Frame-to-PDF mini-docs

[Art Campbell]

If I'm hearing you correctly, you have chapter level Frame files made
up of small documents concatenated together. And you have a book
containing a herd of these chapters. And you want to output the most
finely-grained level as individual PDFs, right?

If the small documents still exist as independent files, I'd think
about creating a meta-book containing those, and create
pseudo-chapters within the book file instead of using hard files. Then
just output to individual PDF files by selecting "Individual Files" on
the print dialog box.

Another way to go would be to upgrade to FM 9; I think the ability to
nest folders as sections would also let you do this.

Another route may exist through MIF2Go... I think you could set up an
export to MIF, RTF, or HTML that would create break points on your
DocTitle paratags. Generate a PDF of those files (probably using
Acrobat's watched folders), and you're good.

And yet another route would be to create a JavaScript in Acrobat, that
extracts sections based on your DocTitle tags... I think it's
possible, but I've only read the tip of the iceberg on this. There's
some info on the Acrobat web site on how to do this, but I believe the
capability is in Acrobat 9; maybe 8 too.

Good luck,
Art


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On Mon, Apr 27, 2009 at 4:29 PM, Carol J. Elkins
<celkins at awrittenword.com> wrote:
> Using Frame 7.0, AcrobatPro 7.0, Mif2Go. I have books consisting of
> chapters that contain several thousand individual documents. Each doc
> begins consistently with a paratag for the doc title so it is easy to
> define where a new doc starts. I've been asked to output individual
> PDFs of each document. I'll probably need to do this once every
> couple of years. The hard way would be to take the whole-book PDF and
> manually extract each document to an individual file. Is there an easier way?
>
> Carol
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