ExtendScript of the Week: “Book Report”

Wednesday, September 21 2011 @ 6:29 AM, By Rajat Bansal

Last week we provided an overview of ExtendScript Support in Adobe FrameMaker 10 (FrameMaker ExtendScript: Getting Started) and announced the “ExtendScript of the Week” initiative. As part of that series, we are providing a script which shows how to use FrameMaker ExtendScript capabilities to generate Book Report.

This scripts when run on a Book generates a Book Report which contains the following information about the Book:

  • General Information like page count, number of markers, x-refs etc
  • Detailed Information on X-Refs / Referenced Graphics with their status (resolved / unresolved). From the report, you can click on the record to jump to location of x-ref / Referenced Graphic.
  • List of Tables and Markers with links to jump to their location.

Steps to Install

  • Download the zip file from BookReport
  • Unzip the files and copy “BookReportMenu.jsx” and “BookReport” folder in startup folder located at “C:\Program Files\Adobe\AdobeFrameMaker10\startup”

How to use the Script?

  • Launch FrameMaker
  • Open a Book File (or use Sample Book: BookReportSampleFiles)
  • Run Book Report from “File -> Utilities -> Generate Book Report“.
  • This will run the script and generate a report which contains the information listed above.

I hope this will help you getting started with writing scripts to automate tasks and add functionality as per your requirements.

Regards,
Rajat Bansal

(Resources: BookReport, BookReportSampleFiles)

7 Responses FrameMaker, Technical Communication, Training/eSeminars, Uncategorized
  • http://www.haiston.com interior wood doors

    Thank you for the installation steps, to I so useful

  • http://bestbusinessbrands.blogspot.com/ Don

    It is better to open the script in ExtendScript toolkit (by default this is done by just double-clicking the downloaded script file) and click Run from there (after …

  • http://southee.co.uk Mark Southee

    Could ExtendScript be used to find text in a document/book, and replace with a user defined variable?

    • http://frameautomation.com Rick Quatro

      Yes, absolutely.

  • Pingback: ExtendScript der Woche: »Book Report« – FrameMaker-Automation mit FrameScript & ExtendScript

  • http://www.coaching-vision.ro razvan

    A pice of cake

  • JJBragg

    This script appears to run, but I haven’t yet found the report. Where is it?

  • Categories

  • Archives

  • Authors

  • Useful Links

  • Recent Comments

    • Holly: Excellent explanation! But, how do I restart a list that is added to Robohelp by linking a FrameMaker file?
    • Jenny Hecker: Hi, we are on RH9. I copied the fixed files for RH9 to our output folder on our server, which is...
    • mary: I also have this problem and would like to know how to fix it. Thank you!
    • Nena: New computer: Windows 7, upgrade to RH10 HTML and Word 2010 — I receive a message to ‘start Word on...
    • DRG: Hi Vikram I receive the message that a supported version of Word is not present – it does not recognize...