to framers at lists.frameusers.com. To unsubscribe send a blank email to framers-unsubscribe at lists.frameusers.com or visit http://lists.frameusers.com/mailman/options/framers/rebecca.officer%40alliedtelesis.co.nz Send administrative questions to listadmin at frameusers.com. Visit http://www.frameusers.com/ for more resources and info. NOTICE: This message contains privileged and confidential information intended only for the use of the addressee named above. If you are not the intended recipient of this message you are hereby notified that you must not disseminate, copy or take any action in reliance on it. If you have received this message in error please notify Allied Telesis Labs Ltd immediately. Any views expressed in this message are those of the individual sender, except where the sender has the authority to issue and specifically states them to be the views of Allied Telesis Labs.
Importing PPT slideshows
I'm wondering if anyone offered any options offlist. I'm talking to a prospect about converting some Word docs that have lots of PPT slides embedded in them to Frame. There are multiple books, totaling to over 1400 pages, with I don't even know how many slides in each doc, but there are lots. They are also constantly updating the content in both the slides and the books that I'd convert, so I'm also wondering about a good way to do this. Creating the PDFs and cropping them each time there's an update seems a bit onerous. I've also done some OLE with PPT and Frame, but it made the file load very slowly and it was difficult to work in. ~ Linda G. Gallagher TechCom Plus, LLC lindag at techcomplus dot com www.techcomplus.com 303-450-9076 or 800-500-3144 User guides, online help, FrameMaker and WebWorks ePublisher templates -Original Message- From: framers-bounces+lindag=techcomplus@lists.frameusers.com [mailto:framers-bounces+lindag=techcomplus.com at lists.frameusers.com] On Behalf Of Steve Cavanaugh Sent: Thursday, September 06, 2007 10:38 AM To: Bodvar Bjorgvinsson; Madeleine Reardon Dimond Cc: framers at lists.frameusers.com Subject: RE: Importing PPT slideshows Unless the PP slides contain active elements, I would think printing the PP slides to PDF and importing those by reference would be considerably better. Perhaps there is a reason not to do this, but it sure works great here. Steve Cavanaugh -Original Message- From: framers-bounces+scavanaugh=nat-seattle@lists.frameusers.com [mailto:framers-bounces+scavanaugh=nat-seattle.com at lists.frameusers.com] On Behalf Of Bodvar Bjorgvinsson Sent: Thursday, September 06, 2007 9:33 AM To: Madeleine Reardon Dimond Cc: framers at lists.frameusers.com Subject: Re: Importing PPT slideshows PP does not seem to behave well when it comes to printing. My solution would be to print to file full width (Letter/A4 - sadly printing will not (Office 2003) print landscape) and then crop top and bottom all pages. After that FM should be able to import by ref. Any other ideas would be interesting to hear. Bodvar On 9/4/07, Madeleine Reardon Dimond wrote: > I work for a courseware department that makes PowerPoint slideshows > and then imports the slides to Framemaker as OLE links to make their > printed books. > This process makes huge, unstable files that take forever to update. > > When I asked why they didn't use Frame's Import by Reference feature, > I was told that FrameMaker will import only the first slide of a show. > So although the Chapter 3 PowerPoint slideshow may have 20 slides, > only Slide 1 will import by reference. > > Being used to importing pdfs one page at a time, I can't help thinking > there must be a way to do the same thing with PowerPoint shows. Does > anybody know what it might be? > > Thanks, > Madeleine Reardon Dimond > > > > __ > __ Building a website is a piece of cake. Yahoo! Small > Business gives you all the tools to get online. > http://smallbusiness.yahoo.com/webhosting > ___ > > > You are currently subscribed to Framers as bodvar at gmail.com. > > Send list messages to framers at lists.frameusers.com. > > To unsubscribe send a blank email to > framers-unsubscribe at lists.frameusers.com > or visit > http://lists.frameusers.com/mailman/options/framers/bodvar%40gmail.com > > Send administrative questions to listadmin at frameusers.com. Visit > http://www.frameusers.com/ for more resources and info. > ___ You are currently subscribed to Framers as scavanaugh at nat-seattle.com. Send list messages to framers at lists.frameusers.com. To unsubscribe send a blank email to framers-unsubscribe at lists.frameusers.com or visit http://lists.frameusers.com/mailman/options/framers/scavanaugh%40nat-sea ttle.com Send administrative questions to listadmin at frameusers.com. Visit http://www.frameusers.com/ for more resources and info. ___ You are currently subscribed to Framers as lindag at techcomplus.com. Send list messages to framers at lists.frameusers.com. To unsubscribe send a blank email to framers-unsubscribe at lists.frameusers.com or visit http://lists.frameusers.com/mailman/options/framers/lindag%40techcomplus.com Send administrative questions to listadmin at frameusers.com. Visit http://www.frameusers.com/ for more resources and info.
