As I recall, the airline industry also mandates use of point pages, for the same reason that the rail industry does. I'm not entirely certain if the military does, but I think they used to.
On Tue, Aug 14, 2018 at 4:16 PM, Rick Quatro <[email protected]> wrote: > The one user I referred to just came out of the shadows :-). > > -----Original Message----- > From: Framers <[email protected]> > On > Behalf Of Carol J. Elkins > Sent: Tuesday, August 14, 2018 4:09 PM > To: [email protected]; An email list for people using Adobe FrameMaker > software. <[email protected]> > 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 [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] > > _______________________________________________ > > 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] > -- Lin Sims _______________________________________________ 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]
