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Hello fellows, It appears that when setting up the FM Publisher HTML5 dynamic filters, FM replaces a dash and a slash in the condition flag names with underscore. Any way to avoid that? Tried html entities for dash and slash - no luck. Thanks,Roman

I am a newbie and seeking help dealing with widows and orphans in FrameMaker 2020. Can someone point me to easy fixes or a tutorial somewhere?

... But there should be at least 40 issues listed.What happened to the tracker???

I use QR codes in my printed documents to point to online user guides that I generate in Framemaker. But if the url changes for some reason, why can't I edit a QR code that I generated in Framemaker. That option is always disabled when I try to use it? Any help is appreciated. 

Hi! I have a ditamap which I have opened after rearranging my xml folder and file hierarchy. The ditamap doesn't allow to insert new topicrefs as siblings of other 1st level xml files or a s child of the ditamap itself.Only an error message appears saying "Element definition doesn't exist or element is not valid at this location".I am able to place xml files on the fist level by adding them to lower levels first and then moving them up in the hierarchy. Anybody has any idea what causes this or what have I done to break my dear ditamap? (Other than reorganised my file locations.)

Hi all,   I have 2 books, both created in FM2017 and converted both to FM2019. When I 'save as pdf' one of them, the generated pdf doesn't include any bookmarks. The problem doesn't reoccur in the second book.   I made sure the bookmarks box is ticked under: Format->Document->PDF Set Up   What could be causing the problem?   Thank you,   Vicki

Hi thereI seem to no longer be able to generate PDFs from FM 2019. I think it because I cancelled a free trial of Adobe Acrobat , I  was able to generate PDFs before my trial, and it appears that both Reader and Adobe PDF Creation 2015 are still on my PC. Any help greatly appreciatedthankskeli 

Hello All,I am working with a structured parts manual that has the standard graphic figure followed by a table structure that uses XML. One of the elements in the table cells contains an attribute with a change number. These change numbers vary and are carried from previous changes to still show the change bar until a revision is done. I am using this change number with the high choice building block in a variable on the master page to put the highest change number within that page (as the attachment implies) in the footer. It's working great except for one thing; it puts the highest change number on all pages of the table. It doesn't appear to know where the page breaks. For instance, if the table runs into 3 pages and there is a change 6 on page 2 with a change 2 on page 3, all 3 pages say change 6. Has anyone worked with this variable and have any insight as to how this can be remedied? Is scripting the only answer? I have searched for weeks for any documentation of it other th

I have a 63 page publication. I added a few more illustrations and listing them as Figures. Performing the "Figure Title" Numbering goes well until Page 27 when the numbering resets. I inserted another "Figure Title" on Page 26 and it numbered correctly (Figure 7-9). But insetting the Figure Title on page 27, it resets to "Figure 7-1". I have tried every trick trying to get this to work, besides rewriting the publication. Please, can someone tell me what could be the issue? Last Framemaker Version I used was 5. So, I am fairly new to 2019. Thank you!!

Hello Community!I'm using the ESTK Ver. 4.1.23 and I cannot get the Object Model Viewer for FrameMaker 2019 in the browser window?Any suggestions?Thank you!Sam Tomanio

Hello, I am trying to import an rtf into an unstructured Framemaker 2020 file. In previous versions of Framemaker we could click to import 'other format overrides' but I cannot see this option in Framemaker 2020 - the Advanced dialogue box in 2020 offers removal of manual page breaks and empty paragraphs. I see it mentioned in the 2020 help - but cannot see the option when I import (Eg the line spacing for some styles in my Framemaker 2020 document is set to 9pt, but when I import I get 17pt. All styles are affected.) Any help gratefully received. Apologies, I know I must be missing something obvious! 

Frame 7.1 Solaris (Frame 9 Win7 available).Although the manuals I work on are print-published only in grayscale (600 dpi bitmap, actually), we make them available on the web as PDFs (which could be in color). At some point in the future, we may publish in color (probably using Xerox or HP laser engines).For recent works, we've been using color, where convenient, and just leaving it enabled in the PDFs. For lack of a more compelling model, the color space chosen is sRGB. Those users exposed to color are most likely viewing the PDF on a computer, or printing it on their own inkjet or color laser printer.A portion of the color content is graphic panels for DANGER/WARNING/CAUTION/NOTICE, and representation of product decals and labels of those same hazard classes.The dominant market is U.S. domestic, so we follow ANSI standards for these admonishments. The ANSI standards include color specifications (ANSI Z535.1-2006) for safety notcies. The colors used in our manuals are only Red, Orange,

I found this info in the Adobe Technical Communication Suite (2019 release) Installation Guide Set-up.exe --silent=1 -uninstall=1 -sapCode=FRMK -productPlatform=win64 -codexVersion=15.0.0 -deleteUserPreferences=true When i run this from the command line it has seems to be doing something and shows a progress percentage. However, when the it is done with exitcode:0, FrameMaker is still installed on the system.   I have also tried the uninstall command from the registry but cannot get it to go silent. "C:\Program Files (x86)\Common Files\Adobe\Adobe Desktop Common\HDBox\Uninstaller.exe" --uninstall=1 --sapCode=FM --productVersion=15.0.2 --productPlatform=win64 --productAdobeCode={FM-15.0.2-64-ADBEADBEADBEADBEADBEADB} --isNonCCProduct=true --productName="Adobe FrameMaker (2019 release) 64 bit" --mode=1     Any info on how to uninstall this silently is appreciated.

