Scripting pulling FM files from version control and creating PDFs

[Paul Findon]

On 21 Feb 2008, at 02:17, Linda G. Gallagher wrote:

> A client would like to be able to have a script that runs nightly  
> that will
> do the following:
>
> - Pull FM files and books from their version control system (PVCS)
>
> - Maybe set conditions (not sure if this is needed yet)
>
> - Update the books
>
> - Create PDFs of books and some stand-alone files
>
> - Put the resulting PDFs in a specific place for the nightly build
>
> It seems like fmbatch can do this, but I think it only works with  
> FM for
> Unix (they have FM for Win).
>
> Can any of the other FDK tools do this? (An in-house developer will  
> likely
> write the script.)
>
> What about FrameScript?
>
> What tool is best?

This would be a piece of cake with AppleScript.

Whoops!

I forgot Adobe killed off the best version of FrameMaker. Ha, ha, ha...

Paul