FrameMaker

My team consists of two technical writers (and will grow to three soon). We use a shared drive, but cannot have the same FrameMaker document open at the same time, so our current process is:Create 30 or so blank Word documents (one for each new piece of functionality).Divide the Word documents among ourselves.Write the new content in the Word documents.When all the Word documents are complete, one writer copy-pastes the content into the FrameMaker document, applies the paragraph and character tags, and imports screenshots.I was wondering if other technical writing teams have a more efficient co-authoring process and would be willing to share? Ideally, the process would not involve a second application (Word), or as much pressure on a single writer in step #4.Thank you in advance for your help!

Hi,FM2017, v14.0.0.361,  Windows 10I finally installed FM2017, but hit an immediate showstopper. All of my XML (which is a lot) uses a <topic> structure similar to DITA, but it is not DITA. I have my own custom schema, template, structure app, etc. etc.  In previous versions, FM tended to assume my files were DITA, but I managed to stop that behavior by disabling all DITA-related API clients and removing all <topic> DOCTYPE declarations from the DITA structure apps. But in 2017, after doing that, I get the following error when trying to open my files:Translator client (dita_fmapp) was not found. Operation could not be completed.I know it's a long shot for anyone to know, but is there a workaround? Could it be that I suddenly can't open any of my files because FM has reserved the <topic> structure for DITA exclusively? If that's the case, I find that quite discouraging indeed.Thanks,Russ

Hi everyone,I work for a medical device company that is required to develop help for everything, including our mobile app. Here's the question: what's the best way to get the mobile app help INSIDE the mobile app? I understand the other options - HTML5, etc, but am wanting to know specifically how to integrate a user guide with a mobile app.- we don't want users to download 2 apps (one for the app, one for help)- we can't assume users are connected to the internet for HTML/HTML5 contentHas anyone out there done this? Will developers have to include this manually? (Yes, I understand that most apps are easy enough to use that integrated help is not necessary.)Thank you!Diane

Where can I change this default behaviour. I want it to default to all file types. I.e. the way all the other FrameMakers have.

Surfacing again after a few miserable days trying to bring consistency (just at layout level – there are limits!) to a set of Word files … and a reference I came across prompted me to try out the Accessibility report; it's also a current concern here, as we realise our products and their documentation need to be accessible to an increasing number of blind and partially-sighted users.Two questions, then:what's the quickest way of getting some sort of accessibility report on a .book and its components? I've seen a 'Create accessible .pdf' option in Acrobat, but that's leaving it a bit late …starting with the basics, is there a way of adding alt text to referenced images in FM? I'm still on FM2012Thanks in advance for any ideas on this.

Is it possible to set the TOC to always appear in the HTML5 output from FrameMaker regardless of screen size? So, you'll always see the  TOC when you view the content on a phone or tablet (or resize the browser on a computer screen)? We're using FrameMaker 13.0.5.547.

Hi groupI've got a ditamap with some 250 referenced SVG files. When I generate a FrameMaker book from my ditamap, I get the following error message:Cannot initialize API client c:\program files\..\svg2pdf.dllMy "APIClients section" in my maker.ini seems to be OK and I have 16 GB RAM (running FrameMaker 2017 on Windows 7).Any ideas what could be wrong?ThanksYves

I have, and have been using for some years a copy of Framemaker 8. Following a disk crash I got a new PC, and tried to install Framemker. When entering the serial number, it complains that it is already installed on two other computers. It isn't!It was "installed" on the broken PC, and may well have been installed on a previous one when that bit the dust, but I have no active/useable copies of that Framamaker serial anywhere.Help please.

Happy Thursday everyone - I'm having trouble with a FrameMaker file not automatically adding pages, for either added paragraphs or graphic frames. I can't even add a page break. (The information is in the file, but appears to be buried beneath the text frame.)I'm adding an image that seems to offer a clue. The anchored frame in the image included (orange because it is conditional) has a black line drawn underneath it. The second black line is the ruler that is drawn in the footer of every page. I've checked pagination, and that doesn't appear to be the problem. Thanks in advance,

Hi, I am trying the automatic processing below.Add borders to AframesColorize AframesBefore:After:Adding borders succeeded, but I can't add colors to AFrames.My script is below.var doc = app.ActiveDoc;if (doc.ObjectValid() == true) {  var colorFormat = doc.GetNamedObject(Constants.FO_Color, "Red");  var colorProps = colorFormat.GetProps();     var flow = doc.MainFlowInDoc;  var textFrame = flow.FirstTextFrameInFlow;  while (textFrame.ObjectValid()) {    var aFrame = textFrame.FirstAFrame;    while (aFrame.ObjectValid()) {      aFrame.Pen = 0;  //=> works!            aFrame.Color.SetProps(colorProps); //=> doesn't work...      aFrame.SetProps(colorProps); //=> doesn't work...      aFrame.Color.Name = "Red";  //=> doesn't work...      aFrame = aFrame.NextAFram

