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I'm recreating operating manuals that were originally created on Indesign. The figure, table, etc numbering method on Indesign was continuing the numbering across chapters. I haven't yet come to the point where I'm going to merge and continue all kinds of numbering styles (page, style etc) of the documents in FM. Recently I've started to think that maybe I should use a style numbering method of x.y (chapter + numbering specific to the chapter) instead of the current method used on Indesign (just x) which does continue all of these sets across the chapters. My manuals are not the longest ones circulating around. They have something like 8-10 chapters in total, around 100-150 pages and the total number of figures will be around 200, the tables will be around 40-50 and photos will be around 20-30. Is it worth forcing myself to a numbering style of x.y instead of just using a single continued numbering of x? What would be the benefits of using a 2-dimensional coordinate system on numbers?

After getting the TOC to appear correctly on one book yesterday, another book today is nesting the TOC incorrectly, even thought the exact same formats are being used.   I updated FM2020 software to current version yesterday to latest revision.     [image added by moderator - please use image icon in web interface instead of attachments]

I am using the latest version of FM on Windows 10. When I try to save a file it saves to a temporary file. I have turned OFF Auto save and turned OFF my virus protection (Zaspersky). The original file WAS a Word document imported into FM if that makes a difference.

Dear friends,In my project FMfindRepl i want to build RegEx by selection items from drop-down lists. Experiments show that there are more capabilities in the FM Find process than documented in Help:Character classes \D (non-digit), \w (word character) and \W (non-word-character)Anchor \< for beginning of word, but not \> for end of word.'lazy' multipliers *?, +? and ?? to get the shortest possible match DOTALL mode (?s)Case mode (sensitive, insensitive) by ?-i: and  ?i-:Named capture groups and hence also named back references by ?<name> and \k<name>About the replacement function we only know about the 'back reference' $0 … $9, but not of any (useful modifier such as upper-casing the match.→ Where the heck can we get a complete description of the implemented RegEx engine?Of course I know the phrase from the Help: «FrameMaker uses the boost engine for Regex. For more information on Boost, see http://www.boost.org/.You can write the regular

I have defined many conditional tags on table title cells. I wasn't checking my pdf outputs because I'm still continuing on my documentation process but I recently had to print out one of the tables for some datasheet verification job. I did realize that table cells containing conditional tags are being converted to pdf with the visual checker patterns which do represent these tags. Is this some setting that I'm skipping at the PDF creation or is the practice of conditional tags in table cells something that I have to steer away from? The conditional tags on FM The pdf output of the same table

I have a table style that has a caution image already inserted whenever I use that style. However, exporting to HTML blows the table up. How can I remove the caution image from the table style? Or fix the HTML output? The image resides in the reference page BTW. First image is in Framemaker. Second image is in HTML help.  

I'm using FrameMaker 16 (2020) with DITA 1.3.I use a settings file with customized templates. Between 2 versions of the settings file, I've lost some formatting in my table titles and cross-reference links.My figures number correctly (figure numbers are <$chapnum>-<n+>) but the links indicate that the figures are in chapter 1. I defined the link using <$paranumonly> which used to work.My table title is defined the same way as the figure title and appears correctly in the documents but not the PDF output. In the PDF they appear with just the <n+> value.I've poked about in the definitions in various templates but I cannot change the output.Please help.I'm sure it's something simple that I'm just too tired to see.Wanda

I opened an existing book file today to update and print a new PDF. When the PDF was done, many of the imported artwork images were cut off at the top and bottom of the image. To check if my copy of FM was corrupted or settings were wrong, I had another person attempt creating the same PDF. His copy also cut the tops and bottoms of the images.These are functioned correctly a couple of months ago. Only a few editing changes were made to the book. I have even attempted creating a PDF of the single chapter file with the same cut-off results.Has anyone run into this or know of a solution?  We obviously can't send these to the customer.This is FM version 13.0.3.495.First image is screen shot of FM file. It appeared like this in the old PDF also (gray square is mine to cover company info). The second image shows the top and bottom cut off in the PDF. This is occurring in several files and books and on other people's computers, not just mine.Thanks.

In my FM file I have a paragraph style called Caution. It's defined as: When used in FM it looks like: But in the generated Responsive HTML5 it looks like: How can I get proper indentation in the HTML5 output? Row 2 and 3 should start just under "If". 

