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Hello and Happy New Year! I'm working on a document that has a lot of instances of "greater than/less than or equal to" symbols. From what I can figure out, there are two ways to do these in FrameMaker 1) Ctrl+q # / Ctrl+q 32) Alt+0163 / Alt+0179 Neither of these are working for me. Both sets result in symbols, but not the symbols I'm looking for.I can't find either of these symbols on the character palette. It's possible that they're there, but my aging eyes can't see the small type. If someone can tell me where they're located there, I would appreciate it. Ideally, I'd like to know what, if any, combination of keys I can type to get these two symbols.I am in FrameMaker 15, using Windows 10. Thanks!

Hi,Please help me in developing Framemaker Scrips to remove (delete) Soft Returns (Shift+Enter) char's in a paragraph.

How can paragraphs be autonumbered as per following style ?StyleName   How it looksVolume         Volume 1 [AAAA]Chapter        Chapter 1 [AAAA]H1                1.0 [AAAA]H2                1.1 [AAAA]H3                1.1.1 [AAAA]Chapter        Chapter 2 [AAAA]H1                2.0 [AAAA]H2                2.1 [AAAA]H3                2.1.1 [AAAA]Volume         Volume 2Chapter  &

I'm new to FrameMaker, so I might be doing something wrong.Rather consistintly, any time I try deleting / adding / changing more than a page or two of text at a time, FrameMaker hangs, and usually crashes. (Other times I just let it continue trying overnight, and then kill the process). Sometimes I can go as long as 2-3 days without it crashing. Importing a document from MS Word into FrameMaker took 5-6 attempts till it was stable for long enough to actually convert the entire document before crashing, giving me a chance to save.Similar posts on crashes didn't seem to have resolutions on them. OS: Windows 10 (Corporate IT managed for updates)FM: 2019 15.0.1.430 

Hello FM community,What I'm going to describe I've done for many years. And for some reason, it just stopped working.Using FM2019 unstructured. My only desired output is PDF.I am, as I've always done, setting up my TOC in the references pages. My format is likeso:<$paranum> <$paratext> <$pagenum>.This has worked forever. Suddenly, I can't get it to work and I'm going blink trying to figure this out.The only odd thing I have is I have 24 books that must be cross-referenced. So per other entries in this forum, I make certain that all 24 book files are in the same folder. Then my individual book source files are each in their own subdirectory. This was working fine with the first several books I created. The cross-references work. The TOC is generated just the way I want. And now....the TOC simply won't generate. The only time it generates is on the initial Update TOC when you first setup which heading tags are included. But after that....I cannot get it to do

While Opening FM2019 getting the error in the Console. Someoene let me know how to fix this issue   Unable to find the structured application 'DITA_1.3_troubleshooting'. Please check the settings in ditafm.ini. Also, ensure that the correct structapp file is being used.        

I need to use the warning triangle symbol as an icon for warnings in my document.  It displays and prints fine, but it doesn't have the yellow background color.  In Frame and in PDF it displays with a clear/transparent background.  In HTML5, though, it displays with the yellow background as it should. Is there a way to make the triangle display with a yellow background in the PDF as well? ⚠ 

Hello,   Somes users of my company are encountering a curious bug in Conditionnal Texts.   All conditionnal texts were working perfectly in FM2017, but now they won't works properly in 2019. We can show up them but can set them as we want, and if we want to create some news, we can't manage them too.   Can someone help us ?

Hi there We'd want to build a simple control version system for our documentation developed with Framemaker 2019 unstructured. Right now we don't need merge capabilities at all, just saving project files (.fm, .book, and other resouces) sent from writers, lock the files that they're worwing, manage versions and so on. I'm evaluating some svn-like solutions (git and others) but I noticed that maybe Sharepoint is good enough for this task and it's well integrated on FrameMaker. Is sharepoint a viable solution for this goal? Is there anybody on this forum that is using sharepoint in this way? Thanks a lot for your time

