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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

I would like FrameMaker 13 to have the ability to rename the master pages.

Using an HTML page template, FM generates breadcrumbs in my HTML5 output. However, I did not find a possibility to assign a certain font to the breadcrumbs. The breadcrumbs are always displayed with the default font of the browser (Times Roman for me), even if 'Arial, sans-serif' is set as the font for the Help project in my layout. This behavior is reproducible with the common browsers on different machines and operating systems. Changing the default font in the browser is not what I want.Does anybody have an idea? 

Dear all,I want to inform you that there is a subtle difference in the Find function between scripts for FM-10/11 and the later FM versions.See the relevant script part (function CollectVarsInDoc, line 50):oTR = oDoc.Find(oTR.beg, findParams);     // prepare for next findWhile this is OK in the newer FM version, in FM-10/11 it creates a loop at the first found variable.For all FM version the following is correct:oTR = oDoc.Find(oTR.end, findParams);     // prepare for next findKlaus

Hi all,I am trying to understand the id attributes and need a little help with understanding and resolving an issue. In my structured document, i see this error id=<no value>, and am not sure how to resolve this. How do I define the ID value? Can you please briefly explain and answer the questions below. The screenshot is attached.1: In an EDD file, when an attribute is defined, as Name: idref    > ID Reference   Optional, what does it mean when it is optional and what does it mean if it is required?2: Similarly, for Attribute list> Name > UniqueID > Optional, what does UniqueID mean here? I have read the pdf document on ID attributes but am still in need of clarification to make sure that I understand the concept correctly.Please see the screenshot for the issue. I appreciate all the input. Thanks in advance!

How would one going about creating a graphical navigational interface for a framemaker digital project?Working on a thick technical manual that I realize can be boiled down to a trouble-shooting flowchart. This would be a great navigational device where the user could hop to where they needed to go at a glance.Was going to build it in Adobe Animate or some other project, exporting training manual sections from frame maker and embedding them or linking to them in the Animate project.Wasn't thrilled by the results. Was clunky, pages had to load in and out, very inefficient. So now I'm wondering if I could go the other way, if I could build a graphical navigation interface and import that into framemaker.The goal is to make the interface as simple and clean as possible...though in the same token it's not something as simple as a couple hotspots.Does anyone know of resources, sites, examples of anyone who's done something similar to what I'm describing?

Hi all,Before I dive into my question, here is my work flow:I had an unstructured document that I applied structured to using the conversion table and the EDD file. I had to modify the EDD file along the way, which I did; however, when validating elements, I encountered an error that I have never seen before. I tried resolving it by modifying the EDD file but have been unsuccessful. Can someone please offer their expertise on how to go about resolving the error? A thorough explanation is highly appreciated. The error is “Type-content mismatch; element should be a text range.” Please see the screenshot below. Thank you in advance!