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I am creating files that are work packages, each page of the workpackage have page numbers that include the work package number prefix followed by the page number (i.e. 0002-1).I am using a user variable for the workpackage number in each framemaker file. I want to create a TOC that includes the work package number with the page number but I cannot get the work package number to generate with the page number into the TOC. What I want in the TOC is This:  What I get is this:Any help would be great,Thanks Jim  

Hello, all,I'm editing a book with multiple chapters. In order to use the chapter files as templates for similarly named chapters in other books in the series, I'm putting each chapter title (using the Heading 1 paragraph style) in a text frame on the first master page. To get the chapter number and title to appear in the footer on each even-numbered body page, I created the variable "Running H/F 1", and defined it as follows: Chapter <$paranumonly[Heading 1]>: <$paratext[Heading 1]> This definition works perfectly in Chapter 1, but in chapter 2 what appears at the bottom of each even-numbered body page is  "Chapter : " obviously the variable isn't seeing the chapter number and title. I've tried a number of things, including importing all formats from Chapter 1 into the Chapter 2 file, but the problem persists. Can anyone tell me what I'm doing wrong? All suggestions gratefully appreciated.

For an auto number series such as:C:<$chapnum><n+>< =0>< =0>< =0> I have Paragraph Designs: title.0, Numbering definition, C:Chapter <$chapnum>< >< =0>< =0 >.title.1, Numbering definition, C:<$chapnum>-<n+>< >< >. title.2, Numbering definition, C:< >< >Section <n+>< >. title.3, Numbering definition, C:< >< >< >Subsection <n+>. title,4, Numbering definition, C:<$chapnum>-<n+>< >< >.  Shouldn't a new title.2 restart the numbering for the next title.3?My Subsection continues to increment with the previous Section's last Subsection number. What am I missing? 

Hi!I have a 2-column table of instructions. Left column has empty paragraphs with autonumbered text in each row: step1, step2, step3, etc. Right column is an instruction of each row/step. This works correctly in all tables, except in one table.This problematic table has left column steps like ..., step3, step4, step5, step6, step4, step5, ... so at step7 autonumbering decides to jump back 2 numbers?! All table rows on left coumns have similar empty autonumbered paragraphs, no difference at all. If I add rows before or after the step7 (which shows as step4), the step numbers are always correct. So, there is something odd in this the row step6 that causes numbering to jump 2 numbers backwards in the next row. Only somewhat unique thing is that row step6 (wrong number appears after is) has inset text in right column. I converted inset to text, did not help. I also mif washed the entire file, did not help either. Any ideas what is going on the step6 row?

I need to convert InDesign files to FrameMaker files, because we have to get all our technical content in one application and Frame is the winner. We do not use structured Frame, and we have very little experience with xml. What would be the best way to proceed with conversion?

Hi,It is my understanding that when you generate HTML5 from Framemaker, it retrieves the selected layout from its predefined HTML5 layouts collection, which is stored in the installation directory.  I am using the Azure Blue layout and would like to make some changes to it before the Help is generated.  I can find the layout files in the Output folder that are saved each time I generate the Help. I can edit them and save them and then manually copy them into the output to change fonts/colors, etc., but was hoping to find the layout files that Framemaker retrieves during the generation process, so I can modiffy them and skip that manual copy process each time I generate the Help.  Does anyone know where the layout files are stored?  I've searched all the Adobe and Framemaker fodlers on my system with no luck. I thought they were inC:\Program Files\Adobe\Adobe FrameMaker <version>\Structure\XMLApplication\DITA\outputTemplates\responsiveHTML5\AzureBlue,

I just bought a new windows computer and I am trying to load FrameMaker 2019 onto it. I have the subscription, so it's a legal copy. I downloaded the main zip file and it would not install, giving me the following message:   Update requiredYour browser or operating system is no longer supported. You may need to install the latest updates to your operating system.   Learn more I downloaded the latest update, tried to install it and got the same message.I've tried installing as administrator, and got the same message.There is nothing to upgrade. Does anyone have any ideas? 

I've just picked up FM again between projects, and after a small progress I noticed the logo I've put on the book cover and header/footer sometimes printed as gray boxes in the final PDF. At worst, every images (.PNG) would become gray boxes. Sometimes, it happens only on some of the chapters. The workflow was:1. create a blank DITA bookmap, then adding a couple of conrefs from the book tree menu.2. save as book with FM component, in order to modify the TOC.3. at this point, the images (cover logo, header/footer) would be shown correctly on every page.4. Publish the FM book to PDF, then the error occured. I have modified the DITA/outputTemplates for the intended layout. During the early attempts of these templates creation, I've encountered an error where FM was asking for the image file location (file missing error). I never saw any of those errors after. The image file was always in the same location, though. Any help would be much appreciated. Regards,A

I would like to know how to insert an image on the reference page in Adobe FrameMaker. Could you outline the steps involved and explain the benefits of using this feature. 

Hi to all of you. I am evaluating FM as a potential tool generate documentation in my company. I am totally newbie with the tool and after doing some search could not find a clear answer.One of the main challenges is that i need to handle big requirement excel tables, a very interesting feature of FM is the possibility to insert the excel file in it. Changes that you apply to the excel file can be updated automatically in FM by updating the references. Saving time during documentation ellaboration phase. Main problem  is that when you use this insertion strategy FM includes empty rows behind the content and I haave not been capable to remove them.... Is there just a way to delete them or a way to adjust the import phase, when I point with the mouse over the table the whole element is  selected .  Thank you in advance.

