FrameMaker

We've successfully moved from unstructured to structured FrameMaker, creating an extensive EDD to cater for the different elements (type of content) our documents contain. This is working very well for us. Now we want to move to the next step - using DITA. Just like starting out with Structured FM, I'm at a complete loss where to begin.I've watched a number of YT videos on the topic, but most seems to go with the assumption that you're already familiar with DITA. I need something that goes back to real basics. Can anyone point me in the right direction?Thanks,Quintin 

Hello, I’ve had the privilege of trading in one laptop for another. This has meant a new version of FrameMaker.When I open some old files, however, I get a ton of messages about  unavailable fonts.For example:“The ‘Agaramond-Regular’ Font is unavailable.‘Times New Roman’ will be used in this session.” Where / how can I get the Adobe fonts I need?I'm using FrameMaker 2019. Kind regards, Fred Gerke

Can blank space be removed automatically when I donnot select the conditional tags that I have added to a table, sentence, or paragraph? Or how can i remove these blank space?

  

I downlaod and installed Framemaker_15_x64_LREFDJ (the latest as of yesterday) for Windows. However, when I try to launch it, nothing showed up. I follow suggestions in a similar thread (https://community.adobe.com/t5/framemaker/fm-2019-fails-to-launch-after-seemingly-successful-installation/m-p/10116070#M57649), but could not get anywhere.BTW, I installed earlier Framemaker 2019 version in the last couple of years without any launching issue. And I have been a Framermaker user for 3 decades and rarely had issues.  

HelloI received data from another company.However, there are too many missing images. Even if you include all of them in the 'List of', I can't see them. Full image list orWhere can I find a list of missing images? Thank you

In Automatically text Format change - Adobe Support Community - 12125343, @Daniela Barros asked how to include heading numbers and leader dots in a TOC.   Daniela, I am answering your question in a new thread.   There are three steps to creating a TOC:   1. Specify which paragraphs (or, in a structured document, elements) in the original document or book contribute entries. This specification is made in the Set Up Table of Contents dialog box.    2. Specify what information is extracted from the document/book for each entry. This is made on on a reference page named TOC in the TOC file. The TOC page has an entry for each paragraph format that will contribute to the TOC. The tag for a paragraph on the page is the same as that of the original format with TOC appended at the end. For example, if you want to include information for Heading1 paragraphs in the original documents, you need a paragraph tagged Heading1TOC on this page.    3. Spe

I am trying to edit my styles in a way where numbered lists appear as so:1. Text after number is regular font after an autonumber paragraph is usedHowever, the only tw ways that I can seem to get it to show without making manual edits is:1. Both number and text is boldor1. Both number and text is regular  Can someone give me some shortcuts on how to mix bold 1. numbers with regular text?

We recently updated our unstructured FrameMaker 11 to version 12, and now when I update a book using files created in Frame 11, I get this error, "Could not open X document because it was created with a previous version of FrameMaker." I get the error even after I have opened, saved, and closed the file in question in FrameMaker 12, so it is "converted" to the new version.Here's a screenshot of the error I'm getting when updating the book:Thanks for your help!Becky

Hi,For this client, the source content is written in English. Images are set to 'run-in' and right aligned. So they appear on the right side of the page, while the text is on the left sde. Now these documents are translated into Arabic. Direction is reversed: text goes right to left. But the images are still right aligned.  We'd like to have the alignment for anchored frames reversed as well. Is that possible? Or should we add a feature request? Thanks, Wim. 

I have paragraphs splitting across pages, when there is room on the previous.  I resolved this issue some time back, and I know it had nothing to do with orphan lines, but I've forgotten what the solution was...been a few months  since using Frame 2020. Thanks!

I have developed a very large book over the last 20 years, using various versions of FM. I currently use the most recent version & update. The book contains an Index of more than 100 pages of double column format. Recently, I have noticed that Index marks that I have added to the book have not appeared in the Index after subsequent updates of the book. Is there a maximum number of indexes that can be incorporated into a book?If not, can anyone suggest what might solve my problem of missing entries in the Index?Thanks in advance for any help that may be given!

Hi,for a client we have setup templates to import Arabic translations. All goes well, except one thing: when importing formats (Document Formats) the Direction setting is not imported. So we have to set that manually (Format, Document, Direction). Is this 'by design' or is it a bug?Should we post a feature request? Thanks, Wim

I have arrows drawn inside an anchored frame but when I publish to HTML, the arrows disappear. Is there a setting somewhere to include it?

We use an Equation Element to insert the Element, but having different Elements for the different equation sizes doesn't solve the problem as changing the element from EQLarge to EQMedium (for example) doesn't change the equation size. How do you change the size of an Equation? I've tried changing the size via the Object Properties > Equation > Size dropdown, but the equation size doesn't change. Is the only way to insert a new equation with the desired size and recreate the equation? Thanks,Quintin

I have a cell object and I would like to add text to it. I'm trying to call `doc.AddText(textLoc, 'cell text');`, but I don't have the `doc` object, I only have the `cell` object. function setCellText(cell, text) { // Create a text location at the beginning of the cell var textLoc = new TextLoc(); textLoc.obj = cell; textLoc.offset = 0; // Delete all the paragraphs after the first (new) paragraph while (cell.FirstPgf.id != cell.LastPgf.id) { cell.LastPgf.Delete(); } cell.LastPgf.Delete(); // Write the specified cell value to the text location doc.AddText(textLoc, text); // <== !! How do I get the doc for the current cell? }Rather than adding a `doc` parameter to every function in the call statck, I'd like to be able to determine the `doc` from the cell itself. I have some code that will look up the page an object is on, but I couldn't figure out how to get to the parent doc anywhere along the way.At a higher level, is there a

