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I'm using FrameMaker 12. I have a book with 17 files (one is a generated TOC). Every file has tracked edits and now I need to accept all the edits (redlines) in all the files to make a "clean" book. I also need to retain the redlined copy in addition to having a clean copy of the book. What is the best, most efficient way to do this? Do I Save as or copy the book to another folder and then accept the edits in all the files separately? Do I need to delete all the files from the book first and then add them back?

I have a basic conversion table that I use when applying structure based on styles to a saved from Word document.The conversion process adds "Id" attribute to some repeated elements but not the others. For example if I have multiple occurrences of title it would have Id's generated. The element para on the other hand does away without those Id's added. Neither of my documents - conversion or exported from Word file have EDDs attached and no information contained in reference pages.How can I suppress the Id attribute generation during applying structure with a conversion table?Thanks in advance.

hello,I have to process FM13 files, but unfortunately the installation of FM13 became FM2015 with updates. (It's been a while and I don't remember how exactly).I have older versions of FrameMaker installed, and they all can be started seperately as seperate versions of the program, but Framemaker13 seems to have vanished. I need the program to work with scripts provided by the customer, and they should not be edited in a higher version.Is there any way to have FM2015/FM2017 and FM13 on the same computer without problems, preferably with the old license key?Any suggestions would be appreciated.Thanks!

Because of a corrupted and unfixable McAfee installation, I'm having to get a new PC. Our IT folks have installed most of what I need and are letting me install and configure the rest of my software before I switch over to the new PC.I'm running FrameMaker 10 under Windows 7. FrameMaker on the new PC seems to be running OK and isn't complaining about the license. Should I deactivate the license on the old PC when I am finished, or just leave it to be formatted? I'm worried that if I deactivate the license on the old PC, it will kill off the one on the new PC as well.

Page numbers do not appear on the first page of new chapters. Continuous page numbering is spot-on, but I want to be able to see the page number in the footer of EVERY page, including the first page of a new chapter in the book.

I am finding that drag-n-drop of files in FM 2017 behaves differently than in 2015. I want to place a PDF file (an image), non-anchored, on a blank page, without affecting text flow (we aren't using text on these pages). In 2017, it creates an anchored frame and/or jumps the image to a new page and/or replaces the previous image. Is there any way to change the way drag-n-drop of PDF files into FM behaves?

Hello all,Just wondering.  I see several posts on the web talking about how to remove blank pages from a file.  I wonder, what is the cause and is there a way to prevent the creation in the first place.thanks in advance.Regards,BenFM 2017

How to remove unwanted double spaces and paragraph marks in framemaker document using extendscript ?

Dear all,Although there is $home\HelpViewer.exe and $home\HelpCfg.ini on my system (w7 x64, FM-14.0.3.500) - the Help function does not work. Neither F1 nor selecting from the menu does anything.Double clicking HelpViewer.exe correctly opens the online-help for FM-14 aka 2017.Command Help in cmds.cfg is the same since years:<Command Help   <Label Help Topics...>   <KeySequence \!fh>   <Definition \x302>   <Description Open Help...>   <Mode All>>Yes, there are some plug-ins and ExtendScripts, but as far as I see they do not manipulate the menu.If I recall correctly there was an issue with HelpViewer.exe at the early versions of FM-14. Hence I had a copy of HelpViewer.exe from Fm-13 in use - but for the current release (build 500) the HelpViewer is OK.What may be the culprit?Klaus Daube

I have been using FrameMaker from V7.0 through to the current TCS version V2017, we send MIF files to our translator and until now this has caused no concerns.  We have just received our latest set of files back from the translator (first time sent to him in FM2017 MIF) and when we opened them, all the characters with accents are missing.     To test this, I sent the same files again saved as V7.0 MIF and V2017 MIF and opened them after translation. All text, including the accents, was present in the V7.0 versions but the FM2017 MIF was missing all the text with accents.  This really needs to be resolved, I do not wish to convert all the files to FrameMaker V7.0 MIF with the possible loss of the 2017 functionality.  Anyone have or know of any fixes?

Hi All,I am new to scripting.But I would have dita maps that point to an absolute destination for each of the xml and dita files and I would like to change these to relative addressing.I figure that a script might be the right way to do this.Any alternate suggestions are welcome.Appreciate it,Myko

How to convert framemaker doc into pdf using extendcript.?

