Re: [Framers] Mapping Styles in FrameMaker

2017-07-19 Thread quills
The old MIF2GO would do that. The developer passed in 2014 and the program is now freeware. I don't think it is updated any more. Give it a look though. > On Jul 19, 2017, at 6:30 PM, Scott Prentice wrote: > > Hi Gillian... > > You're probably best off creating a custom ExtendScript that maps

Re: [Framers] Mapping Styles in FrameMaker

2017-07-19 Thread Rick Quatro
Hi Gillian, Here is a link to my tool: http://frameautomation.com/findchangeformatsbatch/ (Thank you Monique!) Rick -Original Message- From: Framers [mailto:framers-bounces+rick=rickquatro@lists.frameusers.com] On Behalf Of gill6...@comcast.net Sent: Wednesday, July 19, 2017 6:50 P

Re: [Framers] Mysterious error when trying to open a FrameMaker file

2017-07-19 Thread Fei Min Lorente
Thanks for the replies, Robert and Alan. Yes, we would certainly like to graduate to something more modern than CVS, but as you can imagine, that takes time and resources. It is in the works. I ended up sending her my file that I could open, and she was able to open that. Fei Min Lorente Busine

Re: [Framers] Mapping Styles in FrameMaker

2017-07-19 Thread Robert Lauriston
I used Silicon Prairie's utilities. http://www.siliconprairiesoftware.com/Products.html On Wed, Jul 19, 2017 at 3:50 PM, wrote: > We have a new company template for FrameMaker docs. > > We have a lot of legacy guides, and we're now required to switch all of the > docs to the new templates. The

Re: [Framers] Mapping Styles in FrameMaker

2017-07-19 Thread monique.semp (Earthlink)
I'd check out Rick Quatro's FindChangeFormatsBatch extend script. It's easy to use, and takes care of mapping para, table, char, xref, variable, condition, master pages, AND marker type. -Monique Sent from my iPhone - erratic word substitution, typos, & odd punctuation almost certain :( > On

Re: [Framers] Mapping Styles in FrameMaker

2017-07-19 Thread Scott Prentice
Hi Gillian... You're probably best off creating a custom ExtendScript that maps the old names to new names. You'd import the new template, then run the script. You could run it on the book, so it processes all files at once. You could even set up the script to import the template. This shouldn

[Framers] Mapping Styles in FrameMaker

2017-07-19 Thread gill6034
We have a new company template for FrameMaker docs. We have a lot of legacy guides, and we're now required to switch all of the docs to the new templates. The new templates use different paragraph and character format names. I need some sort of script to rename, or remap the old names to the

[Framers] Hairline Frame Borders

2017-07-19 Thread Alan Salo (Ariens Plant 1)
Hello all, We just updated to FM2017 and are unable to find a feature available in earlier versions. Our publication style requires a black hairline (.5 line weight) for anchored frames surrounding illustrations. Now it appears that "1" is the lowest width available on the slider bar when addi

[Framers] Handling dictionaries for FM-9 to FM-14

2017-07-19 Thread Klaus Daube
Dear all, Especially in the German lists there are discussions about misbehaving words and the difficulty to get them out of the dictionary or get them corrected in the dictionary. Hence I decided to design a utility for [1]handling the dictionary entries. There are a number

Re: [Framers] Display full path in FrameMaker book or list of references

2017-07-19 Thread Rick Quatro
Thank you Yves! -Original Message- From: Framers [mailto:framers-bounces+rick=rickquatro@lists.frameusers.com] On Behalf Of Yves Barbion Sent: Wednesday, July 19, 2017 2:41 AM To: An email list for people using Adobe FrameMaker software. Subject: Re: [Framers] Display full path in Fram