FrameMaker

Hello,I'm using FullShot 9 to capture screens/windows within a software program, saving my captures as JPEGs, and then copying them into anchored frames in FM 12. When I save my FM file as a PDF, the images aren't clear until I zoom to 150%. I've tried changing the "PDF Job Options" under the PDF Setup Settings to both Press Quality and High Quality Print.The images are still legible at 100%, but they make me feel like I'm not wearing my glasses. My team says they're good to go as-is, but I'd like to learn how to make them better if I can. They'll ultimately be appearing both in print and online.If there are any workarounds that would make these full-window screen shots stay sharp even at 4x6", please send them my way!Best wishes,Cameo

Hi Team, We are planning to migrate Frame maker from Windows server 2003 to Windows server 2008. Current Setup in Windows 2003:  Frame maker 8  Frame script 5 We would like to know the Fm and Frame script compatible version with Windows server 2008. If we are migrating to another version of Fm whether all the templates in Fm 8 will be supported in new Fm version.We understood that the latest version of Fm is Frame maker 2017. What is the preferred windows version to have the latest Fm.Thanks & Regards,Archana S

Does anyone out there in FrameMaker Land know of templates for the standard AF tech orders based on MIL-STD 38784? We are a small shop of 3 writers trying to establish a stable writing platform and Arbortext has been a monster to try to set up - so we are now looking at FM. Any suggestions as to setting up a small TO writing/managment system using FM?

Although this used to work in the past, I am no longer able to save a book as PDF.I have tried with a simple test book with a single one page file.When I ask to save as PDF, Framemaker seems to work but then nothing happen : no error, no file created.When I ask to print using Adobe PDF printer, I get an error saying : « Impossible to print because default printer not compatible with Framemaker (Cannot qurey command escape 768) » (this is a translation from the French error message).However, I may ask to print to « Microsoft print to PDF » printer. It works.I have Acrobat Pro DC version 2018 installed. But it seems Distiller is never used.Any idea that may help ?Thanks a lot.

I have full licensed version of Adobe FrameMaker. I am unable to safe any files as a PDF. How do I correct this?

I cannot print my fm files. The error message is "Cannot print because the selected default printer is not compatible with Frame Makern (cannot query escape 768)". I use FrameMaker 2015 and Windows 10. It has worked before with the present printer.

I used to have a window next to variabless and conditional tags at the bottom of the FM window which would list cross-ref and unresolved cross-ref with page number etc and was different from the cross-ref pod used to insert cross-refs and edit their format, but I can not find it how can I get it back?jusn

My IT department had to install FrameMaker 10 on a virtual machine for me, but they used the version from our Montreal office, which has the French language interface. How can it be switched to the English version? There doesn't appear to be any way of doing it though the GUI as far as I can tell. Do they have to uninstall and reinstall it? Or can they just rerun the installer and switch it?ThanksKeith

Or do text frames have fixed dimensions, which can only be changed manually?

Can anyone give me some advice on how to open a Framemaker 2017 document with the following release error.Is there any work around?My Framemaker is currently up to date2017 Release/ Version: 14.0.4.511 Thank youLisa

Another question: In unstructured FM, can marker symbols (text symbols) be customized and without having to use a Character style or a condition to assist with its visibility? For example, say I want to use the Comment marker in a particular way on a section heading, but the heading also has an Index maker symbol and a bunch of other markers. All the marker symbols look the same unless you apply a character tag to them, but for time management reasons, I want to avoid that step - I just want to be able to insert a marker that would automatically look different depending on the type that I select (for example, I was imagining that the ability to customize markers might be the same way that you can already customize Conditional Text markers [Edit Condition Tag], so why not marker tags?). If a section heading has a bunch of markers on it, it's difficult to visually distinguish them from one another and hypothetically, I don't have time to then select the marker to then apply a character t

Is there a way to replace a single file after publishing a book to HTML .

Since a major update to Windows 10, installed April 6 2018, I cannot generate a PDF. Nothing happens. When trying to output to PS of send to a printer, I get the error dialog - Cannot print because the selected default printer is not compatible with FrameMaker. (Cannot query escape 768.) I have Creative Cloud tools as well, in particular Acrobat DC. Running Windows 10, Version 1803, OS Build 17133.1

Hello,I am working on a document I imported from Word 2010. The document has one empty page that I haven't been able to delete. I have tried the Pagination- Before Saving and Printing - Delete Empty Pages procedure, but that didn't work. Is there any way I can delete the page?Thank you in advance for any help.Cheers,Elizabeth

Here is a simple index:When activating the text symbols, it looks like this:I've added some spaces before and after the marker symbols to clarify things.As you can see, there are 6 marker symbols - at first sight.In the lines 2, 4, and 6 the marker text is:openObjectId Test1.fm:1 998704openObjectId Test1.fm:1 998851openObjectId Test1.fm:1 998979So far, so good. This was the easy part. In the lines 1, 3, and 5 there are markers, too.Question 1: What's the purpose of these markers?And what's even more irritating, in the lines 1, 3, and 5 there are not only 3 markers, but much more:The marker symbols overlap each other. Therefore, again I've added some spaces before and after the marker symbols to clarify things.The marker text is:Line 1:newlink Symbolsnewlink ๆ (Question 2: What's that symbol?)newlink Numericsnewlink Anewlink Bnewlink CLine 3:newlink Dnewlink Enewlink Fnewlink Gnewlink Hnewlink ILine 5:newlink Jnewlink Knewlink Lnewlink Mnewlink Nnewlink Onewlink PQuestion 3: What's the

Hi All,Would it be possible that FM does not have capability in updating Cross-referencing to Figures???I have two Topic files, each file has one Cross-reference pointing to an Image (inside Figure element).DITAMAP (of 2 Topic Files) output in PDF. Figure are updated but Cross-reference links are not updated and do not work.

