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Issue: The quality of the German translation in the FM 2017 user interface isn't good enough.Sometimes the German translation in the FM 2017 user interface sounds strange, surreal, is hard to understand or simply wrong.Here are some examples:Format > Document > PDF Setup > Bookmarks: Bookmarks Expanded through Level functionIm deutschen FM heißt es: Lesezeichen erweitert durch Ebene.Besser wäre: Lesezeichen erweitert bis Ebene; oder noch besser: Lesezeichen angezeigt bis Ebene.Format > Document > PDF Setup > Bookmarks: Articles: Thread by Text Frame / Thread by ColumnDas ginge schon in Englisch besser: PDF Text Flow: Thread by Text Frame / Thread by ColumnIn Deutsch versteht das aber niemand: Artikel: Bahn durch Textrahmen / Bahn durch SpalteBesser wäre: PDF-Textfluss: wie durch Textrahmen vorgegeben (Standard) / wie FrameMaker-TextflussFormat > Document > PDF Setup > Tags: Format > Dokument > PDF-Einstellungen > TypenTags wird hier mit Typen überset

I have inherited a Framemaker document that has a lot of cross references. These cross references have the format set as Title_and_Page (the cross reference displays the heading and what page it is on).When I make any changes to the document these page numbers soon become out of date. It would be extrememly useful if I knew a way of updating all cross references in a document and still keeping the formatting. I have tried updating them using the Edit menu - Update Rerences option but this just replaces them with plain text, which is not what I want.Is there a way of updating these cross references and keep the Title_and_Page formatting setting?I am using structured FrameMaker 10.Thanks.

I need to automatically insert an image in the outside margin next to a specific paragraph tag.This is what I'm trying to achieve. I left the borders on to show the anchored frame and text fram border.I know I can automatically insert an image below or above the paragraph tag and use that in a 2-cell table, but that creates too much space above and below the paragraph tag.I was wondering if anybody have any suggestions of automatically inserting the graphic next to the paragraph tag, or using the paragraph tag option, but have the table row height not resize to the image size. It's used several places in our documents and updating the image file at each instance is a hassle.

I've made a stand alone TOC and a stand alone LOF for one manual; they're both rather short and would easily fit onto the same page when I make the document into the final PDF.  Is there a way to do this?  Considering that these lists are in different FM documents, it wants to print them on their own separate pages.

In the Element Catalog Options (View > Element Catalog > Options button), what's the difference between:Valid Elements for Working Start to FinishValid Elements for Working in Any OrderElements Allowed Anywhere in ParentEspecially, I don't understand the difference between the 2nd and 3rd option.The FM 2017 online help tells us:Valid Elements for Working Start to FinishDisplays only elements that are valid at the current insertion point in the hierarchy. The order of the elements in the pod is the same as they are defined in the structured application....Valid Elements for Working in Any OrderDisplays only elements that are valid at the current insertion point in the hierarchy....Elements Allowed Anywhere in ParentDisplays all elements that are valid for the current parent....For my understanding, "Displays only elements that are valid at the current insertion point in the hierarchy." is equal to "Displays all elements that are valid for the current parent.".Am I wrong or right?A

Hello. I am using FM 2015 in a Windows 10 environment.I have set my printer to Adobe PDF and have opened all the files in a book containing about 20 files.When I put the cursor in an open file and select Save as PDF, the PDF Setup window is truncated:I can't grab the edge of the window to expand it.When I select the book file and select Save as PDF, I get the full PDF Setup for Selected Files window with no problem.I note that someone wrote in with the same problem but opposite behavior back in February of 2017. That person had a corrupted PDF setup window for the book file and got the correct window for the individual .fm files. A resolution was never posted.Any ideas as to why this is happening and how to stop it? Thanks.

I can easily create a document with two connected flows on the body pages. For example, I can create a new Portrait document and add an autoconnected flow tagged B to its Right master page. Once I've done so, I can go back to the body page and start to put content into either or both flows. As expected, FM adds new pages as needed. Flow A on p. 1 connects to Flow A on p. 2; Flow B on p. 1 connects to Flow B on p. 2; succeeding pages. The content on one flow may fit in fewer pages than that of the other. Also as expected, pages may become empty if I delete content and when I save the document, FM discards the empty pages.Suppose, however, that I have an existing multi-page document with Flow A but not Flow B. If I import master pages from the new document with both flows, I get both flows on every page. However, Flow B on one page is not connected to Flow B on the next page. There are several ways to see that they are not connected:1. Text symbols display an end-of-flow symbol in Flow B

Hello    Struggling with this (although it is likely easy once you know how - and I have yet to find a clear set of instructions. I need to add the page in between these two.  I thought in other parts of this document it was automatic based upon where I placed the cursor and began adding new content.Using FM 2017Thanks in advance

Hello,I began using framemaker because I couldn't add automatic revision lines with indesign, but now I'm a little puzzled as to how to manage all of the content.My project is quite large and has had many revisions, but where to start to set it up so it changes automatically when adding new information.ANY HELP WOULD BE GREATLY APPRECIATED.THANKS.Julieta.

I use this to get an attribute value that is assigned to a particular element:var version = getAttributeValue (element, "TemplateVersion");alert (version);function getAttributeValue (element, name) {        var attrList = element.Attributes, i = 0;    for (i = 0; i < attrList.length; i += 1) {        if (attrList.name === name) {            if (attrList.values[0]) {                return (attrList.values[0]);            }            else {                // If the attribute exists, but doesn't have a value, return an empty string.           

