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paulmoraga
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April 10, 2015
Question

Enhanced Find/Change Plug-in for FrameMaker 12?

  • April 10, 2015
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Does anyone know of an enhanced Find/Change plug-in available for FrameMaker 12? I used to use a tool called SuperFind back in the FrameMaker 7 days. With SuperFind, you could load a text file with any number (hundreds or even thousands!) of search and replace terms and run them all in series on a document or book. It worked incredibly well, and it saved us innumerable hours in our edit reviews. Thanks!

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CarlaMartinek
Participant
June 9, 2015

Ditto, I need this functionality as well. Should be a standard option in Frame considering the length of the books we work with. (Of course, they might say "Use variables!" but that isn't always the answer.)

The makers of Super Find will do it as a custom programming project per customer these days, according to their website. Meh.

Wish I knew how to convert an InDesign script to work in Frame.  Related query: Find Replace from Textfile with regex

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FieryPantone
Legend
April 14, 2015

If you want to live dangerously, use a script to save a batch of FM files to .mif and then wallop them with a text editor … the usual caveat "test one file first and always make back-ups" applies ;-}

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ksoltys
Known Participant
April 13, 2015

That would be a really good tool to have. I use something similar for Word (FREdit from Archive Publications - Editing and Proofreading Services) and it's incredibly useful. But converting a Frame doc to and from Word just to use it would be too much of a hassle.

Regards

Keith

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