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Using Fm 14.0.4, when inserting a Go To URL hypertext marker, marker text of message URL https://forums.adobe.com/ works as expected in HTML output, replacing the source page with the destination.However, I can't figure out the marker text needed to return <a href="https://forums.adobe.com/" target="_blank"> in the HTML output.Which is unfortunate, because I tested this in Fm 14.0.0 and was able to use this string message URL https://forums.adobe.com/" target="_blank to give the <a href="https://forums.adobe.com/" target="_blank"> result I'm looking for.Has anyone done this successfully in 14.0.4?EXAMPLES with RESULTSmessage URL https://forums.adobe.com/ target=_blank returns <a href="https://forums.adobe.com/  target=_blank">message URL https://forums.adobe.com/" target="_blank returns <a href="https://forums.adobe.com/" target="_blank">Suggestions for referencing HTML entities in Fm markers greatly appreciated!!!!-Matt

Hi,We have upgraded to Framemaker 2017 from FM 10. It seems that some of the fonts that we had in FM 10 are missing.Myriad Pro LightMyriadPro-CondMyriadPro-SemiboldIs there any way to download these from Adobe?, as our templates are now substituting these fonts with Times New Roman.

The fig element in my dita topic looks like this:After I create an FM file from my ditamap, it looks like this:Why does the title change name and its position? Do I have any control over this? Thanks in advance.

FM 2017: the Table Designer will not change the background cell color in the header row. I can change it with the Custom Ruling and Shading but I want to change the Header background color for all of the tables in the document.

Seems like a crazy omission! Why is there not the ability to do a Find/Replace a variable with a variable? There is the ability to run Finds for a particular variable name (although you have to type in the variable name - why not have a drop-down list of all the currently defined variables so you can select the variable you want to search for?), but there is no option to replace a found variable with another (different) variable. In my particular case, a predecessor created variables that included product version numbers in the variable name. When a new version of the product came out, a new variable, with the new product version in the name, was created and applied to each occurrence of the variable for the previous version. That, of course, completely negates the purpose of variables! I'm trying to genericize these variables so there is one Product Version variable to deal with. However, having created the generic variable(s), there is no way in FrameMaker to Find the old variables a

It makes it easier to organize and track my variables.

I'd like to delete and rename a conditional tag simultaneously.An FM file contains two condition tags: Pro (for experts) and Light (for beginners).Now, the beginners have turned into experts, and I don't need the tag Light anymore.The information (formerly tagged Light) should now be tagged Pro, too.Is there an easy way to turn any Light tag into a Pro tag?Did I miss something in the Show/Hide Conditional Text pod or the Conditional Tags pod?Is there an easy alternative without converting to/working with a MIF file (and maybe damaging it)?

Is it possible to execute an Fcode through a Hypertext command? I want to be able to click on a Hypertext link in FrameMaker and have it execute an Fcode. I see this in the FDK Reference on page 800: FV_HypertextFcodeInvalid: Invalid FCode in the hypertext command. But I can't figure out the syntax for doing executing an Fcode in a Hypertext marker. Thanks in advance.

Hello all,My settings on the Pagination dialog (Body page and Master Page) for a couple of files in my book:My settings on the Pagination dialog after recompiling the book (Body page and Master Page) for a couple of files in my book:What am I doing wrong?Thanks in advance.Regards,Ben

Hiya everybody, I'm pretty new to FrameMaker 2017 (and FrameMaker in general) and I have a small problem I'm trying to work out.I'm editing a manual made by someone else, and I have an illustration that has several "call-out" numbers on it referring to components of the widget referred to with this manual.  What I'm trying to do is to add a cross-reference from each of these text line callouts to the particular section of the book that would allow the reader to click on the number of the component in the PDF and get linked to that section of the manual.  No matter what I try, I cannot get a cross-reference to attach to the text line.What's the best course of action here?

In the Show/Hide Conditional Text pod the option Show if all Conditions Applied is a BETA option?Create a new file.Open the Conditional Tags pod.Create some condition tags, e.g. "Cond1" and "Cond2".Open the Show/Hide Conditional Text pod.Select Show as per Condition.Select the option Show if all Conditions Applied.Click Apply.Only the text tagged with every condition tag shows. So far - so good.Now the miracle happens. Save, close, and reopen the file.Check the Show/Hide Conditional Text pod.Show as per Condition is deactivated and Show as per Expression is activated. But not by me!And there is an automatically generated new expression called FM_Default Expression: "Cond1"AND"Cond2".(Btw: There is still an expression called Default Expression: "Cond1"OR"Cond2".)I can't find an explanation of this behavior - not in the FM PDF help, and not in the internet.Is Show if all Conditions Applied a BETA function? Will it be deleted in future FM versions?What's the difference between FM_Default

