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I have a crazy situation with ExtendScript and FrameMaker 2019. I have a table with a column of data that I am processing. When I query each cell.FirstPgf.Unique property for each cell in the column, they are all the same! If I generate an Alphabetical Paragraph List, all of the links go to the first cell in that column! Not cool at all.

After over twenty years of FrameMaker use with no issues to speak of, I am now experiencing a strange one:I am constructing a new FrameMaker manual and have been copying text from older PageMaker and Word docs, copying that into Notepad to remove formatting, and then copying and pasting that into Frame and formatting as needed. Suddenly this week I find that if I copy anything from within FrameMaker onto the clipboard it stays on the clipboard and will only paste that into FrameMaker. Say I copy text from Notepad, having previously copied and pasted text or objects from within FrameMaker itself. I can paste the newly-copied material back into Notepad with no issues, but if I try to paste it into FrameMaker I can only paste what I previously copied from within the document. It's seriously slowing me down. Sometimes the problem clears up by itself, but most of the time I have to restart FrameMaker to clear the clipboard. This is only happening on my work PC (back in the office now) and n

Lately, I've been having an intermittent issue with files in FrameMaker books. FrameMaker will just suddenly stop recognizing a file in a book, throwing a message that it is not a FrameMaker file when I try to open the file or update the book. Does anyone know why this might be happenning and how I can stop it?

So...  Here we are agan.  You'll recall that over the past few months, i've been posting here a lot, becoming increasingly frustrated each time. This as I watch my precious documents disintegrate before my eyes time and time again in more ways than I can recount on one, or even two hands. It seemed a fruitless effort to try and solve the issue alone, but I did try nontheless...  After a frustrating evening, I found myself dragging and dropping my output around my network, mostly as an exercise in impatience and self soothing.At some point, I launched the Index file only to realize that it had started working... or, at least most of it had.  I went down a folder level, it broke, I went up a level, some worked, I went up again, it ALL worked... After messing about, I copy and pasted the file names at various levels in the folder structure into Ms Word to get a character count at the levels that worked, and at those that didn't. &nbsp

I have a question on how you can display (add) an author in the PDF Output from a ditamap. I work with a team of 13 “content creators” and the only output our “customers” see is the PDF. It would be very useful to have the Author of the PDF (published from the ditamap) displayed in the Publishing Output so that our customers don’t have to guess which one was responsible for creating the document. I have been able to display the author from a “.dita” file by adding a Running Footer to the Master Page of the DITA Templates (for Topic, Task, etc.) and using “<$elemtextonly[author]>”. Unfortunately, for a ditamap, you don’t have the option of adding a Running Footer to the “ditabase1.3.template.fm” file (which controls the PDF Publishing Output). Also, there doesn’t seem to be any element that you can add to the ditamap that could be used for the author. Is there any way (or a workaround) that will allow me to add an author to the PDF output from a ditamap? Any help would b

Hi, I'm using Framemaker 2020 V 16.0.2, I have published my book to Basic HTML and HTML HelpIn both the Index file and the TOC of CHM file, some Headings are missing also one Step2+ style content got added in the place of TOC. Note: The Legacy document was upgraded to 2020 and the new content was replaced. Could you please help me resolving this issue? Thanks and regards,Saravanan M

I have the following scenario:A BulletList element consists of multiple ListItem elements. A ListItem element can also contain a BulletList element (resulting in a 2nd-level and 3rd level BulletList respectively). We have a Format Change List item that we use for each bullet level.When a BulletList appears as a child of a CellText element, we need to override the paragraph formatting and apply a different paragraph spacing, line height. For Level 1 ListItem elements, we also need to override the autonumber format. Basically, we want the following rule:In all context:     If BulletList = Level 1, apply BulletLevel1 Format Change List     If BulletList = Level 2, apply BulletLevel2 Format Change List     If BulletList = Level 3, apply BulletLevel3 Format Change ListIn addition to the above context rules:    If context is * < CellText, override the paragraph and line spacing    If conext is *

When I try to re-install my FrameMaker 7.2 on a new notebook, it reported invalidate license?I have been used this license for many years.Please help.

Hi, I'm having some numbering issues with FrameMaker 10.  Section 1 has Section 1.0 ("Overview"), then subsection 1.1 underneath ("TopicName"). The table of contents, however, for some reason, has:Chapter 1Section 1.1: OverviewSection 1.2: TopicName I leafed through Format -> Document -> Numbering but couldn't find out why FrameMaker is having this discrepancy. Could someone help point me in the right direction?  

