What FM plugin suite give the most bang?

[Lin Sims]

Unfortunately for us, Electropubs, and its EzTools, has disappeared.

On Thu, Apr 23, 2015 at 3:12 PM, David Spreadbury <dspreadb at yahoo.com>
wrote:

> Not to disparage Framescript or Rick but File > Package does what Bruce
> Fosters Archive did and EZTools > Clean Import can clean up a document, or
> all chapters in a book very nicely/
>
>
>
>   On Thursday, April 23, 2015 1:59 PM, Rick Quatro <rick at rickquatro.com>
> wrote:
>
>
> 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
> rick at frameexpert.com
>
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> john.x.posada at us.hsbc.com
> Sent: Thursday, April 23, 2015 1:36 PM
> To: framers
> 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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