Sorry...I read too quickly. The Shift command changes the "Open" to "Open All", "Save" to "Save All" or "Save All in Book" and "Close" to "Close All" or "Close All in Book".
Have you saved the book as MIF, then re-opened in FM7 -Matt Matt Sullivan GRAFIX Training & Consulting office 714 960-6840 cell 714 585-2335 _____ From: Avraham Makeler [mailto:[email protected]] Sent: Tuesday, February 17, 2009 3:27 PM To: Matt Sullivan Subject: Re: Is there a FrameMaker utility to "Save As" books from FM 8 to FM 7? Yes. On Wed, Feb 18, 2009 at 1:12 AM, Matt Sullivan <matt at grafixtraining.com> wrote: You held down the Shift before clicking on the File menu? -Matt Matt Sullivan GRAFIX Training & Consulting office 714 960-6840 cell 714 585-2335 -----Original Message----- From: [email protected] [mailto:framers-bounces at lists.frameusers.com] On Behalf Of Avraham Makeler Sent: Tuesday, February 17, 2009 2:01 PM To: framers at lists.frameusers.com Subject: Re: Is there a FrameMaker utility to "Save As" books from FM 8 to FM 7? >> Open the book file then hold down the shift key and the File > Open/Save/Close commands change to their "... All Documents in Book" equivalent. Ok, I tried that.Does not seem to exist. I.e., when I hold down the Shift key, there does not appear in the File menu, an 'All' version of the Save As command allowing me to save all the chapters at once as an earlier version. So, so far it seems that programing is the only way to go for a professional solution. Meantime, I recorded a Windows macro using the QM QuickMacros app, which allows me to select a document in the book and then do all the ops automatically to save the chapter as the earlier version. So that helps a lot. However, every now and again FM displays a message asking me what to do about bad cross-references, thus the other question I posted today about suppressing them book wide. Thanks, avi On Tue, Feb 17, 2009 at 7:43 PM, Luke, Ken <ken_luke at mentor.com> wrote: > Open the book file then hold down the shift key and the File > > Open/Save/Close commands change to their "... All Documents in Book" > equivalent. > > You'd still need to open each book file separately though. > > > > > At 02:56 AM 2/17/2009, Avraham Makeler wrote: > >> Hi all, >> I have a client that uses FM7, but when I work at home, I use FM8. So >> when every now and again I update their document source archives I >> have to convert all the files from FM7 to FM8. Not so bad, however >> there are a lot of books, and ... >> >> within each book, it seems I have to do 'Save As' for each document >> separately. Is there any way of doing a single 'Save As' that will >> actually convert a whole book at once? >> >> Does anybody have a utility that will do this? >> >> If I knew FrameScript/FrameSDK like I know VBA, I could easily write >> a program to do it. >> >> But I don't - yet. >> >> TIA >> > > > > > > > ------------------------------------------------------------ > Ken Luke ken_luke at mentor.com > "Complexity is easy; Simplicity is hard." > -- Edmund Keane > ------------------------------------------------------------ > > > _______________________________________________ You are currently subscribed to Framers as matt at grafixtraining.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/matt%40grafixtraining.co m Send administrative questions to listadmin at frameusers.com. Visit http://www.frameusers.com/ for more resources and info.
