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Hello.I recently started using FrameMaker 2017 and have been playing with the Responsive HTML5 output. After only changing the default settings (STS file) for the header color and logo image, I have noticed a number of discrepancies between the Save as PDF output and the Responsive HTML5 output (multiple layouts):Out-of-document hyperlinks are blue but not functioningOne table is rendered as an image (and the table is numbered as Table b b)Source:Output:Figure numbering is off (multiple Figure 1-1s in the same chapter)This is just what I have noticed after a couple of minutes of playing around...Any advice would be appreciated.JayMessage was edited by: Jay Abramoff

Hi there, Is there a way to define table summaries in FrameMaker 11, or I should define them in Acrobat DC? Thanks, Vicky

My top level is DOC. Inside that I have BODY, and inside that I have my chapters. The first one is now showing up in the structure as BOOK-COMPONENT. How do I get it back to being a chapter?

Hi,Is there any tool (FrameMaker plug-in) similar to the Clean Import tool that enables you to import a FM new template to an existing book and map tags to the new template tags? And also, delete the old template tags and not append to the existing tags.Is the Clean Import tool available for download now?Thanks!

I am trying to save a Frame Maker file (14) into a pdf but I cannot do it in RGB.I can only save using CYMB format and my colors get messed up.It happens I do not have Adobe Distiller which I think is the problem.Do I haveto purchase Adobe DC in order to get Adobe Distiller or is there any way to get this software somewhere else?

Hi All, I'm developing a book in FrameMaker, and I have an insert to put in between pages 12 and 13. The page numbers of the insert are 12A and 12B, and then I want the document to resume numbering at 13. Currently I am using the pagenum feature from Insert>Headers & Footers>Page Number. However, after pages 12A and 12B, the page number feature numbers the next page as page 15.... how do I get it to resume counting at 13?Thanks!

Hi there,We are using FrameMaker 11 to manage a set of user manuals, more than 5000 pages in total. With the accessibility requirement, the user manuals are required to pass the full accessibility check with Acrobat Pro. We tested many times but a couple of checks always fail, as shown in the report below.Some issues can be resolved in Acrobat; however, it's too difficult to do this for documents of 5000+ pages, and for each monthly release. For example, Issue #3 (figure alt text), we can add alt text for figures in FrameMaker. #1 and #2 are related to links and cross-references, don't know how to resolve it.Could you give some suggestions to resolve these issues efficiently with Acrobat? Or better, resolve it in FrameMaker, once and for all? Thank you in advance.

I have the most bizarre problem with html5 publishing and I can not figure out what is happening.I am publishing a book to html5 from FrameMaker 2019 - 64 bit version. The published material looks ok when viewed in a browser locally, but when viewed online, everything turns to chinese characters like this:https://www.smalbro.dk/soco/ Obviously something about fontsettings/unicode goes awry, but why it looks ok locally but not ok online, I can not understand.Has anybody here experienced this before?Best regardsBjørn

Error message when updating 2019 Framemaker and ultimately un-installed the application

I'd like to try out different skins but I've already customized a settings file as Settings-3. If I click New and change the skin, FM returns message "all changes to the responsive layout will be lost". But if I save it with a different file name, will I be able to switch between settings files to generate HTML?

FR bookUse Mini-Tocs in many chaptersthe format in the PDF files uses the numbering and on pagei.e each item says3.2 Installation    on page 7etcIn the HTML 5 Help i want only the topics to appear without the numbering and page numbersHow can this be done1. possibility - change the style in reference page and use a different template in Help - did not manage to make this work2. I found reference on the internet to using an HTML template - I tried this, but did not see how to make it workAll insights/hints and tips will be welcome

Hello,I'm using template with 2 or 3 column textframe.I'm trying to make a script that avoid hyphen at end of column.Getting the last pgf of a column, getting the end of line type is not a problem (Constants.FTI_LineEnd).To check if a pgf is on both column, i'm looping through my pgf to find when the textrange, i'm using, change of column.I can only get the Id Column from the start of the pgf (pgf.InTextObj.Unique - InTextObj is a SubCol).Is there a way to know on which column my textrange is?var vCurrentDoc=app.ActiveDoc;// go to last pgf of columnvar pgf = vCurrentDoc.MainFlowInDoc.FirstTextFrameInFlow.FirstSubCol.LastPgf;// select the pgfvar textRange = new TextRange();     textRange.beg.obj = pgf;     textRange.beg.offset = 0;     textRange.end.obj = pgf;     textRange.end.offset = Constants.FTI_LineEnd;var textItems = vCurrentDoc.GetTextForRange(textRange, Constants.FTI_String);if(textItems.length >

Hi - is there a way to convert only a specific row or selected rows to text in FM (2015?)The reason I need to do this is because (have numerous instances of)  a repeated header row that then gets tied up with the next table's header in a set of sequencing headers.The only way I have figured out around this is to convert the table to text and reformat the offending table, but the tables are long and detailed, and I really just want to cut out that specific repeating header.Alternatively, what is (is there) a method for converting a header row to a body row? Maybe that would isolate the problem, not certain.Thanks.

