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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

In my FM19 document I have external web-links in dark grey, and the cross-references are black. Looks great in the PDF.But in my HTML5 output they both come out as solid blue, and underlined - which isn't what I want. (Looks like a time travel to the 1990's.)I tried to set the character style color in the Style Mapping, but the output still has blue, underlined links/cross references. 

ERROR MESSAGE: The document was saved to a temporary file, but FrameMaker can't rename it to have the correct name. The newer version has an odd suffix.I had this problem with Framemaker 9 and never resovled it. What is the problem? I can't see buying Tech Suite 3 with this problem still out there.I need a resolution.

I have a script that was working perfectly, but no longer does. I'm wondering if a recent update from FrameMaker might have changed/broken something. Did any property names change? I have 2019, version 15.0.4.751. The full script is below. Basically what it does is read through the body pages looking for paragraphs with a specific paragraph tag. The paragraphs may or may not be part of the main flow. If found, it adds a newlink hypertext marker. However, now it doesn't only look at the body page; it picks up items from the reference page, too. Also, it's missing some of the paragraphs it's supposed to work on.  Has anyone else experienced this? The script is a huge timesaver for us, but the last two documents I've run it on, it's skipped all but one paragraph that it should have added the newlink marker to.--------#target framemakermain ();// Check for an open documentfunction main () {var doc;doc = app.ActiveDoc;if (doc.ObjectValid () === 1) {processDoc (doc);}else

In my FM19 document I have paragraph styles which are in black color. In my HTML5 output I want one specific paragraph style be orange instead. I have edited the paragraph style mapping to use the new color:But in the generated HTML5 output, the characters are back in black. How do I keep the orange characters all the way? 

We deliver our user documentation as chm files in our windows distributions. (Somewhere between 5 and 10 chm files, depending on product.) I use FM19 to generate these chm files, and they are checked in into our subversion repository.We have decided to switch from chm to Responsive HMTL5 in the next version of our product.But today I discovered that the number of files will be around 6000!I can't check in that number of files. And I'm not sure the windows portage guys will accept that many files.Any idea how to handle 6000 files?  

Hi there, I found a few posts in this forum that explain how to get an old custom workspace into a new version of FM by copying the .cfws file from C:\Users\[username]\AppData\Roaming\Adobe\FrameMaker\[versionNumber]\WorkSpaces for the previsou version into the corresponding folder for the new version.  But it's not working for me. I copied the cfws file from ...14\Workspaces\UnStructured\WYSIWYGView to ...15\Workspaces\UnStructured (There was no WYSIWYGView folder), but the workspace doesn't show up in FM 2019. Can anyone give me tips on how to troubleshoot this? Thanks.

When creating tables via a MIF file, how doI create an exception to the table title of an existing table tag. The point of the exception is to populate the table title with info from the database.It is a numbered table title. I intend to create the MIF file via a script. I'll be using 2 MIF files to create my FM file. One MIF file will hold all the template info. The other MIF file will hold all the tables in the <Tbls> as well as a simple text flow calling each of these tables.  The following syntax is not working for me. What am I doing wrong? <Tbl<TblID 11><TblTag `Register'><TblTitle<TblTitleContent<Para<PgfTag `TableRegTitle'><PgfNumString `Table 1:\t'><ParaLine<String `Text Name'>> # end of ParaLine> # end of Para> # end of TblTitleContent> # end of TblTitle<TblH #this is the Header Row<Row<Cell<CellContent<Para<PgfTag `Cell Head'><ParaLine<String `Bits'>>>

Hi all,in our application we set printer to our internal PostScript driver and print FM files to PostScript. It works but sometimes we got the dialog "The font information for your system has been changed. This change may affect the format and output of your document(s)." This stops our operation and we need to click OK to continue the operation. Is there a way to disable/supress this dialog programatically in FDK or by some FrameMaker settings ? Thanks for replies.

Hello,A couple of days ago, I started getting this message for some of the files in my book even though nothing really has changed (no upgrades, just bringing in simple .gif files).Thoughts on this?thanks!Elo

How can I solve this problem? Thanks 

Hi EverybodyHow do I insert Simplified Chinese characters in to a manual? I've tried word and .txt docs, then, but Framemaker doesn't recoginze them: it just displays a series of very angry confused questions marks.  Thanks! 

I put in a Feature request a while ago asking that the BookComponentMIFWash.dll file be made part of the default FrameMaker installation since it was so useful.   I just received notice that it has been moved to "In Test", so it looks like next release, people aren't going to have to find it in the scripting examples, move it, or edit the MIF file to include it!   Edited to add: This is nowhere near as flexible as Rick Quattro's script for saving between multiple versions of FM or MIF, but it is useful for people who need to run a book through a MIF wash.

I am moving to a new laptop. My old laptop had Windows XP SP 2, FrameMaker 8.0p277, and Acrobat Distiller 8. I had 2 Zapf Dingbats fonts that worked fine on my old laptop (ZapfDinbats and ZapfDingbatsStd [OpenType]). However, on my new laptop, when I try to install the ZapfDingbats .pfm version of Zapf Dingbats, I get a corrupt font error. The new laptop has the following applications: Windows XP SP 3, FrameMaker 8.0p277, and Distiller 8.0. Other people on my team have downloaded and installed this file without any problems. I've done some reading on the Forum about this issue. But I haven't found a solution to my problem yet. Would someone please help me? Someone mentioned a bios setting without any particulars. I'm wondering whether I need to do something like that here.

I am using Adobe FrameMaker 13.0.1.385. I want to delete a reference frame (graphic frame) from a reference page. When I add a graphics frame on a reference page, I am prompted to name the frame. When I try to name it, an alert appears: "Graphic frame named [XXXX] already exists." How do I either:Delete the existing reference frame name?Apply an existing reference frame name to a newly created graphics frame? Where are reference frame names stored in FrameMaker?Cordially, Michael Carlisle

The element boundaries (tags) are not visible even after enabling the tags. Is there any specific reason why the tag couldnt be enable for a sing fm file in the entire book? Or is there any option that could help to enable the element boundaries (tags)???