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Hi thereI'm working on a very simple project with FM 2019: 1 page with 1 table using the default style "Format A".The paratag "Cellbody" has "Cell vertical Aligment" set to "middle" and it works in Framemaker. But when I export to responsive HTML5, FM sets the css vertical-align property to "top"..td3 {width:72.000pt;border-top-style:solid;border-top-width:1px;border-top-color:#000000;border-right-style:solid;border-right-width:1px;border-right-color:#000000;border-bottom-style:double;border-bottom-width:3px;border-bottom-color:#000000;vertical-align:top;padding-left:6.00pt;padding-top:3.00pt;padding-right:6.00pt;padding-bottom:3.00pt;} Am I missing some point? Is this a bug?Thaks a lot for your time   

A number of our FrameMaker files were moved from their original location, (lets call it folder A) on a network to (folder A\1). All of our graphics are linked to a separate network location from the FrameMaker files.  When the files were moved it appears they broke the links to the graphics. Is this normal? This will force us to relink all the graphics.Second question is when/if the FrameMaker file is renamed and moved back to its folder A, will the links be restored? 

Dear all,Just to tell what's all possible in FrameMaker (15.0.5.838):I wanted to use my ETBdocNav to get t he navigation panel - but for a particular file it reported that there are no heading paragraphs in the document. Of course there are plenty of those visible...With the following script #target framemaker main (); function main () { var oDoc = app.ActiveDoc; $.writeln (oDoc.ObjectValid()); var oFlow = oDoc.MainFlowInDoc; $.writeln (oFlow.ObjectValid()); var oTframe = oFlow.FirstTextFrameInFlow; $.writeln (oTframe.ObjectValid()); var oPgf = oTframe.FirstPgf; $.writeln (oPgf.ObjectValid()); } only oDoc is valid, all other objects are reported invalid.A MIF wash did not helpSaving as very old did not helpJumping in the miniTOC to the nearly last heading showed me a page with missing 3-D object and missing Flash object - then FM quit with dump.For the reconstruction starting with the template I needed to restore an older version to get these two 'strange' objects.The

I work for company that uses FrameMaker extensively. We have a complex structured application that automatically swaps RGB values of colors when producing color or grayscale versions of .fm files. As a result, we often get hundreds of color inconsistency messages on the Error Console resulting in long file update times. It would best to disable error reporting for inconsistent colors. Is there a hidden setting for the maker.ini file to ignore color error messages. We tried setting ShowErrors=Off but that has no effect. Is there any other way to control the console error messages?

I am working in FrameMaker 11. After importing a file, there are blank pages appearing at the end of the file.Any ideas as to why this is occurring and how this can be fixed?

A third party created a template for us and entered some sample (nonsensical) text in the Title and Subject fields of the File Info dialog. When I delete that information, click Set, and close & save the file, the deleted information comes back when I reopen it. I can't get rid of it! Any suggestions would be greatly appreciated.

I'm trying to create a script that will remove color definitions other than the default plus our corporate colors. I'm thinking some kind of "while" loop to go through the doc's color list, matching it to an array of named colors.I see that there is a Color object and methods such as Delete(), but it's not coming together for me.Any help would be appreciated.

In Structured FrameMaker 11, I am trying to get 2 tables to align, and have not been able to resolve it. Any suggestions as to how I can get these tables to align?  

I am trying to un-install FrameMaker 2019 from Control Panel and I am getting the message "Administrator privilege needed to proceed with the install.  Please click Retry to install again after providing the necessary permissions (Error Code 24)".  I have also tried running the command listed here https://community.adobe.com/t5/framemaker/filemaker-2019-silent-uninstall/td-p/10454737?page=1  and get the same error.  I don't care if the install is silent or not. According to my search online Error Code 24 is that I cancelled the install, the user account being used is in the administrators group on the computer.

I have a problem with the autonumbering. I have a format that simply counts up usinga simple <n+> tag ( [T:Fig. <n+>:]  and used in tables). I have various files combined into one book and NORMALLY it would count up when using the same format across the files in the book (i.e.counting up from the the last value in the file previously listed in the book). I have tried everything I can think of: cleaning up the formats catalogue, changing the paragraph setting in the book settings for each individual file, restarting FrameMaker, restarting the computer, fiddling with the format itself, importing the formts from the file that goes before and more – n will just not behave and I am at my wits' end and getting really annoyed. I doubt that throwing the PC out of the window will help.I am using the latest FM version on a Windows 10 Pro.Any ideas anybody?

