One of the big drawbacks with FrameMaker's format import procedure is that existing paragraph tags, table definitions and so on are not deleted from the current document before the new formats are imported.
The Clean Import plug-in deletes all paragraph and character tag names, table definitions, cross-reference formats, conditional text tags, master pages, reference pages, and variable definitions from the current document, then allows you to select formats from a selected template.
Without CleanImport...
With CleanImport...
The content of your document is not affected.
What's New in V2.0
This is a complete rewrite of the previous version. New features are:
- Now displays a dialog box similar to FrameMaker's Import > Formats window (see right), allowing you to import all format types, or any combination of format types.
- If you choose to import variables, you can choose to either convert variables in the current document to text before importing variable formats from the template, or to preserve existing variables, in which case these are not deleted and a warning message is written to the console.
- Can be used on individual files, or selected files within a book.
- Correctly handles situations where the chosen template is already open, or where the current document is the same as the selected template
- The plugin no longer needs to be registered in the maker.ini or fmsgml.ini file. Simply copy the DLL file to the installdir/fminit/Plugins folder and restart FrameMaker.