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So far I have been using ExtendScript but it is time to also get some work done with the FDK. I have installed Visual Studio Community 2019 and tried to build one of the FDK2019 samples, but I am getting a bunch of warnings and errors about incorrect target platform and missing libraries. Is it possible to build code for FM2019 using my version of Visual Studio or do I need an older version? Is there a switch I can use to change the target platform?The FDK Reference unfortunately does not state anything about a development environment. At least some of you have done work in this area. I am not going to do a lot of work on this so I am trying to avoid having to get a costly Developer License with Microsoft.Thanks in advance for pointers to get me started.

Recently my keyboard stopped working in FrameMaker only.  The mouse works fine, and if I put the cursor in a window such as a marker window, the keyboard will work.  If I open a document to edit, the keyboard doesn't work.   I tried rebooting, reloading the program, nothing brings the keyboard back.  It works ok in other programs and in Windows.  The KEYBOARD WORKS OK, except to edit a document in FrameMaker.

In my FM 10 (!!) project, I have two pages within a Frame file that should not be numbered, and the page after those needs to continue page numbering from the page before the two non-numbered pages. Page 28 is fine. Current pages 29 and 30 should not be numbered, and current page 31 should be page 29. Will I have to do that manually in the footer somehow and not use auto pagination? Thanks.Margaret 

Hi,   Most of you will know that you can use the keyboard shortcut F9 to select and apply a paragraph format. You can just start typing the name until your name is selected, and then press ENTER. My heading paragraphs have format names like heading1, heading2, etc. It's not that convenient to type the whole "heading" before you can type the level. Yesterday I noticed that you can also just type h and the number without the eading, even when your heading formats have names like heading4. Very good, much faster! I had not known this.   Best regards   Winfried

Hi,How do I update a list of Figures in Framamker (latest version 16.0.0.754)? Some of the page numbers in the existing List of figures is incorrect. I have a very basic knowlege of Framemaker. Regards,John

Dear experts,My FindSomething function is quite successful. The found objects are always selected and hence I have a visible clue what was found. Three objects, however loose their selection as soon as the button function is left:Automatic Hyphen: the cursor is just behind it (UI selects the hyphen)Object style override: I do not see what is the object (UI selects the object: frame, graphic)Object Style tag (UI selects the object: frame, graphic)   KLD_F.ButtonFind = function () { // ========================= var oTR, iFindType, iFS, iFV, iMode, sSearch, bWord, bCase, bBack; // ... $.bp(true); oTR = KLD_F.FindSomething (iFS, iFV, sSearch, iMode, bWord, bCase, bBack); if (oTR == undefined) { alert ("Object not found"); return; } } //--- end of ButtonFind -----------------------------------   When stepping through the function the selection disappears as soon as I reach the last line.What happens here?Additional observations for AutoH

Hi all,  Anyone had an issue where the PDF from a ditamap (using Publish panel) has numbering applied to the PDF bookmarks? If the numbers were incrementing, I could live with it, but these are all showing as 1. as shown in uploaded image. Ideally, the numbers would not display at all. -Matt

I was wondering if there is a way to include keyref element(s) inside an indexterm element, e.g. <indexterm>Regsiter <keyword keyref="sample_lower"></keyword> data </indexterm>where the keyword "sample_lower" has been defined in a variable file. It is to note that the same keyref works perfectly outside an indexterm element.

Hello fellows,When using the FM "Find" menu, is there a way to find an xref text range and select it?Thanks!

I have several fm files with orhan images. To correct this, I am using Paragraph Designer > Pagination > Next Paragraph. I am doing this manually for every image (hundreds). It there a way to automate this task?

Obviously xml has nothing to do with x-mas...This is my input file (UTF-8 with BOM):   <?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?> <saves> <!-- is Does the prolog help for Unicode support? --> <item> <!-- what happens to this & that comment? --> <name>Wäßrige lösung</name> <info>Wenig substanz wird in viel wasser gelöst.</info> ...   This is my simple script:   // WriteXmlData-b.jsx // Read UTF data and write it back #target framemaker main (); function main () { var oXmlSettings, xmlData, sXmlFile = "WriteXml.xml"; // file exists in same dir as this script; $.bp(true); xmlData = GetXMLdata (sXmlFile); WriteXMLdata (xmlData, sXmlFile); } // --- End main -------------------------------- function WriteXMLdata (xmlData, sXmlFile) { // ============================================= var fXmlFile; fXmlFile = new File($.fileName.replace (/[^\\\/]+$/i , sXmlFile)); try { fXmlFile.open("w"); fX

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?