Hi, I have installed Framemaker 2017 but to my surprise it got installed in German instead of English. How can I change that?Thanks in advance for help,CMB

I have resized a photo in Photoshop down from 34" x 34" 72 dpi to the size I need 146 pt x 146 pt 300 dpi, and saved it as a PSD format to import into Frame 2015. When I import it into Frame, it is reducing it to 24%, even though the Width and Height show 146 pt x 146 pt, dpi shows 300.I have had this issue before and I have not been able to figure out why it does this.Hopefully someone has had this same issue and knows how to fix it.Thanks

In the Welcome screen I have just modified 1 line to get the "Restore Last Session" with a more prominent button.I changed line 37 from ... class="button tertiary"... to ...class="button"...But FM-14 insists to use the original version - although the modified version is named welcome.html and the original one is named welcome-ori.html.Neither Windows restart, nor clearing Temporary Internet Files helped. The file displays as expected in FireFox or IE 11.Where the heck does FM get the orginal file from? (I have never heard of an FM-temp folder)In the initial version (14.0.0.361) I did not have this problem, but don't remind whether it existed in 14.0.1.406.Klaus

Hello,I'm using Frame 12 unstructured and trying to setup a generated TOC I inherited from someone else. Everything looks great except even pages aren't seeing the formatting I set up on the reference page. All pages have a Flow A. Master pages are set at Right/left. Thanks for your help!

FM 2015 (I believe was the version before the latest) did this neat thing where you could display a variables pod (the one that appeared below the doc that let you edit, apply, delete variables) and my double clicking on a variable name, a separate window would come up that would list all the occurrences of the variable. You could click on an occurrence in that list and go there. Boom. (I may not have this described exactly right.... as the update took away my old version.Now, in 2017, all I get is the variables pod with the list of current variables and the add/edit/delete (etc) buttons. I've found no way to find where the occurrences of a particular  variable live.Am I missing something?

Does anyone know the difference between 2017.zero and 2017.one? Usually point versions are bug fixes, but Adobe is treating 2017.one as a completely separate version.I'm primarily interested in the changes to FrameMaker and to Captivate.

Some days ago a new FM 2017 update has been published. It is called Cumulative update (2017.0.4). What exactly does cumulative mean?

We've got some old files that have been updated progressively from at least Frame 7.0 and probably earlier (their origins are lost in the mists of time, but there are vague rumors of some pre-2000 A.D. proto-civilization). In the Reference pages is a page called Enhance 1.0 (footer page title), which contains the following text: Enhance Reference PageEnhance stores hidden internal data on this page: do not edit or delete.My Google Fu hints at some FrameMaker add-on of old, but I can't figure out what exactly it did or how it might be affecting anything currently in the file. There are no images in the file and all the tags have been update/changed/converted to things we want. There is no index and the TOC is generated through Frame (mini and main). HTML conversion is handled through Frame to generate HTML5. The files used to generate HTML through WebWorks conversion (years ago). I'd like to delete the reference page, but I'm curious if anyone has heard of the add-on or knows what it di

The TOC in FrameMaker 17 is auto-generating an extra blank first chapter. It regenerates even after I delete it. What setting do I need to change to fix this issue?

I am trying to add a footer and a background image that I can type over on the Title page. However, when I navigate to Master pages, it does not include the Title page and only allows me to add a footer and the background image to the following page. How can I set this up for the Title page of the document? I have already tried Format > Page Layout > New Master Page. It creates a border on the Title page but when I go to Master Pages, the Title page is still not included and I cannot add the footer or background image.I

How do I retain background transparency when importing an image into FM?

I had FRAME MAKER 8 running on my Windows 10 laptop. As I had to perform a clean installation of Windows, I tried to deactivate FM 8. No option worked.After reinstalling Windows 10, I contacted adobe support (Luciana) in order to activate FM 8. After one month of emails, she told me that the Adobe technicians told her that FM 8 does not work in Windows 8.Obviously that is a lie, since I had it working previously. Any help on this?

Hey guys,I just got the task to insert a certain text on empty pages inside a .fm file (the empty page is always the last page of each file).I already took a look at how to insert a paragraph (How to insert a new paragraph? ). But that only adds a paragraph right behind the last one. Since I do not have a paragraph on the page that I want to insert the text to, I wonder which element I could use to insert the paragraph right at the beginning of that page. Does anyone have a clue how that could be done?Kind regards, Tom

In Fm 2017 I have the chapter number and text in different paragraphs and with different tags. Is it possible to show the chapter number and text in the same line in a TOC?