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Close any Adobe applications open on your computer. Navigate to the directory where the installer files are extracted to, and double-click install.exe. On the Installation Options screen, ensure that you select Adobe FrameMaker Server and RoboHelp 9, and click Install.
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USING FRAMEMAKER SERVER Getting Started Manage publishing tasks that FrameMaker Server adds to Windows Task Integration with Windows Task Scheduler Scheduler. Use Windows Task Scheduler to view, edit, and manage these scheduled tasks. Invoke a series of publishing tasks from the Windows command line Command-line execution of publishing tasks after you have created these tasks and schedules using FrameMaker Server.
FrameMaker Server enables publication departments centralize and automate multichannel publication tasks from Adobe FrameMaker documents. With FrameMaker Server, you can create multiple output formats, each with its own custom settings. These output formats include Adobe PDF, WebHelp, Adobe AIR-based Help, and ePub for device- independent content delivery.
An instance of RoboHelp 9 that FrameMaker Server invokes to convert FrameMaker content to selected RoboHelp 9 online Help formats. An instance of Adobe Acrobat Professional that FrameMaker Server invokes to create PDF Acrobat Professional 10 files from FrameMaker documents.
Tasks You define the publication tasks in Adobe FrameMaker Server and schedule them to run at the required interval. A task is a complete collection of all the build information that is required to run a publication task.
USING FRAMEMAKER SERVER Creating and managing publication tasks To use source files stored in an EMC Documentum repository, select this option and enter the Documentum Documentum repository information. To use source files located in a Microsoft SharePoint repository, select this option and specify the SharePoint credentials for accessing the SharePoint repository.
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USING FRAMEMAKER SERVER Creating and managing publication tasks Typically, you author content in FrameMaker, and then define the conversion settings to link or import content from FrameMaker to RoboHelp. In such scenarios, you define your conversion settings that include the following: •...
USING FRAMEMAKER SERVER Creating and managing publication tasks Delete a conversion setting On the task definition screen, click the icon next to the settings popup menu for any of the online Help formats. On the RoboHelp Settings dialog box, select the required conversion settings profile from the Quick Set popup menu. Click Delete, and then click OK.
You can expand or collapse the log view. You can access the publication task logs from the application installation In the FrameMaker Server application folder folder: %appdata%\Adobe\FrameMaker\Server\. You can use log parsers to quickly collect publication-related reports from these logs. Last updated 1/10/2011...
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USING FRAMEMAKER SERVER Creating and managing publication tasks View publication task history ❖ On the FrameMaker Server interface, select Task > History. Clear publication task history ❖ On the FrameMaker Server interface, select Task > History. Last updated 1/10/2011...
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