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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

Dear friends,Although this has nothing to do with scripting, it is equally demanding: FrameMaker Customisation…In my Enhance Tool Bars (ETB) I use flyout menus to reduce the number of buttons. There are now three of these flyouts (ETBPgfAlignPopup, ETBRulerTabsPopup, ETBPgfActionsPopup), which work well since FM-12.For example for ETBPgfAlignPopup the menu file contains <Command ETBPgfAlignPopup <Label ETB paragraph alignment…> <Definition \x914> <Param ETBPgfAlignMenu>> <Menu ETBPgfAlignMenu <Label Pgf Alignment…>> <Add LeftPara <Menu ETBPgfAlignMenu>> <Add CenterPara <Menu ETBPgfAlignMenu>> <Add RightPara <Menu ETBPgfAlignMenu>> <Add FullyJustifyPara <Menu ETBPgfAlignMenu>> The toolbar contains <FLYOUT command="ETBPgfAlignPopup" tooltip="Text alignment …"> <images base="etb_icons\text_align_left"/> </FLYOUT> I wanted to combine the cell align buttons into such a

Hi,We have some SVGs with text rotated 90 degrees. When the SVG is imported into FrameMaker 2019 (we've downloaded the lateste version) all the text are rotated horizontally and positioned in the middle of the illustration. Has anyone else experienced this and if so, were you able to find a solution (other than converting the text to curves)?We are using Corel Designer x5.  Second image is showing the SVG in FrameMaker.  ThanksG

I am running FM 2019 in parallels on a mac.  I have two documents open. I wish to import the formats from "S2" into "S3".  I did exactly what the FM instructions showed.  When I click  Import, nothing happens. I have done this 4-5 times, restarted and tried again. No joy.  What stops this from happening?

When we import an SVG into FrameMaker 2019, any text strings or objects close the the edge of the image are cut off.Usually along the top and right side of the image.Has anyone else experienced this and is there a fix?We are using Corel Designer x15 

In my FM19 document my heading2 paragraph style has Indent 6 mm. Looks great in the pdf output.However, in my chm output I want these headings without any indent at all.I've tried adjusting different Publish Settings/Style Mapping attributes for the paragraph style, but without any success. What can I do? 

Due to recent events, our department has all gone remote. For FrameMaker only, we have setup a virtual machine on our local server and VPN into it remotely. I've installed and updated Frame (most current version/update). I can use it fine for all of our book files. Another user who opens a particular book file has immediate crashes upon opening. I can open the file fine. Any ideas why that might be? Since it's the same Frame installation, on the same machine, the only differences I can think of have to do with user profiles or user profile stored files, such as temp files or local caches. Is there a particular path I might explore to find/delete possibly corrupted files? Error logs, perhaps?

Hello! I am trying to render a book file into a PDF using "Print to PDF." The book file is not recognizing required fonts that are installed on my laptop. I've checked with our IT rep, and the fonts are correctly installed. The error I am getting in the console is "<Font Name> is not available." And, it says "cannot open "<File Name>." When I remove that file, it moves onto the next file and says it can't open that file name.  Each individual file in the book prints correctly. I've tried to remove the files and then add the files again. That didn't work.  I've created an etire new book. That didn't work.  I've deselected "Rely on System Fonts Only. Do not use Document Fonts" in the Adobe PDF Document setting. That didn't work. I reselected. That didn't worl.  I've deselected  the"Remember missing font names"  box in "Preferences" popup. That didn't work. I reselected. That didn't work. I did this at the book level and a

Dear all,When a selection contains the ¶ mark, then the TR.end.offset is 0. If i manually reduce the selction to not contain the ¶ mark, then I get a reasonable value (e.g. 279).How can I programmatically reduce the selection? I have tried the following, but this does not work#target framemaker main (); function main () { var TR = app.ActiveDoc.TextSelection; if (TR.end.offset == 0) { $.bp(true); // this provides a huge end.offset, not a reasonable value TR.end.obj = TR.beg.obj; TR.end.offset = Constants.FV_OBJ_END_OFFSET; } }

I've created a Mini-TOC and it is including an additional line at the bottom. This is a basic Mini-TOC that includes Heading 1, 2, and 3. I have verified there are no headings of these types at the end of the chapter that have no text associated with them. Any ideas on how to remove this or if it can even be done? Thanks! Ken