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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

I`m using since several years FrameMaker 8 and now I want to change to the current release of FrameMaker (Release 2019). Is the newest release able to open files from FrameMaker 8 or do I need a converting tool?   [Moved from generic Start/Help forum to the specific Program forum... Mod][To find a forum for your program please start at https://community.adobe.com/]

Hi All,I like to remove with an ESTK file all changes bars of a FM file.If the Doc.ClearAllChangebars() command may be used to clear the global change bar setting of a FM file, it does not remove nor change any CharTag that may use a ChangeBar style defined in the Character Catalog.I am able to find all CharTags equal to ChangeBar in a FM file and get its character string.But I am stuck to change a CharTag font definition and set it equivalent to the definition of <Default Para Font> of the Character Catalog.Have you any suggestion to do it?Thanks,JM

something happened, and now it does not do "Save as PDF"   erros message "Framemaker could not find Adobe PDF printer instance, which must be installed to execute Save as PDF command."   I did reinstalling FrameMaker 2019 (64b), but no change.  FM does print to PDF.

I'm working with a re-installed version of FM 2017 on files/books that were completed by the previous tech writer. I'm in the process of creating new files to add to the book - everytime I try to save, I Save As .fm, but when I go to the source folder, the document is listed as a .PDF.  All the other files saved by the previous writer are listed as .fm docs.  I have scoured the forums for any insight as to why this might be happening but have not been able to find any information. Any help would be appreciated!

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!