Importing Pricing ino Frame Document

[Ben Slone]

Scott,

I suggest that you have a variety of choices to accomplish publishing
prices into a 1,000 page FrameMaker depending on your work flow needs,
business processes, document requirements, and database (provided you
have one). I am aware of the following companies that have
tools/applications that work with FrameMaker to accomplish database
publishing:

Datalogics [DL Pager] (http://www.datalogics.com) 
Datazone Ltd. [Miramo] (http://www.miramo.com) 
Finite Matters Ltd. [PatternStream(R) and FrameScript(R)]
(http://www.patternstream.com and http://www.framescript.com) 
Guidance [Catalogger] (http://www.guidance.nl)  
Mekon [FrameAC(R)] (http://www.mekon.co.uk/) 
Refined Reports [Unimerge] (Michael Mark 781-224-9887) 
Sabern [BookDB] (http://www.sabern.nl/dbp.html) 
Shared Content Solutions (http://www.databasepub.com) 

Each tool has its pros and cons, which I won't address here. Naturally,
I'm very biased towards PatternStream and FrameScript. In addition to
these applications and tools, you may also use the FrameMaker API (Frame
Developers Kit - FDK) to develop a mission critical solution.

On the Adobe web site, you will find a white paper entitled "Database
Publishing in Adobe FrameMaker 7.2" at
http://www.adobe.com/products/framemaker/pdfs/FM_DatabasePub.pdf. 

Disclaimers:

(1) This list may not include all organizations that advertise database
publishing solutions that work with FrameMaker and may contain some
inaccuracies. There was no intent to leave anyone off the list or report
in error. 

(2) I work for Finite Matters Ltd., the company that develops and sells
PatternStream and FrameScript. PatternStream is patent number 6,282,539.

As always, I'd be interested in learning of other database publishing
service and product providers if anyone is aware of someone I've missed
- or of an error that I have made in the list.

BTW, can you describe how your company's CatalogConnectPro functions?


Thanks,
 
Ben Slone
Finite Matters Ltd.
804-556-1180 main office number
804-556-1183 fax
703-627-3120 mobile

-----Original Message-----

From: framers-bounces+sloneb=fml.com at lists.frameusers.com
[mailto:framers-bounces+sloneb=fml.com at lists.frameusers.com] On Behalf
Of Scott White
Sent: Tuesday, August 15, 2006 9:41 AM
To: Framers
Subject: Importing Pricing ino Frame Document

Is there a way to import new prices for a 1,000-page catalog into a
Framemaker document?
We do many large catalogs here, some with and some without pricing, and
a
potential customer wanted to know if they could update embedded pricing
just
before the files go to press. I thought I would ask the question.
Thanks.
Frame 7 Mac OS10, Frame 7.2 Windows XP Professional.
-- 
Scott White
Media Production Manager
Implentation Coordinator
AlaMark Technologies
210-704-8239
swhite at alamark.com