They should work fine in 2022. Do they work in FrameMaker when you Control+Alt+Click on them? What is your marker syntax? Are the in-document or cross-document links? ... View more

Illustrations are imported into FrameMaker documents, not opened directly with FrameMaker. If you have an insertion point in text (or a frame selected, you can use File > Import > File to import a graphic. ... View more

I'm not positive, but I think the sts file is an archive. Try renaming it with a .zip extension and see if you can access what's inside. You may be able to unzip it to a series of folders to extract or update the contents. Then you would rezip it and rename it to .sts. Make sure you back up everything. There may be some "magic" in the archive that may get clobbered by your efforts. But it's worth a try. ... View more

Remember that books are just pointers to FrameMaker documents. You could have a book for each user type. When you make your PDFs, make sure both .book files are open in FrameMaker and the cross-book links should work in your PDFs. ... View more

I have no official information, but FrameMaker is typically on an 18- to 24-month update schedule. It's almost through 2025 and we haven't seen a major update since 2022 so you can draw your own conclusions. ... View more

Actually, as I look closer at your screenshot, it looks like the author may have done both manually: they inserted a marker AND typed in the text. It was likely to help reviewers see what was being indexed and where. That's my guess anyway. ... View more

Yes, a lot of the older stuff won't work with later versions. I could provide you with an ExtendScript script that would convert these conditional text entries into markers (and back if you want). If you are interested, please send me a sample document offlist and I will give you a quote. Thanks. ... View more

He may be using a third-party indexing tool that converts the markers into conditional text and vise versa. IXGen was a FrameMaker plugin that did this kind of thing. There was another one too. You should check Scott Prentice's FrameMaker Tools page:  https://leximation.com/tools/ There is one listed called MarkerTools that may be the one used on your documents. ... View more

I can look at this more later, but your first two lines should be quoted strings. var find = "apple pie"; var replaceString = "$2 $1" // change = pie apple ... View more

You want something like this: doc.SimpleImportFormats (template, Constants.FF_UFF_PAGE); where doc is your target Doc variable and template and template is your source Doc variable. ... View more

If you have custom templates, open and save them as 2022 files.  ... View more

Right-click on the divider files in the book window and choose Numbering. You probably want to set these to Use Same Number as Previous Chapter. ... View more

Tables are often useful (or necessary) when you have multiple lines for an entry, or you want to do page ranges.   ... View more

This screenshot is from the FDK Reference, which is more useful than the ExtendScript documentation. The dagger indicates a read-only property. A FrameMaker document can only have a single size for all of its pages. ... View more

Does Edit > Update Reference work with these settings?   ... View more

Markus's ExtendScript script is a great solution, but you will need to have FrameMaker installed and running in order to run it. There is no way to do this without FrameMaker being installed. ... View more

I agree that this is a problem. The only way to do it would be a resource editor, which may not be simple. Here is a script hack that you might find useful. Run this and it will select any excluded components in the book. main (); function main () { var book; book = app.ActiveBook; if (book.ObjectValid () === 1) { processBook (book); } } function processBook (book) { var bookComp; // Loop through all of the components in the book. bookComp = book.FirstComponentInBook; while (bookComp.ObjectValid () === 1) { // Select excluded components; deselect regular components. bookComp.ComponentIsSelected = bookComp.ExcludeBookComponent; bookComp = bookComp.NextBookComponentInDFSOrder; } book.IsInFront = 1; } ... View more

You have to open each document, do the show/hide, save and close it. ... View more

This is likely a function of each browser's PDF viewer plugin. It may be better to have your figure captions above the figures so that when the caption appears at the top of the view port, you will see the illustration below it. ... View more