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Hello FrameMaker users,   I need to get Doxygen output (API docs) into a professional-looking format.   1. Is FrameMaker the right tool for this, or is there something better to use? 2. If FrameMaker is the right tool, should I go with structured or non-structured FM? 3. What Doxygen output format is the best to begin working with? (RTF, XML, PDF?!?, ...) 4. Is there an alternative to Doxygen output? (Maybe that's a better first question since it's higher-level...)   Any recommendations, tips, pointers, etc. would be most welcome, since at the moment Word is my default option (ew). I have some preliminary ideas and guesses, but I'd appreciate advice from someone who has actual experience with Doxygen output.   --Laura   P.S.  I'm a career tech writer and quite familiar (15+ years) with unstructured FrameMaker, and love it for tech docs. I've used most of the other tools, too (25+ years).

Lost the column with the book and associated files listed (33.png was what it looked like before; 22.png is what I get today). So, when I open a book, I don't see the list of sub-files/chapters. How do I get this back? Framemaker 2019    

I would like to create a table of topics in framemaker and in the output the user should be able to click a corresponding topic icon and have the description of that topic drop or collapse from the topic title rather than jump to another page; is there a way to do this using Framemaker 2019?  

Hi Community, In Framemaker, I have bullet lists and indented bullet lists created utilizing an EDD. Within Framemaker they are displayed like this: •     Bullet 1       •     Bullet 2   In HTML5, it is displayed like this: •Bullet1      •Bullet2   Can someone provide me with guidance as how to fix this issue?   Thank you.

Hi! I may have a similar issue and beginners knowledge on framemaker. How do you open a master page from a ditamap including several xml files? Step-by-Step?

Hi,   does anybody know how can I get the text(s - for nested element ) of framemaker elements.   example var doc = app.ActiveDocvar root = doc.MainFlowInDoc.HighestLevelElement   how to get the text of the root ?   thanks

Hello community! I have a problem with a .book file in FM2019. I have several different links on several different documents of the book and the links are supposed to refer to the other files in that same book. However, it seems that at some point while I'm working with the files they always change back to being this one and same link directing to the one and same file. Why does this happen and why changing and updating the links back to the files which they should lead to won't hold? Am I missing some point at which is shoul save the link changes or what? Or should I do something with the ditamap I made the book from and not with the book's fm files?Update: it seems that if I update the book, the links do this. Thanks for all the help and advice!

Is it possible to create html5 (or htm) files from ditamaps in FM2019 without Robohelp? Or save ditamap as html file? I Have ditamaps which I should turn into webhelp. I know how to publish them as responsive html5 and view the output. But what happens after that? If I click on File > Save ditamap as... and choose HTML format and change the file tag on the file from .htm to html5 or html the htm file created is only a list of topics and titles a files.    If I look at the Responsive html5 output view created with "Publish" pod and opened in my browser, and right click, choose >Save page as it creates html with absolute path, not relative, which I would apparently need.   Or is it so, that I have to make the ditamap into a .book file first? If so, how to go on from .book file?   It feels like I cannot be far from the answer since I am able to publish the ditamaps as responsive html5 and view the output and the output looks a lot like what the webhelps should ev

Hi! I am publishing a .book to html5 and as I view the output, my browser cannot find one page eventhough the path and the location seems is correct. Now, in Framemaker sturcture view the said file shows as "book component" not as "topic" as all the other files. Is this the problem and how do I fix it?  

Hello, I am wondering if it is possible to have the figure number in my list of figures formatted with a different colour from the figure title, tab separator, and page number? Thanks!

Hello. I have FrameMaker 2017 (14.0.4.511) running on Windows 10 Enterprise 1803 (17134.885). I don't use FrameMaker every day. Today, I am unable to save as a PDF a 58-page, three-chapter-plus-cover-and-TOC book; FrameMaker stops responding, and Distiller does not start running. I also tried printing it using the Adobe PDF print driver, and that also froze FrameMaker. When I then tried saving a 14-page, two-chapter-plus-cover-and-TOC as PDF, Distiller ran but the job failed. Please help. Thank you.

Hi, I would like to use a bracket shape somehow in order to capture an area of an image, rather than have to use multiple arrows.  In essence, to draw a rectangle and then cleanly have ONE side disappear to replicate a bracket ( ] ) would be ideal, but I cannot figure out how to manipulate a rectangle to accomplish removing one side.  How do I create a bracket to use as a call-out over an image?  (Example of what I'd like to do in Framemaker is attached, see call-out "C").

I'm having an intermittent issue with dialog boxes during printing/publishing.   The first instance of this was while I was using Print Book, Adobe PDF as the Printer, and the Print Book As: Separate Print Job for Each Document checked. It got through some of the files before it seemed to just stop. After playing around for a minute, I realized that the dialog box to Save As was present, but not visible anywhere that I could get to it. In Windows 10, I can hover over the active app icon for Frame in the toolbar and actually see it. I just can't GET to it. I've tried everything I can think of: Alt+Tab, hover and click on the preview, clear the desktop and select, and even dancing a little manic jig in an act of propitiatory magic. I was forced to end task through the Task Manager. On 2 subsequent attempts, I had variations on this that I was able to resolve seemingly randomly. Once I was able to clear desktop and then select from the app preview window. The other time the gods ente

Hi, We are trying to publish our existing set of FM documentation into the Responsive HTML 5 format using FM 2019 but instead of the chapter title, we are getting the FM file name in the help TOC. Is there a way to get the chapter title listed in the help output without changing the file names?   Thanks in advance, Rehan

