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I'd like to be have the page numbering skip a file in a book, for example, so that the page numbering in file 3 continues from the last page in file 1. I know that sounds odd, but I can't rearrange the files because I need the paragraph numbering to be continuous through all three files in that order. Can this be done?

At some point while formatting a document I insterted a page break... I think and now after editing the document I am left with an odd un-natural gap in text I played around with the pagination and I enabled text symbols to see if I could figure out what was causing this and at this point anything I have tried is not doing anything for correcting the issue.

I have been experiencing problems with HTML5 generated by FrameMaker. When I open a Fm book and generate HTML5 from it, the HTML5 is OK. But if I then edit a .fm file in my book, update the book, and regenerate HTML5, then the output HTML5 does not give me the content from the edited .fm file but the pre-edited .fm instead. Odd.   If I then save my files, close FrameMaker, re-open and regenerate HTML5, all is OK. Odd.   Furthermore, I have found that the problem seems to depend on whether I am logged into my company laptop as myself or as a temporary user (temporary user has been set up to be the same as my own user login). But I find that: my own user login gives me my HTML5 issue; yet the temporary login does not. Odd.   Also, I have discovered that, with my HTML5 problem condition, if I rename the .fm file that is not properly been shown in my HTML5 output, and then update the book and  re-generate HTML5, then the HTML5 output does

Windows 8.1, FrameMaker 2015 13.0.5.547When using the Equation pod suddenly most characters (Calculus, Symbols, Relations) are displaying as normal characters instead of symbols. No fonts have changed on my desktop to my knowledge.FrameMaker does not report any missing fonts. When I export the document(s) to PDF the equations do display correctly.I have tried purging preferences and font cache and FrameMaker still displays equation characters incorrectly.Tried uninstalling and reinstalling FrameMaker, no difference. Equation editing and display is normal in Microsoft Word but I do not know if FrameMaker uses the same font. Any suggestions would be appreciated. 

Hi allIt's a very simple question but I'm unable to find a solution. Is it possible to move the "Title 2" under the image without insert line breaks manually? The anchoring position of the image frame is set to "Run into paragraph".  I'm using FM 2019 unstructured and pdf output.Thanks a lot

Hi, For one of my clients I must use the font Forgotten Futurist. FrameMaker does have a problem with that font. After about 100 trial and errors (each time FrameMaker closed immediately) I found out that the single apostrophe sign was the culprit.Does anyone recognise this problem? Maybe a solution?Gert Zwart, Technisch Consult Zwart

I could really use some tips on re-creating a cover page that was originally created in Word. A version of this page is used for seven different manuals for similar products, and I currently have a single book for all seven manuals (using conditional text). Because some of the information (such as logos, variables, contact info, etc.) doesn't change across manuals, I'm thinking I can just put a lot of it into a "CoverPage" master page. The information that does change (including a couple of jpgs of the product) will go into the body page, with conditional tags. Does this make sense so far? If I'm making this more difficult than it should be, please let me know! I have learned enough of FrameMaker by now to be at the "knows-enough-to-really-screw-things-up" level. My main question at this point has to do with how I create the "header" text at the top of the cover page. There are logos, plus a line, and the text above that line has several different font sizes (so I can't

(also posted to techshoret) My apologies if I'm asking something trivial. I haven't used FrameMaker for a while and am not yet familiar with the most recent versions. Problem statement: We have a User's Guide for a product that has multiple (~15) different flavors so we have that many guides. I would like to unify them into one guide with conditional text.The basic format is the same for all flavors. The main difference lies in sections containing lists of parameters and their values; these change with each milestone of a flavor.Whenever a product is built, the build process generates the relevant lists. These are then manually copied into the document for the specific flavor (a rather painful process). Each "flavor" requires several builds in the course of a year, so the tech writer needs to do all this around 50-60 times. Engineering will provide me the information in whatever format I want (or so they say), and will place it in a drive that I can access. My plan is to

