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Dears, Hello, recently i've strated to learning conversiontable for effective workflow as using it. However, due to my lack of knowldege, i think i wrongly wrote command on the first col of Conversion Table. The purpose that i want to embody is, put the body elements into body element.(Important thing is, i want to control it freely, such as, if the document has three level of each headings,(heading1, heading2, heading3) only wrap heading 1 and 2 sites. Morever, i've read many times of FM guide - 4 Conversion Tables for Adding Structure to Documents, but only found hierachy leveling is only happnes when Para and Table elements are exactly placed. (It can be my misunderstanding, wrong, and lack of knowldege.) Anyway, if there is a posiible command for putting elements into one element as using conversion table, may you please comment it for saving me? I know it will be super difficult to explain in just words, however, it will be turuly helpful for me!

Hi all, has anybody of You ever used the FrameMaker Project feature?I try to use the Project feature in FM 11 and encounter very dumb behaviour:There is no Open > Project. I need to open the project file in the file systemUsing Open and the set the type selection to FrameMaker Project does not yield any results:There is no means to create a new folder (to put in various stuff) if there are already Locations defined. If I just use the Create Folder button then the folder is created in currently selected location (if locations exist, one is always selected).Even in a yet empty project it is not possible to define such a folder, the button Add Folder is inactive then.The only means to create such a folder is editing the xml file while the Project window is closed (see the first location):  <?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?> <project> <location name="FM-files" src="FM-files" isCloud="0"/> <location name="ETB-icons-256" src="..\ETB-icons-256" isCloud="0

I'm using FM 2017 with ESTK 4.5.5.I've been having issues trying to unwrap an element via scripting. I can do it manually using the Element->Unrwap menu which tells me the structured document is OK. Here's the code  #target framemaker var flow, root; doc = app.ActiveDoc; flow = doc.MainFlowInDoc; root = flow.HighestLevelElement; var eRange = new ElementRange; var th1st = root.FirstChildElement;// thead var th2nd = th1st.NextSiblingElement; // next thead var charFmt2 = th2nd.FirstChildElement; eRange.beg.parent = charFmt2; eRange.beg.child = charFmt2.FirstChildElement; eRange.beg.offset = 0; eRange.end.parent = charFmt2.FirstChildElement; eRange.end.child = charFmt2.NextSiblingElement; eRange.end.offset = 0; doc.ElementSelection = eRange; doc.UnWrapElement();  As the snapshot shows, the code above successfully selects the element I want to unwrap, but doc.UnWrapElement() does not have any effect when it's called.  Any thoughts on what

I recently upgraded to FrameMaker 2019. When I open up a FrameMaker document locally, all graphics appear fine. If I open up the same document from our network server, the graphics do not display. Now here is the odd part, even though the graphics do not display from the network server, if I PDF the document, the graphics do appear.Any ideas?

I need to make a table with 2 columns but with only one row. I do not want to split the row, and the problem I'm facing is that I have a long table to make and if the content in longer than a A4 page the cell does not go automatically to the next page (like it automatically does in MS Word) because the row continue below the ancor frame and therefore it is not visilbe anymore. Does one of you as a trick?thank youXavier

Dear all,For my compendium book (17 chapters, about 500 pages) I decided to change the format of cross reference from <1-highlight><$paratext></> on page\ <$chapnum>\+<$pagenum> to <hypertext><1-highlight><$paratext></> on page\ <$chapnum>\+<$pagenum>  So that the appearnce changes from this   to this  I changed the format in the first file of the book and imported the Xref formats to all other files in the bookAll files in the book are open.I updated the book multiple times, but the appearance does not change.When workin on a chapter new cross references appear of course in the new format - but I need to change others manually: Double click; Replace.I'm not certain whether this is standard behaviour or a new fault in FM-15.0.5.838 

Dear all,This morning I successfully set up a WebDAV connection to an example server, described the process and imported files from the server.Then I set the computer asleep and later waked it up.For a while I could import graphics from my system, but suddenly the import dialogue (or the New document dialogue) quit and FM terminated without error message or dump.For the open files there were *.lck files left and fortunately also autosave files.Since then I can not use File > New > Document or File > Import > File anymore.Neither restarting FM nor restaring Windows 10  helped.There are no files or folders in $HOME changed (checked modifaction date to be of today).Nevertheless I will re-install FM and see whether this helps. This becomes tough!Have re-installef FM now.Start FM 15.0.0.838CTRL + n briefly displays the dialouge, then ZOING...Will restart Windows again.

