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The hierarchy of bookmarks in my FrameMaker files (FM 2015) are not reflected in the PDF files.   In the FM bookmarks, the hierarchy looks like this: book title   chapter title      1heading         2heading   In the PDF, the bookmarks look like this:  book title   chapter title      chapter title (wrong place in hierarchy)         1heading (ditto)             2heading (ditto)   "Chapter title" is in two different positions in the PDF bookmarks, but it should only be indented below "book title".   BTW, I selected the bookmarks by opening the book file, selecting all files, selecting Format > Document > PDF Setup > Bookmarks, specified the hierarchies, and clicking Set.   Does anyone know what's going on?   Catherine

I have a large number of individual files in several books. They all have the same list of paragraph tags. I need all of my tags. But, for one particular process, I only need a subset of them. I have set up a Customized List view in the Paragraph Catalog so that I only see a subset of them, because scrolling through the list is time consuming and click/scroll intensive.  I would like to import that list to all of the other files, so that I don't have to go file to file setting up the customized list. I've done some experimenting and I can't seem to do it. Is there some trick I'm missing? Or is it not possible? If it's not possible through the normal interface, is it something that might be possible through extendscript?

Hello, I would just like to confirm that when operating FrameMaker 2017 in a Windows 10 environment, I still need Adobe Acrobat Pro DC to create PDFs. For example, I just had an OS update to Window 10, and while FM 2017 has been re-installed on a new computer, AA Pro DC isn't (only AA Reader DC is) and I now I can no longer create PDFs from FrameMaker. I get an erro saying that "To execute "Save as PDF" command, you must have Acrobat Distiller version 5.05 or higher installed." Then I get another error about configuring Job Options. How do I get distiller and where I do I configure the Job Options in FrameMaker? I remember doing the job option setup years ago, and can't seem to figure it out now, and anyway, I still think I need the distiller first. Does anyone have any clue how I can proceed at this point?I need Adobe Acrobat Pro DC to do the work I normally do, regardless of how FrameMaker operates, and I'm pretty sure I still need it in the Windows 10 OS environment as well. Th

I am using Google Noto Sans and Indian Type Foundry Poppins with FrameMaker 2019 (15.0.4.751) on Windows 10. When using Save As PDF or Publish to PDF using the new PDF engine (not distiller) the SemiBold and Light fonts are appearing as a thicker weight. Opening the PDF in Adobe Illustrator, I can see that the affected fonts have a stroke outline with a non-zero width that is making the characters appear bolder. Italic versions of the fonts in the PDF also appear to have a larger skew angle, suggesting that it is an oblique.Using FrameMaker 2017 (14.0.4.511) on the same computer creates a PDF with the correct font weights and italics.

Hi all,is it possible to hand an animated GIF to the PDF output (remaining animated)?FM10 and AcrobatX work together rather fine concerning other animation formats such as SWF or AVI. I am not sure however wether the PDF format supports animated GIFs at all.Robert

I have TSC 2015. I am trying to setup Responsive HTML Help using FrameMaker. I have the following questions.1. In the ToC pane, how can I make the headings be nested. We have level 1, 2, 3. Heading 3 is displayed at the same level as Heading 2.2. The topic headings of the Chapters use the file names. i.e. in the ToC page I see a file name, and not the Heading 1. How can we set this.3.  Is it possible to set graphics as thumbnails.4.  Also, the titles appear in a blue bar. How can I change this?5. We don't use all the files in the help file, therefore I have made a separate book file for the help. Is that the way to go?Thanks

I need to add some bulleted lists in my templates, but I cannot edit the tab stops using the paragraph designer. Every time I try, the changes I make reset to whatever was there before. This is happening in every file that uses custom tags, not just one, and it affects all the custom tags (and they are all custom tags).   Editing tab stops in the default templates provided by Adobe is working, which I find supremely weird.   I have MIF-washed the files. I have restarted FrameMaker. I have restarted the computer.   I can make these changes by editing the MIF files, but that gets tedious and, seriously, why should I have to? All I can think is that, somewhere, a setting got changed but I can't imagine what it might be.   All template files are stored locally. FrameMaker is up to date (15.0.4.751) Windows build is: 10.0.17763.0   The only system changes were updates made to 4 CC applications yesterday (Photoshop, Illustrator, InDesign, CameraRaw).   ETA: I ha

The past two weeks i switched from Windows 7 to Windows 10 and am still setting up details and testing things which worked well in W7. FrameMaker 15.0.4.751 is set up with startup scripts (in particular FMgraphic.jsx). ESTK is version 4.0.0.1.When i run one of the scripts developed in W7 times, I see a very strange behaviour of ESTK - which is reprodeable:Set up ESTK to use FM-15 - it takes longer than in W7 to 'connect'Run the script with F5The script has completed the drawing after 6 seconds,but it has not ended. The hour glass is visible until second 21.But it is still not possible to start the script again - at least for 10 seconds.If i want to leave ESTK with the X button, for at least 15 seonds nothing happens, then it closes (or most time it tilts).See the vidio on my website BTW it is not possible to use this URL in the "Insert Video2 function of this forum - it seems that only Youtube stuff is accepted ...

