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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.

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 did not create this documentation originally, so I am not familiar with any buried setting(s) that may be causing this issue. Please refer to the image below and the description that follows. The top of the image shows the majority of the table and the bottom of the image shows the table continuation onto the next page. However, when the table continues onto the next page, the table caption gets pushed down to the beginning of the following page, even with plenty of room under the table. Not included in the image is the table anchor tag completely separating from the table and creating a new page to itself. I was able to fix the table anchor issue by setting the table to start a Top of Page, but I am lost on the other issue. If anyone knows why this formatting issue is occurring, please let me know!Thanks! 

I have finally created two PDFs where one has links the open topics in another.  However, when clicking the link in PDF A, it does hyperlink to the topic in PDF B, but PDF A then closes.

Hi, I am unable to produce a .chm from a .book file. I can make a .chm from each individual chapter (except the auto-created files, of course). I can create a .chm from other, similair, .book files. I recreated the .book file and added the existing files to it, but it still will not produce the .chm file. I can produce pdf and Responsive HTML5 files from the .book file  In each case, I've used the same settings file and the same .css.I have looked at the log file that is produced, in each case, it says it compiled normally. I deleted the temp files, which produced no change.I am on 2019, 15.0.8.979. It seems to fail at the "Generating HTML Help system" step.  I get an error: "An internal error has occurred. This program will now close.".Any suggestions?

I want my FrameMaker script to create log in the same .log file. Is there a way to do this in FrameMaker scripting?

After reviewing Barb's instructions for creating an LOEP, I’ve successfully produced a list-of-paragraphs that display the page number and it’s date (see snippets below). I have a couple of questions though, that I haven’t been able to answer online – maybe I’m not searching the right things.On an automatically generated list like this, can I format it to populate a table (in this instance with 2 columns: Page No and Effective Date)Is there a way to include the ChapterTitle of the page being listed (similar to how I have my Running footer)?  I can add ‘ChapterTitle’ to the list of included paragraphs, but it only includes it once.Note on this: The number’s shown in ChapterTitle are just text and part of the paragraph – that works for aviation manuals where I have a *.fm file for each chapter, and they are specific numbers based on subject matter – not sequential.Ideally what I would like to display is:       Page No…….Chapter Title……..Effective D

Somehow I managed to set FrameMaker 12 to mark the word "for" as a misspelling. I have no idea. But now, I cannot add it to the dictionary, and the instructions in the error message about how to fix this make no sense. I have spent hours trying a million ways of editing a personal dictionary, putting where I think it needs to be, importing, merging, personal AND document, restarting FrameMaker, etc... Still thinks "for" is not a word. I have read and re-read the documentation and it just does NOT work. Can someone please, please help? It's driving me batty to see those red squiggly lines all over the place.

I am publishing two Frame documents that have cross-reference links from one (Owners' Manual) to the other (Sales and Operations Manual).  Currently, both sets of FrameMaker files reside on an internal server in separate folders. The FrameMaker links work on the internal server, but do not work between the published PDFs on our internal or external server. When I publish as a PDF, none of the links work on the source document (Owners' Manual) and the destination document (Sales and Operations Manual).  I have tried publishing as a PDF and also tried File > Publish from the main menu. I get the following error when I edit the hyperlinks and save:iManage plugin for Acrobat has failed to write the alternative data stream. In my case, I have moved the PDF files into one folder and tried to edit the sourse PDF document's link to point to the topic in the destination PDF.  Haven't found a solution, yet.  Any help would be appreciated. Also, I need to eli

Working on a document for a client that they want the pages to be numbered based on the heading.  When a new heading starts Basically:Section Title 1 - 1Section Title 1 - 2Section Title 1 - 3Section Title 2 - 1Section Title 2 - 2Section Title 2 - 3... I work off of a template and it is currently set up that the writer has to manually type in the section title and page number.  With page shifting and the vast number of documents that this will be applied to, is there a way to put this numbering on the master page and automate everything?  I can set up a variable for the section title easially, but having the numbering reset every time I create a new section title is where I am stuck. TIA

With all the powerful formatting tools available in FM, a DropCap feature is still lacking. I know it can be created using Anchored Frames, but I'm not a fan of this option as it requires manual manipulation of the text and I find the spacing always looks a little off to me.I was wondering if anyone in the community has found other workarounds for creating DropCaps effectively without having to use Anchored Frames.(Would be nice if there was an option to have the text aligned to the top of the line and not the bottom :-)).Thanks,Quintin

Hi There, There was a business need to apply customized template  as per company branding to existing document. However, after applying the template, I am facing the below mentioned issue:   The screenshot shown on page 3 should be on page 2 just below the bar. I tried deleting page 2, but that deleted page 3 as well. I tried giving backspace and click the delete button as well, but that didn't move the screenshot above. I mapped the styles, style definitions, reference pages, master pages of this document with the existing published document, but everything was same. It is strange because the same styles and definitions are used in our existing document and we are not facing any such issue, but after applying template we got this issue. I want the output as below:  I tried almost every workaround that I was aware of, but the issue still persists.  Can someone please help me in resolving this issue? 

I have just upgraded from FM2019 to FM2020, Update 2. (Did a test earlier this year, but went back to FM2019.)Now I have converted an old document and generated a pdf file, no problems at all.But when I generate responsive HTML 5, the output looks terrible. The settings.sts file isn't used. Or perhaps just partly used.FM2020 can't even open the sts file, I get an error message saying "Please save the document" when I try to open it. (It can be opened using notepad, so the file isn't locked.)How can I use my FM2019 settings.sts file in FM2020?

I can't find any specific info about this. Nothing specifies they only appear for .fm files so have to ask. The Lock File on Network option is activated. *.lck files appear for opened *.fm files but do not appear for *.dita files. Why is that? This is causing us problems. 

I've just converted a FM2019 document to FM2020. When I open the newly published pdf I get the following message: I have never seen this before. Any FM2020 setting I have missed? 

When I generate my book file, I get the following error in the log:Show/Hide setting for Hidden is inconsistent. Does anyone have suggestions on how to troubleshoot and fix this?thanks,Janie Gulley

I'm trying to download the latest FM20 update, the one from June 2nd. But when I click the "Download for all available Updates" I get the following error:

I have just launched my demo version of Framemaker and the interface is behaving in all kinds of bizarre and completely messed up ways.  This is what I get when I launch it, and it is clearly not right: And then when I click on the file menu and then pull the mouse pointer downwards over the items in the menu, the file menu collapses and another menu opens to the right. In the next screenshot, the mouse pointer was just below the word "File" when this menu to the right unfurled. In fact it happens with all the menus. When I click on a menu and pull the mouse pointer down to get to the items in the menu, that menu collapses and another menu so many places to the right unfurls instead.I came across several other bits of messed up GUI behaviour as well, although I didn't manage to note these down. Why is Framemaker malfunctioning so wildly?

Hello,I want to create a form directly from FrameMaker and print it as an interactive PDF.Does anyone give me a hint?Thanks in advance