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Microsoft has released its new power tools. These include a feature that allows you to preview svg files in Windows Explorer.You can download it here:https://github.com/microsoft/PowerToys/ 

I'm working on a document now in which I've had to assign new page headers to several pages. I made these changes, and printed the document to PDF. But the PDF didn't show any of my page header changes. It just reverted back to the old page headers. Has anyone seen this? Is it a common glitch or something I can change myself? Thanks!-Andy

Hey guys, I am a new user to Framemaker. I have a document which has a table. I create an HTML file and all the relevant information shows up, except my table headers. They seem to be missing for some reason.  Any help would be appreciated 😄  NB: These are framemaker files from a previous employee. Version of FM: Framemaker 2020

I am trying to generate a nested TOC in HTML5 output. I have tried generating a TOC within FM and changing the TOC indentations in paragraph designer:Heading 1     Heading 2 Still not sure what more I need to do. My HTML5 output is still 1 layer; there are no nests.  

Dear all,Now that I have manged to read all sorts of information from an XML file I want to go one step further and save created or modified data back to the XML file. While a function WriteXmlData (xData, sXmlFile) is quite simple and works for most situations (see hereafter), I encounter these problems:An XML file is per defintion a human readeable file - why else would there be XML comments. When reading (parsing) the xml file comments ar stripped by default. How can I preserve the comments? I do not understand how to use the XML class properties (BTW the term class is very misleading for simple minds like me). In particular how do I use the property ignoreComments?The following does not work at all: function main () { var oXmlSettings, xmlData; oXmlSettings = xmlData.defaultSettings(); // xml reader settings ? oXmlSettings.ignoreComments = false; // are they keypt ? xmlData.setSettings(oXmlSettings); // are these the new settings?​​ Also in chapter XML O

I have been creating tons of scripts for FrameMaker using ESTK and have checked all the available documentation, but did not find any specific info on the creation properties of dialog items. Is there any document anywhere describing which properties can be set and which values are valid settings? I have tried the obvious ones (e.g. setting text color to red) but nothing seems to work. Without specific info this is an impossible task to achieve, where it really should be very simple. Thanks in advance for a pointer to detailed information.

i am creating a stand alone table of contents and copying the linked text back into my document, some problems i am running into i genereate everything except for the cover page and the mechanical drawings (cad PDF) in acrobat. im noticing if i alter the document at all the links become broken in the final PDF. I would insert the cover page and mechanical cad drawings but it alters the color and takes away alot of quality. when i first started using framemaker i was incorporating the toc,cover page, parts lists, drawings seperate in acrobat dc and applying page numbers manually and writing toc manually. as i am developing my skills i am now running into the this issue described above. is creating a book/project the way to go, will i expereinece color loss in the cover page doing this. luckily the drawings are incorporated in the last seciton of my manuals so if i can figure out swapping the cover page i should be able to keep the toc within framemaker. some advice is greatly appri

Dear all,In a previous project the setting of such a flag was successful:  oPropVal = new PropVal() ; oPropVal.propIdent.num = Constants.FS_FindCustomizationFlags ; oPropVal.propVal.valType = Constants.FT_Integer; oPropVal.propVal.ival = Constants.FF_FIND_BACKWARDS ; findParams.push(oPropVal);   But now, in a more general set-up the flags are not set:  if (bWord || bCase || bBack || bRegEx || bWild) { oPropVal3 = new PropVal() ; oPropVal3.propIdent.num = Constants.FS_FindCustomizationFlags ; oPropVal3.propVal.valType = Constants.FT_Integer; oPropVal3.propVal.ival = 0; if (bCase) {oPropVal3.propVal.ival || Constants.FF_FIND_CONSIDER_CASE;} if (bRegEx) {oPropVal3.propVal.ival || Constants.FF_FIND_USE_REGEX; } else { if (bWild) {oPropVal3.propVal.ival || Constants.FF_FIND_USE_WILDCARDS;} if (bWord) {oPropVal3.propVal.ival || Constants.FF_FIND_WHOLE_WORD;} if (bBack) {oPropVal3.propVal.ival || Constants.FF_FIN

Is it possible to use multiple ditaval files in a dita application in FM? I know that dita-ot supports this as you can simply specify in a command line: --filter="filter1.ditaval;filter2.ditaval;filter3.ditaval" etc.Would FM also support this feature?

Hello all, we recentlynoticed that we suddenly have to select CMYK colors in PDF publication to avoit crashing. This shifted a corporate color in the PDF output, so I converted it from RGB to CMYK and changed the color definition in FM, no change.  

Hallo,FrameMaker 2020 has no more a Pantone Library. How can one define a certain colour. Or how can one install a Pantone library ?

