What is the optimum way to generate PDF?

[Kelly McDaniel]

I use .bat files and runfm.exe to produce postscript files from
FrameMaker, drop them into a watched folder, then a .bat file opens
Distiller, creating PDFs. Other .bat files copy the finished PDFs to the
product build pickup directory and to other interested parties...and
includes an archive copy to my network share. My scripts will scale.
They complete the "manual" process in about 10% of the time it takes me
to do it all by hand...Kelly.

-----Original Message-----
From: framers-bounces at lists.frameusers.com
[mailto:framers-bounces at lists.frameusers.com] On Behalf Of Fred Ridder
Sent: Wednesday, July 15, 2009 2:21 PM
To: garnier_framescript at yahoo.co.in; framers at lists.frameusers.com
Subject: RE: What is the optimum way to generate PDF?


Garnier Garnier wrote:

> I would like to know as to what is the optimum way to generate PDF
(300+ FM books with 700 pages (average) each? Many have pointed out that
Save As PDF is not the ideal way of converting to pdf. I have automated
the process using Framescript. Now I do not have the time to update the
script because of my tight schedule. Besides the script includes other
process as well.
>  
> Watch folder is not the optimum way either to me because I have to
distill to ps manually.


You are missing the whole point of watched folders. If you have Acrobat
Pro (Acrobat Standard Edition does not support watched folders),
whenever Distiller is running it periodically (by default, every 30
seconds) checks each watched folders to see if there is a PostScript
file there. If it finds one, it *automatically* distills the PostScript
to PDF, using either the default Job Options or the set of Job Options
specifically associated with the folder. If you (or your script) start
Distiller before the script produces any PostScript output files and you
simply leave Distiller running in the background while the script puts
PostScript files in the watched folder as it produces them, the end
result will be a folder-full of PDFs with no further action on your
part. In other words, *automatically*. 

Or you can let the script generate all the PostScript files into the
watched folder first, and then just launch Distiller and let it do it's
thing on the files it finds waiting for it. One double-click on an icon
(or one line in a batch file) to launch Distiller is not a heavy burden
on the operator and certainly doesn't qualify as having to distill
manually. 

-Fred Ridder
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