Frame-to-PDF mini-docs
Thanks Art and Jeremy. You definitely summed up my problem well. A Frameuser wrote me offline to suggest that ARTS PDF Split & Merge Lite would do the job by splitting at the bookmark level. Because I use two other ARTS plugins for PDFs, I have confidence in the company, so that is probably a good solution. Carol At 02:54 PM 4/27/2009, Art Campbell wrote: >If I'm hearing you correctly, you have chapter level Frame files made >up of small documents concatenated together. And you have a book >containing a herd of these chapters. And you want to output the most >finely-grained level as individual PDFs, right?
Frame-to-PDF mini-docs
If I'm hearing you correctly, you have chapter level Frame files made up of small documents concatenated together. And you have a book containing a herd of these chapters. And you want to output the most finely-grained level as individual PDFs, right? If the small documents still exist as independent files, I'd think about creating a meta-book containing those, and create pseudo-chapters within the book file instead of using hard files. Then just output to individual PDF files by selecting "Individual Files" on the print dialog box. Another way to go would be to upgrade to FM 9; I think the ability to nest folders as sections would also let you do this. Another route may exist through MIF2Go... I think you could set up an export to MIF, RTF, or HTML that would create break points on your DocTitle paratags. Generate a PDF of those files (probably using Acrobat's watched folders), and you're good. And yet another route would be to create a JavaScript in Acrobat, that extracts sections based on your DocTitle tags... I think it's possible, but I've only read the tip of the iceberg on this. There's some info on the Acrobat web site on how to do this, but I believe the capability is in Acrobat 9; maybe 8 too. Good luck, Art Art Campbell art.campbell at gmail.com "... In my opinion, there's nothing in this world beats a '52 Vincent and a redheaded girl." -- Richard Thompson No disclaimers apply. DoD 358 On Mon, Apr 27, 2009 at 4:29 PM, Carol J. Elkins wrote: > Using Frame 7.0, AcrobatPro 7.0, Mif2Go. I have books consisting of > chapters that contain several thousand individual documents. Each doc > begins consistently with a paratag for the doc title so it is easy to > define where a new doc starts. I've been asked to output individual > PDFs of each document. I'll probably need to do this once every > couple of years. The hard way would be to take the whole-book PDF and > manually extract each document to an individual file. Is there an easier way? > > Carol > > ** > Carol J. Elkins---A Written Word LLC > Making Information Understandable > Phone: 719-948-3773 > mailto:celkins at awrittenword.com > http://www.awrittenword.com > *** > > ___ > > > You are currently subscribed to Framers as art.campbell at gmail.com. > > Send list messages to framers at lists.frameusers.com. > > To unsubscribe send a blank email to > framers-unsubscribe at lists.frameusers.com > or visit > http://lists.frameusers.com/mailman/options/framers/art.campbell%40gmail.com > > Send administrative questions to listadmin at frameusers.com. Visit > http://www.frameusers.com/ for more resources and info. >
Re: Frame-to-PDF mini-docs
Thanks Art and Jeremy. You definitely summed up my problem well. A Frameuser wrote me offline to suggest that ARTS PDF Split & Merge Lite would do the job by splitting at the bookmark level. Because I use two other ARTS plugins for PDFs, I have confidence in the company, so that is probably a good solution. Carol At 02:54 PM 4/27/2009, Art Campbell wrote: >If I'm hearing you correctly, you have chapter level Frame files made >up of small documents concatenated together. And you have a book >containing a herd of these chapters. And you want to output the most >finely-grained level as individual PDFs, right? ___ You are currently subscribed to Framers as arch...@mail-archive.com. Send list messages to fram...@lists.frameusers.com. To unsubscribe send a blank email to framers-unsubscr...@lists.frameusers.com or visit http://lists.frameusers.com/mailman/options/framers/archive%40mail-archive.com Send administrative questions to listad...@frameusers.com. Visit http://www.frameusers.com/ for more resources and info.
