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Hi All,I have been developing some custom scripts for generating complex tables of contents for the airline industry. I want to generalize them into a solution that I can demonstrate to others, possibly through a free webinar. I need to find a good sample project that can be used to demonstrate the process. If you have a book with a complex TOC that would be a good candidate, please let me know. Here are the requirements: 1) A TOC or list that would be difficult or impossible to generate with FrameMaker's built-in generated file tools.2) An unstructured book that has content that could be freely shared with others via a webinar, etc. Your compensation will be a free TOC solution that you can use with your book. Thanks in advance. -Rick

I do not think this is an Adobe issue. I think this is a Windows issue or maybe an anti-virus issue.   When I try to use the Insert > Character > Character palette to insert special characters, the window is closed before I can do anything. Thanks to an old thread revived by Klaus Daube, which identified Charmap.exe as "an add-on unicode entry tool", I decided to use Task Manager to see what was happening with that executable.   Sure enough, when I try to use the Character Palette, the Charmap.exe is added to the list of running processes. And then it's removed. Something on Windows is killing this process. If I can figure out what it might be, I might regain the in-program ability to insert special characters.   Anyone have ideas on what might be killing this process? Windows 10, 10.0.17763.0 FrameMaker 2019, 15.0.4.751 (Windows updates are controlled by the IT department; there's nothing I can do about removing an update or getting it to update to the most recen

I am having huge problems pulling a table title element into FrameMaker. I have checked all the read-write rules but I cannot find the property that corresponds with the 'Title' list box in the Table Designer: the choices are No Title, Above Table, Below Table. This must be mapped to some kind of property that can be converted to an attribute via the read-write rulrs, but I have not found anything about this in the Structured Application Development and Reference guides. If anyone has experience with this, please let me know what is required. My table element is fm_table, with general rule: fm_tabletitle?,fm_tableheader?,fm_tablebody;In the read-write rules, I identified fm_table as table element, fm_tabletitle as table title element. No complaints from the read-write rules parser. But when I read an XML file that contains <fm_table [plus a bunch of attributes'><fm_tabletitle>Text</fm_tabletitle><fm_tableheader>[etc.] I am getting an error in the console st

I'm having big trouble with how to align paragraphs well in xml format. (DITA) And I'm not sure it can be aligned well as I want.   I want to separate these two paragraphs side by side as below. I don't even know how stupid the question is but know the DITA basic concept. I just want to hear from you Professionals that it is possible or not in Frame Maker DITA.   Thank you very much for reading in advance!

I've just upgraded to FM2019 and started exploring the possibilities of using XML as a source format. As a basic test I created a simple standard DITA Topic XML file, but how come FM formats the same XML file differently when saving it from different views? When saving it from the XML view, the resulting XML file gets a nice readable formatting with separated tags and indentation, but when saving it from the author or WYSIWYG views the rows in the file are compressed in some random way (based on row length?). Obviously, the more readable format is preferrable, for example when doing a "diff" in any file versioning tool, but at least I would have expected FM to use consistent formatting of the XML file. Hopefully I'm missing something simple here.

Good afternoon,I've been over and over the asynchronous client instructions in the FDK Programmer's Guide, and besides options that are not available in Visual Studio 2013, I've built my client on the same machine as one installation of FrameMaker 2019, with only 32-bit libraries from all sources. I verified that the console application works in most ways; I can perform c++ functions without fail, and I do not get any build errors when using the functions in FDK libraries, such as fapi.h. However, neither F_ApiWinConnectSession() nor F_ApiStartUp() with NULL parameters connects me to the FrameMaker process, as the IntT or ConStringT responses confirm. I've added a VersionInfo file. Registered my client in the maker.ini file. The sample client in the guide doesn't work (I built mine with most of the code commented out, and several fixes for 32-bit Windows apps that were omitted - obviously not tested). I could not find any asynchonous client examples in FDK2019 (32 Bit)\samples.So, wher

I was looking at an article by Barb Binder about Adding Icons in front of text and I was trying to adopt the concept to a similar application. In our documentation we have labels that appear at the begining of our documents (like a lot of the samples I have seen) What I am looking rto copy pictured below. I was hoping I could create a table 2 colums 1 row and in the title place a Warning, Caution, Notice, etc. label (centered) then in the left column place a coresponding pictogram and in the right column a statement I used the guide to place the graphic but I can not seem to get it to center  Barbs Example: https://www.rockymountaintraining.com/adobe-framemaker-icons/ This is what I am looking for with the addition of  this label on the top that shows in the lower left corner of the table label. Is this possible?

