Cross-posted to Framers and WWP-users Hello All
My question relates to the software industry, so feel free to delete now if that's not relevant to you. I was talking to my manager and developers today. We are looking into the possibility of automating Help and PDF generation in the software build process, using our present tools of FrameMaker 7.1 and WWP (v.7 and/or WWeP). The ideal scenario would be: 1. Build process fires up WWP (via command line/API?). 2. WWP takes Frame source files and generates Help files. 3. Build process incorporates Help files into build. 4. Build process fires up PDF generation from Frame. 5. Build process incorporates PDF into build. I'm wondering if anyone on the list has experience in this, or whether it is actually possible in whole or in part. It sounds unlikely to me, given that WWP rarely performs flawlessly in my experience and manual intervention is usually required. There may be other tools that could accomplish this (e.g. a DITA workflow, CMS, etc.), but before we investigate those I need to know whether it is doable with what we have. Any suggestions would be welcome. Thanks. Roger Shuttleworth London, Canada Roger Shuttleworth Documentation Team Lead Activplant Corporation 140 Fullarton Street, 9th Floor London, ON N6A 5P2 Canada Tel. 519 668-7336 Fax. 519 668-3227 www.activplant.com <http://www.activplant.com/> Activplant Manufacturing Intelligence Summit <mailto:Floridamisummit at activplant.com> February 19-21, 2006 Wyndham Orlando Resort, Orlando, Florida Registration now open: http://www.activplant.com/summit06/ <blocked::http://www.activplant.com/summit06/> ------------------------------------------------------- The information in this email is confidential and is intended solely for the addressee. Access to this email by anyone else is unauthorized. If you are not the intended recipient, any disclosure, copying, distribution or any action taken or omitted to be taken in reliance on it, is prohibited and may be unlawful. Please contact privacy at activplant.com for cases where you have received this email and were not the intended recipient. -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://lists.frameusers.com/pipermail/framers/attachments/20051207/9aab1a52/attachment.html
