FrameMaker

In earlier versions of FrameMaker, the contents of the Console window was written to this file in the FrameMaker User folder: consfile.txt. But with versions 2019 and 2020, this file doesn't have messages that I specifically write to the Console using ExtendScript. Any help would be appreciated.

I think FrameMaker can use @href for referenced images when writing a structured file to XML, but I cannot find the method to force FM to do so. It keeps writing <!ENTITY> definitions and referencing them instead. This causes unnecessary complications in post-processing the XML to DITA. It might be trivial, but I have no time working my way through all the specs in the Structured App Guide and Reference. If someone can tell me what to add to the read-write rules (or the DTD, or the EDD, or wherever) that would be really helpful. 4everJang

I want to convert content in FrameMaker template to Word (.docx) format. Please let help me with the approach to follow or from where to get started.

I guess, many noticed these grey mirrored shadow letters in titles of some templates:How to get access to it in some settings to delete or to set it up in a different way?

I created TOC and it was very ugly and primitive us usual, so I decided to import settings an other properties from a good TOC that I have on my hard-drive. The good TOC looks like that:My TOC after the import, updating the Book and TOC and redefining the Paragraph catalog elemets looks like that. Sequential pagination is absent at all, the number of pages are not in line, there is not breadcrumbs lines. What is going on? What my TOC does not look like the imported one?

Hi Everyone, I am trying to figure how to resolve the error "Format change lists that are referenced but not defined." Can anyone provide assistance. The error is referencing "HeadTitleText" in my EDD and is appearing in my Element Catalog Manager report after importing the Element Definitions into a template.  Thank you for your assistance.Edrice Angry

While trying to understand the properties of the Chapter Title's shadow in the sample below:      I found that it has some kind of settings in the Master Page view, see below:   But what it is? How is this "Running H/F 1" element called? How can I create or edit it? Is there some panel or toolbar to create or edit (delete) this element? I looks like a variable, because I see it in the Variables panel.

Friends and gurus,Since some days (the last Windows 10 update?) I can not enter a backslash (\) into text in FM-15.I have Swiss-German keyboard layout.No other application is affected by this, including other FM versions. Hence it is not a keyboard problem.In FM-15 I can enter this backslash character in dialogue fieldsIn FM-15 I can enter any other ALTGr - charater, namely ¦@#¬|¢´~[]{} into the textI can not enter this backslash character in FM-15 into a new document (hence it is not a problem of a particular document)Neither restarting FM, nor restarting Windows 10 lets the problem go away.After setting CtrlAltIsAltGr to ON in maker.ini I hoped to use this bypass for ALTGr - but it does not  help either.I can copy/paste existing backslashes in the text.Siwtching to German keyboard layout lets me enter all characters in any application except FM-15 text (remember, it works in dialogue entry fields).→ What could be the reason for this strange behaviour?

Aight here's the sitch.  I'm working with Hotspots within an HTML5 document using a Specify Named Destination - Hypertext marker.I've set them up inside of Framemaker using an unstructured book (DITA has been causing me enough problems for one week).  Inside Framemaker, the Hotspots work fantastically, they also work perfectly when outputting to PDF. The big issue i'm having is that when outputting to HTML5 somehow that link breaks, I recieve the ominous error that the destination link "May have been moved, edited or deleted"...  However, those destinations still exist and open fine when using the table of contents.  Continuing from there I also have issues with image quality, the hotspots somehow seem to annihilate and crunch the images i'm using to paste...  Any advice, tips, a saviour to come from out of the skies to answer to me pleas ?  

We are pursuing the purchase of AEM.  Currently we publish PDFs.  My gut tells me that we need FM in order to address some of our legacy content, such as complex tables (rotated text, nested tables, images in table cells, etc.). Can anyone help me identify the specific reasons why we may need FM?  I've asked this question several times to others (not in this Community), and I always get a general answer, "most people use it because they have been using it, and it is familiar to them."  I am looking for specific benefits that I can use as justification, if necessary. Thank you. 

One of the (many) features I like in FM2019 is the ability to insert an image without the need to insert an anchored frame first (one is created automatically). As we  move to Structured FM, I've run into a hurdle with inserting images.We have inline images (appearing on the same line as text). These vary in size and resolution. In unstructured, once the images is inserted, the auto-created anchored frame is resized to fit the image size and the Distance from Baseline is changed to -3.5pt.In moving to structured, I can create a graphic element that is set to ImportedGraphicFile. This work well to insert the image. However, the Distance from Baseline of the anchored frame still needs to be manually changed.I tried using a graphic element that is set to AnchoredFrame. This creates the anchored frame using an Object Style with the correct Distance from Baseline. However, once the image is inserted, the anchored frame isn't resized to fit the image and needs to be manually done. Once

I need to insert a URL to an external website into a document. What is the best way to configure a Hypertext element for this purpose? I can create a Marker element, but I can't quite figure out how to use it.

can someone tell me if there something i have to do in order to avoid,,, this keeps on happening but i cannot figure why...pffffffffff....

I keep receiving the "xxx.fm contains unresolved cross references" error, despite repeatedly deleting the old reference, inserting a new one, and saving the document. How can I make the cross reference remain permanently in the document once I insert it?

