RE: Pls remind me: batch .fm file update to new Frame template

["Rick Quatro" <rick -at- rickquatro -dot- com>]

Hi Nancy,

Take a look at this:

http://frameautomation.com/findchangeformatsbatch/

It rolls all those steps into a simple process. No need to save as .MIF,
etc. Please let me know if you have any questions or comments. Thank you
very much.

Rick

Rick Quatro
Carmen Publishing Inc.
585-366-4017
rick -at- frameexpert -dot- com

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Subject: Pls remind me: batch .fm file update to new Frame template

   Hello, all.
   It's been a while since I've needed to update very inconsistent legacy
   FrameMaker documents to a new template. I vaguely recall this process:
   1. Save the entire Frame book to .mif. There's some handy plug-in lets
   you do this. Anybody know its name?
   2. Open all the .mif files in a tool like Notepad++.
   3. Create a mapping table for paragraph tags from old template to new.
   Is there a mapping tool I need? I think there is.
   4. ??? map page layout commands, variable definitions, character tag
   definitions . . . ?? Don't think I ever knew how to do this. I think I
   only knew how to map paragraph tags. Maybe character tags, too.
   5. Push a button. Shazam! All changes made in all mifs. Save .mifs.
   6. Reopen .mifs in Frame and import the new template.
   Result: all tags used in text have been updated; all unused tags and
   table definitions from old template are removed from the catalogs. Not
   sure what happens to formats that were used but never added to a
   catalog. ..
   Thanks very much for your help. I looked through my email archives
   because I knew I'd had really helpful discussions about this before.
   But the data elves have been using them for data spitballs, I guess,
   because I can't find them.
   --Nancy
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