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I am using Framemaker 2020, (16.0.1). Dita 1.3.The following problem only happens occasionally, and I am not clear on the pattern of what causes it.Occasionally, when I have a ditamap and dita file open and am trying to edit it, the following behaviour occurs, which slows down editing the dita file to a very frustrating level:Every cursor move (left, right, up or down) in an open dita file results in the tree of the ditamap to roll up (i.e. all nodes close) and then roll back down (i.e. nodes previously open will re-open). Same behaviour for backspace or delete in the open dita fileTyping in letters, does not cause this behaviour in the ditamap.When the ditamap is rolling up and down, two additional things happen:there are changes to which dita files are highlighted in the ditamapThe up/down/left/right arrows in the ditamap toolbar change in terms of which of these arrows are highlighted (I suspect that these changes reflect the differences in which dita file is highlighted.Thus,

Hi AllQuite new to Framemaker. I try to publish a FM file to HTML 5. Works fine but the graphics are in a poor resolution/quality (max 432px width)?Did not found a setting where I can change that so this is why I reach out to you.Thanks for any helpStefan

Hello excellent community! Hopefully, this is a quick one: When I have a missing file, the full filename doesn't display because the path is very long. I've tried stretching the window, r-clicking, rolling onto the partial filename, all to no avail:any ideas?thanks!Elo

Hi,I have a small problem with the fig element. Here is how I use it:If I use the flag MoveFigureTitleToFollowImage=1 in the ditafm-ouput.ini as it is per default in FM, the title of the image becomes tiny and the title numbering vanishes:+However if I set MoveFigureTitleToFollowImage to 0, the title size will be normal and the numbering is also there but the title appears on top of the image which is not nice:A remedy to avoid the change of the title would be to separate the image element from the fig element and put the image on top of the fig element. In other words to decouple the two. The bad thing about it is that the two may separate, e.g. if the image is at the end of the page, the title can move to the next page. Any idea how to solve this issue?

Dear all,It looks that simple, the array is filled, the list box has its items - but the display is empty:Status of script at breakpoint:KLD_Z.main = function () { var asColours = [], oDoc, wPalC; oDoc = app.ActiveDoc; wPalC = new Window("palette", "Colours in this document"); wPalC.lis1 = wPalC.add ("listbox", undefined, undefined); wPalC.lis1.preferredSize.width = 210; KLD_Z.GetColourNameList(oDoc, asColours); // OK KLD_Z.FillDlgList (wPalC.lis1, asColours); // OK wPalC.show(); // NOK $.bp(true); } //--- end main -----------------------------------------I have not the slightest idea what's wrong here.

When I launch my FM 2020, I am asked twice in a row if I want to allow FM to make any changes to my system. I click "Yes" twice and launch the FM. Then when I click File, Edit, Insert, or Format menus, they collapse and disappear, and the focus jumps to the Review or Window menu. This is a weird behavior that I never experienced before. Restarting my PC machine does not help either. Can anyone tell me what's going on and how I can fix this so that menu drop-downs persist until I select an option? Thank you.

Hello, I want to create a 2 text columns document with some figures (graphics) that are wide and need to span over the 2 columns, and some that are less wide and can stay withing the columns. You can find examples of what I mean on the following document, page 15 for the wide figures and page 17 for the less-wide ones:http://ww1.microchip.com/downloads/en/devicedoc/40044f.pdf How can I set-up my FM structured document for it to place those figures correctly ? I may create two types of elements, like for example "wide graphic" and "narrow graphic", with each one its own linked paragraph style. The tests that I have done so far have not been succesful as they led to unexpected position of the figures. Here is the how the element that I place the figures into is described in the EDD:Element (Container): Graphic General rule: (BlankPage?, TopOfPage?, Anchor, Caption?)+ Automatic insertions Automatically insert child: Anchor Text format rules In all contexts. U

Hello fellows,I hope everybody is healthy and doing well!I have an event-driven script that is supposed be triggered upon a PostSaveDoc notification (see the code below). What the SaveAsFM13 function does is quite obvious. The SyncFM() function just copies the file to a network folder. The problem is that one function is executed only when the other one is not called. Both of them cannot be executed when saving a file. Why can't these functions coexist and be executed one after another? Thanks for your input in advance! var doc = app.ActiveDoc; //Register for notification Notification(Constants.FA_Note_PostSaveDoc, true); //Handle notification function Notify(args, object, sparam, iparam) { object.IsOnScreen = 1; switch (args) { case Constants.FA_Note_PostSaveDoc: SaveAsFM13(object, sparam); SyncFM(object); break; } } ... 

Dear friends,While this task was solved in FrameScript with ease ...If ActiveDoc = 0 MsgBox 'No active document. '; LeaveSub; EndIf Set vGraphic = FirstGraphicInDoc; Loop While(vGraphic) Set vNextGraphic = vGraphic.NextGraphicInDoc; If vGraphic.ObjectName = 'TextLine' If vGraphic.Text = '' Delete Object(vGraphic); EndIf EndIf Set vGraphic = vNextGraphic; EndLoop I struggle in ES by the simple fact, that there is no text attribute available:Fot the test I use an FM document without Ref pages. On the only one body page I have removed everything but a text line containing some text.Text line is found, but I have no clue how to chek whether it is empty or not, because I can't get to the string:FindEmptyTextLine = function () { // Reference E:\FM-FrameScript\DeleteEmptyTextlines.fsl var oDoc, oGraphic, objType, asText, oTextLoc; oDoc = app.ActiveDoc; if (!oDoc.ObjectValid()) { return;} oGraphic = oDoc.FirstGraphicInDoc; while (oGraphic.ObjectVali

I have checked now multiple times:in https://community.adobe.com/t5/framemaker/multiline-text-for-button-labels/td-p/11798809 the code is set up with 'format' javascript.When viewed the code is briefly displayed with colours, but finally all is black

It should be possible using the pagesize.cfg, but according to my own experience and that of Klaus Daubes, that file does not work. Would anybody know whether there is another option? One would think that there was a list... somewhere. Which could be modified.

I created a tag in an older version of FrameMaker.  It displays fine in the FM file, but not in the .pdf file.    

I just installed TCS 2017 and opened FrameMaker 2017. When I use my cursor to click on either the File or Edit menu items, once I move my cursor to select an option from the menu the Help or Window menus open. All other menus work fine as I can click on them with my cursor and select from the menu of options. I can use my arrow keys to move up and down those menus, just not my cursor. Has anyone heard of this before and if so, is there a fix for it?

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.