[Framers] Are "point-pages" still in use?

[Rick Quatro]

Hi Klaus,

It still works, even in the latest versions of FrameMaker. However, the
feature has serious limitations:

1) Table that split across pages cause problems.

2) The document's autonumbers reset on each page.

3) It doesn't work with structured documents.

The main limitation was number 2 and I managed to program around these, but
you had to follow very specific steps. A few people bought my solution, but
it was pretty much a maintenance headache because people didn't always
follow the rules.

I do have one client that still successfully uses my process for a large
document set.

Try it for yourself. Open a FrameMaker document and press Escape p z.

Rick Quatro
Carmen Publishing Inc.
rick at frameexpert.com
585-729-6746 NEW!



-----Original Message-----
From: Framers <framers-bounces+rick=rickquatro.com at lists.frameusers.com> On
Behalf Of Klaus Daube
Sent: Tuesday, August 14, 2018 3:42 PM
To: framers at lists.frameusers.com
Subject: [Framers] Are "point-pages" still in use?

Dear all,

In one of my older documents about FM I see a section about "point-pages":
- FM function Freeze Pagination and Unfreeze (limited functionality)
- Reference to Rick Quatro's plug-ins PointPages and PrintingPointPages with
detailed documentation how to use. Nothing of this is left on Ric's site.

For online-documentation there is no need for such a mechanism, because an
updated version of a long document can be published without ruining the
forests.

But IMHO there are still paper demanding situations of thick manuals, which
can not be re-distributed as a whole for every update.

How are such situations handled nowadays?

Klaus
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Klaus Daube             Phone:  +41-44-381 37 77
Schäracher 11           Mail:   klaus at daube.ch
CH-8053 Zürich          Web:    www.daube.ch


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