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What does the FP_UseFMConsoleForErrorLog session property do? It is used in some legacy code I need to work with and it seems that it is causing a crash under some conditions when it is turned on. It is not documented anywhere as far as I can tell. I can make some guesses from the name but I thought I would ask. Thanks.

Using ALT Code 234 I am unable to print symbol for Ohm in FrameMaker. Able to print other codes like Registered mark, copyright, etc. Want to know if there is any problem with the Adobe FM software or anything else.

Hi, I am a beginner in FM (after InDesign), and I've got a problem.I'm making 2 column documents with title information going across the page. I have an article with a deceased author whom I'm to mark with a dagger footnote in the bottom of the page, placed in one column, not in the wide string. The authors' names are followed with straddled strings of their affiliations and some other. What should I do to get the footnote in the required format?Appreciate any advice

Hi Scripters, I know from Russ Ward's samples how to delete an attribute value. But how do I delete the attribute itself from the element? The attribute is undefined in the document's EDD, that is, it shows as red in the structure view. FrameScript has a command for deleting an "undefined" attribute from an element, but I don't see a way to do this in ExtendScript. Any help will be appreciated. -RickI see that the FDK has an F_ApiDeleteUndefinedAttribute() function, but I don't see an equivalent in ExtendScript.

I'm trying to save a fm file to pdf and it keeps crashing and I get the "internal error 15044" before framemaker crashes. When I scroll to the page the pdf conversion crashes on 29-30/104, framemaker crashes as well. There is an imported file on the page but it crashes before I can see what it is. I recently installed 2019 and had been working on 2017. I believe there were issues with this particular frame when converting to pdf in 2017 but it didn't crash when loading. Any guidance?

This may be an obvious question, but I can't find a way to do it........When we make changes to a document we use change bars to show where the changes have been made. Of course on the next revision, these have to be removed to add new ones for the new revision.When I select all and click off Change Bar in the Character Designer, it removes all but the ones in the tables. I have looked around, but can't find anything that removes them all. Also, sometimes even selecting the table cells, it doesn't remove them until I have hunted around in the table to see where the bar is. This is quite a process for some manuals.Can I remove ALL change bars in a document? Thanks,ls

Hello,  I have documentation for my code that I maintain in Doxygen (general description + API reference). Our documentation team working with FrameMaker so I generate an XML output for them which were imported to FrameMaker using some template file which I do not fully understand. We reached good maturity and it works well except I cannot generate internal references with a custom naming. i.e. with the XML input below :<ref refid="group__ip__class_1gaad23d5c191f1ede03638140cb21ca31f" kindref="member">actions</ref>I would expect that link text will be action, but currently, action just attached as a text after the link with link text taken from element referenced by refid. I have found many ways to control a text of link text here, but all of them as far as I understand working with target link text and do not provide a way for the custom text from the ref element. I can modify my XML in a way it's needed and can manipulate templ

Hi, I have a document where all body text is in Arial 9. I was trying to find all occurrences of a word and change it to something else. But as I pressed Change, the font switched to Arial 12. Very annoying, Why does it do that and how can I prevent it? I am using Framemaker 12 I think.

How do you change the color of the background of the topic (the entire topic, to all the margins, not just the text) and the TOC? I've had to extract the .sts file to do some customizations, so I can do that again if that's needed here. I just don't know what needs to be done.

Dear all,In a script I try to add a menu item to an existing context menu:menuLocation = app.GetNamedMenu (!TextContextMenu); oCmd.cmdDoc = menuLocation.DefineAndAddCommand (1, "ETB_InsertSymbol", "Insert special symbol [ETB]", ""); It is not a problem to do so in the menu.cfg file - but in the script it fails with error messageTextContextMenu is undefinedNote, that the ! has gone here.It seems that scripts can't add to context menus.What's Your opinion here?

Hi,Framemaker Version:2019DITA version: 1.2 The Smart Paste feature is not functioning at all. When I try using the feature, FM processes it and nothing happens.  I was trying to tweak the h2d.xsl file such that a paragraph is wrapped within <p> element before copying it to the entry element, but I reverted any changes. Please let me know if I am missing something. Thanks and RegardsAnand 

what I've got: several sets of DITA files, all used successfully (outside FM) to create both .pdf and WebHelpwhat I'd like: the ability to open the same set of DITA files in FM2019 and … generate WebHelpwhat I've found so far: File > Save as … with no WebHelp option; File > Publish with no WebHelp option.what I've seen: one tantalising occurrence of the string for WebHelp users there is something special, in the Adobe TechComm BlogSo – am I hoping for something FM can't deliver, or just going the wrong way about it? Hints and tips welcome!

My main problem is that I don't know Where (what dialog that I can make appear) I make the edit from at this stage. Goal: I am missing an attribute value for an Element titled "SafetyMsg" that I wish to add. The missing value is "WarningElectrical". The SafetyMsg element currently has an Attribute Name titled "a_Type", containing 3 values: Danger, Warning, and Caution. See pic: My issue is that I want to add a 4th value, WarningElectrical, to the drop-down list above. Very importantly, each of these values contains a framed graphic in the Reference Page (the 3 that work along with the new WarningElectrical value).Here's a pic of WarningElectrical on the Ref page (bottom menu viewable so you can see its name): Note: WarningElectrical uses a different yellow triangle graphic than the other values although its still a warning. Please list steps so I can access how to add this value to the SafetyMsg element. Huge Thanks for your time!

