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Hi all,I've been a Frame user for nearly two decades and this is a new one on me. This has happened while creating two distinct and separate books, so it's time to ask for some help.I've created my book chapters and built my books the usual way. My headings are numbered, and the numbering is correct within the book's individual files:Chapter numbers are of the correct argument within the Chapter Number tag.Head 1 (and all heading) numbers are of the correct argument within their tag.All display and update correctly within the book's Chapter files when 'booked'; all book files have their numbering set correctly. This is legacy stuff, in use for years, not a hard thing.But NOW, when I go to do a 'Create Standalone TOC', I'm getting these crazy-making errors:Page numbers in the TOC are getting replaced with an incomplete argument that doesn't really belong there at all: "$paratext>" (note the lack of the first delimiter)Heading levels and Paragraphs used to import correctly into the TO

Was working on a doc on a loaner machine. The doc has ample use of conditional text, and 'Show as per Expression' is used to generate the many variants of the doc.However... there were no expressions in my Expression list. So, I assume that expressions are saved in a file *somewhere*, but don't know which one. (The expressions are all present on my regular machine.)Can anybody point me in the correct direction?thanks.

when opening receive error message (0xc000007b).this installation file worked fine on Win7can framemaker work as standalone app not part of a suite?

I have a FrameMaker file that I worked on last week but FrameMaker won't open today. I get an "Unknown File Type" dialog with a selection of file types that I can use to specify the source of the file. But, it is a FrameMaker file. The file is located on a network server, not my laptop. I have not encountered this error before. I googled it, but I found only discussions from 2009 or earlier. I am using FrameMaker 12.

Platform: FM 12 on Win 10.I want every document in my book to have pagination set to "Delete Empty Pages." But whenever I refresh the book, the pagination preference mysteriously switches to Make Page Count Even, or Make Page Count Odd.Why does this continue to happen and how do I stop it?Your help and insight is appreciated.

I am using FrameMaker 2015 to create DITA 1.2 xml filesI am trying to create hotspots on images:<imagemap><image href = "../Maps/_images/lifecycle_partition.png" scale = "40" /><area><shape>rect</shape><coords>2,0,53,59</coords><xref outputclass = "fm:" keyref = "access_control_policies">Accesscontrol policies</xref></area></imagemap>However, the image does not have a hotspot and the text "rect", "2,0,53,59" and "Access Control Policy" appears under the image.The text appears on the Document View, PDF and HTML5 outputs.When I try using the Hotspot mode in the graphic tools, I get a warning on save of:Framemaker does not support DITA multiple graphic object in a single frame.So, how do I create hotspots using FrameMaker DITA?

I have a TOC, and the second page of it is not being numbered.I have tried to replace the .fm file with one that worked in another book, but got the same results, which makes me think this issue is in the book itself.Anyone have any ideas why this would not be working?Thanks!

We have a proxy that intercepts all port 80 traffic, and if non-http traffic is sent over port 80 the proxy rejects the traffic.Does FrameMaker use port 80 for non-http traffic, and if so, how can we change that?#Thanks.

hi,sorry for there are so many questions from me.I tried to create my XML Application following this PDF.  And I have a problem to add the Strcured Application element (the circled step 2),could you please take some time to show me how to do this in detail? please see my attached markup file.thanks a lot!

Hi,I get the following error occasionally. I use a licensed Technical Communication Suite.Sometimes the popup never shows up but when it does it shows up continuously. I then have to log off and log in again in the system.Any suggestion on how this can be fixed?

I have custom toolbars for FrameMaker 2017 - originally created for FrameMaker 8 and FrameMaker 2015. I've updated the image pathway in the toolbar files (**.xml) to no avail.This is how the toolbar is appearing. Each button is definitely working, but the images are not there.This is the code line from the XML file - the current pathway for the image is desperation. Still didn't work.Any help would be appreciated.

Hello, I use conditional text to modify the different dita edds. When I modify the dita.map.edd, save it and import the element definition in the template, FrameMaker complains that the element topicref-NOT is defined but not referenced. I open the original dita.map.edd (without modifications) and try to find the site/post/stead where the element topicref-NOT is referenced, but I cant find it. There is only one site/post/stead where the element topicref-NOT is defined and I didnt modify this element. With kind regards, Nina

In Framemaker 2015 I Have a Ditamap with various nested Concepts, Topics and References. When publishing to HTML 5, the hierarchy always puts Topics and References at the top level.For exampleDitamap     Concept 1          Concept 2     Concept 3          Task 1               Reference 1     Concept 4          Task 2               Reference 2Results in a HTML 5 output of:Map Name     Concept 1          Concept 2     Concept 3     Task 1 (should be nested under Concept 3)     Reference 1 (should be nested under Task 1)  &nbsp

Hello,I have a licensed version of Adobe Technical Communication Suite 2017. I use FM and RH almost daily.I noticed that every few days on either of the software the license prompt reappears asking me to re-enter the license key.Is there a way to save it permanently until the software is uninstalled manually? Each time digging out the license and entering it is tedious.Any suggestions on how to fix this?............-Tejas

I am just working on a book with a few chapters, one chapter is very long and now i can´t add any further pages. So is there a maximum of pages I can add to one chapter? (My chapter has now 108 pages)Thank you

Running FM 2017 Release Version 14.0.2.425 on a Win7 Pro (Svc Pack 1 Build 7601) HP Z420 Workstation w/ Intel Xeon CPU (desktop PC), I'm finding it impossible to get straight single quotes to display correctly in my FM document, even though the Format>Document>Text Options>Smart Quotes checkbox is not enabled. Double quotation marks appear perfectly fine as expected, but single quotation marks always appear as single closing "smart" quotation marks. Any suggestions? Thank You!

