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Hotspots in html5 responsive don't seem to be working for me.Created test destinations, both on same page as well as in sections on other pages through the hypertext pod. Specify named destination. newlink TheNameOfMyDestination (with a space between the two).Created hotspot on the first page in the book with the hotspot mode selected and then pulling out either a text frame or rectangle tool, and then when the hotspot pod popped up selected the destination from the available markers.Works perfectly when I export to pdf.But not in HTML5 responsive.Tested in a couple different layouts thinking that was it, but no, same result.What am I missing here?

In MIF, here's the definition of a condition that FrameMaker applies when you add text with Track Text Edits turned on:<Condition   <CTag `FM8_TRACK_CHANGES_ADDED'>  <CState CHidden>  <CStyle CUnderline>  <CSeparation 10>  <CColor `Forest Green'>  <CAndCondition > >Does anyone know what <CAndCondition > means? It's not explained in the MIF Reference.

Since we installed Framemaker 2017 (Tech Comm suite, actually) we keep running in to issues where long standing books, on PCs with the default printer set as Acrobat Distiller, keep somehow changing to "Web Works Rasterizer" when we go to create PDFs.  Seems to be more common after a crash, but it is behavior none of us have seen before.  We've also got a maybe/maybe not issue with printing to PDFs using print to a .PS and distill where there is a  "hanging" pixel that appears after auto-text with an overline style applied.Is our network haunted or is anyone else seen odd or unexpected behaviors on files with Frame 2017?  Overall with this tech suite we seem to keep running in to issues where things have worked perfectly fine for 10 years and now little issues all over the place.Thanks!

Hi Framers,since last week, Update 1 for FrameMaker 2017 is available.We have fixed a couple of bugs and implemented a lot of Feedback that we got from you. Some modal dialogs were rolled back to non-modal pods, working with the language drop-down in Character and Paragraph Designer is easier now (all language names in English instead of their native language names), there is a completely new "Sort Table" dialog, the "Show Element Context" dialog is resizable now, "Command Search" works better now in multi-monitor scenarios, save as "View Only" is back and a lot more.I have gathered all the changes in this blog post:http://blogs.adobe.com/techcomm/2017/04/framemaker-2017-update-1.htmlThanks to everyone who contributed with his/her feedback!Regards,Stefan GentzAdobe Worldwide TechComm Evangelist

I would like to import the text from a table in word to a FM template. I do not want the table. I wish to take the text only, and map the formats to the appropriate FM template formats. Is this possible? Here is a sample:SectionBodyHeaderScenario: INSERT SCENARIO NAMEBody TextSolution: INSERT SCENARIO NAMEBody TextExercise: INSERT Exercise titleBody TextScenario: INSERT SCENARIO NAME\u  Bullet Text1.       Numbered textSolution: INSERT SCENARIO NAMEExercise: INSERT Exercise titleBody Text

Hi,The FM log gave a message after I imported the element definitions (EDD) file: "Importing to book; no automatic format creating of new paragraph format (ss-StepSub). I received this message for the several other formats that I have. Is FM just informing me or is this an error that must be addressed?Thank you,Ahsan

In FM 2015, I can no longer insert a strikethrough iota into an equation.I have a defined special character, but when I insert it the strikethrough kills the previous part of the equation.Previously, I could go into Start/stop string and do this. But now the strikethrough in the tool bar is greyed out, and selecting it in character designer does nothing. Furthermore, if I start the string, select "i" and change the font to symbol to get an iota, the insert string will not end, and the quotes are displayed in the equation!This used to work in my older FrameMaker

Hi, all.I am using FM 2015 on a Win 10 system.I like the browse sequence option, but unfortunately, it uses filenames instead of generated chapter numbers and titles. The filenames are less informative for an end user, and the numbering also goes out of sequence because I use conditional text to mask certain files in different outputs. So, the browse sequence filenames, which have numbers for my convenience in keeping them straight, do not line up with the chapter numbering in the help TOC.Is there a way to get the browse sequence to use chapter autonumbers and titles?Thanks.--Nancy

HiFramemaker keeps on crashing when I try to import an image. How can I resolve this?The current version of Framemaker is 13.0.5.547.See image below .....RegardsStephen

When I create an ePub from a book with cross references (xref in the original Dita) they do not create links. The expected text appears and it is wrapped in an <a> tag, but it has no href attribute.In the past few months I have created ePubs using essentially the same template/structapp/publish settings and the links appeared as expected.  I went to one of those projects and republished it as ePub and now the links do not appear.  The only difference I can think of is that I recently updated my FrameMaker 2017 to the latest version (14.0.3.500).Does anyone know if they made any changes to ePub publishing in recent updates?Does anybody have an idea how I can fix my cross reference links?Thanks for your help,- Keith

