Batch convert Binary to Text

Environment:
Forms version 10.1.2.2.0
Red Hat Enterprise Linux AS release 4 (Nahant update2)
Problem:
How to convert Forms Binary to text format from Linux command line.
This must be the same result as choosing File=>Administration=>Object List Report in the Forms Object Navigator menu.

Hi ,
Use the general format...:
frmcmp module=myform script=YES
The script parameter Converts a binary file format (.FMB, .MMB, or .PLL) to a text format (.FMT, .MMT, or .PLD).
This must be the same result as choosing File=>Administration=>Object List Report in the Forms Object Navigator menu
No it is not.... This operation can also be done within Oracle Forms by using the Convert command.
Greetings
Simon

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All the code has to go in here
<pre title="this text can be pasted into the Script Editor" style="font-family: Monaco, 'Courier New', Courier, monospace; font-size: 10px; padding: 5px; width: 720px; color: #000000; background-color: #E0E0E0; overflow: auto">activate application "Keynote.app"
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Message was edited by: dj9027

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If you want to give it a try, paste the following text into a new file in ExtendScript Toolkit (part of Photoshop’s installation, Applications/Utilities/Adobe Utilities/ExtendScript Toolkit CS4 or /Applications/Utilities/Adobe Utilities-CS5/ExtendScript Toolkit CS5) and save it as a jsx-file into Photoshop’s Presets/Scripts-folder.
After restarting Photoshop the Script should be available under File > Scripts and can be assigned a Keyboard Shortcut directly, recorded into an Action, (in CS4 and CS5) be used in a Configurator-Panel or started from ExtendScript Toolkit directly.
// 2011, use it at your own risk;
#target photoshop
if (app.documents.length > 0) {
// get document-path and -name; thanks to xbytor;
     var myDocument = app.activeDocument;
     var myDocName = myDocument.name.match(/(.*)\.[^\.]+$/)[1];
     var myPath = myDocument.path;
// save for web options;
     var webOptions = new ExportOptionsSaveForWeb();
     webOptions.format = SaveDocumentType.COMPUSERVEGIF;
     webOptions.optimized = true;
     webOptions.colorReduction = ColorReductionType.ADAPTIVE;
     webOptions.dither = Dither.NONE;
     webOptions.quality = 100;
     webOptions.includeProfile = true;
     webOptions.matteColor = new RGBColor();
     webOptions.matteColor.red = 255;
     webOptions.matteColor.green = 255;
     webOptions.matteColor.blue = 255;
// export;
     myDocument.exportDocument(new File(myPath+"/"+myDocName+".gif"), ExportType.SAVEFORWEB, webOptions);
Edit:
The Script could be recorded into an Action.
It would also be possible to create a Script that offers a dialog for File- or Folder-selection and subsequently operates on all selected/contained files of specified formats, but that would be a different approach from the Droplet.

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Thanks,
-Reuben

Hello
Here is a script which does the job for one document.
I leave as an exercise [ ] it's insertion in a loop treating the docs stored in a given folder.
--[SCRIPT]
property theApp : "Numbers"
set docAW6 to (path to desktop as Unicode text) & "Chèques_bidon.cwk"
set nw to my getNbWindows()
tell application "Numbers" to open file docAW6
repeat (* wait until the file is really open *)
if my getNbWindows() > nw then exit repeat
end repeat
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tell application "System Events" to tell process theApp to click button 2 of sheet 1 of window 1
delay 0.2
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tell application theApp to activate
tell application "System Events" to tell process theApp to keystroke "s" using {command down}
delay 0.2
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tell application theApp to activate
tell application "System Events" to tell process theApp to click button 1 of sheet 1 of window 1
delay 0.2
(* close the doc's window *)
tell application theApp to activate
tell application "System Events" to tell process theApp to keystroke "w" using {command down}
on getNbWindows()
tell application "System Events"
tell process theApp to set _ to count of windows
end tell -- application System Events
return _
end getNbWindows
--[/SCRIPT]
I don't put checks so it's your responsability to activate the GUI scripting.
Yvan KOENIG (from FRANCE mercredi 26 septembre 2007 21:00:14)

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Here is a screenshot of the workflow.

Okay, so I tried ditching automator and doing the convert movie parts via applescript. This is what I tried but it gives me an automator error -212 (apparently on the first "perform action") saying "expected end of line, found property":
Any ideas on how to get the script to work with autmator (I tested a modified version of this script outside autmator and it does work for a single file).
on run {input, parameters}
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          tell application "System Events"
                    tell application "Microsoft PowerPoint"
launch
open input
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                              perform action "AXPress" of button "Save" of sheet 1 of window theNameOfPresentation
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FUNCTION MODULES
http://www.erpgenie.com/abap/functions.htm
http://www.sapdevelopment.co.uk/fmodules/fmssap.htm
http://www.erpgenie.com/abap/index.htm
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Hi,
at first sorry for my english. It is not very well, but I try.
We have many eps file, which are created with older illustrator versions.
At this time we change to cs3.
How can I batch convert all the old eps files to the new "standard".
eps options are shown in the attachment.
Thanks.

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try
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                    , CMYK PostScript:true ¬
                    , compatibility:default ¬
                    , compressed:true ¬
                    , embed ICC profile:false ¬
                    , embed linked files:true ¬
                    , font subset threshold:default ¬
                    , PDF compatible:true ¬
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               close theCurrentFile
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               -- Close all windows
               try
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               tell me to my logErrorByFile(nFile)
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end runConvertEPS
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on logErrorByFile(nFile)
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          set pathToFile to (path to desktop folder as string) & "EPS Log.txt"
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          write writeContents to the openFile starting at eof
          close access the openFile
     on error errorReport number errorNo
          try
               close access file pathToFile
          end try
     end try
end logErrorByFile

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Hello,
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I have a big collection of family video that I want to convert, but preserving the dates is crucial for sorting by date after.
Any ideas if the creation date can be transfered to the video EXIF of similar ?
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Dan

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