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Beginning with FM 2017 (almost as soon as I upgraded to 2017) and continuing into version 2019 (which I really hoped would solve the problem, with 64 bit), FrameMaker crashes repeatedly when I try to open more than a single file at a time. It sometimes will go 2-3 weeks without doing it, but then it resumes and crashes over and over again, all day every day for weeks. I have never discerned any patterns to when it does and doesn't crash.I use unstructured FrameMaker.It has done it on multiple laptops (currently running Windows 10 Pro on an Intel Core 2.80GHz processor, 64 bit, with 32 GB RAM. NVIDIA graphics). The laptop I was using when it first started started doing it was probably running Windows 8.1, but that was a while ago and I can't swear to it.I keep on top of FM updates, and none of them has ever solved the problem. When it gets really bad and won't even restore the previous session before crashing again, sometimes rebooting the laptop "shocks" it into behaving better for a l

One of those days when you open a document you haven't seen for years and find yourself confronting a new question :-}fileA.fm includes a text inset for content used by several .fm filesinset.fm contains about a page of content, including a heading we'll call HfileB.fm needs to include a cross-reference to heading HWhen I generate the .book, fileB includes the cross-reference, which correctly opens fileA in FrameMaker – but the book error report identifies it as 'unresolved', and the cross-ref is not delivered as a hyperlink when I save the .book as a .pdf.Is this an artefact of working with a text inset? is there some subtlety I'm missing? I'd obviously prefer to have working hyperlinks and no book errors.

yesterday: tidied up text pasted in from a web site, which arrived with its own curly quotes, by adding some out-of-the-box FM italics just as a local override. (in my defence, I'll say the file was for one-time use)today: finishing the activity, I noticed that out-of-the-box save as xml had absent-mindedly (or high-mindedly, even) discarded these local italics. Not a problem, I thought; I'll use Find > Character format. The first few hits were correct … but as I continued through the document I noticed that the search was hitting every curly quote. And what do you know: the character designer says they're italicised.question: how do I run a find/replace on the combination of character and formatting, to replace all italicised curly quotes with roman?question: say I patiently go through and apply a proper style to all the words that need to be italicised – how do I remove all mere local overrides and leave this 'official' formatting intact?Still stuck on FM12, if that makes any diff

Hi,Using the current FM which I downloaded a couple of weeks ago. I have a custom application (using TEI P4). In the Structured Application Designer, I can select my application, but then I always get a dialogue saying "Unsaved changes in current application: continue?" which is disconcerting. Ignoring this message, I get a dialogue which includes the settings I have specified, with one exception. This is "EDD (optional)", which is always blank. I can specify it, and save the result, but when I re-open the dialogue it is blank once again. I have tried to edit the structapp.fm file directly, but don't see an element which is obviously designed to hold the path to the EDD. So that's one problem: it means that I have to do "File - Import - Element definitions" each time to load the EDD. Furthermore, before I do this I have to actually open the EDD by hand, otherwise it does not appear as an option in the Import Element Definitions dialogue.Similarly, I have specified two custom colours, w

Trying to learn how to create cross-references in an unstructured document in Framemaker 2019. I believe that I followed directions, but the result is this:The first four of these components are shown in “The first four of these components are shown in Figure 2-1.” on page 1Figure 2-1.Why does it appear this way when I insert the cross-reference?

Yeah, that sounds cryptic 🙂So... I have a book from which I generate four targets -- 2 pdf (via print book) and 2 xhtml (via publish). Yes, I know I can do pdf via publish as well, just haven't tried it yet.Anyway... I've come across two bits of weirdness in FM2019 vs FM2015 (this is my first time generating these targets in fm2019, worked fine in fm2015):Weirdness #1: Generated xhtml perfectly, except I noticed that I had an error in a piece of text an associated image in one of my chapters (.fm file). Went into the chapter, fixed the text, altered the image (specifically, a callout in the image), and regenerated the output. Viewed the output and ... the text and image hadn't changed.So... I cleared the output folder (f:\testing\target1) and regenerated again. Viewed the output... still the same text and image.Cleared the output folder again, closed Framemaker, reopened, opened the book, regenerated, viewed output and it was fine.Why is it not accepting the text/image change,

