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I'm trying to copy the H1 style utilized in an Indesign document also in my Framemaker document. I've thought that the "Background" color setting in paragraph styles could solve my issue. The problem is that the background color is only being applied to the text and not to the entire width of the column. On Indesign they did use a box for H1 headings and then inserted a text box into it. I think that the paragraph styles won't allow me to automatically combine graphical boxes for specific styles. Also there are some other headings in lower levels (H2 and H3) in the manual which do utilize background colors but not all of them. I've thought that inserting empty spaces at the end of the line would solve my issue but then realized that this would cause the TOC to also show these empty spaces and also I'm going to utilize some conditional tags in some of these headings which doesn't allow me to understand how many spaces I would require before the exact end of a line. Do the para

Hello!   I'm working in FM 2020 and I just opened up a document I created in 2019. No issues with that, but now whenever I try to save, I get the alert I attached to this post.    It's definitely a strange one... if I type hello, save, and click ok on that alert, I can no longer use the undo function to get rid of the hello. However, I can still delete it. This is happening every time I save now, and I've never seen this alert before/with any of my other documents.  Anyone ever seen this, know what causes it, or what to do about it?

Greetings everyone,We're working in FrameMaker 2020, using DITA. I have distributed the settings file to all members of the team and we keep an up-to-date version in SVN. Nonetheless, when other team members attempt to produce PDF output using the setting file I distributed, they are getting different output results. For example, I have modified the ditafm-output.ini file (also distributed) to present figure titles above the figures. In the output my team mates produce, it defaults to the figure title under the image and does not number the figure.My output works as I have designed and coded, but the rest of the team seems to be having trouble producing the same result.Does anyone have any suggestions?We've reloaded the settings file, updated the ini files, and updated the EDD and template files on our computers, but the problem persists.Any pointers are welcome!Wanda

When I start FrameMaker, I get this message: "Can't find a compatible default printer. Try reconfiguring your printer setup in the control panel."The problem is, this message is consistently placed behind the splash screen. This means FrameMaker stops loading with no visible indication of the reason. This seems to be a bug.

Hey guys, so, I'm trying to do the following, but can't find any information on where to start: By default, all our images are supposed to fit their anchored frame proportionally, and have a 0,3cm top padding. So currently, I have to do the following: 1. scroll through the document to find the image 2. left click on the image 3. right click  => fit to frame (proportionally) 4. open object properties 5. set padding (top) to 0,3 6. leftclick the anchored frame 7. Open anchored frame pod 8. set frame height to +0,3 of its original size   This is obviously rather tedious, so I'm looking for a way to automate this, but tbh I'm completely lost.  ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ Any help would be greatly appreciated, so many thanks in advance!   Cheers, Alex open 

Hi,I'm fine-tuning the output of Responsive HTML5 Help generated from FM2020 Publish engine and I'm facing issues that I cannot resolve and need help with the following:1. How to set the First Topic Page from FM book>Publish? How does FM determine which header is the first topic page in the responsive HTML5 Help?2. How to remove the prefix heading numbering in the Responsive HTML5 Help TOC pane? I've removed the autonumbering function in the FM book for all headings and the output is still showing the prefix numbers.3. The table anchor is parked at the end of a sentence on a specific paragraph format in FM. In the output, that line where the table anchor sits does not convert to the specified paragraph format.I appreciate your help.Thanks!

Hello, I am new to Framemaker so please forgive my lack of knowledge about fm. I'd like to have an automatic font color assignment for specific words. For example, every time "foo" appears in my text, I'd like it to be automatically colored in red. I am currently working on a structured Framemaker document inside a book, but I'd like to have the answer for both .fm documents and .xml document, as I'll have to work with those on upcoming projects. Thanx in advance ! Best regards Eric

Hopefully this is simple, but I haven't found anything on doing this. I just want to copy rows from one FrameMaker table to another FrameMaker table, but retain the formatting (shading, ruling, row and column height and width) of the table to which the rows are being copied. When I use Copy and Paste, it copies the formatting of the table the rows are being copied from.

I found that Dynamic Content Filtering no longer works when I try to publish in HTML5 in Version: 16.0.1.817 I created a simple DITA map to demontrate this. <map><title>MAP TITLE</title><topicref href="conceptA.xml" type="concept" product="A"><topicmeta><navtitle>Concept A</navtitle></topicmeta></topicref><topicref href="conceptB.xml" type="concept" product="B"><topicmeta><navtitle>Concept B</navtitle></topicmeta></topicref><topicref href="conceptC.xml" type="concept" product="A B"><topicmeta><navtitle>Concept C</navtitle></topicmeta></topicref></map> When I publish, no filter option is appearing.   

Cannot initializer API Client - FMReview.dll Cannot initializer API Client - RHFrameMakerServer12.dll    I am using Framemaker 16.0.1.817.. does anybody know the answer to this issue? 

Hi, I have publish file FM into HTML5Is it possible to import HTML5 after revise contents update into FM file. Thank you,Charl.s

We have a framemaker project with several books and we use Git to store the .fm files. We have a situation where version 1 is already released and I have started working on version 2 and made a bunch of changes. version 2 is not yet ready to be released though. In this state, the clients have asked for a bunch of changes to version 1. I have a copy of version 1 and so I can make those changes. However, without having to manually redo those in version 2, is it possible to merge the 2 versions? Since framemaker files are binary files, I guess I cannot.. Is that right?

