RE: Basic question: Book revision best practices

2015-02-06 Thread Syed Zaeem Hosain (syed.hos...@aeris.net)
; framers@lists.frameusers.com Subject: RE: Basic question: Book revision best practices One note: If needed, I simply rename the output PDF filename if I want to have the version number in the name. Doing this breaks inter-document links, if you generated a set of PDFs while all of their BOOK

RE: Basic question: Book revision best practices

2015-02-06 Thread David Artman
One note: If needed, I simply rename the output PDF filename if I want to have the version number in the name. Doing this breaks inter-document links, if you generated a set of PDFs while all of their BOOK files were open (the easiest way to do it). I firmly advicate naming your BOOK to match

RE: Basic question: Book revision best practices

2015-02-05 Thread David Artman
HUGE subject, but I'll just note one element: Now I want to make changes, so it will become version 1.1. What do best practices say to do? I assume save all content, TOC, and title files as new "v1-1" files. Should I create a new "v1-1" book file into which the v1-1 content goes? Or should the

RE: Basic question: Book revision best practices

2015-02-05 Thread Syed Zaeem Hosain (syed.hos...@aeris.net)
...@lists.frameusers.com [mailto:framers-boun...@lists.frameusers.com] On Behalf Of David Artman Sent: Thursday, February 05, 2015 1:44 PM To: Tim Pann; framers@lists.frameusers.com Subject: RE: Basic question: Book revision best practices HUGE subject, but I'll just note one element: Now I want to make changes, so

RE: Basic question: Book revision best practices

2015-02-05 Thread Ragnar HanĂ¥s
...@lists.frameusers.com [mailto:framers-boun...@lists.frameusers.com] On Behalf Of Rick Quatro Sent: Thursday, February 5, 2015 18:15 To: 'Tim Pann'; framers@lists.frameusers.com Subject: RE: Basic question: Book revision best practices Hi Tim, I prefer to do my versioning at the folder level. That way

RE: Basic question: Book revision best practices

2015-02-05 Thread Rick Quatro
Hi Tim, I prefer to do my versioning at the folder level. That way, I never have to rename .book or .fm files. When I am ready for 1.1, I create a folder and copy all of the 1.0 files to it. You can rename book components and FrameMaker will resolve cross-references, etc. but I prefer

RE: Basic question: Book revision best practices

2015-02-05 Thread Adam Hollett
As others have mentioned, switching to a version control system with revision history might be a wise choice. It takes a lot of the manual work out of keeping track of versions. Maintaining a separate folder for each release can quickly get overwhelming, especially when you have to port changes

Re: Basic question: Book revision best practices

2015-02-05 Thread Scott Turner
Subject: RE: Basic question: Book revision best practices Hi Tim, I prefer to do my versioning at the folder level. That way, I never have to rename .book or .fm files. When I am ready for 1.1, I create a folder and copy all of the 1.0 files to it. You can rename book components

RE: Basic question: Book revision best practices

2015-02-05 Thread Tim Pann
] On Behalf Of Rick Quatro Sent: Thursday, February 05, 2015 9:15 AM To: 'Tim Pann'; framers@lists.frameusers.commailto:framers@lists.frameusers.com Subject: RE: Basic question: Book revision best practices Hi Tim, I prefer to do my versioning at the folder level. That way, I never have to rename .book