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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)???

We are looking to transfer purchased scripts to a new laptop as the one they are on is faulty. Is this possible and if so how??

Hi, all - I'm creating a 14-chapter FM2019 book, and for some reason, FM is misinterpreting several Chapter files as being created using earlier versions of FM (e.g, FM 11, FM 2017). This is the first time I've seen this issue, and I can't figure out why it's happening - I have multiple versions of FM installed on my desktop PC, but they weren't running, and no Chapter files were downgrade-saved as earlier FM versions. It's possible that a lengthy directory name where the files are saved might be problematic, but we've never had an issue like this occur since we installed FM2019 at my company. Any guesses would be greatly appreciated. Thank You! 

I'm on my third laptop in two years. I had to replaced both other laptops because they kept crashing and I did not unlicense FrameMaker first. I need to install FrameMaker 15 on laptop #3. How?

With well over 1,000 .dita files under my belt working in another environment, I thought I'd give structured FM another try.Quick question from this afternoon's experiment … an Insert Child / Sibling > topicref dialogue that blandly defaults to an empty list of .xml files requires three extra clicks every time I try to select one of my existing .dita files. This will swiftly become tedious. Is there a way of setting the preferences so the default file-extension for this dialogue is .dita? or even 'All DITA documents', which is already an option for the File > Open dialogue.

I am using structured FM 2020. To create my content, I use xml format and DITA. In the xml files, I can set the xml:lang attribute to the language of that topic, e.g: <topic id="bla bla" xml:lang="de"/>, where I set the language to German. Now when I open the xml file in FM, the Language under the Font tab in the Paragraph Designer remains English, ignoring the xml:lang attribute. It means I have to manually change the Language to German.Is there a way to tell FrameMaker spell checker to choose the language which is set in the xml file using the xml:lang attribute?

Hi All,I have edit font name to "AnsanaUPC" and save file FM 2015 (Type Structure) after save and reopen file it appear font name same as before (original font name) it look like cannot update font name in some place.For open FM to non structure it can show as normal. My environment:- Windows 10 Pro 64bit- FrameMaker 2015 Can you please help me solve this? Thank you. Best regars,Charl.s

While teaching a FrameMaker class last week, I noted things about the Fm interface that have always sort of annoyed me. (I seem to do this about every year and a half...) I turned them into a post, complete with images and links to the corresponding Adobe Tracker posts I made. Check out the items I noted in both standard and structured Fm. If you agree with me please take the time to click on the link(s) and vote for the issues. It's always important to "vote up" things that can make a difference, and it feels like the engineering team is open to some quick fixes right now. SPOILER ALERT: I’m planning on an update to my Working with Content Fm reference book soon, and would love to get these UI elements tightened up in time for that next version. See https://techcommtools.com/ui-requests-for-framemaker/ for the post, complete with images. Here are the individual issues I submitted: Unstructured UI Suggestions Relabel Page Layouts to Master Pages When using

Hi all, We have a number of writers still on Frame 11 and we have inherited some templates created by someone who has since left the company. They used FrameMaker 2017 (I think) to create the templates. My question is, if I buy a Frame 2019 license, can I modify and save these templates in a format that can be used by the Frame 11 users. Unfortunately there is no motivation to upgrade these users to a later version at this time 😞 Thanks in advance, Louise.

Hi All,I need some understanding related to Track Changes features.In my FM Document I have Blue Bar on the left of text that I can not get rid-off. See Image below.Track Changes menubar is not much of help, since I do not have good understanding of it.I tried to find comment, enable, disable, accept, reject, next, previous but nothing happens. Appreciate any insight that you may have in this matter.Thank you.

Hi, I am using XSLT to transform some XML for import into FrameMaker. I need an entity or character in my XML that will import as a FrameMaker tab character. I tried \t and 	 but they both come in as a single space. Any help would be appreciated.

FM11 / DITA 1.2I'm trying to set up my EDD to automatically add translated autonumbering text to a top-level header. More specifically: in my English manuals, for paragraph style Head.0, I use the autonumbering text Chapter <$chapnum>:We translate our manuals into 21 languages, and I want to use the power of EDD to automatically translate the word Chapter based on the xml:lang attribute in the XML. I also want to specify different fonts for some of the languages that don't use the Roman alphabet, but that's probably a separate question (and getting this answered might help me figure that out!)I have written rules in my EDD like this: (These rules are under the <dita> element in the EDD)Format rules for first paragraph in elementIf context is: [title != “”]Use paragraph format: head.0If context is: * < dita [xml:lang = “en”]Numbering propertiesAutonumber format: Chapter <$chapnum>: Character format: ~HeaderGrayElse, if context is: * < dita [xml:lang = “bg”]Number