Problems with PDF
I'm using Frame 8. I have a book (28 chapters) with a TOC. I'm creating a PDF using the File > Save As PDF command. I can make a PDF of the TOC on its own. Works fine. I can make a PDF of any file in the book. If I take the TOC out of the book, I can make a PDF of the whole book. If I put the TOC in the book, I get this message in the log file where the TOC starts: %%[ Error: undefined; OffendingCommand: pdfmark; ErrorInfo: Rect ]%% (Then a whole lot of other undecipherable stuff in the log file that I can include if anyone thinks it's relevant). Any ideas? Tina Ricks tina ricks | kristina.ricks at verizon.net | 503-531-3233
RE: Using FrameScript to change footer text
If they're currently constructed differently, you could redesign one template doc so that it uses variables and does work for all files, then import from that into all files in each book. Cheers, Rebecca >>> "Fred Ridder" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 09/08/07 10:28 AM >>> One aspect of well-designed templates is that the headers and footers should be identical (or I should say identically constructed, meaning built from the same system variables even if those variables will have different values in different chapters) across all or most of the files in a book. If that is the case, you only need to update the master pages in *one* file per book, and can then import that formatting (identified as Page Layouts in the Import Formats dialog) into all the other similar files in the book in a single operation. The ability to import various types of formatting from one file into a whole book's worth of files has always been one of FrameMaker's biggest strengths.. If the headers and footers are constructed differently from file to file, I think you're going to be stuck doing them manually because a script will only work properly if it is dealing with similar constructions. >From: "Kelly McDaniel" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >To: >Subject: Using FrameScript to change footer text >Date: Fri, 7 Sep 2007 16:02:36 -0500 > >I'm running FrameMaker 7.0 and FrameScript. I need to change the footer >text from: "BrandX Reference Guide - Volume VII - Functions" to "BrandX >Reference Guide - Functions". > >Most books contain many, many files. Editing the Master Pages by hand is >a bear. Is there a scriptable method?...thanks. >___ > > >You are currently subscribed to Framers as [EMAIL PROTECTED] > >Send list messages to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > >To unsubscribe send a blank email to >[EMAIL PROTECTED] >or visit >http://lists.frameusers.com/mailman/options/framers/docudoc%40hotmail.com > >Send administrative questions to [EMAIL PROTECTED] Visit >http://www.frameusers.com/ for more resources and info. _ Get a FREE small business Web site and more from Microsoft® Office Live! http://clk.atdmt.com/MRT/go/aub0930003811mrt/direct/01/ ___ You are currently subscribed to Framers as [EMAIL PROTECTED] Send list messages to [EMAIL PROTECTED] To unsubscribe send a blank email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] or visit http://lists.frameusers.com/mailman/options/framers/rebecca.officer%40alliedtelesis.co.nz Send administrative questions to [EMAIL PROTECTED] Visit http://www.frameusers.com/ for more resources and info. NOTICE: This message contains privileged and confidential information intended only for the use of the addressee named above. If you are not the intended recipient of this message you are hereby notified that you must not disseminate, copy or take any action in reliance on it. If you have received this message in error please notify Allied Telesis Labs Ltd immediately. Any views expressed in this message are those of the individual sender, except where the sender has the authority to issue and specifically states them to be the views of Allied Telesis Labs. ___ You are currently subscribed to Framers as [EMAIL PROTECTED] Send list messages to [EMAIL PROTECTED] To unsubscribe send a blank email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] or visit http://lists.frameusers.com/mailman/options/framers/archive%40mail-archive.com Send administrative questions to [EMAIL PROTECTED] Visit http://www.frameusers.com/ for more resources and info.
