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I have an 11x17 landscaped document where the left page has the content and the right page has "This Page Intentionally Left Blank" and nothing else. I want to include the right page's page number next to the left page's page number in the footer. For example, "Page 1/2" then the next left page will have "Page 3/4". Is this possible or will I have to rig a text box outside the master page to do that?

I use FM 2020 to set up my DITA books in which I use bookmaps to organize individual chapters and ditamaps to create the map for each chapter and xml file format in order to store content.Now, if I set the style of the figure.title to f:Figure <$chapnum>.<n+>: \sn via the paragraph designer, the numbering of figure captions correctly reflects the corresponding combination: chapter number.figure number, such as Figure x.y which means figure number y in chapter x. However, cross-referencing to these figures is not correcly done: that is the value for chapter number (x) is always 1 in every chapter.Is that something I can fix or it is rather a bug?

I'm running Framemaker 2019 release. How do I insert a graphic and have it horizontally aligned with the paragraph above it? Right now, the graphic is inserted using File > Import File, and I have selected 150 dpi. However, the graphic is centered horizontally on the page, and I would like it aligned with the paragraph above, which is where the anchor is, too. I cannot find the answer in the user doc. Please help!Cindy 

Hi DITA users, I am trying to understand why FM changes the colwidth units of my tables from mm to * each time I save the xml files. Any ideas?Example of a table with three columns.before save:<colspec colnum="1" colname="1" colwidth="35mm" colsep="0"/><colspec colnum="2" colname="2" colwidth="25mm" colsep="0"/><colspec colnum="3" colname="3" colwidth="100mm" colsep="0"/>after any change in the xml file and then save (note that I did not change the colwidth, they got changed autonomously): <colspec colnum="1" colname="1" colwidth="22*" colsep="0"/><colspec colnum="2" colname="2" colwidth="16*" colsep="0"/><colspec colnum="3" colname="3" colwidth="63*" colsep="0"/> consequently the width of each column and the whole width of the table are different after each save.Now if I change the units to mm again and save they stay in mm until the next time I change and save the file.

Dear all,In my documentation for ES i have a file Constants.txt which is now 5 years old and I suspect that it is not complete any more. It is an extract from the chm file by Jongware,  (FM 12 Object Model as of 2015).  Hence I'm looking for an up-to-date list of the constants.I do not find anything of that kind in C:\Program Files (x86)\Adobe\Adobe ExtendScript Toolkit CC\Required\.In the FDK documentation the constants are spead around - and there is no indication of their type (binary, integer, …) or value: FA_errno value Meaning FE_BadDocId Invalid document ID. FE_BadObjId Invalid object ID. Even in my short scripting-life I encountered situations where I needed to know these properties.Jongware states in the chm file (highlight by me): «The ExtendScript Toolkit Editor comes with a built-in Help function, which displays all objects accessible in JavaScript for InDesign, Bridge, Illustrator, and Photoshop. It does so by sending a request to the target progr

I am facing a problem which is becoming a boomerang:What is the best way to get consistent figure numbering in DITA documents throughout the chapters?It is worth mentionming that I publish my DITA bookmap via the publish panel not using File-> Save as...The problem is: If I use the Format: f:Figure <n+>:\t for figure:title, FrameMaker restarts the Figure caption number to 1 in every chapter. Consequently you have multiple figures with the same number in your document (bad idea).If I set the figure.title Format to: f:Figure <$chapnum>.<n+>: \sn, the numbering becomes consistent but the cross referencing to those figures is not.For this case, I have tried the following cross reference formats:1. Figure with Number:In the first case the chapnum is set to one in every chapter, i.e. all referenced Figures start with 1.some number follows.2. any combination with Page number:In this case the page number restarts from 1 in every chapter.  Conclusion is

Barb Binder triggered my interest in creating an equivalent Find/Replace for FM (see here).I have an idea of an UI which allows to insert Regex elements by selection from panel with drop down etc.. This shall be opened on click on the button RegEx:BTW it seems that FM does not check the validity of a RegEx: ^([IVX]+)(.does not create an error message if used for Find. FM just tells “Nothing found” The error is obvious: a mismatch in parentheses.FM provides three flavours of RegEx syntax; Perl (the default), Grep and Egrep (enhanced Grep). There is a t least one significant difference betwee these flavours: handling of line breaks in the dot operator (any character). See the extensive discussion of this in the RegExBuddy by Jan Goyvaerts .Therefore it is (for all but simple cases) necessary to know what is implemented (in FM. BTW ExtendScript Scripting guide and FDK reference / programmer’s guide do not know “Regular Expression” nor “regex”).FM help tells about these flavours:Perl:

As you can see the above image, texts are displayed in two languages: English and Japanese. I want to see Welcome screen in only English. Please, help me.

