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Alright folks, please bear with me... 🙊I'm completely new to both FrameMaker and scripting. What I'm trying to achieve is the following: 1. Convert first row of a table to a heading row2. Apply a specific paragraph style to all contents of the table By shameless use of copy & paste, I managed to achieve goal #1 so far. In addition, I managed to select the whole table, but then I hit a roadblock.The code snippet I'm using to apply a para style does work when I place the cursor somewhere in the text, but it doesn't do anything when the table is selected. This is what I've got so far:#target framemakervar doc = app.ActiveDoc;// Set a variable for the selected table.var tbl = doc.SelectedTbl;// Convert the first body row to a heading row, then select whole tablebodyToHeadingRow (tbl, 1, doc);function bodyToHead

In order to publish my dita bookmap as HTML format, I chose to save my dita bookmap as "Composite Document 2019 (*.fm)", then publish it as Responsive HTML5. Generally, it works well except for one issue. That is the chapter numbering, which starts from 1 in every chapter in the composite document, although under Numbering Properties, I have set "Continue Numbering From Previous Chapter in Book" and in the Paragraph Designer under Numbering I have "C:<$chapnum>." for main headings and "C:<$chapnum>.<n+>."  for sub-headings. Is there anything else I am forgetting?

I am looking to see if anyone knows where to find or if the Learning group (<learningAssessment>, <learningContent>, <learningObject>, etc.) of elements in FrameMaker 2019? We did not see them in the DITA or the element pods. We would like to use them in a Structure FrameMaker Template we are building.If they are not currently there, is it possible for us to add them?Thank you so much for your assistance from my team and myself!Edrice

I would like to know if <glossAcronym> creates an actual Acronym section/ module in a book or do the items appear in the glossary? If the acronyms are part of the glossary, is there a way to gemerate an acronym list beisdes the manual way?Thank you for your assistance in advance!Edrice

Hi,I have a problem while conversion from Framemaker 2019's  unstructured document to XML according to DTD. I'm working with FM for a short time (after InDesign) and I need to study in process.I've built EDD, imported element definitions and  made the structured document with conversion table. In structured document I see the image (and its Object properties) in the document, but in Structured view it's element attributes have no values. Should I do smth to transfer these attributes? There is the only one rule for graphics in the conversion table. Then after Save as XML, I've got <ImageObject impby="ref" entity="ImageObject1" dpi="600" xoffset="0.000in" yoffset="0.000in"    position="below" align="acenter" cropped="1" float="0"    width="3.193in" height="2.185in" angle="0.000"    nsoffset="0.000in"/> where the attributes of the source Fig element are presented, some of their values match with the values fr

I strongly suspect that I should be able to use the find method to search for paragraph and format overrides since those options are available in the find dialog box. However, due to Adobe's atrocious Extendscript documentation, I haven't been able to find the key pieces of information that I need. I did find these constants:  Constants.FV_FindPgfFormatOverride Constants.FV_FindCharacterFormatOverrideBut there's literally no information about them. There's not even a definition, so I am actually just making an educated guess. However, I suspect that I somehow need to use these constant's in the Find method's parameters. Any ideas about how to do that?

Hello All: Is there a way to disable the dragging of text and even table cell contents between cells in FM2015? This has been more troublesome than helpful, especially when authoring in structured FM. Older versions of FM did not do this anyway. I appreciate any tips.

I reloaded Frame and Adobe after my PC  rashed.  Used TCS to install and have all of the updates.  Installed as Admin. Now when I open books and try to print, I get Unavailalbe font errors.  I narrowed it down to two fonts  (Zapf Dingbats BT and FrizQuardata BT) and know how to fix it - open all files in the book manually replace the fonts with the Pods. But I didn't have to do this before my system crashed and reloaded, so something must have been set to map the bad fonts to good fonts already, I just didn't know it was happening. Is there a place where this replacement is set globally that I can edit?  I maintain about 145 manuals with over 600 files, I don't want to have to go through and open and apply fonts for every single on of them if I can help it. 

