[Closed] FrameMaker 7.x/8 Feature Requests

>Oops, back to file-by-file since importing doesn't clean up unwanted elements; nor does importing the "dirty" content into a clean template file.

Well, you do need a clean template from which to import. And, no, if you have to manually remove extra tags.

You can select all files in a book and then use File > Import > Formats to import from one template file into all files in the book.

Cheers,

Sean

Sean: So far so good -- paragraph and character styles are relatively easy and fast. Now clean up unwanted conditional text tags, variable definitions, and cross-reference formats. Oops, back to file-by-file since importing doesn't clean up unwanted elements; nor does importing the "dirty" content into a clean template file. Thus, the ability to get a high-altitude view (a matrix of filenames and elements?), and then manage styles, tags, and variables for an entire books' worth of document files. Cheers & thanks, RBV

Sounds fair.

The workaround you probably discovered is that you can delete all tags in your character and paragraph lists, and tables and xrefs too, and then import the template into the document that has no tags.

Cheers,

Sean

I'd very much like a book-level styles and variables management tool. That is to say I'd like to be able to view -- and especially delete -- all instances of paragraph and character styles, conditional text tags, variable and cross-reference definitions, table definitions, unwanted font instances, etc. This would enable me to quickly clean and standardize unwanted elements at the book-level rather than file-by-file; as it stands now importing a clean template leaves the older, unwanted, elements intact.

ROFLMAO!

And fix the thing... and that other thing... BAAAAHHH!!!

Ha-ha, you fool! You fell victim to one of the classic blunders, the most famous of which is 'Never get involved in a heated dispute in the Photoshop forums,' but only slightly less famous is this: Never go in against a FrameUser, when productivity is on the line!

Finally fix that darned missing font error for overrides embedded in a table and that cannot be fixed without diving into the MIF . . ..

Ability to set autonumber increment.
Bill Swallow "Autonumber by 5" 12/4/02 7:58am

16-bit greyscale TIF import.

Along with updated CorelDRAW and DXF import, and PSD support, and . . . general work on the filters (that is, more of them and more recent ones--4-year-old CorelDRAW 8 filters are really insufficient now that CorelDRAW 11 is out).

Cheers,

Sean

More ideas...

More granular control when importing formats. I'd like to import selected variable definitions, selected master pages, selected paragraph/character styles, etc. More granular control in this regard (with option to select all to reflect how it currently works) would be a big timesaver!