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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?

I have Frame Maker 2019 and I received a FM12 book with several FM files to be translated. Which MIF version is the most suitable to be used for translation (MIF 7.0 or MIF 2019)? Moreover, is there a simple way to save all FM files as MIF all at once without installing any external plug-ins?

Hi Guys,I have a  document which worked correctly before. I have  just updated it and when I tried to update the numbering  ( using Format), the numbers from chapter 2 onwards revers to roman numerals numbering instead  of following on from  normal numbers.  The fist chapter is the control  and  has numbers from 1-24.  I have checked the format many times but nothing works: remaining chapters revert to  roman numerals.regardsJoe

I am creating a German Language template in FM. I chose German- Germany (2006 Reform) for my language and received the following error in the console:"The hyphenation provider Duden for the language German - Germany (2006 Reform) does not match the session settings.New dictionary settings will apply, which may affect the text layout."I am not sure how to proceed since this is the recommend flavor of German to use from our translators. Any ideas?

Hi thereI have a book with very large text files with a lot of lines and words marked with character tags. Deleting the tag from the catalog don't help and the only way I know to do this task is using "default font" but this tag delete all styles and I want simply stripe the tag, and of course it's very slow.Saving the file as mif and opening with notepad++ and deleting tags is a way but I have a lot of files and also it's very slow.Is there a way in Framemaker 2019 to automate this task?Thanks a lot for your time.

I've managed to install FM 2017 on Windows 10, although I did have to uninstall and delete everything Adobe from my machine to get it to work.It started well.  I opened a book file, it asked me if I wanted to convert to the new format, and I clicked OK.  Then I wanted to work through all the files to convert them all, but at the fourth file it all went wrong.  I clicked OK to convert, and FM shut down.  Now it does the same thing with every file I try to open. There's no error message.  The file opens but is blank, the little blue circle turns for a second or two, and then it all disappears.  This happens even for the smallest files (one page of text) that don't have graphics or anything complicated.If anyone has any suggestions, I would be very grateful!Thank you

I'm trying to produce a book. I've produced several others with no problems, but one is not cooperating for the TOC, LOF, and LOT. They don't show up as the brighter orange files in the book view, and they don't generate. All items get labeled 1. Also, in the Update Book window, the Generate field is blank. The structure seems okay and the book validates.

I am trying to set the Page Numbering property of a book component using this script:var book = app.ActiveBook;var bookComp = book.FirstComponentInBook;bookComp = bookComp.NextBookComponentInDFSOrder;var compProps, i; compProps= bookComp.GetProps();i = GetPropIndex(compProps, Constants.FP_PageNumStyle);  compProps.propVal.ival = Constants.FV_PAGE_NUM_ROMAN_LC;bookComp.SetProps(compProps);When stepping through the script in debug it gets to the last line and then hangs forever and Framemaker becomes unresponsive.I am able to change the PageNumStyle using this line:bookComp.PageNumStyle = Constants.FV_PAGE_NUM_ROMAN_LC;But that does not apply the setting to the component.How do I apply the setting once I have changed it?

This is my Framemaker book to PDF saving function:function saveToPDF(fileObject, savePath) {          var saveParams, i;         saveParams= GetSaveDefaultParams();          i = GetPropIndex(saveParams, Constants.FS_FileType);      saveParams.propVal.ival = Constants.FV_SaveFmtPdf;        var saveAsName = savePath;      var returnParamsp = new PropVals();      fileObject.Save(saveAsName, saveParams, returnParamsp);    }When I execute this function Framemaker opens the Adobe PDF Distiller which then creates the PDF.However if I am doing this process manually I open the book go to the File menu and select "Save as PDF".  Using this method Framemaker does not launch the Distiller, it creates the pdf without using any external application.  This generates PDFs much faster.Is the

Will autodesk vault be supported as CMS ?

