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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.

Hi there   I have TCS 2019 installed and working flawlessly generating pdf output from FM. Now my goal is to generate both pdf and html outputs from a book written in FM, but I 'm unable to find any specific resources on the Internet that explains in detail the process of linking the source of FM to a Robohelp project, and the basic transformations to fit the content written in FM to this new kind of output.   Could you recommend me any book, web, blog or something that explains it step by step?   Best regards

When trying to generate xhtml or htmlhelp output, the log gives this error: BUILD FAILEDC:\Adobe FrameMaker 2019\fminit\ditafm\DITA-OT\build.xml:41: The following error occurred while executing this line:C:\Adobe FrameMaker 2019\fminit\ditafm\DITA-OT\plugins\org.dita.base\build_preprocess.xml:42: Failed to run pipeline: Illegal character in path at index 8: Creating a new data test.xml#id168ADB010C9/id17C3F0820AD How can I correct this and generate the output successfully? Thanks!

I am a brand new Adobe FM user and I'm using the 2019 version. I know there is a way to preview all pages of a document so that I can adjust page breaks to remove white space as needed. How do I accomplish this in Adobe FM 2019? Thanks in advance,Crystalynn

Hello,When I publish a book using FrameMaker 2019 Publish PDF, my font in FrameMaker (Open Sans SemiBold) appears as Open Sans Light in the PDF and I am getting some unwanted accents on the characters in the PDF. When I switch the font back to Open Sans SemiBold in the PDF, it appears correctly. I have gone to the PDF printer on my laptop and set it to embed this font but it doesn't seem to make a difference, and I am not sure if that would have any impact on the publish engine. This seems to happen whether I Publish to PDF or Save as PDF.Thanks!Christy.

There is a way to automatically alternate the shading body rows in a FrameMaker table, but I have not been able to recall or recreate it. With all body rows selected, I have set the following for Body: First: 1, Dk Grey, Fill: 10% Next: 1, White, Fill: None When I click Apply, all rows remain unshaded. What am I forgetting? (Version 2019 / 15.0.3.603)

Hey gang,I've got a multi-file book in FM 11 that requires that page, paragraph, figure and table numbers be sequential (3.1-1, 3.1-2, etc.) across files.  The page and paragraph number issues were fairly simple: Format > Document > Numbering, continue numbering from previous chapter, update the book and Bob's your uncle.  Now, the relevant paragraph numbering is as follows:H:<$chapnum>.<n+>.< =0>< =0>\tThe figure and table numbers are tougher; using the following formatH:Table (or Figure) <$chapnum>.<n>< >< >-<n+>\tI can get the paragraph numbers to work out, but the individual figure/table numbers restart at 1 in each file.  The issue is that there's nothing telling FM to continue numbering the tables or figures from the previous file in the book, but I can't figure out how to do it.  Any ideas?Regards,-terry-

Does embedding video in pdf work in FrameMaker 2019 Rel. 15.0.4.751?I have been trying with numerous different mp4 files, and I can make the pdf show a videoicon, and have it activate "finger above icon", but I can not make it play videos from the pdf. I can see that there has been another unresolved question on this forum before, but that was a former version of FrameMaker.Would anybody have tried making it work in this version (15.0.4.751)? Best regardsBjørn