FrameMaker

I have a Framemaker book that has a few .fm files that are section headings marked with Heading 1, and additional .fm files following. The way the book is set up when it's exported to HTML the heading 1 becomes a parent folder you can expand to view pages underneath. I've since added some new .fm files into the book that automatically sort properly with the TOC, but the problem is that it's not including all pages when I publish to HTML - either the page is totally blank, or it's not grouped under the section heading. Unfortunately the person who set up the book is no longer with us so I'm not able to get an answer about what she did to set the files up to do the automatic grouping.  I've been trying to get a clear answer about what I have to do to get the pages to export but I can't find the information from adobe documentation, I'm not sure if I'm missing some kind of marker or flag? Unstructured FM 17.0.0. Any suggestions would be appreciated, thank you !! 🙂

I downloaded the FrameMaker 2022 version 17.0 from official website and the downloaded file read as Framemaker_17_LREFDJ.zip. I unzipped and tried installing the app, but it throws an error that "The installation cannot continue as the installer file may be damaged. Download the installer file again." But i have downloaded thrice and different version, still same error. Recently i changed to Dell Workstation laptop Precision 3591 with Intel core Ultra processor. Can someone help me to install the software where my office IT cant fix the issue. Thank you in advance.

Hi all, I am kinda familiar with Adobe Illustrator and InDesign etc, but taking my first steps with FrameMaker. I am using FrameMaker for converting FM files to MIF in order to be translated in some other software. Now a problem has occured that some of the MIF files have the structure messed up. Some blocks have moved into other blocks where they should not be. For example, some pragraphs have moved inside image caption block.  As I am new to FM - is there more to save as MIF than simply Save As? Some settings or checkboxes to be mindful of? 

How can I move the paragraph to start at the left side?

One of the files in my book has lost its .fm suffix and in Explorer the icon is now white. The file still opens fine within the book though.I've tried copying and pasting the contents of the file into a new blank file with a new name and that worked ok. However, when I deleted the dodgy one and renamed the new one to the old name, then the same thing happened.The filename that seems to be causing issues was the original name of the file after I imported it from Word (i.e. the title of the first Heading 1) before splitting it into multiple files via File > Utilities > Split Current Document.I'm not sure what to try next...

I'm finding myself in a bit of a maintenance nightmare. I have a series of templates and I have manually updated the paragraph styles to synchronize the paragraph formats that are used across the templates. Each template has a different function, so they share a core set of paragraph styles. They each have use-specific paragraph styles, so just importing *all* the styles doesn't really work for me. I could, alternatively, put the shared styles in a separate template, I also need to track the complete set of paragraph formats. I'm willing to do the manual updates to synchronize the templates if I have a guide to work from.

Hello! I have tried to find this answer on my own, through various methods, to no avail.I am using FrameMaker 2019 (fully updated) on Windows 10 64bit. When I insert a table, the Style is Format A, and I go in to the Table Designer and set the Start position at Top of Page or Top of Column, the table starts at the top of the next page. This leaves me with one blank page. If I delete this page, then it deletes the table as well. I have tried this on a working document and on a completely new, fresh, blank document and the behavior is the same.My question is:  What steps does one need to take to make it so that when the Start position for a table is Top of Page or Top of Column, that the table starts at the top of the same page that the table was created on?Thanks for the help!

I know that I can conditionalize some text for ConditionalFlagA and other text for ConditionFlagB and show/hide the conditional text and it will be shown/hidden.I know I can  repeat a paragraph and make it bold and conditionalized for ConditionFlagA and non-bold for ConditionFlagB. Let's say the entire document needs to be Arial 10 Bold for ConditionalFlag A and Calibri 11 Normal for ConditionalFlagB, but the textual content is the same. Is there a way to do that without copying all of the text and repeating it and conditionalizing it and then having to update it in two places if I need to edit - which defeats the main advantage of conditional text? (Or making an ESTK script to change the show hide conditions and change the font that way.) Right now, this is a hypothetical, but I do have some practical applications for it. Thanks in advance!!!

Is it true that Adobe FrameMaker does not support OpenType font features? I'm talking about standard features, such as glyph positioning. Diacritical marks are not positioning correctly in FrameMaker, but work correctly in Word. Is there a workaround? FrameMaker is at version 10.0.0.388.

