Template conversion, framemaker native formats
I am converting an old template to a new one. Everything is to be converted including master pages and reference pages. Procedure: 1. I copy all contents into a blank document 2. Import all formats from template to document 3, Convert format using paragraph tool, character tool and table tool from Silicon Prairie. 4. Remove overrides 5. Save untitled document with old file name. Framemaker paragraphs like Bulleted, Numbered and Body suddenly were in my document. I guess I should have deleted them from my untitled document before importing the formats. Do you have an easer way of converting a fm template or is this the standard procedure? Med venlig hilsen - Best regards Verner Andersen Technical Writer Radiometer Medical ApS Phone +45 3827 3612 Fax +45 3827 2727 verner.ander...@radiometer.dk Radiometer Medical ApS Akandevej 21 2700 Bronshoj Denmark Phone: +45 38 27 38 27 CVR: 27 50 91 85 Please be advised that this email may contain confidential information. If you are not the intended recipient, please do not read, copy or re-transmit this email. If you have received this email in error, please notify us by email by replying to the sender and by telephone (call us collect at +1 202-828-0850) and delete this message and any attachments. Thank you in advance for your cooperation and assistance. In addition, Danaher and its subsidiaries disclaim that the content of this email constitutes an offer to enter into, or the acceptance of, any contract or agreement or any amendment thereto; provided that the foregoing disclaimer does not invalidate the binding effect of any digital or other electronic reproduction of a manual signature that is included in any attachment to this email. ___ You are currently subscribed to Framers as arch...@mail-archive.com. Send list messages to fram...@lists.frameusers.com. To unsubscribe send a blank email to framers-unsubscr...@lists.frameusers.com or visit http://lists.frameusers.com/mailman/options/framers/archive%40mail-archive.com Send administrative questions to listad...@frameusers.com. Visit http://www.frameusers.com/ for more resources and info.
Re: Template conversion, framemaker native formats
The Clean Import plugin does all the import work in one step. And removes the old settings. It's from Electropubs. And there are a couple other similar plugins and scripts too... Art Art Campbell art.campb...@gmail.com ... In my opinion, there's nothing in this world beats a '52 Vincent and a redheaded girl. -- Richard Thompson No disclaimers apply. DoD 358 On Fri, Jan 30, 2009 at 10:50 AM, Andersen, Verner Engell VEA verner.ander...@radiometer.dk wrote: I am converting an old template to a new one. Everything is to be converted including master pages and reference pages. Procedure: 1. I copy all contents into a blank document 2. Import all formats from template to document 3, Convert format using paragraph tool, character tool and table tool from Silicon Prairie. 4. Remove overrides 5. Save untitled document with old file name. Framemaker paragraphs like Bulleted, Numbered and Body suddenly were in my document. I guess I should have deleted them from my untitled document before importing the formats. Do you have an easer way of converting a fm template or is this the standard procedure? Med venlig hilsen - Best regards Verner Andersen Technical Writer Radiometer Medical ApS Phone +45 3827 3612 Fax +45 3827 2727 verner.ander...@radiometer.dk Radiometer Medical ApS Akandevej 21 2700 Bronshoj Denmark Phone: +45 38 27 38 27 CVR: 27 50 91 85 Please be advised that this email may contain confidential information. If you are not the intended recipient, please do not read, copy or re-transmit this email. If you have received this email in error, please notify us by email by replying to the sender and by telephone (call us collect at +1 202-828-0850) and delete this message and any attachments. Thank you in advance for your cooperation and assistance. In addition, Danaher and its subsidiaries disclaim that the content of this email constitutes an offer to enter into, or the acceptance of, any contract or agreement or any amendment thereto; provided that the foregoing disclaimer does not invalidate the binding effect of any digital or other electronic reproduction of a manual signature that is included in any attachment to this email. ___ You are currently subscribed to Framers as art.campb...@gmail.com. Send list messages to fram...@lists.frameusers.com. To unsubscribe send a blank email to framers-unsubscr...@lists.frameusers.com or visit http://lists.frameusers.com/mailman/options/framers/art.campbell%40gmail.com Send administrative questions to listad...@frameusers.com. Visit http://www.frameusers.com/ for more resources and info. ___ You are currently subscribed to Framers as arch...@mail-archive.com. Send list messages to fram...@lists.frameusers.com. To unsubscribe send a blank email to framers-unsubscr...@lists.frameusers.com or visit http://lists.frameusers.com/mailman/options/framers/archive%40mail-archive.com Send administrative questions to listad...@frameusers.com. Visit http://www.frameusers.com/ for more resources and info.
