David, I'm not sure it's possible to convert a string back to an object variable. You would have to be careful doing this because Object IDs are not ...
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Rick Quatro
frameexpert@...
Apr 1, 2000 1:46 pm
David, Each page in a document has a PageFrame object, which is an unanchored frame containing all of the objects on the page. Here is a way to get the ...
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Marcus Streets
marcus@...
Apr 6, 2000 10:09 am
With FrameMaker 6 due out I have a couple of questions: - when will a matching FrameScript be out? - will I need to pay for an upgrade? - will the existing...
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Jason Aiken
jason.aiken@...
Apr 6, 2000 1:36 pm
At last year's FrameUser Conference, Frank was demonstrating a FrameScript 2.0, due in early 2000. It allows an easier object oriented interface, FM+SGML...
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edunn@...
Apr 11, 2000 1:43 pm
Has anyone set up MultiEdit for use with FrameScript? I can rememember this program being mentioned in conjunction with FrameScript. Is MultiEdit difficult to...
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Marcus Carr
mrc@...
Apr 12, 2000 10:31 pm
... No, it's not difficult - one of our programmers set it up for OmniMark in a couple of hours. I don't use the setup myself (I prefer the straight text ...
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Rick Quatro
frameexpert@...
Apr 13, 2000 2:29 am
Eric, I haven't used MultiEdit, although it looks pretty powerful. I use UltraEdit, which is an all-purpose text editor. It has syntax highlighting for many...
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Ron Jeffries
ronjeffries@...
Apr 13, 2000 1:29 pm
I put my credit card in Tuesday and downloaded FS 1.26. It won't unzip. I downloaded it twice with the same CRC error. No one at frametools is responding....
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Ron Jeffries
ronjeffries@...
Apr 13, 2000 1:32 pm
I put my credit card in Tuesday and downloaded FS 1.26. It won't unzip. I downloaded it twice with the same CRC error. No one at frametools is responding....
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David Watts
dwwatts@...
Apr 13, 2000 5:18 pm
I'd like to do a Edit > Paste Special > Text. This pastes the contents of the clipboard into the document but strips off all formatting. Is there a way to do...
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Rick Quatro
frameexpert@...
Apr 13, 2000 5:31 pm
David, There is no way to do exactly this in FrameScript. But how did the formatted text get on the clipboard? And what kind of formatting do you want the...
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David Watts
dwwatts@...
Apr 13, 2000 9:28 pm
Rick, The data in the clipboard is normally from another application (eg Word) and I want to strip out all the formatting (eg typeface, size, attributes etc)...
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David Watts
dwwatts@...
Apr 13, 2000 9:31 pm
Another thought: Is there a way to put the contents of the clipboard directly into a FrameScript variable? If that were possible, then using New Text would do...
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Rick Quatro
frameexpert@...
Apr 13, 2000 9:45 pm
Hi David, I am assuming that the clipboard contents is coming from somewhere else besides FrameMaker. One way to do it is to use the Paste Text command to ...
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Rick Quatro
frameexpert@...
Apr 13, 2000 9:54 pm
David, The key to making it look clean on the screen is to issue the following command first: Set Displaying = 0; Do all of your intermediate steps, then do...
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Michael Conner
michaelconner@...
Apr 27, 2000 1:47 pm
Anybody heard anything new about Framescript and FM 6.0? There is nothing on their web site about it. Mike Conner...
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Rick Quatro
frameexpert@...
Apr 27, 2000 3:01 pm
Unofficially, the current version of FrameScript should work with FrameMaker 6. FrameScript is keyed to your FrameMaker serial number and I don't know if ...
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Michael Conner
michaelconner@...
May 1, 2000 1:49 pm
For those interested, there is now information about using Framescript with FM 6.0 at http://www.frametools.com/q__a__framescript__frametools.htm FrameScript...
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gblythe@...
May 11, 2000 2:40 am
I started out writing a simple script that would output all paragraph text in the same order within which it appears in a document. Simple you may say, well......
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Marcus Streets
marcus@...
May 11, 2000 8:47 am
... The gettextlist can report tableanchors. So you need to iterate over all paragraphs getting the text from the paragraph and then before moving on to the...
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Rick Quatro
rquatro@...
May 11, 2000 12:09 pm
Hi Graham, For each paragraph in the main flow, you have to get a textlist of table anchors in the paragraph. You can use something like this inside of your ...
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Ryan Gibson
ryan@...
May 11, 2000 6:16 pm
All: I'm a FS newbie and a non-programmer by trade, so all apologies up front... I'm importing a bunch of docs from Word, and our table titles import into FM...
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Rick Quatro
rquatro@...
May 11, 2000 11:13 pm
Hi Ryan, I might approach this from the other end; find the TableTitle paragraphs and then look for the preceding TableCaption. Loop ForEach(Tbl) In(ActiveDoc)...
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Ryan Gibson
ryan@...
May 12, 2000 1:04 am
Scripters: Anyone familiar with the Tbl.NumTabs property? The docs are vague about what this means, and I can't get it to work as (I think it's) advertised. ...
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Ryan Gibson
ryan@...
May 12, 2000 1:17 am
Rick, You are truly a master of your craft. This works perfectly. Thanks again. Ryan ... From: Rick Quatro [SMTP:rquatro@...] Sent: Thursday,...
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Rick Quatro
rquatro@...
May 12, 2000 3:13 am
Ryan, My initial thought is to use parentheses around the If statements. If (vPara.FirstIndent = 0.3") AND (vPara.NumTabs = 1) Let me know if this doesn't do...
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Ryan Gibson
ryan@...
May 12, 2000 3:48 pm
Rick, Nope, parentheses don't do the trick this time. I think I used this 'and' operator a few days ago and it worked fine and didn't require parentheses. ...
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Rick Quatro
rquatro@...
May 12, 2000 5:00 pm
You are right about the NumTabs property. It returns the number of tab stops in the paragraph, not the number of tab characters in the paragraph. Here is a way...
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Ryan Gibson
ryan@...
May 12, 2000 7:01 pm
Rick, Thanks again. And I guess I could Loop through each pgf with a counter to find the number of times that CHARTAB occurs in a pgf. I'll work on it. Ryan ...
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Mike McGuire
mikem@...
May 12, 2000 7:03 pm
Hi, Is there a way to access the paragraph identifier that FrameMaker gives to each paragraph (in WebWorks, this is called the "autotag" number)? We're trying...
