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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:black">Hi all,<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:black"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="color:black">I’m trying to create my first ExtendScript to automate converting a batch of FM11 documents to FM10. The goal is to point the script to a folder, and have it convert all FM files in this folder.
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="color:black">I’ve cobbled together the following. I’m getting tripped up by the command to open a file (</span><span lang="EN-US">var doc = app.open(</span><span lang="EN-US" style="color:black">bestand</span><span lang="EN-US">);)</span><span lang="EN-US" style="color:black">.
I copied this from a Photoshop script, but it doesn’t work in FrameMaker. The Extendscript IDE isn’t very helpful, and the few FrameMaker examples I’ve found all work on the active document or book. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="color:black">How do I open a file?
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="color:black"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="color:black"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="color:black">#target "framemaker"<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="color:black"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="color:black">var inputFolder = Folder.selectDialog("Input folder");<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="color:black">var outputFolder = Folder.selectDialog("Output folder");<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="color:black">var name, saveParams, i;<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="color:black"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="color:black">if (inputFolder != null && outputFolder != null) {<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="color:black"> var files = inputFolder.getFiles("*.fm");<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="color:black"> for (var i = 0; i < files.length; i++) {<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="color:black"> var bestand = files[i];<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="color:black"> <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:black"> </span>var doc = app.open(<span style="color:black">bestand</span>);<span style="color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:black"> </span><span lang="EN-US" style="color:black">name = doc.Name;<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="color:black"> saveParams = GetSaveDefaultParams();<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="color:black"> returnParams = new PropVals();<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="color:black"> i = GetPropIndex(saveParams, Constants.FS_FileType);<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="color:black"> saveParams[i].propVal.ival =Constants.FV_SaveFmtBinary100;<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="color:black"> doc.Save(name, saveParams, returnParams);<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="color:black"> doc.Close(Constants.FF_CLOSE_MODIFIED);<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="color:black">
<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="color:black"> doc.close(SaveOptions.DONOTSAVECHANGES);<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="color:black"> $.writeln('File ' + (i + 1) + ' of ' + files.length + ' processed');<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="color:black"> </span><span style="color:black">}<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:black"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:black"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto"><span style="color:black;mso-fareast-language:NL">Kind regards,
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto"><b><span style="color:black;mso-fareast-language:NL">Harro de Jong</span></b><span style="color:black;mso-fareast-language:NL"><br>
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