Specifying Custom File Names for FrameMaker Imports

If you import Adobe FrameMaker documents, you can split those documents into multiple topics based on the styles in them. For example, you might decide to create a new topic at each "Heading 1" style in the FrameMaker document. You can also control the file names given to the new topics that are created from the imported Imported documents. To do this, you need to insert a custom "Filename" marker at the appropriate headings in the FrameMaker documents where new topics will be created.

How to Specify Custom File Names for FrameMaker Imports

Following are steps for creating these markers in Adobe FrameMaker. For more information, please refer to the documentation provided with FrameMaker. The following steps may vary in different versions of FrameMaker.

1. Open the FrameMaker document.
2. In FrameMaker, create the filename marker type that is required for this feature. This is a one-time step in the document. Afterwards, you can simply select the newly created marker type when applying it to content. To create the filename marker type, do the following:
   1. In FrameMaker, select Special > Marker. The Marker dialog opens.
   2. From the Marker Type field, click the down arrow and select Edit. The Edit Custom Marker Type dialog opens.
   3. In the field, replace the existing text and type Filename.
   4. Click Add.
   5. Click Done.
3. In the FrameMaker document, place your cursor at the heading where you want to create a new file during the import.
4. If it is not already displayed, open the Marker dialog (Special > Marker).
5. If the filename marker type is not already displayed in the dialog, click the Marker Type down arrow and select Filename.

6. In the Marker Text field, enter the name you want to assign to the file (without the file extension).

   Example You have a place in a FrameMaker document that is using the Heading 1 style and contains the text "All About Rabbits." You want a new topic to be created at that point when you import the document. However, you also want to make sure that the file name for that new topic is simply "Rabbits." Therefore, you open the FrameMaker document and insert a filename marker at that heading, using the text "Rabbits" for the marker.

   When you import the FrameMaker document, you select to split new topics on certain styles, including the Heading 1 style. After the import is finished, one of the topics created is named "Rabbits.htm."

7. Click New Marker.
8. Save the FrameMaker document.

9. In Flare, import the FrameMaker document. When you arrive at the "New Topic Styles" page in the Import FrameMaker Wizard or the "New Topic Styles" tab in the FrameMaker Import Editor, select the style(s) where you inserted filename markers in the FrameMaker document.

   See Importing FrameMaker Files.