RE: Importing PPT slideshows
I'm wondering if anyone offered any options offlist. I'm talking to a prospect about converting some Word docs that have lots of PPT slides embedded in them to Frame. There are multiple books, totaling to over 1400 pages, with I don't even know how many slides in each doc, but there are lots. They are also constantly updating the content in both the slides and the books that I'd convert, so I'm also wondering about a good way to do this. Creating the PDFs and cropping them each time there's an update seems a bit onerous. I've also done some OLE with PPT and Frame, but it made the file load very slowly and it was difficult to work in. ~ Linda G. Gallagher TechCom Plus, LLC lindag at techcomplus dot com www.techcomplus.com 303-450-9076 or 800-500-3144 User guides, online help, FrameMaker and WebWorks ePublisher templates -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Steve Cavanaugh Sent: Thursday, September 06, 2007 10:38 AM To: Bodvar Bjorgvinsson; Madeleine Reardon Dimond Cc: framers@lists.frameusers.com Subject: RE: Importing PPT slideshows Unless the PP slides contain active elements, I would think printing the PP slides to PDF and importing those by reference would be considerably better. Perhaps there is a reason not to do this, but it sure works great here. Steve Cavanaugh -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Bodvar Bjorgvinsson Sent: Thursday, September 06, 2007 9:33 AM To: Madeleine Reardon Dimond Cc: framers@lists.frameusers.com Subject: Re: Importing PPT slideshows PP does not seem to behave well when it comes to printing. My solution would be to print to file full width (Letter/A4 - sadly printing will not (Office 2003) print landscape) and then crop top and bottom all pages. After that FM should be able to import by ref. Any other ideas would be interesting to hear. Bodvar On 9/4/07, Madeleine Reardon Dimond <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I work for a courseware department that makes PowerPoint slideshows > and then imports the slides to Framemaker as OLE links to make their > printed books. > This process makes huge, unstable files that take forever to update. > > When I asked why they didn't use Frame's Import by Reference feature, > I was told that FrameMaker will import only the first slide of a show. > So although the Chapter 3 PowerPoint slideshow may have 20 slides, > only Slide 1 will import by reference. > > Being used to importing pdfs one page at a time, I can't help thinking > there must be a way to do the same thing with PowerPoint shows. Does > anybody know what it might be? > > Thanks, > Madeleine Reardon Dimond > > > > __ > __ Building a website is a piece of cake. Yahoo! Small > Business gives you all the tools to get online. > http://smallbusiness.yahoo.com/webhosting > ___ > > > You are currently subscribed to Framers as [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > Send list messages to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > To unsubscribe send a blank email to > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > or visit > http://lists.frameusers.com/mailman/options/framers/bodvar%40gmail.com > > Send administrative questions to [EMAIL PROTECTED] Visit > http://www.frameusers.com/ for more resources and info. > ___ You are currently subscribed to Framers as [EMAIL PROTECTED] Send list messages to [EMAIL PROTECTED] To unsubscribe send a blank email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] or visit http://lists.frameusers.com/mailman/options/framers/scavanaugh%40nat-sea ttle.com Send administrative questions to [EMAIL PROTECTED] Visit http://www.frameusers.com/ for more resources and info. ___ You are currently subscribed to Framers as [EMAIL PROTECTED] Send list messages to [EMAIL PROTECTED] To unsubscribe send a blank email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] or visit http://lists.frameusers.com/mailman/options/framers/lindag%40techcomplus.com Send administrative questions to [EMAIL PROTECTED] Visit http://www.frameusers.com/ for more resources and info. ___ You are currently subscribed to Framers as [EMAIL PROTECTED] Send list messages to [EMAIL PROTECTED] To unsubscribe send a blank email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] or visit http://lists.frameusers.com/mailman/options/framers/archive%40mail-archive.com Send administrative questions to [EMAIL PROTECTED] Visit http://www.frameusers.com/ for more resources and info.
