Hi I am very much a newbie at writing FrameScripts and I am also not a programmer so please bear with me. However I haven't run into very many problems so far....
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Michael Mueller-Hille...
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Jul 7, 2000 4:09 pm
egriffin@... hat am 07.07.2000 17:28 Uhr ... Zero is meant as the number zero, which is equivalent to false or nothing. So try Set...
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egriffin@...
Jul 10, 2000 8:54 am
... Thanks for the suggestion. When I tried this it produces a file called 0.ps. Erica Erica Woosey-Griffin Technical Author Schlumberger Geoquest 11 Foxcombe...
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elyse@...
Jul 10, 2000 8:43 pm
I am new to FrameScript and am trying to figure out how to write a script that would allow me to assign cellheading and cellbody paragraph tags to all tables...
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Rick Quatro
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Jul 10, 2000 9:09 pm
Hi Elyse, Here is some code to get you started. Copy and paste it in the Script Window and click Run. Comments begin with //. // Test for an active document. ...
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elyse@...
Jul 10, 2000 9:56 pm
Hi Rick, Your script worked instantly to assign CellHeading and CellBody paragraph tags to fifty test tables. Since I have been using Frame's default...
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Michael Mueller-Hille...
michael@...
Jul 20, 2000 7:28 pm
Hello, is this known by someone? I try to specify start and end pages before opening the print dialog (Windows) like that: Set vCurDoc.PrintStartPage =...
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Rick Quatro
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Jul 20, 2000 11:20 pm
Hello Michael, What happens if you use the Print command instead of the Fcode? Set vCurDoc.PrintStartPage = vFirstNum; Set vCurDoc.PrintEndPage = vLastNum; Set...
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Michael Mueller-Hille...
michael@...
Jul 21, 2000 8:18 am
Hi Rick, you were right - it seems that opening the dialog applies some default settings. BTW, the file was created in the directory of the script, so I added...
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peter.dawes@...
Jul 25, 2000 3:10 pm
Hello all, I am taking my first steps with FrameScript, thanks to Rick Quatro's introduction (www.frameexpert.com) and by reading through the example scripts...
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rick@...
Jul 25, 2000 5:28 pm
Hi Peter, What you have to do is pick up and apply the paragraph format properties of the paragraph that contains the found text. The definition of the Default...
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peter.dawes@...
Jul 26, 2000 12:28 pm
Thanks very much Rick! This was a big help. After your mail put me on the right track, I added the lines below (before applying the new properties), which...
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dsn16@...
Jul 27, 2000 1:50 pm
Hi! I am using FM 5.5.6 and FS 1.26C, in about 20 minutes 1.27. My problem is resolving (updating) crossreferences of between chapters in a book. Below is my...
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Rick Quatro
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Jul 27, 2000 6:46 pm
Michel, When you update cross-references, you only need to do it once for each document. You do not need to loop through each of the cross-references like your...
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Simon Bate
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Jul 28, 2000 9:17 pm
I'm building a script that will insert a mini-TOC of H1's and H2's at the beginning of each chapter. Everything works fine, except that I can't figure out how...
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Rick Quatro
rick@...
Jul 28, 2000 9:23 pm
Simon, What do you mean when you say the NextPgfInFlow property doesn't work properly? Rick Quatro Carmen Publishing 716 659-8267 rick@... ...
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Simon Bate
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Jul 28, 2000 9:50 pm
Hmm, now it's working. Thanks for putting me back on track, Rick. <redfaced> I thought I had tried NextPgfInFlow late yesterday afternoon. I guess I tried...
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jonesbk@...
Jul 28, 2000 10:00 pm
I'd sign up for that. How much you planning on charging? Simon Bate <sbate@...> on 07/28/2000 05:49:55 PM Please respond to...
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Simon Bate
sbate@...
Jul 28, 2000 10:10 pm
Let me see how long it takes to create it. I'm going to be writing some pretty heavy-duty document conversion scripts (to help get us up on a new set of...
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Rick Quatro
rick@...
Jul 28, 2000 11:24 pm
Simon and other FrameScripters, Go to the site for the Frame Developers Kit (http://partners.adobe.com/asn/developer/framefdk/fdk.html) and download the FDK...
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Simon Bate
sbate@...
Jul 29, 2000 12:07 am
Thanks, Rick! That's great. I figured out (at least theoretically) how to add XRefs in just a few minutes. It would have taken me a good long search of the...
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Werner Frank
wfrank@...
Aug 4, 2000 1:50 pm
Hallo, I´m considering using framescript and browsed around several websites for information about it. Now I´m wondering whether framescript is also usefull...
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Rick Quatro
rick@...
Aug 4, 2000 4:33 pm
Werner, FrameScript does allow you to loop through all of the files in a folder. They do not have to be in a book to process them with FrameScript. You cannot...
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Broadhurst, Heather
hb121021@...
Aug 7, 2000 7:49 pm
Greetings all, I'm trying to write a rather complex script, to automate a rather ugly procedure for producing "embedded tables." I've got it to the point...
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Rick Quatro
rick@...
Aug 7, 2000 8:27 pm
Hi Heather, First of all, the row height really consists of two properties: RowMinHeight and RowMaxHeight. Here is how to loop through the selected table and...
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Michael Mueller-Hille...
michael@...
Aug 7, 2000 8:37 pm
Heather, Sounds your digging deep in the properties :-) I think tables are kind of complicated. I recently wrote a script to compare two documents of different...
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egriffin@...
Aug 8, 2000 3:05 pm
Hi We have a very large manual (several thousand files) that contains master pages that we no longer require. In order to reduce the space that this manual...
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Rick Quatro
rick@...
Aug 8, 2000 6:48 pm
Erica, This one deserved its own tutorial. See the Tips page of my web site. Rick Quatro Carmen Publishing 716 659-8267 rick@... ...
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egriffin@...
Aug 9, 2000 9:22 am
... Thanks very much. Erica Erica Woosey-Griffin Technical Author Schlumberger Geoquest 11 Foxcombe Court Wyndyke Furlong Abingdon Business Park Abingdon OXON ...
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Rick Quatro
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Aug 9, 2000 11:48 am
Hi Solvejg, I have forwarded this to the "original" FrameScript list. I would urge you to use this list instead since there is more traffic. I have encountered...
