Many thanks on the quick responses! I knew there were solutions out there; I guess I just couldn't come up with the right keywords while searching.
Have a great weekend and holiday season... -----Original Message----- From: Shlomo Perets [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, November 18, 2005 8:56 AM To: Woodward, Jonathan Cc: [email protected] Subject: Re: solutions for updating FM templates Jonathan, You wrote: >Search as I might through the venerable archives, I could not find >anything to help me out; hence the posting... > >Our FrameMaker templates have not been updated in about 8 years and are >starting to get rusty. Since our manuals are ever-growing (many over 1K >pages) and our time is ever-dwindling, I'd like to present to the team a >solution that is as low impact as possible. > >I seem to remember some years back a discussion about mapping paragraph >tags from an old template to paragraph tags (with different names, >obviously) in a new template. I just can't remember if this solution >employed scripts or some third-party software. > >Any ideas? I highly recommend the TemplateMapper plug-in by Chris Despopoulos (to the extent of providing it as part of the course materials in my FrameMaker Template Design seminar). The user guide for TemplateMapper is available at http://www.microtype.com/training/TemplateMapper.pdf Shlomo Perets MicroType, http://www.microtype.com * ToolbarPlus Express for FrameMaker FrameMaker/Acrobat training & consulting * FrameMaker-to-Acrobat TimeSavers/Assistants Template Design, Single Sourcing, FM-to-PDF & Technical Indexing seminars -------------------------------------------------------------------------- Archives: http://lists.frameusers.com/cgi-bin/lyris.pl?visit=framers Website: http://www.FrameUsers.com Administration: [EMAIL PROTECTED] You are subscribed to framers as: [email protected] Send a blank email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] to unsubscribe.