When clicking at the end of a text line in the document, the cursor appears to be placed at the end of the line. Instinctively, you would start typing, assuming you're adding more text to the same element.However, when looking at the cursor position in the Structure View, the cursor is actually at parent element level. I.e. I have a Paragraph element, following by a (child) List element, made up of several ListItem elements. When I click at the end of the text for the last ListItem element, the cursor is actually  on the Paragraph element, rather than the last ListItem element.Is this expected behaviour because the cursor is actually not at the end of the text, but rather after the last (hidden) element tag?

For some reason, I have 1 document that I can never get to display like all the others when I am adding it to a book file. All but the one file will show as Module: # File Name however the file in question shows as Files\Filename. This particular file shows the same in both "Display File Names" and Display Heading View. I have tried saving the file with a new name and even recreating the file but it always defaults to the same view no matter what. 

We've just upgraded to FrameMaker 2020 and have run into 2 problems/concerns.1. Speed.Opening documents is extremely slow. Opening a document in 2019 would take approx 10 seconds. In 2020 it takes almost a minute to open the same document. If it's a document heavy on graphics (as most of ours are), once the document finally opens, you an actually see the graphics loading one by one. From the time you open the document to the time you can actually start working on it is almost 2 minutes in FM2020. Even scrolling is slow, it's like each page is being rendered/loaded as it comes into view. Even after you've viewed each page in the document at least once. Opening more than one document causes FM to stop responding (Not Responding message in title bar) until both documents are loaded. 2. ShortcutsEsc fio and Esc fif don't seem to work in FM 2020. Other shorcuts, like Esc fa, Esc fwp, Esc ti, Esc sa are working. 

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_Highlight FM_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?

Does anyone know if you can do the following in FrameMaker?-Nest tables-Include images in a table cell-Rotate text in a table cell I have the sames questions for AEM. I am trying to decide what functionality exists and whether it exists in both.Thank you.

Is there an FDK command for removing structure from a structured FrameMaker document? I don't want to use an fcode because of the warning message. If so, I am hoping that there is a corresponding ExtendScript command. Thanks.

Hi,In FM2019 we use book files to create HTML5 output that provides links in the left-hand navigation for each guide that's in the product's documentation set (plus copyright and PDF access). You can see that for each file or book in the book file, there's a corresponding link to the product guide in the left-hand navigation: In the trial version of FM2020, this same book file generates output that does not have the name of the product guide in the left-hand navigation, instead all its files are being shown.: In trying to get to the bottom of the problem, I have found out these things:If I use the FM2020 default.sts I get the same 'wrong' outputIf I create a fresh new book file and add in just one book, publish HTML5 causes "Adobe FrameMaker 2020 stopped working" errorChanging the 'book-of-books' book file to have fewer book in it (excluding them or deleting them) then using publish HTML5 causes the "Adobe FrameMaker 2020 stopped working" errorI can't successfully create

I am using Templates to create PDF from DITA contents in FM 20. I have manuals in different languages say English and German. Naturally I would like to have the whole manual including the system variables, if they appear on the manual, to be translated. Currently, I am facing two issues with table continuing to next pages:1.  I changed the values for the system variables:" Table Sheet" and "Table Continuation" to their German equivalents to be used in a German manual. Then I pressed the button "Update System Variables", saved the template and updated the Settings. However, these changes are ignored, and I still see the previous values. I have done these changes for these templates: ditabase, ditabase1.3, ChapterOutPut and ListofTables templates one after each other. 2. If there is an umlaut such as "ä" in the title of the table, the words such as Sheet and Continued comming from the aforementioned system variables are completely ignored. I thought I can fix this by changing t

Hi all,  I've recently been prepping Framemaker for a move over to DITA and HTML5 at my company.  I've recently experienced the following issue when outputting HTML5 using a Ditamap.  Basically, when I generate the output, the HTML5 table of contents removes topics from the Ditamap. Some background, i've recently installed JRE to fix a previous error, I wonder if this has anything to do with it?  In addition it also displays the following error " :c It may have been moved, edited, or deleted"... and then my output displays some Arabic text near the header.  I dont know if this is related or not, but I'm a little bit confused.  Please see the attached examples.  One of the DITA Map and another of the output.

Windows 7 with SP1, FrameMaker 2019.  When I click Continue button, nothing happens. Changing the language or the location doesn't help. What it could be?

In our Table element, we have an Attribute List to select the type of table to create (we have a number of pre-defined table structures).One of the table structures we use is to insert notes/comments into our documents. It's a single row, 2 column, table. Currently, in the first cell, we use a specific paragraph tag to insert an appropriate graphic (Frame Above Pgf) depending on the type of note/comment. The second cell (using a different paragraph tag) contains the text for said note. I'm having trouble defaulting the paragraph tag used in the first and second cell in the table, respectively.I have my Table and Cell elements set up as follows:When I insert the Table element, selecting Note as the Attribute, the format rules fail on the TableType and I'm not sure why (It is entirely possible that I've got it set up wrong).For some of our other Tables, we also need to specify a different paragraph tag for the first row of the table, and a different paragraph tag for the subsequent rows.