FrameMaker

Hallo Community,Wir verwenden FM 2015 als Editor und als Produktionswerkzeug für FM-Buch und PDF aus unserem Content Management System. Seit unser CMS auf die neuesten XML-Werkzeuge umgestellt wurde, funktioniert die Produktion eines FM-Buchs nicht mehr, da das XML-Attribut <standalone="no"> nicht verarbeitet werden kann. Folgende Fehlermeldung erscheint:XML Read Report LogSource Document: C:\Sirius\Preview\PREV7EB0E294426F4313B32CB2D7B1BD0A05.tmp.xmlXML Parser Messages (Document Instance)Error at file C:\Sirius\Preview\Software_Starten_psv.xml, line 1, char 54, Message: The 'standalone=' string is only allowed in the main XML entityError at file C:\Sirius\Preview\psv-soft-msa_kap4_OptikEinstellen.xml, line 1, char 53, Message: The 'standalone=' string is only allowed in the main XML entityError at file C:\Sirius\Preview\Anzeigeeigenschaften_Video_Einstellungen_msa_msa-3d_psv.xml, line 1, char 53, Message: The 'standalone=' string is only allowed in the main XML entityParse error

One of the teams I support (as template poobah) wants to generate alerts when a file is updated, so they can address requirements associated with the file. We are using unstructured Frame and simply publishing to .pdf. I have done significant research and reading about ExtendScript, so I don't need to know about or get advice on that. It's far too complicated for that team (and far beyond my pay scale-to-benevolence factor for this skill). I found an older note I made about thinking I had found a far simpler way to accomplish this, but I cannot remember what it was; it was so cool I was sure I'd remember to backtrack and test, but other projects arose. *grrrr* It's of course not associated with OLE, nor could I find anything relevant in the Help files when I checked on the Hypertext option for Message Client. I've looked at every logical option on every menu and searched online to smithereens, to no avail. I want to know whether scripting is the only method for configuring notification

Hi There,I'm using FrameMaker (2015) in Unstructured Mode and I need some help to understand what I'm doing, as the system seems to want to prevent me from doing the things I want to do. (creation or modification ot tables, to name one thing)I have inherited this system and 'legacy' documents from my predecessor in 2013 - I had very little training on it at the time (there is no budget allocated for a proper course*) and I have to update these old documents on a regular basis.The documents in question, are Installation Guides (Assembly Instructions) for Commercial Playground Equipment.*All of our current documents are created with InDesign, as it seems to be more flexible, but I still have to maintain the Legacy stuff, so I need to understand FrameMaker from that point of view.It would me nice, if someone could look at one of my documents and talk me through whats what - is there any remote desktop facility with any of the support options in our subscription package, to allow a technic

Hi all,I need to fetch the frame anchor object attributes to prepare a list of text attributes.Anchored Frame > Object Attributes > Text Attributes.I tried following    F_ObjHandleT  hGrfObjId = F_ApiGetId(FV_SessionId, docId, FP_FirstGraphicInDoc);    /* Traverse list of graphics, anchored frames. */    while (hGrfObjId != NULL)    {        UIntT  uType = F_ApiGetObjectType(docId, hGrfObjId);        if (uType == FO_AFrame)        {            F_AttributesT attribList = F_ApiGetAttributes(docId, hGrfObjId);            for (UIntT i = 0; i < attribList.len; i++)            {            

I would like to know if you can create embeded drop down menus and check boxes in FrameMaker.We are publishing documents that require DTDs and we want to incorporate some drop down menus and check boxes.

I use a paragraph format (command-prompt) for our CLI-based product. It uses auto-numbering CLI<network-admin@Leaf2> as the format so I don't have to type this in throughout the documentation. However, this paragraph format doesn't get picked up during the conversion. Do I format this as numbering and use upper-roman or upper-alpha to map the style?Thanks

FM 2017 Release, all updates installed, DITA 1.3, Win7Pro Machine.I have created <indexterm> tags using both the new marker dialog that appears when I add the tag to a document, and also through the Edit markers pod. My MO is to create one tag that contains all of the relevant indexing information for that section, e.g. topic:subtopic;restated topic:sub;topic aloneWhen I close and reopen the file, I end up with (in the example above) three different <indexterm> tags with the different terms separated out, so <topic:subtopic><restated topic:sub>, etc.I guess this isn't problematic (output seems OK) but I liked keeping things simple with the single tag, and I don't recall this behavior in previous versions of FM that I have used. Has something changed? Is this expected/desired behavior? I have not changed the R/W rules or EDDs for index terms.

I have found issues with sharing files, specifically TOC, LOT, LOF between these OS systems. Has anyone else experienced these type of issues? Some of the errors I receive from FrameMaker are "this file is locked in view mode", spurious Book file errors, cross reference errors, font errors, cannot open file due to unavailable font error, etc.We are just two writers with different OS's sharing documentation and editing responsibilities. We follow the identical save (auto save off), update document, building of generated files, etc. procedures.Any ideas?Thanks ahead of time for your help

I need to create 3 master pages (Left, Right, and Blank) for Custom layout -- landscape orientation, Legal (11 X 17) size. I know these pages need to be in a separate document inserted after  appropriate chapter in the book file (to accommodate the different flow).  I''ll be able to include all needed pages in this new "document" that I will insert as a separate "file" after the appropriate chapter file in the book.On these Master pages, I need small text frames on Master page at top with document part numbers, and at the bottom with centered Classification line followed by page number line <$chapnum>-<$curpagenum> centered below it. Between the two I need a large text frame into which I can insert content on the Body pages.I have created 3 text frames on Master page -- one for header info, one for footer info, and large one in center for content.Problems I'm having;1. Header variables (one on right side, and one on left side) insert correctly, but when I go to ta

