Fred Ridder wrote: > Responding to kgrace4715 at aol.com <mailto:kgrace4715 at aol.com>, Stuart > Rogers wrote: > > > You can easily import PDFs, but only by specifying one page at a time. > > A multi-page PDF would have to be broken up into many single-page PDFs > > (with reliably the same names from version to version) in order for your > > Import By Reference scenario to work. There may be a quick way to do > > that in Acrobat (or a macro in Word?), but I don't know it. In any > > case, if the page count of the source document changes, the workflow > breaks. > > Not quite correct. It is true that each page of a multi-page PDF must be > imported separately, but the original file does not have to be broken > into single-page PDF files to do this. If you tell FrameMaker to import > a PDF that has multiple pages, you are presented with a dialog that > displays a miniature of the selected page of the PDF and provides you > with both a number box and a slider bar for you to use to select the > particular page you want to import. > And I have to believe that one can programmatically step through the > pages in an arbitray multi-page PDF via FrameScript or the FDK (although > I have never looked into this in the slightest). > -Fred Ridder
Quite so, Fred; I proposed the breaking up of the PDF on the assumption that only native FM capabilities were available, and that's the only way that updates would occur automatically upon re-opening the FM file. Not elegant, but I'm sure you're right about FrameScript. -- Stuart Rogers Technical Communicator Phoenix Geophysics Limited Toronto, ON, Canada +1 (416) 491-7340 x 325 srogers phoenix-geophysics com "Developers explain How the Product Works. Technical writers explain How to Work the Product."
