FrameMaker

Having a thorny issue in FrameMaker 12 (unStructured). My F9 key to bring up the Paragraph Format pop-up no longer works. Indeed, my keyboard stopped working in Frame entirely. I've tried making sure the CAPSLOCK key is off, the F-lock key is in the right state, the document is not locked, rebooted, uninstalled / reinstalled Frame. Any ideas would be much appreciated.

In previous versions of FrameMaker, when you configure bookmarks in the PDF Setup dialog on the Print dialog, using Adobe PDF as the printer, it remembers the bookmarks the next time you print. Frame 9 seems to forget the bookmark settings. Or am I missing something that I now have to do in Frame 9?

When I produce PDF with Framemaker, the paragraph text in PDF are cut off by lines. Because when I copy paragraphs from produced PDF and pasted those paragraphs in Notepad, paragraph text lines are cut off.Is there a solution for this?I remember that with Indesign, I can chect "Create tagged PDF" to prevent paragraph text in produced PDF being cut off.

This is not a behavior that happens when I create a brand new FM 2017 document but in a legacy UNSTRUCTURED FM document that was created years ago probably with TCS 5. I'm currently using FM 2017 on a Windows 10 PC.When I import (via File>Import>File) the same Illustrator AI image by inserting my cursor in different parts of the document (i.e., when the image is anchored in different paragraph styles) I get images of different sizes.I'm pretty sure this behavior is somehow linked to the way different para styles are configured in my document but since there are not image-related variables/settings in Para Designer, I have no idea why this is happening and what I need to do to import AI images at their original (or fitting-in-column) sizes.Please see the images attached for your convenience. All suggestions are welcomed. Thank you in advance. UgurI can generate the same behavior in another location within the same document:

Hello fellows,I have a strange issue with figure captions defined in Framemaker as having a line under the caption ("Frame Below Pgf" property) . This line is retrieved from a frame on the reference page. The caption is set to appear above the figure. In the Publisher, the figure caption style is set to "Use Source Style". When I convert FM to HTML5, the figure caption is turned into <p class="FigureTitle">. The problem is that in the HTML output the figure caption is "split" into 2 <p> - the caption text itself, then comes the figure and then comes another <p class="FigureTitle"> that only contains the line itself (turned into a jpg). I can't figure out how to avoid splitting <p class="FigureTitle"> into two and keep the line below the caption itself. Unfortunately, the caption cannot be mapped to a corresponding HTML tag in the Publisher as there is no relevant tag in the Pgf mapper. Any ideas?Thanks! 

I've just upgraded from FM12 to FM 2017 with intent to utlize some of the new HTML publishing features. I have been publishing content from DITA source to HTML5 from FM12 successfully for some time now.In FM 2017, I have a very basic DITA Bookmap with only 2 short topics as a simple test setup. Every time I try to publish anything to HTML5 or simple HTML, FM has a hard crash and generates no output.I tried these same files on my other machine that hasn't been upgraded yet and they publish just fine.Any idea why FM2017 is crashing every time (100% without fail) I click Publish? Is there some step I'm missing in FM2017? This is a brand new, clean installation and all available updates have been installed.Thank you in advance for your help!

According to Adobe's site at http://www.adobe.com/se/products/framemaker/cms-integration.html, FrameMaker doesn't support integration with Sharepoint at later versions than 2013 and since we have Sharepoint 2016 in our organization, this is an issue.I tried emailing the contact person on that site, and got rerouted to a representativ that said they didn't officially supported SharePoint 2016 but it "should ideally work" and I could try it out if I wanted and let them know if that wasn't the case.Since we are in the process of evaluating different document processors (FrameMaker is one), we don’t want to validate compatibility - we need to know if SharePoint 2016 is planned to be supported as a CMS for FrameMaker in the near future. We don't want to learn later on that Adobe's support for SharePoint integration ended with version 2013.

Hello:I have been having problems all day trying to get some photos into my FM document but the application keeps "bombing out" on me; that is, it either hangs and reports back an Internal Error 8004, 6345644, 8487696 message or the application completely closes. I want to import the photos by reference rather than copy them but nothing seems to be working for me. I've tried importing the files as .JPEG and .PNG formats without success so far. Each photo is ~3565KB in size.I searched the forum for this particular error message but most of the comments had to do with PDF files and they don't apply to my situation (I even changed the printer to Adobe PDF before I began importing the files without any noticeable improvement).System details:Dell Vostro with Intel Core2 @ 2.40GHz and 3.25 GB RAMphotos from a 10 MP Canon camera (saved as both .JPEG and .PNG files)FrameMaker v8.0p277Windows XPIs it a matter of available system memory or is it something I might be doing in the import process?

I did a bilingual document, I created two colums with two textflow (A for English on Left Side, and B, for French, on Right Side). Now I need to generate 2 separate tables of content ;                   Table of Content of A Part (English)                  Table of Content of B Part (French) How should I proceed?

Hi Folks, I'm using FM 2017 Release (unstructured) and am encountering problems with the Save as command being grayed out. I opened a legacy FM9 document and after modifying it wanted to Save as [a new file name] but it would only allow me to Save, not Save as a new filename. Any ideas??I'm referring to the normal Save as command, not Save as PDF or any of the other commands all of which seem to work as expected.The problem occurs with some files but not with others. I thought perhaps that this was a problem with  legacy FM files but other legacy files worked just fine. I also tried first saving the legacy file in the current format (normal Save command works) but still cannot Save as...-Steve MurphyP.S. Greetings to old friends. I've been away from the FM community for a full ten years; finally sprung for the current release... but this is a problem!