How to remove unwanted double spaces and paragraph marks in framemaker document using extendscript ?

In Framemaker 2017, I don't understand some preference settings:Preferences > Global:General > Cross-Platform File NamingWhat does this mean? What is it good for?Preferences > Global:General > Cursor MovementWhat does this mean? How can I see it in action?Preferences > Global:Interface > Auto-Collapse Hidden PodsWhat does this mean? How can I see it in action?Preferences > Global:Interface > Hide Pods on CloseWhat does this mean? How can I see it in action?Preferences > Global:Interface > Open Documents on Drag DropWhat does this mean? In my experience, Drag and Drop always opens the document.Preferences > Global:Alerts > Dictionary provider mismatchWhat does this mean? What is a dictionary provider?Preferences > Global:Alerts > File unsupported in modeMode? What mode?Preferences > Global:Alerts > File unsupported in viewView? What view?Preferences > Global:PodsWhy is it called "Pods"? It's not about Pods, it's about Markers.And it doe

how to remove unwanted double spaces and paragraph marks in framemaker document using extendscript ?

I'm creating the .pdf from Framemaker 12, and it has nice quality photos (.jpg), with lots of detail. I've tried High Quality and Press Quality Settings but the pdfs do not show good enough quality for the photos.

Our business is changing operating systems. We are currently on Windows 7 and use FrameMaker 11 to generate PDFs. Will FrameMaker 11 run on Windows 10? Will FrameMaker 11 have experience issues with Windows 10?Kind regards,

When converting an FM Book using the GUI, there is a prompt that asks the user to chose one of the predfined Structured Application options within a dropdown menu. Once selected, the resulting XML contains two sections after the header information. The first section contains a list of entity references followed by the referenced file. The second section contains a huge tag with all the entitiy references, which look lik &bkc<some number>.I am using the FDK C/C++ route. The script I have only produces the second section and the complete first section is missing. I searched the forums and saw a couple of refences to the following API call -> FS_StructuredSaveApplication(). IntT saveDitaIndex = F_ApiGetPropIndex(&saveParams, FS_StructuredSaveApplication);StringT testString = F_StrCopyString((ConStringT)" ");saveParams.val[saveDitaIndex].propVal.u.sval = testString;I am still seeing no change in the output. My question is what value(s) should be or can be set for this to w

How to convert framemaker doc into pdf using extendcript.?

How to remove unwanted double spaces and paragraph marks in framemaker document using extendscript ?

If I rotate an image in FrameMaker and convert the fm file to pdf, then the image is cutted in the PDF. I use FrameMaker version 2015.I found this problem already in this forum. There was the solution: "rotate the image before you import this file in FrameMaker". This solution doesn't fit to me. True - I can save the images with the necessary rotation, before I import them. My problem is, that I have images like the cutter, which I have to use in different rotations. It can't be the solution, that I save one image in 15 different rotations.I already tryed other image-formats ond other images like png, pdf, eps. Every time it's the same result.FrameMakerPDFFileformatsvg 1.0svg 1.0I hope you can help me,Julian

Hi there,in a complex structure that produces correct PDF-output, the HTML5 help however does not reference links to concepts in the structure.In the navigation the name concept file is displayed, however the reference link to display the content when clicking on the name is broken and the content is not shown.Inspecting the navigation element that is not displayed it shows its for some reason just creating an emptyp <a href="#"> without the path.For the missing ones, I do not know.Other concepts are just not even displayed in the navigation, even though the html files have been generated.Can you please help?I have tried all sorts of structuring and even creating topics instead of concepts.Nothing worked.Cheers.PS: I have the latest update of FM2017 installed.

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Sometimes when I generate a PDF from a FrameMaker 10 unstructured book, the generated PDF overwrites an existing file with a totally different name and location.  After I try a few times without changing anything, it finally does it right.  Any ideas?

HiI'm trying to generate PDF2/XHTML using the DITA Open Toolkit with FrameMaker 12 but nothing happens when building the output.I can see the command line start but is then immediately shutdown, and there is nothing generated in the output folder.I have installed the Java JDK and set the Java_Home variable (before that the output options box didn't open).Do anyone have a glue what is wrong?