[Framers] ExtendScript - Generating a Catalog of Graphics

2016-02-10 Thread Martinek, Carla 
Years and years (and years) ago, I purchased a set of utilities called Caxton 
Xtras. Caxton has long since gone away, but the utilities continued to work in 
FM for several versions after they were initially released. My source utility 
files have a date of December 1998 - I think it was FM5 I was using at the 
time. (I go all the way back to using FM2 in 1990... very scary, I know.)

A coworker wanted to generate a list of imported graphics that includes the 
image. Xtras had such a utility, but unfortunately it doesn't work with the 
last few versions of Frame. The Xtras graphics catalog generated a table with a 
thumbnail of the graphic in the first column (about 2 in height, if I remember 
correctly), the path in the second column, and the page # in the third column. 
It really was quite handy.

Has anyone written a script for recent FrameMaker versions which does something 
similar? ExtendScript preferred, but I also have FrameScript. Much as I want to 
be involved in scripting, I just haven't been able to dedicate the time to be 
able to write my own.

BTW, I'm happy to send a copy of the Caxton files to anyone who wants to look 
at the source files if you're curious and have an older version of Frame 
(likely FM9 or earlier) . :)

-Carla




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Re: [Framers] ExtendScript - Generating a Catalog of Graphics

2016-02-10 Thread John Sgammato 
Mif2Go can do it
If you have Mif2Go I can provide the details

On Wed, Feb 10, 2016 at 12:59 PM, Martinek, Carla 
wrote:

> Years and years (and years) ago, I purchased a set of utilities called
> Caxton Xtras. Caxton has long since gone away, but the utilities continued
> to work in FM for several versions after they were initially released. My
> source utility files have a date of December 1998 - I think it was FM5 I
> was using at the time. (I go all the way back to using FM2 in 1990... very
> scary, I know.)
>
> A coworker wanted to generate a list of imported graphics that includes
> the image. Xtras had such a utility, but unfortunately it doesn't work with
> the last few versions of Frame. The Xtras graphics catalog generated a
> table with a thumbnail of the graphic in the first column (about 2 in
> height, if I remember correctly), the path in the second column, and the
> page # in the third column. It really was quite handy.
>
> Has anyone written a script for recent FrameMaker versions which does
> something similar? ExtendScript preferred, but I also have FrameScript.
> Much as I want to be involved in scripting, I just haven't been able to
> dedicate the time to be able to write my own.
>
> BTW, I'm happy to send a copy of the Caxton files to anyone who wants to
> look at the source files if you're curious and have an older version of
> Frame (likely FM9 or earlier) . :)
>
> -Carla
>
>
>
> 
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Re: [Framers] ExtendScript - Generating a Catalog of Graphics

2016-02-10 Thread Pat Christenson 
Hi Carla -

I remember the Caxton tools. I loved them!

Pat Christenson

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Subject: [Framers] ExtendScript - Generating a Catalog of Graphics

Years and years (and years) ago, I purchased a set of utilities called Caxton 
Xtras. Caxton has long since gone away, but the utilities continued to work in 
FM for several versions after they were initially released. My source utility 
files have a date of December 1998 - I think it was FM5 I was using at the 
time. (I go all the way back to using FM2 in 1990... very scary, I know.)

A coworker wanted to generate a list of imported graphics that includes the 
image. Xtras had such a utility, but unfortunately it doesn't work with the 
last few versions of Frame. The Xtras graphics catalog generated a table with a 
thumbnail of the graphic in the first column (about 2 in height, if I remember 
correctly), the path in the second column, and the page # in the third column. 
It really was quite handy.

Has anyone written a script for recent FrameMaker versions which does something 
similar? ExtendScript preferred, but I also have FrameScript. Much as I want to 
be involved in scripting, I just haven't been able to dedicate the time to be 
able to write my own.

BTW, I'm happy to send a copy of the Caxton files to anyone who wants to look 
at the source files if you're curious and have an older version of Frame 
(likely FM9 or earlier) . :)

-Carla




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