The last few weeks I've noticed that I cannot use the character palette. When I click Insert > Character > Character Palette, all that happens is that the Insert entry on the menu bar is deselected. The same thing happens with Hex Input. I checked all the other items on the Insert menu, and they all work. I've tried a number of suggestions provided on the FrameUsers list, including trying to change screen resolution (tricky, I'm already at the highest), moving to using the laptop screen only, variations on the Windows+Shift+arrow keys ... nothing works. I thought briefly it might be a corrupted program because Frame was giving me some odd errors when I closed it, but I've reinstalled with all updates, no longer get the errors on close out, and I'm STILL not seeing either the palette or the hex input.It isn't a TERRIBLE issue, since I've already created variables for most of the non-standard characters (mostly fractions) that I use and know keyboard shortcuts for most of the rest,

I’m a subscriber to the Technical Communication Suite. The 2019 release of FrameMaker (version 15.0.7.973) is currently installed on my PC. How do I upgrade to the latest (2020) version? Thank you.

Hello, I am looking for an ExtendScript equivalent of the FrameMaker command File > Publish > Basic HTML. Specifically, I would like to see how the command identifies and assigns filenames to the graphics. For example, inset_0.jpg, inset_1.jpg, and <filename>001.jpg. I need to write an ExtendScript that exports the graphics from a FrameMaker file, and I would like that script to use the same logic that the File > Publish > Basic HTML command uses so that the graphic filenames are named in the same way. Take care, Jason

Hello there,what I want to do is to iterate through all frames with pictures in my doc. While going through I want to save the file name of the picture in a variable, then delete the frame with the picture and append the file name of the picture to the end of the paragraph that was above the frame with the picture.What I got so far is this:  var doc= app.ActiveDoc; var count = 0; var graphicPath; CountGraphics(doc); DeleteGraphics(doc); //COUNT GRAPHICS function CountGraphics(doc) { var graphic = doc.FirstGraphicInDoc; while (graphic) { if (graphic.type == Constants.FO_Inset) { count++; } graphic = graphic.NextGraphicInDoc; } } //DELETE GRAPHICS + FRAMES function DeleteGraphics(doc) { for(i = 0; i < count; i++) { var graphic = doc.FirstGraphicInDoc; while (graphic) { if (graphic.type == Constants.FO_Inset) { graphicPath = graphic.Ins

Greetings,  My coworker is having font issues with Frame 2019/Windows 10. I've copied all of my fonts to a folder for her and she installed them, but she's still getting a range of font issues. This is a legacy document that has had many font replacements over the almost two decades.  In the attached image, you'll see that questions marks are substituted for apostrophes, bullets and quotes (among other things). Any help is deeply appreciated!   

I've run into a very weird problem when generating HTML5 after the latest Frame 2019 update to 15.0.7.973.Wherever there are single straight quotes in text, if I generate HTML5, one of a couple of different things happens, based on the exact position/pairing of the apostrophe.If something says "clients' rights," the ouput removes both the apostrophe and the spacing, e.g. "clientsrights."If something says "client's right to appeal the decision," the output removes the apostrophe and everything after it, e.g., "client."  The text removal doesn't run past the paragraph marker.The text appears normal in the PDF output. The text appears fine in the Frame file. There is another oddity--when I prepared examples for this post, I copied the the relevant statement into a Word document. When I paste directly, the resulting text has the same issues as the HTML. If I paste as Unformatted, the text is correct. I performed a lot of troubleshooting to figure out the issue, but I'm stump

Is there an easier way to get content from a *.csv file into a Frame table? I can export a bug query to csv, but the only way I can see to get that into Frame is copy/paste. Any tips? Thanks!Cindy 

In the Find/Change dialogue under Find we can select from Anchored Frame to Variable of Name.Amidst this long list of objects there is Publisher.What is this?A leftover of Macintosh times? 

