Framemaker FDK Utility of the Week: Innodata Isogen FDK Tool

Here’s a tool that provides a few useful utilities for those using structured Frame 5.5, 6 or 7.

http://www.innodata-isogen.com/knowledge_center/tools_downloads/fdk_tool

This dll adds a menu “MyUtilities” in the menu bar. Three menu items in this menu are:

“Assign ids”
It assigns an id to every element, which has an id attribute, in the opened document. A dialog box prompts for a prefix string and a second dialog box prompts for a suffix string. The id assigned is (prefix)(sequential number)(suffix)

“Find string in element tag”
It searches from the top of the opened document for a string in a particular element type. A dialog box prompts for a string to be searched for. A second dialog box prompts for an element name. It defaults to “Tag”, which is elmenet type in EDD for element name. It searches for the string and scrolls to the location.

“Find element”
It searches from the top of the opened document for an element type. A dialog box prompt for an element name. When an occurance is found, a dialog box prompt for “Find Next”. “Yes” will search for the next occurance. “No” will stop the search.

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