FrameMaker

I am printing a book to PDF, and I keep seeing extra pages.I have changed the pagination setting for Before Saving & Printing to "Delete Empty Pages", but when I click Update Book, FrameMaker changes the pagination for two chapters (of 11) back to "Make Page Count Even".Does anyone know why it is doing that? And how I can stop it?

Update 5 of FrameMaker 15 (2019) is not available onhttps://supportdownloads.adobe.com/product.jsp?product=22&platform=Windowsalthough it has been announced now for a while.This website must be maintained!

Hi, I can't get crop marks in my PDF from FrameMaker 2019 all patched up (Windows 10). I believe I have tried 99.99% of all permutations of the settings in the Marks and Bleeds tab of the Publish Pod. My document is 5.5 x 8.5 inches. I can get FrameMaker to leave room for crop marks, but can't get the marks themselves. The online help is bloody useless (Adobe, call me). Anyway, can anybody give me steps that would at least let me see crop marks in my PDF, including settings for the Marks and Bleeds tab?  Cheers, Sean

I am trying to create a template for a Table of Contents, List of Figures, and List of Tables. I am able to generate the layout that I want for all of these however, I am not able to figure out how to save it so that there is a title at the top of the first page (not in the header) that corresponds with each section. Table of ContentsList of FiguresList of TablesI have been adding these in after the TOC, LOF, and LOT are created but if I update them these titles are removed. So I am wondering how I can save a copy of each of these so that the following information is inherited each time I create a new TOC, LOF, LOT with a new book of the same format. openObjectId <$relfilename>:<$ObjectType> <$ObjectId>openXmlElementId <$relfilename>:<$UniqueXmlElementId> <$RelativeXmlElementId>      <$paranum> <$paratext>...........................................................................<$chapnum>-<$pagenum>&n

I am working in Structured FrameMaker 11, version 11.0/0/380 in a Windows environment.I'm encountering issues with the bol and bold+italics versions of the Avenir LT Std 65 Medium font not rendering when I attempt to apply them to text by using the paragraph designer. In the FM font menu, the Avenir fonts list like this:Avenir LT Std 35 LightAvenir LT Std 45 BookAvenir LT Std 55 RomanAvenir LT Std 65 MediumAs I understand it, the Avenir 95 Black font is the equivalent of the Avenir Medium when bolded. The Avenir 95 Black Italics is the equivalent of Avenir Medium when bolded and italicized.In the paragraph designer, when I select the Avenir 65 Medium font, the only available choice that I have under 'Weight' is 'Bold'. When I select 'Bold' and click the Apply button, the bold weight (Avenir 95 Black font) is not being applied. I can't apply the bold-italicized version either (Avenir 95 Black Italics).It was suggested that I check the Weightings list in the maker.ini file

I output HTML 5 of a product guide in 16 languages. I use a separate .book file and .sts file for each language. Each book file has a dozen .fm files; each .fm file is a chapter in the guide. I recently updated to FM 2019 (update 4) and the following issues occurred: FM seems to '"remember" some content from the previous book I output and includes it in the book I'm currently outputting. For example, I open the German book, output the HTML 5, and close the book. Next,  I open the Spanish book and output the HTML 5. A chapter in the Spanish HTML 5 output is in German. The errant content is the entire content of one FM file.  One .png file is converted to a black box. The rest of the .png files are fine. I closed and re-opened FM and at first it seemed to fix the former problem, so I just closed and re-opened FM between languages. But now when I try to generate HTML 5 output, FM consistently crashes, so now I can't generate it at all. I've also tried rebooti

FrameMaker 2015 cannot find the Acrobat printer.Every time that I try to save an FM document as a pdf, I get the error message in the heading above.I have Adobe Acrobat Pro DC, version 2018.011.20038. (Installed 2/25/18.)And for FM, I have version 13.0.2.433. (Installed 10/5/2017.)This was working in January. I don't know why after a couple months of not using FM, this would happen.I know that in some instances the order of installation matters.

