AutoIT is capable of opening documents, editing them, and closing them
in FrameMaker (by pretending to be a user driving the menus).
On 2013-11-26 11:10, Rick Quatro wrote:
I agree with your assessment of AutoIT and add my endorsement.
However, it works in kind of a "playback mode" where the interface
steps get executed on the active document. This is good for one-off
tasks where you want to mimic what happens in the interface. With
ExtendScript/FrameScript, you work with commands that can not only
work on the active document, but on invisible documents that the
script opens, saves, and closes for you. This is advantageous if you
have a task to perform on all of the document sin a book. I would
consider AutoIT and FrameMaker scripting programs to be complementary.
Rick
Rick Quatro
Carmen Publishing Inc.
585-366-4017 **NEW**
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*Subject:* Re: Script to convert tables to paragraphs
And the free editor that comes with it provides autocompletion and
context-sensitive help.
Regards,
Shmuel Wolfson
052-763-7133
On 26-Nov-13 4:27 PM, Jim Owens wrote:
AutoIT is a powerful scripting language, and it comes with good
documentation. It's intended to act as a surrogate for a human, by
detecting screen or window activity and sending mouse or keyboard
responses, but it's also very good for general-purpose programming.
It includes the ability to compile your AU3 program to EXE, so
that you don't have to start up the scripting environment to run
the script.
On 2013-11-26 08:10, Shmuel Wolfson wrote:
Attached is an AutoIt script for this. AutoIt is a free
scripting language for Windows. It's very easy to write AutoIt
scripts for easy things like typing shortcut keys. You have to
download and install AutoIt in order to run this.
Below is the script as well, but it has to be in a text file
with a .AU3 extension in order to run it. You can see how
simple it is. And I added a lot of comments to make it easier
to understand. If you need more info, let me know.
Maybe one day I will get into ExtendScript, but AutoIt is so
much easier and more pleasant to use that it's worth considering.
Regards,
Shmuel Wolfson
Technical Writer
052-763-7133
; this script converts tables to text
; find the desired table once, before running the script
Opt("WinTitleMatchMode", 2) ; this sets the title match to be
anywhere in the window title
Dim $max
Dim $x = 1
$max = InputBox("","How many tables?","10")
WinActivate(".fm") ; this activates the window that has .fm in
the title bar (which may be hidden)
WinWaitActive(".fm")
While $x <= $max
Send("^+f") ; presses CTRL+SHIFT+f to find next
Sleep(100) ; pause 100 milliseconds - you may need to
increase this time if you have a slow computer
Send("!tvc") ; presses ALT+t,v,c to convert the table to text
Sleep(100) ; pause 100 milliseconds - you may need to
increase this time if you have a slow computer
$x = $x + 1
WEnd
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On 26-Nov-13 12:35 PM, Yves Barbion wrote:
Hi group
I'm looking for a script which does the following:
1. Find tables with a specific table tag, for example
"graphic_table".
2. Convert those tables to paragraphs (row by row).
Anyone?
Thanks in advance
--
Yves Barbion
www.scripto.nu <http://www.scripto.nu>
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