FrameMaker

How to add textframe with pagesize in framemaker using extendscript ?

Hi All -I just upgraded to FM 2017. When I imported my first old FM doc, the tab hidden characters are now visible as 1s and the line break hidden characters appear as 2s.Is there a new setting I accidentally bumped... or?I am using the unstructured mode.Thanks for your help!Cassandra

(Using FM2015 13.0.5.547 on a Windows10 machine)I have *no* idea why this happens.I have a book that I print to PDF and also publish to html5.The published html5 includes an icon to open a pdf location (to view the 'original' pdf) -- let's call that PDF "Foo.pdf".I found that if I had Foo.pdf open in Acrobat while I was publishing my html5, an image from the fifth doc in my book would overwrite the Foo.pdf. (That is, on-screen I would see the image in Acrobat for foo.pdf. Weird. Close the pdf without saving and reopen --- image is there. So, it's overwriting and saving the pdf.)Fine, I'm under deadline, I can deal with that -- just don't have the pdf open (and figure it out later).Well... I just generated html5 again and... an image from doc7 overwrites a *different* pdf that I had open in Acrobat.SO... does anybody have any idea why this could be happening?Thanks

Hello,I hope you can help me. I want to insert images from Adobe Bridge into FrameMaker by using drag and drop. This seems to work, but it doesn't use the function "copy by reference". Is there a setting I have to choose?Best regards,Julian

After dozens of years using FM in numerous companies, I'm at a loss as to how to convince my current company that using FM's automatic change bars is a better way to go than "drawing in" bars via the graphics tool. I've explained everything I can think of, but it's not convincing management.In Word, they say, one can paste in  change bars easily, whereas using automatic bars in FM seems too slow and inefficient. The main problem is two "versions" of change bars. Not only does the current version of the manual require change bars, but it also requires change bars from the previous version -- and the front matter page that lists change pages has to include "change 1" and "change 2" bars. Company is feeling that Word is better in most regards. As a Technical Writer, I KNOW this is NOT true ... FM is a publications tool, versus Word being just a word processor, etc., etc., etc., etc.Anybody not worn down by trying to make this argument have any ideas about how to explain that "pasting

Wenn wir bei einem Arbeitsplatz im Framemaker die Option als PDF Datei speichern auswählen wird nur eine .ts Datei in dem Verzeichnis erstellt, mit 0 KB.Als PDF drucken funktioniert zwar, aber das ist nicht das selbe Ergebnis.Wir haben bereits Framemaker und Acrobat neu installiert, ohne Erfolg. Das Ergebnis ist immer nur die .ts Datei.Was können wir tun?

I'm using FM2015 to generate PDF's for a 350 page user guide. All images (about 100) are Illustrator files linked by reference.I have to use "Save Book As..." to generate PDFs since we use CMYK colors and "Print" only generates RGB.The distiller settings for images are Bicubic downsampling to ZIP, 100 ppi (any smaller and the image quality is unacceptable).Resolution for the rest of the doc is 100 ppi.Fonts are set to embed all (which I have to set for the different fonts to render correctly).The resulting file size is 18MBytes. The similar format from InDesign (used before FrameMaker) was 5MBytes.I have tried saving the PDF as postscript and then regenerating PDF, which makes the file smaller, but removes the links from the TOC, Index, etc.Does anyone know how I can get the file size down without sacrificing functionality in the final PDF?Thanks in advance

Several of my TOC files have hypertext links that stop after only a few characters. Is there any way to correct this?For example Hypertext in Bold:TOCChapter 1 ........... 1-1Chapter 2 ............ 2-1Chapter 3 ........... 3-1   A. Sub-Chap ... 3-3

I'm using FrameMaker 10. My PDF TOC links aren't working. When I go the TOC.fm page and click on the chapter pages, I receive an error message "Cannot find the file named C:\Users\Username\Documents.... Make sure file exists."  I tried replacing my TOC.fm  file from another book with a working TOC, that didn't work. Any ideas?

FM 2017 allows the insertion of 26 different hypertext commands: Insert > Hypertext.Some questions belonging to two commands:Message ClientThe text field of the Hypertext pod shows: message Why not "message openfile filename" as in previous FM versions?Multimedia Object LinkThe text field of the Hypertext pod shows: command value Why not "multimedia objectId type command value" as in previous FM versions?

Hi all,We're on FrameMaker 2015 on both Windows 7 and Windows 10, and use FrameScript to perform various tasks, among them writing to the console when something fails. This all has been working fine for two years. We use the structured interface.We have recently had to reinstall FrameMaker due to multiple crashing issues. With this new install, the FrameMaker console (a text file located at C:\Users\UserName\AppData\Roaming\Adobe\FrameMaker\13\consfile.txt) is always empty. It used to always populate on FrameMaker launch  with various messages, for example:Unable to find the structured application 'DITA_1.2_reference'. Please check the settings in ditafm.ini. Also, ensure that the correct structapp file is being used.Unable to find the structured application 'DITA_1.2_glossentry'. Please check the settings in ditafm.ini. Also, ensure that the correct structapp file is being used.Unable to find the structured application 'DITA_1.2_glossgroup'. Please check the settings in ditafm.in

