FrameMaker

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.

  While working in Framemaker 2019 on Win 10, the working window keeps changing size and blacking out.  I have to keep resizing the window so I can see anything.  I save a doc, the frame resizes to about 1 inch high by 2 inches across while blacked out.  Then I have to minimize the window, restore the window, then resize the window, until I save the doc again.  Then same thing.   It seems to be a setting of some kind, because the Framemaker starts up in this annoying setting, and reverts to it constantly.  Any ideas?  Thank you

I found this little gotcha when converting plugins from 20-17 to 2019 for a client. The call to the ScriptingSupport client does not return any error indication if the script file does not exist. This took longer than it should have to resolve. If the call had returned an error, say FE_NameNotFound, the problem would have been immediately obvious. I have created a bug, which you may care to vote for, which includes code to illustrate the problem.https://tracker.adobe.com/#/view/FRMAKER-9298 This is the output written to the console for the test code. The second script does not exist and ScriptingSupport returns no indication of this. Note that FA_errorno will only have non zero values if F_ApiCallClient itself has problem. It is up to ScriptingSupport (FrameMakerScriptingSupport.dll) to return other than zero if a problem occurs, or the return value from the script, if one is provided.adobetestscript1.jsx returned 100 FA_errorno = 0 adobetestscript2.jsx returned 0 F

(newbie alert) I'm upgrading from FrameMaker 2015.  One of the problems with some inherited scripts is that errors that occur in automated scripts bring up dialogs that halt the batch process.  Is it possible in FrameMaker 2020 to have batch jobs run without bringing up error dialogs and perhaps directing all error output to a log?  Does that require any particular version to get that kind of support?

I would like to make a selection on a document (manually) before I run a script to count the paragraph tags that specific selection contains. Say I have 22 bulleted notices in a certain section (all Flow A). I find it error-prone to manually count them. I think a script is perfect for this purpose but I cannot figure out how to apply counting tags to my selection. Can anyone help me?

Hi FM experts. I have received a old reviesion of framemaker files i need to update and FM crash on som of the pages not all, but it is always the same place in the documents. I have located it is every time there is an inset with a |.bmp file (maybe other cases as well). I have reset preference, updated Microsoft.net, have the latest upgrade of FM2019. There is no dumb file created. Frame Make just stop responding when I come to the specific position in the document. I can open all the pictures with no problem from explore.  I hope someone have a good hint what to do, to fix it. Thanks in advanceDavid  

Greetings,Is it possible generate a TOC for the documents that are in a Folder? By "Folder" i mean the logical container that is possible to add in the Book pane. I know you can solve this by using sub-books to a top-level book but the disadvantage with those is that, (a), you don't see the sub-book's documents and, (b), updating the top level book does not update sub-books.Kind regards,Mats

I was recently tasked to add a "page" number to each file or CARD for a manual. With 1000+ files in this FrameMaker Book, they have been placed in order to publish, but we are trying to avoid manually numbering each file in this sequence:CARD NUMBER1-001 (section 1 - file 1)1-002 (section 1 - file 2)1-003  (section 1 - file 3)2-001, 2-002, ... (section 2 - file counter)3-001, 3-002, 3-003, ... 3-684etc. In each file has multiple pages, but the page numbering is not necessary. However, the each file has multiple locations within the document that display numbers the section and card. The numbers have been manually numbered, and so it may work initially. But if files need to be moved or added or deleted, manually repairing this book would be nightmarish to say the least. I don't remember the rules for using sections and subsections, but how do you put numbering in a 3 digit container so numbers for each Card show up  001, 002, 003, etc?

Hi All,   I've been asked to debug a FrameScript.   I'm having trouble finding anything on Google ...   I hope this is the correct forum to ask this question.  What is the proper way to convert an HTML Anchor to an XREF in FrameScriptAs an example:In the html document that is being converted, there is this line<a href="./sysPicTimer.html#sysPicTimerDisable" class="routine">sysPicTimerDisable( )</a>In the resulting document, we want sysPicTimerDisable() to be the text and the XREF will direct you to ./sysPicTimer.html#sysPicTimerDisable i.e.    sysPicTimerDisable()  This is what we have - which apparently has been working for many years .... Loop While(gvPgfVar)   Write console gvPgfVar.Text;   Set gvNextPgf = gvPgfVar.NextPgfInDoc;   Find '<a href="./' InObject(gvPgfVar) ScrollTo ReturnStatus(gvStat) ReturnRange(gvRange);   If gvStat=true    &n

We currently have FM 2019 32-bit because we run help with WebWorks, which up until now only supported FM 32-bit. Now the new version of WebWorks supports 64-bit and we would like to switch to FM 2019 64-bit. What is the process for doing that? I also understand that the new version of FrameMaker supports 64-bit only, which we supposed to receive shortly. Perhaps it is best to wait until we receive it?

