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Hello,My company has a shared license* of TCS 2017 and starting yesterday one of my coworkers is having a problem with her license. Apparently, she ended up in trial mode somehow and her trial expired yesterday. She tried to add the license key to her account and TCS still showed up as a trial with 0 days left. She then reinstalled TCS completely, but it still won't take her license key (no error, but after the license key step, the installer simply asks her to log in again and enter the license key again, etc). No one else in the office has the same problem.If I need to contact support - how? As far as I understand, you can't simply send an email, you need to be logged in and have the product added to your account. Given that it's a company license, I doubt my boss will allow me to add it to my personal account... does he need to do it? Or is there a different procedure for this?* I am not sure if "shared license" is the correct term, but we basically have one key used by the entire d

I have somewhat limited vision which is especially bad with my high def monitor (2560x1440). Consequently, I set the size default in Windows (Change the size of text, apss and other items in Display Customization) to 125%. When I do this, FrameMaker does not properly draw toolbars or the status bar items on the bottom of the screen (like Zoom). Functionality works but you can wind up hitting the wrong buttom (like remove file instead of Update Book !). Document pages render fine.Anyone have a solution to this problem? Setting Windows back to 100% makes it a lot harder for me to see.This is not the only Adobe app that behaves badly but it is the worst of the ones I use regularly.Thanks for help

I'm trying to install FrameMaker 12.I downloaded the following files from Adobe URL:     - Adobe_Framemaker_2017_English_Windows-AkamaiDLM.exe     - Framemaker_12_LREFDJ.7z     - Framemaker_12_LREFDJ.exeI activated the 1st file and then the 3rd file.I selected the free trial option and the installation was not able to complete.I got the following message:     "Some items for the following product(s) could not be installed successfully" and then the "FrameMaker symbol"Selecting the "error summary" file option I got the following description:Exit Code: 6Please see specific errors below for troubleshooting. For example,  ERROR: DF022, DW030 ...-------------------------------------- Summary -------------------------------------- - 0 fatal error(s), 7 error(s) ----------- Payload: Adobe FrameMaker 12_12.0.3_AdobeFrameMaker12_LI 12.0.3.0 {344196EC-0195-4C96-82DD-3DAA67690BB5} -----------ERROR: DF022: New fil

I have just filed bug FRMAKER-3497 pertaining to sorting a table by rows. It seems that regardless of which column I select in the Sort Table dialog box, FM 2017 always sorts by column 1. There's a test file included with the bug report which includes the following table:512425331244153  Sorting the table in ascending order by any of the three columns produces the same result, reversing the original order of rows.--Lynne

Hi, I want to fetch all Aframes information in an active doc whose layout has three columns for each page.I wrote the code below:#target framemaker  var doc = app.ActiveDoc;if (doc.ObjectValid() == true) {    var page = doc.FirstBodyPageInDoc;    while (page.ObjectValid()) {        var graFrame = page.PageFrame.FirstGraphicInFrame;        while (graFrame.ObjectValid()) {            var subcol = graFrame.FirstSubCol;            while (subcol.ObjectValid()) {                var aFrame = subcol.FirstAFrame;                while (aFrame.ObjectValid()) {             &n

Hello FM Community!Hopefully you guys could provide me with some much needed advice.We're looking at purchasing a new office PC, which would primarily be used as a dedicated PDF printing machine as the processes have been slowing down other applications on our current desktops (which are fairly lacking on processing power). I was aiming to custom build to get the most for the money, but I wanted to know whether a graphics card has much impact on DTP tasks and printing speed, or whether it's purely down to the processor & RAM. Currently our PC's are pushing out a fairly large manual at 6+ hours.. But after printing the same manual in a couple of other environments, we got the following resultsEnvironment 1 (office pc):           AMD A8-7600 Radeon R7, 10 Compute Cores 4C+6G @ 3.10GHz - 8gb RAM =  around 6 hours printing timeEnvironment 2 (laptop):             &nbsp

I have a Table of Contents and need to be able to set the included paragraph format tags for it using a script.If I set the tags manually using the Set Up Table of Contents option, update the book and print Class BookComponent's ExtractTags property (BookComponent.ExtractTags) it shows the list of tags but I cant modify this property. Is there any way to do this?

Hi All,I'm fairly new to DITA but I'm getting along very well.When I publish my DITA content to a WebHelp/HTML5 output in FrameMaker 2015, the complete structure of my ditamap gets lost and goes wild in the webhelp index.It works well saving the content as PDF.I know that FM2015 converts the .xml content to a FM file. So here's my question:What can I do to fix the structure chaos in the WebHelp index without having to work on it in RoboHelp?I'd rather have the structure as it is in my DITAMAP taken over into the WebHelp index right away without touching it again.FrameMaker 2015 crashes a lot when publishing, even using the latest Update/Patch ... any ideas anyone?Thanks for your help

I've imported a table into FM. The problem is that it doesn't respond to changes I'm making in the table designer. Specifically, it's not responding to changes to the alternative row shading and no shading.

I've created formats for the catalog before, but how do I create a format that has the underlines and/or overlines associated?

i set up a table (3 col *2 row), and in table cell (3rd col*2nd row), insert a ordered list (4 items), while in other table cells, one line text as usual.Now, i get a error message: empty content not valid for content mode '(entry)+'.so, what the problem is, and how can i fix it?thanks a lots!

How do I create a watermark in Frame 17 that will show over tables and graphics? I know how to create one on the master page (and rotate it) as background text for headers and footers, which shows great for just plain text, but I need it to show over photos, drawings, and tables.I prefer to put watermarks in Framemaker before I PDF the doc because the watermark can't be removed compared to if I put it Acrobat. (I assume that last statement still is correct--other than locking down the PDF, which I don't want to do?)

