I use .bat files and runfm.exe to produce postscript files from FrameMaker, drop them into a watched folder, then a .bat file opens Distiller, creating PDFs. Other .bat files copy the finished PDFs to the product build pickup directory and to other interested parties...and includes an archive copy to my network share. My scripts will scale. They complete the "manual" process in about 10% of the time it takes me to do it all by hand...Kelly.
-----Original Message----- From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Fred Ridder Sent: Wednesday, July 15, 2009 2:21 PM To: [email protected]; [email protected] Subject: RE: What is the optimum way to generate PDF? Garnier Garnier wrote: > I would like to know as to what is the optimum way to generate PDF (300+ FM books with 700 pages (average) each? Many have pointed out that Save As PDF is not the ideal way of converting to pdf. I have automated the process using Framescript. Now I do not have the time to update the script because of my tight schedule. Besides the script includes other process as well. > > Watch folder is not the optimum way either to me because I have to distill to ps manually. You are missing the whole point of watched folders. If you have Acrobat Pro (Acrobat Standard Edition does not support watched folders), whenever Distiller is running it periodically (by default, every 30 seconds) checks each watched folders to see if there is a PostScript file there. If it finds one, it *automatically* distills the PostScript to PDF, using either the default Job Options or the set of Job Options specifically associated with the folder. If you (or your script) start Distiller before the script produces any PostScript output files and you simply leave Distiller running in the background while the script puts PostScript files in the watched folder as it produces them, the end result will be a folder-full of PDFs with no further action on your part. In other words, *automatically*. Or you can let the script generate all the PostScript files into the watched folder first, and then just launch Distiller and let it do it's thing on the files it finds waiting for it. One double-click on an icon (or one line in a batch file) to launch Distiller is not a heavy burden on the operator and certainly doesn't qualify as having to distill manually. -Fred Ridder _______________________________________________ You are currently subscribed to Framers as [email protected]. Send list messages to [email protected]. To unsubscribe send a blank email to [email protected] or visit http://lists.frameusers.com/mailman/options/framers/kmcdaniel%40pavtech. com Send administrative questions to [email protected]. Visit http://www.frameusers.com/ for more resources and info. _______________________________________________ You are currently subscribed to Framers as [email protected]. Send list messages to [email protected]. To unsubscribe send a blank email to [email protected] or visit http://lists.frameusers.com/mailman/options/framers/archive%40mail-archive.com Send administrative questions to [email protected]. Visit http://www.frameusers.com/ for more resources and info.
