Printing PDF from Framemaker

[David Spreadbury]

You want to specify *.ps in Print to File and select Separate File for Each Document from Save Book As:. This will give you inidividual postscript files for each chapter, named the same as the chapter files.

--- On Thu, 2/4/10, kgrace4715 at aol.com <kgrace4715 at aol.com> wrote:


From: kgrace4715 at aol.com <kgrace4715 at aol.com>
Subject: Printing PDF from Framemaker
To: framers at lists.frameusers.com
Date: Thursday, February 4, 2010, 9:36 PM


I have book (e.g., book.bk) with files (Ch1.fm, Ch2.fm, Ch3.fm,Ch4.fm) 
that I would like to print as pdf files. I would like a book.pdf (all 
chapter files combined in one file) and Ch1.pdf, Ch2.pdf, Ch3.pdf and 
Ch4.pdf. Printing the book.pdf file can be accomplished with the 
setting of "Print Book As: Single Print Job". I would like now create 
the individual chapter pdf files in some sort of automated fashion. 
When I change to the setting of "Print Book As: Single Print Job" I am 
prompted to name each file and location. Is there a way to make the 
selection and have the file name be that of the .fm file and not a 
combination of the book and chapter file name by default. To further 
this it would be real nice if this could be accomplished in silent mode 
i.e., I am not bother with the naming of the individual files. In 
reality there are many more files and over time this is going to be a 
pain. Any ideas on streamlining this workflow?

Grace