What FM plugin suite give the most bang?

Thu Apr 23 14:05:58 PDT 2015

Ditto!

From: framers-bounces at lists.frameusers.com [mailto:framers-bounces at lists.frameusers.com] On Behalf Of Rick Quatro
Sent: Thursday, April 23, 2015 1:12 PM
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Subject: RE: What FM plugin suite give the most bang?

Yes, they make good stuff. I recommend their products.

From: Writer [mailto:generic668 at yahoo.ca]
Sent: Thursday, April 23, 2015 3:08 PM
To: Rick Quatro; john.x.posada at us.hsbc.com<mailto:john.x.posada at us.hsbc.com>; 'framers'
Subject: Re: What FM plugin suite give the most bang?

I've heard good things about Silicon Prairie Software, although I have not used it: http://www.siliconprairiesoftware.com/

Nadine

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Sent: Thursday, April 23, 2015 2:08 PM
Subject: RE: What FM plugin suite give the most bang?

Hi John,

As you know, I am a big fan of scripting. FrameMaker 11 has ExtendScript
built in, so one clandestine way of adding productivity to FrameMaker
without plugins is to learn to write some scripts. ExtendScript is basically
Adobe's version of JavaScript on top of FrameMaker's object model. If you
don't want to write them yourself, you can purchase them from others. And
because scripts are compiled at runtime, you usually get the source code so
you can reuse parts and pieces in your own scripts. Your learning will make
things a longer term effort, but it sounds like your procurement process
takes time anyway, so you may as well be adding to your skill set as you
learn.

I am doing an Adobe Webinar next Wednesday on ExtendScript in FrameMaker. If
you have a particular task in mind and attend the webinar, I will make sure
you get the script at no cost, or in exchange for a small donation to the
Roswell Cancer Center in Buffalo. I welcome some good ideas for scripts that
I can demonstrate. Please let me know if you have any questions or comments.
Thank you very much.

Rick

Rick Quatro
Carmen Publishing Inc.
585-366-4017
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Sent: Thursday, April 23, 2015 1:36 PM
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Subject: What FM plugin suite give the most bang?

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
AML Syst & Ops Supt Data Analyst | US FCC & RC Systems Control & Analytics
| HSBC North America Holdings Inc
330 Madison Ave., NY NY

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