Re: Third party tool to automatically created PDF from a FrameMaker book file

2015-01-28 Thread Robert Lauriston
The free utility DZBatcher makes it easy to script generation of PDFs from FrameMaker. http://www.miramo.com/dzbatcher2.html As Scott notes, using that in a continuous integration system would require a license for FM Server. It's also probably a dumb idea based on a lack of insight into the

Third party tool to automatically created PDF from a FrameMaker book file

2015-01-27 Thread Mark Soiseth
Hi all, We're creating documentation in PDF format from FrameMaker (for a few lucky projects). At the moment, I manually create a PDF and place it in a specific folder where it is picked up by the build machine. The manager, however, finds this to be old-fashioned and wants the build machine to

RE: Third party tool to automatically created PDF from a FrameMaker book file

2015-01-27 Thread Keith Soltys
...@lists.frameusers.com [mailto:framers-boun...@lists.frameusers.com] On Behalf Of Mark Soiseth Sent: Tuesday, January 27, 2015 2:58 PM To: FrameUsers Users Subject: Third party tool to automatically created PDF from a FrameMaker book file Hi all, We're creating documentation in PDF format from FrameMaker

Re: Third party tool to automatically created PDF from a FrameMaker book file

2015-01-27 Thread Scott Prentice
Mark... There are tools that can do this. I offer one called AutoFM that can be used to script the creation of a PDF (among other things). The problem is that the FM license doesn't allow unattended scripting of FM unless you buy the Server version of FM (that's the big ticket item). I