Is there a FrameMaker utility to "Save As" books from FM 8 to FM 7?

[Matt Sullivan]

Sorry...I read too quickly. The Shift command changes the "Open" to "Open
All", "Save" to "Save All" or "Save All in Book" and "Close" to "Close All"
or "Close All in Book".
 
Have you saved the book as MIF, then re-opened in FM7
 

-Matt

 

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From: Avraham Makeler [mailto:amakeler at gmail.com] 
Sent: Tuesday, February 17, 2009 3:27 PM
To: Matt Sullivan
Subject: Re: Is there a FrameMaker utility to "Save As" books from FM 8 to
FM 7?


Yes. 



On Wed, Feb 18, 2009 at 1:12 AM, Matt Sullivan <matt at grafixtraining.com>
wrote:


You held down the Shift before clicking on the File menu?


-Matt



Matt Sullivan
GRAFIX Training & Consulting

office 714 960-6840

cell 714 585-2335



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[mailto:framers-bounces at lists.frameusers.com] On Behalf Of Avraham Makeler
Sent: Tuesday, February 17, 2009 2:01 PM
To: framers at lists.frameusers.com
Subject: Re: Is there a FrameMaker utility to "Save As" books from FM 8 to
FM 7?

>> Open the book file then hold down the shift key and the File >
Open/Save/Close commands change to their "... All Documents in Book"
equivalent.

Ok, I tried that.Does not seem to exist.
I.e., when I hold down the Shift key, there does not appear in the File
menu, an 'All' version of the Save As command allowing me to save all the
chapters at once as an earlier version.

So, so far it seems that programing is the only way to go for a professional
solution.

Meantime, I recorded a Windows macro using the QM QuickMacros app, which
allows me to select a document in the book and then do all the ops
automatically to save the chapter as the earlier version. So that helps a
lot.

However, every now and again FM displays a message asking me what to do
about bad cross-references, thus the other question I posted today about
suppressing them book wide.

Thanks,

 avi



On Tue, Feb 17, 2009 at 7:43 PM, Luke, Ken <ken_luke at mentor.com> wrote:

> Open the book file then hold down the shift key and the File >
> Open/Save/Close commands change to their "... All Documents in Book"
> equivalent.
>
> You'd still need to open each book file separately though.
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> At 02:56 AM 2/17/2009, Avraham Makeler wrote:
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>> Hi all,
>> I have a client that uses FM7, but when I work at home, I use FM8. So
>> when every now and again I update their document source archives I
>> have to convert all the files from FM7 to FM8. Not so bad, however
>> there are a lot of books, and ...
>>
>> within each book, it seems I have to do 'Save As' for each document
>> separately. Is there any way of doing a single 'Save As' that will
>> actually convert a whole book at once?
>>
>> Does anybody have a utility that will do this?
>>
>> If I knew FrameScript/FrameSDK like I know VBA, I could easily write
>> a program to do it.
>>
>> But I don't - yet.
>>
>> TIA
>>
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> ------------------------------------------------------------
>  Ken Luke                               ken_luke at mentor.com
>  "Complexity is easy; Simplicity is hard."
>   -- Edmund Keane
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