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Hi all. A couple more Table-of-Contents (ToC) questions:1) Why don't any of my FM book Annexes (like Annex A, Annex B, etc.) have subheadings like my regular Chapters (like Chapter 14 has subheadings 14.1, 14.2, etc.)? (see attached image)2) Why does the PDF output file show the Annex heading in separate rows? (again, see attached image) Thx in advance for any help. Cheers -- John

I am working on a book with 14 chapters and 4 chapters before the first one (title page, intro, TOC and preface). I am using FrameMaker 2020 e 2019 32-Bit. FrameMaker 2019 32-Bit is for using IXgen Power Indexing & Marker Management Tool for FrameMaker.I am trying to number chapters before the first one (title page, intro, TOC and preface) with the roman (xiv) format. Then I procede as follows (the steps that follows is from the book "FrameMaker Working with Contents" by Matt R. Sullivan):1. Select all of the files in the book window;2. Select Format>Document>Numbering to display the numbering properperties;3. Click the Page tab to display the page numbering properties;4. Click the Continue Numbering from Previous Page in Book radio button and click button;5. Now, set numbering exceptions. Select intro file and display the Page tab in the Numbering dialog box again. In the First Page # field, type 1. In the Format drop-down list, click roman (xiv). Click the Set button;6. Sel

I have defined a series of keydefs with related hrefs to images in a .ditamap file. My book map file references this ditamap. In my .dita topics I create <figure> elements, and inside them <image> elements.Normally you use the href attribute to specify the location of the image file, but now I specify the key for the keydef attribute. This works great, FrameMaker even provides a pop-up menu with available keys for the keyref attribute in the dialog box for the image element.But then the bug hits. After saving the topic, FM inserts an empty href=“” attribute in the <image> element. As a result of this all keyrefs and confers stop working in the whole document. It cannot be solved in FrameMaker, I have to open the topic in a text/xml editor to remove the empty href=“” attribute.Has anyone encountered this bug too? Does anyone know a solution or workaround?

Hello,I am in FrameMaker 2019, and I am publishing Basic HTML. When I create the output, the index.html file contains the same content as my FrameMaker TOC. However, the nesting is not correct--For example, the TOC entries for the second chapter are nested under the first chapter, and so on through the book. I have tried adjusting various settings, which changes some of what shows up but none of it seems to fix the nesting issues. As a point of reference, when I publish to responsive HTML, the index there is fine--it is exactly what I have in my FrameMaker TOC.  Has anyone else seen and/or fixed this? Thanks!

Hello,I start to make some structured document.this is my structure : A map contains topicset with topics:The problem is with the Xlif file.It contains only one file, all my topcis have disappeared.The xlif file created contains the tags topicref of all the topics but that's all.Can you tell me if my structure is not correct. What kind of structur shoud i use ? Topic group ?  Thanks for your help  

We are looking to set userString on tables and images in the FrameMaker tool and read the value of the userString for that object from the script to decide weather a table or figure should appear in landscapre or portrait orientation.But we are unable to find a way to set the "userString" attribute for images and tables in FrameMaker.Is there any other way to set some kind of hidden attibute to set the orientation for tables and images, so that we can read the value and set the object body page orientation accordingly?Any help in this is much appreciated.

Hi, I have compare FM on FM2015 the result as same which actually it should to differencePlesae see screenshot below.For file test please download in link below:https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1lvVtJ07RxQ-OBjLr4ToJYKNTKRmB4HTn?usp=sharing Please suggest me how can i fix this ? Thank you,Charl.s 

We have noticed a considerable issue with FrameMaker 2020 performance when a file has a lot of graphics. We actually have reverted to using FrameMaker 2019 with books that have lots of graphics. I know we can hide graphics (ESC+V+V), but in some cases we really need to view the graphics in order to edit the files. When we open a file in FrameMaker 2020 with the graphics showing, it takes several minutes for a page to load, and scrolling forces the page to refresh and start the load process over. The majority of our graphics are .png graphics and nothing more sohisticated than screenshots. When we open the same files in the 2019 version, we do not have this issue. Has anyone else seen this in 2020 and have any suggestions other than hiding graphics? Thank you.

I have just submitted bug report FRMAKER-10792 Although discovered in FM-15.0.8.979 , it's the same in FM-16.0.2 Withe PDFL route I get this result (see the highlighted word): The characters are correctly in PDF if created via Distiller route. In FM you also see it correctly: The incriminated character is U+2019

Hello friends,I'm not an expert with framemaker by any means but need expert help. I'm trying to add images in a document. I created two tables in an exisiting document. I then wanted to add several images above a single table. The problem is that the only area I can add the image is in the table title. The table title appears on several pages because the table continues on several pages. Thats fine but I dont want the images to appear below the title on several pages. I just want them to appear above the first title. Theres no space between the previous table and the new table to add images. I cant figure out how add a new area for the images. I appreaciate any and all help. 

Dear all, By some erraneous editing i have situations like this: var oDoc, oFile, sFile; oFile sFile = oFile.fullName.toUpperCase(); // Uppercase the filename for easy comparison. ... The second line should read oFile = File(filename); For me it's a mystery why this 'stand-alonge' variable does not create a syntax error or similar during the start of the script in ESTK. Only at line 3 I get the error - of course the varible (oFile) is undefined. Can you enlighten me?