I'm trying to publish a series of short documents through the responsive html5 setting in the publishing pod.When I test the output the default stretches the content across the entire width of the screen when viewed on a computer, which looks horrible and is tough reading.Is there any setting where the default would scale to content so that when the window first opened the default layout have the aspect ratio of the original framemaker document, or the printed page.

Hi;I just started working with Framemaker scripting this afternoon and using sample scripts here I've got the main skeleton of my program complete. I know that a similar script was posted here years ago to move markers to the start of words, but the script appears to have vanished and the one I'm working on needs to move the markers to the beginning of the paragraph that they're currently residing in (it help translation immensely).So far my program opens a book and, one chapter at at time, finds all of the Index markers. I need to move those markers, but I don't have enough of a handle on the language yet to get it working.The key function is here:function moveMarker(doc, mrkType, pgf, offset) {    if (!doc.ObjectValid() )    {        return;     }    mrker = doc.FirstMarkerInDoc;    while (mrker.ObjectValid() )    {      &nbsp

I am using the Publish function to turn a book into an MS Help file (.chm). When it hits one chapter, I get a "Failed Importing Documents" message and it stops. If I exclude that chapter, it publishes the rest of the book.Clearly I need to look for something that makes that chapter different from all the others. Where should I start looking?I've already copied and pasted the same format to all chapters.

Hi All,I am a new FM2017 user. I'm editing a document with an existing template and I need to update the value of some of the variables.Under: Insert->Variables->'Edit' (Chapter Name)->Definition field: <$chaptertitlename>How do I change the value of this building block? Do I overwrite it with a simple text?Thank you,Vicki

Trying to move my Framemaker License from my old laptop to my newDesktop. When i put in the SN, the startup script accepts the SN and loaded theSW. When I try to run Framemaker, it tells me that the "License for thisproduct has expired".

HiSorry this is a bit of a long question.I maintain a library of XML documentation using a variety of editing tools. Some years ago I set up a structured application in FrameMaker v8 to allow editing of our documents but it wasn't that great. We do still occasionally use it when we need to do major surgery to some documents but it isn't our first choice for most jobs. However I've been asked to have another look at the latest Frame version to see if things have improved. Before I start the free trial I just have a few queries which I hope will get me over the line a bit faster and help me avoid any traps that might catch out somebody still thinking in v8 terms.1. Is structured Frame still reliant on importing a DTD into an EDD or can it use XML schemas now?2. One of the problems we have with Frame v8 is that it can only run XSL v1 stylesheets on open/save. We had a couple of transforms that needed XSL 2.0 functionality so we had to introduce a manual step on every save. Can the latest

I have a 4-column template that I am working in; the text runs off the bottom of the last column, but does not start a new page or run to the next page.  It disappears into the footer, although I know it's still there.  There is a second page below it with the same 4-column format.  I can see the text "Modulation Type" continuing below the footer before the rest disappears.  I tried placing the cursor at the end of the paragraph and selecting "Top of Page", and also tried Special->Page Break and selecting the "At Top of Next Available" option, but nothing has worked.  I'm sure I don't have something set up correctly.  The image below is displays the bottom of the 4th column of the first sheet.  The text scribbled out is just sensitive information in the footer:

I have also tried this in FrameMaker 8. But the results were same. I am creating screen shots in Photoshop CS3 and place them into framemaker using Anchored frames. But the border are not applying. In object properties it has been set to 1.0 pt. After producing pdf image looks hanging with no borders. To rectify this I tried manually adding borders to the graphics file (1px) but after importing and producing PDF the border looks uneven. More thicker on left and top borders. Please suggest resolution. Thanks in advance I am using GIF,TIF,PNG changing file format doesnt help

How do I get my custom master pages to display in the the Master Page Usage dialog?

Using the frameMaker 2017 version, we get xml files from other departments, but since upgrading from Fm10, the straight quotes are giving problems.As shown, the quote sits on top of the letter c. We can change them manually, using the typographical quotes, but that cannot be the solution.I've been looking around in the help file, but I didn't find an answer.Someone on the forum who has any suggestions?

I have a couple of appendices that use conrefs. These appear correctly when I open the doc in Frame, but some of them (not all, it is inconsistent) do not appear in the generated PDF file.Is anyone else seeing this with recent versions? Is there a known issue, here?I saw a similar thread thread here, but that was from 2010. It involved Frame 8 and tables. I am using Frame 2017 and the format is just <ul> items in body text.Any advice will be appreciated.–Randy Clark

I have Windows 7, and have been using FrameMaker 2015 as part of the Technical Communication Suite. It is the only application in the suite that I have installed. Suddenly, it will no longer launch and give a message "Unexpectedly Quit".I tried reinstally. No luck.Then I tried uninstalling before reinstalling. No luck.Then I tried uninstalling, reinstalling and restarting. Now the program starts okay.But after I downloaded and installed the update for 2015, FrameMaker again stopped working.After another uninstall/reinstall, it is working, but without the update.Is there a fix for this so that I can run it with the update installed?

I have a book that I am trying to generate Responsive HTML5 output. FM15 crashes every single time no matter what file I use as the source. My book is less than 300 pages and I tried it with a smaller (75 page doc) and it crashes. In fact, generating any output through Publish crashes FM every time.I have a fresh install with all the updates added to it. But everytime I use the Publish feature, FM crashes.Any thoughts?