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Hey everyone, Recently upgraded from FrameMaker 2015 to 2019 version and have noticed a significant decrease in publishing speed. With my book in FM 2015, it took approx. 320 seconds to publish to HTML5. Upon opening the same files in Framemaker 2019, and using the same publishing settings this process took approx. 980 seconds to complete. I also tried publishing the book with default settings, instead of the .sts file I would typically use, but this took longer again (1290 seconds).   I noticed there was a difference in how images were published between versions 2015 and 2019. In order to instruct FrameMaker 2019 not to resize my images upon publishing i.e. take a 900 x 500 image and convert to 540 x 300 etc, I had to input the preferred image width and height to be 0pt. Whereas in Framemaker 2015 you simply had to uncheck the use Distiller to generate images. I think graphics are the culprit for the long publishing time as the documents are quite image-heavy. Any input on how I

The past two weeks I switched from W7 to W10 am still fixing strange things. Setting up W10 to what i expect from the system is tedious...Now I'm testing ESTK. I have installed the latest version (Adobe ExtendScript Toolkit CC 4.0.0.1, ExtendScript 4.5.5 Script UI 6.2.2). In my FM-15 I have also installed my graphic library (script suite FMgraph.jsx).Running one of the scripts developed in W7-time reveals a strange behaviour of ESTK:Starting ESTK takes at last twice as long as on W7 (the very same machine!)When I start the script with F5,the diagram (drawing) is complete after 6 seconds, but ESTK is not ready at all for the next run,this is indicataed by the hour glass appearing until second 21!But beware, it takes another 10 seconds until I can really start the script again with F5Leaving ESTK with the X button takes aeons and in most cases the app tilts!See the video (it does not show step 3 and 4) https://daube.ch/zz_tests/W10-ESTK-strange.mp4 BTW it is not possible in this dar

How to split Framemaker document? If 10 pages of framemaker document split  like 1-5 pages in  first document and 6-10 pages in second document using framemaker scripting.Please Suggests if any ideas.

Hi everyone,   I'm trying to publish a FrameMaker book to a Responsive HTML output.   If I try to publish the entire book, none of the formatting carries over and the fonts and tables appear extremely messy . However, I tried doing it file by file and it seems to work fine. Is there any way around this? In terms of altering any settings, I have gone into Publish Settings and selected the Automap Paragraph Styles checkbox.   Thanks very much.

Hi All, Adobe FrameMaker (2019 release) is a complete solution for authoring and publishing technical content. So we need to use the seperate tool for Frame maker Author and Frame maker Publishing server? or Fm2019 is enough ? Thank you.

Hi!Is there a chance that we will ever see a (Last Line) Right Indent in FrameMaker? Not having this is extremly unpractical - especially in TOC's,, Indexes and other generated lists as they need to be edited manually with every update to look nice. InDesign got this feature since a couple of years and it would be great to this this also in FrameMaker in one of the next releases.  

When using Framemaker 2019, I notice that each time I tag a piece of text, the Paragraph Catalog scrolls back to the top of the list of available styles.    Is there a way to get the catalog to stay at a chosen position, or to at least snap to the tag in use? 

Dear all, I'm using Technical Suite 2017 and would like to start using FrameScript. It turned out that I have serial number for FrameScript6 (bought in 2014), but I can't find my installer anymore. The site where it originally comes from doesn't exist anymore either. Can you please tell me if there might be any compatibility issue with it? I installed FrameScript downloaded from http://www.framescript.eu/download/ on my computer, but I wasn't asked to enter any serial number nor FrameScript menu wasn't added to my toolbar in FrameMaker. Do you know any reliable source for FrameScript? I wonder if I have to upgrade to FrameScript7. If you have any ideas, I'd be grateful if you could share them with me. Thanks!

