Re: Getting rid of a notification
Thanx. That worked. I always build menus with commands. So I never really experimented with all the options in the Scripts Catalog. It takes too much screen real estate, as I am already short of...
View ArticleHow can I find out if a structured doc is valid?
Hi all, I need to establish the validity of a Doc before my script transforms it to XML and applies an XSLT in the process. I have searched the FM12 scripting guide but cannot find any Doc property or...
View ArticleRe: How can I find out if a structured doc is valid?
Some more digging showed the solution, although I do feel there should be an easier way: The highest level element of the main flow may show a red plus in the Structure View but this is not reflected...
View ArticleRe: How can I find out if a structured doc is valid?
Hi Jang, This is the only way I've found do to it; that is, step through the entire tree and look at elements individually. It may just be that the granular nature of the API expects us to write...
View ArticleRe: How can I find out if a structured doc is valid?
Hi Russ, What strikes me is that apparently the FM code already contains this routine - as visible in the Structure View - but it was not deemed important enough to share with scripters via an...
View ArticlePatternstream and Framemaker Publishing Server 12
What's the best way to make sure an FDK (Patternstream in our case) fires up with every job on Framemaker Server 12, and how do you pass parameters (e.g., the name of the pset file to work with?) We...
View ArticleRe: Patternstream and Framemaker Publishing Server 12
FrameScript has the ability to run an "Initial Script" whenever you start FrameMaker. Patternstream has some integration with FrameScript so you may be able to pass parameters to Patternstream once...
View ArticleRe: Patternstream and Framemaker Publishing Server 12
I have done a project where my ExtendScript was initiated from a FrameScript. In the other direction, there are several API Clients I use that can be called from ExtendScript, using the CallClient...
View ArticleSet book file name when opening XML file using Read/Write rules
We are attempting to script the loading of an XML file into FrameMaker binary files and subsequent processing. Our structured appplication read/write rules specify the component names, but FrameMaker...
View ArticleFDK: #define FAPI_*_BEHAVIOR
FDK allows for defining the following symbols: FAPI_4_BEHAVIOR, FAPI_5_BEHAVIOR, FAPI_55_BEHAVIOR and FAPI_6_BEHAVIOR. What FAPI_*_BEHAVIOR shall be defined for FDK12? I found the follwoing...
View ArticleFramescript: search and replace condition name in a bunch of mif files
Hello fellows, I would like to loop through all mif files listed in a book, and search/replace specific condition names with other ones.This can be done in each FM file as follows:...Sub ProcessDoc...
View ArticleRe: FDK: #define FAPI_*_BEHAVIOR
Zdenek, What are you trying to do? Are you trying to use FDK 4 code with the FDK 12 or something like that? If you are just trying to write an FDK12 plugin, you don't need to do anything. I didn't...
View ArticleRe: FDK: #define FAPI_*_BEHAVIOR
Hello Russ, thank you very much for your response. I completely understand what you have written. I do not want to define these symbols with the aim to achieve the backward compatibility. The...
View ArticleRe: FDK: #define FAPI_*_BEHAVIOR
Hi Zdenek, Interesting observation. I'm not sure what the reason is. I think that anymore, either a bug in the software or an error in the documentation is par for the course. I have only ever used a...
View ArticleRe: Framescript: search and replace condition name in a bunch of mif files
There is no difference in the code. FM binary and mif are just the formats in which the files are stored on the disk. When the document is loaded into FM, the internal representation is what your...
View ArticleRe: Framescript: search and replace condition name in a bunch of mif files
Hi Jang, Thank you for your response. Interestingly enough, FM allows changing the Track Changes conditions to any other conditions using the script, but not the other way around. This can only be done...
View ArticleRe: Framescript: search and replace condition name in a bunch of mif files
Hi Roman, I have not delved into the details of applying conditions, but I did find that some condition formats are predefined by FM. Probably there is a property (possibly hidden) that does not allow...
View ArticleOutput function (results to a file) in Extendscript
When I check a script I use the alert to see if the code is working, such as "Current tag is body".Is there a function that outputs alert results to a file? For example, a way to send to a file allof...
View ArticleRe: Output function (results to a file) in Extendscript
Check the JavaScript Tools Guide for details about the File object. Basically, it works more or less like this: var oFile = new File ( /* full path name as text string */ ); oFile.open( "w" ); /*...
View ArticleRe: Finding an element from a text location
Hi Jang, Did you end up working this out? I'm trying to do the same thing now and looking for the answer.... thanks, Tracey
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