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Hi. I have been trying to add custom attributes to FrameMaker 2020 to try and integrate it with a CMS that uses a specific scheme for such things in its own integrated editor. Thus far, I have not found the means to do so. Ideally, I ought to be able to set a Choice in terms of value for such attributes as well. Some of my attempts are recorded below:1. Preferences > CMS > Custom Attributes: This only supports specific CMS systems and does not seem to add those attributes to the list of attributes available to different elements.2. Structure > DITA > Customise DITA > Customise DITA Shell: I can remove attributes from the list to hide them but not add custom attributes.3. Insert > Conditional Tags > Create New Tag: These use a completely different notation from XML attributes.4. Adding them to DTD and importing that to FrameMaker.Any suggestions on how to proceed would be greatly appreciated.

Hi,My colleague has made layout corrections in a series of FrameMaker files (after they were translated via a CAT tool). When I open these FrameMaker files on my pc, all paragraph styles seem to be reset: manual overrides made by my colleague are gone. For example, my colleague has changed the start property of one paragraph to "Top of column", but when I open the file this property has been reset to "Anywhere", which is the default for this style. When another colleague opens the files, the manual overrides are preserved, so it looks like the problem is on my machine. We have done this kind of work for many years, and we never had this problem before.We use FrameMaker 2015 for this customer, but the problem also happens when I open the files in FrameMaker 2017.Does anyone have a clue of what is going wrong?  Thanks and regards,Daniëlla

Hi,   When I insert a new image via File | Import | File or Insert | Image, then I cannot undo this operation via the Undo icon or Edit | Undo. Steps to Reproduce:Create a new file.Insert a new image via File | Import | File or Insert | Image.Then check, whether you can undo this operation. When I do this, the command and the icon are grayed out. Can anyone reproduce this? Or does this happen only on my PC?   Best regards   Winfried

Hi There,I have existing document, created in FM 11, which uses Note and Caution Styles. I want to change Note and Caution icons, but I am unable to do that. The existing icons have not been inserted using anchored frames, but have been embedded using autonumber format.Posting below the existing style definitions of Note and Caution in FM 11: Existing result in the document after applying the above style definitions:  I want the desired output as: Can someone help me with how to change these icons in FM 11?Thanks and Regards,Rinni

My company uses structured FrameMaker 12 and is hiring a new technical writer who doesn't have FrameMaker experience. They are also upgrading from FrameMaker 12 to the latest version. There are templates for most of the jobs and all of the files used to produce manuals are in a vault. Since all of the procedures to produce a manual are documented, would it be better to start the inexperienced writer with the old version and then upgrade and get him training on the new version?

HiI recently installed Frame 16. It allows me to open a book or a document, and then crashes.I checked for license issues, and it seems fine.I am on a Windows 10. ThanksUday 

When I resize an image in FrameMaker 2020, the anchored frame resizes to the image automatically. How do I turn this off. Is there an FDK/ExtendScript property that I can use to turn it off? Thank you.

Can Frame 5.5 be used together Windows 10?

In our EDD, we have a Section element that consists of a mandatory Heading element. It can then be followed by any of the following optional elements, in any order and they can appear multiple times:Navigation (Table element)Paragraph (<TEXT> element)HowToInstruction (Table element)FieldList (Table element)Section (Section element, creating a sub-section)In our Conversion Table (to apply structure to our unstructured documents), I have a rule to wrap the elements. I tried using the | symbol (any one of the items can occur): E:Heading, (Navigation* | E:Paragraph* | HowToInstructions* | FieldList* | Section*), as well as the & symbol (items can occur in any order): E:Heading, (Navigation* & E:Paragraph* & HowToInstructions* & FieldList* & Section*). In both cases, the rule will only work if all the elements appear. If any of the elements are missing, the rule doesn't work.

We have recently purchased additional licenses of subject software for use on an air-gapped network. We are not able to install. What is the method to accomplish?

Hello All,Please avdise ...When I try to open and XML file in the DITA example fm set (TRAVELDITA) in ..C:\Program Files (x86)\Adobe\Adobe FrameMaker 2017\Structure\xml\TravelDITAI get an error message stating "Unable to open file!" and "Try opening it manually and checking for errors". How should I open it manually? What errors should I look for?I also tried coping TRAVEL DITA from another colleague's machine but still the same problems. ThanksRoy 

Hello, Does FrameMaker 2020 have change control or does it need a CMS to be integrated? Thank you

Hi all,I'm hoping someone can help with this. I'm using FrameMaker 2019/DITA and have a document that is combined English/Chinese Simplified. I have activated the Adobe Heiti font using Creative Cloud and have some of the DITA elements defined to use this font in FrameMaker. All works well in authoring. However, when I publish to PDF via the FM book route, and enable the Use Acrobat Disiller for PDF generation option in the Publish Setting dialog, no PDF is produced. This is the error displayed in the Distiller window:%%[ Error: undefinedresource; OffendingCommand: findresource ]%%Stack:/CIDFont/AdobeHeitiStd-Regular{--pop-- 4 --index-- --add--}/AdobeHeitiStd-Regular-hf/WinCharSetFFFF-H/AdobeHeitiStd-RegularH%%[ Flushing: rest of job (to end-of-file) will be ignored ]%%%%[ Warning: PostScript error. No PDF file produced. ] %%Distill Time: 00 Hour(s) : 00 Minute(s) : 00.156 Second(s)**** End of Job **** If I disable the  Use Acrobat Disiller for PDF generation option

I am trying to create a 1pt frame border around my Framemaker book images.  I created an Object Style for an image and named the Object Style: Image Border. I applied the border from the Object Style Catalog (Image Border) to the image I created the Object Style from and the border applied just fine.  I clicked on a second image, applied Image Border to it, and the image resizes to the size of the original image that I created Image Border from.  I need to find out how the Object Style Image Border resizes when applied to each new image, instead of resizing exactly to the same dimensions as the orginal image every other time.

