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I am writing a DITA document. I am trying to change the color of the Note element choice "caution" text from black, which is the default, to red. I've tried changing things in the commonelements.mod, but with no luck. I know you can do this. I am not a programmer, so it would be helpful to have it explained in a step-by-step manner.ThanksRobert

Is it possible to create a template with all the traslations say for 15 languages. I have all the translated text.When I open the template and want to read it in a particular language, I just selesct the language from drop down and all the content/sections in the documnets changes to that particular language.Can I do it with FrameMaker, MS word does it but have to create drop downs for individual segment of the document.  Can anyone suggest any application that does this sort of thing.Thank you.

I'm banging my head against the wall right now, it seems.I have a Frame book that contains docs with some very large images.When I print the book to pdf without changing any settings, the pdf is ~7.5MB in size.However, I need to general a copy that is < 6MB (max size for loading to a particular site).Last night, I managed to hit a setting that, when I generated the document, created a 960KB pdf. Yay!The problem now is ... I didn't record the setting that I changed (I'd tried various options) and it was very late at night when I did it. Thus... now I can't remember what the setting was. I've gone through all the print setup and pdf setup options I can find, and cannot significantly reduce the size (the smallest I get now is ~7.1 MB). In a nutshell (too late), if I were in InDesign I would generate a webready file. I need to know how to do that in Frame -- and I *know* that it can be accomplished with a *single* setting. But I just can't find it. Can anybody point me in the

What's all this about – all the ditamaps I've made so far (outside FM) simply have a <title>, so I'm curious as to what these elements are for/do, and frustratedly curious about how to set/select/define them. The on-line help … doesn't, really:<booktitle>The <booktitle> element contains the title information for a book, including the library title, main title, subtitle, and other titles (as required).

"Applying transformation... DITAVAL file not found. Check if the DITAVAL file has been moved."Of course it's not found: I've never asked for one.  I occasionally use .ditaval files in my usual DITA environment, but I'm pointing FM19 at a small set of clean files where no conditions have been set up or applied. Even the interface understands that.What do I do next/ what am I misunderstanding?

It's probably obvious, but I can't find anything in the Help to explain what these two highlighted columns are for. Nothing ever appears in them.   

I am using FrameMaker 2019. In the PDF output of my table of contents, the heading text, dots, and page number area all clickable and take you to that heading in the PDF. In my list of figures and tables, only the figure number and table number is clickable. The dots and page number are not. The reference pages appear to be set up the same way, and I have enabled the option to create hyperlinks in the setup for each list file. Suggestions? Thanks!  

I am in the same boat with the TOC. It will not generate and the one that was there before will not pick up the two chapters I added since inheriting the book. I tried generating a new TOC but the formatting is wrong and I cannot seem to import anything from the existing TOC that has the  correct formatting. I am not a Frame guru either so this is frustrating at best. I am not even sure where I am going wrong at this point!

Hi all,I have a text inset that needs to be placed after a heading and is the only content in the section. When I insert the inset, there is always an extra paragraph tag after the inset. When I click on the inset, this tag is included in the selection but the tag is not present in the inset .fm file. Is there an updated solution to this problem for Framemaker 2019? thanks,Elo

Hi,After using Unstructured Framemaker for 7 years, our file directories have become very disorganised, with documents containted in Framemaker books scattered across multiple folders and images referenced in documents equally scattered across multiple folders.We want to reorganise our Framemaker Documents and Referenced Images. However, we've found that doing so, messes up the reference paths to images and document references in the book. We're talking in the region of  30 plus Framemaker Books, each containing 10+ documents and referencing in excess of 1000 images.Does anyone know of a way to move framemaker documents and referenced images withour having to redo all the image and document references? We're currently using v2017, but is just about to upgrade to v2019.

Dear all,I have opened one of my pdfs in Acrobat and klicked on a Flash object. PDF gives me this advice:For some of the flash objects I want to present in pdfs I do not have a source, from which I could produce something else. And an object like the Swiss Railway Clock can not be replaced by a video (but by Java, JavaScript etc.)Do you know of any converters Flash → ... which provides a format suitable for pdf embedding?

