Scripting pulling FM files from version control and creating PDFs

[Shmuel Wolfson]

I was looking around and I see there are several Windows scripting tools 
out there.

Here are three good ones:

AutoHotkey - free, has a record macro feature like Word
AutoIt v3 - free, good reviews
Macro Express - $40

I like the record feature, so I'm trying AutoHotkey first.

Regards,
Shmuel Wolfson


Paul Findon wrote:
> 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
> _______________________________________________
>
>
> You are currently subscribed to Framers as sbw at actcom.com.
>
> Send list messages to framers at lists.frameusers.com.
>
> To unsubscribe send a blank email to 
> framers-unsubscribe at lists.frameusers.com
> or visit http://lists.frameusers.com/mailman/options/framers/sbw%40actcom.com
>
> Send administrative questions to listadmin at frameusers.com. Visit
> http://www.frameusers.com/ for more resources and info.
>
>