Hi!I am working on an EDD and when i validated it, it passed stating document is valid. However, when I imported it into my test document I am getting an error. In the Structured View, I am getting an <INVALID CONTENT> at the Graphic element.I am confused why it is saying the document is valid but when imported and used I am getting an error. As additional information, I put the Graphic element into a container which I am not sure is correct but I had a previous error and since it a general rule for a Section, I had to provide more information for the Graphic element.I thank you in advance for your assistance with this question and hopefully a resolution.Thanks,Eddie

Hi,I try to set link cross-ref on FM2015 and then generate PDF but the output link cross-ref in PDF cannot go to the page linked.[Method]1. Open FM on version 20152. Set link cross-ref in the file3. Generate FM into PDF4. Output PDF not complete link in some page Please suggest me, Thank you. Regards,Charl.s

When I save a FrameMaker 2020 file down to FrameMaker 2019 using ExtendScript, the top line of the file still says <MakerFile 16.0> so it won't open in 2019. It works in the interface with File > Save As.   #target framemaker var doc; doc = app.ActiveDoc; saveDoc (doc); doc.Close (true); function saveDoc (doc) { var params, returnParams, i; params = GetSaveDefaultParams (); returnParams = new PropVals (); i = GetPropIndex (params, Constants.FS_FileType); params[i].propVal.ival = Constants.FV_SaveFmtBinary150; i = GetPropIndex (params, Constants.FS_AutoBackupOnSave); params[i].propVal.ival = Constants.FV_SaveNoAutoBackup; i = GetPropIndex (params, Constants.FS_FileIsInUse); params[i].propVal.ival = Constants.FV_ResetLockAndContinue; FA_errno = 0; doc.Save (doc.Name, params, returnParams); if (FA_errno !== 0) { PrintSaveStatus (returnParams); } }  

We have files made with FM11. We started to use FM2020 and some files give message "At least one original filter used for graphics imported by reference is not available, or the imported file's format has changed. An alternative filter may be used if the file is recognized as a graphic FrameMaker can import." when opening. When you scroll the file at some point FM2020 crashes. Any ideas what to do with those files?

If I create a new empty page in FM, using px instead of mm/cm/in, FM automatically uses a dpi setting of 96 to convert the size, so I end up with a 20" wide sheet for a page size based on the Full HD format (1920 x 1080 px). In e.g. Adobe InDesign, I can adjust the dpi setting so that the whole thing is no wider than a A4 page in size, but in FrameMaker I haven't found any way to adjust it. Am I missing something, or can this setting simply not be changed? FM version used: 15.0.5.838 (2019 release) 

I have the following, simplictic table, in a document:(text is the paragraph style currently applied to each cell).In my Conversion Table, I have the following rules:When I apply the Conversion Table to my document, I get the following resultMy problem is that the Image element should be wrapped in the ScreenshotCell (TC) element and not the default CELL (TC) element.  For some reason, the highlight conversion rule is completely ignored and I can't figure out why.

Hi! I'm quite new to structured framemaker and I'm considering migrating legacy unstructured documentation to XML. In legacy documentation along with ordinary tables I have Note and Attention messages in a table format:The icon is a paragraph format with a Frame above Pgf., and the table has shadingWhen I generate a conversion table, framemaker creates only one set of elements for table cells, rows, etc. I'm a bit confused about how do I handle those tables both in conversion table and in EDD file so that I can save the converted file to XML, then load it and get the same table format? I would appreciate any advice. Thanks!

Is there an alternative to using a Conversion Table to apply structure to an unstructured document?I have a simple document, with 3 headings and a table:(So the paragraphs styles are easilty identified, the text is the actual paragraph style applied)In the EDD that will be used, each Heading is a new Section. Tables are children to a Section. The expected Structure should be:Section  Heading  Section   Heading   Table Using the following Conversion Table:I get the following result:When the result should be:

It takes several minutes to open any document that is full of references to image files. The problem appears to be related to the extreme level of file attribute reads ("attr get" column when running fsstat -F 3) and lookup operations the application insists on performing before the document is available for editing. This is completely different from the latency seen when each page and new images are loaded. I typically see >300 attr gets, and >400 lookup ops *per second* when opening one of these files, so I could see over 100,000 of each before the file comes up. This is for a 50 page document with ~3 images per page. I looked into whether this was a hard disk latency issue, since it would take a spinner significant time to respond to all of these requests, even with small data per request, but it looks like virtually all of the requests were being handled by the filesystem cache (RAM). Does anyone know why all of these requests are being made, and if there is any way to get ar

In developing our EDD, I've converted our Paragraph Styles to Format Change Lists, simply because all our Paragraph Styles are really variations of a single base Pararaph Style. Is this the best approach? Or is it better to keep our current Paragraph Styles and use the ParagraphFormatTag property instead?Historically we've always had problems enforcing paragraph styles, instilling (or at least trying to) in our writers not to make changes to the pre-defined Paragraph Styles. We want to prevent our writers from making these changes and enforce the pre-defined styles.

Having spent the last two days trying to creat a conversion table to apply structure to our unstructured documents, only to have it apply the correct structure 40% of the time (due to the position of the element in the structure being dependant on the context in which it is used), I'm curious to know if there is an alternative/easier/better way of applying structure to an unstructured document without doing it manually.