When I right + click on an element, I can choose Assign ID to Element. Is there an ExtendScript function or method for doing this? Thanks.Alternatively, is there a solid JavaScript algorithm for generating an unique value? -Rick

I cannot create a new .STS file for this document.  I get this error whenever I try to create a new one or edit the Style Mapping.

Hi,I am using Adobe FrameMaker 12. My menu items will not display correctly if start the frame maker outside the office network. If I start the FM12 at work and then use it outside the office network them menu items will continue to display correctly.Has anyone seen this before?Is there a fix for it?Thanks in advance.-Ajay

Hi,I am developing a dialog based client for FrameMaker.I Created a dialog using .dre file to generate .dl and .xdi filesIn my client code I opened the dialog using F_ApiOpenResource(FO_DialogResource, (ConStringT)"MYDIALOG");and then F_ApiModelessDialog(MYDIALOG, dlgId); to display the dialog. The dialog appears as expected. How do I make the FM POD(Modeless dialog) re-sizable?Examples FM POD's for Markers, fonts, insets are all re-sizable. I want to achieve same behavior for my custom dialog.Thanks,Abhijeet

I English, you often write 2 words apart. For example "night temperature". In Swedish we write them as one word "nattemperatur". That word consists of 2 separate words: "natt" and "temperatur".The thing is that "natt" ends with 2 "t:s" and "temperatur" begins with a "t". When you write them as one word, it's written with 2 "t:s".BUT what if this word needs to be hyphenated and "natt" ends up at the end of one line and "temperatur" in the beginning of the next line? Then there must be a total of 3 "t:s"!! How can I add this word in the spellchecker so it's always correctly spelled, both with and without hyphen?Lena

I am Swedish, and we don't use inches that often (only with for instance pipe dimensions). 1/2, 1/4 and 3/4 I can do with the keyboard or Alt 0188 and Alt 0190 (but it doesn't work here). But how do you Americans, who uses inches a lot, write for instance 3/8 or 5/8? I can't find any ASCII-codes for that.Lena

I am not able to install FrameMaker 17 after downloading the two files.

I want to change the default level of bookmarks to None instead of default, but no can do, it simply goes back to default. I want to see if this setting helps the display issue with PDFs in a Web browser. The PDF looks perfectly find in Acrobat (all bookmarks closed) but on the Web page every bookmark is open and it looks messy. Any thoughts?

Hi,I am using FM12. Windows 10.Book updates ok, but when I save as PDF, I get the following error:%%[ Error: limitcheck; OffendingCommand: ÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿ ]%%%%[ Flushing: rest of job (to end-of-file) will be ignored ]%%%%[ Warning: PostScript error. No PDF file produced. ] %%I would be very grateful for any assistance with this, please.Best regards, Denis

We want to use the same book file to create content which will be used for printed PDFs and for online documentation.For cross-references, we'd like the printed version to include page numbers (i.e. Please see Policy ABC on page 123).  For the online version, we want to omit the page numbers and just have a hyperlink (i.e. Please see Policy ABC).Is there a way to do this in FM 2017?Thank you,

FrameMaker stürtzt ab wenn ein Buch geöffnet wird. Bei der letzten Datei kommt eine Fehler meldung und FrameMaker wird beendet.Kann jemand helfen?

I am trying to upgrade framemaker 2015 to 2017 and hitting an issue, after downloading and extracting the product AdobeFramemaker_14_0_1_upd and running it i get the instant message as shown below:Not sure why it is saying this and I have checked our Web proxy and firewall and it doesn't even seem to be getting that far, anu ideas suggestions would be gratefully recieved   Steve

HiI have an inherited FrameMaker guide which was converted from v11 to 2015 and I am updating the format of the LOT. I noticed in the Paragraph Catalog, there is what looks like an auto-generated LOT of an LOT tag (below) which I want to remove (I have the same situation with a LOF tag in the figures file). I deleted the building blocks for the TableTitle - 2LinesXX-XLOTLOT and the paragraph tag in the catalog. I also did a Find for this paragraph tag and Frame said it was not found in the body, master, and references pages.However, when I Update Book, FrameMaker re-generates this paragraph tag and puts the building blocks back in the reference page.Can anyone tell me why Frame keep regenerating this tag?Thanks!Emma

Dear friends.I want to have input-field and browse button in one row and framed by a named panel.However, my script does not put the groups into the respective panels. What's wrong with it?// Dialog_test.jsx// #target framemaker  sInfo = "• Line 1 of text\n• Line 2 of 3\n• Last line" ;  wDlg  = new Window("dialog", "Project-analysis", undefined);  wDlg.alignChildren = ['left',' '];    wDlg.st1 = wDlg.add('statictext', undefined, sInfo, {multiline:true});    wDlg.st1.preferredSize.width = 360;    wDlg.st1.preferredSize.height = 60;  wDlg.p1 = wDlg.add ('panel', undefined, "Script directory");  wDlg.p1.g1 = wDlg.add('group',undefined,"");    // ---    wDlg.p1.g1.sScriptFolder = wDlg.p1.g1.add('edittext',undefined,"");    wDlg.p1.g1.sScriptFolder.preferredSize.width = 360;    wDlg.p1.g1.sScriptFolder.preferredSize.height = 20;    wDlg.p1.g1.

We have to translate some documents containing non-translatable terms, e.g. trade marks like Adobe or terms from HMIs like Open or Close.How can I tag such terms directly in FM, so that the CAT tool (e.g. SDL Trados) marks them as not to be translated or even does not offer them for translation to the human translator?A special term list does not help, because within a context some terms have to be translated (e.g. the term Open in bodytext), but within another context the same terms should not be translated (e.g. the term Open in HMIs).I know, other tools provide "inner elements" like X-Trans for tagging terms. What does FM offer?Many thanks in advance.