Shmuel asked about Macro Express and AutoIt. I've used Macro Express for
many years and AutoIt for the past 2-3. For simple, quick macros, Macro
Express is great. Well worth the $40.
For more involved scripting, ME gets really clumsy to write and
maintain. AutoIt is much better for complex
On 21 Feb 2008, at 02:17, Linda G. Gallagher wrote:
A client would like to be able to have a script that runs nightly
that will
do the following:
- Pull FM files and books from their version control system (PVCS)
- Maybe set conditions (not sure if this is needed yet)
- Update the
I was looking around and I see there are several Windows scripting tools
out there.
Here are three good ones:
AutoHotkey - free, has a record macro feature like Word
AutoIt v3 - free, good reviews
Macro Express - $40
I like the record feature, so I'm trying AutoHotkey first.
Regards,
Shmuel
Hi Linda:
I'm doing something similar except I haven't got the version control
system part yet. I'm assured by the software guys that I can do this.
We're using the Python scripting language and the FDK.
As for generating PDFs, we had that bad link problem unless we used the
Create Named
DZBatcher,
http://www.datazone.com/dzbatcher2.html
is your friend.
kind regards
Peter Ring
Linda G. Gallagher wrote:
Framers,
A client would like to be able to have a script that runs nightly that will
do the following:
- Pull FM files and books from their version control system
It says on the page you provided below:
DZbatcher is currently available for Windows NT 4.0, Windows 2000, Sun
Solaris 2.6 and AIX, and FrameMaker or FrameMaker+SGML (versions 5.5.6
or above), must be installed on your host system.
What about Windows XP and Vista? Are they supported?
Also, is
First, in case Dov or someone else from Adobe doesn't step in here,
please observe that there is a legal limit to how you can use current
FrameMaker versions unattended without a server license
(http://www.adobe.com/products/fmserver/).
As far as I can tell, the Adobe® FrameMaker® Server 8
You could probably do it with AutoIT, though it would take some practice
to get right. If you have an engineer to work with, they could probably
make quick work out of it (after complaining about how AutoIT is too
much like Visual Basic) with your help.
http://www.autoitscript.com/autoit3/
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