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

["Thomas Michanek" <thomas.michanek@xxxxxxxxx>]

>    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.

No, that's it. There are no other built-in ways to invoke FM commands
from a Unix command-line. (The Windows versions are even more restricted.)

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

Not without using some wrapper to the FDK. FrameScript is available on
Windows and Mac, but I'm not sure if you can run it from the command line.
You might search the Internet for something called "PyMaker" and see if
that can be used.

> 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.

No idea. You can use fmbatch/fmprint to do the same for an FM file, though.


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Thomas Michanek, FrameMaker/UNIX/MIF expert
Technical Writer, Uppsala, Sweden
mailto:Thomas.Michanek@telia.com
http://go.to/framers/
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