My PC recently crashed thanks to a Windows Upgrade and I had to reload all of my doc tools, includeing Framemaker 11 and Adobe PDF.  I'm using Frame 11 and produce pdf  and printing is not working now.  It is probably because I didn't restore some setting after reloading my PC, but I didn't set the PC up originally so I don't know what got switched off. The problem is for Print Book and Save as PDF, though the outcomes are different:When I select Print Book nothing happens - no error messages, Distiller doesn't start, I get  no prompt to overwrite exisitng files like I did before. I have the PDF setup to have the book marks I want and to prompt to overwrite a file, but it doesn't ask me anything.When I use Save as PDF it complains that it can't open any of my files and that they all use unavailable fonts.  I openned all and saved them with available fonts, so I'm not sure why it's stuck there.  It also forces me to open all of my files in the book bef

Dear friends,My script finally shall create a tree view displaying the heading-structure of a document.One detail is that window and tree should be resizeable.It's easy to resize the window, but for the tree to adapt to the new space I have no success.It's also a question to me, why the OnResiz is triggered before I touch the created window.Do You have any ideas where I need to change?Klaus  /* TreeViewResize.jsx ====== UTF-8 ========================================= Create a tree contents and experiment with resizing Refrence C:\Program Files (x86)\Adobe\Adobe Utilities - CS6\ExtendScript Toolkit CS6\SDK\Samples\javascript\SnpCreateTreeView.jsx Rick Quatro's DocNav.jsx */ main (); function main () { var j, k, oTree, wViewTree; wViewTree = new Window("palette", "Static (generated) tree", undefined, {resizeable: true}); oTree = wViewTree.add("treeview"); // oTree.preferredSize = [300, 200]; for(var j = 0;j < 10;j++) { // Add s

Hello,I hope someone can help me with that.We have to print our manuals not only with our cover but also for some clients with theire cover brandings.So, my idea was to put all the covers into a group and exclude them by default, exept our own one. So, if we change the content my script "jumps" into the group, saves the book as PDF with our cover. Then exclude our cover, includes the next in DFSOrder, saves the book as PDF with that cover and so on ...All other files (table of contents, content itself, ...) are in seperate folders outside that group for the covers. The cover-loop actually works, the doc.Save returnParams returns FE_Success. But we only get a .tps file instead of a pdf. With smaller book projects (3 covers with just a word each an a content doc with a few words, no table of contents, marks, pictures and so on) the script actually produces a pdf. These are the DefaultParams i try to set set: i = GetPropIndex(params, Constants.FS_FileType); params[i].propVal

I have been a frame user since fm2015.  It is like slow and steady . But recently for some years in the stc conferences and talks with the adobe management it seems that they are going to close down or replace FM. RH ???is it a complimentary or a competitor product for FM. Seems like in-house competition with all the same features!!!!!. I am so confused. Same for The new showy web editor for DITA which was demoed . There were shows for dita, RH but nothing for FM. Is adobe planning to discontinue FM ? Is there a plan to migrate customers from FM to Rh. I have tried asking this in the conferences so many times  but got no satisfactory answer. Maybe somebody here can answer and resolve my dilemma  thanks Luis

Hi All,I have a inherited a User Mauual. I have a Book and all the Chapters,  1 through 10.When I update a book, I am getting hundreds of Unresloved Cross-references. As I said before, all the Chapters are their in the same folder.Now I have to go to Cross-References dialog box (shwon below) and re assign all references again by:selecting Document (Chapter)selecting Source Type (paragraph)selecting Marker Types (section, or figure, or table, whatever)and finally selecting the Cross-reference Marker          I am not sure at what point these cross-references links got broken.Can anyone expalin that, please? Appreciate any response. Thank you.