Hi all,I am running into an issue of structuring the table I have. I am not sure if I can have a table within a table in the structured document. It gets more complex. I have an initial table that has a table and another table within the table. The screenshot is below. I had it as such in the unstructured document, which worked out; however, in the structured document, I am seeing few issues:Please look at the screenshot below. FM is assigning a separate structure within a structure if that makes sense.  It gives an overall structure to the document but when I click on the table within the table, it shows the rootelement and table elements below like a separate file/chapter in addition to creating the content mismatch error. I am thinking If/Else or If/Elseif rule may be the solution to fix the table within a table error. I am not sure yet. What advice can you all offer if I have a table within a table. To make it more complex, what If I have a a table within a table within a tabl

I am looking for any information on this topic. I have used FM for decades, but never delved into scripting. Now that I wish to do so, I find that all sorts of Adobe products have object models available, but there does not seem to be anything for FM. I am very new to scripting, as well, so perhaps I am not even asking the right question?Please assist, if you can?

hello forum.i don't undestand why ES does not restitute correctly the data i input in the array.i use the code of the export of "ExtendScript of the Week: Import and Export Variables "i need to change the output . I want on one line all the variables for a same file .so i add this  function to move from vertical to horizontal display. i send after  to a function that log in a filefunction TransfertTo_DZG_Table(VariableData){    var tableVariableName= new Array("Model", "ManualType", "ManualNumber", "B_ChapterName","B_ChapterNumber", "B_SectionName", "B_SectionNumber","Item Number", "Item Name","Doc Status");        var tableFileName = new Array();    var tableVariable =new Array();    var VariableValue;    tableVariable.variableCount = 0; $.writeln ("longueur tableau="+VariableData.chapterNameArray.length);         // table initialisation   

Issue: In our company, we are thinking about establishing a team dictionaryFrameMaker has more than one dictionary:Main dictionary (Hunspell or Proximity)Personal dictionaryDocument dictionarySite dictionaryThis is, what I've done already to understand how the FM dictionaries work:Create a new blank document.Write some text.Activate the automatic spellcheck.Wonder about all the underlined German words. Okay, there are some special technical terms like "Umlenkrolle". But there are some common German words, too.What's going on? Where did I go wrong?The main dictionary is Hunspell.The personal dictionary is empty.The document dictionary is empty, too.But the site dictionary contains some "crazy" words, I've never seen before and I've not added to the dictionary - at least not intentionally. Curo F1 F2 F3 F4 F5 F6 F7 F8 F9 FrameBuilder FrameMaker FrameMaker+SGML FrameReader FrameViewer IBM IQ L1 L10 L2 L3 L4 L5 L6 L7 L8 L9 Mb Mbyte OEM PC PCs Poly line R1 R10 R11 R12 R13 R14 R2 R3 R4 R5 R

I received a bug report on my FindChangeFormatsBatch ExtendScript script yesterday where the issue was a crash on two particular documents. Both documents contain a large amount of tables and, because each cell contains at least one paragraph, a large number of paragraphs. One document had over 12,000 paragraphs and the other over 14,200 paragraphs.I still wasn't sure if the number of paragraphs was the problem so I set up a simple, Portrait document containing a large number of paragraphs. Each paragraph was empty except for an autonumber so I could keep track of the number of paragraphs. Here is the code I ran:#target framemakervar doc = app.ActiveDoc;countPgfs (doc);function countPgfs (doc) {        var pgf, counter = 0;        pgf = doc.FirstPgfInDoc;    while (pgf.ObjectValid () === 1) {        counter += 1;        pgf = pgf.NextPgfInDoc;

I just started another project that publishes to ePub and found that it gave me duplicate menu items for each page, one which displayed the file name and another that uses the title I put in the book’s File Info -> Title field.To troubleshoot I went back to the last ePub project I worked on and republished it. Now it too gives me duplicate menu items.I recently updated my FrameMaker 2017 to the latest version (14.0.3.500). Does anyone know if they made any changes to ePub publishing in recent updates? Does anybody have an idea how I can fix my duplicate menu items problem?Additional info: The duplicates appear in both __toc.xhtml and __toc.ncx. The following is a sample of the menuThanks for your help,- Keith

Greetings,I am able to get an <imagemap> definition to come through in PDF output, but I cannot get it to come through in Reponsive HTML5 of Basic HTML. The actual text of the imagemap definition comes out below the graphic but there are no <map> or <area> elements in the HTML. I can push the same DITA files through the Open Toolkit and the imagemap comes through, so this confirms that I've at least got it set up correctly in DITA. I'd really like to leverage the FM HTML5 output capabilities and utilize image maps (hotspots).Any help or guidance would be appreciated!