This may be a noobish question, so appologies in advance if this has been asked before (I couldn't find anything online similar). I'm trying to create a text box within an anchored frame, and I don't understand why the top of the text is partially beyond the borders of the text box (see attached below - the top of the "T" is outside of the text box). Is this standard FrameMaker behaviour or is there a way to correct this?  Any advice is much appreciated! 

I had a question about PhoneGap that I posted to the appropriate forum. The response I got was that Adobe has put PhoneGap into maintenance mode and that I shouldn't start any projects that would use it to develop mobile app outputs.   So if Adobe is discontinuing PhoneGap, what, if anything, do they plan to use to provide a mobile app output directly from FrameMaker?

I'm using Framemaker 2019 unstructured. My end publications are .pdf's, located in separate folders, then posted to my customer facing website. I've been asked to create a link from one book to another.Example:Book 1, Chapter 27, page 4 - click on a cross-reference (I set specific words) to then open Book 2, Chapter 27, page 1I had both books/chapters open. I created the cross-reference in Book 1, and then use paragraph tags to select the other book's link area. "Document" refers to Book 2.I updated and ran both books and put them on my desktop to test. When I click on the cross-reference link it doesn't do anything except show the "hand pointing" tool when you hover. Is it possible to do what I've been asked? If so, is this the appropriate way to do it AND when they get moved to their web folders, how do I manage the links? Is that a manual update on my part or do they get auto updated when moved?

I am currently uisng Frame Maker 2017. When i generate a PDF from Frame file I observed that there is a small dot which when zoomed is a hypen (or underscore) appears at the start of every Note.   The preview looks something like seen in red below: NOTE: _The task is performed after installing of the cap.   But the frame file doesnt have these underscore or dot. Its appears only when printed on PDF. The issue is not observed in any Frame Maker 2017 used by others in the team.   Kindly help removing this underscore and do the needful.

What is the correct workflow to add hyperlinks to FM source document so that correct <a href="...">link</a> is created?I have noticed that when using message URL from the insert>hypertext it can:Cause the html5 output to have the entire paragraph containing the hypertext to be wrapped in <a>Cause the paragraph up until (and including) the hypertext word/phrase to be wrapped in an <a>orNot produce any <a> tags in the output<a><p>Here is an short paragraph as an example of a incorrect <span class="crossref">link</span></p></a> <a><p>Here is an short paragraph as an example of a incorrect <span class="crossref">link</span></p>with some text afterwards</a> <p>Here is an short paragraph as an example of a non-existent<span class="crossref">link</span></p> <p>Here is an short paragraph as an example of a correct <a><span class="crossref">link<

Having an issue when opening files in Frame Maker the application will crash and come up with the attached error.   Internal Error 15024. FrameMaker has detected a serious problem and must quit   Tried to narrow down the issue and see if this issue only affected particular files but it appears random, other users here using the same version are also having the issue so it is not isolated to one user.   I emailed the dump file to fmerror@adobe.com but the error message states that they are unable to respond to technical questions and I have no idea how to read the dump file. Someone mentioned that it might have to do with not having a default printer selected which I thought was odd, so I mapped to a printer and set as default but still having issue.   Sorry if I left out any details, I would be glad to provide any additional information if needed. Any help would be appreciated. Thanks   Computer is running Windows 10 Enterprise, version 1803, Build 17134.1069 &

Just transitioned from Framemaker 2015 to Framemaker 2019. For the last 13 years we've used the third-party Freewheel app with Framemaker to fast-scroll x number of lines on a page using the mouse wheel. This has worked using multiple different brands of mouse across every version of Framemaker since 2007. But it longer seems to work in Framemaker 2019, which makes me wonder why Adobe doesn't provide built-in support for this feature. Does anyone know if there's a way to restore the  functionality I describe, either inately or via some kind of adjunct script/application? Thanks!JMW

When I output a FrameMaker book to PDF, links from the generated Table of Contents to pages in the manual are inconsistent. On some TOC items, the entire line (paragraph number, paragraph title, and page number) is a 'clickable' link, but on some random lines -- such as paragraph 4.40 in the example screen capture below -- only the paragraph number is a clickable link. Paragraph 4.40 is formated no differently than 4.39, 4.41, 4.42, etc.; so I can't see any reason why the rest of the line isn't part of the link. Is this a FrameMaker bug, an Acrobat bug, or is there some way to fix this other than manually extending the link across the entire line each time in Acrobat? I'm using unstructured FrameMaker 2019 and Acrobat Distiller DC. 