I'm trying to search for a character style in FrameMaker - not a character tag. Someone made certain text italic without properly tagging it with a character tag. Now I need to assign a tag to the text with a specific formatting. I know I can do it without a script but I do need a script solution because I need to generate a list of paragraphs which have italic text in them. This list is needed for something else. Here is what I have so far but it doesn't find the formatted text:var doc=app.ActiveDocvar docStart = doc.MainFlowInDoc;var tloc = new TextLoc (docStart, 0);// setup find parametersfindParams = AllocatePropVals(1);findParams[0].propIdent.num = Constants.FS_FindCharFmt;findParams[0].propVal.valType = Constants.FP_FontAngle;findParams[0].propVal.ival = 5; //5 is int for Italicvar foundText = doc.Find(tloc, findParams);Can someone point me in the right direction.Thank youMichael

I am trying to convert the research doc into an HTML file. The doc contains tables, formulas, and figures. If i try to save the doc as HTML files, it fails to do that. But if I try to publish the doc as basic HTML, it converts but skips the figures.

Hi All,I have a FrameScript that adds a standard text after body text "This section lists the main changes...", but now that body text is appended with a Note (Note text "Also see the RELEASE_NOTES file in the ARM_CORTEX_A5_TLM2_LT PSP for updates since this document was published") and the script has stopped working. I am not sure how to make this script look for the Note & add the standard lines after Note. Please Help.Here is the script:Set vgBookFile = ''; set vgBookFile = args[1]; //set vgBookFile = 'FastModelfilelist.txt'; if (vgBookFile = '') write console 'No books file specified. Exiting.'; LeaveScript; else write console args[1] + 'latest'; EndIf vFileList = getFilesFromList{vgBookFile}; Loop InitVal(1) Incr(1) LoopVar(vI) While(vI <=vFileList.count) Set vBookInfo = vFileList[vI]; Set vBookInfo.mustclose = fTestOpen{vBookInfo.path,vBookInfo.book}; if (vBookInfo.book = NULL) write con

I'm trying to search for a character style in FrameMaker - not a character tag. Someone made certain text italic without properly tagging it with a character tag. Now I need to assign a tag to the text with a specific formatting. I know I can do it without a script but I do need a script solution because I need to generate a list of paragraphs which have italic text in them. This list is needed for something else. Here is what I have so far but it doesn't find the formatted text:var doc=app.ActiveDoc; var docStart = doc.MainFlowInDoc; var tloc = new TextLoc (docStart, 0); // setup find parameters findParams = AllocatePropVals(1);findParams[0].propIdent.num = Constants.FS_FindCharFmt;findParams[0].propVal.valType = Constants.FP_FontAngle;findParams[0].propVal.ival = 5; //5 is int for Italic var foundText = doc.Find(tloc, findParams);Can someone point me in the right direction. Thank you, Michael 

When using the print book feature from FM19 my team is getting inconsistent pdf file sizes.  The smaller pdf size gives grainy graphics while the larger seem fine.  What are the best settings and method to get a print quality pdf? Would a difference in Acrobat versions create a difference? 

In FM19 I have a paragraph style that uses the Courier New font. This gives fixed width characters - at least in FM and the pdf output.But in the Responsive HTML5 or Windows HTML Help output, the letters are still fixed width, but the <space> character is suddenly a little bit wider. This makes the output look a bit messy, and is also harder to read.How can I make the <space> character have the same width as the characters (letters and digits)?

I'm converting FrameMaker anchored-frame figures to SVG using the EPS-to-SVG conversion path described here: How can I save anchored frames as SVG during XML export?  However, I've run into an issue with the EPS exported by FrameMaker 2017. In an anchored text frame, the user has inserted a bullet character using the Insert > Symbols > Bullet. In FrameMaker, the text string is "•text" with a leading bullet. This text string is written to the EPS file as follows:   0 To 1.0000 0.0000 0.0000 1.0000 168.7293 78.9848 0 Tp TP /_Helvetica-Bold 18.0000 Tf 0.0000 Tc 0 Tr 0.000 0.000 0.000 1.000 k (\202\304\242text) Tx TO 0.000 0.000 0.000 1.000 K   The bullet character is represented by the "\202\304\242" octal byte sequence in the EPS. This corresponds to "0x82 0xC4 0xA2" in hex. I have not been able to map this back to any sensible encoded character. It renders as "random" junk characters in every EPS viewer or converter I've tried.The Adobe FrameMaker Structure App