Hello. Here is a strange problem ... I am using FM 2015 in a Win 10 environment.My document uses cross-reference formats that sometimes include a page number variable. This cross-reference setup:<Hyperlink>Figure\ <$paranumonly> on page\ <$pagenum><Default Para Font>produces this cross-reference in the .fm file:For online help, I want only the figure number with no page number. In the Publish Settings/Style Mapping options, I select <$paranum> only:The result consistently appends empty spaces to the link. I can't figure out where they are coming from. (This problem does not occur when I convert my HeadingPage formats, which follow almost the exact same pattern.)I would think the spaces come from the spaces in the cross-reference format (like the space between "on" and "page") but, as I say, the same result does not occur with my HeadingPage conversion.All suggestions welcome. I'll simply create parallel xrefs and put conditions on them for the different ou

Hello. I am using FM 2015 in a Win 10 environment.I had an .sts file that was working pretty well to convert FM output to HTML Help.Now it has forgotten what it knew (it has lost the settings). Our PDF template uses a side column with right-aligned headers; our help output has one text column and headings should be left-aligned.  I set up the alignment using the "Block" setting.Now that seems to have been erased from the .sts file (along with everything else) and when I select H1, for example, and click the Edit Style button, nothing happens. Can anyone shed any light on this? Thanks.

I received an FM12 book and source files from co-workers overseas (who may be using a Japanese version of FM12 that's different from my US version). The auto-numbering feature in FM12 is unstable (as confirmed by Adobe Technical Support), If I import the files into FM2017, can they be downgrade saved back to FM12 after editing? Thank You in advance for your assistance.

Hi,I have a 3 versions of Adobe. Tech. Comm. Suite on my computer.  I removed the oldest bundle (3.5) due to lack of disk space...but then realized that bundle included the ONLY copy of Photoshop I have!  Do you know if it's possible to only install Photoshop from that bundle????  I looked at my account's download page and there's only a link to download the bundle, not each software program separately.  I need it desperately...

I am running TechComm Suite 2017 and want to try out the Ocean and Indigo theme  but where are they? I have only acces to Azure... Can they be downloaded somewhere?Best regardsBjørn

Hi, all.I am working in FrameMaker 2015 in Windows 10.The Conditional Tags pod has mysteriously disappeared. When I select text and select Special/Conditional tags, nothing happens. When I select View/Pods/Conditional Tags, nothing happens. Either way, I can't display the pod that allows me to select a condition and apply it. The files I am working in do contain conditional text, which has been successfully applied in the past. The Show/Hide Conditional Text pod lists all four conditions that my documents contain. I've selected Show Condition Indicators, and the text that has had conditions applied is being displayed correctly. I vaguely recall this happening once before. What is going on?Thanks.

Hello to everyone,first of all: I am pretty new to FM and ExtendScript. I am integrating some old .mif files into existing FM documents with ExtendScript.I am loading the needed parameters via propVal and using the method doc.Import().Importing these .mif files works properly, but correctly aligning them is causing difficulties because I am not able place the files whereever I want.As far as I see, there is no obvious ability to create and place a new pgf object in some specific place in the doc.If that would be possible, before importing a .mif file, I certainly would create a new pgf object and import the .mif file right into it.Is there a possibility to accomplish this, or do you guys know a better way to do so?Thanks and king regards

Using Framemaker 2017I would like to generate a mini toc but have it appear with a different master page from what the body pages were created from.Provided that the "text flow frame" is named the same as the body pages, once generated could the MTOC be copied or moved to a different page (with a different master page)? Or can it only live within the same text flow as the body page from which it was generated?

In FrameMaker 12, when I click on a graphic inside an anchored frame the program goes into a half minimised, half broken view. When I try to click on the tools they tend to not be exactly where you click. Any ideas how to fix this?

I'm on Windows 10, using Frame 2017 and Acrobat DC.I have a Word doc that contains one line in Mangal Unicode font. I distill it to a PDF and it looks fine.I open the Word doc in Frame 2017. Line looks fine. I distill it to a PDF and the font reverts to boxes because the font has been substituted with Times Roman.So I tried copying the line into Illustrator, distill it, PDF is fine.I'm using the same Distiller options on all 3.Why is it not distilling properly from Frame?

Hello there!Table tags are not consistently used in my book. I want to apply a specific table tag for all the tables in my book. Is there any quickest way to search for all tables and apply the table tag to all?NOTE:I already have table tags created.I use FM 12I know that I can select Any Table in the Find field.How to apply the table tag for all at once?Many Thanks,Avani

While I was relieved that this new version resolved a long-standing bug in v. 2015, now there's a more egregious error in v. 2017. When I open a v. 2015 or Frame 11 file in v. 2017, virtually ALL markers - hypertext, cross-reference, index, you name it - are GONE!! This is completely unacceptable. How are we supposed to deal with our archival files moving forward with this new version? Has anyone found a solution to this problem? I've tried opening files and importing files, and both have the same result - no markers!

How can we activate FM10 offline on our Windows Terminal Server?We don't have internet-access on the server.Thanks for help in advance!

I created a book, added files, made corrections to them and then saved the book. Now all I see is the book on the left with no files. When I try to create a TOC it says add files. Where did the files disappear? I am using the 2015 trial version

Is there a way to add a Canadian English dictionary to FrameMaker 2015 and 2017? Neither the US English or UK English dictionaries provided with both versions are adequate as Canadian English is a hybrid of both US and UK English. We spell some words like in the UK and others like in the US. I have seen some evidence that earlier versions of FrameMaker (before version 9) did have a Canadian English dictionary. If this was removed, is there any way to bring it back or find a Canadian English dictionary that can be installed as a default in FrameMaker 2015 and 2017 instead of US or UK English? Thanks.Drew FinnieTechnical Writer, ProgrammingYardi Systems Inc. (Yardi Canada)Toronto, ON