I am trying to get to the bottom of an issue that has been ongoing for almost a month. Our company is trying to figure out a way to number each chapter accordingly. For Chapter 1 as an example pg 1/30 Then in chapter 2 it restarts at 1 and is shown as 1/25 for chapter 3 it is 1/16 and etc. We are able to restart the first number at 1 for each chapter but can not find a way to get the second number to match the correct amount of pages within a folder(Chapter). 

When i insert the chapters to my book they are automatically inserted from Z to A, i then manually drag them into order, see image below.Is there a way to make them insert in the correct order automatically (A to Z)  

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Dear everybody,since yesterday I am struggling with the following error:%%[ ProductName: Distiller ]%%%%[Page: 1]%%%%[Page: 2]%%%%[Page: 3]%%%%[Page: 4]%%%%[ Error: undefined; OffendingCommand: Nct+Z ]%%%%[ Flushing: rest of job (to end-of-file) will be ignored ]%%%%[ Warning: PostScript error. No PDF file produced. ] %%I created a completely new FrameMaker file and am still not able to safe it as a PDF file. Is this error related to the graphics possibly?I hope you can help me.Thanks, Anna

I am maintaining and updating a small list of developers, designers etc, who specialize in Adobe FrameMaker. It can be found here:   https://framemaker.dk/en/good-plugins-utilities-for-adobe-framemaker   If you know of other companies/persons/software etc, which you think worthy of an inclusion, please let me know, and I shall include them.

I am using Adobe TCS with FM 17.0.4.628When I publish a FM book to HTML5, MiniTOCs are pubplished as text instead of links. When I inserted the MiniTOC I have selected the option "Create Hypertext Links". This works fine in pdf but not in HTML5.How can I solve this?Thank you and best regards;Rainer

We are trying to reconstruct documentation that was developed in FrameMaker but we only have the PDF output. We can use Acrobat to convert PDF to DOCX which works well and we get the cross references working in Microsoft Word. When we try to open the docx in FrameMaker, the application crashes. If support is intersted we can share the document to reproduce the crash. If we try to import a much smaller version of our DOCX,  we can see that the cross references  are not correclty imported., the markers are there, but the cross references are all broken. If there is a better way to recostruct the FrameMkaer files from the PDF we would love to hear. It seems bizare that Microsoft Word does a better job importing from the PDF. ThanksIvan Pedruzzi       

The footer note is located at the bottom of the page, is there any way to move up to be under the words?

I am trying to change the font color for "Contacting"on page 92 only. However, when I highlighted on the specfic words and change the color from paragraph designer, all the words on the same row is changed as well. How can I change the color for the specific words only? 

How can I move the table 1 to left as positioned in the image?

Hello all, I'm using FrameMaker 2022 version 17.0.4 and have an issue with cross-references. I'm writing my FM files both in German and in English. In some of my English language files, some cross-reference links look like this:    '(siehe 11.7 "Control panel" auf Seite 12-9)'    The German, bolded text should be in English. The referenced content is in English. I can't find a method to correct this.  Most of the cross-references are in the correct language, i.e. English, but some will have to be corrected.    Grateful for any help!    

 Console error is shown .... even thoughi remove the unavilbe font... how this error affect my document .... please anyone can  explain

What software are you using? Which version?   See https://community.adobe.com/t5/framemaker-discussions/getting-problem-to-genrate-pdf/td-p/14766222

 what is this error...  2. tp concvert .fm file of frame maker  to PDF..  is Adobe PDF paid software is required or not... getting problem to generate PDF in frame maker   See https://community.adobe.com/t5/framemaker-discussions/getting-problem-to-genrate-pdf/td-p/14766222  

Hello, I have a problem which I have not found any solutions to yet. I have an XML file that looks like this <root> <firstelement> <text>content</text> <description>content</description> <secondelement> <text><variable>variable</variable>content</text> <description> </secondelement> </firstelement> </root>I wrote an XSLT to transform this into a flat hierarchy so I can display it as table. My problem is that I may be too inexperienced with XSLT or my googlefu is not strong enough but I haven't found a way to transform the <variable> elements & their content into <!ENTITY> elements.Is it even possible to do this with XSLT? Thank you for any help.

Can FrameMaker connect to Sharepoint 2019?