Copying master page layouts and graphics

[Lester C. Smalley]

You're right, of course, that there is a function that let's one apply
specific master pages based on content, which I did forget about in my
reply to Stacie.  I meant simply that it was not automatic upon the
importation of the page layouts.  Thanks for the extended clarification.

On Saturday, December 17, 2005 07:19 PM, Bodvar Bjorgvinsson wrote:
 
| On 12/16/05, Lester C. Smalley <lsmalley at infocon.com> wrote:
...
| > But what is not happening is having the specific "first" page
| > applied to the individual chapters. I don't think this is possible 
| > automatically without some sort of scripting tool (e.g. FrameScript 
| > under windows or AppleScript on a Mac) but it is very easy.
| 
| Well, actually it is. If you had set the rules in the 
| reference pages to apply master page "First" (or whatever 
| name you may have given it) to e. g. the Chapter Title 
| paragraph tag, updating the book has an option to "Apply 
| master pages". With that option checked, and the master pages 
| and reference pages imported as previously described by 
| Lester and Art, the master page "First" will indeed be 
| applied to each chapter.
| 
| You can also go to each chapter and go to Format > Page Layout 
| > Apply Master Pages (I think I have this right, writing this 
| from Linux, I don't have FrameMaker open), and it will work 
| the same way, but only on the current file. It is all in the 
| Reference Page.
| 
| Actually, if you haven't yet done this with the first file, 
| importing formats including reference pages will do nothing 
| for you but copy the master page "First" to the other files 
| (along with all other things selected and in place), so you 
| should really start by your first chapter (or any otherwise 
| ready chapter) and:
| 
| Format > Page Layout > Apply Master Pages. This will prompt 
| you with a message saying that no reference page exists for 
| applying master pages, but one will be made (if you go 
| through with this). Do that.
| 
| Then go to the reference pages (View > Reference Pages) and 
| you will find this as the last reference page. Do the changes 
| there according to the "FrameMaker 7.0, The Complete 
| Reference" (which is probably the book you are mentioning as 
| "Complete Reference") or the User Guide, setting the Master 
| Page First to the paragraph format tag that you are using for 
| the chapter title. Then, do the Format > Page Layout > Apply 
| master pages again, and you will find that the fist page has
| changed.
| 
| Then you can select all but the first chapter file in the 
| book file and import to these the formats again, but the only 
| part that needs to be checked now is Reference pages. This 
| should do the trick.
| 
| Just check this out. Good luck.
| 
| Bodvar Bjorgvinsson
| Iceland
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- Lester 
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