The one user I referred to just came out of the shadows :-). -----Original Message----- From: Framers <framers-bounces+rick=rickquatro....@lists.frameusers.com> On Behalf Of Carol J. Elkins Sent: Tuesday, August 14, 2018 4:09 PM To: kl...@daube.ch; An email list for people using Adobe FrameMaker software. <framers@lists.frameusers.com> Subject: Re: [Framers] Are "point-pages" still in use?
Hi Klaus, I continue to use point pages and Rick's plug-ins to maintain them. Point pages are critical to a couple of rail industry books that I manage that govern how trains are operated in interchange. One book is updated quarterly; the other every six months. Pagination must be kept frozen between the annual releases of these books. Although they are available as a PDF download, the changed pages in the interim releases are printed in hardcopy and mailed to subscribers. If changes to a page cause text to reflow to an extent that creates a new page, then I must create point pages for those pages. For those who have never heard of such a thing, point pages are decimal-defined pages that are inserted between regular pages. For example, pages 102, 103, 104, 104.1, 104.2, 105, 106. Carol At 01:41 PM 8/14/2018, Klaus Daube wrote: >In one of my older documents about FM I see a section about "point-pages": >- FM function Freeze Pagination and Unfreeze (limited functionality) >- Reference to Rick Quatro's plug-ins PointPages and PrintingPointPages >with detailed documentation how to use. Nothing of this is left on >Ric's site. > >For online-documentation there is no need for such a mechanism, because >an updated version of a long document can be published without ruining >the forests. > >But IMHO there are still paper demanding situations of thick manuals, >which can not be re-distributed as a whole for every update. > >How are such situations handled nowadays? _______________________________________________ This message is from the Framers mailing list Send messages to framers@lists.frameusers.com 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 listad...@frameusers.com _______________________________________________ This message is from the Framers mailing list Send messages to framers@lists.frameusers.com 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 listad...@frameusers.com