OK, so I'll admit that thanks to internal issues I'm still stuck on FM 12 … but here's today's unexpected challenge: I have a file I use as a text inset, and in this file I reference an .eps graphic.if I save the text inset file as .pdf, I get a clean vector imageif I save the file that uses the text inset as .pdf, I just get the preview .tifWhat's going on, and how do I solve it? Thanks in advance for getting the New Year off to a good start for me ;-}

Hi All, I was a long time IXGEN user. Unfortunately, they've retired and it does not work with FrameMaker 2019.  Has anyone found a good replacement tool for bulk processing of index entries?  One of the things I loved about IXGEN was the ability to generate a table of all the book's index entries, then fix them across an entire book. For example, if I had lots of similar entries that were singular, plural or maybe had slight wording differences, I could quickly make them all the same and apply the changes bookwide.  Any pointers would be sincerely appreciated?

Using FM 2019 to create the Responsive HTML5 Webhelp, the conversion of the files is terminated with internal error 15034.The webhelp cannot be created. Has anyone already encountered that error and has a solution? GreetinxSteph' 

Hi All, After installation of Fm2019. We are trying to create and run FM as a service using installutill.exe. Could you please let us know the .net version compatability for it. Currently we are using C:\Windows\Microsoft.NET\Framework64\v4.0.30319\installutil 

I know this for shure: this was an ordinary close with save of the open files - why the heck is this reported as "stopped working" in the Windows 10 Reliability Monitor?  Description Faulting Application Path: H:\Adobe\FrameMaker.15en\Adobe FrameMaker 2019\FrameMaker.exe Problem signature Problem Event Name: APPCRASH Application Name: FrameMaker.exe Application Version: 15.0.4.751 Application Timestamp: 5d540b1d Fault Module Name: StackHash_c9f2 Fault Module Version: 10.0.18362.418 Fault Module Timestamp: 99ca0526 Exception Code: c0000374 Exception Offset: PCH_50_FROM_ntdll+0x000000000009CC14 OS Version: 10.0.18363.2.0.0.256.48 Locale ID: 8192 Additional Information 1: c9f2 Additional Information 2: c9f2ee0b10b6114ab48ef45c82a42c89 Additional Information 3: 410a Additional Information 4: 410a6d3ea015a3134b5ee3ad6fa388d8 Extra information about the problem Bucket ID: 5a8a948f6f1c4e9de7868af23fdf017b (1695195082809868667)  Nearly every close of FM-15 is reported thi

I am following instructions for DITA relationship tables from the Adobe Framemaker 2019 release guide and do not see the "rel table" option in Elements. I have tried inserting one on each level, so that's not the issue. I have also tried inserting a regular table, but that is not giving the type option for Topic, Task, Concept, etc. I am using Framemaker 15.0.4.751. Any help is appreciated!

Hi All,I have a script that creates TOC-style Hypertext links in a custom Table of Contents. I am using this syntax: openObjectId C:/DATA/Scripts/JMCC/20190906_AMM/UPS AMM Build/11-31-01-201.fm:2 1011442 The links work when I Control-Alt-Click on them in FrameMaker. However, when I make a PDF of the book, some of the links fail to work in the PDF. When I look at the links with Acrobat Pro, it appears that the corresponding named destinations are not created in the PDF and that is why the links fail. It doesn't occur with all links, only some of them. In the above example, when I examine the link, it is pointing to named destination G6.1011442. However, this named destination does not exist in the PDF file. How does the new FrameMaker print engine determine which named destinations get created in the resulting PDF file? Rick

I'm on Windows 10, 64 GB RAM 64 bit OS. Intel Xeon 2.70 GHZInstalled FM 2019 about a month ago and it crashed randomly...then stopped. I was saving frequently and then quit doing that and it "magically" stopped crashing.  When I started another new document based on a structured template, the random crashing started again a few days ago. Today,  I uninstalled FM 2017, then reinstalled FM 2019. The crashing is still happening. At first it would create .dmp files. Now it isn't. I can't pinpoint when it crashes exactly. It has been when i'm just inserting cursor into the structured view or doing nothing at all (I came back from lunch and it shut down). Any suggestions? 10/07/2019 Update: Company upgraded to latest version of Windows 10 and that seemed to elimate the issue.  Not sure if it eliminated a bug in Windows, FrameMaker, or my machine. Happy to report its been stable for 2 straight days. No crashing. Also fixed a weird issue with resetting my custom worksp

I created a table style for images in FrameMaker (version 15.0.4.751). When I select the style, the table column runs off the page. (Shown here.) I know there has to be an easy way to fix the style so that this doens't happen. Or even an easy way to resize the column on the right. However, I can't find instructions for either of these things! Probably my holiday brain, but if anyone can help me out with this simple answer, it would be much appreciated. Thank you!

