Removing custom row heights

[Christenson, Pat]

Hi all -

I really appreciate all the suggestions but doing a Find/Change through MIF is one of the first things I thought of and then rejected, mainly because it wouldn't really save time or effort.

We have hundreds of books, each containing 5-15 files. When you consider saving the files in MIF, running the Find/Change, saving the files again, reopening them in Frame and saving them as Frame docs ... well, it's still a lot of manual effort.

Creating an ExtendScript is probably not a big deal for someone who knows Java/ExtendScript we can't spend money to get that done. I have a couple ideas and I'll let you know how they work out.

Thanks again!

Pat




From: Craig Ede [mailto:craigede at hotmail.com]
Sent: Monday, July 07, 2014 12:11 PM
To: Christenson, Pat; framers at lists.frameusers.com
Subject: RE: Removing custom row heights

I wasn't suggesting a table by table approach, but a search and replace approach of the kind Shmuel describes. Framemaker could do the search and replace, but Notepad++ is a lot more efficient.
Notepad++ seems to work using search and replace as follows (for all tables). You could restrict it to the particular table setting you want removed if you'd like.
Use the regular expression option.
Set Find to <RowMinHeight *.*">
Set Replace to <RowMinHeight 0">

If you cut & paste a <RowMinHeight x.xxx"> line from the mif, you'll get the right space and tick marks.
Here's a JPG showing the options selected in Notepad++. Do a Find Next to make sure you are getting what you want and then do a replace all. Retain a copy of your original file.

Note that you can do the replace on a whole series of open documents.

[search.JPG]

Craig

From: Shmuel Wolfson [mailto:shmuelw1 at gmail.com]
Sent: Monday, July 07, 2014 11:42 AM
To: Craig Ede; Framers
Subject: Re: Removing custom row heights

Yes, but this could take a long time if you have a lot of tables with a lot of rows.

However, if you do the search and replace using a text editor that supports regular expressions (Notepad++, etc.) this could be a good solution. The regular expression to search for would be "RowMinHeight  [0-9]*.[0-9]*" (without the quotes) and replace with RowMinHeight  0.


Shmuel Wolfson

Technical Writer

052-763-7133
On 07-Jul-14 7:12 PM, Craig Ede wrote:
I set the row heights to zero, which I believe is the default. FrameMaker seems to take things over from there using the current paragraph tag to set the height to the minimum without obscuring text.

If all your custom settings are the same (for example: "1.56789") you can do a simple search and replace in the mif.

Replace:
<RowMinHeight  1.56789">
with
<RowMinHeight  0">

It looks to me like you could reset all tables by just removing the <RowMinHeight x.xxxxx> line from the mif. That would require a more sophisticated find value that used wildcards (or regexp)

Try this on a copy of a file and see if that works for you.

Craig


From: framers-bounces at lists.frameusers.com<mailto:framers-bounces at lists.frameusers.com> [mailto:framers-bounces at lists.frameusers.com] On Behalf Of Christenson, Pat
Sent: Thursday, June 19, 2014 2:36 PM
To: framers at lists.frameusers.com<mailto:framers at lists.frameusers.com>
Subject: Removing custom row heights

Almost all our tables have custom row heights - ugh! Does anyone know of a way to global reset the row heights to the defaults? I can't find anything in FrameMaker so I'm wondering if there's an add-on for it.

FrameMaker 10, Windows 7 Professional

Thanks!

Pat Christenson
Resource Coordinator
Fitzgerald Marketing and Communications
PChristenson at ftportfolios.com<mailto:PChristenson at ftportfolios.com>




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