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Hello Is there a free, simple tool available for converting a PDF file into a reasonable FrameMaker file?If so, could you please pass the name of the tool on to me? The pdf contains text, images and tables. I would be happy if I could get the text into reasonable shape with an import into a FrameFile. The tables and images I can do manually. Kindest regards,Fred Gerke

I have been tasked with learning and recommending how to output Responsive HTML5 from the structured FrameMaker 2015 books that our company has. The books have a front section, a back section, and a body with from 6 to 20 sections in the body. The text is primarily in a left column with graphics in the right column. In a few instances, the graphics can be page wide and the text below them can be on both columns. Our traditional publishing format was PDF. However, the company has chosen to go to Responsive HTML5 for electronic purposes, while retaining PDF output for the required paper manuals. So, I need to learn how to make the transition as painless as possible. What study guides, books, YouTube, etc., should I review and learn, in order to get up to speed? Thanks for any suggestions or help.

Pretty much what it says. FrameMaker 2020 (up to date) Windows 10 Pro   Yesterday I had about 8 or so different books pinned to the Recent Files as a favorite. I open FrameMaker this morning to discover that all but one are no longer listed. This isn't the first time this has happened, either.   Anyone with ideas on why my pinned files are disappearing? It's a PITA to have to re-add them, and they're all current projects.

Greetings FrameMaker community! My team is currently using FM 2019 and we're working on finalizing a product for a customer this week. The problem is that some of there are five sections/chapters in the Table of Contents (TOC) that are not linking to the corresponding page of the document where its supposed to jump to. In the Error Report is states "Could not open section XXX because it uses unavailbe fonts". The entire document is written in ariel font by default, but I'm suspecting that the source formatting was done in a different incompatible font before it was imported into the document. Not sure how or why this would impact the links in the TOC render them dead. Any ideas? 

Hello,I am using Adobe FrameMaker 2020 while my other team members are still on the 2019 version. We need to work in a collaborative environment where we all need to update the FrameMaker Source topic files. I can open the 2019 FM files on my latest version (2020). However, if I make any edits to those files, my team, who is on the earlier version, cannot open the files. I did refer to some of the older posts where we've discussed this issue and tried the following:I saved all the files in my source book in the 2019 .fm format, saved the entire book as 2019 .book.I saved all my files in .mif format and shared with the team assuming they could open it.But no luck. FM acts in an inconsitent manner. We see the messages similar to the following:The file '<filename>.fm' is not a FrameMaker file. FrameMaker can try to open the file either in FrameMaker or in the file's native application. Open '<filename>.fm' using...Although <file path>\<Book name>.book appears to be

Hello again! So my issue today goes as follows:I have formatted text in my document which I want to 1. Catch it2. Write the text to the end of the previous paragraph 3. Delete the original pgf So here is what I have so far:  //MOVE + DELETE NOTE TEXTS function MoveNoteText(doc) { for(var i = 0; i < countNT; i++){ var note = doc.MainFlowInDoc.FirstTextFrameInFlow.FirstPgf; while (note.ObjectValid()) { if (note.Name == "Geschenk" || note.Name == "Achtung" || note.Name == "Hinweis") { pgf = note.PrevPgfInFlow; tl = new TextLoc(pgf, Constants.FV_OBJ_END_OFFSET-1); doc.AddText(tl, "PLACEHOLDER-TEXT-ICON"); note.Delete(); } else if(note.Name == "Hinweis_text") { text = Content of Paragraph should be caught here pgf = note.PrevPgfInFlow; tl = new TextLoc(pgf, C

I want to make my personal dictionary file, but when I assign one on a path I suggest, Framemaker does not save that path. Does it have to be in a specific place? 

I have an image on the master page of every file in a framemaker book. How can I replace the image in all files all at once? 

Today I notice the part of the Welcome screen containing the roating banner is in French:Yes, it is a user-modified Welcome Screen, but the UI language of my Windows and FrameMaker is UK-English ...IMHO this banner should not rotate by itself, just on user demand - it is distrating (You see, I'm not a fan of marketing stuff). Fortunately most time the Welcome screen is hidden...

I've embedded a PDF of a Visio flowchart into a Frame document. I've added a text box over one of the squares of the flowchart so I can insert a cross reference to another section of the manual. The cross reference works, but the xref text comes in larger so it gets cut off. I changed the text to a smaller size, saved the document, and when I opened the document again, the text had reverted to its original size. I've created both character and paragraph tags and applied them to this text, and that hasn't fixed the problem either. Any ideas on why my text won't stay the same size (bug maybe?) and how to fix this? Thank you in advance!

HelloOn FM 15 (2019)I have a ditamap that contain topicref in an other topicref.something like that chapter > topicref1 > topicref2when I save it in book with FM component, only the last topic is converted in fm. The topicref in the middle dissapears. How can i fix that?

The latest release of FrameMaker allows you to easily insert rich media files in your documents. Whether you are working in FrameMaker, DITA (XML), or LwDITA document, you can easily import video and audio files. In case of structured documents, FrameMaker inserts the video/audio files using the valid elements. You don't have to go to the source code of your structured document to change or apply the valid element. Simply use the Insert > Multimedia menu and follow the file insertion process. FrameMaker does the rest of the job of adding your media files. These media files are also published “as is” in the PDF and Responsive HTML5 outputs.   For more information, see Import audio, video, and 3D objects. See a video on Inserting rich media with DITA.

