FrameMaker

When I have the following line in a FrameMaker Script:Alert(Folder.commonFiles.path) I get the following:I would have expected:c:/Program Files(x86)/Common Files

Hi everyone,Is there a way, using unstructured FrameMaker, to set up some kind of Conditional Text that will convert one unit of measure to another?For example, if I have 120 mg/dL in my document - can I set up logic that will convert the number to 2162.4? (I know I can change the unit itself using conditional text.)I am looking for something I can set up once and use 125 or so times throughout our manual. Ideally I would like be able to be able to do something like: when Conditional Text Units is switched to mmoL, everyplace a number denoted as mg/dL is found (these numbers would have to be marked as such somehow), display = (variable) * 18.02Companies must deal with this a lot when publishing manuals in other countries.Thanks in advance,Diane

Greetings,Is there a way (direct or through scripting) that enables me to link to table in another FrameMaker file? I know it is possible to link to objects in Excel, Visio, etc. using Paste As Link; however, I am looking for a way to do the same with an FM table in another FM file. (We are using unstructured FM and trying to avoid introducing more conditional tags).Thanks in advance,Hani

I have searched, I have watched tutorials and I still cannot find a solution to updating my "Figure x" captions when creating a book. I created a new paragraph tag. My figure paragraph is F:Figure <n+>I am using anchored frames.If I create a page called Duck and add an image of a duck with a Figure caption, it will say Figure 1. If I create a page called Dog and I add two images of a dog captioned Figure 1 and Figure 2, they will auto number. If I wanted to add a third dog image it will place a Figure 3. When I create a book with these two separate pages, how do I get Dog page captions to update from Figure 1 and Figure 2 to Figure 2 and to Figure 3.My page numbers are updating, my TOC will update when I select the proper updates.I have been trying to contact my Adobe Account Manager but they will not get back to me with my questions.

I just started using FrameMaker 2017 on a Windows 10 PC. When I use the "Go to Previous Page", "Go to Next Page" arrows to navigate, then do a Paste, the text "Go to Previous Page" or "Go to Next Page" gets pasted into my document. If there was some other text on the Clipboard, that text gets replaced by the "Go to" text when I Paste. I made a video of this behavior, which I could send if you want to see it.Is this a known issue?Edit: The same thing happens with the Reduce Zoom and Increase Zoom controls.

FrameMaker 12 and 2015A colleague inherited a book file with some file icons in red, andhe did not know what this means.I found out that the file icons turn red, when "Exclude" is activated.I had also tried to find an explanation in the FrameMaker help,but there isn't anything about the file icons in book files.I know that in this forum there are also questions about TOC orindex files which do not update, and the cause is oftenthat these are only regular files and not generated files.When these icons are explained, then at least those whocheck the help could find the answer themselves.

In FrameMaker 13.0.1.385,  The Numbering Properties window is cropped such that I am unable to see/click the Set and Cancel buttons. How to adjust the height and width of the Numbering properties window.Message was edited by: Nidhi Sharma

    FrameMaker has always allowed users to modify some but not all    properties of selected paragraphs by:        1. Selecting the desired paragraphs, which may use different formats.    2. Opening the Paragraph Designer and using the Shift-F8 shortcut to set all properties to as is.    3. Changing the desired properties.    4. Clicking Apply        Doing so, sets the changed properties in the selected paragraph, and leaves all other properties unchanged. If the user then clicks in any of the modified paragraphs, the Designer shows all its properties.        This useful and familiar operation may work in some cases, but FM 2017 fails in at least one case: setting the Keep With Next property on the Pagination page sets the Position property on the Numbering Page to End of Paragraph. In addition, there are display problems w

Hello,I'm having a little issue with graphic frames. When I import a graphic (either File-Import-File or Insert-Image), it is then been displayed without the standard dotted line around it. The image frame doesn't have it either. On another computer, where an identical version of FM is installed, it does have these dotted lines. I know that you can assign custom ruling to objects, but this issue looks more like some display settings. Do you know what this can be?Thank you very much in advance for your help.Kind regards,Nico

How does FM 7.1 find Distiller when doing a book save as?Is this environment feasible, FM 7.1, Win 10, Acrobat 11 ?Thanks for any help or advice.

Hi everyone,I've encountered a weird problem. Newly installed Framemaker 15 (part of TCS) doesn't copy the Workspaces directory to C:\Users\<user_name>\AppData\Roaming\Adobe\FrameMaker\13\.Manually copying the Workspaces directory (with all the files inside it) to this location doesn't help, as the custom workspace/menus/toolbar don't show up in FM. Security-wise, I have full control of the FrameMaker\13\ directory, so it should be able to write to it.Has anyone else encountered this issue on Win7?Thanks,Roman

I have a FrameMaker (2017 Version: 14.0.0.361) book with about 24 sections/chapters and roughly 100 or so tables throughout.  Some of the tables have shading (i.e. blue header rows) and some have no shading at all. When I convert the book to Responsive HTML5, the blue color seems to "bleed" into other columns and rows even in tables that have no shading at all.  If I output each file individually to Responsive HTML5, there are no problems.  The "bleed" issue only seems to happen when I build the book and output the whole book file.  Under "Style Mapping" I have the tables set to [Use Source Style].  If I map the Frame tables to a corresponding Responsive HTML5 style, I'm assuming I'll lose my Frame formatting, which I would like to avoid.Any suggestions would be appreciated!