RE: Template conversion, framemaker native formats
Andersen, Verner wrote: I am converting an old template to a new one. Everything is to be converted including master pages and reference pages. Procedure: 1. I copy all contents into a blank document 2. Import all formats from template to document 3, Convert format using paragraph tool, character tool and table tool from Silicon Prairie. 4. Remove overrides 5. Save untitled document with old file name. Framemaker paragraphs like Bulleted, Numbered and Body suddenly were in my document. I guess I should have deleted them from my untitled document before importing the formats. Do you have an easer way of converting a fm template or is this the standard procedure? When you create a blank document (File New Use Blank Paper) it's not really an empty, formatless document -- it has a pgf catalog, char catalog, master pages, ref pages, xref formats, etc. IIRC, these default formats/settings come from the shellnew.fm file in your FM installation's fminit directory, and you can modify that file so future blank documents have the characteristics you want. But I'm not sure what the point of step 1 in your procedure is. If you have a template file, as you suggest in step 2, save a copy of it under a new name and paste the contents into that instead of into a blank document. Or just perform steps 2-4 and then use the Silicon Prarie tools to quickly delete the old, now-unused formats. Or, as Art suggested, get a tool like CleanImport or Rick Quatro's FrameScript conversion solution. Step 1 doesn't really gain you anything. Unlike Word, FM doesn't have dedicated, special-purpose template files that you hook into your regular docs. An FM template is just a plain FM file. So once you have one set up as you want, just copy and use it. Richard Richard G. Combs Senior Technical Writer Polycom, Inc. richardDOTcombs AT polycomDOTcom 303-223-5111 -- rgcombs AT gmailDOTcom 303-777-0436 -- ___ You are currently subscribed to Framers as arch...@mail-archive.com. Send list messages to fram...@lists.frameusers.com. To unsubscribe send a blank email to framers-unsubscr...@lists.frameusers.com or visit http://lists.frameusers.com/mailman/options/framers/archive%40mail-archive.com Send administrative questions to listad...@frameusers.com. Visit http://www.frameusers.com/ for more resources and info.
Template conversion, framemaker native formats
I am converting an old template to a new one. Everything is to be converted including master pages and reference pages. Procedure: 1. I copy all contents into a blank document 2. Import all formats from template to document 3, Convert format using paragraph tool, character tool and table tool from Silicon Prairie. 4. Remove overrides 5. Save untitled document with old file name. Framemaker paragraphs like Bulleted, Numbered and Body suddenly were in my document. I guess I should have deleted them from my untitled document before importing the formats. Do you have an easer way of converting a fm template or is this the standard procedure? Med venlig hilsen - Best regards Verner Andersen Technical Writer Radiometer Medical ApS Phone +45 3827 3612 Fax +45 3827 2727 verner.andersen at radiometer.dk Radiometer Medical ApS Akandevej 21 2700 Bronshoj Denmark Phone: +45 38 27 38 27 CVR: 27 50 91 85 Please be advised that this email may contain confidential information. If you are not the intended recipient, please do not read, copy or re-transmit this email. If you have received this email in error, please notify us by email by replying to the sender and by telephone (call us collect at +1 202-828-0850) and delete this message and any attachments. Thank you in advance for your cooperation and assistance. In addition, Danaher and its subsidiaries disclaim that the content of this email constitutes an offer to enter into, or the acceptance of, any contract or agreement or any amendment thereto; provided that the foregoing disclaimer does not invalidate the binding effect of any digital or other electronic reproduction of a manual signature that is included in any attachment to this email.
