Does FrameMaker 9 for Windows have an equivalent to fmbatch?

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3 total messages Started by Kenneth_Dyall Wed, 11 Mar 2009 23:34

#435

Author: Kenneth_Dyall
Date: Wed, 11 Mar 2009 23:34

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Does FrameMaker 9 have an equivalent to fmbatch? We use fmbatch on Unix to automatically generate our documentation set (50+ books) as PDF on a nightly basis. Doing this by hand would be extremely tedious and inefficient. Given that FrameMaker 8 is the the last Unix version that Adobe is supporting, it's critical to us to be able to schedule this task. So is there any facility in FM9 for automatically opening a set of books and saving them as PDF, and for scheduling this task?

Ken.

Re: Does FrameMaker 9 for Windows have an equivalent to fmbatch?

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Author: Arnis_Gubins
Date: Thu, 12 Mar 2009 07:00

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Ken,

You can try one of the following freebie FM batch tools for Windows:

DZbatcher from Datazone (http://www.datazone.com)
DoBatch from Cudspan available at
http://www.freeframers.org/freeware/cud/
runfm from Omni Systems at http://www.omsys.com

I don't know how well they work with FM9, though - only runfm has any
kind of support,

The alternative is to use FrameScript, which has a command line batch
interface to get FM going and start up a script, see RunEslBatch in
the User Guide.

Re: Does FrameMaker 9 for Windows have an equivalent to fmbatch?

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Author: Kenneth_Dyall
Date: Thu, 12 Mar 2009 17:10

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Thanks Arnis! I'll be checking out these solutions. From a quick look, it seems like the Omni Systems tool might work for us, and they do say they support FM9.

Ken.

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