Re: Has the ExtendScript documentation been updated for FrameMaker 11?
I'm in the ExtendScript Toolkit CS6 Object Model Viewer... I've got the Book object selected... am I right in thinking that the "Properties and Methods" window then shows me what "methods" I can use...
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Feline, Not all commands are available as methods, and I would expect the Publish command to be one of them.Some menu items are implemented as separate clients and can only be accessed through...
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Re: Has the ExtendScript documentation been updated for FrameMaker 11?
Thanks Jang I thought the whole idea with this Framemaker Scripting was "You can write a script to do anything you can do in the FrameMaker GUI" ... i.e. if you can click on it, you can script it!...
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I will try to use my contacts at Adobe to find out how this could be done, if it can be done at all. I will post something as soon as I have found out what the status is. This issue has been on my...
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Re: Has the ExtendScript documentation been updated for FrameMaker 11?
feline, The scripting capabilities of FM are remarkable. It's possible that that you've found an instance where something is not easily done (or perhaps not possible), but I can assure you that just...
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Hi Russ, I agree with you about the scripting capabilities of FM, which is why I love the work I am currently doing. It does get a little complicated every now and then, but in the end I have usually...
View ArticleAutomating an unstructured text selection into a new DITA document
Hi everyone, Lately I've been thinking that it would come in handy to have a script that would allow me to select/highlight (using a mouse) a few words of text in an unstructured FM document, and then...
View ArticleRe: Getting and setting attribute values [ExtendScript]
Hi, I know this is an old thread but I ran across the same question and was helped by it. I came up with a different way that I think might be a little bit cleaner, more closely modeled to the FDK...
View ArticleRe: Automating an unstructured text selection into a new DITA document
Cronos75, I'll offer a few thoughts since no one else has. I'm not sure, though, that I'll be very helpful. I think the biggest challenge here is the invocation of a structuring mechanism, not general...
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Cronos, I have done plenty of conversion projects in the past years and from my experience I can only give you one very good advice about this: FORGET IT. Creating a script that allows selecting a...
View ArticleScript will not run with ]]> in it
Hi, This is just a heads up, perhaps someone could verify... if I put the character sequence ]]> anywhere within a JSX file, even within a comment, the script won't run when invoked from the toolkit...
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Re: Automating an unstructured text selection into a new DITA document
Thanks Russ and Jang. Indeed, I figured that such a script would be extrememly difficult, if not impossible, to create. The automation isn't critical for me to have, but it sure would be interesting to...
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Hello again Cronos, Here is a routine I created as a function to call from almost all my scripts. This function not only allows opening an FM document without updating all kinds of stuff but also doing...
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Much obliged, Jang! Could you give me an example of some parameters I can insert to make the function work. I tried entering a file path into the first parameter and "forewritable" into the second...
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Re: Has the ExtendScript documentation been updated for FrameMaker 11?
Well, it looks like I will give up on the idea of controlling this with a script. The documentation to enable me to work out how to do it just isn't there, and I haven't time to figure it out. But...
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Feline, Have you tried approaching this from RoboHelp instead? You can pull a FrameMaker document into a RoboHelp project by reference, meaning it is updated every time you open the project (possibly a...
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Re: Has the ExtendScript documentation been updated for FrameMaker 11?
Jang, this is exactly what one of the other Tech Writers here suggested I try (scripting RoboHelp instead of Frame)! I just thought it would be easier to script it from Frame, because the new...
View ArticleAdd new tag with extendscripts
Hi, Is it possible to add text to a framemaker document and apply a tag to it with Extend scripts?
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Meera, The answer is yes, obviously, but I am guessing you would want to know how this works, and that depends on what you mean with tags: format tags (paragraph or character formats), element tags in...
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Hi,Thanks. I am indeed looking at how this can be done. The document has an anchor tag for the images. I need to add a header tag before each of these anchors in the document. I need to perform the...
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