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I am working on a book file with a chapter that changes content based on work location. The content in all other chapters of the book is the same for everyone. There are 19 different work locations, so essentially there are 19 PDFs, each named for a specific site, with all content except the chapter in question being identical. Right now, the process is to open the main book file, convert it to PDF, then create 19 versions with the location-specific PDF for each site inserted into the changing chapter. This seems inefficient to me. For example, the book file is named MAIN_Progam. One chapter in the book is titled Location-Specific Procedures and contains only the first page and a blank. That is where each site-specific PDF is inserted after converting the book to PDF. Is there a more efficient way to do this than the way we are currently doing it? Thanks for your help!

For several months now, I am increasingly urged by our IT security/compliance team to update vulnerable openssl libraries belonging to FrameMaker (i.e. libcrypto-3-x64.dll and libssl-3-x64.dll being vulnerable to CVE-2024-12797, CVE-2024-13176, CVE-2024-2511, CVE-2024-4603, CVE-2024-4741, CVE-2024-5535, CVE-2024-6119, CVE-2024-9143).Updating to the latest 17.0.8 release does not solve the issue, as the outdated and vulnerable SSL libraries are included in there.This leads me to the following questions:When will Adobe provide patched SSL libraries for FrameMaker? Can I use newer SSL libraries (e.g. those included in latest Adobe Reader) as a (temporary) replacement?Thanks.

We can't verify your subscription status.Hello everyone, I woke up one day to get to work, and when I turned it on I saw this panel with an error.“We can't reach the Adobe servers. This may be because you're not connected to the internet. Check your connection and try again below. If you're still having issues, please see our connectivity troubleshooting guide. ERROR CODE 12015 “I've tried all the troubleshooting steps in the guide, but nothing works.I checked that the plan is paid for, but something's still not working. Has anyone encountered this problem?I would be very grateful for your help.

How do I set monitor (scree) size in FM17 so that at 100% zoom the page is displayed in exactly the size set in Format > Page Layout > Page Size. This used to be available in versions up to 11 as a setting in Preferences or maker.ini as MonitorSize= if I remember correctly. It’s not there anymore and I don’t see any references to this anywhere. In FM11 I used to be able to compare a printed page to the displayed page for checking the margins, etc. I can accomplish this by setting a custom zoom setting, say 157%, but the other percentages won’t be clean numbers showing % sizing compared to full size.  

I am editing a New Testament translation and I need to revise some of the verse numbers. They are seperate from the body and I can't figure out how to get to them. Any suggestions?

wie kann ich in FrameMaker eine Schrift nutzen, die ich in der Creative Cloud herausgesucht habe?das habe ich gemacht:So installierst du Schriften aus der Creative Cloud (Kurz‑Anleitung)1) Creative Cloud Desktop öffnenCreative Cloud Desktop App starten und das Hauptfenster öffnen.2) Schriften‑/Fonts‑Bereich aufrufenIn der App den Bereich „Schriften“ / „Fonts“ öffnen und nach der gewünschten Schrift suchen.=> Schriftarten durchsuchen => Schrift gefunden, dannBereits in Bibliothek gespeichertDiese Schriften sind bereits in der Bibliothek „Ihre Bibliothek“ gespeichert.[warum da schriften steht, obwohl ich nur auf eine klickte, verstehe ich nicht]In Creative Cloud Desktop werden keine Schriften angezeigt..wie komme ich weiter?VG Thomas 

I've just starting working with VS Code. I've been using ESTK. I have both Adobe FrameMaker 2019 and Adobe FrameMaker 2022 installed, but typically, we just use FM 2022. My launch.json looks like this:{ "version": "0.2.0", "configurations": [ { "type": "extendscript-debug", "request": "attach", // "name": "Adobe FrameMaker 2022—-main", "hostAppSpecifier": "framemaker-17.0", "engineName": "main", } ] }But if I click eval in Adobe, I still have to select FM 2022 from the drop-down.Possibly related, I don't recall setting a workspace, I just put the launch.json file in a .vscode folder beneath my scripts folder. Perhaps that is the issue?Thanks in advance!

I got the classic book vs. file numbering error while updating a book. I checked the box to hide the messages for the rest of the update. I’d like to turn it back on. I could swear it used to be in Preferences > Global > Alerts, but can’t seem to find it. Does anyone know how to get to it?

FrameMaker 17 fails to install on two machines. When I run set-up.exe on a Dell laptop with Windows 11 Education, I get a message “You need to turn on User Account Control first”. I will talk to our IT support. When I run set-up.exe on a Macbook Pro with M4 chip, Tahoe 26.3.1 and Parallels 26.2.2 with Windows 11, I get a message “Installer is corrupt.” I read in posts from 2021 that FrameMaker doesn’t run on Apple chips, so this may be why? Someone suggested running set-up.exe silent=1 in cmd in admin mode. That didn’t help. Please help.

DITA and FrameMaker. We have two different layouts for same information. One template for one column layout and another one with two columns. Despite the template, tables should spread in all columns. One column template works fine.We have made a two column layout with same table style but spanned for both columns. The table is anchored in Body paragraph with format: one column. If I insert a new table, it will be formatted correctly to all columns. But if I open the converted DITA document, tables are in one column.I added a new paragraph format in template with ‘all columns’ layout and changed the edd to use that in table anchoring paragraph style. It does, but still the table does not span in all columns.What have I missed? Thank you in advance.