Is there a way to reduce the size/height of footnote superscript numbers? Inserting a footnote is causing additional space between text lines.

Hi all. I've inherited a document that seems to have two text columns in the header: one is left aligned and the other is right aligned). However, the previous editor seems to have just used tabs to position the two set of text. The problem is that the right-aligned text doesn't start on the top row. Instead, it starts on the second row (of the right aligned column) which causes the and the last part of it to be missing in the unseen third row (see attached). Note that I can not change the size of the header. This is probably a simple problem to fix but I can't figure it out. Thx for any help. Cheers -- John

In May I posted the following concerning bug 9622: I entered a bug for Framemaker 2020 back in January in Adobe's tracker tool (bug  9622). It had to do with the following conditional tags being added to the product by default:FM_PDF_Comments_HighlightFM_PDF_Comments_Underline5 others also requested that the bug be fixed also. However, it is now May and it is still Open, not fixed. I have been waiting for this fix so i can upgrade Framemaker where i work to Framemaker 2020. We use conditional text heavily here and won't go to FM 2020 until this bug is fixed. How do we get Adobe to fix this bug?  Does anyone have any ideas? Since that time I have been monitoring the bug. The status went from "Open" to "To Track" to "In Development" back to "To Track" back to "Open". No explanation in my original post as to why it is not being fixed. So I am concerned the bug I found will never get fixed. So I am posting again in the hope this will be fixed or at least I will get an e

Hi!I'm quite new to FrameMaker and I have a questions regarding resizing a text frame. I know how to resize waht I believe are the margins by using ctrl + click the dotted lines of the whole page. But how do I resize a text frame within the whole page? See the blue arrow below. I would like to know how to resize the text frame were the blue arrow points at to be able to adjust it more to the left or right. The page have a one column layout.

In my structued document, a Section element contains (amongst other things) a Heading element. Each section can also contain a Section element (resulting in a sub-section). In the Heading element, I have level rules to check the level (number of Section elements above) and apply appropriate formatting.In the page heading, I want to include the content of the Heading element currently at Level 1, i.e.:Section   Heading (level 1)   Section   Heading (level 2)On my page header, I want to see the content entered against the Heading (level 1) element. This would repeat until there is a new Heading (level 1) element.I've tried using the Definition <$elementextonly[Heading]> in my Running H/F/2 system variable, that displays the content of the curernt Heading element, even if it is a lower level heading.

Framemaker 2020, version 16.0.1.817; book published to Responsive HTML5. In the HTML5 output, Chapter 2 and all subsequent chapters are structured subordinate to Chapter 1:  The FM TOC file is structured with Chapter 2 aligned below Chapter 1, and not aligned below the 1.2 and 1.2 subsections. So I don't think that's where the problem lies. I suspect this is a result of the latest FM update. A couple weeks ago I published a similar Responsive HTML5 book, and the chapters are aligned correctly:  Is this a known issue with the new update?

Hi Friends,Trying to find the way to know if text is selected in the active document. I tried the code below but it doesn't seem to work correctly. Any help is appreciated!oTextRange = oDoc.TextSelection; if(oTextRange.beg.offset == 0 && oTextRange.end.offset == 0){ alert("No text selected!"); // abort if no text selected } else { scanSelection(oTextRange); } // end-if 

I've set up the following StructMasterPageMaps on the Reference Page of a structured document:In my document Body page, I have content complying with the following Structure:When I apply master pages (Format > Page Layout > Apply Master Pages), the default Left/Right Master Pages are still applied and not the No_Header_Footer_Right/No_Header_Footer_Left Master Pages respectively. There are no UnstructMasterPageMaps set up on the Reference page.

I haven't published to HTML5 i a while but now when I attempt to do so, the following is happenig: 1) It is using the actual file names instead of the heading names2) It is orderig them alphabetically instead of in the TOC order.3) There is an extra blank file under most TOC topics. I am doing nothing differently than I did previous so not sure how to fix this issue. I am attaching images of the previous correct display (top) and the new incorrect display (bottom).  Any help would be appreciated in helping me fix this. ThanksCindy