Hi, I have a function that copy a selected graphic n-times to special places in my document.After that i delete the selected graphic.When i use the function a second time with an other grapic the gui show me the preview of the first graphic instead. It happens since FM19 in FDK and in ExtendScript. With this simple function i can reproduce the Bug:function CopySelectedGraphic() { test_run_count++; var graphic = null; var doc = app.ActiveDoc; if(doc.ObjectValid()) { graphic = doc.FirstSelectedGraphicInDoc; if(graphic.ObjectValid() && graphic.constructor.name == "Inset") { var new_g = doc.NewGraphicObject(Constants.FO_Inset, doc.CurrentPage.PageFrame) ; new_g.Width = graphic.Width; new_g.Height = graphic.Height; new_g.LocY = (15 + (test_run_count * 25))* METRIC_MM; new_g.LocX = 90 * METRIC_MM; new_g.InsetFile = graphic.InsetFile;

Scenario: about 80% of the occurrences of a variable need to be updated, though I haven't yet decided whether text or a second variable is the more appropriate. Challenge: finding occurrences!I've checked my trusty FM 7.0 User Guide, which says under About searching "You can search for any of the following items: […] Variables – that's it. I've also tried a web search, which included forum postings. I think I may end up taking my own advice and apply a colour to the variable in question so I can search by eye: but it would be interesting to hear of a more efficient way of running this sort of search.

I'm attempting to apply custom styles to DITA structured content. The product help leads me to the Customize DITA Plugin: https://help.adobe.com/en_US/framemaker/dita/index.html#t=book%2FCustomiseDita.html When I follow steps 1 and 2 above, I do see the plugin tool, but the look is completely different, see image below. What am I missing here? 

Can FrameMaker 2019 import MS Word 365 with Headings, Figures, Tables (a book) with Headers/Footers directly into Framemaker?  The format of the Headings are:   1:               Chapter Title                   Paragraph explaining what the chapter covers. 1.1             Section                   Paragraph explaining what the section covers or                   1.   Numbered List can be used below any of the Headings 1.1.1          Sub-Section              &nbs

We have a requirement where we need to convert fm files to pdf programatically. We have explored options of DZbatcher and others but wanted to know if there is any possibility to achieve that without any third party tools. Can we make a exe utilizing FDK or something similar. If yes, would like to know options on how to start with. Also, is it enough to have a single user license for the framemaker to achieve this. In our requirements, user would request for PDF using another system and so it will be always a single system who uses framemaker.

Does anybody know when is FrameMaker S1000D package getting updated to Version 4.1?

Hi All, We are working with an FM2019 document (~346 pages) that has a TOC and an index. We want to generate PDF and HTML5 outputs for this document. In the PDF output, the index is complete and lists around 200 entries, ending with the letter 'W.'  However, while creating an HTML5 output with Azure Blue theme, we get only around 70 index entries, ending only with the letter 'E.' Any idea, why the index is limited for HTML5?  Thanks in advance for your help.Regards,Apurva

In my xml file with dita topic, I have defined the width of my tables as a set of colwidth arguments, such as colwidth="30*", colwidth="15*", colwidth="55*". Each corresponds to one column where the sum is 100*. The problem is that the table expands always to the full width of the text frame, violating the border line, I have defined in the chapter output template. See the attached image where the left side of the table must start at the same column as the line above i.e. Following warning ....

I'm using Frame 2015, FYI. I have set up my file to have page number headers that alternate left and right at the top of the page, with the first page in the section having a page number centered and in the footer.When I print my file to PDF, several of the page number styles change, to where a normal page (not first page in section) has the number in the footer, and the first page has the number in the header. So basically, for some reason the PDF is outputting the wrong styles. Also, after I print to PDF, the actual Framemaker file contains the wrong page number styles, as well.I totally realize this may be a tough-to-follow post, but any clarity on this and hopefully a fix is appreciated!-Andy

In my FM19 document I have hundreds of tables. They all look good in FM and also in the generated pdf.However, having the same size fixed width tables in the chm and html5 output don't look good. It's typically either too narrow or too wide, depending on the current window size.In the Publish settings, Style Mapping, I set the Table Size attribute Preffered Width to the value 0px.This works fine for the chm files, the table width dynamically changes when I change the window size.But the html5 output is much worse. The table width is still fixed, but also very narrow. (Less than half the width in the FM/pdf.)How can I get variable width tables in both Responsive HTML5 and MS HTML Help output?  