Hello friends,once more I have a question for you all.I am importing .mif files with this function:function render_file(file_path){     var doc = doc_GLOBAL;     var importFile = File(file_path);      var importParams = getImportPrefs();      var importReturnParams = new PropVals();     if(doc.ObjectValid()){          if(renderIndex == 0){     // Checking, if it is the first import. If so, use mainflowindoc, to get position               filePgf = doc.NewSeriesObject(Constants.FO_Pgf, doc.MainFlowInDoc);               }         else{                   &n

Greetings,We were running a bit of orientation on our newly-purchased  FrameMaker 9 this morning and found that one of our computers couldn't dock items on the right.We did the following, pretty much in this order:Opened a book file and promptly docked that stack (?) on the left edge of the workspace.Opened the Graphics toolbar and then the Paragraph and Character catalogs and docked them (click+drag until you see the blue line, let go) into a pod (?)Docked the new pod on the right edge of the workspace.Then we opened one of the files in the book and docked it at the top where it filled the area.As we went through the orientation I found myself unable to dock anything on the right edge of the workspace. I could dock the book (or pretty much anything else) on the left.I noticed that if I docked the document, then it filled everything and I couldn't dock the pods on the right, so I undocked the document and tried docking the previously created pod (?) on the right, but they wouldn't

I'm using Arial Unicode MS in FM 2017 to display Gujarati. I can't read Gujarati, by the way - I just copy and paste. Some text looks fine. But other times it's full of dotted circles. I believe it's something to do with FM interpreting the double-byte unicode characters?

I'm working with several older legacy FrameMaker 11 (or earlier)-generated booklet-type .PDF files created by a former employee. Curiously, the Page Sizing & Handling default settings differ radically from .PDF file to .PDF file to achieve similar print results (2 document pages per 8.5 x 11.0 inch auto-Landscaped page), which creates confusion for customers. For example, .PDF file A is set up as Size/Auto-portrait/landscape, while .PDF file B is set up as Multiple (Document Size = 5.5 x 8.5 in) on an 8.5 x 11.0 inch page. Changing the settings on the Print page skews the output in the Preview window, so that page layouts appear out of order. How can these default values be updated to achieve uniformity in Page Size & Handling settings? From my review of the FM source files, Distiller Job Options and the legacy .PDF files, the answer isn't clear. Thank You in advance for any suggestions! (This question is also posted in the Printing & Prepress Forum.)

Hello everyone,I am trying to save a FM-Doc as PDF and using the Save() method.The method does not work correctly. I am getting no saved PDF file, and while execution I get a InvalidObject.Could someone tell me, what the problem could be?Here is the code:function saveDocAsPDF(doc){ var saveParams, name, i, baseName, status, fullName; name = doc.Name; fullName = "TESTPDF.pdf"; saveParams = GetSaveDefaultParams(); returnParams = new PropVals();  var PDF = doc.Save(fullName, saveParams, returnParams); $.writeln("SaveReturnParams / Errors " + PrintSaveStatus(returnParams)); i = GetPropIndex(returnParams, Constants.FS_SaveNativeError);   // CHECK STATUS status = returnParams.propVal.ival; if (status === Constants.FE_Success) {  return (true); } else {  return (false); }};And these are the properties set by me:function getSaveDefaultParams(){var params, i;        params = GetSaveDefaultParams();       &nbs

How can I set the default zoom to 90%? Help says that default zoom is determined by monitor resolution which sets the zoom to 140%. Even when I save the dita file at 90% zoom, it reopens at 140%.

Hi,I am considering upgrading from FM12, part of a TCS version I have, to FM 2017 (and dropping TCS). A couple of curious things about this.1) I just googled buy FrameMaker, or similar, to avoid having to navigate the Adobe Website which caters to CC apps and not FM. I first found where I could buy FM for the African and Asian market (priced in SR), and next I got an Asian only Adobe shop that did sell in dollars. I eventually found where I wanted to be, but through navigation from Adobe.com and not search.2) I am installing the trial version of 2017. I went to download it.Adobe's download and installer don't support the Chrome browser.1) This would have been nice to know beforehand, because I would have used Firefox or IE instead.2) Really, you don't support the most popular browser on the planet? Browser market share Anyway, off we go.Cheers,Sean