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I have a ditamap that is used for five different product guides. Right now we use the prodinfo element of the map to generate the product-specific title for the PDF output.I've tried adding the different product names as separate prodinfo elements in the map, but filtering doesn't produce the result I'm looking for. I've tried setting the attributes of each prodinfo element and using the product ditaval to choose the correct product name in the title of the guide. Our cover page uses the prodinfo element to populate the title page. I want to extend it so that we're not having to enter the product information each time we use the ditamap. I was hoping to insert a series of prodinfo elements in the topicmeta for the map. The output, to PDF, simply showed the default variable entry for the prodinfo element (Product). The variable is BM_ProdName which is tied to the prodinfo element.I don't know if I've actually described this well.Thoughts?Wanda

This code (below) is supposed to search text for a specific string (defined by regex), and if found, make the string bold. It finds and returns the text it's looking for, but when it applies the character format, it changes the entire paragraph, not just the string. So, I think it's the text range/text selection that I'm having trouble with. I've spent too much time trying to figure this out on my own, but I just can't get it. Can someone please help me? I'm using FrameMaker 2019. Thank you! #target framemaker  var doc = app.ActiveDoc; var pgf = doc.TextSelection.beg.obj; processLinks (pgf, doc);  function processLinks (pgf, doc) {     var end = Constants.FV_OBJ_END_OFFSET - 1, begin = 0, textRange, charTag;     var textList = pgf.GetText (Constants.FTI_CharPropsChange);     for (var i = textList.length - 1; i >= 0; i -= 1) {         begin

Is there a way to permanently disable/remove the "WelcomeScreen" that keeps opening in FrameMaker 2019 (update 8)? I just noticed it sometimes is constantly using the CPU - even with not documents open and program minimised? Not much, but still... Just annoying...It doesn't work anyway as it always renders completely messed up (please don't rely on low/default security settings in a user's browser to render the UI).If a tab and I close it, it will automatically reopens whenever i open a document (why? that makes no sense?) Please let me just disable it somehow until hopefully it is fixed in some future update. Right now it is just in the way. It would be best if this can be done without requiring admin privileges.

Hi Folks,Would a monthly subscription be allowed to work on a virtual machine? I saw some mentions from users running a stand alone license on a virtual machine but I don't know how well that would carry over to a monthly subscription.The reason I am interested is that it would be nice to take a seat home without having to take my pc home.Thanks,Myko

Using FrameMaker 16 (Windows 10): I have a large number of files in a FrameMaker book that have a numbered style with color set to white (so it's not visible on the page). I would like the numbered heading to appear in my TOC. The text appears but the numbering does not with the color set to white. When I change to color to black, the heading numbering appears in the TOC with the accompanying heading text just like I want it, but then it appears on the source page where we want it hidden. Solutions for this issue are greatly appreciated! 

Hi all. This is driving me nuts and the document is due on Monday. Heres the problem: In the original document (2014 vesrion), the numbering for SCRs in the table is fine, i.e., the numbering starts where it should at 1.1. However, in the 2021 version of the same document, the numbering for the SCRs in the table is off, i.e., the numbering starts at 7.1.I've checked the Numbering in the Paragraph Deisgner and both are the same. Help! Cheers -- John

Can I check the history of working on a file in Framemaker. To see who worked on a file and when?Maybe there is some way, like in the inDesigne program. Irek

I'll admit that I am pretty ignorant how to use FM's color features, because other than adding the corporate colors to the defined list they aren't something I have to deal with. I've never worked with commercial printers, so the terminology is strange to me. However, as part of my template redesign project, I thought I'd make the names consistent and also set the definitions up so they provide optimum output to PDFs.   This lead to me looking through both the standard definitions and the help files, and noting that quite a few of the standard colors are set to "Don't Print". Yet text with a "Don't Print" color applied (e.g., Mauve) shows up in PDFs anyway. This confuses me. If my output is always to PDF, does it matter what the "Print As" is set to? What about the Overprint?    For the color values, I've been setting the model to RGB and inputting hex to the # field. Is that more accurate than using the RGB settings themselves, or the CMYK or HLS settings? For

I've been having a problem with some bookmarks being incomplete (e.g., "Appendix X" is omitted)--the rest of the tag processes normally. They process just fine in FM--they are just missing the "Appendix X" part in Acrobat. In FM, the part that is omitted is autonumbered.In FM, the affected appendix titles (actually most chapter titles) are in white over a colored rectangle that is in the master page(s). If I change the color of the text (e.g., to CMYK 0, 0, 1, 0), the titles are processed into bookmarks in the PDF. If I change them back to 0, 0, 0, 0, they are once again omitted.Bug?

When i call p_Install using gotolink ../../../../../../Documentation/docs/pdf/P_Install:manual title the required PDF opens up but when i call the same PDF from a deeper location: gotolink ../../../../../Documentation/docs/pdf/P_Install:manual title, the P_Install does not open. I am using FM2017.

I realise this may not be solvable without a lot of digging that I probably don't have time for, but I just wanted to check here in case there are any relatively simple fixes I can try.In the past 2 days, FM has crashed approx 5 times, and every time, I have lost my recent changes and had to recreate them. I've just checked for updates and installed them in case that will help. It's generally happened when I've tried to selected a numbered list from the paragraph catalog, (possibly every time, but I'm not certain). I'm working in unstructured FM.When I restart the program, my backup files are behind the main versions so I can't use those to restore from.  I am saving frequently now, but is there anything else I can do?Thanks!

