[Framers] Has anyone ever written a FrameMaker Cookbook?

Robert Lauriston robert at lauriston.com
Tue Jan 29 15:01:07 PST 2019


I wrote up a few long ago:

http://lauriston.com/framemaker_tips.html

This includes a PDF explaining how to link FrameMaker source to a
RoboHelp project, plus an example project:

http://lauriston.com/fm10_link_to_rh9.zip

On Tue, Jan 29, 2019 at 1:58 PM Lin Sims <ljsims.ml at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> And by this, I don't mean a cookbook for food making using FrameMaker as
> the writing tool. I mean, a reference book for FrameMaker that explains how
> to do some of the odder but more useful things that aren't covered in user
> guides and the like.
>
> For example, I'm now changing over a template that has been single-sided up
> till now to double-sided. This is easy enough to do, but I also want it to
> be able to assign a special master page with "this page intentionally left
> blank" on it if Frame adds a blank page because double-sided. And, of
> course, I want that master page assignment to be REMOVED if the the
> pagination changes. I'm moderately certain this should be possible without
> scripting, but I expect it to take a few days to figure out how to do it
> (in my copious spare time).
>
> There are also any number of questions I've seen come across this email
> list and now over on the Adobe forums for issues that seem to re-occur with
> some frequency that, again, a reference like this might be useful for,
> because sometimes, search tools just don't cut it ...
>
> So, has anyone? My google-fu seems to be lacking.


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