Re: Is there a FrameMaker utility to Save As books from FM 8 to FM 7?
FrameScript is the best bet for this. If I were you, I'd order it and get started... 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 Tue, Feb 17, 2009 at 5:56 AM, Avraham Makeler amake...@gmail.com wrote: Hi all, I have a client that uses FM7, but when I work at home, I use FM8. So when every now and again I update their document source archives I have to convert all the files from FM7 to FM8. Not so bad, however there are a lot of books, and ... within each book, it seems I have to do 'Save As' for each document separately. Is there any way of doing a single 'Save As' that will actually convert a whole book at once? Does anybody have a utility that will do this? If I knew FrameScript/FrameSDK like I know VBA, I could easily write a program to do it. But I don't - yet. TIA - avi ___ 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: Is there a FrameMaker utility to Save As books from FM 8 to FM 7?
Open the book file then hold down the shift key and the File Open/Save/Close commands change to their ... All Documents in Book equivalent. Ok, I tried that.Does not seem to exist. I.e., when I hold down the Shift key, there does not appear in the File menu, an 'All' version of the Save As command allowing me to save all the chapters at once as an earlier version. So, so far it seems that programing is the only way to go for a professional solution. Meantime, I recorded a Windows macro using the QM QuickMacros app, which allows me to select a document in the book and then do all the ops automatically to save the chapter as the earlier version. So that helps a lot. However, every now and again FM displays a message asking me what to do about bad cross-references, thus the other question I posted today about suppressing them book wide. Thanks, avi On Tue, Feb 17, 2009 at 7:43 PM, Luke, Ken ken_l...@mentor.com wrote: Open the book file then hold down the shift key and the File Open/Save/Close commands change to their ... All Documents in Book equivalent. You'd still need to open each book file separately though. At 02:56 AM 2/17/2009, Avraham Makeler wrote: Hi all, I have a client that uses FM7, but when I work at home, I use FM8. So when every now and again I update their document source archives I have to convert all the files from FM7 to FM8. Not so bad, however there are a lot of books, and ... within each book, it seems I have to do 'Save As' for each document separately. Is there any way of doing a single 'Save As' that will actually convert a whole book at once? Does anybody have a utility that will do this? If I knew FrameScript/FrameSDK like I know VBA, I could easily write a program to do it. But I don't - yet. TIA Ken Luke ken_l...@mentor.com Complexity is easy; Simplicity is hard. -- Edmund Keane ___ 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: Is there a FrameMaker utility to Save As books from FM 8 to FM 7?
Sorry...I read too quickly. The Shift command changes the Open to Open All, Save to Save All or Save All in Book and Close to Close All or Close All in Book. Have you saved the book as MIF, then re-opened in FM7 -Matt Matt Sullivan GRAFIX Training Consulting office 714 960-6840 cell 714 585-2335 _ From: Avraham Makeler [mailto:amake...@gmail.com] Sent: Tuesday, February 17, 2009 3:27 PM To: Matt Sullivan Subject: Re: Is there a FrameMaker utility to Save As books from FM 8 to FM 7? Yes. On Wed, Feb 18, 2009 at 1:12 AM, Matt Sullivan m...@grafixtraining.com wrote: You held down the Shift before clicking on the File menu? -Matt Matt Sullivan GRAFIX Training Consulting office 714 960-6840 cell 714 585-2335 -Original Message- From: framers-boun...@lists.frameusers.com [mailto:framers-boun...@lists.frameusers.com] On Behalf Of Avraham Makeler Sent: Tuesday, February 17, 2009 2:01 PM To: framers@lists.frameusers.com Subject: Re: Is there a FrameMaker utility to Save As books from FM 8 to FM 7? Open the book file then hold down the shift key and the File Open/Save/Close commands change to their ... All Documents in Book equivalent. Ok, I tried that.Does not seem to exist. I.e., when I hold down the Shift key, there does not appear in the File menu, an 'All' version of the Save As command allowing me to save all the chapters at once as an earlier version. So, so far it seems that programing is the only way to go for a professional solution. Meantime, I recorded a Windows macro using the QM QuickMacros app, which allows me to select a document in the book and then do all the ops automatically to save the chapter as the earlier version. So that helps a lot. However, every now and again FM displays a message asking me what to do about bad cross-references, thus the other question I posted today about suppressing them book wide. Thanks, avi On Tue, Feb 17, 2009 at 7:43 PM, Luke, Ken ken_l...@mentor.com wrote: Open the book file then hold down the shift key and the File Open/Save/Close commands change to their ... All Documents in Book equivalent. You'd still need to open each book file separately though. At 02:56 AM 2/17/2009, Avraham Makeler wrote: Hi all, I have a client that uses FM7, but when I work at home, I use FM8. So when every now and again I update their document source archives I have to convert all the files from FM7 to FM8. Not so bad, however there are a lot of books, and ... within each book, it seems I have to do 'Save As' for each document separately. Is there any way of doing a single 'Save As' that will actually convert a whole book at once? Does anybody have a utility that will do this? If I knew FrameScript/FrameSDK like I know VBA, I could easily write a program to do it. But I don't - yet. TIA Ken Luke ken_l...@mentor.com Complexity is easy; Simplicity is hard. -- Edmund Keane ___ You are currently subscribed to Framers as m...@grafixtraining.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/matt%40grafixtraining.co m 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.