Dear all,There is a flag in the Find parameters which shall stop the wrap around:   oPropVal1 = new PropVal() ; oPropVal1.propIdent.num = Constants.FS_FindWrap ; oPropVal1.propVal.valType = Constants.FT_Integer; oPropVal1.propVal.ival = 0 ; // don't wrap findParms.push(oPropVal1);   I have found that a Find loops 'endless' even if this flag is used. And BTW I have no influence on this from the UI panel.I want to create a Find procedure, which has two options:Start the find at the top of the document and end it at the end of itStart the find at the current location and end it at the end of the document.→ Do You have any idea how to achieve this?In a former project concerning Footnotes I developed a method by looping through all ¶ and checking against the starting point of the Find and the resulting Find location. But it seems that this is not reliable My current code is here.  

I have generated the HTML5 in FrameMaker 2019. The HTML5 looks fine. Hoever, all the images that are referring to .svg file format are not appearing in the responsive HTML5. The reference is showing .svg file format whereas in the HTML5 the same missing images are showing as .jpg format and images are not appearing. 

Is it possible to name a table as a named destination? I have a conditional table that is one format or the other but in my text I have only one link. Is this possible?

Using FM2020 to publish a PDF from a bookmap, the appendix chapters appear in the TOC as well as in the list of bookmarks BUT the subtitles are ignored. That is in the main chapters of a document, I beautifully get three levels of bookmarks but in the appendix chapters only the main title is listed for both the TOC and the bookmarks. Does anyone know how to fix this? I would like to have the same structure for the appendix as I have for the main chapters.

Hello, I would like to be able to modify and rename one of my custom colors but when I go to the Color Definitions dialog and open the drop-down, it seems to be broken. My color is way down the list but apparently there's no way to access it.Here's what the bottom of the Color Definitions drop-down looks like:When I click on the down arrow you would think that the list would scroll but no dice - the color next to the arrow is chosen. I can't find any way to access my custom color to modify it.Any suggestions? thanks,Elo

When you save as the following content to MIF format:"Openings: Home Story depends on the opening's vertical position in the host element.orElement's absolute elevation, measured from zero." The resulting MIF content is this:"Openings: Home Story depends on the openingorElement".Please correct this content loss. It seems that text gets cut off after the 's (apostrophe). This makes it impossible to convert documents to MIF. Big problem! 😞thank you  for your prompt attention!

Hello, My query is related to the conditioning text on the source file. The previous writer was working on an older release. The product document is in two platforms; online and PDF. After the writer left, there was less time for transition. Now, if I am starting to work on the existing source files to update the content, I can see that the conditioning tags are now removed from the content, though the pod is showing all the tags created by previous writers to publish the online help and PDF. The pain is to tag every tag based on the published condition. I don't know how to pull the tagged content so that I need not to apply tags again for the whole document. Regards.Prabhat

I want to number my pages in a single document , i want the page numbering to start on page 4, using the master page page# code do i use to start the numbering on page 4 after my toc, i make my toc in a different program. Thanks

I am newer to framemaker and i dont use structured framemaker. I want to construct a document that looks like this but much larger; service manuals with clickable links throughout the document.(pdf attached) if i want to incorporate clickable content into other pages. Can i do this in unstructured framemaker, can i take the pdf i extract out of framemaker and do this is another program for time consideration. is using structured dita format the only way to do this. Best training avaialible if this is the case. need some information, how complex does it get if i have a general idea of how to use framemaker but i dont currently construct anything outside of stand alone documentation.  Thanks,

Hi, I have two unstructured books, each with multiple source files. In one book I can create a show/hide expression in one of the book's files, then use File > Import to copy the expression to the other files in the book. In the other book this doesn't work at all. I can't even use the format import feature to copy expressions from one document file to another. Has anyone experienced this and know of a work-around?Thanks,-Adam

Hello -- I have one file in a 32 file book that is not correctly displaying the correct character style format. There is a footnote paragraph style that uses 7.5 pt, 51% process grey font. When we are reference a legal case name, we italicize it using a character style called emphasis (see attached images). We also use the emphasis character style in the main text, which for decades had worked just fine. However, now -- in just one file, applying the emphasis character style anywhere in the body, it brings in the properties of the footnote paragraph style. Previously it would simply ital and leave the other paragraph style properties as-is.  Here's what I've tried to no avail:MIF washImporting character styles from a file that's working as designed. It does nothing at all.Setting up the Character Designer to match the default font properties -- except the italics (this changes the footnote italics to match the main body text).System:Win

I need to take out 3 pages from one document .Fm file and incorprated those pages into another .fm file. quickest and easiest way to do this. 

I am working on a big book which has been made as a structured book. I am working on in unstructured FM2020. The cross references are a challenge. They are made using elements, and I can't make them update. Changing the cross reference format to paratext does not seem to help. Is it possible to make them work in unstructured mode?

When I try to publish a file to Kindle I receive a message that tells me I need Amazon's KindleGen program. Amazon no longer supports it and it is not available. What do I do?