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Using FrameMaker 2019. When I try to paste a Unicode symbol, such as ∧ (U+2227) using Character Map, it shows up in FM as a ? character. I've tried a number of different fonts in FM with no luck. The same font in Word or a web browser looks correct. I don't think the font selection is the problem. Is this a bug? I tried Paste Special and each option available (Rich Text, Text, and Unicode Text). How can I insert such a character and have it display correctly? Is there a shortcut to type this in directly? I tried using the built-in Insert > Character > Character Palette but there must be a bug: it just disappears after a second or two. One thing that seems to work, but is not practical, is to paste into MS Word, copy it in Word, switch to FM and use Paste Special > Rich Text Format. 

I somehow messed up my "Settings File" in Publish. Is there any way to get back to the "Default Settings" without reinstalling FrameMaker 2019?

Hi,   Does anyone know: Is it possible to set the same zoom percentage for all files in a book with  a single command or shortcut? When the book window is active, I can only change the zoom of the list of files. I did not find anything in the FrameMaker help.   Best regards   Winfried

If my company has an Excel spreadsheet of all of our part numbers (we are a manufacturing company) is there a way to automate a parts list and have the output end up in a FrameMaker table?  Thanks

Hello,two books that published to PDF just fine until 2 months ago suddenly cannot be published anymore. I receive the error that the TPS file could not be found and thus the distiller stops. I am completely stumped, nothing obvious to me changed in this time. I use Windows 10 and FM 13.0.1.385When I use the printing option and Adobe PDF as printer, I get a PDF but without images (grey boxes instead).Is anyone else having this issue? Perhaps a recent Windows update?Robert

Hi supercalifragilisticexpialidocious FrameMaker experts, we have a company font. The problem is, that this font does not cover all chars that we need to display. We have issues in greek and in almost all Asian languages. I see the following options I don't like any of them. Do you have a preference or a better idea? A) We crack all the fonts and create a new global-font and merge in all the glyphs. This is technically probably even the most simple solution, but this is illegal, so we cannot do that.B) We create language specific paragraph formats like "Heading" (for western language), "EL Heading" for Greek, "VI Heading" for Vietnamese and so forth. This would work, but would incredibly blow up the amount of formats that we have. This is a nightmare to maintain, as we also have different templates in different paper sizes and so forth.C) We create language specific templates. This is basically B) with the benefit that the technical author does not recognize, t

Is there a backslash notation?This question would only apply to FM8 or later.I only have FM9 to try things on.When using special (non-keyboard) characters in the Unicode age, it is often the case that one discovers the needed glyph on some Unicode web site, and is then armed with the code point, but not necessarily a glyph that can be copied and pasted.Unicode-aware versions of FM include an unpleasant little Character Map, and there is also, on Windows, the system Character Map (which allows entry of code point numbers, or search by formal Unicode glyph id).Yes, there is also a way, on Windows, of entering Alt+21CC code points, but this requires a Registry hack and a reboot.It appears that the only way to enter Unicode characters in Frame is:via the FM Cmap,pasting from the OS Cmap or some other source, orusing the numpad Alt hack.If creating a Variable for a special character (commonly needed because a Unicode or more fully populated Unicode font is required), it has to be Cmap'd, Al

I use the HTML attribute<tag … title="text_to_appear" …frequently in any HTML I author by hand (or where a forum tool menu provides a field, as this one does). In most browsers, it causes a tooltip popup to appear showing the text_to_appear (aka hovertip). Example: This link loops back to this thread. I was lately wondering if FM can generate that for cross-references and other hypertext, to it's various output workflows, in particular PDF. It appears that the answer presently is: no, and no. Apparent No#1:Unstructured FM's insert-Xref dialog has no fields for anything but target ID and format. The inset-hypertext has no fields for anything but command ID and target address. There are fields for some other object types, like hotspots in images. Apparent No#2:Even if FM could routinely support 'title' in hypertext (which would likely be useful for HTML/XML workflow), it appears that PDF has no standard construct for it (perhaps because Postscript didn't either). When people ask for P

I have searched the Internet back and forth and can not get a quotation of the annual or monthly subscription for FrameMaker 2020.I can not go the standard way any more, because I have already purchased a subscription.Hitting the button By under Single User on https://www.adobe.com/de/products/framemaker/buying-guide.html the displayed page is immediately overlaid by a sign "You have already purchased". Closing this is only possible to reach other products - no more FM...IMHO this is ridiculous.I want to put the figure in USD and EUR on the page concerning the FM history (www.daube.ch/docu/fmhist12.html)

