<html><head><meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"></head><body dir="auto"><div style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;">Hi Wim...</div><div style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;"><br></div><div style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;">Mif2Go includes a batch utility called RunFm. You might take a look to see if it will work for your needs. </div><div style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;"><br></div><div style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;">Also, Leximation (my company) offers a plugin called AutoFM that should do exactly what you want. </div><div style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;"><br></div><div><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;"><a href="http://leximation.com/tools/info/autofm.php">http://leximation.com/tools/info/autofm.php</a></span></div><div><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;"><br></span></div><div><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;">Cheers,<br></span><br><div style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;">...scott</div><div style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;"><br></div><div style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;">Sent from my phone. Please excuse any typos or unexpected brevity. </div></div><div style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;"><br>On Sep 30, 2013, at 7:35 AM, Wim Hooghwinkel - idtp <<a href="mailto:wim@idtp.eu">wim@idtp.eu</a>> wrote:<br><br></div><blockquote type="cite" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;"><div><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html charset=windows-1252">Hi all,<div><br></div><div>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.</div><div><br></div><div>I'm not sure if FMBatch still exists and can work with FM11?</div><div><br><div apple-content-edited="true">
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<br><div><div>Op 23 aug. 2013, om 19:00 heeft <a href="mailto:framers-request@lists.frameusers.com">framers-request@lists.frameusers.com</a> het volgende geschreven:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><blockquote type="cite">Send framers mailing list submissions to<br><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span><a href="mailto:framers@lists.frameusers.com">framers@lists.frameusers.com</a><br><br>To subscribe or unsubscribe via the World Wide Web, visit<br><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span><a href="http://lists.frameusers.com/mailman/listinfo/framers">http://lists.frameusers.com/mailman/listinfo/framers</a><br>or, via email, send a message with subject or body 'help' to<br><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span><a href="mailto:framers-request@lists.frameusers.com">framers-request@lists.frameusers.com</a><br><br>You can reach the person managing the list at<br><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span><a href="mailto:framers-owner@lists.frameusers.com">framers-owner@lists.frameusers.com</a><br><br>When replying, please edit your Subject line so it is more specific<br>than "Re: Contents of framers digest..."<br><br><br>Today's Topics:<br><br> 1. Hypertext links not working (<a href="mailto:Dave.Stamm@gdc4s.com">Dave.Stamm@gdc4s.com</a>)<br> 2. RE: Hypertext links not working (<a href="mailto:Dave.Stamm@gdc4s.com">Dave.Stamm@gdc4s.com</a>)<br><br><br>----------------------------------------------------------------------<br><br>Message: 1<br>Date: Thu, 22 Aug 2013 13:00:46 -0700<br>From: <<a href="mailto:Dave.Stamm@gdc4s.com">Dave.Stamm@gdc4s.com</a>><br>To: <<a href="mailto:framers@lists.frameusers.com">framers@lists.frameusers.com</a>><br>Subject: Hypertext links not working<br>Message-ID:<br><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span><<a href="mailto:31A5A925033707429B15A6DAC8BF48BA0354138F@AZ25EXM06.gddsi.com">31A5A925033707429B15A6DAC8BF48BA0354138F@AZ25EXM06.gddsi.com</a>><br>Content-Type: text/plain;<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>charset="iso-8859-1"<br><br>2013-08-22-04T20:00Z<br><br>Windows 7 Enterprise Service Pack 1<br>4?GB RAM<br>64-bit operating system<br>FrameMaker 11.0.2.384<br>FrameMaker installed on workstation<br>Folder and all files on a server on the local area network in accordance with corporate policy<br><br>I am unable to consistently encode hypertext links among five files in one unstructured book.<br><br>Here's how the files are arranged:<br><br><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>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.<br><br>Folder \Abc_Def<br><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>File dir_Abc_Def.book<br><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>File targetA.fm<br><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>File targetB.fm<br><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>File targetC.fm<br><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>File targetD.fm<br>File BEGIN_HERE.fm<br><br>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.