Import Formatting Tables DLL

The Import Formatted Tables DLL is a Frame Developer's Kit (FDK) API Client, compatible with the Windows 95 and Windows NT version of FrameMaker 5.5 only.

Description

This DLL takes advantage of two relatively unknown "features" of FrameMaker:

  1. The ability to import text files containing comma-, space-, or tab-delimited characters into a FrameMaker table.
  2. The ability to save a table as a table format and have FrameMaker preserve all information regarding the number of columns and the width of each column in the table format.

Use this DLL to import comma-delimited text into preformatted table definitions. The following simple steps are necessary:

  1. Install the DLL as described below.
  2. Restart FrameMaker.
  3. Set up your table definitions in FrameMaker (you'll want to do this in a template, then create a new document from the template).
  4. Start the FDK API by selecting Table to Text from the API menu.
  5. Select the text file containing the data to import.
  6. Select the table format to use to format the table.
  7. Click OK.

The data is imported into the table format you select, with no further reformatting necessary!

Installation

  1. Locate the FrameMaker initialization file (maker.ini for FrameMaker or fmsgml.ini for Frame+SGML) and edit the file with a text editor.
  2. Locate the API Clients section and add the following line:
    ImportTables=Standard,Import text columns as tables, fminit\importtest3.dll



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