I have installed license Frame Maker 12 in my home laptop and when I try to save as pdf file I get the error message as follows: 'internal error 12004, 17691988,17692282, 20622517 Frame Maker has detected a seroius problem and must quit". A fiel named "C:\Users\Sharmila-PC\AppData\Roaming\Adobe\FrameMaker\12\FrameLog_20.40.10_18.03.31.txt" has been generated which contains information that may help Frame development improve the product for future releases" But could not found any such file logs. I could not find the AppData directory. When I got the above error, I tried to uninstall the software and install again but still it gave the same error when I tried converting a frame maker file as PDF. My laptop is installed with Windows 8. Could you please help me to sort out this issue. Appreciate your immediate response.

Hi All, I want to change the settings of CSS rule definition file for Framemaker 2019. This command is located here: Publish > Responsive HTML5 > Setting File > Edit > Style Mapping > Paragraph Style > [select paragraph style to edit] > Edit Style. Clicking the Edit Style button displays a pop-up window "CSS Rule definition for p.FM_[name of the selected paragraph style]." Please see the attached screenshot. How do I scroll on the right for viewing and editing the various settings?Am I correct in understanding that the effect of the changes in .CSS file can be seen only after the HTML5 output is created? Is there an easier and more direct way to edit the CSS file and view the result? FM2019 installed on another computer shows scroll bars to view the complete CSS rule definition pop-up window.I am running Win 10 with the latest updates and a fresh FM 2019 installation of version 15.0.0.393. I normally have 125% scale for fonts (old age approaches...)

Hi, I am saving a series of ditamaps to Composite FrameMaker documents. Is there a way to apply an XSLT stylesheet as it does the conversion from the ditamap to the structured Composite document? Thanks in advance.

To make clear what I actually mean: By default, Framemaker 2017 seems to prefer square logos only. In the Publish settings for Responsive HTML5 the logo can be defined but not its aspect ratio/size of the container containing it. (Publish > Edit > Responsive HTML5 > General > Manage Layout > Edit > Header).Our company logo however isn't square and so I wanted to widen the "logo" Div-Container that can be found in the index.htm file (<div class="logo" data-attr="title:@KEY_LNG.HomeButton">). The corresponding CSS is to be found in the layout.css file in the \template\Azure_BlueResponsive_HTML5 folder (we are using the Azure_Blue screen layout):div.header div.logo {                     background-color:transparent;                     cursor:pointer;   

I am having trouble getting the edited sts file to work. Last month, I unzipped it, made a minor edit, re-zipped it, changed it to the .sts file extension and it works fine.This week, I copied the working sts file and made a minor edit. Now, I can't get it to work. When I select this sts file from the Settings File drop-down in the Publish dialog box, the message "Failed Parsing Setting File" appears. It fails even if I simply unzip/rezip the working sts file. No changes to the contents of the Settings file, just unzip, rezip and it fails.  Maybe it's something about how I'm unzipping/rezipping? I might have done it differently a month ago. Do you change the sts file extension to .zip before you unzip? Do you use the zip or 7z utility or something else to unzip? To re-zip?  I've tried all variations with no luck. I'd appreciate any help! Under a deadline...of course!FYI, FM 13.0.2.433. Creating HTML5 ouput.

I have a bunch of scripts in my startup folder and each one creates an Object that contains its constants and functions. For example, a script may have: // Create an object. var CP = CP || {}; // Add a constant to the object. CP.PT = 65536; // Add a method to the object. CP.applyPgfFmt = function (pgf, name, doc) { // Method code here... }; My question: Is there a way to get a current list of these objects from ExtendScript while FrameMaker is running? Thank you very much. -Rick

I have a book that includes about fifty chapters. In each of those chapters, there are numerous cross references to a file named UM6411, which is not a file in the book. We are in the process of creating a new document set using the all the files from the old book, but the file previously named UM6411 needs to be changed to UM7411. Of course, this breaks all of the cross references to UM6411 in all of those fifty chapters. Is there a way to globally change the source document for the cross references from UM6411 to UM7411? The content for now is identical, so the headings that the cross reference link to in UM6411 are all intact in UM7411. I know this can be done through a tedious process of saving each file in the book to MIF, then searching and replacing UM6411 with UM7411 in Notepad. However, as I mentioned, there are at least fifty files in this book, and there will be a need to do this in several other equally large book files. 