When the user opens a book file and try to edit the chapters, every chapters takes around 5 seconds to allow editing. Is working under Windows 10, the user complains because it says it loaded inmediately with Windows 7. What could I check to improve this loading time?

Dear all,I want to support certain palettes (modified equation palette, vertical tool bar) for higher resultion screens. You all do know the passage from Help/User guide:FrameMaker's user interface is now compatible with high-resolution screens ranging up to 3480 x2160 pixels. Earlier, when you launched FrameMaker on a high-resolution display device, the text onthe user interface would render too small. You would have to use a workaround to overcome thisproblem for earlier versions of FrameMaker. However, starting from 2017 release, FrameMakersupports high-resolution display devices. The user interface and all text automatically resizes as perWindows display settings.But there no mentioning of when size small (100%), medium (150%) and large (200%) of the icons is taken. In particular, is the medium size taken for Windows zoom factor 101 … 150 or what?Can somebody give me a hint?

I've tried twice today to post a procedure for accomplishing this. I titled it:PROCEDURE FOR CROSS-LINKING BOOKS IN UNSTRUCTURED FRAMEMAKER FOR PDF OUTPUT. Each time I do it I get back that it might be SPAM, and it does not get posted. Is it not possible to post solutions to problems? It's very odd. I'll copy/paste it here. Hello Adobe FM community.Summary: This is a procedure to allow multiple books in unstructured FM be cross referenced. Note that a setting in Acrobat Pro/Reader is also necessary. In this example my only desired output is PDF.I have a project where I must heavily cross-reference 24 books. I am posting this procedure in case anyone runs into this problem. I want this to be crystal clear. My apologies for the lengthy explanation.In this example, all .book files reside in the same common directory. Additionally, each PDF generated for each book will reside in this same directory. (The actual .fm files the book is comprised of can be in another folder).Create a

I'm resurrecting this discussion as I am in the middle of creating cross references between books. I'm interjecting at this point in the discussion thread because it appears it's the appropriate part of the discussion.   Summary: Using FM2019 unstructured, I am creating PDF output only. I have 24 books. They will be heavily cross referenced. I have been able to get this to work. Sort of...   I'm noticing an odd behaviour in Acrobat Pro.  I have a cross-reference in (what I'll refer to as) book3 which points to a section heading in book2. This works. Thank you BarbBinder and Bob Niland for your insights.   However: I have book3 open using AcrobatPro. I click the cross-ref in book3 to open book2. Book2 opens and takes me to the desired location, but book3 is nolonger open.   If I then, (using Acrobat Pro File->Open pull-down) open Book3, it opens. Now the one instance of Acrobat Pro displays both book2 and book3. But if I then click the cross-ref in book3 so I

If we could cross-reference to a specific phrase within a paragraph, spot cross-references would be easier to create and maintain than the current system. While I would still like to see the <$markertext> building block available in cross-reference formats, being able to xref to a character tag would be more efficient in many situations. If you agree, you can vote for this feature at  https://tracker.adobe.com/#/view/FRMAKER-7696   VOTE button is in the lower right of the tracker window

I've already installed and reinstalled my Adobe FrameMaker 2019 64-bit but still can't get it to go past the splash screen. I'm using it on a Windows 10 Enterprise 64-bit. It was working fine last week, but this week when I tried to open it again, it just failed. The last time I used it was last Friday. Wondering if it got affected by a disk and browser cleanup I did. I also installed it via the ESD program. 

Can we open FM11 files with FM10?