FrameMaker

Intermittently when I open the cross-reference pod to insert a cross-reference within a book, Framemaker crashes. Are there any patch updates that I am missing?Details are as follows:OS: Windows 7FrameMaker Version: 11.0.1.382Please help!Thank you!

Since I installed the latest FrameMaker 2015 update (13.0.5.547), I have had a problem in that when I update an entire book, the master pages apply seemingly at random within each book. Note that we have different Master Page templates for the front matter, chapters, index, and glossary.Has anyone else experienced this? Is there a workaround?--Laura

Hi,FM10 calls some notifications when Find/Change dialog is closing.But in FM12 there are no notifications called.Has somebody any idea how to handle this?

Is there a known way for Frame to handle HTML/XML character references ('>' and that sort of escape sequence)?

I am updating a medium-sized document. I need to correct the size of a drawing placed on a graphic. After changing about 10 instances, FrameMaker locks up. It shows garbage characters and locks. Sometimes I'm able to save my updates before I end the task, sometimes not. Due to this happening, I've frequently been saving, but saving the document does not prevent the locking.A similar issue had been happening in Frame 2015 and the previous level. I had hoped that it had gotten fixed - but maybe it hadn't been reported?

Hi everyone,First, I should say thanks for all the posts. It has definitely helped a newbie like me.I'm trying to import formats from another file. When set to import from the doc itself, it works great. I just can't figure out how to reference another file. Here is what I have (that's not working) :-}function ImportFormats(doc) {    var FormatFlags = Constants.FF_UFF_PGF | Constants.FF_UFF_FONT | Constants.FF_UFF_PAGE |           Constants.FF_UFF_TABLE | Constants.FF_UFF_COLOR | Constants.FF_UFF_REFPAGE | Constants.FF_UFF_REMOVE_EXCEPTIONS;        var FactsFile =File("C:\pg000_facts_table.fm");  doc.SimpleImportFormats (FactsFile, FormatFlags);    }\Thanks again!

I finally got half of my data formatted into a table in FM. I received the rest of the info that needs to be added to the table. How do I do that without retyping all the rows (600+)?

FM2015,Win7, Newbie to FM.   The requirement is to place a graphic on each odd page with a description/discussion on the facing even page. Anchored frames move the graphics around and graphics anchored to the page won't auto-number in a disconnected text frame.  Tables for the graphic can be set to start at the top of the right page, but the text won't flow back. What am I missing here? What is the quickest, easiest way to accomplish this...I am rapidly getting further behind.

I am using Frame 11 and saving structured book files to SGML to meet the ATA 2200 standard.I have successfully converted several books but have not been able to map the graphic elements.I would like to have a list of all the graphic images at the start of the SGML book.I believe that this will require an Entity location to be specified in the Structured applications definition as well as a rule that points to the entity with the graphic's unique identifier, in this case a gnbr entity.Can anyone help with the syntax for the entity location and the rule that points to it?

S1000D XML will not allow straddled columns in a table.  Does anybody know how to override this.  We need straddled columns.

Hello, I'm a subscriber and have recently installed FM 2015, but I get the message To execute "Save as PDF" command you must have Acrobat Distiller version 5.05 or higher installed". FM can't find the app altho' it's supposed to install with the package at subscription...Do you know what to do?Thanks

Dear Experts,I have an FM Document which contains lot of tables. How to set the Row Format and Columns Resize for all tables in the document. When i update the Font Style and Text Size in some cases the Table is becoming too small. So is there any way yo Resize Row & Columns so that it automatically adjust to the text size. I found 2 options in the FM but how to set this for the whole tables in the document is what i am facing issue now. Please guide me on this.          With RegardsAghil.M

Dear Experts,I have a Frame Maker document file which contain a imported Word file. The document contain lot of tables like below. What i am trying to do is to create a ExtendScript which will loop through whole tables in the Main Flow of Document and change the FONT Style and TEXT Size of content inside the table. Please help me to sort out this issue. With RegardsAghil

Es kommt immer die Fehlermeldung dass es sich hierbei um keine Originalsoftware handelt

I cannot find a method in the framemaker scripting guide for the Table > Convert to Paragraphs command.I found a suspicious Fcode command: FCodes.KBD_TABLE_CONVERT. Not so great. I  neither like Fcodes, nor do think this would do what I want.Advice?Thanks,Jason

We have been creating documents under Dita 1.2 in FrameMaker and running ant to convert them to html files to create webhelp. I want to update to dita 1.3 as I want to use ResponsiveHTML5 help. But when I generate the help, any topics created with the Dita 1.3 setting in FrameMaker do not appear in my help output.What am I missing?