I am working on a script to save multiple framemaker book files as PDFs.  The books successfully save to PDF, but the element boundaries are displayed as tags in the pdf.I have tired both:app.ActiveDoc.ElementBoundaryDisplay = 0andapp.ActiveBook.ElementBoundaryDisplay = 0while the book is open in Framemaker.  Neither work.This is my PDF saving function:function saveToPDF(fileObject, savePath) {      var saveParams, i;     saveParams= GetSaveDefaultParams();          i = GetPropIndex(saveParams, Constants.FS_FileType);      saveParams.propVal.ival = Constants.FV_SaveFmtPdf;        var saveAsName = savePath;      var returnParamsp = new PropVals();      fileObject.Save(saveAsName, saveParams, returnParamsp);  }  Any ideas on how to make sure element boundary display is turned off in an active book?

Hello,I'm trying to create a PDF with registration marks out of FrameMaker (FM 2019). Using the publish tool, I get a PDF with registration marks on all the pages except the back cover.The back cover is no different than the other pages in my book in term of size and settings, so I don't understand what is going on.Has anyone encountered a similar issue?Also, is there another way beside 'file - publish' to add registration marks to a PDF in FM 2019? I used to be able to use the print setup/PDF setup functions (in FM2010) but it doesn't seem to work that way anymore.Thanks,

Hello! I searched this forum for a while, so sorry if this has been asked before. If I'm using FrameMaker 2017, do I need Robohelp to generate Context Sensitive Help (CSH)? Thanks,

Hi,I'm working on FrameMaker8.  It was working fine on Friday.  Now it's Monday morning and I have two problems:1. In some books I can open the .book file but not any other files.  They give a serious internal error and there is no way to continue.2. In other books FM opens the files with no problem, it stays open for a couple of seconds, then the whole thing just disappears.  It's not on the task bar at the bottom of the screen, and it's not in Task Manager.  It just closes, with no message or anything.I've uninstalled FrameMaker8 and reinstalled it.  I've rebooted my machine several times, but the problem persists.  I can't work at all!If anyone has any suggestions for a solution, I would be very grateful.Thank you very much,Mairi Jane

I need to know if there's a way to get the Artboard number from an "Imported by Reference" Adobe Illustrator file?By looking at the Object Properties while the imported by Reference AI graphic is selected, I can see the file location and also the Artboard number, as shown below:When getting the file location using InsetFile, the artboard number does not show as part of the file location.Thanks.

Hi, our company is upgrading us to FrameMaker 2019 and we already have FrameMaker 2015 installed.Will we be able to run both versions simultaneously?  (We could this with FrameMaker 11 and FrameMaker 2015, so I hope that is still the case.)Thanks!

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 fifth (and I think the last) such new discussion.Trevor, you used maker.ini to change FM's structure directory in order to avoid permission issues when changing files within $STRUCTDIR. There's nothing wrong with doing so, but there are other ways to organize your files. In particular, you can place the files needed for your own applications in any convenient directories. They don't have to be placed in new subdirectories of $STRUCTDIR. In fact, your application definition files don't even have to be named structapps.fm. I typically have a directory for each of my active projects; a directory named project1 contains a file named project1.app, directory project2 contains

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 third such new discussion.Trevor asked "Should the pre-processor even be executed when creating New documents?"The result of the New XML command is a WYSIWYG document almost like the document that results from using File > New and selecting the template. The difference is that the result of New XML stores the fact that it should be saved as an XML document while New does not. An XML document cannot be empty. I believe that FM in effect creates an XML document containing a minimal number of elements and then opens that document with the chosen application. If that application has a pre-process, then FM  runs the pre-process just like it would when opening any oth

We are using FrameMaker 2019 to convert our pdf files into usable Flare 2019 files and we keep getting these messages: What can we do to get these two programs to communicate with each other.

Hi guys, We are two technical writers writing and managing software technical documentation. Currently we are looking for a new content management tool which proves to be more structured, streamlined, bug-free and Microsoft Word-free than our current solution (AuthorIT).Our needs are quite simple:  1) We need to create and publish online (HTML) Help and PDF files regularly. When writing, we should be able to share one another's files (topics, books).  2) We need to prepare both the English and German outputs so we need a localization-friendly tool/solution. 3) We need to transfer our big legacy content (about 6000 norm pages when published into DOC or  PDF files) from our current tool into a new tool with as little effort as possible.   Is FrameMaker ticking all these check boxes? Is it able to satisfy these simple workflow requirements?  I can see that Adobe offers "FrameMaker+DITA" or "XML Documentation for Adobe Experience Manager" as a potential soluti