Command line options to generate stationery and create Express projects
Summary
For ePublisher Pro, provide a "-generateStationery" option to generate stationery without launching the GUI. For ePublisher Express, provide a "-createProject" option to create projects without launching the GUI. This would be a great advantage for automated build systems.
Detailed Description
What we'd like to do is call ePublisher Pro from the command line, and get it to automatically generate stationery based on a project argument. This would be something like:
Webworks.ePublisherPro.exe -generateStationery "c:\myplace\folder" -project ourStationery.wep -overwrite
This would generate the stationery in the target folder, and overwrite anything that already exists. The benefit of this is that we would only need to store the main ePublisher Pro file in version control, and then generate the stationery as the first stage in the build process.
Similarly, it would be useful to be able to create an ePublisher Express project from the command line, so that our build process could do this stage as well. We have all our files located in a Framemaker book, so I would envisage a command line along the lines of:
WebWorks.ePublisherExpress.exe -createProject "C:\myplace\projectfolder" -name "mainProject" -stationery "C:\myplace\folder\ourStationery.wep" -files "C:\myplace\doc\books\main.book;C:\myplace\doc\books\another.book"
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