Hi there Is there a way to reuse a mif file from other mif? I have a book with conditional texts and a lot of variables that I assign via mif files. The issue is that mif files also have some common styles defined in them (paragraph, tables, colors, characters etc.) and I want to store this common stuff in a external mif and call it via "import common.mif" or something like that. Is there any support to do this directly in mif format? Thanks a lot for your time

Hi, I want to convert my frameScript code into extends script. And as we know in frameScript most of the functions are predefined and i am not able to find the alternate of those function in ExtendScriptPlease find my frameScript belowSet PlatformEncodingMode = True;Set Displaying = 0;Execute Fc KbdMinimize;Set gvBookName       = Arg1;Set gvMarkerFileName = Arg2;Open Book File (gvBookName) NewVar(bookobj)                BookIsInUse(ResetLockAndContinue)                    FileIsInUse(ResetLockAndContinue)               RefFileNotFound(Cancel)               UpdateXRefs(No)               ReturnF

Hi there   In Table Designer - Shading I can set the color for header and footer but my tables have different colors for each element separately (header black and footer white for example). Currently I have to change the footer with Custom Ruling and Shading for every table I do because changes done with this pod are not stored in the tablet style.    Is there any way to make this better?   Thanks a lot for your time

hi everyone- I'm new to using a cms (SharePoint Online).  My image links in the dita (.xml) files i uploaded are broken.  Our company just moved to SharePoint Online and I was able to connect, setup, and upload files to SharePoint, but when I open the files from the respository manager, I get the 'missing file' message.   I tried uploading, uploading with dependents, and establishing the new path using browse cms for the graphics, but they do not appear.    thx    

Glad to have found my way back to the new forum … as, after (let's say) a considerable time, I have been told a technician will be showing up "really soon" to install my new TC licence. I want to be able to use a full installation of Acrobat, not just have the 'headless' version in FrameMaker; my current platform has Acrobat X Pro and FM 12.What do I need to know before I let the technician loose? do I need to upgrade one piece of software before the other? is it like the old days of simply telling FM not to install headless Acrobat? I look forward to your advice! 

Hi Frame Users, I have a FrameMaker Book with multiple folders containing .fm files. While I'm developing the Book and sending chapters for review, I want to be able to publish only selected folders or files in the Book, not the whole Book file. I don't seem to be able to find out how to do this, can you help? (Framemaker 2019)

I'll meet Kerri next week, if its already ready for FrameMaker.So I'd like to gather some questions from you.

I'm trying to use Doc.Find() to find paragraphs that have changebars. Is Find() advisable generally or should I spend my time using some other method, like iterating through Pgf objects?I'm also assuming that the place to look for changebars is the Pgf objects (Pgf.ChangeBar), not the TextItem objects. Am I on the right track?Thanks,Mark

Hi everyone!I was hoping someone might have some insight on an issue I'm having in FM...So at the beginning of chapters in my document, I have links/cross references to the sections within it (if that makes sense). For example, clicking the New Column link would bring me down to the New Column section (note this is not my table of contents though, that's separate).  Anyways, my issue is that one of my links is being directed to the wrong section in the document... but only when in PDF form. When I'm on Frame and test the cross reference link, it directs me to the correct spot. But as soon as I generate a PDF of the document, it directs me to another spot a few pages above. Neither me nor my coworkers can figure out what's going on here... We've tried regenerating the PDF, deleting the cross reference link, re-entering it, and regenerating the PDF, but none of that works and it looks like all the correct settings have been chosen.  Thank you to anyone who is abl

My framemaker layout needs to have space on top for an intro paragraph that is not in a 2 column layout, however below that intro paragraph I have to enter 2 columns of content and connect the 2 columns. 2 questions: -1) How do I begin a 2 column layout after a standard intro paragraph? -2) How do I get my FM doc to look like Word's View->Weblayout (no seperate pages)   I am looking to recreate this page with dropdown captions and bodies for the partner name drop-downs - https://www.factset.com/third-party-terms   Any advice would be great.