I've posted about this topic before (twice already now). Responders have been successful in helping me previously by either having me right-click the file problem chapter in the book and selecting "continue from previous chapter" or selecting "Don't change page count" when selecting the "pagination" option. Now neither of those work.  I had to delete a couple of empty pages in a book file. The first file ended at page viii, but I had to delete page vii and viii because they were empty. The next chapter still starts at page ix, and it needs to start at page vii. Here's what I've tried so far: 1) I open the file. I click Format\Document\Numbering\Chapter tab\Continue numbering from previous chapter in book, click set. That doesn't work. I right-clicked on the file in the book. That didn't do anything 2) Right-click on the file in the book. Select "pagination." Select "Don't Change Page Count". That doesn't work. Open the file and perform the same action. That sti

Hi All,I need help with a text extraction algorithm. Given a string of text inside a larger string, I need to extract a string of a certain number of characters with my given string in the middle. I am going to illustrate it with some nonsense paragraphs, but hopefully it will illustrate when I am trying to do. Here are three paragraphs with the given text "zzzz":123456789 zzzz 1234567890 1 zzzz 12345 6789 1234567 1234 6789 12345678 zzzz 1I want to extract 10 characters with the "zzzz" in the middle. If the "zzzz" can't be in the middle (as in the 2nd and 3rd paragraphs), I still want 10 characters. So, here is the result I want:89 zzzz 12 1 zzzz 123 678 zzzz 1Of course, there could be instances where the overall string contains less characters, but I want to set the maximum extraction to a specific number characters (10 in this case). So, given the overall length of a container string, the length of the target string and its position in the container string, and the number of total ch

Dear allAt using-file-gt-package-fm-2017-14-04-511 It's claimed that things work as designed.As designed ???It turns out, that the packager alsways creates a ZIP of all book files, even if i have only 1 file of this book open and will make a package for this one file... [FM-15 aka 2019]I have tested just now in a new FM session, just opened this one file and packed.Even if i (temporarily) renamed the book file it found all the stuff and made a huge package.In another directory, which does not comprise a *.book file, i can 'package' a single file.Back in the directory with all the book files, I created a MIF from one of the files, removed all statements concernt BookComponent - neverteheless the packager finds all the stuff I do not want to be included...Have no copied the single file and the sub-dirs requied (graphics) to another drive and tried there:The ZIP file containsa subdirectory raphics (jes, g is missing) and the file orking-1.mif (the initial w is missing)A second attempt wit

Looking forward to giving FM another chance handling my DITA files … so I've duplicated a whole set of topics and daringly opened the .bookmap.The good news is, it opens! but now I'm immediately puzzled by the interface. I was hoping for a toggle between file name / topic title, like the one for an unstructured FM .book. All our topics deliberately use short filenames where only the prefix is intended to be human-readable, precisely because the file always contains the title.Any hints on how to display title and file-name so I can navigate efficiently?

Hello.I meet a problem while making a structured FM file. I use the conversion table with such rules:E: ((Para | Figure | MediaObject | Table)*, Section1*)        BodyE:Heading, (Para | Figure | Table)*                                      Section1While conversion (Structure current document) I receive such a log file: Structure Document ReportMessages…Expected "|", "&", or "," connector not found:"[E: ((Para | Figure | MediaObject | Table)*, Section1*)] [Body] []". What does it mean? Where does it expect to meet these connectors?How can I generate "Body" element which may begin with part without "Heading" and not wrapped by "Section1"?Thank you for any advice

Hello,we are having problem with one of our company´s font (czech language font) which is not diplayed correctly in Adobe products (FrameMaker and Reader). Screenshot with not correctly diplayed font and screenshot with error is in attachment. Letters are displayed as a big dots. In FrameMaker there is problem, that PDF could not be generated cause of this font. Error message from screenshot:Can't find or create font "...". Some of the letters could not be displayed correctly or printed correctly. In MS products it's diplayed correctly. 

Hello,I'm exploring the way from unstructured FM document which is made according to the requirements of the publisher to XML file adequate to the predefined dtd.So I've built the EDD, convertion table, r/w rules, another dtd for "save as xml", xslt transformation file, structured application definition.When there are figures or tables in the source doc, I place them in separate anchored frames. After "Structure current document" command the content of these frames appear structured in other flows.How can I insert them (not manually) to the main structure?Appreciate any constructive input.