<br><br>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).<br><br>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.<br><br>Dave Stamm<br>Information Engineer<br><br><br><br>------------------------------<br><br>Message: 2<br>Date: Fri, 23 Aug 2013 04:39:13 -0700<br>From: <<a href="mailto:Dave.Stamm@gdc4s.com">Dave.Stamm@gdc4s.com</a>><br>To: <<a href="mailto:robert@lauriston.com">robert@lauriston.com</a>><br>Cc: <a href="mailto:framers@lists.frameusers.com">framers@lists.frameusers.com</a><br>Subject: RE: Hypertext links not working<br>Message-ID:<br><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span><<a href="mailto:31A5A925033707429B15A6DAC8BF48BA0354167F@AZ25EXM06.gddsi.com">31A5A925033707429B15A6DAC8BF48BA0354167F@AZ25EXM06.gddsi.com</a>><br>Content-Type: text/plain;<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>charset="us-ascii"<br><br>2013-08-23-05T11:40Z<br><br>Robert -<br><br>Thanks for the info. I, too, haven't done this since years ago. So<br>long ago, in fact that I've tracked down my materials from Shlomo<br>Perets' training back in 2002.<br><br>Yes, all the files are part of dir_Abc_Def.book. The odd thing, for<br>myself, is that the "child" file, is outside the folder that contains<br>the rest of the book.<br><br>Nothing I've tried so far works, so I'm hoping that someone on the list<br>can help me find the "secret sauce" that I'm missing from the "recipe."<br><br>Regards,<br>Dave Stamm<br>Information Engineer<br>General Dynamics C4 Systems, Inc.<br><br>-----Original Message-----<br>From: <a href="mailto:robert.lauriston@gmail.com">robert.lauriston@gmail.com</a> [<a href="mailto:robert.lauriston@gmail.com">mailto:robert.lauriston@gmail.com</a>] On<br>Behalf Of Robert Lauriston<br>Sent: 2013-08-22-Thursday 16:24<br>To: Stamm, David-P45904<br>Cc: <a href="mailto:framers@lists.frameusers.com">framers@lists.frameusers.com</a><br>Subject: Re: Hypertext links not working<br><br>I haven't done that sort of thing in some years, but it used to be that<br>if you defined cross-references between .fm files in different<br>directories, all the files had to be open when you saved a book as PDF.<br><br>Also, the PDFs have to have the same relative directory relationship.<br>If you have ./foo/foo.book and ./bar/bar.book, links in foo.pdf will be<br>to ../bar/bar.pdf.<br><br>If BEGIN_HERE.pdf is generated from an .fm file instead of a .book, that<br>might be a problem.<br><br>On Thu, Aug 22, 2013 at 1:00 PM, <<a href="mailto:Dave.Stamm@gdc4s.com">Dave.Stamm@gdc4s.com</a>> wrote:<br><blockquote type="cite">2013-08-22-04T20:00Z<br><br>Windows 7 Enterprise Service Pack 1<br>4 GB RAM<br>64-bit operating system<br>FrameMaker 11.0.2.384<br>FrameMaker installed on workstation<br>Folder and all files on a server on the local area network in <br>accordance with corporate policy<br><br>I am unable to consistently encode hypertext links among five files in<br></blockquote>one unstructured book.<br><blockquote type="cite"><br>Here's how the files are arranged:<br><br> NOTE: The .book file and all the target files are "children"<br></blockquote>of folder \Abc_Def. File BEGIN_HERE.fm is "sibling" of folder \Abc_Def<br>and is to contain links to all four targets.<br><blockquote type="cite"><br>Folder \Abc_Def<br> File dir_Abc_Def.book<br> File targetA.fm<br> File targetB.fm<br> File targetC.fm<br> File targetD.fm<br>File BEGIN_HERE.fm<br><br>I moved File BEGIN_HERE.fm out of folder \Abc_Def because a recipient<br></blockquote>of the informational product (portable document format files) wants it<br>that way. I am using a character tag to constrain both the newlinks and<br>gotolinks to small amounts of text. Before I moved file BEGIN_HERE.fm<br>out of folder \Abc_Def, crossreferences among all files worked<br>flawlessly.<br><blockquote type="cite"><br>My latest attempt has been to specify named destinations (for example,<br></blockquote>newlink dir_About.fm) and jumps to named destinations (for example,<br>gotolink dir_About.fm).<br><blockquote type="cite"><br>In the source .fm files, these jumps work only a small part of the<br></blockquote>time. In the deliverable .pdf files, they don't work at all.<br><blockquote type="cite"><br>Dave Stamm<br>Information Engineer<br><br>_______________________________________________<br><br><br>You are currently subscribed to framers as <a href="mailto:robert@lauriston.com">robert@lauriston.com</a>.<br><br>Send list messages to <a href="mailto:framers@lists.frameusers.com">framers@lists.frameusers.com</a>.<br><br>To unsubscribe send a blank email to<br><a href="mailto:framers-unsubscribe@lists.frameusers.com">framers-unsubscribe@lists.frameusers.com</a><br>or visit <br><a href="http://lists.frameusers.com/mailman/options/framers/robert%40lauriston">http://lists.frameusers.com/mailman/options/framers/robert%40lauriston</a><br>.com<br><br>Send administrative questions to <a href="mailto:listadmin@frameusers.com">listadmin@frameusers.com</a>. 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