Continuing my cautious experiments with FM2019 as a tool for structured authoring … I now have four topics and a bookmap that references them.Each of the topics is valid, according to FM, and saves to .pdf correctly.Structure > Validate is greyed out for the bookmap, but in another environment the bookmap generates a .pdf with no errors."Internal error 15054: FM has detected a serious error and must quit." Repeatedly. I realise these internal error codes are sybilline, but can anyone think of any well-known gotchas I need to be aware of when trying this simple test? Thanks in advance!

Dear all,In Problems with fly out menus (FM-15)  I found that the flyout button becomes active after switching the workspace back and forth to the ETB work space.BUT: The active state disappears at the close of FrameMaker. At the next open of FM (various closing scenarios) the buttuns are again inactive I need to switch WS to get them active.Saving the WS before closing FM does not help. There are absolutely no messages concerning this in the console log.Only the newly defined flyout commands are affected - but I can't see any difference in their definitions to the old ones which do not have this problem. See the whole configuration file (as it appear in the user area - do not exchange it with your existing one for test, toolbars and icons would also be needed).In 'sections' [etb Flyout Commands] and [etb Flyout Menus] the first three work as intended, the other two are the new ones which create the problem.  The corresponding Tool bar statements are:Table tool bar<FL

I set up  japanse font as MS PGothic   But, When I make PDF, font is changed (MS PGothic-> 바탕 )   "바탕" is korean font. it support some japanese font  I think this make font error  Converting FM file to PDF, Framemaker do not use my style information It use "바탕". If "바탕" does not support japanese character. Framemaker use MS PGothic Does anybody know this problem           

When generating the .chm file directly from FM 2019, how can I get the .hhc file? It's needed when merging several chm files into one complete documentation set. (Some of chm files aren't even FM generated.)  

After having resolved the crashing problem when I close FrameMaker 2019, I am now having the issue that after having renamed the preference folder, I had to completely redo my workspace. When I save the workspace, it resets my preferences in the Paragraph, Character, and Table Catalogs. I want to see used things first. I can no longer do that, if I save my workspace. Same result for any other option I pick in the catalogs. Saving the workspace just reset it.I just reset the workspace, and now that is magically fixed. Please fix your software. I should not have to save, then reset to get my chosen settings. This wasn't a problem in FM 2015. How did the devs manage to build this bug into the software??Please read what's written here before responding. Better yet, please just fix this.

Hello,I'm exploring FM further and meeting new misunderstandings.I'm to make an XML according to predefined DTD from initially unstructured FM file.I've built the EDD, convertion table, r/w rules, another dtd for "save as xml", structured application definition.My xml file contains repeating elements (affiliation, citation, table, figure) which must have unique IDs. I need figures to have IDs "Fig1", "Fig2" etc., citation items - IDs "CR1", "CR2", etc. and these IDs are the attribute values for "internalRefs" elements that "frame" the references in text according to the number of referenced object (but they are not real cross-refs in the sense of FM but only a description of refs).How can I do this?I think it is about the help topic "auto-generating of unique IDs for attributes".I defined the auto-generate rules (and unluckily only for one type of objects) but I failed to apply them.I wrote the config .xml file but how does it work and when?

Hello,I'm new to FrameMaker, using 2019 version. I've inherited a old project, and everything is going well except that I can't edit the content in the Cover page .fm file. The first page has an image and the second a frame with text. I can't access the image on the first page or the text on the 2nd page. thanks!Elo

Dear friends,This really happend on April 1 and since then I was uncertain what to do against this problem.I wanted to extend my Enhanced Tool Bars (ETB) with a button pup-up menu for the case changes (lower case, UPPER CASE, …)I added a script defined function for "Sentence case"The button was there, but it did not become active.At that time I did not have a solution for the inactive button (see Problems with Fly out menus)I started typing in my documentation about this ETB enhancement.But when it came to enter a lower case u nothing happened, even "un" was digested and nothing appeared in text. So I entered text by using the U and then ALT+F1 to make it lower case.Finally I discovered a magic word, which I could not enter completely: "undefined". Whyle typing this the cursor did not advance on the screen.After having solved the problem with the inactive button I discovered this in the pup-up menu: u n d e f i n e d at the place where the command short cut becomes visible.Oh yes, I do