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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Axegrrl" data-source="post: 1560541" data-attributes="member: 17584">life might be easier with FrameMaker...I'm curious what size monitor you've got. I'm sitting here with a 17" monitor that's 6 or 7 years old. It's fine for 99% of what I do, but...I do wonder if this is a case where a bigger monitor would help bunches. I don't know what you're using to create this monster (and I mean monster as in OMG is it big), but I do know how to make it easy to produce both serif and non-serif versions -- IF you have the project in FrameMaker. (Hmmm. Something similar might work if you have InDesign, too, but I haven't looked at that in a while.)The basic version of a how-to:Do most of your work with the sans serif style, since that's what you're used to. Generate the sans-serif PDFs as usual. Save off all your files and create a backup.Take your longest, most complex file -- with respect to text formatting, that is. Save that as "sansseriftemplate.fm" and as "seriftemplate.fm". Leave sansseriftemplate.fm alone. In seriftemplate.fm, go into the Paragraph Styles (ctrl-m to open). Go to the Default Font tab. For each paragraph tag, switch the font Family to a serif font. Click Update All each time. Rinse and repeat. Save seriftemplate.fm.Get all the files ready to create a sans-serif PDF. Have the seriftemplate.fm file open. Then from the book file, select all the files, then use File>Import>Formats. Select seriftemplate.fm as the file to import from. Click the Import button, and all the files will get the formats from seriftemplate.fm. I've done this on many occaisions, and it's actually easier than it sounds, once you set everything up. The first time through, you may want to make some other adjustments to the seriftemplate.fm formats. (If you aren't using FrameMaker and you've read all of this anyway, there's another advantage to using Frame for something this complex... you can create cross-references and have Frame + Acrobat turn them into links semi-automagically. It would make a two-column format a bunch easier, too. And no, I don't work for Adobe. I just use FrameMaker 30+ hours/week.)</blockquote>

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