Whenever I insert an image, the figure number in the caption includes the chapter number and a sequential number, but they are separated by an en dash instead of a hyphen.  How do I change this so it has a hyphen instead of an en dash?

https://help.adobe.com/en_US/framemaker/using/index.html#t=using-framemaker%2FFrameMaker-2022%2Fuser-guide%2Ffrm_welcome.html When I open the online help, I get a 404 error message, when I try to access certain pages. The pages change. A quarter of an hour ago it was the Legal notices. Then in the Appendix: DITA 1.3 specification. Then in Getting Started: System Requirements. Now in Getting Started: Learning Ressources. Possibly I get the error after every few clicks. I also cannot search the online help and when I open the list of topics at the left, some subtopic lists are not shown. I opened the online help via this page: https://helpx.adobe.com/framemaker/help/help-resources.html

When I export a Framemaker file as Responsive HTML, the Microsoft Azure template uses icons for page. Is there a way for me to write alt text or solve for overall accessibility errors in this template within Frame Maker? Any support will be appreciated

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HelloI am working in FrameMaker 2019 and just added a section to a chapter in a book. Now I am trying to update the TOC to reflect this change.  Prior to this change the TOC worked fine but with this addition something in the settings sseemed to change and the numbering is off.  I have not altered anything in the building blocks to cause this.  I am confused to what settings change and why so easily on re-generating.I have tried resetting the numbering to "Continue" and reupdated the book but it did not work. I have included a screen shot.  Note there are 14 chapters but I only took a shot of the first page to show what is going on.I would appreciate your help in figuring out what might be going on and steps to resolve.Thanks so much. Anne

I converted a word doc to DITA, using Structure>Utilities>Convert Word to DITA.My question is about formatting that the word content is now in FM.What do you use to format text/tables?Is it an EDD or by using custom template using Paragraph Designer?I have been able to make a custon template, with styles defined in Paragraph Designer so that when open a new DITA concept file, FM reads uses this template in my working directory, instead of the default one.So then, do I just go through the text and apply the styles?Or, is there another way to do the formatting?What is a typical workflow for this? Thank you,Vicki

Hi all, I'm looking for suggestions on how I can create warnings and cautions that will look like the Warning in my example with a border around it. I've created this example by just drawing a rectangle for display purposes but obviously that method doesn't automatically move with the text. I'm trying to avoid using tables to achieve this as they don't publish to HTML in a way that works well. You can see by the text symbols that there's two separate paragraph styles involved, as well as an inline image. I'd like the output to be centred with large left and right indents for both PDF and HTML5 (and that's where I struggle with the tables). Does anyone have any ideas? 

I go through printer setting ... but ADode pdf is not shown there also...  As above iamge shown all the options are disable....  is there need  to buy Adobe PDF paid version

Using XSLT via ExtendScript, using CallClient to the transformation code. With FM 2022 I am getting this error message: "Failed to initialize: javax.xml.transform.TransformerFactory" Does anyone have an idea what is causing this and how to fix it ? Anyone from Adobe watching this forum ? Are there dependencies on the installed Java version ? If this is a bug I need to move all my clients away from FM 2022 until it is fixed. Please let me (and others on this forum) know asap.

Hi, I am getting an error message "inconsistent numbering properties" when updating Book even if I have taken all the required steps like:Updated numbering properties of all chaptersUpdated the numbering properties of first chapterUpdated page numberUpdated the page number of first page.kept/Imorted same formats to all chapter.Selected the book and then upadted it.  Yet I am getting this error message below. Please suggest solution.Thanks,Amit  

Hello everybody,I had several books translated by an agency and received the translated files back. I also provided the images directory for translation. None of the images is displayed in the translated files though, although the reference paths have remaines the same. Any kind of help is welcome!  

I've been trying to work out if it is possible to include some FM files in the PDF output (such as the front and back cover) but exclude them from the HTML5 output using conditions rather than right clicking on the TOC and selecting Exclude each time I publish. As far as I can tell conditions can only be used for parts of a file's contents, rather than the complete file, but as usual, I'm finding FM's help to be less than helpful so I'm not 100% confident on that. Does anyone know if there's a way to automate this for the specific output types?

I image yellow box is header which is creatde in master page with text feames and variable. Background page is also added. in mastre page when i go to body page is shows as bellow image footer is not shown,i dont added it  coz i dont want footerBut when i gererated pdf , it creates footer as shown in first image

Previously i am working on another device. where i created some .fm fies then i push them to one drive through zip and when i  logged in to another device  same file is opened but images are not apperaing.. instaed gray box is shown... who to change the path of all images in new document.... 

Hello. I need a script for structured documents that can find the first and last item element in a sequential list and set them to Keep with Previous. I know this can be controlled through the EDD, but our templates are provided by our customer and we are unfortunately prohibited from editing them. Getting them to fix it is like getting blood out of a turnip. My team wastes a lot of time trying to find widows and orphans and when one slips through, it typically means republishing to PDF from scratch. I need this to be an automated process. Does anyone know of a script that could perform this function for me? If this has already been answered in another thread, I'd be happy to be redirected there. Thanks in advance. Matt