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1. I am using FM 9 and Adobe Acrobat 9 Pro Extended. Operating system is Windows 10.2. Last week,  FM files would no longer convert to PDF. I did some research and it seems that the latest update to OS10 created this problem. I was given a temporary solution that worked: uncheck the Convert CMYK Colors to RGB box.  My first question is whether anyone knows if this bug is being addressed. I cannot find any indication on the Web.3. The next issue arose several days later and I'm not sure if it's related to the one above. When I try to convert book files, I get the error message: Setting file read error in PDFX4 2008 Joboptions/Check compliance out of range. (see attached screenshot). Any idea of how I can deal with this one? I tried recreating the book and I tried reloading Acrobat. Neither worked. I have not tried reloading FrameMaker. Individual files will convert but not book files.Thanks in advance.Mark

Hi,We need to add standard text (Conventions, General Navigation, T&Cs and Copyright information) to our documents. These would typically range from 1 to several pages of content. We currenly use a Master Page to add the copyright information to our documents, but would like to use master pages to also add in the other information (we will be using Conditional Text as the content included depends on the document). Is there a way to generate these using Master Pages?Thanks,Quintin

Brand-spanking new version of FrameMaker 2017 installed, and on brand-new computer.OK, technically, 13-inch 2017 core i5 MacBook Pro w/ 16GB RAM, 256GB HDD, running macOS High Sierra, Parallels, Windows 10 Pro, and demo version of FM (to test, plan to subscribe). I increased the amount of memory available to Windows in the VM from the default 2GB to 6GB.Opening a book file created by a co-worker and copied to my machine, a book with more than a dozen .FM files and a couple hundred images in a separate images folder. Only issue on opening is some font-not-available substitution messages. Tried saving to PDF by:- Save As..., then selecting PDF- Save as PDFIn both cases, not more than 5 seconds went by before FrameMaker crashed. No error message or anything, just disappeared.So, any guesses? Does FrameMaker leave any kind of stack trace anywhere when it crashes for diagnostic purposes that I can review, and if so, where?

I have a little bit of space before my caution symbol (paragraph tag) and cannot reduce the size of the font so that the space goers away.  When I change the font, the font reverts back.  How do I get rid of the space?

Error message "it cant be opened with this release of the product"

What is the best way in Framemaker to reference a mapped network drive, to open an externally linked .pdf?ABSOLUTE network mapped drive: the following WORKS great.message URL file://///xxxx/yyyy/images/TDTD_CS_Rev_working.pdfRELATIVE network mapping: What is the best way to reference RELATIVE, and open a external .pdf file?message URL file ?????Your comments are appreciated.

When publishing documents using FM 2015 (and FM 2017) to all html formats on a Windows 10 computer, distiller no longer is activated so no images are being generated in the output from the files.The generate images using distiller check box is activated in the publishing settings.I have not experienced this issue before and is new since May 7th 2018 (the last time I successfully published files with images included), so suggests a recent upgrade to something is responsible.Any suggestions as to how this can be fixed?

My trial version of Adobe FrameMaker 2017 will not print my current files (I have been printing PDFs from Adobe FrameMaker 10 using Adobe Pro X (version 10.1.16) printer. And apparently my FrameMaker 10 has been hijacked because it will no longer print files on Adobe Pro X either. Baffled. What do I need to do/use/upgrade to create a PDF using the new FrameMaker?Thank you, Ruth

Obviously Framemaker has the "keep with next" and "keep with previous" options in the Paragraph formats as well as the ability to control the minimum number of lines from a paragraph that show at the beginning of end of a page (widow/orphan lines).What I'm looking for is the same kind of functionality, except with paragraphs instead of lines.  I'm running into a lot of situations with nested lists and tables of contents where the "sub-items" will be separated from the "top-level items" when the text flows to the next page.For example:1) Top-Level Item2) Top-Level Item3) Top-Level Item   a. Sub-Item   b. Sub-Item4) Top-Level Item*PAGE ENDS HERE*   a. Sub-Item   b. Sub-ItemWhat I would like to see:1) Top-Level Item2) Top-Level Item3) Top-Level Item   a. Sub-Item   b. Sub-Item*PAGE ENDS HERE*4) Top-Level Item   a. Sub-Item   b. Sub-ItemIn most lists I can just use overrides or a different paragraph format

Menu bar missing Format, View, Special, Graphics and Table options for one picky .fm file? The complete menu of options (File, Edit, Format, View, Special, Graphics, Table, CMS, Window and Help) DO appear when viewing most .fm files, but for some reason DO NOT appear with the picky .fm file?

Hi,One of my team has just installed FrameMaker 2017 and has installed the latest update. Whenever they open FrameMaker, they get the following error:Cannot initialize API client c:\program files(x86)\adobe\adobe framemaker 2017\fminit\plugins\RHFrameMakerServer12.dll.Check for errors in the APIClients section of the maker.inifile in FrameMaker install location or your %appdata% folder, verify that theclient program exists, and make sure you have enough swap space to run theclient.Any ideas as to how to resolve/prevent this?I have looked in the maker.ini and the referenced dll is not referenced.Thanks

Hi,Which function of FrameMaker handels the fm-reltable (inserting additional FrameMaker elements). Actually I couldn't find something like XSLT preprocessing ..... only some r/w rules but I supose that can't be all.Thank youRegardsApollo

When I publish an FM 2017 book as HTML 5, the chapter-level topics get auto-named based on the FM file names. E.g., Chapter_1.fm becomes Chapter_1.html. Is there a way to have the topics auto-named based on the chapter titles, not file names?  E.g., Getting Started.html rather than Chapter_1.html. Topic file names are shown in the HTML 5 OLH's Search pane as "titles" of the found text blurbs, and titles like "Chapter_1" look weird. I could rename the FM files... but that would clash with some rules and conventions.