Hi,   Just for those who work with FrameScript or ElmScript. Elmsoft published an update which works with FM 2020. You can download it here: https://framescr.com/wb/downloads.html   I had installed their beta version for FrameMaker 2020 which had expired a few days ago. Now the official update did not add the correct path in maker.ini. I had to change this manually in c:\Program Files\Adobe\Adobe FrameMaker 2020\maker.ini   Best regards   Winfried

Here's an oddity.   I use a Unicode typeface (Source Sans Pro) that has a fair number of glyphs in it. Yesterday I wanted to add the "Heavy Check Mark" (U+2714) to a document, and it came in as "??". Applying a number of other Unicode supporting fonts didn't change that, either. Strangely, the regular Check Mark (U+2713) worked just fine. Not the look I wanted, but I can live with it.   I just thought it odd that FM couldn't display the glyph at all. In fact, there are a lot of glyphs in that section that FM can't display. 

I'm trying to wrap an xml element within a fm element. The Dev Guide describes how read/write rules could unwrap, rename  elements,... but nothing like wrapping an element. Is this possible to do with r/w rules when reading an xml file?

HiRecently we have had problems with pdfs generated from Framemaker 12, edited in Acrobat, uploaded to a web portal, and then opened in Google Chrome browser. Only the first page is shown, the rest is blank.  The reason for why I think the problem is Framemaker is because I have the latest version of Acrobat and Chrome but an old version of Framemaker. So some change might have made them incompatible. Has anyone else experienced this? Or anyone has a solution?One workaround is to download the pdf first, then open it, or open it in another browser, but I get people error reporting on this all the time and I can't tell them one by one how to open it.  

Hi Is there a way to automatically add periods at the end of a sentence or paragraph when ENTER key is pressed?

how do i preview .fm files as same as high quality pdf ? (mainly graphics)Im using Framemaker 2019 version Thanks in advance

I am working with an Index. What I want at the top of the page is to show the text from the first GroupTitlesIX on the page followed by a dash and the text of the last GroupTitleIX on the page. For example, if the first GroupTitlesIX on the page is A and the last one is E, I want to see A–E at the top of the page.   Unfortunately, what I'm getting is A–   The master page is set up using two different running header variables:   Running H/F 10–Running H/F 11   Running H/F 10 is defined as <$paratext[GroupTitlesIX]> Running H/F 11 is defined as <$paratext[+GroupTitlesIX]>   Am I missing something, or is this just not possible to do?

Hello there. I'm using FM2019 and when I tried to convert XML and SGM format to PDF, it doesnt work. I opened a XML or SGM file and press "Menu - Save as PDF".Then a pop-up showed up and said "PDF successfully generated" while in the background the console said "Cannot save C\Users\[user name]\Appdata\Local\Temp\[file name.tmp]".Then I cannot find the PDF file anywhere and when I press the "View PDF" button in the pop-up, nothing happens.I uninstalled Adobe Acrobat and FM 2019 and reinstalled only FM 2019 but it didn't solve the problem.Also I tried everything the solutions in the help pages but the problem stays.So PLEASE HELP!!! I currently work in Windows10 64 bits and no Adobe Acrobat or Distiller. Thank you. 

I'm brining a batch of FrameMaker 8 files into FrameMaker 2015. When I am done I will need to archive the updated files and make MIF - or the equivalent - from the new files. What is the process? Thanks.

Hi all,I'm converting a bunch of files from FM 8 to FM 2019. When I open the FM 8 files in FM 2019, the images that were imported and copied into the FM 8 files are corrupted and appear as gray boxes in FM 2019. I don't have the source image files to import by reference into FM 2019, so I really need the images to survive the conversion to FM 8. Any suggestions? (PS The images that were imported by reference are fine, of course. The paths are retained.)Thanks!

Dear Framemaker community. I have a big problem with that, I spent a long time researching and couldn't find a solution. I don't know how to find too long words in tables, too long for a column width. It's not about a text overflow in table cell. I already scripted that. Here are a cells that are not overflowed in normal classic way. FM just breaks too long words into pieces without any warnings. I know I could hyphenate these places but I would love to know how to find these first. If you just give me a little clue how to find these places, I could script it for my needs, big thank you in advance! Les

I am building a small catalog in FrameMaker 2020. It is a product catalog and I create a separate fm file for each product. These files are then imported into the catalog file. When I import the product file I get an option to use the stylesheet of my catalog file and map it with that of the imported product files. This works fine for paragraph and character properties, but less so for object properties. It seems that FrameMaker does not do any mapping when it comes to object properties tags.Am I the only one to experience this?