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Hello, I need to insert in the boilerplate page a barcode for the user guide.I see there's an option to insert QR codes, but don't see any for barcodes.How is this done?All advice greatly welcome!Donna

Hello everyone. Hopefully someone can help me with my problems.I had created a book file with documents containing other book files.The general ledger has a table of contents and the books in the general ledger also.My problem now is, when I save as.pdf, the main table of contents is exported, but the other "slave" table of contents is not. Are there any settings I need to make?Thanks for the helpPatrick.

Hi,I am facing an issue in FrameMaker. Actually, I have an automation flow in which I am opening a book file and reading all the markers from it using frameScript.Everything is working fine but sometimes I faced an error in FrameMaker about the reconfiguration of printer please find the screenshot.Error: Can't find a compatible default printer. Try reconfiguring your printer setup in the control panel.I don't understand why FrameMaker is concerned about the printer. And when this error comes I have to manually close everything and re-start the Automation flow. This error is very unexpected sometimes it comes and sometimes not. We don't understand why it is coming.

I am trying to use the DITA specific Troubleshooting topic. I have created  number of troubleshooting topics using the template. I have then added these to my ditamap. Upon publishing, the headings do not follow the prescribed structure of other topics. The headings within the topic do not cascade down, but remain H1 level. AC Input Back Feed Failure should be 11.1, Cause should be 11.1.1, Remedy 11.1.2.I understand if I need to customize this myself - but not sure were to go about doing this. Is this controlled by the EDD for this topic type, or is it controlled by the template?

We are using FrameMaker 2019 and are looking to publish our next document. While the publishing is faster and somewhat easier, I'm getting unwanted Dita labels in my output, mainly the Context and Result labels that are associated with Dita tasks. I understand I may need to remove these from my FM template files - is this correct? Can I turn off just Context or Result, or both? And how would I go about removing these labels? Many thanks!

My Framemaker 2015/2017 crashed again last week, and I cannot open any file with the domain user, but the fm file can be opened by the local admin user account.The crash occurs frequently when my operation is related to copy and paste graphics into a fm file.Any solution?

Hi there,maybe someone encountered this already:the new publish to PDF does not work at all... the function starts generating output and the log file says all is fine.However, the PDF file is nowhere at all.Saving as PDF... does not work anymore either, which was just working fine in 2017.What could be the issue?

Dear all,I want to add a new document to a book and use the last *.fm document (bookfile_3.fm) as template for this:oTplDoc = GetLastDocInBook (oBook);           // use this a a templateoEnDoc  = SimpleNewDoc (oTplDoc.Name, 0);     // not interactivesEnDocPath = GetDocPath (oBook);              // save new file in book directoryoEnDoc.SimpleSave (sEnDocPath + "\\" + goTxtN.Fno_EndnotesInBk_01 + ".fm", 0); // can overwriteAddComponentToBook (oBook, oEnDoc);This all works fine, but the new document named "endnotes.fm" is not empty, but a complete copy of the bookfile_3.fmFDK docu reads: F_ApiSimpleNewDoc() creates a new document from a specified template.Are templates assumed to be empty (have no text in the frame)?How can I simply delete the contents in the oEnDoc ?I want to get the properties only (including of course the layout).Ideas are welcome.

I want to add multiple lines of text (each ending with \n) to the first paragraph in a document and then add a table after that. I can create the doc and table but there is only 1 line in the paragraph and the rest of the lines are there but covered up by the table.     doc = app.ActiveDoc;     var textLoc, tbl;     textLoc = new TextLoc (doc,MainFlowInDoc.FirstTextFrameInFlow.FirstPgf, 0);     doc.AddText (textLoc, multipleLineStringVariable );     //This works but only shows 1 line in the paragraph which makes sense     //textLoc = new TextLoc (doc.MainFlowInDoc.FirstTextFrameInFlow.FirstPgf, 0);     //My first attempt at using a Constant and this line crashed FrameMaker     textLoc = new TextLoc (doc.MainFlowInDoc.FirstTextFrameInFlow.FirstPgf, Constants.FV_OBJ_END_OFFSET);     // NewTable(format, numCols,

Hey friends. I'm working on a monster (2000 page) document which has any number of idiosyncrasies, but the newest is a new auto file is generated EVERY time I save. So every time I saved "Chapter 04.fm" I got a popup saying the file had been changed since it last opened (duh, since I was saving it). When I finally closed for the days, I had about 200 auto files that looked like this:Chapter 04.auto.fm.auto.4AF.CB5It didn't have the brown and orange FM icon next to it but I archived the Chapter 4.fm (from 7:15 this morning), deleted the rest of them, and renamed the above to Chapter 04.fm. It appears to be fine and opens without issue but come on! ANOTHER auto file is created.What is going on here? Any idea?

Hi there, i am unable to embed an .mp4 video file into a structured Framemaker document.For some reason FM ignores the files completely, even though the import has been done viaimport file - once as copied into document - once with link to sourcethen set poster image save then save as .pdfthen publish as Responsive HTML 5Once I managed to create a .pdf file where at least one video worked, but not the other one, but with publishing it was hopeless... The imported files even disappear from the saved .xml.Support was as "helpful" as usual... So could anyone please help me fix this?Cheers

     i am not able to create PDF in Framemaker 2019 given error Frame Maker could not find Adobe PDF printer instance

In previous versions of FM, it was possible to add automatically bookmarks within a generated Index. This seems to be lost in the latest version.I have a document that has an Index containing 77 pages in the current version, which I update almost daily. Until FM2019, I was able to have bookmarks that subdivided the Index alphabetically, which saved a lot of scrolling. Does anyone have a work around that could restore that facility??

