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April 30, 2008
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Batch Books to PDF

  • April 30, 2008
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Is there a way in FM 8 (or via plugin) to batch export BOOKS to PDF? I have some technical manuals that take about half an hour each to export, so it's quite a pain to create them on demand. Thanks!
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    adventurous_Moonbeam16B6
    adventurous_Moonbeam16B6
    Participant
    September 26, 2013

    I am looking for a similar solution too. Have you found anything yet?

    Searching all of adobe.com's articles, I cannot find anything that helps me out with this issue.

    My need is simple; an easy (automated) way to make .pdf files from all my .book files at once.

    Can anybody point me in the right direction?

    Hein-Jan

    Jeff_Coatsworth
    Community Expert
    Jeff_CoatsworthCommunity Expert
    Community Expert
    September 26, 2013

    Scripting or plug-ins – either written by you or from someone you pay – google framemaker plug-ins – there’s a list of them kicking around

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    Art Campbell
    Inspiring
    April 30, 2008
    FrameScript comes with a sample script, SaveBookAsPdf.
    I suspect you could pretty easily modify it to loop through a set of books.

    Same thing if you happen to be running UNIX -- invoking fmbatch or fmprint as part of a script will do it.

    On Windows, DZBatcher may work, but I haven't tried it. http://www.datazone.com/dzbatcher2.html

    Art
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