Framescript question

[Michael Pearson]

Hi Callie,

 

Both of your "Save Book..." commands work for me under Win7, FM 9.0p250, FS 5.2R1 (after I substituted a valid target location for the resulting PDF file). You might try updating FM with the latest patch and also check to see that you can use the FM interface to "Save As PDF" to that target location. One more thing to check: if Distiller hasn't been initialized on the system your using, that could cause problems. Might try just opening Distiller to ensure it's functioning.

 

For FrameScript questions, you might have better luck over here: http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/framescript-users/

 

HTH,

Mike
 
> From: c.bertsche at tecplot.com
> To: framers at lists.frameusers.com
> Date: Mon, 10 May 2010 15:06:51 -0700
> Subject: Framescript question
> 
> 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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