Hi All, I have a document open in FrameMaker. I want to save a copy of the document, while leaving the current document open. So, instead of Save As, I want to do Save a Copy. Has anyone done this with the FDK or ExtendScript and will share some code. I see some FDK options that may relate to this: FS_RetainNameStripe, FS_SaveAsModeName, FS_SaveMode. I can play around with these but was hoping someone already figured this out. Thanks in advance. -Rick

I have a four-page chapter in a book I'm working on. This book applies to seven different products, so I have conditional text for each of those. There are quite a few product-specific tables in the manual, so if you are viewing the conditional text for all products at once, my little 4-page chapter becomes a 22-page chapter. Everything was worked fine until today, when I had to create a new "NarrowMargin" master page to accomodate a 16-column table that needs to be there for five of the products. I specified that page 4 of the body pages should use the NarrowMargin master page. Page 4 looks good. However, if I'm viewing the document for only one product (i.e., I've hidden the conditional text for all other products), I now I have 18 blank pages following page 4. I can delete those pages easily enough (Format > Document > Delete Pages) but they come back as soon as I switch to view the conditional text for a different product. I hope that makes sense. I suppose I d

Hi All,I am trying HTML5 outputs in FM2019.My Mini-TOC looks great in PDF but not satisfactory in HMTL5. Where is the setting that allows me to set the text colour, font, dot leader, underline etc. for Mini-TOC in HTML5? The following 2 screenshots are of the PDF (that I like) and the HTML5 (that looks very amateurish).  Thanks in advance for your help, RegardsApurva

Hi All, I have a structured FrameMaker document the wraps Table Continuation variables in a <table-continued> element. When I save the individual document to XML, the element is correctly closed: However, if this document is part of a book and save the book as XML, the element is not correctly closed and the XML parser reports an error. Any ideas why I am getting this behavior? Thank you very much.-Rick

I am trying to set up headers and footers in a new document, and I want to have a single line above the text in the footer.Here is a master-page view of the footer without the line: Here's what it looks like when I click to add a single line in the frame above the paragraph (using the paragraph designer). Out of curiosity, I clicked to add a double line above the footer and got this:(The vertical line in the middle of each image is my cursor.)Does anyone know what might be going on here? This worked fine in the header (when I used the paragraph designer to add a single line below the text).Thanks! UPDATE: I realized after posting that, if I scroll down and back up, the footer text appears on the page. The extra line is still there, though. Here's what it looks like when I've added a single line above the text:

I create a workspace, I save it. After a few days, the workspace disappears - including the worksapce I saved. Again, this is AFTER SAVING the workspace. There is nothing that I know that i am doing that is causing this. Any ideas? 

I was able to connect to our SharePoint repository and use the Check out and Open feaure. But, when I save the document and try to check it in, the check in option is greyed out. (Cancel checkout is also greyed out.)

Hey everyone! I'm having issues with my TOC that's being generated. It's three pages long, and the first two look just fine. However as you can see below, the third page is just not right and we can't figure out what's going on/what's causing this. We've tried regenerating, deleting and creating a new one, and replacing the file with a different working TOC, but nothing works. Also, if you delete a line from the second page (bringing up a line from the third page), it formats that line correctly if that makes sense, so we know it has to be something that's wrong with the third page itself and not specifically the content on that page. Anyone have any ideas??  

We recently upgraded to FrameMaker 2019. I create chapters that can be several pages long, however, I frequently need to create PDFs for only a portion of that chapter and I need to name that section according to the heading. For example, I have a 20-page chapter and need to create a review PDF for pages 10-12 and name that output Widgets Counters. The name of the Frame file is Widgets. How do I do this? So far I've seen videos and posts on using the Publish feature which would be great if I needed to publish the whole chapter quickly, but we frequently need to send sections of the chapters out for review. We've been using FrameMaker since about 2003 and have always been able to use File > Save as PDF, enter the File Name, click Save, and then select the page range in the PDF Setup dialog. How can I do something similar to this? Cleaning the output up (i.e. deleting the pages that don't need to be reviewed) in Acrobat Pro is a cumbersome workaround.  Thanks! Ken

