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This is the first time I've tried to work with multiple flows, so it's entirely possible I've missed something obvious.   Pertinent information: Windows 10 Pro (Build 1909, OS Build 18363.1316) (Yes, I know it's a few releases behind, but updating from here bolluxed my Acrobat DC Pro beyond belief) FrameMaker 2020 (16.0.1.817) Acrobat DC Pro (2021.001.20138)   This is my current setup for the first page of our new Field Bulletin template. The letters indicate the Flow Tags. Flows A and B are disconnected because they appear only on the first page and because I do not want the information in them to flow into the other frames. Flow C is the main flow.  As you can see, I have the book title (it's a variable) in Flow A, and it is tagged with H1 Heading 1. I have the text "Technical Support" in Flow C, and it is tagged as H2 Heading 2. When I generate the PDF, this is how the bookmarks are set up     But this is what I want them to look like (obviously):   I

Our writing team has moved offsite.  To access Structured FrameMaker and the database (Documentum), we are now required to connect through the VPN (Contivity).  We have recurring problems with checking documents out/in and backup files are not automatically created in the checkout folder.  In spite of frequent saves, we sometimes lose documents because the system slows down and ultimately fails to respond.  These errors do not seem to be related to the size of the checked out documents or the time of day we are accessing FM.  My new email address is: mary.lyons@kone.comThank you.

Hi Community, I am having a problem with updating the commands for specific menu. When I remove menu and recreate another one with same name all commands are staying the same.I tried 2 options of deleteing menu:// option 1RemoveMenu("!StructuredTextContextMenu", "Menu1"); UpdateMenus(); // option 2var oMenu = app.GetNamedMenu("!StructuredTextContextMenu");var oAltMenu = app.GetNamedMenu("Menu1");if (oAltMenu.ObjectValid()) {   oMenu.Delete(oAltMenu);  UpdateMenus();}  I tried to remove commands as well, but this brings to problems: oCommand = app.GetNamedCommand('cmd');// option 1, does not delete command oCommand.Delete();// option 2, FrameMaker crashes , though no errors in ESTKRemoveMenu("Menu1", oCommand.Name)UpdateMenus(); Does anyone know how to update the list of commands in menu? Thanks.

Is there a way to stop FrameMaker from auto saving text files, such as ditamaps? I have nicely indented ditamaps in which I use keyrefs. However, sometimes during PDF publishing out of the blue FM decides to autosave my ditamaps, after which not only it destroys the indentation but also adds hrefs. After these changes it is difficult to go through the ditamap out of FM. Example ditamap before save:and after save:

Hello,Silly question about font size in book file.Can someone point me to the command that will allow me to decrease the size of the font of the names of my book files, as illustrated in the image below? Kind regards,Fred Gerke 

Some cross-references are dead in pdf  from FM 2020. In Table links in particular, in one table 1 link worked and rest dead. In body, heading cross references tended to work but most figures did not. etc 

Dear friends,I am disappointed from the speed of the cursor to move the insertion point. This is far less than the speed I get when I repeat characters...I notice this only in FM. Other applications do not show this behaviour.https://daube.ch/zz_tests/FM-15-cursor-speed.mp4 

I am working in a project for a manual there has part numbers in sentence. I can't get the part number to read correctly. Anytime there is a hyphen with numbers and letters it flip. Example:English (these numbers are in a sentence with other arabic words):300-TH300-TH/SK: 45 kg Arabic (this is what i get and i can't flip)TH-300TH/SK: 45-300 any ideas.   

I've searched the forum for older posts about this topic but couldn't find anything. I may be using incorrect terms to describe my problem. (Framemaker version is the latest 2020) I want to change the way decimal separators in numbers are handled in my book based on the target audience using dots or commas for them. Is there an easy way to handle this problem? For example, choosing a decimal separator style during the print out phase of a book or maybe selecting tagged numbers (if such a thing as "tagging numbers" exists) in conditional tags.

FM 2020, DITA 1.3.We have just recently started using FM2020. In order to review my colleague's edits in a large document (i.e. large DITAMAP with 100s of DITA files), we use Track Text Edits. Occasionally, it is far easier to read a paragraph with all of the tracked changes hidden (i.e. Preview Final). However, if I make a single edit in Preview Final mode, FM will auto-switch back to Preview Off (i.e. showing all of the tracked changes). I find this behaviour very frustrating, because I sometimes need to make edits in Preview Final mode, but I still want the edits to be tracked. In our DITAMAP, it takes 1-2 min to switch modes, so turning Preview Final mode on/off is not fun.Am I missing something? Is there a way to keep Preview Final mode on while editing?

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