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I noticed that the content in one of my chapters is shifting when I save the .book as a PDF. In FM, Section 21.18 appears on page 21-80 (and this is what is reflected in the TOC as well). However, when I PDF the book, the content in Chapter 21 shifts, and Section 21.18 appears on page 21-79 of the PDF. How is this happening, and how can I stop it?? I am using FM 2015 and the "save as PDF" method.Thank you!

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Does anyone know if there is a way that leader lines can be automatically justified in an auto-generated TOC, LOF, LOT, etc?  I'd like for them to simply line up against the right margin but they will not. Please see below.

For purposes of creating xrefs, I have added "hidden" numbers at the end of several paragraph tags. By hidden I mean that they are in a 2-point font, the text is set to a special color (white, but named "zhidden_numbers" and set in the color view to Invisible), and the background is set to white. Up until the beginning of this month, those numbers did NOT show up in the bookmarks panel when I generated a PDF.Now they are. I don't want them there. What changed, and how do I fix it?(NB: I am cross-posting this to the FrameUsers list.)

Hi All, I am doing DTP on FM structure 2015 Arabic lang, I have changed fonts Frutiger ltd std 45 light to Arial file save and re-open that time some are styles fonts not changed, its showing Frutiger ltd std 45.This problem only having Paragraph tag "Table.cell.body", rest of Paragraph tag font family changed, please help out me.

Hello,I'm trying to make a custom auto-generated TOC in unstructured Framemaker. I am using the built-in building block variables on my reference page and was wondering if there is a way to get rid of what I am showing below. I just want the Page Block number next to the title - I do not want it in front of the sections. Currently I am using the <$volnum> building block variable to do this. Is there a better way?

Just noticed this (using Frame version 15.0.3.573).-Create a .pdf in High Print Quality.-Copy verbiage from .pdf into a FrameMaker file (or anything, including Word)-Get gibberish:ĂĐŬ ƵƉ ƚŚĞ ǁŚĞĞů ƚĂďůĞƐ ĨŽƌ Ăůů ŵďŽƐƐͬ/ŶĚĞŶƚ ŵŽĚƵůĞƐ ŝŶ ƚŚĞ ƐLJƐƚĞŵ͘D ĐĐĞƐƐ DyϮϬϬϬ Žƌ DyϲϬϬϬ ŝĂŐŶŽƐƚŝĐƐ ĨŽƌ ƚŚĞ ĨŝƌƐƚ ŵďŽƐƐͬ/ŶĚĞŶƚ ŵŽĚƵůĞ͘E ^ĞůĞĐƚ ƚŚĞ tŚĞĞů dĂďůĞ ŽŶĨŝŐƵƌĂƚŝŽŶƐ ƚĂď͘F ^ĞůĞĐƚ &ŝůĞ х džƉŽƌƚ tŚĞĞů ^ůŽƚ ŽŶĨŝŐƵƌĂƚŝŽŶƐ͘if you .pdf a file from Word, it's fine.Files that I .pdfed a couple weeks ago are also fine - I can copy/paste from them.Is this supposed to be happening?Thanks for any information you can provide.

Has anyone had any experience developing an automated illustrated parts list (IPL) in Framemaker 19? If so, where did you go and how did you do it?Thank you!Dan

I am trying to create a script that I can run individually on referenced graphics which would return me information on what file it is, and which document it is located in.So far I have this scriptvar graphic = null;var doc = app.ActiveDoc;if(doc.ObjectValid() == true){       graphic = doc.FirstSelectedGraphicInDoc;              if(graphic.constructor.name != "Inset")        {             graphic = null;            alert("inset not found");        }}if(graphic != null && graphic.ObjectValid() == true){     var promptMessage = "The currently-selected graphic is:\n\n" +       graphic.Name +"\n\n" + doc.Name;        alert(promptMessage);