Hello,I'm trying to add some space between the title and pagenumber in my TOC but it just won't work. If I look in the reference pages, it to me seem correct. <$paranumonly> <$elemtextonly>...................... <$pagenum><$paranumonly> <$elemtextonly>....................... <$pagenum><$paranumonly> <$elemtextonly>....................... <$pagenum> However, it looks like this:3 Konstruktion och Funktion 33.1 Radiolänkenhet 3Anslutningar 43.2 Antenner 4 Is this not correct as there are already tab stops in the reference pages? Just can't get this document to work.There was no need to add tab stops to the reference pages as it was created by FM in the setup of the TOC. There seem to be different tab stops in the reference pages and the body pages so is this correct? I tried adding another tab but no matter how I try it'll only add space between the title number and title. Thanks!

I have a document that I imported into FrameMaker with images. The images in the Word document are perfectly clear but are hardly visible in FrameMaker Document. I have not tried printing these yet however, I am skepitcal when they look so degraded in the document. I have always gine by the garbage in garbage out philosophy but this seems backwards..   

I need to revise my texts about FrameMaker. In the area of Graphic Tools there were multiple changes over the past FM versions. For example this, for which I do not find any explanation ...For Overprint there are three methods to choose from: Knock Out, OverPrint and From Color.What does the method From Color do and how do I handle this method? We do not have an Apply button any more. 

In my text about FrameMaker I want to indicate when a particular feature was introduced. Hence I creaated a number of ico files with Axialis Icon Workshop. The Icon files contain icons in the usual sizes (256x256 RGB/A, 48x48 - RGB/A … 16x16 - 256).Importing such an ico file into an anchored frame does not work in all cases:file → Import Dialogue Pixel sizefmaker-08.ico → 48w by 48h → OKand so on untilfmaker-15.ico → 16w by 16w → Not OKIn this ico file there was an (unwanted) format 16x16 - 16. After removing this format the file was imported as the others.An experiment with only the formats 256x256 RGB/A, 48x48 - RGB/A in the file imported with 256w by 256h …For my tests I used the same frame for all icon file, just selected the image and imported with replace. After the replacement in most cases the image was not updated and was also not updated with CTRL+L. I needed to move the image within the frame for a display update. With Undo then I got the image back at the correct location.I

Hi All Would like to know if any of you are using U3D/PRC/STEP/BREP or other similar formats in your technical content?.    If yes, are you currently generating HTML output as well of the same and what are some of the challenges there. PDF output does support U3D content but how do you take care on HTML side for these 3D content.   Thanks Amitoj Singh    

Recent install on Windows 10 Pro 64-bit. I'm getting "?" renderings for some Unicode code points, in this case the font is Libertinus Serif (OpenType). The points are clearly populated in the font (confirmed by system Character Map). Examples: \u25a1 (□) works.\u2611 (☑) goes to ? in FMI'm doing these as variables, and when entered as \u notation in the dialog, FM dutifully converts them to the actual Unicode glyph, so the codepoint is being preserved, and FM's internal dialog font knows what it is supposed to be.   The two test code points above work correctly in FM if the font is Segoe UI Symbol. They appear to work correctly in either font in LibreOffice Writer. MS WordPad, interestingly, for Libertinus Serif, overrides them both to Segoe UI Symbol, at the same code points. So, it could be a font issue.   Separately, I am was unable to use FM's Insert > Character > Hex Input or > Character Palette tool to explore this problem, because both dialogs winked out after

The option to delete the log file after successful PDF is selected, but the log file is never deleted. It's really getting annoying having to remember to manually delete it all the time.  

Hi All, I have 100 pages of Chapter File with 2 Master Pages, Master 8x11 & Master 11x17.Both Master Pages are assigned througout the Chapter at random. Now at Page 50, I want to insert a New Page (with Master 8x11).Is there a way to insert a new page with new content and Push all existing pages down with existing as is??? Hope this is clear.