Hi Folks,I wrote a script to verify if all the files referenced in a ditamap exist. The script is rather slow when the a ditamap refers to other ditamaps because the script opens those ditamaps.var doc = app.FirstOpenDoc;CheckDITATopicref(doc)function CheckDITATopicref(doc) {    var DITATopicref = doc.FirstDITATopicrefElementInDoc;    while(DITATopicref.ObjectValid()) {        var myFile = new File(DITATopicref.TopicRefAbsoluteFilePath);        if (!(myFile.exists)) {             $.writeln("The following file is missing: "+ DITATopicref.TopicRefAbsoluteFilePath)        } else {            if(DITATopicref.TopicRefAbsoluteFilePath.split(".")[DITATopicref.TopicRefAbsoluteFilePath.split(".").length-1] == "ditamap"){ //if file is ditamap  &

Hi,I already post this question in the DITA Forum. There I got the impulse to may ask this better directly in the FrameMaker Forum ..... (I just explain it here that noone will complain about double posting …)  One question related to  "XSLT Magic Tricks with DITA and FrameMaker"  by Eliot Kimber  http://blogs.adobe.com/techcomm/files/2017/10/2-Magic-Tricks-with-XSLT-and-Adobe-FrameMaker.pdf  On page 45 of the presentation Eliot Kimber talks about the "hacking DITA <fig> content model ...." He explain to do this in the FrameMaker copy of the DITA DTDs.  Why this is nessesary? In my case I try to add one Element which is required for the presentation of the xml in FrameMaker. For this I use an XSLT preprocessing stylesheet. Actually in the structure view everything looks perfect (no flag that something is invalid / therfore I think the EDD is correct). When I open the DITA xml file in FrameMaker I got some messages in the console, that the additional

Since a major update to Windows 10, installed April 6 2018, printing to PDF results in clipped Frame equations. The screen shots below show (1) the view insider FrameMaker and (2) the view insider Acrobat DC.(1)(2)I have Creative Cloud tools as well, in particular Acrobat DC. Running Windows 10, Version 1803, OS Build 17133.1I had this problem a few years back when opening a document from an older version of FrameMaker in a newer version. The fix at that time was to open a new an empty document in the new version of FrameMaker and then copy all of the content from the old doc into the new document. This action would resolve the equation clipping problem. It does for me at present. In fact the example above was created in a clean document. Additionally when I directly print the document to a printer (in this case an Epson Ink Jet), the output is find, no equation clipping.

When I open a single document and use the Save Book As and select the HTML option, the Paragraph Styles are rendered in a logical manner - Body becomes 'P', etc. If I do this for a book, Body becomes H4.Also, when a book is selected, I have no access to the HTML setup options in Utilities, so I can't customise my output.This happens with both FrameMaker 2017 and FrameMaker 8.I realise that this part of FrameMaker is rather ancient (the documenation talks about using Netscape), however for the project I'm working on, the single HTML document output is potentially very attractive.Is there any means of controlling this output from Book format?Thanks,B Wilkinson

Hi thereSince build 1807, FM can't print to pdf in RGB mode, so I tried CMYK mode and FM shows this window:Any clue about this? I already send a mail to Adobe with the trace and error, but no response at the moment.Thanks!

Currently, the project I am working on has documents created in Framemaker 2015 version. I am planning to upgrade my Framemaker version, that is 2017. Just wanted to know, if I plan for this migration will it impact my documents?Will there be any formatting issues?

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HelloI am using FrameMaker 10 and just edited  a previously written document. But this time  I am getting  the error below:Color definition for color 16 inconsistentThen same error for 18 etc.I  have never seen this error before.Please help.regardsHR

I'd like to print an FM document in CMYK.There is only one paragraph tag used in the document.The paragraph tag includes the font 'Arial Unicode MS'.The PDF has to be in CMYK (Print vendor's requirement).The font has to be 'Arial Unicode MS'.Choose File > Save as PDF...Choose the PDF-Joboption 'High Quality Print'.Deselect the option 'Convert CMYK to RGB'.The PDF creation is faultless.But the embedding of the font is faulty:'Arial Unicode MS' is a True type font (TTF).But Acrobat 'thinks', it's an Adobe 'Type 1' font.The result is that the PDF is not searchable.But it has to be searchable.FM versions: FM10.0.2 or FM 2015 -> Same resultWhere did I go wrong?How can I force the correct embedding of 'Arial Unicode MS' in a CMYK PDF file?

The paragraph format in the status bar is not updated and always shows the paragraph format of the first paragraph in the main .flow. Any idea?

Hi,How to "Zoom In" selected textframe area in framemaker using extendscript ?Please suggests if any ideas.

We create separate TOCs for each chapter in our manuals.  Some documents are used in different chapters in different books therefore I want to be able to use the folder name in the hierarchical book to populate the title in the TOC (by using <$chaptertitlename>) for that chapter.  However, in order to set that file as the template for that chapter's folder, I have to remove it from the book first and then set it as the template.  In this process I lose the link between the TOC and the book and my TOC no longer updates with the rest of the book.  Is there any way to relink the TOC after it's been removed from the book and set as the template (or prevent the link from being lost entirely)?Thanks for your time,Orion DeYoe