• Global community
    • Language:
      • Deutsch
      • English
      • Español
      • Français
      • Português
  • 日本語コミュニティ
    Dedicated community for Japanese speakers
  • 한국 커뮤니티
    Dedicated community for Korean speakers
Exit
0

Start RoboHelp from a FrameMaker script?

Contributor ,
Apr 20, 2012 Apr 20, 2012

Copy link to clipboard

Copied

How can I start RoboHelp at the end of a FrameMaker script? Specifically I'd like to do that with <FM10_INSTALL_DIR>\Samples\ScriptsAndUtilities\Conditional Text\FM_Outputs_CondText.jsx.

TOPICS
Scripting

Views

1.3K

Translate

Translate

Report

Report
Community guidelines
Be kind and respectful, give credit to the original source of content, and search for duplicates before posting. Learn more
community guidelines

correct answers 1 Correct answer

Contributor , Apr 23, 2012 Apr 23, 2012

Thanks to some tips from Willam van Weelden I figured this out

var runrobo = new File("C:\\scripts\\robohelp.bat");

runrobo.execute();

c:\scripts\robohelp.bat contains:

C:\Progra~2\Adobe\adober~1\RoboHTML\robohtml -x C:\scripts\robohelp.jsx

Votes

Translate

Translate
Contributor ,
Apr 23, 2012 Apr 23, 2012

Copy link to clipboard

Copied

Thanks to some tips from Willam van Weelden I figured this out

var runrobo = new File("C:\\scripts\\robohelp.bat");

runrobo.execute();

c:\scripts\robohelp.bat contains:

C:\Progra~2\Adobe\adober~1\RoboHTML\robohtml -x C:\scripts\robohelp.jsx

Votes

Translate

Translate

Report

Report
Community guidelines
Be kind and respectful, give credit to the original source of content, and search for duplicates before posting. Learn more
community guidelines
Enthusiast ,
Apr 25, 2012 Apr 25, 2012

Copy link to clipboard

Copied

It is also possible to directly send scripts to RoboHelp from FrameMaker using BridgeTalk. See Chapter 5 of the JavaScript tools guide. The major advantage of this approach is that the communications are bi-directional, so it is possible to know if RoboHelp has sucessfully launched or performed a specific scripted task.

Ian

Votes

Translate

Translate

Report

Report
Community guidelines
Be kind and respectful, give credit to the original source of content, and search for duplicates before posting. Learn more
community guidelines
Contributor ,
Apr 25, 2012 Apr 25, 2012

Copy link to clipboard

Copied

LATEST

Yes, I know that's theoretically possible, but I haven't been able to find a sample script showing how to do it, and my experiments were unsuccessful.

Votes

Translate

Translate

Report

Report
Community guidelines
Be kind and respectful, give credit to the original source of content, and search for duplicates before posting. Learn more
community guidelines