Need Help Automating FrameMaker Processes

[Marcus Streets]

Wayne Brissette wrote:
>> I am sorry to correct you, but I have been doing Windows (and Mac) 
>> FrameMaker automation for the last 8 years with FrameScript, including 
>> complex FrameMaker to PDF workflows.
> 
> Rick:
> 
> My comment if you read it was that you can do it painlessly with AppleScript. A scripting language that many people use and write in. I also said "...if not, I don't have a good answer for you." That wasn't to say there weren't options. But with the exception of a few people on the FM lists, FrameScript is not something you will find most people have A) access to or B) knowledge of how to program. And that in my opinion is what separates the Mac and Windows platform. I can use AS as a shell to shuttle data across many applications (including some that don't truly support AS), I can also call AWK and shell scripts from within an AS and pipe the results into it. This makes it very much more versatile than FrameScript for some tasks. And this is why a lot of us who still use FM on the Mac are very reluctant to move over to the Windows platform, and why we scream when Adobe keeps telling us that we need to either use Windows or the Solaris version of FM. Neither is a true repl
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> -Wayne
> 
There is also Pymaker for Python and FrameAC for Visual basic - both of
which are languages many people know - and you can write driectly to the
API but that needs a C programmer.

Mind you in the end you need to know he Framemaker object model and API
however you wrap it.