Greetings,Our guys are using Framemaker build 11.0.2.384. When they open some of their books  and perform a save operation they receive Internal Error: 11024, 22215748, 22269761, 22287647. They dont even have to change anything. Just open the book and try to make a copy of it with "Save book as". They report the faulty books are usually the relatively larger ones. Is there anything they can check for?I've included a screenshot of the error, and the log file it refers to below.[Entire error log removed by moderator - not useful here. Please always send to fmerror@adobe.com]

Hi,I cannot get FrameMaker to use customized templates while creating fm components from a ditabookmap. For instance, the booktitle still shows the adobe logo, although I have created a customized template and have replaced the native FrameMaker template via File->Publish -> DITA template list. It simply uses the default template from FrameMaker installation path, which I would like to avoid manipulating. I use FrameMaker 2019.Thanks!Hadi

Hello, I'm trying to explore the sample files and opened the user guide sample and when opening the "general description" page 2 I get this error (screenshot attached) and then the program crashes. If I scroll down to page 2 of "general description" it also crashes, however if I skip it and type in to go directly to page 3, than it works fine but if I scroll up to page 2 it crashes again. I am very new to Framemaker so sorry if this is a dumb question. Thanks for any help!

It is my understanding that if you own a perpetual license of FrameMaker (CLP) it will no longer be supported. It will be required going forward to purchase the annual subscription based license (VIP) to have the FrameMaker support. Is this incorrect? If so, wonderful and I need to pay my annual support renewal for FrameMaker.

Hi everybody, this is my first posting.I have switched from FM11 to FM2019 hoping that my DITA files would open more quickly. Alas, for files with key or conkey references, the opposite is true. It takes 3 to 4 times longer to open such files with FM2019. Is anybody else having this issue?My environment:Esprimo P400Intel Core i5-2310 CPU2.90 GHz16 GB RAMSSD hard disk (all DITA files are on that disk, nothing is on network drives)Windows 10 (64 Bit)FrameMaker V15.0.4.751 (64 bit)DITA-FMx plug-in (the file opening times are the same with the built-in DITA 1.2 structapps, but the plug-in enables key references to key definitions with text strings, such as keywords, to be resolved -- among other things).

Hi! I am trying to publish ditamap as html file, however, it always fails. The publishing log says at the bottom that "Unable to publish. Validate xml source files and retry." How do I do that? I am new to this and I know my predecessor used Framemaker 2015 to work with the same files. Does that create a problem? I have gone through the whole ditamap and saved all the files with Framemaker 2019, but that didn't help. I have applied "Structure > Validate > Entire document > Start validating" for each file. Didn't help. Or then I'm doing something wrong with these procedures.   What should I do/try next?   Thank you for any help or tips!

Hello. We have strange problem when importing PDF to structured FM files. This applies to FM2019. In FM12 it works normally.Attached is gen0-2_2019.fm file (I cannot attach it here. it says vnd.framemaker extension doesn't match or whatever...). Link is here: GEN 0.2 FM documentWhen we import PDF after table it will not show imported PDF. See this: When I insert Chart element (which is pgf container). The imported PDF looks normally. See this:For some documents even creating Chart element doesn't help and PDF is displayed like this small square. If I delete the table in gen0-2 document I can insert PDF without Chart element. It is not important what PDF contains. It happens with every PDF.What is funny that when I save FM document with PDF to MIF the link is there looking PDF was succesfully imported. What can this be for a problem?Thanks. 

While generating pdf, FM shuts down without giving any error. Can you please help here?

Hi, I'm using this thread since I've similar problem to solve. I'm new to DITA and piloting some documents in FrameMaker 2019, trying to get the output that I need. I have created a ditamap with a structure as follows: Ditamap title (BOOKTITLE MAINBOOKTITLE) Chapter 1 (topicref) Chapter 2 (topicref) Chapter 3(topicref) Chapter 4(topicref) Chapter 5(topicref) Each of the above chapters (topics) has few more topics embedded which I use for sub-sections of the main chapter for example: In the dita xml structure I have to have a lot of tables, diagrams and many other sub-titles with their contents. After generating an output PDF book I need to move some title in the next page or next column, depends on the situation. I’m trying to implement a „pagebreak” function in my topic.template and edited the topic.eddmod.fm file to include text format rules just like it’s suggested in few comments above from Michael_Müller-Hillebrand. Here is a result: It seems actually, nothing was happen when

Hi everyone,   This is a question with its own answer. 🙂  If you are producing large PDF documents and you mark revised content with change bars, the following utility can make it easier to review the changes:   https://github.com/chrispy-snps/pdf-annotate-change-bars   The PDF can be created by any tool, not just FrameMaker. The requirements are that the background color around the change bars be a solid color, and that no other obstructions (headers/footers) intersect where a change bar could be.     Hopefully someone finds this useful!   - Chris

Is it even possible?Playing with this sample it seems possible but I can't quite figure out how to make it work. var doc =app.ActiveDoc;var flow = doc.MainFlowInDoc;var tbl = 0;var textItems = flow.GetText(Constants.FTI_TblAnchor);for (var i = 0; i < textItems.len; i += 1){tbl = textItems.obj;var tblColWidths = new Metrics (2 * 72 * 65536, 2 * 72 * 65536);tbl.TblColWidths = tblColWidths;}Unlimited amounts of tables in each document for the most part, with 4 to 6 columns each. I'm fairly baffled here, anyone that could help or at least direct me I would appreciate it.