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In my FM2019 document I have the following text:"An empty string (i.e. N'') is a defined value." In FM it looks like:But in the Responsive HTML5 output, the 2 single quotes are not there:And they are also lost in the chm output:What can I do to keep them in the generated output?EDIT:Even worse, take a look at this FM document:But not much is left in the chm file: 

My sections are based on Heading 1. The image attached shows a figure under the third time a Heading 1 appears. So I want the figure tag to increment accordingly. 3-1, 3-2, etc. How do I get the figure tag to recognize the section by Heading 1 (and also reset when the next heading comes along?

Is it possible to use a variable within a variable? What I would like to do is to be able to make some translations for specific words and reuse them. For example,  I want to use a publication date variable on a Master page. But if I want to insert the month as April in a document, I'd like to be able to choose a French April variable (thus not having to remember the translation or look it up each time) as the definition for the publication date variable.

Dear community,I developped last year a REST API to create/update/trigger Framemaker Publishing Server 2019 tasks from an automation server. Apparently the interface has changed with the 2020 version, and I'm struggling to get it running following the Adobe user guide. A working example in groovy language of a POST request to create a task is as follows: httpRequest ( contentType: 'APPLICATION_JSON', httpMode: 'POST', ignoreSslErrors: true, requestBody: json_body, responseHandle: 'NONE', url: "http://my_node:7000/v16/tasks", wrapAsMultipart: false ) Replacing json_body and my_node by my specific task configuration and host where I run the server. I don't use authentication and that code is enough to successfully create a task.Where I struggle at the moment is to run a task. The example in the user guide suggests using the task ID (earlier version 2019 required the task name):http://<FMPS_server>:<port&g

The last couple of days, according to the splash screen, it's got as far as DDE and then given up. Does this indicate there's something specifically wrong that can perhaps be corrected? or is it just another sign of a generally flaky corporate environment?

I'm using FM 2019 and have recently started to also publish the documentation as Responsive HTML5. I've just noticed that the font used for the chapter title is replaced on one of Windows 10 computers I'm using, but only when using Firefox:The middle window is Firefox. Edge, Chrome and Opera, on the same computer, are all using the desired font. How can FrameMaker make Firefox to use the specified font?

I have two files in FM. Both have reference pages I want to use. Can I import a reference page from File A to File B without deleting the references pages in File B? Can I copy and paste selected reference items from File A into File B's reference page?

Hi, I just come to know that FrameMaker is bilingual. I was looking for this for a long time, But still, I do not know how to use it. Could you please guide me a bit about it? I want to translate my blog: [url removed] in French. Is it possible?

While typing content in FrameMaker XML View one needs to type in a slow pace, otherwise some characters won't be entered. 

I would like to create multiple table of contents in one document. It would look something like the layout below. Each of the documents is a standalone FrameMaker file. Is this possible? I'm wracking my brain for ideas. Thank you!SalomeTABLE OF CONTENTSGroup 1 Program Document: AlligatorDocument: BearDocument: CamelDocument: DeerDocument: EagleGroup 2  ProgramDocument: FishDocument: GiraffeDocument: HippopotamusDocument: IguanaDocument: Jaguar

Hi...Im having two books with different content and TOC. each book having 10 chapters now i need to merge two books like this orderBookCover_page_1TOC_1Chap_A_1Chap_B_1Chap_C_1...End_page_1Cover_page_2TOC_2Chap_A_2Chap_B_2Chap_C_2...End_page_2How to do ????If anyone know please let me know...Thanks in Advance  

For our warnings, cautions, and notes, we use 3 graphics that are imported by reference throughout our help files. Is there any way to stop FM from creating a new file everytime it is referenced when publishing to HMTL5? This was a problem in FM2019 and still exists in FM2020. Just the notes are responsible for 235 graphics in the HTML output, from the single referenced original.

I'm working on a document that will be distributed in multiple countries. Because of different regulatory requirements in each country, each version of the document has slight variations. I am saving each version of the document as a separate file in a separate folder, however, when I make a change to one document it gets saved in all documents, even though I only have one document open, each document is saved in it's own file, and each document has a different document name.  I have tried saving each document in its own folder under a parent folder, and also in its own folder on my desktop. This does not seem to change anything. I've also tried creating a new book and importing files from another version, then saving, and that doesn't fix the problem either. How do I stop this from happening?! Right now I have 3 documents, but soon it will be in the double digits, and I cannot change each file with every change every time I need to update. Thank you!

Hello,How can I rename a file (*.fm) in a book without breaking cross references?Thanks! 