Frame-to-PDF mini-docs
Carol, I've not actually done it recently, but the FM print window has a drop-down list called Print Book As. I believe if you select Separate Print Job for Each Document, you will get what you want. It would probably be best to place the resulting .ps files in a watched folder, so Distiller will automatically distill each one. ~ Linda G. Gallagher TechCom Plus, LLC lindag at techcomplus dot com www.techcomplus.com 303-450-9076 or 800-500-3144 User guides, online help, FrameMaker and WebWorks ePublisher templates -Original Message- From: framers-boun...@lists.frameusers.com [mailto:framers-bounces at lists.frameusers.com] On Behalf Of Carol J. Elkins Sent: Monday, April 27, 2009 2:30 PM To: framers at lists.frameusers.com Subject: Frame-to-PDF mini-docs Using Frame 7.0, AcrobatPro 7.0, Mif2Go. I have books consisting of chapters that contain several thousand individual documents. Each doc begins consistently with a paratag for the doc title so it is easy to define where a new doc starts. I've been asked to output individual PDFs of each document. I'll probably need to do this once every couple of years. The hard way would be to take the whole-book PDF and manually extract each document to an individual file. Is there an easier way? Carol ** Carol J. Elkins---A Written Word LLC Making Information Understandable Phone: 719-948-3773 mailto:celkins at awrittenword.com http://www.awrittenword.com *** ___ You are currently subscribed to Framers as lindag at techcomplus.com. Send list messages to framers at lists.frameusers.com. To unsubscribe send a blank email to framers-unsubscribe at lists.frameusers.com or visit http://lists.frameusers.com/mailman/options/framers/lindag%40techcomplus.com Send administrative questions to listadmin at frameusers.com. Visit http://www.frameusers.com/ for more resources and info.
Frame-to-PDF mini-docs
Using Frame 7.0, AcrobatPro 7.0, Mif2Go. I have books consisting of chapters that contain several thousand individual documents. Each doc begins consistently with a paratag for the doc title so it is easy to define where a new doc starts. I've been asked to output individual PDFs of each document. I'll probably need to do this once every couple of years. The hard way would be to take the whole-book PDF and manually extract each document to an individual file. Is there an easier way? Carol ** Carol J. Elkins---A Written Word LLC Making Information Understandable Phone: 719-948-3773 mailto:celkins at awrittenword.com http://www.awrittenword.com ***
Re: Frame-to-PDF mini-docs
On Mon, 27 Apr 2009 16:54:22 -0400, Art Campbell wrote: >Another route may exist through MIF2Go... I think you could set up an >export to MIF, RTF, or HTML that would create break points on your >DocTitle paratags. Generate a PDF of those files (probably using >Acrobat's watched folders), and you're good. Mif2Go doesn't split up MIF or RTF outputs, only HTML/XML outputs. So you would need to convert to, say, HTML, then make PDFs of the HTML files, either directly (using Acrobat, if it can do that, or another tool that does that), or indirectly (importing the HTML files to Frame or Word, and making the PDFs from there). The Mif2Go part is easy, but the next step may require scripting of some sort (JS, VBA, FrameScript) to avoid a lot of manual work. -- Jeremy H. Griffith, at Omni Systems Inc. http://www.omsys.com/ ___ You are currently subscribed to Framers as arch...@mail-archive.com. Send list messages to fram...@lists.frameusers.com. To unsubscribe send a blank email to framers-unsubscr...@lists.frameusers.com or visit http://lists.frameusers.com/mailman/options/framers/archive%40mail-archive.com Send administrative questions to listad...@frameusers.com. Visit http://www.frameusers.com/ for more resources and info.
Frame-to-PDF mini-docs
On Mon, 27 Apr 2009 16:54:22 -0400, Art Campbell wrote: >Another route may exist through MIF2Go... I think you could set up an >export to MIF, RTF, or HTML that would create break points on your >DocTitle paratags. Generate a PDF of those files (probably using >Acrobat's watched folders), and you're good. Mif2Go doesn't split up MIF or RTF outputs, only HTML/XML outputs. So you would need to convert to, say, HTML, then make PDFs of the HTML files, either directly (using Acrobat, if it can do that, or another tool that does that), or indirectly (importing the HTML files to Frame or Word, and making the PDFs from there). The Mif2Go part is easy, but the next step may require scripting of some sort (JS, VBA, FrameScript) to avoid a lot of manual work. -- Jeremy H. Griffith, at Omni Systems Inc. http://www.omsys.com/
Re: Frame-to-PDF mini-docs
If I'm hearing you correctly, you have chapter level Frame files made up of small documents concatenated together. And you have a book containing a herd of these chapters. And you want to output the most finely-grained level as individual PDFs, right? If the small documents still exist as independent files, I'd think about creating a meta-book containing those, and create pseudo-chapters within the book file instead of using hard files. Then just output to individual PDF files by selecting "Individual Files" on the print dialog box. Another way to go would be to upgrade to FM 9; I think the ability to nest folders as sections would also let you do this. Another route may exist through MIF2Go... I think you could set up an export to MIF, RTF, or HTML that would create break points on your DocTitle paratags. Generate a PDF of those files (probably using Acrobat's watched folders), and you're good. And yet another route would be to create a JavaScript in Acrobat, that extracts sections based on your DocTitle tags... I think it's possible, but I've only read the tip of the iceberg on this. There's some info on the Acrobat web site on how to do this, but I believe the capability is in Acrobat 9; maybe 8 too. Good luck, Art Art Campbell art.campb...