We use the same border for each image we add into our documentation. Is there a way to set a border to default so we don't have to manually apply it to each image?

Hello,I am working with FrameMaker 11.0.2.384.I am having trouble when importing a .cgm and .svg file from IsoDraw to FrameMaker. I have followed the steps in this post (https://community.adobe.com/t5/framemaker/why-are-the-vector-lines-from-the-cgm-images-in-fm11-document-exporting-to-pdf-very-jagged/td-p/10566204?page=1) but the error is not solved. I have checkd maker.ini file and everything looks correct.I can succesfully import .jpg, .png.  

This is a newbie question. My Framemaker version is 2020. Whenever I insert a page break at the end of my pages the next page always starts with an empty line. When I try deleting that empty line by backspacing then the page break gets removed and the next section gets merged into the former page. I did some research in the community and my impression was that I needed to let zero "Widow/Orphan Lines" to be created for pagination. The strange thing is that whenever I enter "0" into this box and press Enter (or update my style) then the value does automatically change to "1" and all of my page breaks get invalidated and removed. I also select "Remove Overrides" when Framemaker warns me about some paragraphs using format overrides during the paragraph style update process. I'm not breaking the pages at tables or graphics. I'm simply ending sections or sub-sections and continuing to another section or sub-section on the next page. I always end these sections/sub-sections in the "Body" par

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It was a great first impression for us when we upgraded from FM11 to FM2019.3... 😆Luckily it's only the welcomescreen thing, so it's harmless, but does anyone know what might cause it?

Hi Community,Does anybody know how to get (read) data from excel with ExtandScript? Thanks.

I am using FrameMkaer 2019 and DITA. In some cases, I need to set the start of value of the ordered list to a different value than 1. How can I do that?

I had Mif2Go working with FrameMaker 2017 to create PDF files. I upgraded to FrameMaker 2020 and the process is broken. Does anyone know how to get FrameMaker 2020 to work with Mif2Go after an upgrade? I use the following path to try to set up Mif2Go (entered in a command window run as Administrator): "C:\Program Files\Adobe\Adobe FrameMaker 2020\FrameMaker.exe" -progid:FrameMaker.M2G -auto This launches FM2020. Continuing in the same command window, when I try to convert a file, the following error message displays: runfm Ver. 4.0, Build 005This ID is not registered for FrameMaker: FrameMaker.M2GYou must first set up FrameMaker with -progid:FrameMaker.M2G If I instead try to convert a file using a .bat file, a command window opens for a couple of seconds, then disappears, with no output or message.I see info about the registry keys in the Mif2Go help file, but cannot figure out how to fix it.Thanks. 

A naïve question, I suspect, but on the one hand we have FrameMaker with a "save as XML" option, on the other hand we have InDesign with an "Import XML" option. Are these two visions of XML on speaking terms?

Dear friends and experts,Since many years I create utilities with AutoHotKey (AHK) which send keystrokes to applications. This is very simple for all application but FM > 8.To just send to the current window the command is Send {ESC}id If I want to insert a longer text, this is first put into the paste buffer and then sent with ^vTo target a specific window the window is activated with reference to the window title: WinActivate, Adobe FrameMaker Send, {ESC}id ; Focus indocument This works until FM-8, but not with the later versions using the 'new interface'.Although AHK still regcognises a window title (Adobe FrameMaker), this can not be used. Also the statement WinActivate AHK_EXE FrameMaker.exe activates something, but it is not the main window. It turns out to activate the last opened sub-window, in my case the graphic toolbar.Then I try WinActivate ahk_class FrameFamily15.MdiFrame This has the same effect, although I see that the window

I'm marking a line which utilizes a specific figure paragraph style under a figure table by using an insertion point at the beginning of the line. The numbering format of this paragraph places a text formulated as "F:Fig. <n+>" in front of the line. Because of that, the insertion point starts after the numbering text in the line. Is there a way to include this numbering format on the source cross-reference text? I've manually named the marker in the correct format but I don't see any building block for the marker name in the building blocks list. I'm trying to form the text as "See Fig. 3 “Prohibited Signs” on page 7." instead of what I'm getting at the moment "See “Prohibited Signs” on page 7.". See the below screenshots. 

When I use the FrameMaker script, sometimes I receive the following error though there is no code at this line. But sometimes the script works perfectly fine. Not sure what is the issue. Script Error : Error Message: undefined is not an objectScript, Line# : C:\D\Scripts\script01.jsx, 5 #target framemaker //@include "./logging.jsxlib" var book = app.ActiveBook; var compType = comp.ComponentType; if(!book.ObjectValid()) { book = app.FirstOpenBook; } if(book.ObjectValid()) { app.ActiveBook = book; alert (comp.Name); var comp = book.FirstComponentInBook; var current_file = comp.Name.replace(/^.*[\\\/]/, ''); while(comp.ObjectValid()) { if(comp.ComponentType == Constants.FV_BK_FILE) { var doc = OpenFile(comp.Name); if(doc.ObjectValid()) { var doc = app.ActiveDoc; var flow = doc.MainFlowInDoc;

I could not open the FM file, it appears the error message " Internal Error 12004, 18675028, 18675322, 21605557". And also there generated a file named" FrameLog_xxxx.txt".  Thank you!