What is included with FrameMaker's AppleScript dictionary?
Feature
The following table lists the Frame-specific commands and objects as they appear in FrameMaker release 5's AppleScript dictionary. Not all commands work with all objects, even if they are in the same suite.
REQUIRED
open - Opens a Frame document
print - Prints a Frame document or book
quit - Quits the Frame application
run - Starts the Frame application
CORE
class info - Returns information about an object class
close - Closes Frame documents or books
count - Counts number of elements in an object
data size - Returns the size of the data of an object in bytes
delete - Deletes one or more objects
duplicate - Copies selected objects to another location
event info - Returns information about an event
exists - Determines if an object exists
make - Creates a new object
move - Moves an object to a new location
open - Opens a Frame document
print - Prints a Frame document or book
quit - Quits the Frame application
save - Saves the document or book to disk
suite info - Returns information about event suites
application - Characteristics of the Frame application or session
book - Collection of documents, called book components
book component - Description of how a document within a book is set up
document - FrameMaker document
character - Text character
text - String of contiguous characters
text style info - Font st
yle information of text
insertion point - Location between characters where text can be inserted
TEXT
paragraph format - Basic paragraph properties, such as leading and tab locations
character format - Basic font properties, such as font family, style, and size
text flow - Series of connected text frames, each containing one or more columns of text
paragraph - Range of text delimited by a return
text run - Range of text with the same font style information
word - Text delimited by spaces or return characters
insertion point - Location between characters where text can be inserted
marker - Placeholders in text for other features that may refer to them
character - Text character
text - String of contiguous characters
MISCELLANEOUS
cut - Deletes one or more objects
copy - Copies selected objects to another location
paste - Copies the objects in the clipboard to the insertion point
uniform - Set of styles that are uniformly on or off for the selected characters
show - Brings an object into view
FRAMEMAKER
generate - Generates the table of contents or index for a book
reformat - Updates a document so that the changes made to objects are visible
FRAMEMAKER ANCILLARY
base class - List of common properties inherited by all Frame objects
tab - Tab stop
text properties - Properties common to the marker object, text object, and word object
character format properties - Properties common to the character format object
paragraph properties - Properties common to the paragraph object and paragraph format object
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