Problem Description: Hi all, One of my clients has a problem with FM 2019. They recently upgraded from FM12 to FM2019. They are using a custom application, based on DITA 1.1. The application itself works fine in FM2019, except for one thing. Their workflow is to generate a FM book from a XML file. The book has generated chapters from the XML as fm files. The chapters contain text insets, that point to XML files (not FM files). When generating the chapters, the XML-insets are included in the FM file. In FM12, the insets are formatted ok. In FM2019 however, there is an issue with 'white space' that is added between XML elements.  Attached two examples (png files) to illustrate this: screenshot of the structure in FM12 and in FM2019.  Do you have any idea what can be the reason? Updating the text inset doesn’t help. It looks like FM 2019 can not properly update and format the nested (linked) XML. When opening the XML directly in FM, formatting is ok and no white spaces are

Hi, I just wanted to know the effect of the "changeMark" attribute in structured FrameMaker (S1000D). According to the S1000D specification when you set a value of "1" to this attribute "a change bar or mark (or some other visual representation) is to be displayed next to the entire content of an elementbeing added, deleted, or modified". However, in Adobe FrameMaker nothing happens when you set this attribute value to 1. I just wanted to know that is there any special setting that I am missing? And how can I make this, result as it is defined in the specification?Thanks for your help in advance.

I inherited a number of files created in FM 16 (2020). I'm trying to save them as FM15 files, but when I open them and click on the File menu all of the Save options (and most of the other options) are disabled. Has anyone found a solution to this problem? Also, can anyone tell me why the support chat doesn't work for FM? Core support for 15 is supposed to be available until 2024 and for 16 until 2025, but when I try to open a chat I get a message that online and chat support are not available. TIA for any suggestions.

Once upon a time in my consultancy days … the company I was working with asked if I knew any program that a) might do a better job than Lotus WordPro; b) wasn't made by Microsoft. I said I'd heard a colleague mention something called FrameMaker, though I hadn't worked with it myself. The following week, I came in and found a copy of FM 5.5 on my desk plus a PostIt: "Niels – install. Learn. Use."So I obediently did, and since then I've enjoyed not just using the software but also taking part in the forum and (in more expansive days) visiting events such as the Chatauqua. It has always seemed to me that a face-to-face gathering for the forum would make for a great party!Time passes, though, and now retirement looms. Not a question today, then, just a general thank-you to everyone who's helped me over the years. Whatever the future holds, good luck and happy Framing :-}

I have been using FrameMaker for over 20 years.  I think it is a good product overall but there are some bugs in it that are extremely annoying and I am amazed that they haven't fixed over the years, in spite of releasing many new versions and new GUIs.     I currently use the 2017 version, so I don't know if the new version still has these bugs.   If anyone can tell me, i would consider pushing my employer to get us the new version if these bugs are gone. 1) when you use the scroll on the mouse it is EXTREMELY slow.   it takes many turns of the wheel just to get through one page.   when i view the same document in PDF/Acrobat (also Adobe product), the scroll is normal.   It seems that FrameMaker overtakes the scroll controll and adjusts it to about 1/4 the responsiveness as compared to every other program.  I see no reason for this and it is extremely annoying to the point i can't even use the scroll when I am worki

This poor horse is most likely beyond rescue from all the flogging, but I'd like to resuscitate the poor creature. I've been using Framemaker (Unustructured) for the past 15 years, starting on FM 7. I've always had to work with styles and tables defined by others. A few years ago I was in the position to redesign the styles (paragraph and character) and tables for our training manuals (book) to bring them into line with our corporate style guidelines. This resulted in 3 primary documents:Template_Master.fm: This is the master template all documents is created from.Variables.fm: This documents contains the standard variables used across all manuals. A copy of this file is created for each manual (book) with the variables updated accordingly.ConditionalText.fm. This document contains all the standard conditions used across all manuals. A copy of this file is created for each manual (book) with the relevant conditions applied.When a manual (book) is updated and prepared for publicati

I'm having trouble understanding the use of the symbols in rules in a conversion table. My understanding is: | = any one of the items in the sequence an occur & = Items can occur in any order , = Items must occur in the given order + = Item is mandatory and can occur more than once * = Item is optional and occur more than once ? = Item is optional and can occur only once ( ) =  subclause of rule(s)   Say I have 3 elements: Element A, which must occur at least once (first), but can appear multiple times after that Element B, which is optional, can appear multiple times but only once per preceding Element A Element C, which wrappes Elements A and B. I could have any of the following combinations of elements A and B: A AA AB AABA ABAA AABABAA All of which should wrap in Element C.   The rule I'm trying to create in my Convervsoin Table is: Wrap Element A, followed by multiple instances of Element A and/or an Element B, in any order or combination, in Element C. I've tri