Hello again. When I produce a PDF output from a FM book, the PDF ToC/bookmarks only show the chapter title and the next subheading level down, e.g., 2 and 2.1. But I need them to display and linked to at least 3 and possibly 5 levels of detail, e.g., 2.1.1 and 2.1.1.1.1. How do I get at least 3 levels of subheadings to show up in the PDF file? Cheers -- John

Hi all. Is it possible to track changes in a FM book with tracking bars that then appear in a PDF output? Cheers -- John

Dear all,I want to change the complete text of an element with a certain tag, say "<bold>".I can get the tag name via elem.ElementDef.Name. But how do I get the text()-node of the Element. Is there something like the xslt text()-node functionality? Some other ideas?Thanks in advanceWA

I'm trying to find more information on how to split one big FM file into individual files. So each chapter will be its own file. There seem to be a tool under Utilities called Split Current Document but is this only for 2020 version? I'm on 2019 and it's not there.My second question is how was this done before? Manually or if you are able to produce a script?Thanks!

Dear all!I have no success in changing the case of found items with Find/Replace using Regular expression in FrameMaker 14.0.3.500.I want change lower case characters after n-dash followed by blank b< the upper case equivalent:Assume no change in maker.ini, hence RegularExpressionSyntax=PerlFind:      – ([a-z])Replace: – \U$1 or – \u$1 or – \p{Lu}$1Consider case: on or off=> None of the replacements does the job!Then I have tried various things with RegularExpressionSyntax=egrep  or grep. No success either.My syntax reference is Replacement Strings Reference: Context and Case Conversion Bug? Wrong syntax? Klaus Daube

Hi,I have a pdf output from FrameMaker 2019.  We encounter this "Transparency used (soft Msk in image) error message for all the images used in this FrameMaker doc. The PDF output from earlier FrameMaker build (10) didnt have this error.Anyone can advice here?  Thank You.

Hello, Is it possible to create a variable that will automatically be the page number of where a section is in the document? I am asking because every time I have a major change in the doc I need to update the pages in the summary of changes which is considerably time-consuming... Thank you  

When I compare two documents and there is a change with an anchored frame, the line width in the comparison doc ends up being 7.199pt. Is there a setting that controls that? Or is there an easy way to change it? Here is what it looks like. Thanks,Nick

Hi, I am trying to get FrameMaker to run any of the samples included in the FDK. FrameMaker throws the exception that script <hello.dll> can't be initialized and I am running into a brick wall trying to figure out what I am missing.I've added the nessecary include files and lib's before compiling and added my client to my users maker.ini, but I have the feeling I am missing something. Sadly there is no checklist in any of the guides or documentation for FDK that helped me so far to figure out what I am doing wrong. I am using the latest FDK version and Visual Studio 2019. Any help would be greatly appreciated.

Hello all. I've used FrameMaker in various jobs throughout the past 25 years or so (off and on) and currently am on the 2019 version. I've just tried to Find cross-reference markers, but ran into a problem. In Find > Marker of type, I see the same choices as what's in Find > Marker of text, which I'm not familiar with. I was looking for a list of marker types such as Index or Cross reference.Is this a bug or has something changed from FM 2017?

Hello everyone,I am successfully using ditaval files to filter content in a series of documents. What I have is a question about simplifying the process.- We use the props attribute for *specific* elements in our topics (for example, section)- Our list of values for the props attribute is maintained in a spreadsheet because it is updated on a regular basis- Our list of values are updated regularly because FrameMaker requires the list of values be *exactly and completely* defined - which is great until you end up with what I have now- Content in a topic may apply to more than one document (we filter by destination document rather than product)- When filtering, FrameMaker treats, for example, HGNHP HGEXO differently than HGEXO HGNHP- So the spreadsheet contains every combination we use - and is updated each time we change or add combinations of destination documents, so for example we could need a new entry HGNHP HGEXO HGEP- Using the spreadsheet, I generate a text file listing all the c

We created a Console application to create Framemaker session using FDKProgrammer guide. We were able to register Progid manually using the below command line:Win+R : “C:\Program Files (x86)\Adobe\Adobe FrameMaker 2019 (32 Bit)\Framemaker.exe “/progid:Test321 /autoWe connect to the session using the below code snippet.       StringT opt_progid;       CLSID pclsid;       LPOLESTR progStr;       HRESULT res;       F_ObjHandleT docId;        // Get the process name.        opt_progid = (StringT)"NewTest";        // Convert the process name into a GUID       progStr = (OLECHAR*)malloc(WBUFLEN*sizeof(wchar_t));       if (0 == MultiByteToWideChar(CP_ACP, 0,    &n

Hi guys,  I'm creating X-ref's to other HTML5 files in DITA (structured FM),These are files that are stored locally on a drive and the documents ofter refer to other documents that have been converted to HTML5.  The HREF target that I have been using has either been aquired from the 'Index' properies>security link, or from loading the index in chrome etc, and copying the link from the URL.  When I set the X-ref initially and test it using CTRL + ALT + Left Mouse Button, it works just fine.  However, when I reload the topic, the link breaks completely and upon inspecting the Href panel, the format appears to have changed.  The inital Href format looks like this and works (you won't be able to open it)file:///B:/Production%20Documents/All%20Departments%20(Company%20Wide)/TP/ATP-85800141/Responsive%20HTML5/index.html#t=ATP-85800141%2FAll_Departments_(Company_Wide)%2FTP%2FATP-85800141%2FEquipment.htmlnts_(Company_Wide)_TP_ATP-85800141_Eq

Hi Everyone,Hoping someone has seen this and knows how to fix. My book has (up until recently) always generated hyperlinked miniTOCs when saved as PDF. (Same result when Print to PDF.)Just noticed MiniTOC has stopped creating links in PDF, but all other hyperlinks still work. (Same result when Print to PDF.) See attached.Is there some behind the scene Reference Page code (or similar) that has become corrupted in my FM files?I tried deleting and inserting miniTOC, confirming the Create Hyperlinks in MiniTOC is set, for several of them, with same result.I tried another book with miniTOCs, and they Save to PDF with hyperlinked PDF results.I need to release this book soon, and this is out of my league for troubleshooting Frame to PDF.Thank you very much.fred