I am using an autonumber format that is not incrementing the n variable within the same file. The autonumber format is F : Figure <$chapnum>-<n+> \sn. The first instance numbers properly, to wit: Figure 2-1. A second instance of the paragraph style delivers Figure 2.1 again. It appears that the n value is not getting updated. I have made sure that the paragraph numbering property is set to “Continue numbering from Previous Paragraph in Book” and I have updated the book innumerable times.This is happening with all numbering series: F for Figures, T for Tables.Anybody got any ideas?Thanks in advance...Bill

My company gets PDFs that we have to insert into our manuals from an outside vendor.  These PDFs have hyperlinks in them that need to work in the final PDF.  We *thought* they were working in the output, but it was just Acrobat identifying URLs.  The PDFs are regulatory and are updated on a frequent basis, so trying to recreate them in Frame probably isn’t an option. Is there a way to save PDFs with the imported PDF links working?  I also tried converting to SVG, but no dice. Thanks.

I want to export a FrameMaker book as PDF (or some other format) and retain the names of all the embedded images. My company needs several user guides ultimately converted to Markdown for use in a custom LLM. Currently, the LLM returns text but skips over any and all images unless the image is specifically referenced in the text (see image below, etc.). Is there a way via a plugin or script to accomplish this?

Hello,I would like to create a character designer adding automatically “underline + quotation mark” to a selected text. How to do it ?

Hello,I would like to set the default quotation marks in FM to this type of quotation mark. How to set it in preferences ? or set it in a specific FM document ? 

Hello,I would like to create a character designer that could add a parenthesis at the begining and at the end of a selected text. How to do it ? 

Hello,In this example (at the blue lines), I have set 2 paragraphs styles (“Cantate début” and “Cantate”).You can notice that at the end of each paragraphs concernig “cantate début” and “cantate”, there is no dot. How to set “cantate début” and “cantate” in order to add a dot at the end of each paragraph ?  

Hi, I am new to Adobe framemaker & i have a set of word document which i want to convert it into framemaker document. After importing the word document, all my images are enlarged, different to that appeared in word format. How can i import both content & image without disturbing the image size. I have prepared a standard template but the problem is the image getting enlareged after import. Please help!

I am working in a FrameMaker (version 17) book and the lists in my text insets in one of the FM files unexpectedly changed from bullets to numerals:  I checked the source file that contains the text insets and the lists show bullets as expected:  The numbering in the two other FM files (Spanish and French) is correct.  Important things to note:I did not create this book, so the text insets were already there. The source file that contains the text insets is used across multiple FM projects and I checked other projects and the numbering is fine. When I select a text inset property in the impacted FM file, and go to Edit > Text Inset Properties > Settings, this is what I see: I’m sure I’m missing something obvious, but there has to be a way to revert the lists back to bullets without too much re-work. Thank you.

Hello,In this example, at the bottom, I have several bullets (see blue line) where I have not used some tab stops.Do you advise me to use tab stops in that case (for these bullets) ?  

Hi there,I have a big problem,I am trying to use Neural Filters on Photoshop, specifically smart portrait with eye direction but every time I do I get this error I attached. I tried log out and in, I tried unistall everything and reinstall, I also tried removing the Neural filter plugin data from the library. Still same problem. Please help because I really need it, fast.Alessandro

Hello,For this FM file (see screenshot), I have set the paragraph designer /Numbering like this : → “cantate début”  : <n=1>→ “cantate”  : <n+>→ “cantate fin” : <n+>So, for the “Cantate BWV 107” in the screenshot, the auto numbering goes from 1 to 7.Is it good to do it like this ? Have you some advises to give me ?   

Hi,For all who have similar needs and who might find this helpful. I know that you could also combine this in an ExtendScript script, but for now this is just a short hack.Usually I enter non-breaking spaces before units. However, sometimes there are regular spaces.And when I get translations back, the translators often ignore this as well. Therefore here a regular expression to find numbers with units with no or regular spaces. Of course you can adapt this to your needs.And do not forget to select Regular Expressions in the Find/Replace dialog.I closed all units with \b, although this is definitely not needed for all.Find:(\d) *(%\b|(°C)\b|(µm)\b|A\b|(Ah)\b|(bps)\b|(Byte)\b|(Bytes)\b|(cm)\b|(dB)\b|g\b|(GB)\b|(hours)\b|(Hz)\b|(Jahre)\b|(kA)\b|(kB)\b|(kbps)\b|(kg)\b|(kHz)\b|(km)\b|(kOhm)\b|(kV)\b|(kW)\b|(kΩ)\b|m\b|(mA)\b|(mAh)\b|(MB)\b|(MHz)\b|(Minuten)\b|(minutes)\b|(mm)\b|(mT)\b|(mTesla)\b|(mV)\b|(mW)\b|(MW)\b|(Ohm)\b|(Pixel)\b|(pixel)\b|s\b|(sec.)\b|(Sek.)\b|(Stunden)\b|V\b|W\b|(year

Twice in the last 3 or 4 weeks, my PDF print driver has been removed from my computer. First, is anyone else having this problem? Second, what’s causing it? Is this something my IT department is doing, or is this an Adobe problem? I’m running the repair app through Acrobat. It takes forever. 

Hello,I send you a video of my problem.In this FM file the first line contains a variable, and the second line contains normal text.In this FM file, at the second line, I have applied a character style (“Essai style”), and then I tried to change the font for “Essai style”, but when I “update style” in “Essai style” it says me that I have an override.I would like to understand what is the cause of this override.