Other FDK Utilities

Book-Level Conditional Text

Conditional text is one of FrameMaker's best features when it comes to single-source authoring. Unfortunately, before the release of Version 6, FrameMaker only allowed you to control conditional text at the file level. With 50 separate files in a Book, changing Conditional Text settings can be a tedious and error-prone business.

This utility displays the familiar Conditional Text dialog box on a .BK (book) file's menu. Change the Show/Hide settings, and the settings of all files in the book are automatically updated!

Note: The functionality provided by this plug-in is incorporated in all versions of FrameMaker from Version 6.0 onwards.

The following screen shot shows the French version of the user interface. Note that all the usual conditional text functions are available:

When you have arranged the two lists of conditional text, click Define to set the conditions for each file in the book. The results are written to the FrameMaker console:

   

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Remove Local Formatting

"Local" formatting in FrameMaker occurs when the properties of a displayed paragraph do not match its definition in the paragraph catalog. This occurs frequently when importing text into FrameMaker, and can be difficult to detect and remove. This Frame FDK API client detects and removes local formatting from selected text segments or entire FrameMaker documents.

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Import Formatted Tables

This Frame FDK API client imports tab-delimited text files into formatted FrameMaker tables—allowing you to choose which table format to use—in one easy step.

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