The Clean Import plugin does everything you want to do, and it works at the book or file level. Highly recommended. at www.electropubs.com/
Art Campbell art.campbell at gmail.com "... In my opinion, there's nothing in this world beats a '52 Vincent and a redheaded girl." -- Richard Thompson No disclaimers apply. DoD 358 On Tue, Jul 14, 2009 at 9:58 PM, William Courington<billcour at sonic.net> wrote: > I have some books that share most of their content. With variables and > conditional text, I could probably make managing the files tolerable. > But it would be more tolerable with scripts or other software that > could do something like this: > > ? - Open the "Settings" file for one book variant. > ? ? ? ? This file contains appropriate variable and conditional text > settings. > ? - For each file in the book: > ? ? - Open the file in Frame > ? ? - Import Formats (Variables, Conditional Text Settings) from > Settings file. > ? ? - Save and close. > > Is there a way to do this? I have both Windows and Solaris FrameMakers. > > Thanks in advance, > > ? Bill > _______________________________________________ > > > You are currently subscribed to Framers as art.campbell 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/art.campbell%40gmail.com > > Send administrative questions to listadmin at frameusers.com. Visit > http://www.frameusers.com/ for more resources and info. >