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I'm in the process of moving our old (Word/Excel) manuals to (unstructured) FrameMaker. I have the latest version of FM, downloaded a couple of weeks ago. The old manuals include a lot of tables that have multiple columns with various levels of headers; here's an example. I started trying to create a similar table style in FrameMaker and gave up after a few minutes. I'm thinking it may be better to simply import the Excel tables into FrameMaker. If I do this ... The tables are stored in files all over the place, so I will need to collect them into a single, easily accessible area. I originally thought I would put them into a single Excel file, maybe with each table in a different worksheet. When I try to import from FrameMaker, however, I can't specify which worksheet I want to use. (Or can I? I haven't been able to find anything on this.) The other option I thought of is to save each table into a different Excel file, though this would mean over 100 different Excel

Hello everyone,I recently got FrameMaker 2017 on my computer. I started making some DITA XML files and tried to publish to a number of the default outputs. Every time, they give me this message: "Failed to publish. Check if JRE is installed." I have Java installed, and even when I check in the windows command line, I see that Windows can detect the Java Runtime Environment. I've been trying to figure out what the problem is for the better part of a day, and haven't been able to find a solution online. Any help would be appreciated.Thanks

It is frustrating when you are trying to get something done and you get an error message that you least expected. Don’t worry, we know how to fix it. One of the main reasons for this is incorrect version of JRE on your system is that you are using an incompatible version of JRE. If you are using a 32-bit system, make sure you have 32-bit version of JRE installed. Similarly, on a 64-bit system, you must have 64-bit JRE. If you mix it, then FrameMaker will fail to recognize it. This issue and its resolution has been discussed in more details in this thread.

It's taken months … and I was so pleased when an administrator showed up at my desk yesterday to start downloading my TCS licence. Then the download started, running at a phenomenal 600Kbps and promising to take more than a working day =8-/ The corporate network connections usually run at around 90Mbps. Any suggestions or observations for getting a download within a day?

Hi,New to Extendscript but not to programming.I have a large Frame doc with hundreds of parts tables, all with the same format. I want to update a PARTNUMBER2 field in these tables based on a PARTNUMBER1 field. The data is coming from an XML file.This is what I want to do in pseudocode:For each PARTNUMBER1 in the XML file:Find each occurrence of PARTNUMBER1 in each Frame table;Update the corresponding PARTNUMBER2 with the data from the XML file.Can anyone point me to an example that I might be able to figure out how to modify to suit my needs?Thanks! 

I made figure Numbering system  and I applied  "MoveFigureTitleToFollowImage=0 " Numbering is gone    Does anybody know this problem?   

I have a client-specific DITA specialization. I've configured my structapps.fm file to handle the specialization and I can successfully read and write DITA files in Structured FrameMaker (2019) However, part of the specialization requires me to use XSL to transform the DITA before it's imported into FrameMaker. I've successfully written preprocessing transforms before, but those were for standard DITA content without custom specializations. I believe all the pieces are in a row, however when the parser used by SAXON attempts to open the DITA topic, it cannot resolve the public doctype identifier. It falls back on the (more-or-less pro forma) system identifier and fails, because—of course—the DTD file is not local to the topic. Here is my application from structapps.fm:Application name: xxx-topic DTD: $STRUCTDIR\xml\DITA_1.3\app\xxx\dita-ot-2.5.4-xxx\plugins\com.xxx.doctypes\dtd\xxx-topic.dtd Read/write rules: $STRUCTDIR\xml\DITA_1.3\app\xxx\xxx\xxx-topic.rules.txt

My images are greyed out even after importing images from a specific location.

I had trouble deleting a list of many items (over 200) with ExtendScript. FrameMaker has not responded for a very long time or is frozen.I found a way to speed up the process considerably. I hope that it will help some of you.   In the example more than 2000 items are built and deleted.Of course you can adjust the counter.   var MyArray = ["A","B","C","D"]; var MyArray2 = ["Ax","Bx","Cx","Dx"]; var MaxCount = 2000; for (var i = 0; i < MaxCount; i++) { MyArray.push("AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA" + i); } var oDia = new Window("dialog","RemoveItems",undefined); oDia.OuterBox = oDia.add("panel",undefined,"FRAME"); oDia.OuterBox.size = [300,350]; oDia.InnerGroup = oDia.OuterBox.add("group",undefined,""); oDia.ItemList = oDia.InnerGroup.add("listbox",undefined,MyArray); oDia.ItemList.size = [250,300]; var dButtonR = oDia.add("button",undefined,"RemoveAll"); dButtonR.onClick = AllRemove; var dButtonR = oDia.add("button",undefined,"Remove(quick)"); dButtonR

As part of monthly webinar series, this month's webinar is on the topic Generating Responsive HTML5 with FrameMaker (2019 Release) Presenters - Bhavyaa Bansal, Software Development Engineer at Adobe For registration and more details : https://2019-12-12-generating-responsive-html5-with-framemaker.meetus.adobeevents.com/      

hi takashi hereI am trying to create outer frame with framemaker and inner image is importing pdf file, finally I want to create new pdf file.But now I got problem with new PDF file...inner pdf is around 5MB but output pdf is about 50MB. I would like to know why output image is like this big size, and also I would like to know make the output pdf smaller. if you have any idea, please let me know the way to solve. thanks postscript:the inner pdf has 1 page and many shapes and strings on the map around japan

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.