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It's definitely a pity: it is not possible to have long label text for buttons, radio buttons or check boxes:  // UI_multiline_labels.jsx // 2021-02-01 var w = new Window("dialog", "Appearance of multiline labels", undefined); w.t1 = w.add("statictext", undefined, "Some longer text in this label", {multiline: true}); w.t1.preferredSize = [100, 35]; w.rb1 = w.add("radiobutton", undefined, "This does not work at all", {multiline: true}); w.rb1.preferredSize = [100, 35]; w.cb1 = w.add("checkbox", undefined, "Some longer text in this label", {multiline: true}); w.cb1.preferredSize = [100, 40]; w.btn1 = w.add("button", undefined, "Some longer textin this label", {multiline: true}); w.btn1.preferredSize = [100, 40]; w.show();  This  is a requirement for dialogues filled not only with short running English text, but with French - not to speak of Finnish ...The only solution to the problem seems to be a nasty crunch: https://community.adobe.com/t5/ani

Hi all. What am I doing wrong? Why do the page number appear right next to the chapter headings, e.g., "Overview1"? (see attachement)Appreciate the help. Cheers -- John  

Hi All, I have a "product" attribute on an element that is set as a String in the EDD. I want to dynamically change it to a Strings type in the document. I have some code I have been playing with, but it is not quite ready for the world to see--and besides, it doesn't work. Has anyone done a task like this in ExtendScript or the FDK that could share some pointers? Thank you in advance. -Rick

HiWe have this addin built using the FDK. For some processes we need to check if a document is open before continuing. We found out that sometimes this check positive when the Welcome tab is open even if no other files are. Is there any way in the FDK to check specifically to check if the Welcome tab is visible, or even better a way to close the Welcome tab via code?

I've written a script that goes through a document and changes the InsetFile path of a graphic, but I can't get the document to update the displayed graphic without either:closing/re-opening the document, orgoing to the graphic's "Object Properties" and selecting "Apply" (the "Referenced File" text box already has the correct path). I tried using doc.Refresh(), with and without toggling app.Displaying, but the displayed graphic still didn't change. Is there a different method I should call? Here is a small snippit of code that reproduces the issue:var doc = app.ActiveDoc; app.Displaying = false; var currentGraphic = doc.FirstGraphicInDoc; while (currentGraphic.ObjectValid()) { if (currentGraphic.reflect.name == "Inset" && currentGraphic.InsetFile != "") { // currentGraphic.InsetFile = "C:\\Temp\\pending.png"; currentGraphic.InsetFile = "C:\\Temp\\approved.png"; break; } currentGraphic = currentGraphic.NextGraphicInDoc; } app.Displayi

Hi community. Does anybody know if there is a way to get unsaved parts of active doc using ExtendScript or FDK?  Thanks.

Hi thereI have recently updated to FM 2020 and I noticed that printing om my standard Canon Laserjet printer causes FM to crash. Printing to PDF though works as usual. Anyone an idea what could be the cause of this?Thanks in advanceLeon

Whenever I launch RoboScreen Capture from FrameMaker 2019 (32- or 64-bit) I am forever stuck with workspace below. I cannot change the workspace to display menus or anything else. There is no menu or button to access 'reset to default.' I've even tried reinstalling FrameMaker multiple times. Is there a way to restore or change the workspace back to the original default workspace? 

At the end of a support call, Adobe told me I needed to go to [link removed by admin] , download TCS and reinstall FrameMaker. Downloading the file gave me a .zip file TCS_ESD_and_content.zip, with many levels of sub-file. When I tried to extract the whole of the .zip archive, the process generated 110 entries for "Headers Error" and did not unzip any of the subfolders. Any ideas?

Is it possible to change the language of the DITA templates for all the defined styles at once?The way I do it now is a bit slow: I go to paragraph designer-->Font-->Select a style-->Set language.This means I have to repeat it for all the styles that I may use. I would rather change the language for the whole template.

Hello folks,  I am currently evaluating Framemaker as a new program for my company, and I've hit a snag. I'm not sure if this is user error, a side effect of currently being on a trial version of the software, or a bug. I've been experimenting with the paragraph designer, table designer, and color definitions, and at first really liked the interface. I open one of the designers, create a new style (let’s say "Test Body Text") and then apply it to the paragraph I'm writing. It looks great, I make sure the style is saved, and I close the designer and move on. However, after closing and opening a file, or switching the authoring view, the paragraph with the Test Body Text style will revert to its previous style, and the style I created disappears from the Paragraph catalog. This has also happened with custom table styles and new colors. I’ve double checked that the catalogues are set to show all options, and it appears whatever I created has been erased. Does anyo

Forgive me if this has been answered before, but can a FrameMaker ExtendScript script be called from a FrameMaker API client? Is it possible to pass parameters to a script this way? Thanks in advance.

I am able to create the local folder on my computer via the Connection Manager, but then Frame crashes and produces a 15084 error. The connection never happens and the local folder is empty. Any ideas on a fix?