I would like to use generic expressions in href file paths. For example in the following example: <mapref href="source_files_english.ditamap"/>, instead of "english", I would like to have something like <mapref href="source_files_"language".ditamap"/>. Then, i would like to define the word language as a key. So basically, what I have in mind is to use something like a keyref inside the href filepath. I tried: <mapref href="source_files_<keyword keyref="language"/>.ditamap"/>. Of course it did not work. Is there a way to achieve this in dita/xml?

Hi, I am facing a challenge to change the font properties within DITA. I know that it cannot be done directly in dita topic xml files. So, I decided to add some entities to paragraph (p) in ..\xml\DITA_1.3\app\technicalContent\edd\topic.edd.fm. I noticed this maybe done via ..\xml\DITA_1.3\app\base\edd\commonElements.eddmod.fm and ..\xml\DITA_1.3\app\base\edd\highlightDomain.eddmod.fm. After adding one entitity in the latter files, I attemted to update the former, i.e. topic.edd.fm in order to import the changes. However, those text insets under paragraph element were not updated and so my new entity was not imported. Am I missing sth here? Hadi

In the structapps.fm file, there is a $STRUCTDIR variable that maps the Structure folder. Is there a variable that will map to the user's folder? Thank you.

I just created a post with titel "Strange behaviour of ESTK in Windows 10 - and forgot to tag it with Scripting.Hence i opene it again for editing and added that tag by slecting Scripting and re-posted.This thingy does not appear in the forum. Kruzitürken!

In FM 11 shift + enter at each line generated pretty codeblock in my html web page. Using HTML5 via FrameMaker 2017 (structured) > Publish +1k Topics > HTML 5 -  the pretty print on my codeblock element breaks, shows as one continuous line (image a). When I compile only one topic, the same topic, or a handful of topics (6 topics) that contain the codeblock element in a separate ditamap, the codeblock is well formed (image e). FrameMaker topics and user guide retains and shows the codeblock in pretty print (image f). I have one topic that contains several distinct chunks of code, oddly, one of the chunks is well formed (image c) but the other two break in the same topic. To quick fix the scrolling I added whitespace to the css (image d).   I checked the r/w rules per another post which is fine, checked document... removed quotes and extra spaces at the dita template level; added shift+enter again just for grins. I switched browsers... revised .css  and none of these

Hello,   It's really sad this is such a simple thing, yet FM is being difficult with this. I have a DITA based map file that links to multiple XMLs and sub-XMLs linked in a hierarchical way. Then a pdf is published, it *always* page breaks (i.e. start on new page) for every single file. I want all to be continuous. I have files with just a few lines, that it looks really bad to page break and next subsection starts on a new page... Really? There is NO way to make the PDF publish continually? I do not want to keep a "merged" file as suggested in another post. The congregated xml will be way too big. Please help

For some reason, my output won't generate now. Get an error for which a Google search yields no result. Any ideas? I didn't change anything in the settings file. I opened it and re-did a save and close. No help. Preparing Output Files...Started Parsing HTML Topics...Completed Parsing :Completed Parsing :Completed Parsing :Completed Parsing :Completed Parsing :Completed Parsing :Completed Parsing :Completed Parsing :Completed Parsing :Completed Parsing :Completed Parsing :Analysing the Collected Information...Collecting Information for Output Generation...Gathering Information for TOC, Index and Glossary...Gathering Information for HTML Help Project File...Gathering Information for HTML Topic Properties...Gathering Information for StyleSheets used in HTML Topics...Gathering Information for Baggage Files to Include...Gathering Information for Skins and Layouts used...Preparing Environment for Final Output Generation...Generating Output...Starting Responsive Help generationScreen layouts

Hi,Help me in getting the text location of a keyword in a paragraph. Keyword may be name, place, etc.I need to insert additional text after the keyword.  I am not able to get the text location at end of keyword.

am new to proogramming,i downloaded FDK how to write API and what is a FDE?FDK PROGRAMMER’S GUIDE doesn't tell how to do.can anyone please explain?