Global Footer Change

[Fred Ridder]

This would be simple if the company name had been included
in the master page as a reference to a variable. When I
designed the templates for my former employer, I had used
that approach and it meant that we were able to do the
first-order rebranding of our documents with a minimal
amount of work when our company was acquired. The
second-order rebranding was more painful, however, because
the new owner's corporate style required the template to
include the corporate logo on each page, so we were stuck
importing the new page layouts into every component of
every book. Not fun.

But am I reading you correctly that you are manually modifying
the master pages in each file? No need to be *that* manual
about the change. Do it once (ideally using a variable for the
company name so that the next name change will be less
painful) and then use File>Import>Formats to import the
Page Layouts to all the other component files.


>From: Howard Rauch <techtransfer at sbcglobal.net>
>To: framers at lists.frameusers.com
>Subject: Global Footer Change
>Date: Wed, 6 Jun 2007 15:04:45 -0700 (PDT)
>
>My client is asking me to update a catalog because his company has a new 
>owner. The catalog is about 100 pages and, at my client's request each 
>group of pages has been set up as a separate file so there are about 40-50 
>files in the book. The owner's name is on the master pages in each file. Is 
>there a way to update the owner's name globally without opening each file 
>and revising the master page? (I tried the instructions in the FM manual 
>without success.)
>
>I am using Frame 7.0 with Windows XP operating system.
>
>Howard Rauch
>
>Technology Transfer, Inc.
>"Linking Creators and Users of Technology"
>933 North 18th Street
>Manitowoc WI 54220
>Office: 920-682-1528
>Cell: 920-629-0080

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