I'm having difficulties especially with the Symbol Font Family. I'm following the standard steps of converting an unstructured document, ie, first generating the conversion table from the document itself and, then "Structure" -> "Utilities" -> "Structured Current Document". However, the converted file has all the "Symbol Font Family" characters as Times New Roman.  Is there an automatic way to tell FM to preserve the Font Family of each character? PS: Tried to upload fm files, but this page keeps telling me the file wasn't fm. Thus, I'm uploading snapshots...

I need to sort fm files in a FrameMaker book files in alphanumeric order or maybe even in a specific order. Is there a utility/script which allow me to do that?/bjørn

When I publish Repsonsive HTML5 the resulting index.html file contains the following meta:  Exposing the "C:" drive is not allowed in our application. How do I remove this from the published file?

Some of the tables in the Responsive HTML5 output has broken borders.FM19:  Output:As you can see there's a part of the border missing in the third row (BIGINT), between first and second column. What can I do to fix this issue? (The pdf output looks perfect.)  

I have a number of videos, both MP4 and FLV, that I want to import into a Framemaker 2019 file. Every time, regardless of the selected format, I get an Unknown File Type box that asks me to convert from the format of the file I've selected (e.g., if I import MP4, it asks me to convert from MP4, same with FLV). How do I import without converting? Since Flash player is going EOL, I need to use MP4 so that customers will be able to view these videos in the PDF output without depending on Flash.

I am currently using structured Framemaker 12 and it seems that the options to exclude a file from a book or to import formats from a template to a composite file, are missing. Is there a workaround to address this issue? Thank you,Marian

Hello Everyone! I'm trying to add a body text frame on a right master page to place a date on the body pages.I made a Date paragraph tag and give it a date flow. The issue I have is that I can only enter text on the first body page.   When I cut/paste the text frame onto the body page it works? What am I missing? Thank you in advance!

It's been many years since I ran into this problem … so I've completely forgotten the answer :-}New set of corporate colours, with definitions* including CMYK. I check them by filling a rectangle in PhotoShop – perfect match with the sample document. I define a new colour in FrameMaker (FM12, if that makes a difference) using the same CMYK values and get a visibly different colour.What's the trick for getting the same results from the same values in both environments? (and PhotoShop has to be the reference) * full set: CMYK, RGB, hex, Pantone (number not recognised by FM12), RAL

How do I create a Table number and Title that matches the auto-generated Paragraph number and the Paragraph title entered by user?

I have just filed FRMAKER-8737Replacing a rectangle object works as expectedImporting into an anchored frame or a graphic frame scales the image to 1" x 1" independently of frame size. Location within the frame depends on frame size...

I use the same description in different documents. The description is in an FM file that I import in every file that needs it.When I publish an FM file containing another FM file, the result in HTML5 is not good. Some images are replaced with another image that happens to be a part of the imported text (and that text is turned into an image!?).Here are screenshots of the rendering of the imported description in the HMTL5 output of an FM file containing that text. As you can see, the first image is correct but the following images are like a screenshot of the beginning of the imported description (text + image + a large blank space).Do you publish HTML5 from FM files containing other FM files? Do you have that issue?Do you have any clue on how to solve my issue?Thanks! (in the squares are the images in error)

Hello FM Community!I'm a bit of a newbie to FM and have only been using it for about 6 months. I just completed updates to an existing textbook that is about 600 pages. Our partners would like to also offer the book as an e-book. What are the steps I need to take to accomplish this? Thanks in advance for your help.

HiI want to create a package in Admin Console, unfortunately the FrameMaker application is not available in the selection...I have purchased enough licenses.  

This is not about a real problem, which hinders our work - nevertheless I hope i get some comments.In FM-15 (2019) a maker.ini entry was introduced: ShowNewWindowsDialogs=OnWith the intent to use the standard Windows dialogues for import, open, save as. Now I have observed that on my Windows 10 system even FM-10 uses the same Windows dialogues as FM-15 does.Switching off the maker.ini entry both in %appdata% and in $HOME for FM-15 has no effect at all.But i can remember that on Windows 7 (beginning last year) FM-14 dialougs looked differently...My open, save as and import dialogues are this for FM 15 down to