Hello folks,We are using FM2019 in our company, we install 8 new computer with windows 10 (1709, 1803) and FM2019 with no problem, all work fine.But in the 9th computer, we install FM2019 on Windows 10 1903.I tried with FM 15.0.2 and  15.0.4.When i launch FM, I see in the Task Manager for around1 sec : framemamker.exe and adobe_licutil.exe It's there known problem with FM2109 and windows 10 version 1903 ?

For a number of historical reasons I have a quite complex EDD that, while it works quite well, is quite difficult to maintain. When I need to make a tweak to achieve something needed, I always have difficulty working out what and where I need to make a change.While FrameMaker does provide a comment capability, it is limited to the element level. What I need, is the means to add comments at the rule level to explain what different context rules are there for. Something like the commenting available for most software languages. Are there some tricks someone might know for adding comments within the rules? I have often thought of extracting the EDD for the EDD itself and adding in a comment element, but I can't help thinking that it couldn't be that easy. 

We are having issues printing a FrameMaker 12 book to PDF using a remote desktop.  We have Adobe Pro XI.  On the remote computer it won't print at all.   Under the properties tab, there are 4 boxes, with the bottom one being the paper size.  The first 3 lines on mine are populated, but for the remote computer, we are unable to edit them to match my settings. My computer, which is not a remote, used to print a 900 page book to PDF in an hour and 20 minutes, and for the last month, it is now taking 5 - 6 hours.  I have asked if there has been a change to our systems, servers or hardware added during that time, but the person I asked said no.  He is at a different location, so he might not know for sure.  So we now have 2 issues, the remote not being able to print at all and my computer taking 6 hours to print.  Any suggestions/help would be much appreciated.  Thank you!

Recieved a mif file from a translator and the special characters in the Polish language do not show correct.I have tried all fonts possible (Arial, Arial Unicode, Arial CE)If I copy text from PDF into FrameMaker the text displays correctly. That tells me the problem is not with FrameMaker. (I could be wrong) The translator said he is using memoQ and he has tried SDL Trados 2014. Let me know if you need any other info.Please help.Thank you

First of all,Thanks for your comment for my trouble to everyone. Thanks for your goodwill, appreciate. I'm havig a troubling with discord between contents(section) and figure, after making in PDF.Such as, i was to print 'fueling pic' right next to 'Fueling' section, but it goes to next to 'Never Use Ether Starting Aid's'For easier understanding, adding pics for reference below. Thank you !! -Wrongly printed PDF Problem image -Orignial PDF image (Were to be printed like this below)

I am trying to add the section numbers and chapter numbers to the table of contents but even with adding the <$chapnum> to my numbering format in my documents. I also added the <$paranumonly> to the reference page for them to be shown and the end result is the same as below. I also tried just saving the file after adding the tags and updating the book which added a second group of TOC tags to the reference page. The layout that I am striving for would look like this:Module 1..... 3Section 1.1...5Section 1.1.1.... 7 Module 2...... 8Section 2.1 ....10Section 2.1.1 ... 12    

So here's a weird one.Let's say I made a Book and files with images, but the images are all over the darned place on the server.I'd like to gather all of the images (unfortunately about 200) and put them into a folder inside my Project folder.How would a FrameMaker Samurai make this happen?  Any and all suggestions taken, and I'm not afraid of hard work.

I am a newbie to FrameMaker and I have consumed most of if not all the free content for FrameMaker that I can find. I am also waiting for my company to order the FrameMaker 2019 bible but in the meantime I am trying to learn as much as I can as fast I can to keep with deadlines. So thank you for all the help..I am trying to figure out how to Insert an unanchored frame that I can place an image and a text frame in the image being self explanitory and then thetext box to insert a Figure paragraph style to label the image. I was doing this with just an image and text underneath it but in several of my documents despite my efforts and trying suggested solutions the spacing below the image where the label appears is super inconsistant.  If using a  table is the best option can I add tables to the list of tables in FrameMaker? The last attempt I had at this I used Format A thinking that I could create a new table format but it replaced it instead of creating a new style. 

