I was not able to execute net files with a sequencer in batch mode. So this was not an option for me. Also when the name e.g. is not computable a sequencer will not be helpful. The scriptcmd option seems an option for me. I dod not know this command before.
Alex > You do know that you can do things like this within DX using modules > like Format and the Sequencer to construct strings that can then be > fed into the Import module and a Caption module, don't you? You can > also use the -scriptcmd command line option that would allow you to > do something like > > dx -script caption.net -scriptcmd 'file = "picture1.tiff"; captionStr > = "Picture 1"' > > David > > >Changing filenames can surely be achieved by a different way, but for > > changing a textsting for example in a net file m4 seemd very helpful for > > me. The following example just produces an image with a textstring. The > > textstring and the filename of the tiff picture can be changed by: > > > >m4 -DFILENAME=picture1.tiff -DTEXTSTRING="Picture 1" caption.net.m4 > > >caption.net > > > >dx -script caption.net > > > >I think it is not too complicated, as you can use your already existing > > net files, just change the filenames, textstrings, etc into keywords and > > process it with m4. If you have a better way of doing this, please let me > > know. > > > >Alex