I’m looking for a FrameMaker-script developer who would be interested in creating a script for using a grammar and style checker API with FrameMaker. This API requires an Internet connection to enable user authentication and account service consumption. Requests to the API's endpoints are made through GET o POST, according to the linguistic configuration set for the proofreading. Please contact me via my web page (ISTEN consult) or LinkedIn for more information and preparing an offer. Thank you in advance

I am starting to use the DITA integrated into FM 2019 for my new document. I wanted to know if I would be able to do the following when using DITA:1. Change the default fonts for the elements2. Create or update the existing elements  

Dear friends, maybe I'm blindfolded.I fill an EditText field with selections from ListBoxes. Whether I do this by a callback function onClick or onDoubleClick, the selection is persistent:Relevant script parts:   wPalR.g1b.lstChars.onDoubleClick = function () { KLD_F.InsertEditItem (wPalR.g1b.lstChars, KLD_F.aLstChars, wPalR.g3.eReg); }; KLD_F.InsertEditItem = function (oList, asItems, oEdit) { var index, iTab, strLen, sItem; index = oList.selection.valueOf(); iTab = asItems[index].indexOf("¦"); sItem = asItems[index].substring (iTab+1); oEdit.textselection = sItem; } // --- end InsertEditItem    

Hello, We are trying to use XML DITA to output to HTML Help. I can't figure out why when we output the topic links aren't working. The output TOC looks correct, the chapters and topics are showing up, but no content shows. We work in an environment without internet connection. I don't know if this could cause issues or not. I can't find any instructions in the user guides or other posts with this issue. Please help!

インストールしていたパソコンからアンインストールして、別のパソコンにインストールしようと思ったら、「入力したシリアル番号は無効です」と表示されました。同じパソコンにインストールしようと思ってもダメでした。どうすれば、インストール出来ますか？ 

I have a TOC that works for a file with autonumbering. When I generate a LOT or LOF all I get is the figure/table name and page number. No line like Table 6-9 table name.    

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For navigation purposes I like to have the main heading and the first subheading on a page display at the top of a page.    My paragraph tags are defined as follows: H1 Heading 1 is used for the chapter title H2 Heading 2 is used for the main heading H3 Heading 3 is used for the subheading   I use Running H/F variables to pull the text from the main heading and the subheading into the headers.  Running H/F 1 is defined as: <$paratext[H2 Heading 2]> Running H/F 2 is defined as <$paratext[H3 Heading 3]>   So far, all pretty standard. The issue arises when there's a new H2 Heading 2 on a page but there's no following H3 Heading 3. The header updates to use the new H2 Heading 2, but it's still using the information from the H3 Heading 3 that goes with the previous H2 Heading 2, and that's no good.   How do I get it to not do that? Or more precisely, if a new H2 Heading 2 is showing on a page that doesn't have a new H3 Heading 3 below it,

Hi all,I have quite a large document in FM2019 (> 500 pages, unstructured format), and when I generate the epub or mobi outputs, there are no hyperlinks between any figures and associated references in the text. The screen grab below should show what I mean. I'm guessing the reason is because I use a frame (within the figure frame) for the figure title, but I'm not sure. Note that the generated PDF is fine (links are generated as expected).Can anyone say for sure what I'm doing wrong here, and possibly suggest a better approach?Thanks.

Hello, Framers!! Quick question:I have a huge English FM User Manual (w/ more than 500 pages) and it was translated into Portuguese last year. Today, the English User Manual is updated and I would like to compare both English versions (old x new) and extract the new content for translation. Then, I would like to merge automatically the translated content back into the old Portuguese manual. -- Is it possible? -- Do you know any plugin or script that can handle it? Thanks in advance!- Paulo Moreno

We recently purchased 3 copies of Adobe frameMaker 2019.  we are a gov organziation and typical users do not have admin rights on thier workstations.  So an administrator has to install the software.  However, I am being told that once they do that, becuse it is licnesed by "user" only the admin who installed it can actually use the software.  That make no sense to me.  there has to be a way for an administrtor to install the software and then let my tech writer, who needs the software, actually use it on the laptop.  Hoping someone can help me out!  Otherwise I just wasted $1,200.  

I created a cross-ref from one document to a figure in another. When clicking the link in the origin doc, it goes to the figure title for about half a second and then jumps to the section title just before the figure.  I have successfully linked to other figures in the same destination doc, but not this one figure.  I have removed the markers, remove the image, removed the paragraph tag and reimplemented it.  I have tried just about everything but clicking the origin link still goes to the figure and then immediately jumps to the topic heading immediately before the figure.

I am transforming some dita topics and adding some <simpletable> elements. I am trying to add relative column scaling with the @relcolwidth attribute: <simpletable frame="none" relcolwidth="60* 40*"> However, when I open the topic in FrameMaker, the scaling is not applied; I always get a 50/50 column split. Anything I am missing, or will I have to post-process the tables in FrameMaker? Thanks.

I am using 64-bit Windows 10 and FrameMaker 2019 and 2020 (64-bit). When I click the run button in ExtendScript, the script runs and finishes normally, but ExtendScript hangs for a few seconds and give me a "Not Responding" message. Sometimes it will happen again when I click in the script's window to continue editing. Saving the script sometimes hangs it for a few seconds too. Does anyone else experience this? Should I switch to Visual Studio Code or something else? It is quite frustrating that Adobe doesn't maintain and update their scripting tools.

Wir finden den Pod für das Ersetzen von Schriften nicht in Framemaker 2020. In FM19 wird dieser immer gleich angezeigt.Wo findet man diesen in FM2020

I'm working with FM 2019. When I open my book I get some warring messages I have unresolved cross-references. There used to be a pod to see all of these. Has that gone bye-bye or am I missing something?