I'm trying to automate print production for a set of books, using Framescript 1.27, with FrameMaker+SGML 5.5.6 on Windows NT 4.0. I want to set options in the...
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Marcus Streets
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Sep 6, 2000 7:39 am
... Tom You're right. You cannot set Spot Color as black and white or the printer name. I had a conversation with Frank Elmore about this as I have the same ...
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Tom Slee
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Sep 6, 2000 1:15 pm
Hi Marcus, Thanks for taking the trouble to reply. It looks like exactly what I need. I'll give it a workout today. Tom...
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Scott (INV-RC) Wagner
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Sep 7, 2000 10:25 pm
I've been offline for a few weeks, but I searched the archives and I didn't see this question answered, so... I'd like to search a document for unresolved...
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Rick Quatro
rick@...
Sep 8, 2000 1:22 am
Hi Scott, An easy way to convert cross-references to text is to delete the cross-reference format itself. Any cross-references using that format will be...
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Scott (INV-RC) Wagner
scott_wagner@...
Sep 8, 2000 6:08 pm
Excellent! Thanks very much, Rick! ... format will ... reference ... temporary ... references that ... above to ... and I ... figure ... Any...
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Ryneonic
lsherman@...
Sep 8, 2000 6:19 pm
Hi folks, I have a script that creates many books for a large number of manuals stored in several directories. The script uses a set of text files that...
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Rick Quatro
rick@...
Sep 8, 2000 6:57 pm
Hi Larry, Can you post your code? It will help us to troubleshoot it. Rick Quatro Carmen Publishing 716 659-8267 rick@... ...
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Marcus Streets
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Sep 11, 2000 8:15 am
... No but I did have a script that produced Internal Error: 5564, 5991365, 7502299, 0 when printing books with several conditions. Adding a pointless [ save...
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Michael Mueller-Hille...
info@...
Sep 11, 2000 9:34 am
Hi folks, have you monitored the amount of memory FrameMaker uses? I seem to remeber that FrameScript has a memory bug which may cause FrameMaker to quit. I...
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Marcus Streets
marcus@...
Sep 11, 2000 3:56 pm
... Micheal Yes I have checked memory and disk space. In fact the file gets so confused that if you restart Frame and open the file and print it Frame...
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Ryneonic
lsherman@...
Sep 11, 2000 4:07 pm
Hello, Scripticians, Since my last post on Friday, I have experimented with a simplified script that just loops and creates a whole lotta books. It also ...
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Rick Quatro
rick@...
Sep 11, 2000 5:15 pm
Hi Larry, Looking back on your original post, I have a suggestion. I have also had performance and memory problems in the past reading text files and using ...
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Michael Mueller-Hille...
info@...
Sep 11, 2000 6:13 pm
... Oops, I had this a few months ago, lets see whether I can recall the reasons. We did not have crashes but nasty wrong behaviour visible on the screen, like...
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Ryneonic
lsherman@...
Sep 11, 2000 6:51 pm
Hi Rick, In my later post, I included a simplified script that does NOT use text files into stringlists, and it still crashes after a couple hundred books. If...
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ian.saunders@...
Sep 12, 2000 2:29 pm
Hi, I am writing a script to read a text file containing a list of FrameMaker documents. Each line starts with the file name of the document, followed by one...
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ian.saunders@...
Sep 12, 2000 3:04 pm
Hi, I have just been given the answer to my problem of being unable to find CHARTAB in a text string. The secret is to use New String NewVar(vTabValue)...
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Marcus Streets
marcus@...
Sep 14, 2000 3:45 pm
I am trying to determine whether a paragraph already has a xref marker. By using Get TextList InObject(CurrentPgf) NewVar(CurrentTextlist) MarkerAnchor ; I...
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Rick Quatro
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Sep 14, 2000 4:03 pm
Hi Marcus, If you do use CurrentMarker.TextData it will return the Object Id of the marker. From there you can use CurrentMarker.TextData.Properties to get the...
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Philip Sharman
psharman@...
Sep 19, 2000 10:42 pm
Unfortunately, this helpful tip does not seem to work if you are searching the entire document. If I use New String NewVar(vTabValue) IntValue(9); Find...
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Rick Quatro
rick@...
Sep 20, 2000 12:41 am
Philip, You need to use IntValue(8) instead of IntValue(9). Also, the FrameScript variable CHARTAB will work in the Find String command. If you want to find...
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ian.saunders@...
Sep 20, 2000 7:15 am
Hi, Sorry if I am stating the obvious, but the key distinction here is that you use IntValue(9) when searching TEXT files/strings for tabs, but IntValue(8) or...
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Michael Conner
michaelconner@...
Sep 20, 2000 5:04 pm
I have a script that sets some text with a condition tag. However, I've run into a problem with text that already has a tag applied. I want the script to apply...
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Philip Sharman
psharman@...
Sep 20, 2000 6:16 pm
Thanks for the help. A related question -- is there any way to search for a carriage return or line feed? The CHARCR and CHARLF characters don't seem to work,...
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Rick Quatro
rick@...
Sep 20, 2000 8:47 pm
Hi Philip, You can't use the IntValue technique to search for the end of a paragraph. You have to get a TextList instead. Get TextList...
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Rick Quatro
rick@...
Sep 22, 2000 11:22 pm
Hello Scripters, Here is a correction to a recent post. In the Get TextList command, you need to use TblAnchor instead of TableAnchor. I am sorry for any...
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egriffin@...
Sep 25, 2000 11:45 am
Hi I am working on a script to convert all the text insets in a book to text. /*This script converts all the text inserts to text in a book*/ // //Script...
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Rick Quatro
rick@...
Sep 25, 2000 12:52 pm
Hi Erica, I have a similar script, but I import the text before deleting the text inset. When you delete the text inset first, you are probably destroying the ...
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egriffin@...
Sep 25, 2000 1:40 pm
Hello Rick ... I tried moving it so that I set the TextSelection before I deleted the text inset and it made no difference. But yes the way I have it now it...
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clafran@...
Sep 25, 2000 3:49 pm
First off, I am not a user of Frame Maker. I am in charge of all the software we use in our engineering department. I am looking to do what I hope is a simple...