Frame 2019, Fully Patched (No updates available), Unstructured. We have created a multi-level book that has a main book that contains multiple books (chapters) using folders. When using the Save As PDF option, the processing hangs at the postprocessing step and will not complete. I left it running overnight just to make sure I wasn't being impatient. I have tried printing to postscript and distilling. This doesn't work because there are foldout pages in a couple of chapters. I read in this forum that bad art can cause this so I started paring the book down to try to locate it, deleting first some files, then entire sub-books incrementally. I now have it down to the main book with a few front matter files (no art) and one empty sub-book and am getting the same results. The error in the log file says: [1104/100835.980:ERROR:registration_protocol_win.cc(131)] TransactNamedPipe: The pipe has been ended. (0x6D) I was able to publish the sub-books individually but not at

HiWhen I publish with Responsive HTML5, framemaker don't use my XSLT Preference preprocessing.How can i do that?i need to transform sommething like that :<tag1> <tag2 /> <tag2 /> </tag1>  into<table> <tbody> <row> <entry><img/><tag1><entry/> <entry><tag2><tag2><entry/> </row> </tbody> </table>I don't know is there is another solution...Thanks

Hi,I've done some testing and read a few threads in this forum, but cannot find a solution. Let's assume I have three books. All books have just a single file, called Content.fm. I have inherited an environments with tons of (unstructured) FrameMaker projects like this. The Content.fm has many conditions. For each book, there is - of course - a specific selection of conditions.Whenever I want to publish a book for customer 2, I have to look up the conditions to activate in a separate text file. This is very error prone, because I have to deactivate and activate the conditions again and again. As conditions cannot be stored in hierarchies, it's a nightmare to maintain this.I'd like to store the conditions in the book file. The goal should be, that the content of the Content.fm is dynamically filtered depending on the conditional settings in the book. In DITA this would be no problem, for example by filtering specific content branches with a <ditavalref>.But, how can I inherit

Does anyone have same experience with FrameMaker publishing DITA to PDF taking too long? I compared the time required for publishing the same document with DITA OT. It took around 10 times less than FM 2020. Do we have to simply live with it?

Hi @ all! First of all, I really appreciate the help one can get in this community. I may have only posted two issues so far but I received fast and reliable feedback - So thanks!  Now my question of today:I wrote a script to modify some things in a FrameMaker Document. My next goal would be to kind of "automate the automation". So I thought about if it is possible in any way to use Powershell or CMD to perform the following: 1. Open FrameMaker2. Specify a source of FM-Files (a directory with e.g. 5 .fm files)3. Iterate through the directory and open all the .fm files in FM4. Run a jsx script for ALL of the files5. save all files and close FM I don't know if this would be maybe even possible with just an jsx script to call that from the command line and it performs all the tasks above... Thanks in advance for your help!GreetingsYannick 

After the most recent update, CHM outputs are defaulting to Times New Roman formatting for all paragraph styles (most styles should be in some form of HelveticaNeueLT). Tables are missing all formatting, and are practically incomprehensible. The styles only seem to be corrected by exporting a CSS and adding/editing those styles, then mapping them in the .STS file after importing the new CSS. I feel like I'm missing something obvious - is there not a better way to just use the source Paragraph/Character/Table Styles?

everything was going great saving about every 20 minutes to prevent data loss, and i am geting this error. if i cant find a quick solution i will have to exit the program and load from the last save, which i really dont want to do. Any solutions for this?!

Hi, Does anyone know how to create hyperlink in FM to an msword document? Regards, Arunkumar

I have a 2020 Book with 18 chapters. The TOC is fine until halfway through Chapter 3 where the page number explodes exponentially! Like it is counting line numbers or something! The page numbering in Chpater 3 is correct. See attached.

Hi, I am using the ExtendScript Toolkit for FrameMaker on Windows 10. The performance is disappointing when I run a script from the Toolkit for development, testing, etc. There is always a delay and Not Responding after the script finishes. Is anyone using any alternative IDEs and are they interactive like ES Toolkit is? If so, any directions on setting things up would be appreciated. Thank you.

Good time of day!My bookmap is looking like:<bookmap xml:lang="en-GB"> <part ...> <chapter ...> ... </chapter> </part> <backmatter> <booklists> <glossarylist navtitle="Glossary" id="gloss"> ... <topicref href="glossary/ena.dita" id="ena"> <=== This file is <glossgroup> ... <keydef href="glossary/ena.dita#aecma" keys="aecma"/> <=== FM swears: "no file with such name" ... </topicref> ... </glossarylist> <indexlist/> </booklists> </backmatter> </bookmap>What am I doing wrong?

Image no.1Image no.2Image no.3 As you can see three screen capture images above, there are unncessary spacing both bofore and after the punctuation mark regarding Korean font. I'd like to make letter spacing both before and after the punctuation mark natural just like western font (e.g. English). Can you help me?

Hi All,   Requesting a solution for a query that has been discussed earlier, but I am not able to fully understand the replies.   I have a book in FM 2019 with around 100 documents. Each document has a table, whose Table Title should be the same as the Document Title. Does a variable exist that has only the document title without the .fm extension? For example, I have a document called Oil Pump.fm that has a table that should have the same name, but without the .fm extension. I have tried to use <$chaptertitlename> or <$filename> variable but the inserted text is always "Oil Pump.fm" and not the desired "Oil Pump." Is it possible to create a variable that uses the file/document name without adding the .fm extension? If I can't have a variable free of the .fm extension, is there a method of 'Find and Replace' that will replace the "Oil Pump.fm" text in the Table Title with just "Oil Pump"?   Thanks in advance for your help.   Regards Apurva