Hi, all! As a FrameMaker newbie, I really appreciate everyone's help with my questions. I have another one for you that, like my other questions, probably has a simple answer. I have created numbering for all of my heading styles, and it was working fine until one of my sections contained a numbered list. The numbering in that list seems to have thrown off the numbering in my headings. I've tweaked the paragraph styles, but with limited success. Here is a screenshot of what I've done, and I'm hoping the problem will be immediately obvious to those of you who understand this a little better than I do. Thanks!

I want to make a line object that uses dots. All of the Line Style presets use rectangles, squares, or other blocky figures. Does Frame support making lines made of round dots?  What I want is similar to the image. For that matter, can I make a line end in a circle? I see how to put arrowheads on the ends, but I'm unsure how to make a line end in an open or closed circle.

I have many images with captions in some documents that I am writing. For the most part the captions are showing exactly as I would hope and expect. I created a paragraph style named Figures v2.2 ( a lot of trial and error with autonumbering) and I have gotten it to the point where the numbering and spacing is just about how I want it but there are a few places that I can't seem to get it right.  I am not sure what is causing this but there seems to be a page break or something beween my image and the Figure 1-4 Confirm Clear Configuration caption. Shoiwing Text Symbols doesn't shed light either. Can anyone suggest a better way of doing this? Side note I am required to have a list of tables and list of figures so I am not sure that placing them in a table would work? I included a screenshot Figure 1-3 is ideal Figure 1-4 is not.  

Hi! I am using FM2019 (without Robohelp) and publishing ditamaps to Responsive HTML5. I have a css file I would like to use and in the publishing settings I import it to "Override styles for this output" but for some reason it doesn't link the styles. the html code of the output doesn't even include the override file. Any ideas what is the problem?   Additional information: the css file was originally made for FM2015 and with that it apparently worked fine.

I just created a new paragraph style called "Note" that puts the text into a side head. If I click on the note, I keep getting a message that says "Couldn't find tag: Note." I've tried deleting the paragraph style, closing and re-opening FrameMaker, and creating the note style all over again, but that doesn't seem to help. I thought perhaps it was the "Side Head" property that was causing the error, so I went into the paragraph designer and tried to change it back to "In Column." This doesn't seem to make any difference -- I'm still getting the error message. I've done some research and found something on this happening in Structured, but I'm using Unstructured. Does anyone know if this is a bug?

I am reformatting a document in FrameMaker and now when I delete a character it turns red whit a line through it and if I add or change text it shows as green. I am unable to hide it and it does not matter what the paragraph style is the result is the same. Below is a screen shot of when I deleted a letter a and then typed the words type this in  

When starting FrameMaker 9, a CharacterMap.exe process is started. After a while, this process starts consuming approx. 50% of my CPU. Even after closing FramekMake, the process continues to run. What is this process for?

How can I tell FrameMaker to remember the changes in preferences permanently. For instance, I would like FM not to take automatic backup on save or create Lock File on Network. Now, each time I open FM, I have to set these options under preferences but as soon as FM is closed or crashes the options are back to original.

Hello everybody,I am working with FrameMaker (not structured) as a daily driver for close to 20 years since FM6 on Windows NT, right now on FM12 and Win10Pro in a corporate environment (everything is managed by IT, patches, licenses, updates etc).After getting a new hard drive and having most of my software reinstalled I ran into a strange problem.If I copy a paragraph or part of a paragraph or a table row or a cross reference etc, and then paste it in the same document even on the same page to a new paragraph, there is a 50% chance of getting unformatted text as a result, much as you would paste it as text or as unicode.Going back and repeating the copy process and paste it again - again 50% chance of it working or pasting as plain text. Same if I cut something and try pasting it. This behaviour is the same as follows:Regardless of selection, e.g. double click or mark with mouse (end to end),regardless if copied and pasted via keyboard shortcut or context menu or FMregardless if

Hi there,I want to contact Adobe to ask about License information they have on their DB from our company. Can you please point me to the right email?Many thanksMartin