My question involves importing a FrameMaker or RoboHelp project into Madcap Flare.In the past, I produced my documentation as follows:* Content was generated in FrameMaker. A PDF was generated using FrameMaker.* RoboHelp was linked to FrameMaker. Content from FrameMaker was automatically updated in RoboHelp. WebHelp was generated using RoboHelp.The content in both FrameMaker and RoboHelp was identical.I now want to import that content into Madcap Flare. Here is my question:* Is it better to import the content from FrameMaker into Flare? Or from RoboHep into Flare?In other words, what are the pros and cons of each option?Thank you for any comments you can provide!Keith

Dear Friends, experts and gurus!To inspect markers I want to combine "Search for any Marker" and "Display Marker contents".When a marker is found (by the Find method), i have a Text Range within a paragraph.oTR.obj is PfgoTR.end.offset - oTR.beg.offset is 1 (the marker 'length').But this is some sort of a dead end. I have no clue how to find out any useful information about the marker.→ How to find through the maze of objects to the marker?It may be that this is not possible at all with ExtendScript - and I need the approach via loop through all markers in the document (and visusalise them).

Hi community, When using FrameMaker Find functionality there is option to Look in Selection. In ExtendScript documentation there is Find() method for Doc object, which searches in whole document.Does anyone know a way to Find in Selection (maybe TextRange object) using ExtendScript? Thanks.

My graphic designer is unhappy that the watermark we put on our internal only documents is obscured when a table when a fill is used. He's hoping there's a way to put some kind of transparency on the table fill so that the watermark shows through on the filled rows the same way it does on the rows with no fills.   I've taken that grey down to a 3% fill and the watermark still doesn't show through. I do know there's no way to do this with the table settings. As far as I know, there's no way around this, but then I've never had to find out if there is. Is there a way to create a color definition that the table fill can use that will be transparent? He tells me this can be done in InDesign by "switching the fill from normal to multiply", but that's not an option in FM.

Before upgrading, I was able to click anywhere into the structure and insert an element from the catalog. Now, it seems to insert the element at the bottom of the branch in the tree, even though that is not the location selected in the tree. This combined with the random formatting changes for HTML output is making me reconsider upgrading.

Hello everyone,I am using Framemaker 12 unstructured with text insets. I am currently making a review of the insets using the track text edits function. This works fine and the changes appear in the inset according to my settings. The problem however is that these changes do not appear correctly in the master document into which I import my insets.Here a couple of example pictures to show the problem:The picture on the left is my original inset with text edit corrections. The picture on the right is the same inset imported into the master document. As you can see, the colour settings etc. for the changes made only remain visible within the table. The other changes are visible but the coloured marking is gone. If I use the preview buttons (in the track text pod) in the master, the appearance of the inset changes to match the appearance of the original inset. However when I update the text inset properties in the master, the appearance "resets" back to what you see on the right.I have no

Hello,I am looking for the same "page break" function used in Word but for FrameMaker to insert and jump to a blank page in the document.It must be so easy but I can't find it.ThanksDan

Hi All,Can anyone guide me to good tutorials for Framemaker Equations, please.If you know of any YouTube Video links or any online documentation, that would be great.Thank you.

Ah, the joys of a new computer.   We (currently) use Box as cloud storage. All my FM files are in Box folders. All my illustrations are in Box folders. I used Box Drive on the old computer and am using it on the new computer.   Windows 10 Pro, 20H2, Build 19042.804 Dell Latitude 5510 Processor: i7-10610U RAM: 32 Gb FrameMaker 2020, 16.0.1.817   My pinned files aren't working, even though the path is showing as correct. Even if I close and try to reopen the file from the Recents or Pinned files on the Welcome screen, FrameMaker says it can't be found and I should make sure the file exists.    It's doing the same thing with my imported by reference graphics. According to the Object Properties, the file path is correct, but Frame says it can't find the file. When try to use Object Properties to fix it, I get the message in the subject line.   I'm going to try our tech support team, but they haven't seemed to be all that familiar with Frame and Box in the

Hello,my company is going to buy a set of Framemaker licenses. The order we are managing reports "VIPC FrameMaker for teams ALL Windows Multi European Languages Team Licensing Subscription".Since we are not very used on how Adobe licenses work, our concern is about a specific target machine which, for security reason, is not allowed to be attached to our local network, neither to the WWW.We can plan to connect this machine for the strict time to download, install and activate Framemaker, but is the software supposed to run at a latter time, when the machine will be constantly kept offline?can anyone share detail about that?thanks.

Dear friends,Although FDK mentions FO_Math and the Scripting Guide talks about the Math object, I could not find these objects in a document ...It turns out that the object name is math, not Math...And BTW for this object are completely useless properties listed: ArrowBaseAngle end the like...