Deleting multiple Master Pages in a book

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February 2, 2012
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Hello

Is the above possible?

If I delete master pages in a document and then try to import the Page Layout formats in to another group of documnts, Framemaker ignores the request.

Am I doing it wrong or have you any other ideas?

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Van Kurtz

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When you import formats, which ever formats they are, FrameMaker ADDS the new formats to the existing formats UNLESS a new format has the same name as the existing format, in which case FrameMaker replaces the existing one with the new one.

Thus, if you DELETE a format, in your case a master page, from a document and then import the master pages from that document to a new document, FrameMaker does NOT delete the master pages from the second document that were also deleted from the first document. Importing formats is an ADDITIVE process, not a comparison process.

Van

bowen192Author

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Van Kurtz wrote:
When you import formats, which ever formats they are, FrameMaker ADDS the new formats to the existing formats UNLESS a new format has the same name as the existing format, in which case FrameMaker replaces the existing one with the new one.
Thus, if you DELETE a format, in your case a master page, from a document and then import the master pages from that document to a new document, FrameMaker does NOT delete the master pages from the second document that were also deleted from the first document. Importing formats is an ADDITIVE process, not a comparison process.
Van

Cheers, Van.

That explains why I'm an idiot, now I just need a fix for the problem.