Template conversion, framemaker native formats
The Clean Import plugin does all the import work in one step. And removes the old settings. It's from Electropubs. And there are a couple other similar plugins and scripts too... Art Art Campbell art.campbell at gmail.com "... In my opinion, there's nothing in this world beats a '52 Vincent and a redheaded girl." -- Richard Thompson No disclaimers apply. DoD 358 On Fri, Jan 30, 2009 at 10:50 AM, Andersen, Verner Engell VEA < verner.andersen at radiometer.dk> wrote: > I am converting an old template to a new one. Everything is to be > converted including master pages and reference pages. > > > Procedure: > 1. I copy all contents into a blank document > 2. Import all formats from template to document > 3, Convert format using paragraph tool, character tool and table tool > from Silicon Prairie. > 4. Remove overrides > 5. Save untitled document with old file name. > > Framemaker paragraphs like Bulleted, Numbered and Body suddenly were in > my document. > I guess I should have deleted them from my untitled document before > importing the formats. > > Do you have an easer way of converting a fm template or is this the > standard procedure? > > > Med venlig hilsen - Best regards > Verner Andersen > Technical Writer > > Radiometer Medical ApS > Phone +45 3827 3612 > Fax +45 3827 2727 > verner.andersen at radiometer.dk > > > > > Radiometer Medical ApS > Akandevej 21 > 2700 Bronshoj > Denmark > Phone: +45 38 27 38 27 > CVR: 27 50 91 85 > > > > Please be advised that this email may contain confidential information. > If you are not the intended recipient, please do not read, copy or > re-transmit this email. If you have received this email in error, > please notify us by email by replying to the sender and by telephone > (call us collect at +1 202-828-0850) and delete this message and any > attachments. Thank you in advance for your cooperation and assistance. > > In addition, Danaher and its subsidiaries disclaim that the content of > this email constitutes an offer to enter into, or the acceptance of, > any > contract or agreement or any amendment thereto; provided that the > foregoing disclaimer does not invalidate the binding effect of any > digital or other electronic reproduction of a manual signature that is > included in any attachment to this email. > ___ > > > You are currently subscribed to Framers as art.campbell 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/art.campbell%40gmail.com > > Send administrative questions to listadmin at frameusers.com. Visit > http://www.frameusers.com/ for more resources and info. >
Template conversion, framemaker native formats
Andersen, Verner wrote: > I am converting an old template to a new one. Everything is to be > converted including master pages and reference pages. > > > Procedure: > 1. I copy all contents into a blank document > 2. Import all formats from template to document > 3, Convert format using paragraph tool, character tool and table tool > from Silicon Prairie. > 4. Remove overrides > 5. Save untitled document with old file name. > > Framemaker paragraphs like Bulleted, Numbered and Body suddenly were in > my document. > I guess I should have deleted them from my untitled document before > importing the formats. > > Do you have an easer way of converting a fm template or is this the > standard procedure? When you create a "blank document" (File > New > Use Blank Paper) it's not really an empty, formatless document -- it has a pgf catalog, char catalog, master pages, ref pages, xref formats, etc. IIRC, these default formats/settings come from the shellnew.fm file in your FM installation's fminit directory, and you can modify that file so future "blank" documents have the characteristics you want. But I'm not sure what the point of step 1 in your procedure is. If you have a template file, as you suggest in step 2, save a copy of it under a new name and paste the contents into that instead of into a "blank" document. Or just perform steps 2-4 and then use the Silicon Prarie tools to quickly delete the old, now-unused formats. Or, as Art suggested, get a tool like CleanImport or Rick Quatro's FrameScript conversion solution. Step 1 doesn't really gain you anything. Unlike Word, FM doesn't have dedicated, special-purpose template files that you "hook" into your regular docs. An FM "template" is just a plain FM file. So once you have one set up as you want, just copy and use it. Richard Richard G. Combs Senior Technical Writer Polycom, Inc. richardDOTcombs AT polycomDOTcom 303-223-5111 -- rgcombs AT gmailDOTcom 303-777-0436 --