I save my DITA topic files as fm file rather than xml in order to be able to modify the font properties such as color, size, angle etc. The changes stay in the original fm file. However, when I use topicref in a ditabookmap to insert the book chapters, those changes are overwritten in the published PDF with the default DITA format. Is there a way to keep the changes in the final book or I need to customize the original EDD? Hadi

Hi, I have installed FrameMaker 2019, the English version, on Windows 10. Naturally, the DITA templates in ..\Structure\xml\DITA\outputTemplates are installed in English. However, I need these templates in some other foreign languages as well. So, I thought to edit the english texts that appear in the end PDF to those other languages. To this end, I went through the body, master and reference pages. I managed to edit most of the text in other languages. However, some texts seem to be locked, such as the word "chapter" or "Appendix" in the reference page of the TOC template. I would like to have them translated in the corresponding language of the book as well. Is there way to achieve this via FrameMaker?Hadi

Just wrapping up two manuals when suddenly, in any book I update, custom master pages are not applied and are replaced with the default left/right master page, and I have to reapply any custom pages in each book document. When I try to update a book file, in the Book Error Report I get a "No master pages applied because the MasterPageMaps table contains no mapping information."    I've never seen this message in my 25+ years of using Framemaker, and none of my reference pages contain a master page map, and all has been well. So suddenly Framemaker is messing up any book I update. Has anyone else had this problem? I'm using the 2017 online version. Thank you.

I have a copy of the DITA templates in a local directory in order to be able to customize them. For instance, on the title page in stead of the adobe logo, I have an image of a product "by reference". Since this image needs to be replaced for every product, I decided to do this by reference. Now, when I use the publish button in order to generate a book with fm components, FrameMaker creates the fm cmponents in the %temp% folder then generates the pdf in the location that I have specified. One problem with this approach is the fact that the reference of the image is replaced partly by the address of the %temp% folder and partly by the location of the local title page template. Consequently, the images is grayed out. Is there a way to force FrameMaker to create the fm components in a user-defined location or to avoid changing the reference?

Hi,we inserted in FM 12 videos by hypertext link. Now we are switching to FM 2019 and we try to simplify our working methods.Now we insert mp4 files by reference and  generate output.The next images illustrate the problems with HTML5 and chm output.HTML 5 output: the mp4 videos get unreadable after blend out some conditions and/or work with the output filter.chm output: mp4 videos don't start. Did anyone knows the 2problems? do you know a workaround?     

Hello, I'm from Germany. Using Windows 7 and FrameMaker 2019, newest version.Me and my collegue (both on different computers, one in network, the other stand-alone), have following very bad crash problems. Example:A FrameMaker file consists of xx pages. Each page contains tables, graphics, images, and formatted headings/texts. There are no manual page breaks.I want to delete a table on one page, so the image on the next page slides to that page. FrameMaker hangs or freezes.Or: A table on page 2 automatically breaks at the end of the page, so the following lines are on the next page 3. On page 1 I delete 4 lines completely, so the table should "get" the following lines from the next page - crash.Or: On one page there are 3 pictures or graphics, on the next also. If I delete 2 images on one page, FrameMaker should retrieve one or two images from the next page on the resulting space - crash.FramMaker always crashes or freezes when content is to be "fetched" over a page change. Sorry, unfo

I'm the lone technical writer for a team of hardware and software engineers. Our team has used Word for our documentation needs, but I convinced my PM to purchase me a FM license to explore its potential usefulness. I've learned the basics of moving a Word file into FM, and have updated the document I moved to my satisfaction. However, I cannot find any information on how to update a FM file with newer versions of the Word file. This is important because my program has only allowed for one FM license, and my PM doesn't want our engineers to have to learn FM. Rather, they will continue to use Word. When they update a particular document version in Word, I will need to ingest that newer version into the older document version in FM. Is there any easy way to incorporate Word document updates into a FM document?  Thanks! Travis