I faced a similar issue when I inherited 11 books with almost 1.500 graphics. The graphics file names, in some cases, were numeric, and in others they were human-readable, but in someone else's shorthand. My goal was to segregate books/files into discrete directories with a graphics child directory in each book dir.
1. I created the book/files and graphics directories, establishing a scalable directory structure. 2. I manually moved books and all related files into their respective directories. This broke all inter-book cross-refs. This was OK, since I produce only PDFs. 3. I renamed all books and files to a logical, human-readable scheme. For example, ana_gr_vws.fm became <product framework name>_<application name>_Analyzer_graph_views.fm. 4. I click-dragged ALL GRAPHICS into each child graphics folder in each book folder. 5. I opened the book in FM and answered Use This New Path when the graphics broken link window appeared. 6. I ran a utility to delete all unused graphics. 7. I used a renaming utility to append <product framework name>_<application name>_Analyzer as a file name prefix. 8. I re-opened the book in FM and this time, at each graphics link break, I manually re-established the link to each graphic, repeating the previous few steps for each book. It sounds like a lot of work, but it took less than 50 hours. What I got in the end was a directory structure, file structure, and naming convention that works well for scalability and can readily be used by a junior writer...regards, Kelly. -----Original Message----- From: [email protected] [mailto:framers-bounces at lists.frameusers.com] On Behalf Of Vijay Sent: Tuesday, September 16, 2008 10:40 AM To: John Posada Cc: framers at lists.frameusers.com Subject: Re: Renaming 300 linked graphics in Framemaker Hi Verner, I am curious to understand why was the change suggested at this time ? The team / manager must take a decision before beginning the project on the best-practices keeping the future plan in mind, and adhere to it. I believe there will be a valid reason for the current numbered naming convention. So, instead of restructuring the naming convention from numbers to descriptive text, I recommend leaving the file names as is for now. If at all you have no alternative, it is going to be a very tedious and time consuming effort. Regards and Best Wishes, Vijay ************************************************ On Tue, Sep 16, 2008 at 9:03 PM, John Posada <jposada99 at gmail.com> wrote: > How does it know that "08-204" is the same as "analyzer_main"? > >> Is there an easy way to do this without having to reimport. >> Maybe there is a tool? > > > John Posada > Senior Technical Writer > NYMetro STC President > > 'Half this game is ninety percent mental.' > -- Danny Ozark, Philadelphia Phillies manager _______________________________________________ You are currently subscribed to Framers as kmcdaniel at pavtech.com. Send list messages to framers at lists.frameusers.com. To unsubscribe send a blank email to framers-unsubscribe at lists.frameusers.com or visit http://lists.frameusers.com/mailman/options/framers/kmcdaniel%40pavtech. com Send administrative questions to listadmin at frameusers.com. Visit http://www.frameusers.com/ for more resources and info.
