Re: Title of Book (appearing in headers/footers)

[Michael Richards <michaelr@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

I must say that I endorse this solution as being THE ONLY SOLUTION.

Dan has omitted one other very important reason why this solution is the only
real option:

If you use x-refs instead of variables and you are going to distill any of the
resulting books with Acrobat links included, the resulting pdfs will also have
hypertext links to any appearances of the the book title. If the book title is
on every page, the pdf will have a resulting file bloat of approximately (very
approximately!) 100 bytes per page. This adds up! Especially if there are more
than one of these master page x-refs per page!

AND, if that weren't bad enough, when the x-refs are either to ref pages or to a
master file that's not included in the book, all of these pdf links will be
broken, and the resulting pdfs will have dodgy integrity (i.e. none).

Posted to Free Framers due to the mention of the Framer Who Dare Not Speak His
Name.


Dan Emory wrote:
> 
> The problem, as I understand it, is that the original poster has multiple
> books, each one differentiated (at the least) by a title page file, with
> many of the chapters are used in more than one book. The book title and rev
> number must appear in the running header of the chapter files. Unless I'm
> missing something, the solutions I've seen in response to the original post
> seem to ignore the simplest way to solve this dilemma, as follows:
> 
> 1. Use variables for the title and revision number (and any other
> book-title-dependent text that must also appear in the chapter files). These
> variables will always be correct in the title page file, because they are
> used to create the title, rev number, etc. in the text of the title page.
> These variables are also included in the chapter files.
> 
> 2. Insert these variables at the appropriate positions in the header/footer
> text frames on the master pages. (It doesn't matter what the current value
> of the variables are).
> 
> 3. To prepare a book for output, open its title page file. Then, with input
> focus in the book file, choose File > Import > Formats. In the Import
> Formats dialog, choose the title page file as the import source, turn off
> everything but Variable Definitions, move all of the affected files into the
> Import list, and click the Import button. This will update the variable
> definitions in all of the selected files so that they have the values that
> were established in the title page file.
> =================================================================
> Note that this solution is effective even when chapters don't appear in
> multiple book files. If the variables in the title page file have the
> correct values, those values can be propagated to every other file in the
> book. Thus, if something must be changed in the book title page, it is done
> by changing the corresponding variable definition, and then reimporting the
> new values from the title page file into the other files of the book.
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> Dan Emory, Dan Emory & Associates
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