Book Print Settings (non) persistence

2015-05-26 Thread Charles Richardson
Hello all, I have a collection of print-to-file books used to create custom PDFs from a large set of primary book files. Each of these print-to-file books must be individually configured with its own custom bookmark settings. The problem: the print-book files always default to initial

RE: Book Print Settings (non) persistence

2015-05-26 Thread Rick Quatro
Hi Charles, I have seen this over the years and can confirm what you are seeing. If you save the book as a MIF file, you can see the bookmark settings, but they are not exposed programmatically. In the past, I have used a brute force approach where I will use a script to save the .book file as

Re: remapping Frame formats

2015-05-26 Thread Robert Lauriston
Silicon Prairie's Paragraph Tools works pretty much like that, except the mapping table is in a FrameMaker file. http://www.siliconprairiesoftware.com/Downloads.html On Tue, May 26, 2015 at 7:41 AM, Yves Barbion yves.barb...@gmail.com wrote: Hi group I'm looking for a FrameMaker plugin or

RE: Book Print Settings (non) persistence

2015-05-26 Thread Charles Richardson
Shlomo, Thank you so very much. The book PDF setups now stick and the Save as PDF is a bonus. I'd avoided Save As ever since all the early troubles. Charles From: Shlomo Perets [mailto:shlo...@microtype.com] Sent: Tuesday, May 26, 2015 3:30 PM To: 'Charles Richardson' Cc:

remapping Frame formats

2015-05-26 Thread Yves Barbion
Hi group I'm looking for a FrameMaker plugin or script to remap FrameMaker formats: character formats, paragraph formats, table formats, cross-reference formats... I have used TemplateMapper in 2003, but I was wondering whether something more recent is available somewhere, for example a

RE: remapping Frame formats

2015-05-26 Thread David Creamer
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re: Book Print Settings (non) persistence

2015-05-26 Thread Shlomo Perets
Charles, You wrote: I have a collection of print-to-file books used to create custom PDFs from a large set of primary book files. Each of these print-to-file books must be individually configured with its own custom bookmark settings. The problem: the print-book files always

RE: remapping Frame formats

2015-05-26 Thread john . x . posada
Rick...if you could do this in Extendscript, you'd have a sale. I'd even be OK with doing it one change at a time. John X Posada AML Syst Ops Supt Data Analyst | US FCC RC Systems Control Analytics | HSBC North America Holdings Inc 330 Madison Ave., NY NY

FW: Book Print Settings (non) persistence

2015-05-26 Thread Charles Richardson
Shlomo, Well, I've run into one glitch: when a book has mixed page sizes (letter, tabloid), Save-As processes all pages as a single size (one or the other). This did not happen when printing/distilling. Is there perhaps some additional consideration that I need to be aware of to prevent this