PDF Generation with runfm.exe of OmniSystems Inc.

[Jeremy H. Griffith]

On Mon, 5 May 2008 17:57:39 +0200, "Alexandre Mazouz" 
<alexandre.mazouz at gmail.com> wrote:

>I am new User of the command Line runfm.exe (Mif2Go of OmniSystems Inc.).

;-)

>I have created a batch file containing a list of runfm to generate PDF.
>but for some files i have problems without solution.
>Look to the messages from the FrameMaker Console Window :
>
>1)
>C:\Documents and Settings\amazouz>runfm -doc
>"D:\consolidation\nr500\fm\PartB\Ch
>apter11\PartBChap11Sect03.fm" -pdf doc
>"G:\erules\data\_src\_new\nr500\pdf\n0001
>0002\00110003.pdf" -close doc
>=>
>runfm Ver. 3.3, Build 003
>
>runfm project "pdf doc" started: Mon May 05 17:30:08 2008
>
>Opened document:
>D:\consolidation\nr500\fm\PartB\Chapter11\PartBChap11Sect03.fm
>Current active document:
>D:\consolidation\nr500\fm\PartB\Chapter11\PartBChap11Sect03.fm
>Making PDF for:
>D:\consolidation\nr500\fm\PartB\Chapter11\PartBChap11Sect03.fm
>PDF file: G:\erules\data\_src\_new\nr500\pdf\n00010002\00110003.pdf
>PDF failed: Unknown error. (-27)

That happened when F_ApiSilentPrintDoc() returned FE_BadOperation,
which is not documented in the FDK.  Have you tried making the PDF
for this doc by hand?  If that doesn't work, runfm won't either.
If it does, runfm *should* work.

>Failure in Frame FDK client: OmniBookExport
>runfm project failed: Mon May 05 17:30:08 2008
>
>Closed document:
>D:\consolidation\nr500\fm\PartB\Chapter11\PartBChap11Sect03.fm
>
>I don't understand???

The error you got is not one of the two documented for that FDK
function, so you'll need to do the usual troubleshooting for
PDF problems.  Sometimes there's a graphic Distiller doesn't
like.  If you get an error when you make the PDF manually in
Frame (by printing to the Adobe PDF printer, *not* by SaveAs PDF),
try cutting the file in half, and see which part still has the
problem.  Repeat until you identify the exact point of trouble.

>2)
>runfm -doc "D:\consolidation\nr500\fm\PartB\Ch
>apter12\PartBChap12Sect04.fm" -pdf doc
>"G:\erules\data\_src\_new\nr500\pdf\n0001
>0002\00120004.pdf" -close doc
>=>
>runfm Ver. 3.3, Build 003
>
>runfm project "pdf doc" started: Mon May 05 17:52:01 2008
>
>Opened document:
>D:\consolidation\nr500\fm\PartB\Chapter12\PartBChap12Sect04.fm
>Current active document:
>D:\consolidation\nr500\fm\PartB\Chapter12\PartBChap12Sect04.fm
>Making PDF for:
>D:\consolidation\nr500\fm\PartB\Chapter12\PartBChap12Sect04.fm
>PDF file: G:\erules\data\_src\_new\nr500\pdf\n00010002\00120004.pdf
>PDF not found: C:\Documents and Settings\amazouz\Mes
>documents\PartBChap12Sect04.pdf

When Distiller makes the PDF, it always writes it to "My Documents"
for the logged-in user (in your case, "amazouz\Mes documents").  If
it fails, we *may* not get an error back from the FDK, but the file
simply isn't there.  That's what happened here.  When we *do* find
the file, we move it to the destination you specified.  We do *not*
depend on the English name for the directory; we get the path from 
Windows for the current session by an API call.

>runfm project completed: Mon May 05 17:53:13 2008
>
>Closed document:
>D:\consolidation\nr500\fm\PartB\Chapter12\PartBChap12Sect04.fm
>
>It appends only for 4 or 5 fm files.All others are well.

That's good, it means your installation is correct.  The trouble
is in the failing files themselves (at least, Distiller thinks so).

>I have carefully check my Distiller and Adobe PDF, it seems okay.
>
>Have you any idea?

It's a good idea, when using runfm, to start by doing the same
operation you want to automate from within FrameMaker, by hand.
Watch for errors.  If it doesn't work that way, runfm won't
work either.

You can also tell runfm to write even more diagnostics by adding:
  -diag
to your command line, and you can save the messages to a file:
  -log logfile.txt
New messages are appended to the file, so you can use the same 
file for many sessions.  If you specify -log with no name, we
use mif2go.log in the current directory.

HTH!
-- Jeremy H. Griffith, at Omni Systems Inc.
  <jeremy at omsys.com>  http://www.omsys.com/