I have been searching this one again and still can't find if there's a solution: Has FrameMaker ever figured out how to allow users to apply a change bar beside the whole table? For example, when the change is the insert of a whole new table, the only way I can indicate this is to draw a line beside the table. Because selecting the content in the table and then applying Change Bar through Paragraph Designer only shows the Change Bar row-by-row (from which a reader might infer that the table was there before and all content changed in it, when what I want readers to know immediately is that the change is addition of a new table), not one single line beside the whole table. Can Adobe FrameMaker not put a Change Bar radio button/checkbox in Table Designer to allow for the placement of a Change Bar beside the whole table? This is in unstructured FrameMaker. If this is possible in structured FrameMaker, that would be good to know...and perhaps the same functionality could be ported back to

Has anyone experienced the <default font> character tag suddenly disappear from the list? It seems to be an FM thing, not a template issue. I'm using FM 2017.

Hello all,Working on this right now and no luck thus far (I suspect I would need to change something in the Reference page for the TOC - but what do I know....).  It seems to me that there is nothing "wrong" here and that the customer will just need to accept (I've seen other manuals having the same condition).  See how the Chapter title is on one page, then the headings are on the next:Thanks in advance.Ben

I set up a list of figures, and it works fine.  But when click the list entry, the figure's link displays at the top of the screen.  Unfortunately our figures are above the link in the document.  This means the figure can't be seen unless the I scroll up the document.  This wouldn't be a problem, I suppose, if our links were above the figures.  But that's not in our style guide.Is there a way to make the link display lower on the screen, so the figure can be seen right away?

I want to add a section to the end of each chapter in a book and I want that section to meet the following criteria, if possible:I want the text background to be shaded 10% grey - I can to this by applying a 'paragraph box' on the 'Advanced' tab of the paragraph designer: by inserting a text frame and colouring it; by inserting a table and colouring it.The sections consist of multiple paragraphs - and I don't want unshaded areas between them. This rules out shaded paragraph boxes, which although they go from margin to margin don't include the spacing at the top and bottom of the paragraphs.I want a clear coloured 'margin' around the text... no words bumping into the top or bottom of the shaded area. This rules out text boxes - the first line of the first paragraph doesn't apply the "spacing above". However, text boxes are best for the next criterion, as although I will need to resize the final box if I don't want unnecessary grey, everything else is automatic.I want to be able to resiz

Hi.I've been typesetting a book in FrameMaker. I haven't worked on it for a couple of months, and have since upgraded to FM 2017 - although the same issue is a problem in FM11.The book was saved to OneDrive, and I've been working in my local folder mapped to OneDrive throughout. Now, I can open the .book file - and FM warns me it was created in an older version of FM. I save it and all is fine BUT as soon as I try to open any of the chapters within the book, I get an internal error. I've tried opening them FROM the book and as separate files. I've tried opening them in FM 2017 and in FM11. In the former, it warns me they were created in an earlier version, but doesn't get as far as opening them (so it's obviously getting as far as finding the version details). In the latter, it crashes straight away.I can open other documents in either version of FM with no problem - but it's EVERY file in this particular book, and the only thing they have in common is that they are synced to OneDrive

Workspaces are a wonderful FM tool for efficient working. I have spread my FM pods over three screens. But there are two issues that I don't like:Randomly the structure view disappears (FM10 and FM2017). Is the structure view not a part of a custom workspace?A book (new or opened) always displays on the left side of the document window on my main screen. But the document window should only display my document. And the book should be displayed automatically on my second screen to the left of my main screen. How can I achieve this?Any suggestions would be very welcome.

solve TIFF grey box problem for referenced files

Hi groupI've got 2 SVG images which have the following size in Inkscape:Image 1, the "large image:width: 448 mmheight: 316 mmImage 2, the same large image which I scaled in Insckape to the following size:width: 166height: 153When I put this image in a DITA topic and generate a FrameMaker file from my ditamap (using DITA-FMx), I see that the size of the images becomes as follows:Image 1 (large size):width: 280 mmheight: 198 mmdpi: 72scaling: 50%Image 2:width: 207.496 mmheight: 191.763 mmdpi: 72scaling: 100%In DITA, I haven't used any scaling attributes (@scale, @scalefit, @outputclass...).When I import these graphics into a new FrameMaker file, the size is as followsImage 1 (large size):width: 560.0mmheight: 396,001 mmdpi: 72scaling: 100%Image 2:width: 207,496  mmheight: 191,763 mmdpi: 72scaling: 100%When I import the graphics at 90 dpi, they have approximately the same size as their original size in Inkscape.Does anyone have any idea why the large image is scaled 50% in the FrameM