Unfortunately for us, Electropubs, and its EzTools, has disappeared. On Thu, Apr 23, 2015 at 3:12 PM, David Spreadbury <[email protected]> wrote:
> Not to disparage Framescript or Rick but File > Package does what Bruce > Fosters Archive did and EZTools > Clean Import can clean up a document, or > all chapters in a book very nicely/ > > > > On Thursday, April 23, 2015 1:59 PM, Rick Quatro <[email protected]> > wrote: > > > Hi John, > > As you know, I am a big fan of scripting. FrameMaker 11 has ExtendScript > built in, so one clandestine way of adding productivity to FrameMaker > without plugins is to learn to write some scripts. ExtendScript is > basically > Adobe's version of JavaScript on top of FrameMaker's object model. If you > don't want to write them yourself, you can purchase them from others. And > because scripts are compiled at runtime, you usually get the source code so > you can reuse parts and pieces in your own scripts. Your learning will make > things a longer term effort, but it sounds like your procurement process > takes time anyway, so you may as well be adding to your skill set as you > learn. > > I am doing an Adobe Webinar next Wednesday on ExtendScript in FrameMaker. > If > you have a particular task in mind and attend the webinar, I will make sure > you get the script at no cost, or in exchange for a small donation to the > Roswell Cancer Center in Buffalo. I welcome some good ideas for scripts > that > I can demonstrate. Please let me know if you have any questions or > comments. > Thank you very much. > > Rick > > Rick Quatro > Carmen Publishing Inc. > 585-366-4017 > [email protected] > > -----Original Message----- > From: [email protected] > [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of > [email protected] > Sent: Thursday, April 23, 2015 1:36 PM > To: framers > Subject: What FM plugin suite give the most bang? > > > Hi, guys...I'm using FM11 unstructured and I maintain quite a large > document > set...10 books of 2,000 pages each give or take. > > Because of the amount of time I spend on housekeeping, I'm ready to take a > stab at adding plugins that will save me time. In addition, I may be > bringing in a team of 3-4 writers and I want the files to be as clean as > possible. When you evolve to 20,000 pages of document from an initial 195 > pages in 2 years, ya get careless at times. > > Now...I'm in a very locked down environment, so I know I'm in for a > battle...this very well can be a 3-6 month project and I may loose. > > Money is no object. I was able to easily justify a $500 application just to > check broken links (3 bullet points in an email) , but it took 4 months to > work through the process from "request to license". > > So...if I was to try to put together a shopping list together with as many > plugin components in as few different products as possible, what should > that > be? > > Thanks > > John X Posada > AML Syst & Ops Supt Data Analyst | US FCC & RC Systems Control & Analytics > | HSBC North America Holdings Inc > 330 Madison Ave., NY NY > > _______________________________________________________________ > > > > > > Phone > Int: 212-525-5483 Ext: Personal Cellphone - 732-259-2874 > Fax > Conference Bridge - 877-304-0052, Code 74809254 > Email > [email protected] > > _______________________________________________________________ > Protect our environment - please only print this if you have > to! > > > > > > ----------------------------------------- > ****************************************************************** > This E-mail is confidential. 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