[Framers] ANN: Bottlenecks for the Ride for Roswell

[David Artman]

   Great idea for charity!

   My FM days are numbered at this point (barring a new employer) but one
   thing I think would be awesome is a Search-Including-Insets function.
   Not sure if that scriptable (can you script dialog boxes?); not sure if
   one already exists. But I know for sure that it would have saved me a
   LOT of hassle setting up "all-files" BOOK files and trying to remember
   to add each new text inset as I made them and imported them where
   needed.

   I'd also have loved some kind of script to run spell check 'into'
   insets, too (though now my memory is telling me that above a certain
   version, that Just Works now in FM?). But I always just switched to my
   'BOOK of All Insets' to do that as well.

   Finally... could a script figure out where automatic color definitions
   were generated? I've had some LONG hunts in the past, trying to figure
   out which (improper-file-type) indexed-color graphic junked up my
   file(s). Not a big deal; usually easy to track down given time and an
   IOR. But a "Search for source of Color Definition" dialog would have
   been a lot easier than taking the long way around [make IOR, pull into
   Excel, parse out extensions into their own columns, sort by extension,
   track down all indexed-color graphic, open each in PShop to see if they
   caused the non-standard Color Def--obviously, this is only needed when
   SOME index-color graphics MUST be used but others SHOULD be
   PNG/JPG/SVG].

   If I think of any others, I'll post again.

   Good on ya!

   David

   -------- Original Message --------
   From: "Rick Quatro" <[1]rick at rickquatro.com>
   Date: Mon, May 16, 2016 9:50 am
   Hello Framers,
   It is almost time for the annual Ride for Roswell to raise money for
   the
   Roswell Park Cancer Center in Buffalo, NY. My son, Jason, and I will be
   riding 102 miles on June 25th. Normally, I provide scripts or plugins
   to
   those that donate. This year I want to do something different: I want
   you to
   identify some FrameMaker bottlenecks that could be solved with
   scripting. If
   I like your idea, I will develop a script and use that to raise money
   for
   our ride.
   I have one script developed already: OpenAllSpecial. It opens all of
   the
   documents in a book without any alerts. This is useful if you have a
   FrameMaker crash and you have a bunch of recover files. The script will
   use
   the recover files automatically. Or, perhaps you don't have all of the
   graphics, but want to open all of the files anyway without alerts.
   Please email me with your ideas! Thank you very much.

References

   1. mailto:rick at rickquatro.com