I want to swap the position of 2x pages in my unstructured document, but I don't see an easy way to do it - and I don't know all the ins and outs of Framemaker either.Is it possible to do a live session with someone - where I can show my document and what I am trying to achieve? - preferably with assistance on which menu options to pick, to get the job done.I am using FM 2015 Version 13.0.2.433Hope someone can help, as I feel like I'm bashing my head against a brick wall, in trying to find the solution myself.

Tables come up with a title of "Table 1:", how do I change that to be more meaningful like "Sale Projections by Region"?  //Create the table   var textLoc, tbl;      textLoc = new TextLoc (doc.MainFlowInDoc.FirstTextFrameInFlow.FirstPgf, 0);      // NewTable(format, numCols, numBodyRows, numHeaderRows, numFooterRows, textLoc)    tbl = doc.NewTable ("Format A", 4, 10, 1, 0, textLoc);  //Change the table title from "Table 1:" to "Sale Projections by Region" ???

Hello,I am finally getting my feet wet using DITA keys. I understand the basic principle, bu cannot get it to work they way I understand that it should.I have defined a couple of keywords in an keyspace (ditamap). When I go inside my DITA topic, I cannot see an option to insert "keyref", only "conref". Confref works in calling up my keyword, but it does not use the keyref and product attribute, rather it creates a random ID and uses they keyword element. I guess this works fine, but I cannot tell from my code view what I am looking at, all I see is an ID. What I would like to see is this: <ph keyref="product" product="name"/> ,but what I am getting is this: <keyword  conref="Keyspace.ditamap#id197JG0Q10UI"></keyword>I hope this makes sense. I am getting close, but wondering if I am doing something wrong. Thanks!

Hello fellow scripters,I am trying to get a script include a TOC in a generated book. I can add the new BookComponent (copied from a template file) as a TOC, set it to generatable and include it in the update process, but all I get is an empty TOC, as the ExtractTags property of the new BookComponent is not set. I tried to set this property by passing it a string array but that action is completely ignored. Then I got the propVals array and tried to set the property there, then pass back the propVals. That is where FM12 hangs up and I have to restart it to become responsive again.This is the piece of code I am using:oaProps = oComp.GetProps ( );i = GetPropIndex ( oaProps, Constants.FP_ExtractTags );oaProps.propVal.ssval.push ( "Title_0" );oaProps.propVal.ssval.push ( "Title_1" );oaProps.propVal.ssval.push ( "Title_2" );oComp.SetProps ( oaProps );Maybe I am doing something illegal here but the local copy of my properties does show the strings as I push them into the ssval array. There m

In Framemaker, how to link to a pdf file?

I need to have the TOC and Index to be in a sub-folder below the folder that contains the book file. I have tried creating a book in the same sub-folder, then using Save Book As.. to save it to the correct folder, but this also changes the path of the Index and the TOC to that folder. You cannot do a Save As on either of the generated files. Is there a way to put them in different folders?

Hello,I am trying to write a script that does the following:Asks the user for a folder path.Loops through all of the .mif files in this folder.Opens, modifies, and saves each file.I know how to do 1 and 3, but have no idea how to do #2. I have used the following code to get all files, but can't differentiate mif files.var myFolder = Folder.selectDialog ("Select a folder");var files = myFolder.getFiles();I would appreciate help figuring this out.Thank you,Joseph

I opened a New document and began writing. I completed two pages. Then, for some reason, I could no longer enter text or perform any type of editing. When I tried a Save or anything else, I saw that this was now considered a View Only file. There was no way to change it back because the file doesn't exist on the computer so there is no lock file to reset. A search of the entire computer for "Untitled1.fm" was negative. I can't even select text to copy into another file. I am using FM version 10.0.2.419.

I can't get an external cross reference to appear in my XML.  I think I'm doing everything discussed in the discussion "Preserving cross-references to/from XML", but I must not be.  I start with an unstructured document with a cross reference to another document. I structure the document using a conversion file and EDD I imported into the template and the cross reference appears successfully in the GUI (but there's no ID attribute,  Idref = <no value>).When I export the XML, there's no source file or ID for external cross references, but the internal cross references are getting saved in the XML.Where should I be looking for what I'm doing wrong?  Is it the missing attribute from when I did the conversion?Thanks, Jed

Hello,I have a book created in FrameMaker 10.All text was sorted has font size 10 and  Times New Roman.However some paragraphs on several pages appear to have a  large size and a different shape from Times New Roman. When selecting the offending text it still appears to have size 10 and Times New Roman.  I am having  to re-type again but this is quite  laborious as the book is  really large and re-selecting the offending text  and  making it same size and font  type as the rest does not seem to make any difference.Can you please help?regardsJoe

How can I set the .pdf output document to print the current date on each printed page?I have a requirement that the output document from Framemaker 2019 be in .pdf format with hyper linked cross references. I intend the document to be available to the customer from our company portal. It can be viewed on the portal or pages can be printed. If pages are printed they must be date stamped with the current date. ie, the date the pages were printed. This will tie the pages with the Revision status of the document and give some control over printed copies.I have looked through the help section and also looked at the Acrobat DC help and a lot of the references to this are quite old. Is someone able to help me with this or perhaps point me to where this is explained?

How do I navigate a table and add data to it? For instance:var hero = ['Superman', 'Spiderman', 'Wonder Woman'];var fName = ['Clark', 'Peter', 'Diana'];var lName = ['Kent', 'Parker', 'Prince'];to