I love being able to use the F8 and F9 keys to quickly select the character or paragraph tag I need using the typeahead. Why isn't there a similar catalog for variables and maybe even for conditions?    Edited to add: I liked this idea so much, I put a feature request in: https://tracker.adobe.com/#/view/FRMAKER-7847

Hello, I have a problem publishing to an HTML output. I am using Framemaker 2017 version 14.0.4.511 and have checked to make sure I have the current version (I am up to date), lastly I am running windows 10, and I have unstructured content. I have a large-ish file (about 300 pages) that I need to publish to an HTML output, I am able to publish this file as a PDF, but when I try to create an HTML format it will not run. The Distiller tool opens a progress window pops-up and then I get a second "Confirm Security" pop-up; so far all is well. Until it dies on me, The distiller window displays the following messageAdobe PostScript software version: 3018.101CID support library initialization completed.Adobe PDF Settings file read error in PDFX4 2007.joboptions:/CheckCompliance out of range Source: Pdf00001.tpsDestination: C:\Users\USER\AppData\Local\Temp\TPUBTMP9\Pdf00001.pdfAdobe PDF Settings: C:\ProgramData\Adobe\Adobe PDF\Settings\High Quality Print.joboptions%%[ Produ

Hi everyone,I have a problem: I have several individual short (less than 20 pages) docs each of which are numbered within a banner at the top of the doc:Page x of y pages (using <$curpagenum> and <$lastpagenum>).They are to be included in a book (with a few other longer chapters) that has continuous page numbering in the footer from the beginning of the book to the end, (as well as a TOC) .It might kook like this:Page 1 of 7, 2 of 7, 3 of 7 etc. but with page 234, 235, 236 etc in the footer. What ends up hapenning is the banners in the docs reflect the master book's page numbers instead.This is a very large book, with hundreds of individual files totaling anywhere from 500 to 1500 pages.Is there a way to create a book with this kind of double numbering scheme (as well as a generated TOC) without having to hard code it? I've tried turning the variables in the banner to text, but they get turned back to variables when I update the book, which results in the numbering getting

I had three books in pre-press when without warning I lost FrameMaker's support team. Instead I was referred to a foreign service that was very difficult to understand. They set me up with a complex system that bore no resemblance to the FrameMaker I'd used before. I will not spend even $1 on FrameMaker until Adobe can assure me that they are no longer dealing with a foreign company for client support. And that the workable version of FrameMaker is being sold. I was tricked once and lost thousands of dollars. I refuse to put my business at risk until I have heard from a speaker of American English who can tell me what happened and what is available to me. I also need a quick exit plan so that I can escape  before my business is ruined again. 

I did the mistake to ask two question in one (https://community.adobe.com/t5/framemaker/images-are-shrunk-in-html-and-centered/td-p/10882816?page=1), where one of the questions was answered. Here comes the second part one more time: I have just upgraded my document to FM19. From the same FM document I am generating pdf, MS HTML Help and Responsive HTML5. The document contains several hundreds of .png images. These images look fine in the pdf output, but the HTML5 and HTML Help output contain shrunk images. For example one image is 882 x 623 pixels. It has the FrameMaker object properties:Width 13,744 cmHeight 9,708 cmScaling 44,17%DPI: 163 dpi The pdf output's image looks perfect, even when zooming in. However, the HTML5 and HTML Help output contain a shrunk version of the file, which is just 522 x 377 pixels, and is a little bit too blurry. How can I keep the original 882 x 623 pixels in the HTML5 and HTML Help output? Before upgrading to FM19, I use