FrameMaker

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

https://migrate-from-word-to-dita.meetus.adobeevents.com/ Recording available afterward  

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

Good afternoon, Trying to run a script and it says 'document is still loading'. Chatgbt says that when this happens it usually means the script is trying to run on the document before it’s fully initialized.I have put some delay code in, and same message.It is a blank Dita concept file.Any suggestions?Thank you,Vicki

10+ years ago, I used dzbatcher and other tools. Anything out there that's current? dzbatcher, dobatch, mif2go, etc. are dinosaurs that no longer support the latest Frame versions.

HI,How do I convert a word document to DITA xml? Thank you,Vicki             

When I generate a HTML5 help, I  use topic sequences to scroll back and forth between the topics. The help project is quite large, i.e. it contains about 2400 A4 pages. When scrolling, the TOC entries do not match the currently displayed help topics. There is an offset between the topic order and the TOC order.Can anybody give me a hint how to avoid or how to solve this problem?

Hi! We would like to produce our CHM output directly in Framemaker. I worked on the development of the setting file (sts) until December 19. I was able to compile CHM output. After updating Framemaker 2022 from version 16 to 17, I can no longer generate CHM. All other outputs (HTML, Responsive, PDF etc.) work as usual. Even with the default settings I get no output.It doesn't matter whether I compile individual files or book files. No CHM is generated.The log gives this error message at the end:"Warning: the size of the stop file must be limited to 512 bytes."Is there a work around? Does anyone know the error?

We have been using PageBreak markers for many years both for the page break (marker text <Split>) and to suppress the page break (marker text <NoSplit>).It worked for the output with RH Classic.With the publish functions in FM 2022, all markers are interpreted as page breaks as soon as I activate them in the settings.Is there a modified syntax (or whatever) that I am not aware of to use the PageBreak marker <NoSplit>? 

Hi, Do I need to learn how to do a bookmap for a word to DITA conversion?Word document has Concept, Task and Reference topics all in 1.Thank you,Vicki

I pressed close on this panel by mistake, now  i cant seem to find how to get it back! anyone know? Not sure what the technical term for that panel is..