Automated way to import formats?

Art Campbell art.campbell at gmail.com
Wed Jul 15 05:12:34 PDT 2009


The Clean Import plugin does everything you want to do, and it works
at the book or file level.
Highly recommended.  at www.electropubs.com/


Art Campbell
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On Tue, Jul 14, 2009 at 9:58 PM, William Courington<billcour at sonic.net> wrote:
> I have some books that share most of their content. With variables and
> conditional text, I could probably make managing the files tolerable.
> But it would be more tolerable with scripts or other software that
> could do something like this:
>
>   - Open the "Settings" file for one book variant.
>         This file contains appropriate variable and conditional text
> settings.
>   - For each file in the book:
>     - Open the file in Frame
>     - Import Formats (Variables, Conditional Text Settings) from
> Settings file.
>     - Save and close.
>
> Is there a way to do this? I have both Windows and Solaris FrameMakers.
>
> Thanks in advance,
>
>   Bill
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