Hallo,FrameMaker 2019 (64bit, strukturiert) ist abgestürzt, was vorher schon hin und wieder vorgekommen ist, insbesondere wenn man in der Betriebsart "Strukturiert" eine unstrukturierte Datei öffnet und dann etwas in eine strukturierte Datei hinüber kopiert.Was neu ist: Fm startet nicht mehr, das Startfenster erscheint zwar kurz, aber nur bis beim Fortschritt "Doc Preferences" angezeigt wird. Hat jemand eine Idee außer neu installieren?Beste Grüße.

Working with a test document set that behaves correctly outside FM, I've run Update references on the Structure View. The console now mentions four DITA+FM errors (topicref with empty href attribute).Not a problem in itself, as I can guess what's happening … but as an aid to resolving problems that's not much beyond SharePoint's "Something has gone wrong"! How do I find my way from the console message to the topicref that's throwing the problem?

The FM book model seems obvious and comfortable, just like DITA maps … but while using a "mere" text editor, I've suddenly realised there's something I don't know how to do in either structured or unstructured FM. Imagine some keen-eyed editor tells you "your capitalisation of Aardvark isn't consistent!" I can point a text editor at the directory and run "search in files" to get a list of all files where Aardvark occurs plus a list of all occurrences per file. (sorry, no source files with aardvark …)I can point my current DITA IDE at the files and get a list of all files where Aardvark occurs.But with FM, all I can do at the moment is find where the first occurrence of Aardvark is in all the files referenced by the book.Tell me I'm missing something!

Pushing the boundaries of scripting here. I am trying to retrieve conent that is currently hidden. I can find the marker showing hidden content and through the corresponding markers I can find the content on the hidden page, but setting the text selection to the hidden page and using Doc.Copy gives an error -59 (bad selection for this operation). Does anyone have a clue how to get to the hidden content (without making it visible - as that will cause lots of layout changes that need to be undone later). Thanks Jang

Hello, Is there a way to share a FrameMaker book that neither causes conflicts in the source file (or locking), nor is unable to be viewed as a copy elsewhere? We saved a copy of the book, and sent it over to another person, but they cannot view any of the .fm files within the book. Below is the message we get when we try to play around the copied file.  We are concerned to let the other party have access to our source file because it locks the other person working on the document out. It's not clear how what we are trying to do is possible, which does not seem a likely occurrence because there should be a functionality to save a local copy that is editable without changing anything in the source file. Thank you.

Previously I generated chm files from FM using WWP and HTML Help workshop, and the toc had no heading numbers. Like:  Recently I've switched to FM19 and generates the chm files directly from FrameMaker. The same toc now looks like: How can I skip the numbering here?  The headings are numbered in the body pages: 

Hi,I am trying to register the framemaker service with somename to use the same in FDK Asynchronous script. I use the register command with /progid option and /auto option to automatically start service if not started. The register command open framemaker and executes successfully. After that when I use my client program then it always says no connection to the new process created.It works till yesterday. But due to some reason I reinstalled framemaker product again. Since then this issue started. I have attempted this multiple times to register different names. Any idea on what I am missing here or is there any limit on number of registrations or ?. It seems very difficult to clean all registry keys it creates during registration

We upgraded to FrameMaker 2019 from 2015 (unstructured). Now when we open our files, all of the anchored frames that we had imported gif files into at 133 dpi are not displaying the image. Only a dotted line where the referenced graphic should be displays. This did not occur with past upgrades. Did something change with the new version? Is there a simple solution to fix the issue? Lynette Schwend

Hi,I am working on a structured document and intend to use the following numbering style. 1.1 (A:<$chapnum>.<n+>\t) [Style1]1.1.1(A:<$chapnum>.<n>.<n+> \t)[Style2]1.1.1.1 (A:<$chapnum>.<n>.<n>.<n+> \t)[Style3]a) (B:<a+>)< =0> \t)[Style4]and i) B:<r+>) \t[Style5] Only style 1 2 3 are suppose to be nested and style 4 and 5 are nested. Problem is Style 4 doesn't reset even if :Style 1,2 or are on different number. It keeps following the previous letter.Similarly Style 5 also doesnt reset. Please help.        

Normally the anchored frame around an imported graphic is just a placeholder for that graphic. But in one of my current projects, a set of small graphic files is represented in a table that explains usage for each of the symbols depicted. The customer wants to have the graphics displayed in the middle of the cell, not at the bottom or top. Normally I would make the anchored frame as large as the table cell and align the graphic inside that anchored frame. But the anchored frame information is lost when writing the DITA file to disk. This might be a behaviour of the DITA client or something that cannot be done in FM. If anyone has experience with this and knows which combination of read-write rules and other settings are required, let me know. I could write a script to correct positioning of the graphics in the table but if some settings can do the job that saves me a bunch of time. Jang

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