I have a shared topic that lists the cautions and warnings. Using the props attribute, I've set up a list of values for the writers to select from. In the edds, the value giving me trouble is:HGC HGEP HGEXO HGNHP OGC OGEP OGEXO OGNHPI've updated the templates with the edds.In the ditaval, the corresponding entry is:<prop att="props" val="HGC HGEP HGEXO HGNHP OGC OGEP OGEXO OGNHP" action="exclude"/>But, the rendering process (going to a PDF) does not filter out the content tagged this way. As far as I can tell, other combinations are filtering fine.Any suggestions?Wanda 

A number of years ago a very useful Adobe Blog post was made describing how to write regular expressions for FrameMaker's Find & Replace function.   I wanted to read that Friday because I wanted to try my hand at writing an expression, and it's gone. Any chance of its contents being made available again?   This was the URL: https://blogs.adobe.com/techcomm/2016/03/framemaker-regular-expressions.html   That link now automatically redirects to the Adobe Blog TechComm page. I've scrolled back to entries from 2014, and this one isn't there.

Dear friends, experts and gurus!Main purpose of my project FMfindRepl is saving the settings to an xml file and get them back later.It turns out that 'roung-tripping' empty edit-fields is not handled correctly. It even leads to blocked functions (Buttons will not work any more).Field "find what" is empty for various find operations, for example when searching for Anchored Frames. This is represented in the xml file as  <findstring></findstring>​ At the next start of FM with the script  things work as expected.As long as I do not save a new set of settings nothing strange happens and the next FM session is OK.Saving new settings of course recreates the xml file. And now the previously existing  <findstring></findstring>​ are saved to the file as  <findstring/>​ This is absolutely correct in the sense of XM, but ...... in the next FM session these empty elements create problems. There is no more a distinction betw

Hi,Im using framemaker 16.0.1 version, while updating graphics in .cdr format it is appearing in grey color box in fm document as well as in pdf out. the same file was worked in the previous version after updating framemaker im get an error like this one.If anyone knows the solution please let me know thanks in advance 

FrameMaker2015 [window 7] has problemPicture 1 When I working for a while the message “Internal error 13054,21,92777,24246195,24228058. FrameMaker has detected a serious problem and must quit.” is appear, can’t working and then the program closed by itself. Picture 2 When double click file the message “Adobe FrameMaker 2015 has  stopped working” is appear.I want to ask about the cause of both cases, and how to fix it. Anyone know what to do please answer.  Thank you very much.  

Heading 1 sometimes is initial caps and sometimes uppercase in PDF.  The Heading 1 designer page shows Uppercase selected. I do not see any overrides in the status bar at the bottom of the page.  

I guess I want it to wrap to the next line to keep the numbers aligned?  

I have Figure 14-1 and 14-2 listed in my LOF that are too long. The leader goes to the proper right side of the page.  I entered a soft return at the point I felt the the titles should break, but the first line indents to around .625", while the second line is the one that should indent about .5" but is left aligned.  There are no tabs present on the first line, the Pargraph Designer has no settings for First, Left, or Right, and the leader tab stop is set at 6.25".  Didn't have this issue with the TOC. Any suggestions? Thanks!

Hello,a customer wants me to use a template in FM12 (unstructured). Is it possible to use this template in FM latest version? And save it to FM12 (unstructured)? What do I need to do if not? Thanks a lot!

I have Format B tables. Some have a shaded heading and others do not. All use a paragraph tag named cellheader. How can I figure out why some are shaded and some are not?    

I want to keep each table on the same page instead of breaking across pages. How would that affect tables larger than a page?

Problem: Need a relatively convenient way to convert long, complex technical documents in Framemaker (2019)—multicolumn format with large numbers of equations, tables, and figures—to MS Word without having to spend hours manually postprocessing to make it readable/usable. XML/Structured Frame isn't an option for various technical/process reasons I won't go into. (Trust me, I would love to be able to do this.) Two Not-Really-Solutions I've Considered: Exporting from PDF results in a near-perfect copy in Word built entirely on sand (column breaks, section breaks, etc. to preserve appearance) that collapses as soon as you begin to add/remove/modify text or objects. Copying and pasting directly from Framemaker is somewhat better, but equations (using the Equation Builder) and figures are stripped from the output and requires serious postproduction, which for very complex documents is still prohibitively labor/time intensive. I've been banging my head against this wall f

I think that the solution might be a very simple one but I spent at least half an hour on this one with no result so I'm asking the experts. A certain document in my book has to have a chapter title in condition A and no title in condition B (The title for condition B is present on another document which won't be used in book A). First of all, I couldn't find a way to create a line with a title in it for one condition which gets removed for the other condition. Then I thought to create an empty line for the other condition (I was OK with an empty line on top of the page at that time). This causes very complex problems which I can't even describe. Right now I'm thinking of either creating a line with some empty spaces in it to be used as an anchor for the empty line or maybe utilizing tables just for the purpose of this simple task. Is there some other simple solution to this issue or am I missing something?

Hi,Some time im getting internal error 16014 while opening large files in framemaker.what i need to do to solve this issue ? if anyone knows please let me know. please find the attachment of error code  Thanks in advance