Re: Oh dear, Out of work for a while and I forget everything.

[Peter Gold <peter@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Allen:

I know the feeling of brain fade. For some things I've been doing in FM for
ten years, I have to look it up when away from them only a week.

Don't knock the help. Look up page count across a book, and pagination in
the search panel of FM online help.

HTH

Peter

On 7/31/04 12:33 AM, "Allen Schaaf" <soundbyte@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> Maybe this is what they mean when they say brain drain.
> 
> Working up a new FM template for about forty 25 to 40 page process
> documents. They were using Word. :( But I got them to get FM 7.1 and I'm
> running it on W2K. :)
> 
> On the front cover of each booklet is a variable for the total page count
> for the book, but it isn't working and I'm not sure why.
> 
> The template for the book is made up of:
> 
>        title_page.fm (2 pages)
>        rev_hist.fm (2 pages)
>        TOC.fm (2 pages)
>        preface.fm (2pages
>        chapter.fm (2 pages)
>        appendix.fm (2 pages)
>        glossary.fm (2 pages)
>        IX.fm (2 pages)
> 
> This is with almost no content yet, just footers and a couple of variables
> from the master pages.
> 
> Where is the setting to make the whole document print on one side only -
> right hand pages - as there will only be a dozen paper copies and the rest
> of the distribution is PDF/HTML? No duplex printer at the job so.... (I
> haven't done a single sided document in probably ten years!)
> 
> The other question is about the total page count variable. Even after
> regenerating the book it still only shows 2 for the number of pages in
> title_page.fm file. What a brain infarction!
> 
> You know what Adobe documentation is like so thanks bunches.
> 
> 
> Allen Schaaf
> 
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> Pamina: "The truth, the truth, ...even if it is a crime."
> 
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Regards,

Peter Gold
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