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Hi!In my documents I insert manually created mini tocs (I don't know how to create them to automatically, is it possible?) and I don't know how to display it in clickable pods as it is done in the FrameMaker help ? Can anyone explain to me how it's done?Thanks! Here are screenshots of what I get and of what I want (from https://help.adobe.com/en_US/framemaker/using/index.html)        

I use FM2020, DITA 1.3. My file types are therefore .dita. Whenever FM creates a backup file, it names the backup file as <filename>.backup.dita. This unfortunate choice means that all of my backup files get interspersed/mixed with the original files, because they all have the same .dita extension. As a result, it is awkward to organize/sort files in Windows explorer , open a file that I want within FM, etc. I think that every other program that I have ever used chose to give backup files a different extension (e.g. .bak), so that it is easy to manage them. Is there a way to change this behaviour in FM2020? Is there a reason why Adobe did not choose a different file extension?  I found a number of other Framemaker posts on this forum requesting that the backup files go into a different folder, as a different solution to this same problem, so I think that others find this behaviour awkward as well (but I do not think that solution has been implement either). &n

Hi all, Many moons ago (Fm 11 or earlier?) we were able to open a weblink in a new window/tab by creating a hypertext marker with the following syntax: message URL https://www.adobe.com" target="_blank This worked because the "URL" (https://www.adobe.com" target="_blank) got wrapped with quotes when publishing, resulting in the correct syntax. Now, however, the quotes and space are parsed as %22 and %20 entities. I've tried using the hex code for the characters (\x20 for the space) but that just gives me a %5 for the backslash in addition to the other entities. Has anyone successfully unraveled the marker text syntax required for a new window/tab in a hypertext marker in Fm 2020?

Related to my post on hypertext markers... It appears that this syntax no longer works for an email link: message URL mailto:matt@techcommtools.com Has anyone successfully inserted an email link into Fm 2020?   -Matt 

I need to build a template with row separators that are blue. I can do this in the table Custom Ruling and Shading dialog for each individual table, but can't figure out how to get this property into the template for all tables. Is it even possible? FM10 [TCS3]Win 7 Thanks for any help!

Hi Barb. Thx - that helps.    I've signed-up for your next class in March. There really seems to be a lot I don't know. 🙂    I have a new question on the same project, this time with one of the annexes (i.e., Annex F - TGI API calls). I need to import over a thousand functional calls with associated title, description, return and input information of the following form:   F.7.6.2 addAbstractionDefinitionPortDescription: Add abstractionDefPort with the given logicalName and type to the given abstractionDef element-- Returns: abstractionDefPortID of type String - Handle to a new abstractionDefPort element-- Input: abstractionDefID of type String - handle to an abstractionDef element-- Input: logicalName of type String - Logical port name-- Input: type of type String - Logical port style (wire or transactional)   Each line in the above call has a differnet pre-determined style name in Framemaker: First line (F.7.6.2) - TGI Title Second line (Descripti

I have a heading where I have a single line before and after the text. But how to even up the amount of space between line and text. In other words center the text vertically between the upper and lower line.   Moved due to message history https://community.adobe.com/t5/user/viewprofilepage/user-id/10607133

I'm consulting the FrameMaker Online Help but can't find any instruction to get an output similar to what can be seen in that Help!!!I'd like to display paragraphs in a responsive frame with a coloured background.When I publish FM2017 to HTML5 my tables are not responsive. Lines created in the reference pages and defined in a paragraph style to display above and below the paragraph are not at all responsive (and act so wired that I can't keep them the HTML5 output).I'd like to know how to get nice responsive paragraphs like these: Can anyone help me?Thanks!

I have noticed that "sometimes" FrameMaker adds unwanted space between brackets and text. Especially if the text is a cross-reference. I use FrameMaker 2020 and DITA.

I have FM2019 15.0.8.979 installed - the latest version for that edition. I can open some of my (smaller) .fm files but my largest one crashes with Internal error 15084. I have sent the dump file to Adobe as requested but of course have not heard from them. Internal errors are always the fault of the app. I have lots of backups of the .fm document of various vintages but most fail. I did get one to open but it looked very corrupted. I immediately created a mif file of this but when I tried to open the mif file, my PC spun for a couple of hours before I killed it.I have tried the shortcut to avoid the checking on opening but that didn't help either. Any advice please?

Framemaker is the latest 2020 version with the latest update. I had this same issue on the second row of the table but I was able to get rid of this white banding at the top and bottom of the cells by playing with the "Cell Margins" settings on the "Table Cell" section of the applied paragraph style. I think that the reason for being able to get rid of the white bands in those cells was that their font size was the same as the first row and also the same as the straddled cells in the first 2 columns. In this case, the font size in the second column which have these white bands is 9 points whereas the rest of the row has styles with 11 points sized fonts. I've played with the "Cell Margins" settings in the "Table Cell" section of the paragraph style but had no success. I've even have entered negative values but the white bands always do appear. I've also tried playing with the "Cell Padding" settings in the table style and again I had no success. Also playing with the tab

Is it possible to add a graphic frame to a reference frame so that the graphic appears outside the column, next to the text, rather than above or below it? In the current template, images are placed in an anchored frame outside the column next to the text. I'd like to "automate" the process by adding a graphic frame to the reference frame containing the lines. Attached images may help illustrate my question.

I recently upgraded to framemaker 2020. when I used to save my book to pdf, the name of the book was the name of the pdf. Now when i save book as pdf, it defaults to "20".  How do I get it to default to the book name?

Hi. I have a little problem with a variable.i would like to recuperate the folder name, of my document, as value, to put it, on a master page.I tought it was a system variable <$dir>.... but it don't exist.Is it possible to create a user variable to get the content of the folder name?Thank You.JC

HiRunning FM2019 (Version: 15.0.3.603).  Steps I am performing:Save my FM-file.Save as Review PDF.Add a couple of simple "delete text"-comments using AcrobatImport PDF comments. Result: a lot of comments are imported with the wrong location. Seems to be offset 1-2 glyphs to the left for some reason. This makes the feature effetively useless for us: (In this screenshot the ending of the two words happen to both be "ære" but it happens with other words not containing those characters as well). It does not happen to all comments.No error messages.Comments are not shown as "misplaced" in the import summary. I've tried the new "Save as Review PDF" as well as printing to .ps and then manually running distiller (this is how we usually make PDF files). No change.I've tried exporting a tagged PDF directly to PDF using the new Publish-pod (not via distiller). This crashes framemaker when importing comments (Seriously? Did nobody test this before release?).I've tried

I am using FM 2020 (16.0.1). DITA 1.3. We have just installed the MathFlow editor and I have two usability issues:Every time that I start to edit a new equation, the editor defaults to a tiny magnification, requiring me to click on the magnify icon several times. Why is the magnification setting not saved between edits? Or a way to set some sort of default? I am guessing that this was never an issue with older, low resolution monitors, but with higher resolution monitors, the default magnification is too small.There does not appear to be a way to re-size the editing window. With long equations (and with the editing window magnified...) the equation does not fit in the window. This lack of functionality is awkward and frustrating. Is there a way to either enable re-sizing of the window, or to change the default editing window size? 

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