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Hi, I have a problem using the "Save as pdf" function in Adobe FM 2019 x64. When this function was used to save a book, the following error message was returned in the console window:Then I tried to troubleshoot the problem by checking if the Adobe PDF printer was created. It was not. I also found distiller was not installed together with FM. Although the installation file for distiller was included in the installation package, I could not install it separately. I have reinstall FM several times but still cannot fix the problem.What is the root cause for this problem? Could it be that I am using an old windows version?My OS info is shown as follows:  Windows 10 Enterprise Version 1511 (OS build 10586.1540)

I am trying to learn Structured FrameMaker. Is it possible/legal/safe to start two copies of FrameMaker on my PC at the same time? Specifically I want to have one copy open in Structured FM to experiment and the other copy in Unstructured to take notes on what I am learning. I am trying to see if I understand the concepts by writing up a tutorial but I do not want to be locked into structured mode when do not have a template which covers all of my needs ( I am still figuring them out) and I do not yet really understand what the structured templates do. Will the documents save by the rules of the window they are in? What other problems will/could I encounter? Thanks, Marjorie

Hi,I am getting TextItems out of an element using:     currentElem.GetText(Constants.FTF_ALL);I am then modifying the sdata for some of the items, and want to write this structure back into the element I got it from.If I just use doc.Clear then doc.AddText, I have to pass in a string, and thus lose all the markers, anchors etc in the TextItems.I can't find a documented way to pass in TextItems to a function, anyone got ideas/workarounds to preserve the non-string text items?Or a way to modify the TextItems on an object directly?Thanks in advance,Dan

The list of file names (Framemaker 19) suddenly changed to a very small font. Everything else is normal (POD font sizes, etc.). How do I change the list of files in the book listing back to normal?

It has been years since I've had to make a completely new cover-page layout, but the wind of change is blowing … I started from an existing cover, of course, and set up new styles for the first and second lines in the header. Results satisfying close to what I was aiming for.But then I switched from master-page view to body-page view, applying the same master-page I'd just finished: and the header doesn't appear! I really have no idea what's going on, and would welcome advice.By the way, Belgian holiday patterns mean I'll be out of office Thursday and Friday – so don't take it wrong if I don't reply to your input / solutions till Monday.

Dear all,I have now tracked down a strange error/problem in my large script to the following. I can not see why this happens:(line 05 active) Running via menu selection the message in the palette is black(line 06 active) Running without this menu the message is presented in red as ecpected due to line 42.Any 'enlighment' is welcome.Klaus// ColouredMessage.jsx --- 2019-06-01// Why is the message in palette AssignProperties red only after some button activity?// No "#target framemaker" required for this testFgr_DebugMenu ();//Fgr_PalAssignProperties ();function Fgr_DebugMenu () { //=== Bypassing the FM menu handler to be able to debug ===============var aMenuItems, listIndex, Fgr_wDebug;  aMenuItems = [  "Fgr_PalAssignProperties()"];   // 0  Fgr_wDebug = new Window("dialog", "Menu broken down to the bare minimum",undefined);  Fgr_wDebug.location= [200,200];  Fgr_wDebug.t1 = Fgr_wDebug.add ("statictext", undefined, "Select by DOUBLE click", {multiline:tr

Hello,This is probably a fairly simple thing to do, but so far, I'm having trouble doing it. I'd like to create a hyperlink in my Frame document to an external PDF. I'm using FM 2019. I've tried using Insert > Hypertext but I'm not sure which command to use and also, how to reference the PDF to which I want to link. Thanks in advance.Bob

I have a table styling with a thick rule at the top, but as the thick rule is placed inside the cell, it makes the vertical spacing appear inconsistent e.g 'GBP row below has less space above than the other currencies, due to the thick rule taking up the space above. Please don't suggest making the first row a header row and adding extra padding to that styling, that would involve completely re-writing the source data.

Hi,In my powerpoint file I've implemented a macro that allows users to easily send feedback on a specific page. The macro creates and Outlook application email with all the details of the relevant page for which the feedback is being sent, and only requires users to key in their comments and send it.Is it also possible in a PDF file created by FrameMaker?

I'm trying to generate a book with different sized pages for each file. For some reason this is not working for me. I'm using two sizes. 8.5x11 and 17x11. Everything I try doesn't stop the cropping of 17x11 pages. Any help?

Hi, Just wondering if anyone has ran into this. We rely on the convert to table function in FM for large spreadsheets but dont use simpletable. As a result we have to do a bunch of post processing in the XML to convert the tables to the table format. Anyone have a workaround? I havent been ale to find anything in the documentation or other online resources. Thanks.

Dear friends,This time I wanted just to go through the anchored frames in a document. The document contains at least 25 of them and all have a User String.I fail  with getting the next object with property NextAFrame.The following script just lists the current frame from which I start. I list also H in case ther is no User String.// TraverseFrames.jsx  2019-05-27#target framemakerTraverseFrames();function TraverseFrames() {var oFrame, oObject, oDoc=app.ActiveDoc;$.bp(true);  oObject = oDoc.FirstSelectedGraphicInDoc;  if (!oObject.ObjectValid()) {    $.writeln ("No or invalid object is selected.");    return;  }  if (oObject.constructor.name == "AFrame") {    oFrame = oObject;    $.writeln(oFrame.UserString + " H= " + oFrame.Height);    oFrame = oFrame.NextAFrame;    while (oFrame.ObjectValid()) {      $.writeln(oFrame.UserString + " H= " + oFr

I have to repeat the same tables in my document, and I'd like to use an hyperlink or whatever could avoid me to correct these tables one by one in the future. Does somebody know how to do that ?Thanksvalérie