Hi, I have FM file language burmese and my consumer would like to use the font Pyidaungsu Unicode but after change font it look like FrameMaker cannot support font type burmese unicode.Is it possible to use font type unicode for language burmese on FrameMaker? Thank you,Charl.s

I'm trying to copy the H1 style utilized in an Indesign document also in my Framemaker document. I've thought that the "Background" color setting in paragraph styles could solve my issue. The problem is that the background color is only being applied to the text and not to the entire width of the column. On Indesign they did use a box for H1 headings and then inserted a text box into it. I think that the paragraph styles won't allow me to automatically combine graphical boxes for specific styles. Also there are some other headings in lower levels (H2 and H3) in the manual which do utilize background colors but not all of them. I've thought that inserting empty spaces at the end of the line would solve my issue but then realized that this would cause the TOC to also show these empty spaces and also I'm going to utilize some conditional tags in some of these headings which doesn't allow me to understand how many spaces I would require before the exact end of a line. Do the para

Hello!   I'm working in FM 2020 and I just opened up a document I created in 2019. No issues with that, but now whenever I try to save, I get the alert I attached to this post.    It's definitely a strange one... if I type hello, save, and click ok on that alert, I can no longer use the undo function to get rid of the hello. However, I can still delete it. This is happening every time I save now, and I've never seen this alert before/with any of my other documents.  Anyone ever seen this, know what causes it, or what to do about it?

Greetings everyone,We're working in FrameMaker 2020, using DITA. I have distributed the settings file to all members of the team and we keep an up-to-date version in SVN. Nonetheless, when other team members attempt to produce PDF output using the setting file I distributed, they are getting different output results. For example, I have modified the ditafm-output.ini file (also distributed) to present figure titles above the figures. In the output my team mates produce, it defaults to the figure title under the image and does not number the figure.My output works as I have designed and coded, but the rest of the team seems to be having trouble producing the same result.Does anyone have any suggestions?We've reloaded the settings file, updated the ini files, and updated the EDD and template files on our computers, but the problem persists.Any pointers are welcome!Wanda

When I start FrameMaker, I get this message: "Can't find a compatible default printer. Try reconfiguring your printer setup in the control panel."The problem is, this message is consistently placed behind the splash screen. This means FrameMaker stops loading with no visible indication of the reason. This seems to be a bug.

Hey guys, so, I'm trying to do the following, but can't find any information on where to start: By default, all our images are supposed to fit their anchored frame proportionally, and have a 0,3cm top padding. So currently, I have to do the following: 1. scroll through the document to find the image 2. left click on the image 3. right click  => fit to frame (proportionally) 4. open object properties 5. set padding (top) to 0,3 6. leftclick the anchored frame 7. Open anchored frame pod 8. set frame height to +0,3 of its original size   This is obviously rather tedious, so I'm looking for a way to automate this, but tbh I'm completely lost.  ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ Any help would be greatly appreciated, so many thanks in advance!   Cheers, Alex open 

Hi,I'm fine-tuning the output of Responsive HTML5 Help generated from FM2020 Publish engine and I'm facing issues that I cannot resolve and need help with the following:1. How to set the First Topic Page from FM book>Publish? How does FM determine which header is the first topic page in the responsive HTML5 Help?2. How to remove the prefix heading numbering in the Responsive HTML5 Help TOC pane? I've removed the autonumbering function in the FM book for all headings and the output is still showing the prefix numbers.3. The table anchor is parked at the end of a sentence on a specific paragraph format in FM. In the output, that line where the table anchor sits does not convert to the specified paragraph format.I appreciate your help.Thanks!

Hello, I am new to Framemaker so please forgive my lack of knowledge about fm. I'd like to have an automatic font color assignment for specific words. For example, every time "foo" appears in my text, I'd like it to be automatically colored in red. I am currently working on a structured Framemaker document inside a book, but I'd like to have the answer for both .fm documents and .xml document, as I'll have to work with those on upcoming projects. Thanx in advance ! Best regards Eric

Hopefully this is simple, but I haven't found anything on doing this. I just want to copy rows from one FrameMaker table to another FrameMaker table, but retain the formatting (shading, ruling, row and column height and width) of the table to which the rows are being copied. When I use Copy and Paste, it copies the formatting of the table the rows are being copied from.

I found that Dynamic Content Filtering no longer works when I try to publish in HTML5 in Version: 16.0.1.817 I created a simple DITA map to demontrate this. <map><title>MAP TITLE</title><topicref href="conceptA.xml" type="concept" product="A"><topicmeta><navtitle>Concept A</navtitle></topicmeta></topicref><topicref href="conceptB.xml" type="concept" product="B"><topicmeta><navtitle>Concept B</navtitle></topicmeta></topicref><topicref href="conceptC.xml" type="concept" product="A B"><topicmeta><navtitle>Concept C</navtitle></topicmeta></topicref></map> When I publish, no filter option is appearing.   

Cannot initializer API Client - FMReview.dll Cannot initializer API Client - RHFrameMakerServer12.dll    I am using Framemaker 16.0.1.817.. does anybody know the answer to this issue? 

Hi, I have publish file FM into HTML5Is it possible to import HTML5 after revise contents update into FM file. Thank you,Charl.s