I've been using computers for 30 yrs. I've been using Framemaker for 15 yrs. Had problems with recent version, and need too re-install.The 'method' Adobe is using for re-install / finfing is about the worst I've encountered. Terchnical Comms Suiter appears to forgotten- doesn't exist, let alone Framemaker.Seriously looking for alternatives.

hello i have an .eps graph that has transparent background at ai (show grid transparent)but when i look and print it at frame, has a white background around it,can someone help?

I have only one rudimentary framemaker available and many features are not available.Also the Scripts will not start, programmed with ExtendedScript ToolKit

Hello fellows,I am trying to save an FM15 file as MIF6.0 using a script but the output MIF file contains some gibberish.It seems that in FrameScript, the following doesn't work: Save Document DocObject(myDocVar) File(myOutFileName) FileType(SaveFmtInterchange60); Please, advise!Thanks,Roman

FrameMaker9 - windows 10New to FrameMaker, been trying to insert new autonumbering figure titles in an existing document - sometimes it works and sometimes it doesnt. Not sure whats going on..In Paragraph Design the paragraph was already created and I am using this formula in the autonumber format box: F:Fig. <n+>\tThanks.

Our system automatically tracks user changes in FrameMaker document and processes them. For example we put all new text into special “Change” element which has red color to display that this is a changed text.We also handle deletion of text similar way.We process all event notification for such a text changes. So we handle TYPEIN, INLINE_TYPEIN, KBD_CLEAR, KBD_COPY, KBD_PASTE and so on.But we have problem how to handle Change in FrameMaker Find dialog.Our approach is to handle start of Find/Change dialog appearance, then we set FP_AutoChangeBars to True. (So all changes in Find/Change dialog are now FrameMaker tracked).When user closes Find/Change dialog we transform all FM tracked changed to our “Change” elements.This works in FM10 version correctly. But we have upgraded to FM12 and the problem is, that Framemaker 12 is not sending the close of Find/Change event. (KBD_CLOSE_SEARCH).So we cannot finish the operation and transform FM changes to our “Change” elements.Is there any way to

Hello,I am reading Mif reference from http://help.adobe.com/en_US/framemaker/mifreference/mifref.pdf​ and there is a sentence that says "because a MIF file can contain only standard ASCII characters and because of MIF parsing requirements, you must represent certain characters with backslash (\) sequences". When you open a mif file in notepad that has copyright character © in text, you can see it as is. So my question is which character set is used for writing MIF files, US_ASCII or some extension like ISO_8859?Kind regards,Zeljko

Hi, I try to convert a table to structured FrameMaker that contains several paragraphs in a single cell. FrameMaker successfully converts the table but adds empty rows beneath the row containing the cell with multiple paragraphs in it.The empty rows cannot be removed or changed.Can anyone help me with this?Below a screenshot.Regards, Arnold

Hi all,We are migrating some content to DITA. The migration tool seems to have spit out .framevector files instead of the images. The one sample doc I looked at had unreferenced .png files in Framemaker, but .framevector files with generic names were produced in the DITA output instead of retaining the images.In Framemaker, the images had PNG and Framevector facets in the object properties.It may be a case of sorting out the conversion process.But for this batch, does anyone know a way of converting these .framevector files? Or even viewing them? I can't find any program to even open these files.Thanks for your help,Ronan

Hello,I would like to insert characters in my document based on GID, is that possible with FrameMaker 2017?

I need to reload Framemaker.Why is it impossible to do without endless hassle?I can't find a way to simply reload. Drives me nuts

What is the difference between CrossRef and ConRef?I'm a Newbie.  I'm trying to figure out how to create a cross reference.I have open in FMChapter.fm andCrossRef.ditamapHow do I designate the word "Rhonda" in the Chapter so that it picks up the word "Rhonda" and enters a cross reference for each page and location it can be found in the Chapter.fmany suggestions would be helpfulrhonda

Hi,I am using Framemaker 17 to write a book file. I am using glossary markers and glossary term markers to generate a glossary.I publish the file as pdf and as responsive HTML5. The glossary itself works fine. However, when I create the responsive HTML5, framemaker creates a folder with the name Glo$$aryPopup$ . The special characters are a problem for my company's subsequent workflow.Is there a possibility to have influence on the folder name before it is created? So that the links dont include the $ signs.Thank you for your help.