Need Help Automating FrameMaker Processes

[Bill Briggs]

At 9:39 AM -0400 4/28/06, Loren R. Elks wrote:
>Our company currently has a documentation set of 53 FrameMaker books that we PDF for easy access. We create PDFs using the TimeSavers utility to preserve link integrity. To do this we first have to open each book separately. Then we must run UPDATE BOOK on each FrameMaker book.  Each book must then be saved as an individual PDF file.
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>Is there a more automated way to create PDFs from 53 FrameMaker books? Or is there a quicker way to set up this process from FrameMaker? Are there any programs that could help automate these processes? Do your companies hold any best practices that we could benefit from?

 You didn't say what platform you were on. If you were on a Mac then it's an easy thing to do with AppleScript. You can automate all sorts of FrameMaker tasks with AppleScript, including this.

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