Hi,I have scripts that used to work, but don't work anymore. Most start with the following:function xyz(){var doc = app.ActiveDoc; if(doc.ObjectValid()==false){alert("No active document. Cannot continue");return;}...}When I run them now, the program stops at the first or second line, with the error "undefined is not an object". Why does that happen? I've installed the latest FrameMaker version AFAIK (15.0.5.838). Thanks in advance for your help!Aviva

Using FM11. How to format text with yellow box to look like the one in the screen capture. Thanks. 

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Hi,I hope somebody can help me. I need to migrate a large number of Unstructured Framemaker files to a CMS.As a starting point, we are saving all the .fm to .xml, with a script that uses the save as... XML command.Then, we created a parser to convert the XML nodes to the ones needed in the new application.The main issue is, the <IMAGE tag I got in the xml files saved by Framemaker does not have the original filename of the image as the href attribute, but a new name assigned to each image (the name of the .fm file + a progressive number). Sometimes these images are not real images.Is there a way to instruct FM to save the XML with the correct filename of the images?thanks for your replyCarlotta 

As the title suggests … I was doing my best to follow the fairly arcane instructions in https://help.adobe.com/en_US/framemaker/dita/index.html#t=book%2FCustomiseDita.html, clicked as instructed and bam: "serious problem and must quit".FM now refuses to restart, and mentions a directory C:\Users\{id}\AppData\Roaming\Adobe\FrameMaker\15 that doesn't even exist on my corporate laptop!I'm in a chat session with Adobe Support, but feel from the tone of the questions I have not yet reached anyone likely to understand the problem. Sympathy would be welcome! advice, even more so.

HelloThis is an issue I've experienced in the past, and the solution I received previously now does not work. Here's the issue: I'm working in a FrameMaker Book. There are extra pages that I need to delete a page in three of the book files. The pagination will not update. At all. Here's what I've done so far: 1) Set the pages to single-sided (the pages will appear single-sided when I print). 2) Opened the book file. Deleted everything on the last page (master page)3) Set master page usage style of the page I'm deleting to "none."4) Selected "Format, Document, Delete Pages"5) Seletected "Format, Page Layout, Pagination" then "Delete Empty Pages" in the "Before Saving and Printing" dropdown. 6) Pages are deleted in every conceivable form I can think of deleting a page in FM. 7) Right click on the file in the book and select "Numbering" then "Continue Numbering from Previous Chapter in Book." The page does not continue numbering, but maintains the same page number

It's taken a long time, both to acquire and then to install, but we've got there: I now have FM 2019 to discover, while cautiously keeping FM 2012 there to finish current projects. I've also been happily discovering DITA, without using FrameMaker, so I've acquired some new ideas.Simple question: do unstructured FM 2019 .book files support some sort of hierarchy (like a .ditamap) or are they still simply "this book contains these .fm chapters"? Now to carry on learning about FM 2019 – I have the feeling it's going to be quite a jump …

Hi,   I am facing the following error while launching Framemaker 2015. Could anyone assist?

FrameMaker 2019 We have our help files translated to several languages. Upon return from the translator, we've noticed that when a search is performed, the output displays the English file name and relative path (which we don't want because it appears in English). We expected the results to display in the language to which it was translated.Is there a setting I need to select in the Publish pod? 

Hi. I've set up a runningnhead using the variable Running H/F 2. The heading1 content that appears in the body of the page contains the chapter number and some text. I would like the running head to just include the text of the chapter title and exclude the chapter number. Is there a way I can exclude part of the Heading1 content from the running head? Example:Day 1 - OxfordshireDay 2 - Oxfordshire to BuckinghjamshireI would like to have the running head include just the county names and exclude the 'Day X -' FYI I've been away from unstructured Frame for many years and I'm having to relearn so I'm trying to keep it simple. I haven't used the chapter numbering option as I want to keep the whole of the book in a single file to avoid having to copy formats each time I make a change. I would like to avoid setting up lots of variables.This is using FrameMaker 10.

Hi, all! I've run into a problem I can't seem to solve. It seems to happen when I've inserted a table. Essentially, the paragraph mark closest to the table seems to have its own paragraph style so that, if I click delete or backspace (where the paragraph mark is at the end of the previous paragraph), it changes the entire paragraph to the new style. If I try to change the paragraph back to "Body," nothing happens. This has turned into a problem because I occasionally find that I have a space between a paragraph and a table marker (usually when I'm working with conditional text), and it seems impossible to simply backspace/delete to get rid of that space. It's a littler hard to explain so I've made this video. Unfortunately, I don't have access to a microphone at the moment, so I've tried typing each step within the video. I hope it makes sense. If you need more information from me about the problem, please let me know. Thanks.

Hi,I need to convert FM 7.1 version files to FM 2019 version files.1) I want to know is there any batch process option is available????2) When converting  to 2019 version i am getting some error mainly graphic image see the below image for your reference.If any body knows the solution, reply to this message.thanks in advance.