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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

Hi community,I try to get external links of doc using markers. I filter markers with type 'Hypertext' and search in them 'www', 'http'. Problem is that when working with big file, that contains more than 30000 markers FrameMaker crashes.Here is the code that I use:function getLinksFromDoc(oDoc) { var marker = oDoc.FirstMarkerInDoc var dLinks = {}; var lTemp; while (marker.id) { if (marker.MarkerTypeId.Name = 'Hypertext' && (marker.MarkerText.match('URL') || marker.MarkerText.match('http') || marker.MarkerText.match('www') ) ) { markerText = marker.MarkerText; lTemp = markerText.split(' '); for (var i = 0; i < lTemp.length; i++) { if (lTemp[i].match('http') || lTemp[i].match('www')) { dLinks[lTemp[i]] = 1; } } } marker = marker.NextMarkerInDoc; } return dLinks; } Does anybody know how to get only markers with specific type? What can I do to optimize the code?

Hallo NGBeim Installieren erhlate ich die Meldung, dass "Ihr Browser oder Betriebssystem wird nicht mehr unterstützt.....Windoes 10 21h1 Enterpriese 64 Bit Kann jemand weiterhelfen? GrussEric

Hello Guys, After generating the PDF from FrameMaker, when opening the file I receive the message that there is insufficient data. I looked for updates although apparently, I have the latest installed.  Any suggestions?Thank you

Hello Guys, Is it possible to delete one single change bar without having to clear all?  Daniela

I'm seriously worried about "raising the bar" of software reqirements in the post for software versions which aren't current (like FrameMaker 2019). This means a perfectly running combination of older software in an older OS (e.g. in a VM) can stop working one day for no reason, correct? The stereotypical answer of "just get the latest version" while pushing people from using their perpetual licenses into subscription is not a proper solution.

Hello All, I have been producing complex tables of contents, lists, and indexes from unstructured FrameMaker books using ExtendScript and XML. I want to do a case-study and webinar to demonstrate the process I am using. Please let me know if you need a "generated" file that FrameMaker can't accomodate with its list and index features. Examples include picking up marker and paragraph data, information from master pages and variables, or the desire to present the information in a table. I am looking for a good document set that I can use in a case-study and webinar. In exchange, I will provide the scripts for you at no cost. Thank you very much. -Rick

It looks like the Extendscript documentation for the book method (page 599) has been swapped with that for the document (page 714), so the note about ImportFmtInclude is missing for the book, but is superflous for a document. I have created a bug report for this documetation error FRMAKER-10499 The other part to this error, is how can the ImportFmtInclude be cleared or set, through the user interface? It is easily manipulated from Extendscript or c++, but I can find no reference to it in the user manual, at least for 2019. Also, is it a bug that a generated document, the table of contents, which is unstructured in my customers environment, does not have this property cleared? Jon