Utilities for FM 8

2010-02-12 Thread Steve Rickaby
At 19:54 -0800 10/2/10, Joe Malin wrote: >After a 3-year hiatus I am trying to work with FM 8 (unstructured) again for >a non-work project. Having designed a lot of my own templates and documents, >I know a *lot* about what's built in to FM 8, but I've forgotten all the >utilities I once used such

Utilities for FM 8

2010-02-12 Thread Art Campbell
Lin Sims put, or puts together another list. You can google for her to make sure you have the most up-to-date list, but I think a copy of the current one is at http://www.microtype.com/resources/FM_utilities.pdf Art Art Campbell art.campbell at gmail.com "... In my opinion, there

Re: Utilities for FM 8

2010-02-12 Thread Art Campbell
Lin Sims put, or puts together another list. You can google for her to make sure you have the most up-to-date list, but I think a copy of the current one is at http://www.microtype.com/resources/FM_utilities.pdf Art Art Campbell art.campb...@gmail.com "... In my opinion, there's

Re: Utilities for FM 8

2010-02-11 Thread Steve Rickaby
At 19:54 -0800 10/2/10, Joe Malin wrote: >After a 3-year hiatus I am trying to work with FM 8 (unstructured) again for >a non-work project. Having designed a lot of my own templates and documents, >I know a *lot* about what's built in to FM 8, but I've forgotten all the >utilities I once used such

Utilities for FM 8

2010-02-11 Thread Art Campbell
You can use CleanImport, a plug-in to purge the target doc's catalogs and then to import the new settings from your source. If you don't care about cleaning out the existing entries, just use File > Import Formats in your target. This is additive, so any existing tags / variables / settings will r

Re: Utilities for FM 8

2010-02-11 Thread Scott Prentice
My ToolSearch database lists all of the FM plugins that I'm aware of (plus other things) .. http://leximation.com/toolsearch/ Cheers, ...scott Scott Prentice Leximation, Inc. www.leximation.com +1.415.485.1892 Joe Malin wrote: > Hi! > > After a 3-year hiatus I am trying to work with FM

Utilities for FM 8

2010-02-11 Thread Scott Prentice
My ToolSearch database lists all of the FM plugins that I'm aware of (plus other things) .. http://leximation.com/toolsearch/ Cheers, ...scott Scott Prentice Leximation, Inc. www.leximation.com +1.415.485.1892 Joe Malin wrote: > Hi! > > After a 3-year hiatus I am trying to work with FM

Re: Utilities for FM 8

2010-02-11 Thread Art Campbell
You can use CleanImport, a plug-in to purge the target doc's catalogs and then to import the new settings from your source. If you don't care about cleaning out the existing entries, just use File > Import Formats in your target. This is additive, so any existing tags / variables / settings will r

Utilities for FM 8

2010-02-11 Thread Joe Malin
Hi! After a 3-year hiatus I am trying to work with FM 8 (unstructured) again for a non-work project. Having designed a lot of my own templates and documents, I know a *lot* about what's built in to FM 8, but I've forgotten all the utilities I once used such as Character Tools, Paragraph Tools, etc

Utilities for FM 8

2010-02-10 Thread Joe Malin
Hi! After a 3-year hiatus I am trying to work with FM 8 (unstructured) again for a non-work project. Having designed a lot of my own templates and documents, I know a *lot* about what's built in to FM 8, but I've forgotten all the utilities I once used such as Character Tools, Paragraph Tools, etc