I am trying to create a singular HTML5 output that is a combination of 3 book files (one 'master' book with 3 child books). When I do this the heading levels in the TOC pane are not respected resulting in a flat (non-indented) output. Also, the autonumbering is omitted and the topic names list the file names instead of what’s written in the FM files.  Now, when I create HTML5 output on each individual book, its formatted correctly (headings, autonumber, etc.) and the output looks great; its only when I add each book as a child book and then create the output using the 'master book' does the TOC pane not have the correct heading levels, autonumbering, file names. The source file are in FrameMaker unstructured format. The books are made up of Chapter files, an FM generated TOC, and Index. I'm also using a CSS file for automapping the styles. We are using FrameMaker 2019, latest build.

Hello guys,i am unable to insert content inside the tags. even if i copy paste it doestn't works. Cursor doesn't comes inside the keyword tag. Waiting for your suggestions..

I had to save about 1,000 FrameMaker pages today to several PDFs. The process started normally until Acrobat Distiller launched, and then it took about 10 seconds per page to process. It turns out Windows 10 Defender Antivirus has a real-time protection setting that seems to treat Distiller as an untrustworthy app. I tried adding acrodist.exe as an exclusion to the real-time protection, but it didn't seem to make any difference. When I disabled real-time protection altogether, Distiller worked normally.  Has anyone figured out a solution to this problem yet? Disabling antivirus protection may be a temporary workaround, but it's not practical.

OK, I just inherated a manual from a past employee. Some chapters have been moved, some removed, and some have changes. Now I have several chapters with unresolved cross-references. Most are from different chapters. All references are to figures. Is there anyway to update all in each chapter at one time, or aleast each chapter at a time.

Hi everyone,I'm new to DITA but familiar with structured Frame. I'm trying to open, edit and rebrand a large amount of legacy DITA content generated from IBM over the past many years. I'm unable to open the files in Frame 16.0.1--I get an error message in the console that the cause is the dtd--all of the files (so far as I can tell inspecting in notepad) use non-OASIS standard dtds, such as these: <!DOCTYPE reference PUBLIC "-//IBM//DTD DITA IBM Reference//EN" "ibm-reference.dtd"><!DOCTYPE concept PUBLIC "-//IBM//DTD DITA IBM Concept//EN""ibm-concept.dtd"><!DOCTYPE task PUBLIC "-//IBM//DTD DITA IBM Task//EN""ibm-task.dtd"><!DOCTYPE map PUBLIC "-//IBM//DTD DITA IBM Map//EN""ibm-map.dtd"> Does anyone know where I can get these dtds? They don't seem to be provided with any of the source files I received. I experimented with replacing one of the ibm-task.dtd with an OASIS standard task.dtd, and FM opened the file without issue...Thanks!

Hi everyone!   What solution have people come up with to replace FrameMaker's deprecated freeze pagination command? I have a client who needs point pages and I don't know what to suggest. Currently, she is modifying page numbers manually in Acrobat.   Are there any solutions out there that you have found? Scripting?   Or, if you used to use them and now do something else, what did you come up with?   Thanks in advance,  ~Barb

In 2018 I developed a script which contains this regex: var re_TmpVarName = new RegExp("(#zz)?\d+\-\d+\-\d+T\d+:\d+:\d+\.\d+Z"); to find variables named for example #zz2016-11-10T09:46:52.136ZNow it turns out that (even in FM-15) the \d is no more working. I need to replace it by [0-9]: main (); function main () { var sName = "#zz2016-11-10T09:46:52.136Z"; //varr re_TmpVarName = new RegExp("(#zz)?\d+\-\d+\-\d+T\d+:\d+:\d+\.\d+Z"); var re_TmpVarName = new RegExp("(#zz)?[0-9]+\-[0-9]+\-[0-9]+T[0-9]+:[0-9]+:[0-9]+\.[0-9]+Z"); var aa = re_TmpVarName.test(sName); $.writeln (aa); // should be true } What is going on here?

Hi community. I am trying to find empty pages in doc. Here is the sample part to count the pages in doc, but I also need to check if page is empty or not.var doc = app.ActiveDoc; var bodyPage = doc.FirstBodyPageInDoc; var counter = 0; while (bodyPage.ObjectValid()) { counter++; bodyPage = bodyPage.PageNext; } Console('number of pages is ' + counter);The GetText() function is not working on BodyPage object. I also can not find a way to get TextRange of BodyPage in order to use GetTextForRange() property.Do you know any way to check if page is empty or not?Thanks. 

  In December 2020, Forrester published an independent research report as part of their ongoing thought leadership around the "Future of Documents". Hear from our featured speaker, Cheryl McKinnon, Principal Analyst at Forrester, as she explains this report and highlights the coming disruption they expect to see over the next few years in the very first phase of the classic content lifecycle: content authoring. Chad Dybdahl, Solution Consultant at Adobe, will explore how a structured content management approach via component content management systems (CCMS) can go a long way in spearheading this disruption. Watch recording