Hello everyone! I have a formatting question, and I hope someone is able to help. Please let me know if you have any clarifying questions. I am working on a new document type for my company. In this document, we have a two-column page set up, and are using a two-column table as well. However, we noticed that the table in column one is starting a milimeter or so below the table start in column two, which is creating a formatting offset. (See attached.) Our table anchor is sitting on the line above the table, in column one, which is pushing this table lower on the page. When I attempt to move the anchor to sit against the document title, it pushes the table out of our two-column format and into a single column while also pushing the table onto the second page of the document, leaving the first page blank. Does anyone have any suggestions on how to move the anchor to 1) remove the table offset and 2) preserve our two-column table?  Thank you!

Today I received a mif file from a customer. She got it back from translation to french. This mif file contains aphostrophs (French people seem to love it because they use it so often.) 😉 When opening this 2019 mif file with FM2019(15.0.7.973), the part of the sentence after an apostroph was cut off. Opening with FM2020 or FM 2017 everything is fine.Investigations have shown that in the mif file the correponding part is something like this: <String `L\qéquipement de mesure sert à mesurer........ \q is an apostrophe (hex x27 / decimal 039)after every \q text vanishes. Has anybody seen this behaviour or has anybody a workaraound for this problem? tiaKlaushttps://tracker.adobe.com/#/view/FRMAKER-9470

I have a bunch of documents done in DITA and FrameMaker 2020 and I have huge amounts of trouble making spellcheck and hyphenation work.1: discretionary hyphens seems to work exactly opposite of their intention. Rather than help hyphenate words, they make them prevent hyphenation2: creating personal dictionaries does not seem to work. It is impossible to create a personal dictionary in a self-chosen location and have it work.3: Adjusting hypenation on single words and making FrameMaker "Learn" does not seem to work either.I may be missing something absolutely fundamental here,  because these features are quite frustrating. Can anybody help?

I'd like to create paragraph markers via ExtendScript for heading paragraphs without existing markers, and wonder how to set a correct MarkerText property of a marker. When a cross-reference to a Heading is created manually in FrameMaker, it seems FrameMaker creates a new marker wih the MarkerText property set according to the following format:<magicNumber>: <pgfFormatName>: <pgfNumber> <somePgfText> where<pgfFormatName> is the name of the paragraph format (e.g., pgf.Name)<pgfNumber> is the paragraph number (e.g., pgf.PgfNumber)<somePgfText> is initial text from the paragraph (pgf.getText item[s])<magicNumber> is a 5-digit decimal numberExample:69752: H2,1.1: 1.1 Example text of a level 2 heading The <magicNumber> element (69752 in the example) is what I don't understand. It seems to be unique within a document (maybe even unique within a book), and I assume it matters for keeping cross-references consistent (e.g., when he

I've created setting file for publishing to epub. There is a setting for cover image. After publishing, the cover page is at the end of the file. Calibre says that __coverpage.xhtml and __toc.xhtml are non-linear file. What's wrong?

So, this issue is kind  of strange: at our company, we've established Sharepoint as a CMS solution for FrameMaker. It has been functioning fairly well so far (abysmal file access "speed" aside). Yesterday, our IT department deactivated TLS 1.0 support, and all of a sudden, I can't connect to Sharepoint anymore from within FrameMaker. I'm getting an HTTP error message (can't give you the exact message text in plain English, because it's actually in German 🤷‍♀️). Anyway, it's mentioning a possible certificate error, possibly because of HTTPS not being properly configured with HTTP SYS. Noone here has been able to solve the problem so far, and I am simply unable to do any serious work right now. Downloading everything file by file to my laptop obviously isn't the greatest workaround for documents that contain hundreds of referenced images. I'd be really grateful for any ideas about possible solutions. Adobe have dropped TLS 1.0 and 1.1 support in 2018, so

I  have written this already somewhere else - but today it annoys me more than usual:Opening the downloaded version of the FDK reference pdf (it is just 8MB, 1065 pages) takes half a minute in my Acrobat 2017. Opening the FM-15 version (5MB, 1073 pages) takes a few seconds.I tried to shrink the FM-16 version down - but there is transparancy somwhere which hinders this.What is wrong with this file http://help.adobe.com/en_US/framemaker/pdfs/fdkreference.pdf ?Another annoyance is the FM-16 User Guide: it takes 3½ minutes to open for 25 MB. I do not understand this.Even the FM-15 Getting Started Guide with 1 GB (includes many videos) opens in seconds!

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...