Hi Tori, Don't panic! There are a number of excellent FrameMaker plug-ins that can help you automate much of the process, such as TemplateMapper by CudSpan (for which we are an official reseller), Clean Import by EZTools, and ImportFormatsSpecial by Rick Quatro at Carmen Publishing. All offer slightly different functionality, so you'll need to assess exactly what it is you are aiming for.
FrameScript may also be useful to you. My company iG5 Authoring Tools also specializes in this kind of work, so feel free to contact me offline for a chat about what you need. Best wishes, Andy Lewis iG5 Authoring Tools +972 54 4605708 www.ig5authoringtools.com LinkedIn http://il.linkedin.com/in/andylewis2003 Twitter http://twitter.com/andytelaviv -----Original Message----- From: [email protected] [mailto:framers-bounces at lists.frameusers.com] On Behalf Of Tori Muir Sent: Sunday, October 24, 2010 10:53 AM To: framers at lists.frameusers.com Subject: Yoicks! Need to clean up very crufty Frame files Just inherited a set of manuals that have 238 (yes, I really did count them) paragraph formats. Let's not even go there on character formats, cross-ref formats, and etc. In 20+ years of working with Frame I have never seen anything like this. These are ~100-page manuals, so as far as I can tell most of the styles are not used, just accumulation from years and years and years of one person iteratively adapting a single template, just adding new stuff whenever she felt it was needed. How on earth can these books be cleaned up without losing things like cross refs and index markers? I have clean, well-built templates the info could be moved into, but how to do that while keeping the template clean? Would the best solution be just bite the bullet and blow everything out to plain text and start over? -- Tori Muir tmuir at spot-on-creative.com . 650.430.8674 www.spot-on-creative.com _______________________________________________ You are currently subscribed to framers as andylewis0 at gmail.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/andylewis0%40gmail.com Send administrative questions to listadmin at frameusers.com. Visit http://www.frameusers.com/ for more resources and info.
