RE: Opening Files Prompt Save Questions

[David Schor <Davids@xxxxxxxxxx>]

Thanks Brian (and Lester). This is good to know. These lists are great
resources!

David 

-----Original Message-----
From: Brian Hudner [mailto:brian.hudner@openet-telecom.com]
Sent: Thursday, September 19, 2002 10:18 AM
To: David Schor; Framers List
Subject: RE: Opening Files Prompt Save Questions


David,

Not surprisingly, this has come up before, and the answer given by Lester C.
Smalley (Archives; Sat, 21 Apr 2001) may help to  counter this tendency:

"..I have a large number of files that I can open, click on words, phases,
entire paragraphs,
tables, figures, etc. and then be able to close without triggering the
message regarding saving changes.

The trick is that I have previously set these files to disable automatic
update of both cross-references and text insets, which is NOT the default
behavior.

To set this, use the Edit->Update References menu (or ESC e U keyboard
shortcut), and in the resulting dialog window select the option to Suppress
Automatic Updating via the commands pull-down from the upper-right corner
(or, you can use ESC e S as a shortcut to get you right to the suppress...
dialog).

Once set, you can open the file as often as desired, and as long as you
don't make any changes that FrameMaker will preserve (content and formatting
of course, but also viewing borders, rulers, grid lines or the zoom value,
among other things) you will NOT be prompted to save the file every time.

The down-side is that you must explicitly request the references to be
updated when desired. But if these files are part of a book, that can be
automated easily via FM's book update feature.

-- Lester

HTH,

Brian


> -----Original Message-----
> From: bounce-framers-59273@lists.FrameUsers.com
> [mailto:bounce-framers-59273@lists.FrameUsers.com]On Behalf Of David
> Schor
> Sent: Thursday, September 19, 2002 9:30 AM
> To: Framers List
> Subject: Opening Files Prompt Save Questions
>
>
> This may sound like a silly question, but it's bugged me about FrameMaker
> for many YEARS! The condition I'll describe is/was relevant on all Windows
> platforms and all Frame versions back to 3 or 4 that I can remember.
>
> Many times, I open a document and even if I don't change anything, I'm
> prompted to save changes when I close it. This always rankles
> because if the
> document is open a long time, I don't remember if I changed
> anything or not.
> For my own version control needs, I don't want to blindly save "new
> revisions" each time. Date of file/revision is important to me.
>
> Is there a way to set up Frame so that only changes to the document itself
> will force a save? Or is this simply a bug that Frame and then
> Adobe decided
> to let fester during the past decade?
>
> TIA,
> David
>
> David Schor
> Technical Publications Manager
> VCON Ltd.
> Tel: (+972) 9 959 0006
> Mobile: 054 788 253
> davids@vcon.co.il
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>
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