script for batch PDF generation
Wim Hooghwinkel - idtp
wim at idtp.eu
Mon Sep 30 07:35:59 PDT 2013
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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> Date: Thu, 22 Aug 2013 13:00:46 -0700
> From: <Dave.Stamm at gdc4s.com>
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> Subject: Hypertext links not working
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> 2013-08-22-04T20:00Z
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> 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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> 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
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> 2013-08-23-05T11:40Z
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> 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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