RE: Text Options importing problem

["Combs, Richard" <richard.combs@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

Jeremy Griffith wrote:  

> I was especially worried that if imported into a book, all 
> the document properties, including numbering, would get 
> reset.  I just tested that, importing the little MIF file I 
> suggested earlier into the Mif2Go User's Guide, a 600-page 
> book of many chapters, and I'm sorry to report a disaster.
<snip> 
> This is most unfortunate.  It means that this apparently 
> simple and effective technique is practically unusable for 
> Document properties (though it would be fine for bringing in 
> one or two formats by themselves).

That's a real shame, because Doc Props is the category where it would be
*most* helpful. 

IMO, the Document Properties category is the worst-thought-out part of
Import Formats. It includes settings that, more often than not, should
be the same in all files of a book (or even a project or company), such
as Footnote Properties, Text Options, and PDF Setup. But it also
includes Numbering Properties, which are *highly unlikely* to be the
same across a whole book, much less a larger set of files. 

There really should be a separate check box for Numbering Properties.
The dialog box even has an unused space for it. If anyone from Adobe is
still reading this list, consider this a feature request for FM8. :-) 
 
Richard


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Richard G. Combs
Senior Technical Writer
Voyant, a division of Polycom, Inc.
richardDOTcombs AT polycomDOTcom
richardDOTcombs AT voyanttechDOTcom
303-223-5111
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303-777-0436
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