Developer shows up at my desk, anxious about a document we last looked at four or five years ago: the .pdf has .tiff previews instead of clean vector graphics. Step 1: open the .book in trusty FM12 [why I've not been able to install TCS successfully is a separate saga] and take a look. The referenced graphics are displaying the .tiff preview, as I'd expect, but double-clicking doesn't launch Illustrator. (as far as I remember, it's still working in other .fm files) Step 2: without touching anything, run Save as PDF again … the result is a perfect .pdf with clean vector graphics. Any advice on avoid/resolving either problem will be welcome!

The function QuickSelect() should present a small drop down menu. The same kind of menu you get when pressing F7, F8 or F9.I wrote a PlugIn with the FDK for FrameMaker 2010 where this behaved correctly.result = F_ApiQuickSelect(docId, (StringT)"Please Select: ", &somestrings);In FrameMaker 2017 the same PlugIn (without recompilation) doesn't open the menu anymore. Instead it just returns immediatly with a return value of -1. FA_Errno is not set. So, judging from the return value, this looks like the user dismissed the dialogue right away. But that is not the case, there is no menu and no intereaction at all.The rest of the plugin runs without flaws. Recompilation with FDK 2017 did not fix this.The same behaviour can be seen when running the following from ExtendScript:app.ActiveDoc.QuickSelect("title", ["one", "two", "three"])The documentation and the object model viewer all say the function should be available and working.

Hi,After installing update 5 my cms Ditatoo is not working anymore. When connecting FM has to close. No error indication. When opening dita document form Ditatoo, FM gives an internal error 15054. Is there a solution or can I remove the update ? Thanks,Tobias

In order to publish to HTML, I am using dita and xml. I have a parent ditamap (book map), which includes multiple ditamaps, each is a chapter, including individual dita topics. I would like to chunk these dita topics, which as said are inside the chapter ditamaps, such that each chapter appears on one HTML page. Otherwise, each individual topic appears on one HTML page. I tried chunk="to-content" in the chapter ditamaps, as an example:<map> <topicref keyref="introduction_computed_tomography" type="topic" chunk="to-content"><topicref keyref="xray_basics" type="topic"/><topicref keyref="computed_tomography_basics" type="topic"/></topicref></map>This chunks the individual topics but the links and figures are gone. Is there a better way of gluing the topics inside the ditamap together?

If TOC entry text has superscripted text, any text in PDF file starting from that text is not hypersensitive. Also if TOC Reference Page format specification has font setting like  <$paratext> <DefPageFont><$pagenum>then the page number will not be hypersensitive. I use FM 2019 with latest patch 5. I checked some older PDF files and seems like this behaviour has been there for ever.

Hello! I have a section in my document that includes a bullet point list. I have to publish a version of the document that excludes one of the bullet points and one version that leaves it in. However, when I use conditional tags to hide the one bullet  point, the bullet itself stays behind. Is there a way to hide the bullet point along with the text when using conditional tags?

When I highlight a user variable (Table Continuation) and click edit, it brings me to Edit System Variable window. Is this a bug? I'm using Version: 14.0.3.500. Same thing happens for any user variable I try.

Hi, I have a function that gets the x-y co-ordinates of the first text character in a paragraph:function topLeftPoint(targetDoc, targetPgf) { // get loc of first text character in the pgf var firstCharOffset = (targetPgf.GetText(Constants.FTI_String))[0].offset; var txtLoc = new TextLoc(targetPgf, firstCharOffset); // get top-left Point relative to the parent SubCol return new Point( targetDoc.GetTextVal(txtLoc, Constants.FP_LocX).ival, targetDoc.GetTextVal(txtLoc, Constants.FP_LocY).ival ); } The FDK docs say that LocY gives the "Offset of the top of a character from thetop of the subcolumn", but it actually seems to get the y pos of the baseline.          Am I doing something wrong, or is the documentation just inacurate?And does anyone know how to get the y pos of the top?The best I've managed is to subtract the FP_LineAscent, but that's not quite the top 😞