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

[Lin Sims]

As I recall, the airline industry also mandates use of point pages, for the
same reason that the rail industry does. I'm not entirely certain if the
military does, but I think they used to.

On Tue, Aug 14, 2018 at 4:16 PM, Rick Quatro <rick at rickquatro.com> wrote:

> The one user I referred to just came out of the shadows :-).
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Framers <framers-bounces+rick=rickquatro.com at lists.frameusers.com>
> On
> Behalf Of Carol J. Elkins
> Sent: Tuesday, August 14, 2018 4:09 PM
> To: klaus at daube.ch; An email list for people using Adobe FrameMaker
> software. <framers at lists.frameusers.com>
> Subject: Re: [Framers] Are "point-pages" still in use?
>
> Hi Klaus,
>
> I continue to use point pages and Rick's plug-ins to maintain them.
> Point pages are critical to a couple of rail industry books that I manage
> that govern how trains are operated in interchange. One book is updated
> quarterly; the other every six months. Pagination must be kept frozen
> between the annual releases of these books. Although they are available as
> a
> PDF download, the changed pages in the interim releases are printed in
> hardcopy and mailed to subscribers. If changes to a page cause text to
> reflow to an extent that creates a new page, then I must create point pages
> for those pages. For those who have never heard of such a thing, point
> pages
> are decimal-defined pages that are inserted between regular pages. For
> example, pages 102, 103, 104, 104.1, 104.2, 105, 106.
>
> Carol
>
> At 01:41 PM 8/14/2018, Klaus Daube wrote:
> >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?
>
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