Bleed tabs - automation?

[Bodvar Bjorgvinsson]

There is also a white paper called Atomatic Bleeding Thumb Tabs by
Bradley W. Anderson, Falcon Interactive. It comes with instructions on
how to make the template and it also has the FrameScript script for
automation. I have only used it to set up the template without the
automation (works like semiautomatic for me), as I don't have
FrameScript.

I think it is the same as was on www.FrameUsers.com > Downloads >
White Papers, but the link seems broken now. Does anyone know where to
find it?

Best regards,

Bodvar

On 11/22/05, Steve Rickaby <srickaby at wordmongers.demon.co.uk> wrote:
> Sarah O'Keefe and Sheila Loring's excellent FrameMaker 7 'complete reference' book gives a method for setting up bleed tabs (thumbtabs) that requires manual deletion of unnecessary tabs (i.e. all but the current chapter) in production edit. Within structured FrameMaker, is there a way of automating this?
>
> What is needed is a means of rendering objects visible/invisible depending on their chapter number. Perhaps some way of making conditional tags sensitive to their context in the book...?
>
> Another approach I've tried is to include a rotated B flow flush to the page edge and insert the bleed tabs as conditionalised anchored frames. This allows tabs to be turned on and off with conditions,  but I don't like these objects being on body pages, and it doesn't get round the issue of making them sensitive to chapter number.
>
> Failing that, I guess it could be done using the feature for mapping master pages to paragraphs, but I cannot see it working out very elegantly, as one would have to hack some sort of 'hidden' mapping between chapter number and paragraph tags.
>
> Any ideas, anyone?
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