I've created a 36"x24" poster in frame12.  When I output to pdf, it comes out blank.  If I shift the contents and make the width 27", the pdf comes out fine.  Is there a way I can create a 36" wide pdf?

I am using FM 2019 32-bit version. I am exploring the Author view (Simplified XML). But every single time I click the "Section" item in the formatting bar, the program crashes.

I'm working on a table that it several pages long and it so far has not been an issue. I tried to add more rows to the table but instead of continuing on to the next page, it began overlapping itself. It also began adding extra rows in a row already created, so the lines are overlapping what I have written in the column. How do I solve these issues? I already tried setting it up to Autoconnect but it didn't work.

Have been creating 4x6 docs for years with no problems. Upgrade to FM 2019 and using the new "Publish" utility with Acrobat DC chops most of the header and part of the footer. Changing vertical size to 6.1" output looks OK, but that's a no-go for our customer. Searched maker.ini and every other settings option I could think of with no luck. Any ideas or unknown setting locations I could test? Thanks very much.

I have long heard and long been told that using structured FrameMaker would reduce translation costs, in part by removing a DTP component, but also because the XML worked (somehow) well with translation memory software.We currently send Word and FrameMaker binary files to SDL for translation.I reached out to SDL to ask about the benefits of XML from FrameMaker, instead, and they said Word files are best, and then FrameMaker binaries, and that XML was less useful. SDL does a lot of translation, so I was surprised to have my preconceived notions rocked this way.Thoughts?Cheers,Sean

I'm having a dip into DITA with FrameMaker 11 (because that's the version I currently have).Here's a sample topic in which I've defined a product attribute for two paragraphs:<reference id = "id18AC90HG0CJ"><title>test</title><shortdesc>Product attribute demo</shortdesc><refbody><section><title>Supported file formats</title><p product="A">JPEG</p><p product="B">EPS</p></section></refbody></reference>When I save and reopen the topic file, the attribute values appear in XML view but not in WYSIWYG view, neither in structure view nor in the attributes pane.Also, when I print a ditamap and apply a ditaval filter on the product attribute, I get the unfiltered output, which probably means the product attribute is ignored as well.<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?><!-- filter.ditaval --><val>    <prop att="product" val="A" action="include"/>  &nbs

I've generated a compiled Microsoft HTML Help file from a multi-document FM book. I've managed to customize the output to generate topics at the level I required, etc. It all works fine except for two points:I can't find how to deactivate the Glossary tab. I've selected "None" as the option for the Glossary Style in the "Other Settings" section in the Publish Settings dialog, but that doesn't deactivate the tab. Any idea how to do this?I'm not getting any results on the Search tab in the compiled help. Is there some action I have to take to activate the search functionality? Or somewhere in FrameMaker where I need to specify the fulltext indexing options? I did a trial publish to HTML5.0, and the search functionality worked no problem, so why is the context not being indexed for searching for HTMLHelp?Thank you for any help.Synnøva O'Gorman

We are looking into going with a 3rd-party CMS, like Subversion, and wondered if anyone has ever run into any snafu's using that or something similar with FrameMaker (or RH)?

Guten Tag,ich verzweifle bei der Veröffentlichung von einigen Projekten als Responsive HTML5. Einige Bücher lassen sich ohne Probleme als HTML5-Hilfe wunderbar darstellen. Bei anderen komme ich nicht über den anscheinend letzten Schritt der Veröffentlichung:Fortschritt:Quelldateien werden konvertiert...Nachbearbeitungsaufgaben werden ausgeführt...An dieser Stelle bleibt das Programm hängen und der Prozess lässt sich auch nicht abbrechen. Ich muss das Programm schließen.Ich werde für Hinweise sehr dankbar sein.GrüßeAnna Resnikowa

I have the following situation: I've been publishing books in Responsive HTML5 for some time. It was working perfectly well. Now, the process hangs up in the post-processing stage. I have no idea what could have gone wrong. The only thing I have been changing is the .h file.Please help! I will be thankful for any piece of advice.

run a function after a specific number of seconds. is that possible ?

I think Adobe FrameMaker is the closest thing to Corel Ventura Publisher 10, which I have been using since version 1.1 (Digital Research GEM/DOS). It starts with a blank page, and I just start typing - or importing a file.  When the text gets long, it just automatically adds page 2, and so on. I can't get use to the way InDesign works. Having to draw frame for the text reminds me too much of PageMaker (which I never used.) One thing I wish FM could do is hanging punctuation.  Will it ever be considered?