There are sample MIF files that come with FM, usually installed into some directory such as \samples (on Windows) which are ususally within the FM install directory. I seem to recall that some versions of FM neglected to include the MIF samples, though, and they were posted on the Adobe site, but I don't see them on the downloads page: http://www.adobe.com/support/downloads/product.jsp?product=22&platform=Windows An absolutely fabulous freebie MIF viewer is MIFBrowse, by Graham Wideman, here: MIFBrowser Wideman As the samples show, a MIF file can be very minimalist -- it can contain mostly just the data, and the actual layout can be maintained as a separate "template" file that is referenced by path\name in the data file, so FM combines the two when the data MIF is opened in FM. This is documented in the MIF reference, in the Chapter 2 section "Including template files". Here's one (defpage.mif), and even this is far more verbose with comments than is actually needed. <MIFFile 8.00> # hand generated <TextFlow # All document text is in this text flow. <TFTag `A'> # Make this a tagged text flow. <TFAutoConnect Yes> # Automatically connect text frames. <Para <ParaLine <String `This paragraph appears on a body page within a'> <String ` text flow tagged A.'> > # end of ParaLine > # end of Para > # end of TextFlow # End of MIFFile In your case you'd be having whatever content and formatting you decided on, e.g. if you wanted the graphics to be in individual anchored frames, or be inserted into table cells, you'd have that MIF code wrapped around the data. A good way to start is to create a page in FM, say with a table with one row, two cells, with the graphics inserted as referenced files. Use only the default table name (Format A) and default paragraph styles, don't do anything else except type in the graphic names somewhere so that you have a search term to use when looking at the MIF. Then save that as .fm and .mif, and open the MIF in a good text editor (e.g. NotePad++, EmEditor, there are many others; although MIF can be opened in FM for editing, I find it far from user friendly to work in FM that way). The MIF reference has many examples to show how the various features such as a table and rows and cells should be specified, and examples of referenced graphics, too. It's impossible to explain working with MIF in a forum posting like this, but it's absolutely entirely do-able to have a scripting program create a list of filenames and then add the necessary MIF statements around each one to create a viable MIF file. Or, as I mentioned, using Framescript to do this is definitely possible too, either way would end up being very similar in action. More info on Framescript at http://www.framescript.com and on the user group http://groups.yahoo.com/group/framescript-users/ And, you could have the script create one file with the watermark names, another without, or have it add things like an alphabetical index of filenames or TOC or whatever with page numbers, so users would have an easy way to find the graphics either in a printed form of in a PDF form. And, another bonus, one foot into MIF means you might even want to get into database publishing or automated publishing with FrameMaker, so when your catalogs need to be updated this photo document can be updated too 🙂 Sheila
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