In Re: Creating a new document from the Welcome screen, doesn't , Trevor-Nicholls commented "Frame's formatting facilities are largely superfluous to our needs (although the EDD I maintain tries to approximate the same appearance for the WYSIWYG editing). Structured Frame might seem like overkill for us but it has been much better than alternative XML editors we have tried, for substantial editing at least."Trevor, I'd be interested to hear what makes FM better for you than other XML editors.My own opinion is:1) XML is a linear representation (a sequence of characters) of a hierarchy. Any editor that let's a user edit the characters in an XML document can create a document that is not well-formed. In contrast, a structured FM document is a hierarchy of elements; it can only create well-formed structures. Unmatched start- and end-tags, missing or incorrect delimiters, and so forth just are not possible.2) Even after 34 years of working with SGML and XML documents, when I am reading them

Trevor-Nicholls started a discussion last month on creating an XML document from the welcome screen (Re: Creating a new document from the Welcome screen, doesn't ). That discussion has grown to include several related topics, so I am splitting my responses in new discussions specific to individual subtopics. This is the second such new discussion.One of his comments included "... in this configuration Frame seems to be creating img1.mif, img2.mif files which it wasn't before. Where might they be coming from?"I suspect they are coming from anchored frames in the saved document. FM represents a graphic in XML with a reference to a file containing the graphic. The reference can either be a filename or the name of an external data entity that itself names the graphic entity. If the anchored frame contains a single imported image, the XML representation identifies the imported file. If the anchored frame consists solely of objects drawn with the FM drawing tools, multiple imported images, a

Trevor-Nicholls started a discussion last month on creating an XML document from the welcome screen (Re: Creating a new document from the Welcome screen, doesn't ). That discussion has grown to include several related topics, so I am splitting my responses in new discussions specific to individual subtopics. This is the fourth such new discussion.Trevor, the temporary files used for XSLT output in a pre-process and for XSLT input in a post-process are stored in the users %temp% directory, not the directory where the input or final output is stored. If you do not want to use absolute pathnames, or if you want different paths for different users, consider defining a parameter in the Preprocessing element to contain the directory name.    --Lynne

I keep getting an error whenever I try opening a book file in FrameMaker 2017. The error is as follows ;Internal error 14004, 19171970, 19170129, 26122431. FrameMaker has detected a serious problem and must quit.I am able to open a document. But if I go the File> New > Book to create a book, it doesn't work. Can anyone help me with this problem.[Here is the list of all Adobe forums... https://forums.adobe.com/welcome][Comments is to ask about the operation of the Forum, not a specific program][Moved from the Comments forum to the specific Program forum... Mod]

We are trying to centralize the location of our content, but I have not had success uploading FrameMaker book files to our SharePoint libraries either using SharePoint itself or the connector in FrameMaker.If I upload the book file and its dependent files in the SharePoint interface, I can find no way to actually associate the individual files with the book file.When I upload the book file using the connector, the individual files are associated with the book file, but I cannot add properties (metadata) to the individual files or check them in to the SharePoint repository. I can perform these tasks with the book file, but checking in the book file does not check in the individual files.Has anyone else run into this issue? If so, how did you solve it?Thanks

Hello,I need to find the folder where the graphic files are stored for a certain book.For example, the book location is: \pathToBook\myBook.book and imported graphic files reside in the "Images" folder as in: \pathToBook\Images\.I need to work on legacy books where this folder can be either "Images", "Illustrations", "Resources", "References", "XX", etc.I'm thinking on parsing each component on the book and look for oGraphic.InsetFile for each imported and look for commonalities.Do you think this is a good approach?Is there a way to create an LOR for "Imported Graphics" with code? And, read the path to the file from there...Thanks in advance!

I am a long-time user of FM and recently upgraded to the 2019 Version. I am having several problems with editing graphics. 1) When I use the mouse to draw a box around graphic elements, some elements cannot be selected, even though they are not grouped with anything else. They can be selected individually by clicking on the element. This makes it difficult to select a group of similar elements.2) I have a page with no text frames and a master page with no frames at all. I used Select all on Page to select all the graphic elements on that page. I then used Group to group them together. The grouped object is wider and taller than the collection of objects selected. In other words, additional white space to the left and above the group was included all the way to the left and top edges of the page. This space interferes with the align function (it aligns the white space) and the scale function (scaling includes the extra space). The upshot is graphics are almost uneditable.Can anyone help

I have images (.png) set as background images for templates. When I complete the book and publish for Responsive HTML, the cover page that contains the background images do not display. I verified that "Use Distiller to create images" is not checked in my Publish Settings-Style Mapping-Image Settings. The document is Unstructured, if that matters. Thank you for your time and assistance.

Looking for simple Responsive HTML5 OLH template with side TOC. 

Hi,I am in the process of trying to create CSH in a FM 2017 document. I have added the TopicAlias markers to the appropriate areas in the document and have created a .h file with those entries. The .h file exists in the same folder as the source document. When I publish the document as Responsive HTML 5, I don't see any indication in the output that the text is marked as CSH. Am I missing something here? Is there a way to check that the markers and CSH will appear correctly before I pass off the document to a developer to finish the process?Thank you for any help!Cheers,Elizabeth

I am a new user. When I create a numbered list and one of the items has a lettered sub list, the continuing numbered list takes account of the lettered items and starts numbering from there, not from the previous number. How do I get around this? Also, I want the lettered list to start at a), the pic shows how I have the style set up for this. I am having trouble forcing it to do this unless I use a=1 which is what I suspect is the part of the problem in the first part of my question. Thanks.

I have FrameMaker 2019 running on Windows 7.  I installed FrameMaker successfully.  I want to change some of the Preferences and as soon as I select Preferences, FrameMaker crashes.  Two other writers in my group have exactly the same problem. I have tried re-installing FrameMaker and checked for updates.  Any idea what to try next?