Ian, thanks for mentioning List of Effective Pages. A search for Framemaker LEP turned up a number of references that folks might find useful.
HTH On Wed, Apr 26, 2017 at 7:13 AM, Ian Proudfoot <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi Stefan, > Yes I tried to use the feature, but it's lack of support for structured > documents made it useless for my applications. Here are my thoughts on > where > the need came from and why it's still needed... > > Much of my work is in aerospace and defence where the distribution of paper > documents is (or was) a massive undertaking. > > I used to be the tech pubs manager for the General Aviation aircraft > manufacturer Britten-Norman Ltd. We had about 1200 aircraft in service and > had a legal obligation to provide regular updates to the thousands of pages > of maintenance and flight operations documents. We had our own printing > company but there was a massive cost associated with printing and > distribution of revised content to all parts of the world. > > The only realistic way to achieve this was to only print "revision > packages" > in loose-leaf format. FrameMaker 5.0 was the software that I chose to > overhaul our archaic production system. One of the attractive features was > Freeze "pagination" which was due to be 'improved' or so I was promised by > Frame Technology! I really wanted to use Interleaf which did a much better > job in this area, however only FrameMaker was affordable. > > I tried to convert an existing manual to FrameMaker with Freeze Pagination > for revision packages, but it was cumbersome and lacked the ability to > match > our existing page numbering scheme. When we implemented SGML we had to > abandon any attempt to automate this feature. > > A switch to the new S1000D specification provided a suitable way forward > that provided an efficient, modular way to deliver revision packages that > could avoid the horrors of page Freeze Pagination. DITA followed S1000D > with > a similar modular concept. I wouldn't volunteer to go back to the old ways! > > Since that time I have developed FrameMaker applications for my clients > that > have implemented pagination management for loose-leaf specifications, but > never using the built-in FrameMaker features, it has to be FDK, > ExtendScript > or FrameScript. In the structured world this has become more difficult > since > the move from SGML to XML. The good thing about FrameMaker is that you can > still use those SGML features in the FM environment then saving as XML > giving the best of both worlds. > > Please don't remove the Freeze Pagination feature, but explain how to use > it > and its limitations. If it is considered a worthwhile development, please > give us a version that works with structured documents and can generate a > List of Effective Pages too. > > Sorry to ramble on. > Ian > > > iTP-X > Bembridge > Isle of Wight > United Kingdom > > _______________________________________________ This message is from the Framers mailing list Send messages to [email protected] Visit the list's homepage at http://www.frameusers.com Archives located at http://www.mail-archive.com/framers%40lists.frameusers.com/ Subscribe and unsubscribe at http://lists.frameusers.com/listinfo.cgi/framers-frameusers.com Send administrative questions to [email protected]
