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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

Hello all,I notice that when I create a glossary, it looks like this:I see that it has put a page number - sort of like what an index looks like.My questions:Should any page having the term (widget) be listed (not just page 3)?Should the reader be able to click on any instance of the term and be taken to the glossary?Many thanksBen

I am getting "Document XX.fm uses unavailable fonts. To reformat the document using available fonts, click OK." How do I reformat using available fonts? Thanks!

Hi, all.I am using FrameMaker 13 in a Windows 10 environment.We single-source these outputs:User Guide PDF for version 4 of our productUser Guide PDF for version 5Reference Guide PDF for version 4Reference Guide PDF for version 5Online help for version 4 -- contains all files used in the User Guide and Reference GuideOnline help for version 5 -- contains all files used in the User Guide and Reference GuideWe use three book files, one each for the Reference Guide, User Guide, and online help. Various text is conditionalized, and some entire chapters are conditionalized according to software version.When I am working in one book file with all files set to display one condition tag, and update that book, broken cross-reference errors are logged. When I click on the error in the error log, nothing appears in the related chapter. I understand that the error is hidden in conditional text that is currently not displayed, so I use Display All to see all conditionalized text. When I next update

I had a huge FM 2015 file on which i was working. I also had FM2017 on my system and by mistake i opened the FM2015 files using 2017 and i am unable to revert it now. Kindly help.

I have a nested book (a book of books) where each sub-book is a chapter.  Each chapter has its own TOC at the beginning.  Everything is fine when looking at each individual chapter *.book file.  However, when I export the top level book to PDF it just omits all of the TOCs.  How do I get the TOCs from each sub-book to show up in the PDF?

Hi,I search a best way to export in xml format a property text of element cross-refrence ?I export without any problem the properties "format" and "srcfile" . Sample : <mylinkfile format = "like file" srcfile = "FicArbo-Demarches.fm#Fic004"/>But I can not get the "text" associated with the cross-reference element. I specify that :1) the mylinkfile element is declared as cross-reference element in my edd. 2) the text has been entered via the "text" field of the marker element.3) the DTD description is                <!ELEMENT mylinkfile (#PCDATA) >               <!ATTLIST mylinkfile                     idref     IDREF     #IMPLIED          &nb

I have 50 out of print books that were created in FrameMaker 7.0. Will the current version read these files? Can they be converted into InDesign? Can I at least copy the text from the old FrameMaker files and paste it into InDesign?

I have FrameMaker12 and recently was given a new laptop at work. The laptop runs Windows 10. When I open FrameMaker12 the text and menus are too small to see. I am unable to use FrameMaker. What can I do?

Hello all,Is there a way to view a list of the text symbols used in FM 2017?  And, I don't mean View->Text Symbols (that just makes visible the symbols being used in the doc).  I mean I want to see a list of all "possible" text symbols (i.e. achor, paragraph etc.)thanks in advance.Ben

We are getting the below error. Could you please let us know how to fix this.Faulting application FrameMaker.exe, version 8.0.0.0, faulting module fsl5_80.dll, version 5.2.1.0, fault address 0x00114d06.For more information, see Help and Support Center at http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/events.asp.

Frame in TCS 2015 has recently stopped printing to PDF on my home machine.  I've just reinstalled Acrobat DC Pro (from my work Creative Cloud account) to no avail.  And it has continued to work with Word and InDesign without issue.  Using Windows 10 on 64-bit.I've made no known changes recently, and don't have this issue on my install in the office.I've searched the forum and the answer from about 2012 mentions file paths to Acrobat 10.0 that don't exist any more.I suffered the same or similar issue a few years ago - perhaps with TCS v5 - when I had to print to a .ps file and then convert it.  But I can't do this either now.When I try File > Print, rather than Save as PDF I get an error message that says:'Cannot print because the selected default printer [ which is Adobe PDF ] is not compatible with FrameMaker. (Cannot query escape 768.)'Any thoughts?Many thanks,Ant

Hi,When I try to insert a character from the Character Palette in FrameMaker 2017 all I get is a question mark. I have tried changing the font in the palette box, but I still get a question mark. What do I need to do to fix this problem?Thanks for any help.Cheers,Elizabeth

Framemaker 2017 cannot print pdf due to following error "Cannot print because the selected default printer is not compatible with FrameMaker. (Cannot query escape 768).  My default printer is set as Adobe pdf.  Using Windows 10 Pro version 1803Note: I do not have Acrobat DC or higher installed- only have Acrobat Reader installed, does this make a difference?

Is it possible to create a two line entry in a user variable in Frame 2017 and then display one line on top of the other? I am trying to place a multi-line user variable in a footer. Thanks for any help.Cheers,Elizabeth 

Hi All,Is the description of the alert function given in the Adobe FrameMaker Scripting Guide, release 2017-01-31, always up to date?For any type value in the range from 0 to 5, only OK button is shown.The example of alert function js code shown below use always and only OK button.The syntax of alert function in this example uses three parameters : message, title and  type.It is good to know that the message parameter allows to define a title for the alert box.But is the third type parameter always read and used by alert function?...var alertname = "Update all Text-Insets in a FM Template";// If the active document is  valid then ...if (doc.ObjectValid() == true)   {      ti = doc.FirstTiInDoc;        while (ti.ObjectValid () == 1)          {            ...           }  &nbs

Hi All,It is easily possible to change with Pod "Character Designer" a property of a character format.For example, in a template file of a FM book, when a character style is selected, the change of one property, e.g. color, could be updated with "Update Style" button when the cursor position is not in a particular paragraph of a body page. Next action will be to either retain or remove overrides.With javascript code it is possible to change as well color red of a character format to black.var charfmt = doc.GetNamedCharFmt(varcol);        // var chrfmt = doc.GetNamedObject(Constants.FO_ChrFmt, varcol);        if (charfmt.ObjectValid() == true)            {                            charfmt.Color = "Black";    &

I am running Windows 7 Ultimate with the latest updates. FrameMaker 2017 no longer launches. So, I uninstalled and reinstalled after first downloading a fresh copy from the Adobe License Server. It still crashes with the following in the Event Log:Faulting application name: FrameMaker.exe, version: 14.0.0.361, time stamp: 0x587f39d7Faulting module name: ntdll.dll, version: 6.1.7601.24117, time stamp: 0x5add1d8dException code: 0xc0000374Fault offset: 0x000ce9fbFaulting process id: 0x32b4Faulting application start time: 0x01d3f86c2eb52798Faulting application path: C:\Program Files (x86)\Adobe\Adobe FrameMaker 2017\FrameMaker.exeFaulting module path: C:\windows\SysWOW64\ntdll.dllReport Id: 71240838-645f-11e8-b560-e840f2eb4940Is this v14.0.0.361 a current version? If not, maybe update your license server and I can try again?

Here is a simple table (no header, no footer, 4 body rows, 4 columns):This is the related structure:I'd like to delete the text in the first row at once:Select the entire row.Press Delete.The Clear Table Cells dialog box displays.Select Leave Cells Empty.Click Clear.The first row is emptied, as desired:But the structure has changed:The BodyText elements are gone, too.Before entering new text, I'll have to insert these elements again. In a large table, that's very time-consuming.Is it possible to delete text in tables without simultaneously deleting elements in tables?

Hi, How to end the script using extendscript in framemaker ? I have attached below code.It will not "Exit".Please suggests if any ideas.var oDoc = app.ActiveDoc;var frameDocumentName = oDoc.Name;    if (frameDocumentName == null) {       alert("Please open a document before running this script.");}main();function main() {       getFileName(framemakerFolder);    CreateWindow();    pageCount = CountPage(oDoc);}