Hi there. I'm using FM 13.0.1.385 with structured XML.We've had a few instances where when a book (or chapter) is printed to a PDF (using either the Print or Save as PDF options), you can see the text on the FM page shift and then return to the starting position once the print process is over, resulting in an incorrect PDF. As an example, the last page of this 12-page FM file looks like this before we try to print:When we hit the print button, the text temporarily shifts to look like this (and this is what the PDF looks like):It then returns to the original layout.At times, we've been able to create an accurate PDF using another machine and/or the other print option.I've checked that we're logged into Creative Cloud.I've checked that the fonts are synched from TypeKit or installed directly on the user machines.I've checked the default printer setting.This is not a continuous problem; it only happens sometimes, which makes it even weirder.Any suggestions of other things to verify would

What data markers are you using for S1000D compliance using FrameMaker 2017?

I am trying to use ExtendScript for the first time (with FrameMaker 11, from TCS 4), but the script cannot be executed (very basic script example from the  Adobe "Introduction to Scripting" guide). The error message says "Cannot execute script. : Target Adobe FrameMaker 11 provides no engine for debugging"I tried it with other applications of the TC Suite: same error messageDo I need to install another application/module? What can I do to make it work?Thank youGeraldine

Is there an easy way to control the height of a table cell? Is there a combination of keys that will let me move the bottom margin up or down, or make it expand only as far as the last text line?Thanx,Bill

Just need help to activate Publish option in FrameMaker 11. How to activate this option? Please mention if I need to install some plug-in for the same.This is the screenshot for the same as you can see the 'Publish' option is grayed out.

I've got a book with a couple hundred graphics in AI files and I'm trying to wrap it up and get the PDF generated for printing.All the graphics display just fine in FM, but when I try to book print the PDF the system will freeze on certain files which contain photos. This AI file will print just fine:This one, however, will crash Framemaker/distiller:It just freezes here:I have to close FM in windows and then delete all the lck files just to get it to function again.Any ideas?Thanks!John

When I update/save, receive error message: "The document was saved to a temporary file, but FM can't rename it to have the correct name. The newer version has an odd suffix"  And indeed there are files with odd file extensions - New chapter.fm.D6B

HiWe are having some issues with importing/ linking FM17 into RH15. So we are trying to publish directly from FM. But we don't see the Webhelp option in the Publish pod.Please advise.Sreekanth

I increased substantially the amount of virtual memory on my machine, and that reduced the frequency of crashes, but FM 2017 keeps crashing.

If I open a new, blank FM document to create a test file, it saves a PDF. But if I open a specific, previously created doc and make changes, I get the warning box. If I look in the folder where the ".tps" file is supposed to be, it is not there. (I assume the ".tps" file is a Temperary PostScript file that distiller uses to make the PDF?) This sounds like a corrupt file, so I got a new copy from the archives and tried again; no luck. I have tried "print to PDF" using the Adobe printer, no luck (same warning box).

Windows 10 Lenovo 64.TCS 2017Started creating new instructions using FrameMaker. Our default company font is Arial. FrameMaker's default font is Calibri. Created new xml files with Arial and saved. When opening once again, I get this:The "Zapfdingbats" Font Family is not available.  "Adobe Pi Std" will be used in this session.The "Courier" Font is not available.  "Courier New" will be used in this session.The "Zapfdingbats Regular" Font is not available.  "AdobePiStd" will be used in this session.How to fix it? Under a deadline. Started creating docs in Word (argh!) just in case.Any help in resolving this issue is greatly appreciated.

I use Bentley's OpenRoads Designer software as well as FrameMaker 2017.  These two seem to be stomping on each other's dll files.  The most likely suspect is TBB.dll.Symptoms of the problem are that one program will run fine, until I start the other program.  Then the first program fails with an error that the dll is invalid.  I reinstall the broken program only to find that the first one is now broken.I really don't care whose fault it is but does anyone have a fix?

Hi,Is there away to make structure view pods always on when I open new document. I'm using Framemaker 2017.Thanks,PCO

Adobe FrameMaker locks up and needs to have its process ended in Task Manager after selecting to view Object Properties the third time in a session. Windows 7 Enterprise SP1. When it locks up, the document you are working on distorts (see image). After terminating the process, I of course have to Reset Lock and Open to get the docs I was working on open again. In practice, this means that I have to remember how many times I've already right-clicked on something and viewed or edited Object Properties, and close out and go back in to avoid crashing. This really renders the Object Properties feature problematic, as it is a very common feature to edit.

I built symbol references that go into a table in my body pages, but only one of my symbols does not show up in the table:Table in the Body Pages:In addition, when I create a new row to see if it will add the symbol, it creates a new row with the content from the previous row:Any ACP out there know the issue?  I am novice to moderate-experienced user of Framemaker, so I'm learning.Thanks!