"Package" feature does not include Insets or Fonts folders is it does in other Adobe applications. Is there a cure for this?TIA

i have 2017 framemaker ,but my friend uses 2015 version ,he wants to open files which i created,i tried savinf my file in save as=> 2015.fm format also .but he unable to open.so i am looking for suggestions!thanksgood day

Hello,if i want to create a PDF, sometimes the error message "Unknown exception in the EnumerateFontFamily-Routine. Restart the computer" comes.I can't find anything useful on the web. Does anyone know this message?Best regardsJohannes

Using FrameMaker 11. Trying to save as pdf. Getting the following error message..."Framemaker: Unknown exception caught in EnumerateFontFamily routine. Please Restart your machine."I have restarted a couple of time. No change.Thanks,Jim Stevens

Using Framemaker 12 trying to open file and it crashes giving me a log.  I need to know if this file can be saved.

Hi Adobe Customer Care,I reported to you about the issue that tracked changes cannot be accepted properly. I made changes with FM Track Text Edits enabled. After accepting all changes, I found some parts I had deleted with change tracked were not deleted after all changes were accepted:Version with changes tracked:  Version with changes accepted:The deleted parts could be accepted properly only when I selected a small scope, for example, the paragraph. You asked me to upgrade my FM to the latest version. I did that but the problem persisted.You asked me to copy the content to a new file. I copied content with changes tracked to a new file where Track Text Edits was disabled. It seemed that the problem disappeared. The texts above showed a final version and looked ok in the new file.However, tracked changes jumped out of the version that looked final unexpectedly from time to time.Track Text Edits is very useful for showing updates and document reviews. I hope that the bugs can be

Hello,I am working with DITA in FrameMaker 2017, I have a question concerning the use of a stepsection element in a task topic.I am trying to use the stepsection element nested in a steps-unordered element to introduce an unordered list. But the result is not what I expect to be.My structure view looks like this : taskbody     steps-unordered          stepsection               p          step          stepBut as a result, the paragraph is bulleted and is considered as the first element of the list. The same stepsection nested in a steps element works fine since I am able to add a simple paragraph above the steps to introduce the procedure. My structure looks like this : taskbody     steps          ste

How do I prevent the chapter number of a file in my book from appearing in my running header? I can't figure out how to delete it from the master pages, and it seems like the Chapter Number variable isn't being used. What I really want is to be able to change the word "Chapter" to "Appendix" for just this one file in the book.

Hallo zusammen,schon immer müssen wir FrameMaker-Benutzer (Version 12) in unserer Abteilung jedes Mal manuell diesen Haken entfernen, wenn wir etwas ausdrucken wollen:Weiß jemand, ob es dazu irgendwo eine Einstellung zu setzen gibt? Im Menü "Bearbeiten" > "Voreinstellungen..." ist dazu leider nichts zu finden.Vielen Dank schonmal und freundliche Grüße,Peter

preciso fazer o downgrade da versao 2017 para 12, comprei o software corretamente, mas ninguém atende no canal de atendimento.tem algum telefone rápido ou documento (tutorial) de como fazer o downgrade.att,.

I have a 25 x 19.5" size document, and I'm attempting to scale down the width to 10" (to 10 x 19.5"), but every time I do, I receive the "Resulting columns would be too narrow" error below:I'm sure I need to adjust column layout settings, but I don't know what I need to do to get the desired result.  The document is two pages, with page 2 being the backside of page 1:Anyone know how to fix this?Thank you!

Hi Scripters, I want to offer some advice to those seeking scripting help. First of all, this forum isn't too busy, but there are some extremely helpful people on here. If you follow this advice, it will make it easier for willing people to help you.One of the most important things you can do when solving a scripting problem is to isolate the problem to the smallest possible unit. For example, if you are solving a problem with tables, don't post code that processes all of the tables in the document. Isolate the code so it just works on the selected table. Or, if you are trying to apply a condition format to paragraphs, don't post all of the code for processing all of the components in a book. Instead, isolate your code to work on a single, selected paragraph. When code is isolated to small units like this, it makes it easier to test and troubleshoot. And when it doesn't work, it makes it easier for other people to stage things on their computers so they can see what is wrong.In general

The following shortcuts do not work:Ctrl + F5 (Show/Hide conditional text)Ctrl + F7 (Select same condition tags)Ctrl + F8 (Select same character format)Ctrl + F10 (Select paragraph)Shift + F2 (Go to previous view)Alt + F5 (Anchored frame)Alt + F6 (Toggle between document windows)Alt + F7 (Copy conditional text settings)Alt + F8 (Copy character format)Alt + F9 (Copy paragraph format)Alt + F10 (Copy table column width)Were they deleted in FM 2017?

Hi,I have a FrameMaker document that is displaying our company logo that is located on the master page, on one page only, 21, it has the text around it so it looks like it's been anchored. I've tried deleting it and re-adding it but it doesn't work.Any ideas anyone? Is this a known bug? I'm using FM version 10.Thank you.