Command-line support for Frame utilities (& other questions)

["I'm still@xxxxxxxxxx" <aditya@xxxxxxxxxx>]

Hi folks,

I am brand new to this very useful list service. I've read some what
and tried to search through other archives on Frame Maker newsgroups,
but could not succeed in finding the information I need. (Also some
of the search capabilities in other archives were a bit challenging,
so I gave up in preference to a live audience.)

If it helps to set some context, I work at Sybase, and in our team,
Frame Maker is used heavily as the document authoring tool for
engg specs/docs.

Here goes. My questions are:

1. Command-line support for all Frame functions/utilities:

   Is there a full-fledged command-line language for the tasks that one
   could do with Frame through the GUI? I read the Maker (5.1 ) docs for
   Unix, and only found fmprint, fmbatch, and not much else.

   In particular, I need to use the File -> Utilities -> Compare feature
   that is very nice. We need to do this to automatically generate diff
   packets for documents authored in Frame (Maker 5.1, 5.5) on Unix.

   The idea is that when a doc is changed, and submitted for review, the
   diff files are produced using scripts on Unix. 

   (I know of fmprint and distill utility under acrobat, so the next step
    to automate this review packet generation is to generate the *.ps and
    *.pdf files for the output from the compare utility.)

   Does anyone know of ways to run 'Compare' from the command-line?

 The next one is slightly out of scope w.r.t maker, but is about pdf files.
 Please excuse this qs, if this is not the right forum.)

2. I read (or found some stray references) about tools/utilities (perhaps,
   3rd party, unsupported) that could take a MS-Word document and generate
   *.pdf files from it from the command-line.
   
   The requirement here (again) is to auto-generate via cron jobs new pdf
   files that can be accessed via the Web (both on NT and Unix) whenever
   a new MS-Word *.doc was checked-in.

   Does anyone know of such utilities that (again) could be run from the
   command-line? Is it just a dream that maybe there are some tools out there
   that can munge msword.doc files and create pdf?

Thanks in advance for any help that can be provided here.
-- Aditya.


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