FrameMaker

I work in a department in which we produce financial factsheets that are imported into Structured FrameMaker 11 in order to produce the formatted documents. Currently, we are working in FrameMaker 11 (Structured). Because this version is no longer supported by Adobe, we are considering upgrading to the either FrameMaker 2019 or to FrameMaker 2020. What has your experience been with these versions? Are the any bugs that we should be aware of? Are there  any software enhancements in these versions that you recommend? Are we safe to upgrade from Adobe FrameMaker 11 to either of these versions, or should we update the versions incrementally? Any information will be appreciated. Thanks. Brenda

I am exporting my structured .fm files to XML and we see bold format is not working in the XML file. is there any way to automate the bold format? by mapping it for XML conversion? or any other way... We have 3000+ pages ..so wherever we have used bold format is not appearing in the XML file...it would be helpful if we succeed in automating this P.sI am a technical writer and not much experience in mapping elements or making code changes. so precise explanatio would be very helpful.

Hi All, I am trying to open 64 bit Framemaker file which is located on my local system through a 64 bit C++ app. I am having FrameFDK libraries on my local system as well.I am able to open Framemaker  application from the code.One of the file in the library “Fapi.h” has a method “F_ApiWinConnectSession” which actually create a Framemaker session for the file to open up inside the Framemaker app.The above method will return “0” as return value if the session has been created successfully and the file will open up. But I get a return value as “-20” and the file is not opening within Framemaker app.

Is it possible to find and copy whatever file defines your saved workspace? I had to reinstall Frame on my home PC and I was wondering if there was a way to match my pod setup without doing each tool one at a time.

The HTML5 output that I generated form FM 2020 V16..0.0, when deployed to the dev environemnt is not working. The dev console lists the following errors related to Javascript: 1) Refused to exceute the inline script... 2) Uncaught Eval Error: Refused to evaluate a string as JavaScript 3) Uncaught ReferenceError: gTopicFrameName is not defined   I am new to FM and HTML, please help me understand and resolve this issue.   Thanks   Moving from Using the Community (which is about the forums) to the correct forum... ModTo ask in the forum for your program please start at https://community.adobe.com/

I installed framemaker on a surface pro i can login under admin login but when new user launch framemaker nothing happen. i added the user  as local admin and made sure c:\user\appsdata\roaming\adobe\framemaker have full access to the path but still no luck in launching Framemaker i have 3 new user with the same problem no error come upbut when i log to the surface pro my self i can open framemaker.in the past i was advised to check regedit and change to %userprofile%\documents that use to fix it but not anymore. any help is appreicated

Hi Framers, I'm trying to put Tab Stops with Leaders in a Table. It appears that's not possible. Im I missing something? Thanks! Sam

When wanting to edit an imported jpg file with photoshop using the shortcut esc + l + g FM opens RoboScreenCapture instead of Photoshop - as the shortcut is IDENTICAL! How can I change the keyboard shortcut or how can I use a shortcut to open photoshop and NOT RoboScreenCapture?Anybody got an idea?

Hello Framers!Is it possible to add a Cross-Reference on a Master Page?I'm trying to provide a method for the document user to reference another chapter from anywhere in the current chapter. The document I'm converting from has a side header on every page that accomplishes this.I know it's not the typical FrameMaker convention but I'm trying to accomodate a client.Thanks!Sam

Hello,Seemingly overnight my option when being able to print a book to PDF has disappeared. Yesterday, I was able to select a book in Framemaker, go to File > Print Book, and then have Adobe PDF be the Printer option in the menu. Now, that option is gone and the only PDF option generates very slowly till it eventually hangs at 50% and fails. What happened? What can I do to fix this? I just updated my Framemaker 20 to the latest version but I am still facing this issue. See image for more context  

Hi All. I'm using FramemMaker 16 and publishing topics directly from Frame to Responsive HTML. This seems like a very basic question, but isn't really answered clearly in the Adobe help. Will DHTML Effects (Drop-Down Caption & Body) work when publishing directly from Frame to Responsive HTML? If so, what are the steps/settings to make this work - over and above what's stated in the help (apply the effect to the para).Thanks 🙂

In Framemaker 2020 (16.0.2.916), when I generate an HTML help CHM file and have a Map file (.h) in the book directory, the .h file is generated and it pulls the Map numbers from the file correctly, but the file name is set to the repeated book name (bookbook.h) instead of  (book.h). If I don't have a map file in the directory, it creates the .h file with the correct name, but, of course, without the correct Map numbers from the now missing .h file. The same source files work fine in FM 2017 and in FM 2019, but not in FM 2020. I can't find any references to this in the forums. Anyone have any ideas how to fix this?

Can I launch FrameMaker and a specified document with a Windows command line call? If so, what is the syntax? Thank you.

