script for batch PDF generation

[Shmuel Wolfson]

DZbatcher is a free command line tool you can use to automate PDF 
generation.
http://www.miramo.com/english/overview/download.html
Here's the documentation for it:
www.miramo.com/download/dzbatcher/documentation.pdf‎


On 30-Sep-13 4:35 PM, Wim Hooghwinkel - idtp wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> I'm looking for a way to automate the pdf generation of FM books 
> (unstructured) in FM11. Use case: 6 books, each in 24 languages to be 
> printed to PDF once a day. Has anyone such a script (ExtendScript) 
> available or knows of a plugin that performs it? Would be nice if the 
> script will allow additional modification like importing variable 
> definitions etc.
>
> I'm not sure if FMBatch still exists and can work with FM11?
>
> any suggestion appreciated…..
>
> Vriendelijke groet / Kind regards,
>
> Wim Hooghwinkel
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>> 1. Hypertext links not working (Dave.Stamm at gdc4s.com)
>> 2. RE: Hypertext links not working (Dave.Stamm at gdc4s.com)
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>> Message: 1
>> Date: Thu, 22 Aug 2013 13:00:46 -0700
>> From: <Dave.Stamm at gdc4s.com>
>> To: <framers at lists.frameusers.com>
>> Subject: Hypertext links not working
>> Message-ID:
>> <31A5A925033707429B15A6DAC8BF48BA0354138F at AZ25EXM06.gddsi.com>
>> Content-Type: text/plain;charset="iso-8859-1"
>>
>> 2013-08-22-04T20:00Z
>>
>> Windows 7 Enterprise Service Pack 1
>> 4?GB RAM
>> 64-bit operating system
>> FrameMaker 11.0.2.384
>> FrameMaker installed on workstation
>> Folder and all files on a server on the local area network in 
>> accordance with corporate policy
>>
>> I am unable to consistently encode hypertext links among five files 
>> in one unstructured book.
>>
>> Here's how the files are arranged:
>>
>> NOTE: The .book file and all the target files are "children" of 
>> folder \Abc_Def. File BEGIN_HERE.fm is "sibling" of folder \Abc_Def 
>> and is to contain links to all four targets.
>>
>> Folder \Abc_Def
>> File dir_Abc_Def.book
>> File targetA.fm
>> File targetB.fm
>> File targetC.fm
>> File targetD.fm
>> File BEGIN_HERE.fm
>>
>> I moved File BEGIN_HERE.fm out of folder \Abc_Def because a recipient 
>> of the informational product (portable document format files) wants 
>> it that way. I am using a character tag to constrain both the 
>> newlinks and gotolinks to small amounts of text. Before I moved file 
>> BEGIN_HERE.fm out of folder \Abc_Def, crossreferences among all files 
>> worked flawlessly.
>>
>> My latest attempt has been to specify named destinations (for 
>> example, newlink dir_About.fm) and jumps to named destinations (for 
>> example, gotolink dir_About.fm).
>>
>> In the source .fm files, these jumps work only a small part of the 
>> time. In the deliverable .pdf files, they don't work at all.
>>
>> Dave Stamm
>> Information Engineer
>>
>>
>>
>> ------------------------------
>>
>> Message: 2
>> Date: Fri, 23 Aug 2013 04:39:13 -0700
>> From: <Dave.Stamm at gdc4s.com>
>> To: <robert at lauriston.com>
>> Cc: framers at lists.frameusers.com
>> Subject: RE: Hypertext links not working
>> Message-ID:
>> <31A5A925033707429B15A6DAC8BF48BA0354167F at AZ25EXM06.gddsi.com>
>> Content-Type: text/plain;charset="us-ascii"
>>
>> 2013-08-23-05T11:40Z
>>
>> Robert -
>>
>> Thanks for the info. I, too, haven't done this since years ago. So
>> long ago, in fact that I've tracked down my materials from Shlomo
>> Perets' training back in 2002.
>>
>> Yes, all the files are part of dir_Abc_Def.book. The odd thing, for
>> myself, is that the "child" file, is outside the folder that contains
>> the rest of the book.
>>
>> Nothing I've tried so far works, so I'm hoping that someone on the list
>> can help me find the "secret sauce" that I'm missing from the "recipe."
>>
>> Regards,
>> Dave Stamm
>> Information Engineer
>> General Dynamics C4 Systems, Inc.
>>
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: robert.lauriston at gmail.com [mailto:robert.lauriston at gmail.com] On
>> Behalf Of Robert Lauriston
>> Sent: 2013-08-22-Thursday 16:24
>> To: Stamm, David-P45904
>> Cc: framers at lists.frameusers.com
>> Subject: Re: Hypertext links not working
>>
>> I haven't done that sort of thing in some years, but it used to be that
>> if you defined cross-references between .fm files in different
>> directories, all the files had to be open when you saved a book as PDF.
>>
>> Also, the PDFs have to have the same relative directory relationship.
>> If you have ./foo/foo.book and ./bar/bar.book, links in foo.pdf will be
>> to ../bar/bar.pdf.
>>
>> If BEGIN_HERE.pdf is generated from an .fm file instead of a .book, that
>> might be a problem.
>>
>> On Thu, Aug 22, 2013 at 1:00 PM, <Dave.Stamm at gdc4s.com> wrote:
>>> 2013-08-22-04T20:00Z
>>>
>>> Windows 7 Enterprise Service Pack 1
>>> 4 GB RAM
>>> 64-bit operating system
>>> FrameMaker 11.0.2.384
>>> FrameMaker installed on workstation
>>> Folder and all files on a server on the local area network in
>>> accordance with corporate policy
>>>
>>> I am unable to consistently encode hypertext links among five files in
>> one unstructured book.
>>>
>>> Here's how the files are arranged:
>>>
>>> NOTE: The .book file and all the target files are "children"
>> of folder \Abc_Def. File BEGIN_HERE.fm is "sibling" of folder \Abc_Def
>> and is to contain links to all four targets.
>>>
>>> Folder \Abc_Def
>>> File dir_Abc_Def.book
>>> File targetA.fm
>>> File targetB.fm
>>> File targetC.fm
>>> File targetD.fm
>>> File BEGIN_HERE.fm
>>>
>>> I moved File BEGIN_HERE.fm out of folder \Abc_Def because a recipient
>> of the informational product (portable document format files) wants it
>> that way. I am using a character tag to constrain both the newlinks and
>> gotolinks to small amounts of text. Before I moved file BEGIN_HERE.fm
>> out of folder \Abc_Def, crossreferences among all files worked
>> flawlessly.
>>>
>>> My latest attempt has been to specify named destinations (for example,
>> newlink dir_About.fm) and jumps to named destinations (for example,
>> gotolink dir_About.fm).
>>>
>>> In the source .fm files, these jumps work only a small part of the
>> time. In the deliverable .pdf files, they don't work at all.
>>>
>>> Dave Stamm
>>> Information Engineer
>>>
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