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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. 

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Hello everyone, What does "Composite | Newer | Older" mean in the summary of changes of document comparison?  Thanks

In previous versions of FM, the HTML5 output was created and the navigation was based on the TOC file setup. FM 2020 does not appear to be following this pattern. It is including a paragraph tag that I specifically assigned to exclude (and that does NOT appear in the TOC). And it is nesting everything incorrectly. Does anyone know how to control what appears in the navigation and nesting of files within that navigation?

Hello,i used to have FM 2017 on my win7 PC and printing PDFs just fine, but after i changed my Windows to 10 suddenly is printing PDFs very slow, even when i export PS file also it take too much time, besides the FrameMaker is like (not responding) till the PDF exported. Any suggestion?     

Need some guidance here:Any time I try to open a Book file with FM2019, the program hard crashes. Even trying to create a New Book will crash FM. Opening a Book file from a different folder has the same effect: Frame 'thinks' about it for a minute or so, then 'trips over its feet and falls on its face'. This behavior just started a week ago; a removal and reinstall didn't help. I do have one hard-and-fast restriction: I cannot share Book files as they are proprietary.  I'm running out of hair to pull out; any help is much appreciated. Thanks to any and all who can help.

Hi, I'm having an issue to find were I can replace/import images from the reference page into the body pages. The images I would like to replace are the "Danger", "Attention" and "Warning" images below. The images I would like to replace with are located in the reference page:If I look in the Insets panel I can see that the images have been "imported by Copy" under referance file - what does that mean? The three images are .wmf format. How do I manage to replace the images in the body page with the images from the reference page?  Thanks in advance!

This may be outside the purview of anyone's expertise, but can anyone help with the process associated with uploading the HTML5 files to SharePoint for purposes of posting a book online? Do you upload all of the files that get created when you publish to this output, or is there a select file (or files) you need to upload?

Hello Guys, We are working to have a change control in our documents. I know that when I compare two versions of documents FM generates a detailed summary of the changes. Right now, this summary will be a great help for me to feed the change control table I have created, however, the company I work for is looking for something more automated. They wish to have all these changes automatically filled in the change control table such as the one below.Version 2.0Version 3.0ChangeAuthorDatePage No.Page No.11Replaced: “company ” With: “Company ”   Is it possible somehow?I was wondering if there is a way to customize the Summary of Changes content?  Do you guys have any suggestions to help us on this matter?  Thank you for your support.Daniela   

OK,       If anyone has used the Equations pod and can provide insight in how to solve this problem, I would be forever grateful. Here's the story:       I have a very equation dense manual that I am producing in Framemaker 2019 for all the text, imported graphics, etc. I have a sub-contractor who is working in an equation editor to define and develop all the necessary equations. These equations are organized in a Word document. I take a screen capture of the full equation and import it into an anchored frame in my document. I am doing it this way because each equation must be used in two separate manuals (the manual that I am currently writing and a manual that consists of only the equations - nothing more). As a result, after I take a screen capture and store the capture in a central location, I can import the equation into each document. If the equation must be edited/updated, then the equation is updated in the Word document, I retake the screen captur

The Updates command is greyed out on my FrameMaker 2020 installation. Why? How do I get updates?

The Mini TOC's does not link in the HTML5 output. They are hyperlinked successfuly in the PDF output however. Any thoughts?I've shared some screenshots below of the other settings mentioned in other threads, so that you can see that hopefully these are correct.I can not see anything in the output settings that would impact this.Thanks for your help.

Two questions:1. Using the Indigo Theme on the HTML5 output, is there a way to change the titles on the chapter/file tiles? Currently ours displays the chapter numbers followed by the title of the chapter. I would like it to just have the title only. 2. Can we change the icons that display on these tiles? Currently it shows the same book icon for all chapters. I would like to have a unique icon for each chapter. Thanks!