Hi,we have some documents where the existing structure is flawed (and no big help in the first place). Migrating to unstructured FM helps even out the problems, but by simply opening the documents in unstructured FM, all cross references are lost.Is there a way, perhaps by means of a tool, to replace all cross refs with normal unstructured cross refs before migrating? The target elements have unique IDs, so these could be used to create markers for the links. Robert

We are using FM2020 (Version: 16.0.1.817) for a large textbook...appx 800 pages split into 16 chapter files and a shared company Dropbox folder. Some files will kick us out while working in them and give the following error: An internal error occured while writing imported graphics in this document. The file has been saved, but has lost some image data. It keeps occuring. The graphics in the file are almost all PDFs and do not seem to have issues. We also tried saving files as .mif and then resaving as .fm. Even stranger is that when this error occurs the .fm file disappears from Dropbox completely...very scary. The .backup remains and another file with a weird extension which can be renamed with .fm and opens up but not sure that is the best thing to do in this scenario. Any advice is greatly appreciated. Thanks!      

We recently upgraded to FrameMaker 2019 and I am recieving the following error when trying to save the book as PDF Please Advise

I have what I believe to be a simple problem to fix. When I add a mini TOC to each chapter I need to add a blank page for my book to format corectly. The my first page is numbered 3. I need to change that so my first page of text is back to 1. Help.

Greetings,I'm using FrameMaker 16 (2020) with DITA 1.3.I need to number equations in the documents I'm working on. I found the equation-number element and I've followed the instructions available on the DITA 1.3 specification site and the FM Help (same content in both places). The difference is this: I'm including MathML equations, not images of equations (even though the MathML equations appear as graphics, they are tagged MathML).I have tried to both generate a number (which is my preference as tracking the numbers manually defeats the purpose of having the mobility of content provided by DITA) and assign a specific number.I've provided screenshots of the equation structure in FM, the output in PDF, and the attributes of an equation block.Any input to users with MathML experience would be most appreciated.Thanks,Wanda

Since upgrading to FrameMaker 2019, we have experienced issued when converting files with landscaped pages to PDF. When using the Save as PDF command, the content of the page is fine, but the header and footer text on the page is rotated and garbled. Printing to PDF solves this issues for single files. However, when we convert a book containing files with landscaped pages, it becomes problematic. Some books are too large to use the Print to PDF command, and replacing sections of the PDF rotates and moves the link boxes. Will a fix be coming for this issue? We did not have this problem with our last version of FrameMaker.

Sorry guys!  I have links between PDF documents created in FrameMaker, and when I click on a link in the Source PDF, it links to the Destination PDF but the Source PDFs closes.  I went to Edit > Preferences in Acrobat and unchecked the 'Open cross-document links in same window' checkbox, but the source PDF still closes.  I guess I am missing something, again.  Also, do both PDFs (Source and Destination PDF) have to be open to link from one document to the other?  Is there a way for the Source PDF to open automatically when linked to Destinatnion PDF? I must be losing it.

FM2020 Delete function is very slow.  Things I've tried... uninstalled - reinstalled, and cleared Auto-Spell Check in Preferences. I read something about images, but I don't have a problem w the same files (project and images) when I open the same project files in FM2017. Both versions are available to me, but installed in separate locations until we can fully migrate to FM2020. Appears to be a recent issue w FM2020. The lags are unproductive, almost unusable. I have a large project that requires significant edits, and at the snail pace of FM2020 is doesn't make sense to use this specific version. Any ideas to fix?     Moving from Using the Community (which is about the forums) to the correct forum... ModTo ask in the forum for your program please start at https://community.adobe.com/

I am trying to update my front matter/TOC that also contains a List of Tables and a List of Figures. For some reason, the List of Figures chapter is not available in the Update Book dialog.If you look closely at the LOF chapter in the Book view below, you will see that TOC and LOT chapter icons are dark brown, while the LOF chapter it is a slightly lighter. Does the color difference indicate something is not configured properly in that LOF chapter? How do I fix this so it will update?

I have some content in text file. Is there a way to read text from .txt, line by line, and add that to its corresponding content in the .fm file? Thanks 

I have been attempting to use custom templates in my FM16 version, however I have been experiencing a lot of different issues. I have noticed that this path "%appdata%\Adobe\FrameMaker\16" does not exist on my computer. Is this an issue that would have happened when FM16 was installed or can I manually add that file to the appdata location and have it work correctly? 

I opened two books (US and Canada).  When opening both books, I am also opening the individual section files (entire book). Canada has a correctly formatted TOC, and with the US manual I still have to generate the TOC, and then import the TOC formats from the Canadian manual TOC.  I generated the TOC for the US book, and I clicked on the TOC for Canada. The Canadian TOC never opens from within the Canadian book file.  The tab at the top says Canada TOC, but what I view is the US TOC in both the US and Canada TOC tabs. What I see when clicking on the Canada TOC tab is the newly generated US TOC file that is not formatted.  Why would I not see the Canadian TOC when I open it (in its proper format), just like I did when I opened the Canadian manual by itself?  I even tried to import that styles from the Canada TOC, but that didn't work either.