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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?

My small workgroup recently upgraded from FM10 to FM2019, and while I'm mostly loving it, the new (to us, anyway) Align pod doesn't quite match our working style: It sometimes happen that we need to align tens or hundreds of pages of imported images (PDF outputs from another group that get imported into frames in our documents) to the top center of the frame. With the old Align dialog, the vertical and horizontal alignment choices were radio buttons that held their settings, and all we had to do for each page was to select the imported image and click Apply. With the new scheme, we have to click two buttons for each page before clicking Apply. In the grand scheme of things, of course, two extra mouse clicks doesn't seem like much... but the way we use this, it tends to add up.So... is it possible that the old dialog-format tool is still there, hidden in the bowels of the latest version? Or is there perhaps some other workaround that we haven't thought of? Thanks in advance for any help

Hi, I'm new here. We have a major issue in Framemaker 2019 (updated - and Windows 10 (hungarian,  also updated) ) .The first part of this issue is simple. If I want to open a old document, all my menus becomes grayed out. I can't choose "save", "save as" or "print" until then I wont open a brand new, empty page.After this, my menus are appears, but if I want to select "save to pdf" under my old document, and my software start to produce my PDF file, something is happening, and Framemaker is suddnely crashed, and quits. Unfortunately, there is no error message or error code.I try to reinstall and reset my preferences (and workspace), and I already updated everything, but i did not succeed. Please suggest me any solution about my issue.

I was conditionalizing every second line of an example, line by line.  Someone said "why don't you use the upper shift key or the Ctrl key to select all the lines that you want".  To be honest, I don't know what went wrong, but the result is that I have half a page that looks like this:There was no Undo, and Ctrz-Z didn't work.  The backup file is like this too.I can see a double dotted line round what I think is the page frame, so it looks like frames have been duplicated and then moved on top of one another.  I can't find a way to sort this out, can anyone help, please? Thank you very much.

Do the following:In a new FM document, put a few sentences at the top of the page.Add a table below those sentences.Create a second table below the first.Click Insert > Marker and insert a marker in one of the cells in each table.  Give the markers unique contents.Place the cursor in the first table and then open the Table Designer.On the Basic tab of the Table Designer, Set the Start value to TOP OF PAGE and click Apply.Both tables should jump to the following page, with the first table remaining above the second table, as it should.Save the FM document.Add the FM document to a Book file.In the Book file, create a List of Markers, setting it to use the marker type you used in Step 4 above.Update the book.Open the LoM document and check the order of the two table markers.The second table marker should be listed above the first table marker, even though the second follows the first in the body document.Why should the TOP OF PAGE quality rearrange the order of markers in the LoM?

Trying to find information about running 64-bit FM2019 on a thin-client system.  Will this require a site license?  Can individual users implement third-party add-ons (scripts or plug-ins) with a single-user license?  Is there publicly available case history experience for such a configuration?Thank you very much!

ExtendScript Debugger for Visual Studio Code 1.0.1: Windows Compatible, Cross-OS Bug Fixes.See Erins post: https://medium.com/adobetech/extendscript-debugger-for-visual-studio-code-1-0-1-windows-compatible-cross-os-bug-fixes-60…

Dear A llI have to re-edit old articles I wrote in the 90s and I have some drawings (5 to be precise) still published with FrameMaker. Unfortunately I do not work with framemaker anymore. Does anyone know if  there is  a simple solution I can use to edit these files and export them in .eps or .pdf  (I searched but looks like that Adobe is not proposing a free monthly trial anymore)? Thank you very much for your adviceFabrice

Hi All,I need to make a table that has 2, 3, or 4 columns - in the same table. The workflow that I currently follow:Create a table with 4 columns. When required, straddle the columns to reduce the numbers of columns to 2 or 3. The problem is with unequal column spacing when odd number of columns is required. Is there another way to create tables in Framemaker with greater flexibility?For example., please find below a table in MS Word that has equal widths for 2, 3, or 4 columns and a similar table in Framemaker that has unequal width for 3 columns, as the only option I have is to straddle the widths. Is there a way to insert an odd numbers of columns in a table with even numbers or vice versa?Thanks in advance, Regards Apurva