@gmail.com "... In my opinion, there's nothing in this world beats a '52 Vincent and a redheaded girl." -- Richard Thompson No disclaimers apply. DoD 358 On Mon, Apr 27, 2009 at 4:29 PM, Carol J. Elkins wrote: > Using Frame 7.0, AcrobatPro 7.0, Mif2Go. I have books consisting of > chapters that contain several thousand individual documents. Each doc > begins consistently with a paratag for the doc title so it is easy to > define where a new doc starts. I've been asked to output individual > PDFs of each document. I'll probably need to do this once every > couple of years. The hard way would be to take the whole-book PDF and > manually extract each document to an individual file. Is there an easier way? > > Carol > > ** > Carol J. Elkins---A Written Word LLC > Making Information Understandable > Phone: 719-948-3773 > mailto:celk...@awrittenword.com > http://www.awrittenword.com > *** > > ___ > > > You are currently subscribed to Framers as art.campb...@gmail.com. > > Send list messages to fram...@lists.frameusers.com. > > To unsubscribe send a blank email to > framers-unsubscr...@lists.frameusers.com > or visit > http://lists.frameusers.com/mailman/options/framers/art.campbell%40gmail.com > > Send administrative questions to listad...@frameusers.com. Visit > http://www.frameusers.com/ for more resources and info. > ___ You are currently subscribed to Framers as arch...@mail-archive.com. Send list messages to fram...@lists.frameusers.com. To unsubscribe send a blank email to framers-unsubscr...@lists.frameusers.com or visit http://lists.frameusers.com/mailman/options/framers/archive%40mail-archive.com Send administrative questions to listad...@frameusers.com. Visit http://www.frameusers.com/ for more resources and info.
RE: Frame-to-PDF mini-docs
Carol, I've not actually done it recently, but the FM print window has a drop-down list called Print Book As. I believe if you select Separate Print Job for Each Document, you will get what you want. It would probably be best to place the resulting .ps files in a watched folder, so Distiller will automatically distill each one. ~ Linda G. Gallagher TechCom Plus, LLC lindag at techcomplus dot com www.techcomplus.com 303-450-9076 or 800-500-3144 User guides, online help, FrameMaker and WebWorks ePublisher templates -Original Message- From: framers-boun...@lists.frameusers.com [mailto:framers-boun...@lists.frameusers.com] On Behalf Of Carol J. Elkins Sent: Monday, April 27, 2009 2:30 PM To: framers@lists.frameusers.com Subject: Frame-to-PDF mini-docs Using Frame 7.0, AcrobatPro 7.0, Mif2Go. I have books consisting of chapters that contain several thousand individual documents. Each doc begins consistently with a paratag for the doc title so it is easy to define where a new doc starts. I've been asked to output individual PDFs of each document. I'll probably need to do this once every couple of years. The hard way would be to take the whole-book PDF and manually extract each document to an individual file. Is there an easier way? Carol ** Carol J. Elkins---A Written Word LLC Making Information Understandable Phone: 719-948-3773 mailto:celk...@awrittenword.com http://www.awrittenword.com *** ___ You are currently subscribed to Framers as lin...@techcomplus.com. Send list messages to fram...@lists.frameusers.com. To unsubscribe send a blank email to framers-unsubscr...@lists.frameusers.com or visit http://lists.frameusers.com/mailman/options/framers/lindag%40techcomplus.com Send administrative questions to listad...@frameusers.com. Visit http://www.frameusers.com/ for more resources and info. ___ You are currently subscribed to Framers as arch...@mail-archive.com. Send list messages to fram...@lists.frameusers.com. To unsubscribe send a blank email to framers-unsubscr...@lists.frameusers.com or visit http://lists.frameusers.com/mailman/options/framers/archive%40mail-archive.com Send administrative questions to listad...@frameusers.com. Visit http://www.frameusers.com/ for more resources and info.
Frame-to-PDF mini-docs
Using Frame 7.0, AcrobatPro 7.0, Mif2Go. I have books consisting of chapters that contain several thousand individual documents. Each doc begins consistently with a paratag for the doc title so it is easy to define where a new doc starts. I've been asked to output individual PDFs of each document. I'll probably need to do this once every couple of years. The hard way would be to take the whole-book PDF and manually extract each document to an individual file. Is there an easier way? Carol ** Carol J. Elkins---A Written Word LLC Making Information Understandable Phone: 719-948-3773 mailto:celk...@awrittenword.com http://www.awrittenword.com *** ___ You are currently subscribed to Framers as arch...@mail-archive.com. Send list messages to fram...@lists.frameusers.com. To unsubscribe send a blank email to framers-unsubscr...@lists.frameusers.com or visit http://lists.frameusers.com/mailman/options/framers/archive%40mail-archive.com Send administrative questions to listad...@frameusers.com. Visit http://www.frameusers.com/ for more resources and info.