Hi there, I have a very basic question but I couldn't find an adequate answer for me yet.I just started trying to write a jsx script to select the first graphic in the document which lies within an anchored frame. I want to get the File name of this graphic and replace the whole graphic+frame with just the file name of the referenced graphic.That's my plan so far... But I don't really understand how to even select the graphic.I read some documents and found stuff like "NextGraphicInDoc" etc. So I tried:var doc = app.ActiveDoc;var graphic = doc.NextGraphicInDoc; I tried several other things like:doc.NextAFrame.FirstGraphicInFrame; But I always get undefined as output. So I clearly don't understand the DOM on how to approach the elements of the doument properly and use them.Could someone maybe enlighten me? I think once I get the gist of how to handle this properly I can get further myself but I am stuck at the beginning. Thanks in advance. I also appreciate good

I am getting too frustrated by the way template updates are. That is I do the same procedure 10 times and 1 time it works. For example, I would like to change the tag for Chapter to Kapitel, I go to the corresponding reference page of the TOC template and apply my changes via the paragraph designer then update style. Sometimes it works most of the times just shows the previous status. Or when I apply margins to the page in the master pages same story. What is the trick here?

I’m using DITA and I want to move the figure title below thegraphic. I tried to change the general rule of the Element <fig> in theEDD like this: (figgroup |dl | parml | image| lines | lq | note | hazardstatement | object | ol | p | pre| codeblock | msgblock | screen | sl | ul | data | data-about | fn | foreign |unknown | simpletable | fm-xref | xref), (title)?, (desc)?*After this change it is possible to insert the element <title>after the element <image>.But when saving the XML-document after the changes I get thefollowing XML parser message: (Document Instance): Element title is not validfor the content modelWhat’s going wrong?

1. Can I change the language for a specific document without editing all paragraph tags? 2. Where do I get new dictionaries not needed at time of software install? Background - I am in the US and have begun working on documents for other markets. I want to be able to use English(UK) and French(Canadian).  Because the documents all use the same corporate template (which I do not control), I am hoping to avoid having to edit the paragraph definitions. Thanks for any suggestions!MaryHS

I'm in FrameMaker 15.0.4.751 and am still just learning my way around. Simple question (I hope): What is the best way to do figure captions in FrameMaker? I see that tables are captioned automatically, but figures (or anchored frames) aren't. From what I've read, I can use a text frame, or I can create a table for holding figures. I'm not sure which of these would work best for me, or if maybe there are other options I haven't stumbled across yet. Below are the details of my project. I'm not sure if they're all relevant to my question above, but I'm including them just in case they are. This is a FrameMaker book for multiple products that are very similar, using conditional text for the differences from product to product.Many of the images will have condition tags, and all are to have captions that are numbered via auto-numbering. (I'm a little concerned that presence of the condition tags will affect autonumbering. In some cases, I may have ten different images taking up th

I am using FM 2019 to 'Publish' to robohelp's html5 output. In the output I see the glossary terms have the exact appearance of cross-reference and hyperlinks (blue with an underline). Is there a way to customize the output appearnce of glossary terms? Why are they blue with an underline, where is that default setting and can I change it? Is it in a css file? Is the file in my FM folder or my RH folder? Any help on this topic is greatly appreciated.-William

I made a TOC in FM 12 and it is ok. If I make a TOC in FM2019 an extra line with dots and also pagenumber is generated. In red circle. Anyone have the same issue and know how to remove the extra line?

Having not worked with FrameMaker for the past 10 years (I moved from Tech Pubs back to ILS Engineering) I am looking for a FrameMaker Reference book to bring me back up to speed for a business opportunity.  I was an ACE for FrameMaker 5.5, is there still he opportunity to do this?

I need to remove the hyphens that are occurring in a lot of paragraphs. I am trying to keep the text in select indent parameters for a service manual. How can i remove the constant hyphens but still make the text-align on the right and left-hand side. See attached photo. The text boxes on the lower right side. My documents all look like this. The pressure is on at my job, and i have to make sure these look uniform and professional. I appreciate the help.