Hi! That's what I'm getting in my book after installing 12.04.445 on the new laptop. Numbers are all 1's with incorrect font (should be Myriad Pro): 

New corporate font Inter – always looks a bit fuzzy when output to .pdfHad to tweak a .pdf page with Illustrator this morning, because of problems with starting FrameMaker. I selected a character to delete, and noticed I had to do this twice. Closer examination shows the glyph has been rendered as two Illustrator elements: an outlined glyph and a filled glyph. (the stroke/fill indicators switch)What's going on here?

Good day everyone. My company recently updated to FM2019 from FM11. So far things are going quite well. But we have found one annoying issue.I have a document that has a paragraph with a table anchored to it. I want the text to be conditional but not the table. But when I select the text, it includes the table. I turn off the conditonal text for the table, but when I hide the original text, the table still hides along with the text it is anchored to. But I want the table to still show. Is there anyway to turn off the automatic text and table "linking" that is going on?

Is there any way to turn off horizontal orange and blue scrolling messages from Adobe that appear on the Welcome page?  

I am probably overlooking something really obvious here, but I can not make this work:I have a page layout with sidehead.I put a headline, which has been set to Across all columns and sidehead (The one saying "Tequila 30-30")I insert an anchored frame in the headline which has been set to "Run into Paragraph"Now I would like to set the anchored frames Run Around Properties to "Don't Run Around". But I get a non sensical error message (Shown above). I want the body text to flow up under the headline. But I can not make that work. But why not, actually?...

Hi, I have started working on the files that a former technical writer was using. He was using FM15,  but I am using 19. The problem is, First - when I am trying to generate the HTML 5, all the paragraph styles are showing "Auto Mapping failed". The default fonts (New Roman) are reflecting in online output instead of the fonts defined as per the branding guidelines. Whereas, in PDF, everything is generated as per the defined and pre-saved template. Any solution to that?   Second - All the images that were tagged with conditional texting for "Only Print" rule have all got removed because of some unknown reason. What can be the best option to tag all images back to the same conditioning tagging which was applied in the source for previous releases.   Basically as a whole - I want to generate the same two outputs from single soure in PDf and HTML 5 without changing anything (Style, template, css..etc)   Can anyone help me to get rid of these issues?  

Hello All, We have purchased 3 FM 2017 license via TLP 5.0. One of our staff has resigned and we wanted to transfer his license to anohter staff. Please do assit the way forward to transfer the license since we are unable to perfrom activation with the new staff. 

We are publishing a 1200-page book developed using Framemaker 2020 into PDF with Tagged PDF enabled and it gets stuck as post-publishing process and never completes PDF publishing. Note that we haven't encountered this when we were using Framemaker 2015. Also we just upgraded from Framemaker 2015 to 2020; our Acrobat is also the latest version (Acrobat Pro DC). The following are the specs of the machine where Framemaker is running:Windows 10 EnterpriseIntel Core i7 6600U @2.60GHzPhysical memory: 16GBVirtual memory: 20.5GBNote also that i was able to publish a non-Tagged PDF version but it took over 10mins to do it.

Hi,I am using the latest updates of FrameMaker and Acrobat DC on Win10.I am using the Open Sans font set, downloaded from Google.When I generate my PDF I am getting garbled font. In the PDF it is still the correct font but the stretch is all messed up.I have copied this text in from notepad, pasted as text, pasted as unicode text, and even retyped the text manually in FrameMaker. And I have done publish as PDF and File Save as PDF. The exact same characters come out mangled. It is spotty throughout the document and only happening in Body text.I can't to print to postscript because since the latest update of Frame, distill to PDF from PS gets hung on the last page. 

In FM 2019, I used the Publish feature to output to html5 Help, issue, the glossary terms are underlined blue and look exactly like the cross reference links. Is there a way to control the appearance of glossary terms in the output? Is the set up for glossary terms in a css file? Thanks for any help you may provide. -William