I am trying to make an Illustrated Parts List with two columns on the same page that have the same heading.Nomenclature I Part Number I Cage Code I  I Nomenclature I Part Number I Cage Code Whenever I try to insert the Table it automatically goes to the Right column no matter what I tell it to do (Top of Page, Top of Column) and sometimes it will even jump down to the following page. Any idea what I'm doing wrong? What process do other users go through to do this?Thank you!Dan

I am trying to develop a FrameMaker application for simple TEI documents. When I try to round-trip by saving my FrameMaker document back out as XML, the XSLT transform I have specified has no effect. If I delete that transform from the Structured Application Designer advanced settings, I get exactly the same (incorrect) result.

Hello,I'm trying to figure out a way to draw a box around characters to indicate certain keyboard actions. For example, I'd like to draw a box around CR to indicate Carriage return and LF for line feed. I need to include these this kind of thing a number of times throughout the document. I was trying to use a table (which might work) or text frame but thus far, I couldn't get it the way I wanted. Plus, I was hoping that there might be an easier way to do it. Here is an example of what I am trying to do. Any help is greatly appreciated.

Hi, We are extracting information from FM 2017 technical documents into the MIF format for processing in other systems. The documents have many embedded graphics that were copied into FM not referenced.. These come out in the MIF as a DIB section which has been encoded as unsigned bytes with hex ect.Does anyone know how I can re-hydrate this MIF DIB section into the real image?

Hi everyone,I am using FrameMaker 2019 on Windows 10 as part of the Tech Comm Suite. I converted a template from FM 11 to FM 2019, so I'm not sure if that is it. Whenever I open paragraph designer and make a change in a paragraph format, the window freezes for quite some time before the change takes effect. Just about any edit takes a long time. I installed Update 3 using the Help > Updates... utility. I am assuming that the utility takes care of installing any prerequisite updates? Not sure what to try. Any advice is much appreciated.Best,Peter

I'm having trouble printing to the PDF printer from a book file. It happens when I try to "print book" or "print selected files" or when I print a single file that's opened from the book file. My only workaround has been to open each file from outside the book, print them individually, and then combine them in Acrobat. That said, it seems to be a nebulous, intermittent problem. At one point, I deleted the first anchored frame and it worked, but then later it didn't. I also created a new book file, put some of the files into it, and it worked once but then stopped working.The error messages in the distiller log files are pretty useless to me, except that it sort of tells me at what point in the document it got stuck. Sometimes it seems to be complaining about a cellbody command, but there's not a table anywhere near where it gets stuck. one time, it was something about a list paragraph tag; I renamed the tag to something else, and it worked once but then stopped working. Other times it'

Every time I open framemaker documents that were created by another writer I get the "unavailable fonts" error. I have tried the tip in the help about deselecting the 'remember missing font names' preference option but it doesn't work. I have the missing fonts installed on my c-drive, how do I get Framemaker to recognise them?Regards,Niall.

Hi -I'm importing Word 2016 files into Frame 2019 using Copy Into Document. After mapping the Word doc styles to my Frame doc formats in the Word Import dialog, I created a Preset File to save my map choices. The process works fine for the initial import after creating the STS file, but when when trying to repeat the Word file import process for another Frame file, Frame consistently crashes when I try to select my saved STS file in Word Import dialog. I've tried saving the STS to another location, but Frame still crashes. I don't see this issue on the Forum, so wondering if I'm doing something wrong. -Jeff

I'm trying to create an interactive document PDF in FrameMaker and am getting stuck trying to make hyperlinks that opens an external html page with information as well as a thumbnail which opens up an image in a new window. I see information regarding opening up other FM files as well as URLs (using HTTP:// web addresses), but nothing regarding a local HTML page (ToolsTableXXX.html or .pdf). This is all really new to me because most of my work has been primarily revolving around printed publications, but... anyone?