Thanks for the correction, Jeremy. I seemed to recall it wrong! I didn't see a reason or purpose the original poster had in mind to combine the book component files into a single FrameMaker file. If we knew more about the goal, perhaps we could suggest other workable solutions.
HTH Regards, Peter _______________________ Peter Gold KnowHow ProServices On Tue, Oct 6, 2009 at 3:06 PM, Jeremy H. Griffith <jer...@omsys.com> wrote: > On Tue, 6 Oct 2009 09:40:11 -0500, Peter Gold > <pe...@knowhowpro.com> wrote: > >>I seem to recall something like that is available, possibly >>free, from omsys.com. You may have to export all to MIF first. > > Sorry, we don't do that. What you may be thinking of > is exporting a Frame book to a single Word file. We > think that's a Very Bad Idea (for most books, the file > would be too large for Word to open), but it is possible. > And actually, the same method could be used for what > Yves wants; it's just not automatic. > > The basic idea is to create a new Frame document, then > import each document in the book into it by reference > as an inset. For Word, you then convert that "wrapper" > document; but you could just as well use it in Frame. > > If you wanted, you could convert all the insets to text > in Frame too, so that the wrapper file had no dependencies > on the original files. Just double-click in any inset, > and in the dialog choose All Text Insets and click Convert. > > Note that there can be problems with this whole idea, > in addition to the obvious size one. For example, the > numbering may not be the same; the book file controls > the chapter numbering, and if it is gone, the numbering > will revert to whatever the wrapper chapter is set up for. > So every chapter may be numbered "1"... > > A Framescript to do the basic combining would be simple. > It's the cleanup that can't really be automated. ;-) > > HTH! > > -- Jeremy H. Griffith, at Omni Systems Inc. > <jer...@omsys.com> http://www.omsys.com/ _______________________________________________ You are currently subscribed to Framers as arch...@mail-archive.com. Send list messages to fram...@lists.frameusers.com. To unsubscribe send a blank email to framers-unsubscr...@lists.frameusers.com or visit http://lists.frameusers.com/mailman/options/framers/archive%40mail-archive.com Send administrative questions to listad...@frameusers.com. Visit http://www.frameusers.com/ for more resources and info.
