Framescript question

Callie Bertsche c.bertsche at tecplot.com
Mon May 10 15:06:51 PDT 2010


System: MS Vista
Software: FM 9.0p230, FrameScript 5.2R1

I'm working on creating a script that automates all PDF builds for all our documentation books and I seem to have run into a snag - I can get everything to work so far except after my script opens the files, runs checks, applies templates etc in FrameMaker, I haven't been able to command it to save the book as a PDF. For example, here's my current simplified test script that opens a book, opens its files, and saves it as a PDF. Everything happens except no PDF save, no PDF created. Maybe someone could spot what I'm missing? Did some requirement of FrameScript change with FrameMaker 9? (This used to work in FrameMaker 7, with an earlier version of FrameScript :] )

(I also tried printing it as a PDF in my script, but it also did not work, and didn't seem to have as many customization options.)

Help?


Set cbook = 'c:\temp\docbuild\products\tecplot\release\360\release.book'

Open book File(cbook) NewVar(bookobj);

Loop ForEach (BookComponent) In(ActiveBook) LoopVar(cBookCompVar)
   Open Document File(cBookCompVar.Name);
Endloop

// Also tried this: Save Book BookObject(ActiveBook) File('c:\Users\callie\Desktop\release.pdf') FileType(SaveFmtPdf)


Save Book BookObject(ActiveBook) File ('c:\Users\callie\Desktop\release.pdf')
                                 AlertUserAboutFailure(False)
                                 SaveFileNotWritable(Cancel)
                                 FileIsInUse(ResetLockAndContinue)
                                 FileType(SaveFmtPDF)
                                 ReturnStatus(PDFSaveErrorList);

Display PDFSaveErrorList  // So far this only displays a "0"

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