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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 

I am using the Indigo Responsive theme for html5 publishing from FrameMaker 2019. I have some trouble though...1: I get different icons for topics. But why? I can't see any pattern as to why FrameMaker chooses different icons for the topics.2: I was hoping to find a place to edit the text "Welcome to our help center" somewhere, but can't. It is there in the html files somewhere, ofcourse, but one would think there was an editor somewhere in the publishing process, but I can't seem to find it.Can anybody help me out here? 

Hi! I need to create a custom bullet in FrameMaker. I have version 15.0.4.751. Looking at several online instructions (such as this one), I'm seeing that I need to go to File > Utilities > Character Palette. I don't have this option in my version of FrameMaker. I went to the FM help, but the latest instructions there also refer to this option. Here is what I have.   Before posting this, I realized that the character palette may not be what I need. I specifically would like to use a .png file that I've created as the custom bullet. (Even more specifically - a "danger" icon that is a yellow triangle with an exclamation point inside of it.) If someone can send me a resource on that, or if it can even be done as a bullet, I would appreciate it -- I can't seem to find it and am probably using the wrong search terms. Thanks!

I am working on my first book in FrameMaker and I am looking to customize my TOC a little bit. I figured out how to add in the dotted line between section name and page number but now I am hoping to create seperators between chapters (Modules for labeling purposes) so that as items appear in the TOC they Appear in this format:Module 1 "Title of Module"....................1-3Section 1.1 "Title of Section" .................1-5SubSection 1.1.1 "Title of Subsection"...1-6Module 2 "Title of Module"....................2-20Section 2.1 "Title of Section"..................2-21SubSection 2.1.1 "Title of SubSection"..2-24 This would continue through all Chapters/Modules of the book.  

Yes, I know my set-up is obsolete to the point of dangerous … it has taken me months to get approval for new licences, and even now they've arrived I've been waiting since April for Central Support to install them. But, ancient software notwithstanding, everything has been working as expected until this afternoon. Starting from an FM 12 (non structured) file with one referenced graphic, I select File > Save as PDF … no "busy" cursor in FM, no Acrobat X Pro springing into life: just a 2,253K .tps file appearing in the file manager. I've got 5.48Gb spare on the networked drive, so I don't think that's the problem.Update on "suddenly" – another .fm file distilled via Save as at 13:45 without any problems. After checking a few others, all of which failed after generating the .tps, I made a copy of this file and tried Save as again at 15:30. Failed.Any hints/tips on solving this will be extremely welcome! Thanks in advance.

As part of monthly webinar series, this month's webinar is on the topic Working with Images, Cross-references, Footnotes & Indexes using Unstructured Adobe FrameMaker Presenters - Barb Binder, Adobe Certified Instructor & Owner of Rocky Mountain Training More details for the free webinar is availabe at: https://2019-11-22-unstructured-adobe-framemaker.meetus.adobeevents.com/     

I am trying to create a table in FrameMaker where one cell has a red background, one has an orange background, and one has a yellow backgound. This won't be a table style -- it's just a one-time table that serves as a key to certain color codes in the manual. I cannot for the life of me figure out how to "select" a single cell and apply a color to it. I also can't find a way to do this in the Table Designer, since there is no option for "just this one cell." As with my previous question, I suspect there's an easy answer to this, and I'm just not finding it in all of the resources I've looked at so far. Thanks in advance for any help you can give me!

Can someone tell me how to delete a paragraph style? I'm sure it's very simple, but the instructions I found (select it in the Paragraph Catalog, then click Delete) aren't working. What am I doing wrong?

Hi, I'm trying not to print ElementBoundaries in to pdf when ElementBoundaries is turn on but square brackets are printed in pdf in Fm19. I tried use F_ApiSetInt(FV_SessionId, fm_docId, FP_ElementBoundaryDisplay, FV_ELEM_DISP_NONE). In Fm10 this solution is working pretty nice but in Fm19 don´t. Any suggestion how to fix this ? Thanks.

Please forgive me as this is something covered in several places but I have not found an exact scenario I am trying to map out, I have been using FrameMaker for a week so I am feeling a little overwhelmed. I am trying to create a document structure that allows me to number Chapters, Sections, Subsections, and Figures all in series. I am having the most trouble with getting the figures to number properly. I would like them to follow the following pattern if the document is set up as:1. Chapter Name (H: \t <n+>. \t)1.1 Section Name (H:\t <n>.<n+> \t \t)1.1.1 Sub Section (H:\t <n>.<n>.<n+>\t \t)Roman Numerals (H:\t <r>< =0>.\t \t) these should resel each time they are used  regardless of where Chapter, Section, Sub Section etc. Figure (H: Figure: <n>.<n+> \t)I have also tried using <$chapnum>, <$sectionnum>, <$subsectionnum> but the above format has worked better so far but I am open to suggestions to

Hi, I would like to save list of cross-references into text file.How can i do? Thank you.

I met Framemaker years ago and it worked beautifully. Now it does not work at all. I have spent hours and hours getting support from Framemaker. Instead it has wrecked my computer. And for live support I get people with impossible English accents. Framemaker is a wonderful program but it has been ruined by Adobe. I am very upset about this. 

I have a dita map, which I have created manually. It creates PDFs and HTML with or without FrameMaker and as expected it has the look of dita-ot pdf2. In FrameMaker:  Structure->DITA->Generate DITA-OT Output... However, I would like to use the dita bookmap option of FrameMaker in order to include the template files, such as the cover page, table of contents etc., into my book. When I use the dita map together with the publish option in FrameMaker, two issues come up: 1. after FrameMaker publishes the pdf, it crashes/hanging and 2: the published pdf creates page breaks after each of my topics and the numbering is not fine. This is how my dita map is made: <map><title><keyword keyref="product_name"/> user guide</title><topicref keyref="contact_info" type="topic"><topicref keyref="manufacturer_contact" type="topic"><topicref keyref="contact_europe" type="topic"/><topicref keyref="contact_usa" type="topic"/></topicref>&l

Hello, I am working in FrameMaker 2017 and seem to be having trouble with the way the cross-reference text appears when my FrameMaker book is output to Responsive HTML.This is what it looks like - the text appears highlighted in orange. I am trying to remove the highlight entirely.  I've found that working in Publish Settings fixes most of the text/image appearance issues, but I can't seem to figure this one out. I have examined the Paragraph and Character Designers and Catalogs to confirm that nothing has been modified or added in there, with no luck. Most of the book was created by the tech writer before me - I have only added to it and done some general editing and formatting.Any input, suggestions or recommendations will be greatly appreciated. Thanks,Mary 

Hi All, Help request from a newbie at Framemaker 2019's HTML5 output. I am using Azure Blue scheme for creating the HTML5 output. Please help me in figuring out the control for changing the default "<Put footer content here>" text to the screen's footer.   Thanks in advance for your suggestions,   Regards Apurva