Dear colleagues,I'm having an issue with converting FM files (version 2017) with cyrilic characters. The original file is written in FM 2017 and displays the characters without any problems. In order to make this file readable for my colleagues who use older versions of FM (8), I converted it into .mif. However, all characters got replaced by question marks. Is there any other way to convert this file to make it compatible with older FM versions without loosing the data?Many thanks.Nico

I'm importing high resolution *.tif screen shots into FrameMaker 12 but after I create the PDF they come out low resolution and blurry. Examples below. I've been doing this a while and never experienced this before.I tried changing the Print settings as well:Original .tif imageImage in PDF @ 100%Image in PDF @ 300%

Hey guys,I am fairly new to the FrameMaker-scripting-thing. I basically have a folder, full of .xml files that shall be opened with a structured application and then be saved as a .fm file. I can already do that but I have to manually tell FrameMaker which structured application to use (as in How do I load an XML file, and save it as an fm file). But I can't really say which one should be used. I'd rather have the user specify the application once for the first file (maybe even open the dialog that can be seen when manually opening a .xml-file) and use it for the rest of the files as well.Pseudo-Code:var structApp = ChooseStructApp();openXmlFile(filePath, structApp);Does anyone know how to do anything like that?Kind regards,Tom

I'm working on a large 2-page file in Framemaker with several graphics.  Depending on the color scheme (CMYK/RGB), I'm getting errors when producing PDFs.When choosing RGB, I get a blank 2-page PDF.  When choosing CMYK, the PDF displays fine except my images are cutoff on the ends with white space:Anyone have experience with these issues?

Hello,I use fm11 and I would like to know if we can avoid that fm generate many .cgm files during a .xml generationThanksJerome

I have document in Framemaker 2017 Unstructured.I convert it to HTML 5 using the publish featureAnchored graphics which only holds one image, converts correctlyAnchored frames which hold both an image AND some text boxes do not convert at all. The conversion process merely leaves blank spaces.How can I make it work, so these anchored frames which hold text AND graphics convert correctly?Best regardsBjørn

I have a run-in paragraph tagged (highlighted below), but how do I get it back on the same line as my previous bold heading?  When I delete a space to bring it back up, the tag changes back to the previous bold heading's tag:

I'm working with the trial version of Framemaker and I downloaded the FDK.  I'm running VS2017, and I can't get a good build.  I started with unresolved external symbols for printf (for which I found an answer to add legacy_stdio_definitions.lib; to the project's linker input, and an unresolved reference to __declspec(dllImport) which I cannot find. What do I need to do to get a build for these samples so that I can properly evaluate the usefullness to our organization, please?  Thanks,Kim

I am trying to create an object style (for instance) that will create an in-line image, at the insertion point, 8 points below the line. Some of the images are wider than others, and they keep on being constrained to the size of the original object I used.Is there a way around this?

Hi,I'm posting this question here after an e-mail discussion with Design Science's tech support. I have been starting to work with FrameMaker again after quite some time. I have installed a fresh 2017 version and wanted to evaluate the MathML equations. I am not able to print any of these equations (I get an error "some of the imported graphics cannot be printed" from FrameMaker) and if producing a pdf file  the equations render with squares for +/- and equal signs...As I said, this happens using an out of the box new install on a Windows 10 system with no settings changed (latest Framemaker update applied). I was wondering whether anyone was experiencing similar problems or has an idea what might be wrong here.ThanksKlaus

Hi. I'm novice with FM and need some help First, I need to understand, is there a way to place tree images in one row, as shown in the picture below:Second, I need to understand how to create automatically-resized callouts (it should resize only vertically, of course). For example, here is callout which have only one sentence inside it:But here - it have more text inside it:It there way to create it in FM?

I keep having trouble with change bars staying in the document - it's very random. FM17 and I am all patched up. I shouldn't have to go page by page to make sure the change bars are removed.

I can't make a new map, or add files to an existing ditamap, or open files from a ditamap. Do I need to reinstall Frame?

Hi all,I have recently installed FrameMaker 2017 and am unable to runs scripts.From the FrameMaker menu I have tried File > Run and nothing happens.I have also tried to create a new script by going file > Script > New Script and nothing happens.I have looked in the start menu and Adobe Endscript is not there, which used to be packaged with FrameMaker 12 to create the scripts.Is Adobe Extendscript required to be downloaded and installed to run scripts inside FrameMaker 2017?Is there a work around to run scripts inside of FrameMaker 2017 without Adobe Extendscript.Cheers

Dear all,Int he following script I want to place a variable at a particular position in a paragraph.Obviously my method to define a TextLocation in line 11 is wrong. Line 26is never executed and hence no variable inserted.TestInsertVariable ();function TestInsertVariable () {  var paraText = "Far far away, behind the word mountains, far from the countries Vokalia and Consonantia, there live the blind texts."  var  oDoc = app.ActiveDoc, sValue, sVarName, oTextLoc, oPgf;  if(oDoc.ObjectValid()) {    oPgf = oDoc.MainFlowInDoc.FirstTextFrameInFlow.FirstPgf;    oTextLoc = new TextLoc(oPgf, 0);    oDoc.AddText(oTextLoc, paraText);              // create a paragraph    oTextLoc = new TextLoc(oPgf, 17);              // arbitrary place    sVarName = "GugusVariable"; &n

Im FrameMaker-Benutzerhandbuch wird auf ein Onlinehandbuch "FrameMaker-Zeichensätze" verwiesen. Online jedoch finde ich nix. Wo ist es zu finden?Hintergrund der Frage:Für eine Aufzählungsnummerierung möchte ich das "kleiner-als"-Zeichen in Wingdings2 verwenden. Aber ganz so einfach geht das nicht. So hatte ich mir Erleuchtung von dieser Informationsschrift erhofft.