Is it possible to convert a sgml file to xml in FrameMaker? If so, how?Thanks.

Hi everyone,I recently found a script posted by Adobe in 2011 that removes all unused paragraph, table, and character styles from every file in a book. It proved to be extremely helpful.http://blogs.adobe.com/techcomm/2011/10/extendscript-of-the-week-deleting-unused-formats-in-a-book.html I need also to remove unused object styles from several books. Does anyone know where to locate such a script? I haven't used the current scripting tool so it would take me a very (very) long time to edit the one Adobe provided. Also - no need to recreate the wheel, right? Thanks in advance,Diane

Following on from a deeeeep post earlier, I have a pared down question.In our docs there are many images in anchored frames where the frames use Anchoring Position "At Insertion Point".When I tried to publish to html5, these frames don't appear in the output.We use three of the possible positions overall in our docs -- At Insertion Point, Run into Paragraph, and Below Current Line.I simply changed the position of one of the images that didn't display and got the following results:- At Insertion Point -- frame does not display, line before and after the image print one after the other, nothing to indicate the image should have been there.- Run into Paragraph -- same result- Below Current Line -- this one worksQuestion -- Is this the expected behaviour? (I'm fine if it is, just want to know if I'm doing missing something here.)Thanks!

For reference, I'm working in a table, maybe that has something to do with it.The autonumbering format is working fine, but somewhere in the middle, it just stops working. I'm using the formula: A:< >< >< >< >< >< >< >< >< >< ><n+>.< =0>< >< >\t (yes I understand it's long, even getting rid of "the fat" it still won't work correctly). What it does is instead of 1,2,3 etc. it's just all 1's. Even when I use a+ instead of n+ it's just all a's. The formula is the EXACT same throughout the entire table, but it just doesn't work.Getting rid of the "A:" works BUT I need it. For example:My table will have different sections so it'll say:Title1. Info2. Info3. InfoAnother Title1. Info2. Info3. InfoI can't have the numbering to continue for it to be through 6, it has to start over WITHIN the one table. Therefore I'll tag the title to have "A:" in it, that seems to do the trick to reset the numbers after the title

It's been a while (several months) since I had to generate responsive HTML from my docs, and need some tips.Content is to be delivered as .pdf (that's the norm), and as html5.Content that I recall posed problems for me in the past, and content that is posing problems right now, includes the following, which I've had to address by duplicating the content and turning it into conditional text. What I'd like to know is if there are settings that can be done to address the issues without having to use conditions (and duplicated content). Any help is appreciated 🙂Tables - Our documents have room for on the left for side heads. So, tables that fit in the main text area (not extending into side heads) are Left justified. If a table is too wide (must start somewhere in the side-head area and extend to the right-hand margin), it gets set as right-justified.That works fine for .pdf. However, for html5, the right-justified tables anchor on the right edge of the webpage. So, the only soluti

I am running my FM 2015 on a VMware fusion with Windows 10 OS on a Macbook. While generating a FM book, I came across the following book error report: Could'nt update this book because it contains no openable nongenerated files" This book can generate a PDF on a different Windows machine and tested. Please help me with a suitable solution to address this issue so that I can generate a PDF.

Hey folks,I'm relatively new to FrameMaker (done the Lynda course, been doing a few practice documents, transitioning our existing IPCs from Word to FrameMaker 11), and I'm running across a fairly niche situation I haven't found a good solution to yet.Here's an example of our existing IPC table format in Word:In the table pictured above, there are "Thin" column rules between all of the columns except Fig/Item and the two straddled Effectivity columns. Fairly bog-standard as far as parts catalog tables go, but I'm having a tough time duplicating it in FrameMaker for the following reason:I am only allowed one exception to the table column format rules, not two or more. Now to be clear, I know about the Custom Ruling and Shading control, but given the number of rows a table like this can have (it can range up to the hundreds) and how often we have to delete/add items to various places in the list, I'd like to avoid them if possible. Is there a way to have two exceptions to the rule instea

I am not familiar with Framemaker, but we are using Arbortext to create a government document/manual. I hate the Arbortext, but I was told Adobe couldn't import the DTD files. Is there anything I cannot do in Adobe that I can in Arbortext??

Hi all,     Does anyone know if you can format a single FrameMaker document (not in a book) to have preliminary pages with roman numeral page numbers and then switch to normal numbers on the main subject matter.  I know how to do this in a book but want to do it in a single document, I have set up separate master pages for the preliminary pages but do not know how to change the <$pagenum> building block to be roman numerals.  MS Word haters like myself  do not want to have to use Word where you have to create new sections etc. but I do not always want to create a book for shorter documents.