You're right, of course, that there is a function that let's one apply specific master pages based on content, which I did forget about in my reply to Stacie. I meant simply that it was not automatic upon the importation of the page layouts. Thanks for the extended clarification.
On Saturday, December 17, 2005 07:19 PM, Bodvar Bjorgvinsson wrote: | On 12/16/05, Lester C. Smalley <lsmalley at infocon.com> wrote: ... | > But what is not happening is having the specific "first" page | > applied to the individual chapters. I don't think this is possible | > automatically without some sort of scripting tool (e.g. FrameScript | > under windows or AppleScript on a Mac) but it is very easy. | | Well, actually it is. If you had set the rules in the | reference pages to apply master page "First" (or whatever | name you may have given it) to e. g. the Chapter Title | paragraph tag, updating the book has an option to "Apply | master pages". With that option checked, and the master pages | and reference pages imported as previously described by | Lester and Art, the master page "First" will indeed be | applied to each chapter. | | You can also go to each chapter and go to Format > Page Layout | > Apply Master Pages (I think I have this right, writing this | from Linux, I don't have FrameMaker open), and it will work | the same way, but only on the current file. It is all in the | Reference Page. | | Actually, if you haven't yet done this with the first file, | importing formats including reference pages will do nothing | for you but copy the master page "First" to the other files | (along with all other things selected and in place), so you | should really start by your first chapter (or any otherwise | ready chapter) and: | | Format > Page Layout > Apply Master Pages. This will prompt | you with a message saying that no reference page exists for | applying master pages, but one will be made (if you go | through with this). Do that. | | Then go to the reference pages (View > Reference Pages) and | you will find this as the last reference page. Do the changes | there according to the "FrameMaker 7.0, The Complete | Reference" (which is probably the book you are mentioning as | "Complete Reference") or the User Guide, setting the Master | Page First to the paragraph format tag that you are using for | the chapter title. Then, do the Format > Page Layout > Apply | master pages again, and you will find that the fist page has | changed. | | Then you can select all but the first chapter file in the | book file and import to these the formats again, but the only | part that needs to be checked now is Reference pages. This | should do the trick. | | Just check this out. Good luck. | | Bodvar Bjorgvinsson | Iceland <snip> - Lester ------------------------------------------------------- Lester C. Smalley Email: lsmalley AT infocon DOT com Information Consultants, Inc. Phone: 302-239-2942 FAX: 302-239-1712 Yorklyn, DE 19736 Web: www.infocon.com -------------------------------------------------------
