Christopher Seal wrote: > I can either copy text from the WordPerfect file and paste into the FM > document (then format), or I can import sequential pages from the PDF > version of each report. > > The report collection will be published as PDF. > > As there are hundreds of PDF pages to be imported (if I go that route), I > was wondering if there is an automated method of doing this. Any > suggestions > would be welcome.
Well, I haven't done hundreds -- and might consider a FrameScript script for a project that size, especially if it were likely to come up again. But I've imported several 15-30 page PDFs, and it only took a few minutes each. My PDFs were sized so they fit correctly in the text frame of my FM body pages without any sizing/scaling. This simplifies things. Begin by creating a dedicated anchor pgf and putting the cursor in it. Then enter the keyboard shortcut for File > Import > File (Esc f i f) and select the multi-page PDF you want to import. The Select PDF Page dialog opens to the first page of the PDF, so just press Enter to select it. FM imports it into an anchored frame in the anchor pgf. Make sure the sizing and layout are correct. Now that you have the first PDF page in FM, select the anchor pgf containing that it and copy it. Then paste it into the flow as many times as there are pages in the PDF. All the copies, of course, display the first page of that PDF. Replace their contents with the subsequent PDF pages by doing the following: 1) Press Page Down. 2) Click the next PDF page to select it, and press Esc f i f. The Import dialog opens with the correct PDF already selected. 3) Press Enter. The Select PDF Page dialog opens to the first page of the PDF. 4) Press Tab to put the cursor in the page number field. 5) Type the next page number and press Enter to import that page. 6) Go back to (1) and repeat until done. It's no problem doing five or six repetitions of the above in a minute. The biggest risk is losing track of the page number and getting off by one, so you'd want to stop briefly every minute or two to double-check. Once you get into the rhythm of it -- and if you don't freak out from the immensely mind-numbing nature of the process -- I suspect you can do well over a hundred in an hour. :-) Richard Richard G. Combs Senior Technical Writer Polycom, Inc. richardDOTcombs AT polycomDOTcom 303-223-5111 ------ rgcombs AT gmailDOTcom 303-777-0436 ------