Perl+FrameMaker on Windows

Courage has asked for the wisdom of the Perl Monks concerning the following question:

Has anyone here an experience of using Perl to manipulate FrameMaker (this is an Adobe's famous publishing system)?

This seems to be quite easy on Unix, because there is fmscript there which allows many manipulation. But which options exist for Win32 users?

Thanks in advance,
Courage, the Cowardly Dog

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Re: Perl+FrameMaker on Windows by mirod (Canon) on Jul 16, 2002 at 19:34 UTC
I use FrameMaker mostly on a Mac. I need to do some heavy transformations on the documents (convert them to unstructured Frame to SGML). I wrote a bunch of scripts that parse and process MIF files (MIF is the Maker Interchange Format, a text format with angle brackets (but not SGML)).It is not really easy, MIF can be quite a pain to deal with, but it works quite well. You should be able to do the same. You can also use the FDK, the Frame Developer's Kit, which gives you a C API to Frame's internals. I have seen a module that could be a Perl wrapper for the FDK in a Perl module list (search for "Framemaker") but it seems to have disappeared from CPAN, you might want to get in touch with the author. -- The Error Message is GOD - MJD	[reply]

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Re: Perl+FrameMaker on Windows
by mirod (Canon) on Jul 16, 2002 at 19:34 UTC

I use FrameMaker mostly on a Mac. I need to do some heavy transformations on the documents (convert them to unstructured Frame to SGML). I wrote a bunch of scripts that parse and process MIF files (MIF is the Maker Interchange Format, a text format with angle brackets (but not SGML)).It is not really easy, MIF can be quite a pain to deal with, but it works quite well.

You should be able to do the same.

You can also use the FDK, the Frame Developer's Kit, which gives you a C API to Frame's internals. I have seen a module that could be a Perl wrapper for the FDK in a Perl module list (search for "Framemaker") but it seems to have disappeared from CPAN, you might want to get in touch with the author.

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The Error Message is GOD - MJD

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