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Using ExtendScript to automate a task

forums_noreply@adobe.com — Mon, 19 Aug 2013 22:04:57 GMT

Hello,

First off, I like to say that I do not have any experience with ExtendScript and looking for some code to get me started. Any help is most welcome.

Here's my current FM book's layout.

For each page, I have 3 main elements in this order from top to bottom.

- An imported GRAPHICS inside an anchored frame.

- Below the anchored frame is the figure CAPTION (e.g. Figure 3. Title of the graphics here).

- Following the caption is some NOTES (description of the graphics)

Goal: Insert/Paste the CAPTION of the next page onto the bottom of the current page after the NOTES section.

Why: I'm converting from FM to RoboHelp. RH Requires a topic title for each page. Our current template does not have any heading text so I need to copy and paste the figure CAPTION to use as the heading text.

How: At the end of each NOTES section of the current page, I like to copy/paste the CAPTION of the next page, with a specific paragraph tag (e.g. h2x or something similar).

The layout after this process will be:

- GRAPHICS

- CAPTION (of current page)

- NOTES

- CAPTION (of next page)

Result: At the end of each notes section, I will have the CAPTION of the next page that I can use to tell RH to create that as a separate topic.

Let me know if I need to provide any more details, but the main idea is that I need to have some script to automate this process as it is very tedious to copy/paste for each page everytime I need to convert a FM book.

Thanks, and appreciate any help I can get.

- Henry

Robohelp does not apply pagination on the z_anchor tags

forums_noreply@adobe.com — Mon, 12 Aug 2013 15:23:47 GMT

I need to map the z_anchor tag on the FM document as a page break to RH. Each of the page in the FM document begins with the z_anchor tag and I need to have this broken up as separate pages when it gets converted over in RH.

Obviously, I checked the pagination box when I was doing the mapping process, but nothing happens with it. Is there anything else that I need to do to have RoboHelp add the page breaks on the z_anchor tags?

Without this pagination, I would have one long page after the conversion.

Thanks,

Henry

Conversion from Fm to Rh10 with references to a PDF with page number

forums_noreply@adobe.com — Wed, 31 Jul 2013 17:41:57 GMT

I have a FM document with images that are references to a PDF with page number. After I do the conversion, using just the default settings/mappings, I get a Rh document with the first image being duplicated across the entire document where the other images should have been.

What do I need to do to get the correct images converted?