I‘ve just switched from FM2015 to FM2017 and I work with DITA.Since I‘m using FM2017 I’ve got problems with inserting graphics. To insert graphics I proceed as follows:inserting <image>  --> the window insert element openschoosing a graphic (HRef) in the file systeminserting the graphic in its original resolution       It‘s the same way as I did in FM2015. In FM2015 the graphics always were inserted in their original size.In FM2017 the result is as follows:          The graphics are inserted in their original size           When I save and close the topic and open it again, the graphic is scaled to the width of the type areaWhat’s wrong?Is there any default setting which scales graphics always to the width of the type area?

I have a set of documents in fm created in version 2015 by various authors.I will be updating them in Framemaker version 2017.Will there be compatibility/output issues when generating a PDF?Any suggestions if I should go with Framemaker 2017 or install Framemaker 2015 to update the sources?

Hi Guys,I have a book that is set to A4 pages using FM 2014. I need to insert two A3 figures at the end of the document. I know how to do this in FM 7.1 but I am treed with 2014 as I cannot see the catalogues to make an A3 reference (?) page and separate document holding the figures. Ideally, I would like to have both the A3 and A4 pages in the one document but so far all I can do is change ALL pages to A3 portrait. Frustrating? you bet.Any help would be great.RegardsPaul

Changed a template for a book and now it takes FOREVER to create a PDF. I checked the PDF settings - no bookmarks are created apart from the main elements, no tagged PDF is created. Still, I can see that FM is creating an almost 2 GByte tps file for a book that is just over 5 MBytes, and taking an enormous amount of time to do it. Another version of the same book was done in seconds.What am I missing here ? What should I look for in what part of the document settings ?Thanks for any useful pointers

I have a license for FM 2017 (v14) license. I need to use FM 2015 (v13). How?

Hi,I made a book in FrameMaker 11. Just 20 pages. Only 5 files in in. Can I convert this book to RST, somehow? We have a platform that only supports RST. Converting from PDF may be another option, but that will need much manual work, I guess. Regards,Sabya

I am an experienced FDK programmer. How can I get an FDK client to run an extendscript? The FDK Reference or the Programming Guild make no mention of this.

Hi 🙂I've searched through the messages but none seem to apply. I'm using FrameMaker 9.0p255 and FrameScript 6.0R1p70 on Windows 10.I have three scripts that were provided to me. Two of the scripts are working fine, but the third script freezes Frame 9. This script does three things: it converts the .fm files in a folder to .mif, it preprocesses TopicAlias and TokenAlias markers for preparation for DITA conversion, and it creates a file that lists all text variables in the book. The file was working fine yesterday afternoon (and has been working since I first installed FrameScript in February).I've deactivated and re-activated FrameScript. I've verified that all updates have been installed. I've disconnected and reconnected to the network. My last restore point is from July 5. I don't know what else to check, and I don't know why this specific file suddenly stopped working.(One of my teammates is having the exact same issue. The only difference is that he installed his own licen

I have filed bug FRMAKER-3122 regarding saving structured documents that contain system variables as XML. FM's default behavior is to generate an entity reference to a new entity it declares. The entity's name is fm.xxx, where xxx is an abbreviation of the variable name and the entity's replacement text is the text displayed for the variable. For example, at some point yesterday morning, the Modification Date (Long) variable exported as &fm.lmdate; where fm.lmdate was declared as:<!ENTITY fm.lmdate  "July 17, 2017 10:18 am">Since the variable text contains spaces, it is possible for the variable to be displayed with a line break within the variable text, as in something such as:This document describes My Company's such and such system. It isupdated quarterly. The last update was published on July 17, 201710:18 am.FM seems to use only the portion of the variable text that appears on the second line in the entity declaration, so that if the entity declaration is created fr