What FM plugin suite give the most bang?

Thu Apr 23 10:56:20 PDT 2015

I'd look into FrameScript. There are many useful free scripts available,
and you can write your own or contract someone to write them for you.  I
highly recommend Rick Quatro, whose wizardry has dramatically expanded what
I can do with unstructured FrameMaker 12.

Two examples of easy, effective cleanup:
* ArchiveFM.fso does pretty much what the late Bruce Foster's Archive
plugin did - it takes all the files, images, and text insets in a book,
even those referenced from distant folders, and puts them in a ZIP archive.
In seconds you can blow away all those extra images that aren't used in a
book.
* TidyImport.fso enable you to clean up a doc with too many extra para and
character tags by doing a CleanImport from a known good clean template or
chapter. Not just those, but Para, Char, Table, Variable, x-ref,
conditions, color defs, math defs, doc properties, object styles, reference
pages and page layouts.

FrameScript is $179 for a single license. See https://framescript.com/

On Thu, Apr 23, 2015 at 1:35 PM, <john.x.posada at us.hsbc.com> wrote:

>
> Hi, guys...I'm using FM11 unstructured and I maintain quite a large
> document set...10 books of 2,000 pages each give or take.
>
> Because of the amount of time I spend on housekeeping, I'm ready to take a
> stab at adding plugins that will save me time. In addition, I may be
> bringing in a team of 3-4 writers and I want the files to be as clean as
> possible. When you evolve to 20,000 pages of document from an initial 195
> pages in 2 years, ya get careless at times.
>
> Now...I'm in a very locked down environment, so I know I'm in for a
> battle...this very well can be a 3-6 month project and I may loose.
>
> Money is no object. I was able to easily justify a $500 application just to
> check broken links (3 bullet points in an email) , but it took 4 months to
> work through the process from "request to license".
>
> So...if I was to try to put together a shopping list together with as many
> plugin components in as few different products as possible, what should
> that be?
>
> Thanks
>
> John X Posada
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