One more suggestion: we have a similar situation, with reused files, running headers that change, plus variables and conditions that need to be flipped. We started with what Art calls container files to flip the variables and conditions so that the borrowed files knew where they were. Flipping variables and conditions for dozens of books, however, soon became a real chore.
The solution we found was BuildFire, a FrameMaker add-on from Convivio (http://www.convivio.com/index.php?topic=010_products). BuildFire allows you to define multiple PDF output files with different values for variables and conditional text settings. You create a list of documents and build them either individually or in batches. BuildFire flips the variables and condition settings for each book on the fly and creates the PDFs. What used to take two people the better part of the morning (we have 75+ PDFs) can now run on one of our machines while we're at lunch. Hope this helps. ...Susan Susan Modlin Publications Manager, Edusoft www.edusoft.com --- Art Campbell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > In addition to Charles' and Steven's recommendation, > there's another > method to consider, although whether it's better or > not depend on your > situation. In my books, the header info changes from > book to book and > I have to renumber to get the chapter and page > number correct. > __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com _______________________________________________ You are currently subscribed to Framers as [EMAIL PROTECTED] Send list messages to [EMAIL PROTECTED] To unsubscribe send a blank email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] or visit http://lists.frameusers.com/mailman/options/framers/archive%40mail-archive.com Send administrative questions to [EMAIL PROTECTED] Visit http://www.frameusers.com/ for more resources and info.
