FrameMaker

Hi GuysMaybe someone can assist. I have to create an illustrated parts catalogue in framemaker. Its is quite big with more than 5 000 parts and 200 illustrations.Is there any way to create such a document by inporting an Excel spreadsheet?

I am using structured framemaker 2017.If I have an element highlighted and go to use some of the element shortcuts (CTRL-2) for example, pressing the CTRL key causes FM to display an element dialog box. This box is annoying enough that I was thinking perhaps it is a bug. How can I disable this dialog from appearing each time I select an element and press CTRL?

Upgraded to FM 2017 14.02.425 yesterday;  “Save as PDF..” and “Save as Review PDF…” from .xml DITA files or Frame files, FM hangs. (Not Responding) message is in the title bar.This is happening on files that we could successfully generate PDFs from before the upgrade. Happening on two different PCs with the same version of FM with numerous files.We deleted the Preferences file in App Data Roaming as well, still no luck.

Anyone seeing EPUB files with content out of chronological order?Also, the TOC is only showing 10% of topics.Since this is the 3rd edition of this EPUB (My Fm reference book!!!!) I'm tempted to blame this one on Fm 2017 processing.There's a free copy of the FrameMaker - Working with Content EPUB ($25 value) to the first person to solve either of these issues!-Matt

Framemaker is constantly crashing when I try to edit settings for responsive html5, or when trying to publish.  I get a critical error and have to close the program.  Is there something that I should be looking for in my document it seems to hold happen to certain chapter of the book I am working with and sometimes it happens when I just open up Framemaker.

Help! I need to get to 12.0.3 to be able to use SharePoint 2013 with FrameMaker 12, but here's what I'm getting:The error log has this:Adobe FrameMaker 12.0.3 UpdateInstallation failed. Error Code: U44M2P7Support options aren't apparent. What's the next step here?

I recently had to reinstall FrameMaker 11 on a new computer. Now, when I reach the bottom of a document, new pages are not automatically added. What am I doing wrong? Can find anything in Help topics on this.Also, the user manual has disappeared from the Help menu. What happened to it?

FM 11. New additional pages are not appearing as I add content to this existing document. [Adobe Help] states additional pages Automatically appear as content is typed in. Not happening, Based on [Adobe On-Line Help], tried "connecting text frames" and adding disconnected pages, and other efforts. The "adding new disconnected pages" did appear, howerver content remained hidden at bottom of page 18 vs. now appearing on new pages 19-22. Also some FM formating did not transfer over to new pages 19-22. Existing [Help] topics do not seem to solve. Could be, just not understand the correct solution. Is there a basic/simple (setting change?) solution in FM 11? I have not altered the master pages, catalogs, etc. (Learning FM). Any assistance is appreciated.

I've been fighting with this for several days and just cannot get the results I need. The situation: I work in technical/how-to documentation. Several older documents use a font-face to represent mouse and keyboard actions. Since it's a font, it's not accessible. In an effort to make accessible documentation, we are trying to convert the font characters to text variables. The text variables exist in the document, so it's simply a matter of finding the characters to be replaced and replacing them with the appropriate variable. Some of our documents are over 100 pages, so replacing the characters manually would be frustrating. Current State of Solution: I have created a script that looks through a document, then inserts the text value of the variable in the text, but for some reason, I can't figure out how to make it insert the variable object itself. I've taken scripts from around these forums and modified them to work in my situation, so here are the functions that I'm working with:Fin

I had FrameMaker 12.0.2 and updated to 12.0.4 to fix the problem with SharePoint 2013. The fix was actually in 12.0.3, so I assumed 12.0.4 would include that. But I have the same problem as with 12.0.2 - once I check out a book I can't check it in...it appears locked and check in is grayed out.So I tried downloading and installing 12.0.3 but that failed.Help!

Can anyone guide me step by step about resolving this issue. i have been unable to do so with the existing answers here on the forums.

In FM 15, the path to the file was listed below the ditamap display when a file was selected. I don't have that with FM 17. How do I get it back?

I have chapters numbered 100, 200, etc.I need page numbers as 101, 102, then 201, 202, etc. per chapter.how would I code that in the footer?Thanks!Jay

This has been a restricted number for a very long time in FrameMaker, and the rest of the Windows world has left this number long ago. Is Adobe ever going to increase this value?

How add globally “@@@” at the beginning of the Index Marker and “@@@@” at the end of the Index Markers.  If any easy way to do this

Hello,When I create a TOC file and import the table of contents in the opening chapter, the chapter numbers start on 4. I can't figure out whats happening...TOC FILETable of Contents (Opening Chapter)

I have a structured FM book containing index markers. The index generates fine, but the hyperlinks do not work. The customer tells me it all worked fine in FM9 but no longer after moving over to FM2015. I tried wrapping the index markers in an indexmarker element but that did not make any difference. Trying the Ctrl+Alt-click in the generated index just brings up an alert that the object specified in the hypertext command cannot be found. Is this a reference page issue?Thanks for any help. I really need to move on to new projects.Jang

Framemaker is setting the CSS styling of equations in my documents in a way that causes them to be displayed wrong.  I have equations in my document and when I create the HTML5 output many equations display over other elements.  I have looked into this and found that they elements are being given a negative margin.  Once this margin is removed they display correctly.  Is there anything that I can do about this in Framemaker?

I have multiple existing tables and want to adjust ruling widths.I can't seem to do it by applying a table tag.Is there a reasonable approach? Do I have to delve into scripting to do this?PS - the 'custom rules' interface seems to have some issues...

I can't see any markers in FrameMaker 11. This first happened last week and I restarted my computer and the markers reappeared. But it happened again yesterday and restarting did not fix the problem. It's set to show Text Symbols and I've opened multiple documents so it's not related to one file. Any ideas?

Is there any way to find if a paragraph contains a table or not? Can I get a list of objects within a paragraph to determine this?

I have been producing PDFs by using Save As PDF instead of Print Book because I have an EPS file that gets screwed up during color conversion (I need to uncheck that color conversion option). Today is the first time I have noticed the following error message appearing in the FrameMaker Console after I produce a PDF using the Save As PDF option (and this message has appeared for multiple books that I have been making PDFs of):Save as PDF failed to post-process the PDF file for Reflow: Unable to save the reprocessed PDF file.The PDF file should be intact and usable but may not reflow properly. Check that the destination PDF file is not in use or its permissions, then Save as PDF again. If the problem persists, please contact Adobe Technical Support.What does this mean? All the PDFs look correct, print correctly, and get uploaded correctly, so I don't understand where the error is and what is causing it. Any ideas?I am running FM10 and CS5.5 on a Windows 7 32-bit machine.Thanks,Smitty

I am converting our Mif2go publishing process to FM2017. Mif2go has a configuration setting that allows you to use the "th" tag in order to identify the table header in the html. Is there a setting like this in FM? Looking at the HTML source file, the header row class of "tr1" is also used for cellbody rows. I'm trying to put a background color on the header row. I appreciate any help that you can provide.<div width="100%" align="left">   <table border-spacing="0" dir="ltr" class="table0 ItemList" border-collapse="collapse">    <caption dir="ltr" class="FM_ItemListTblTitle">Navigation Buttons Item List</caption>    <tr class="tr1">    <td class="td2">    <p dir="ltr" class="FM_TBLHead">Item</p> </td>    <td class="td3">    <p dir="ltr" class="FM_TBLHead">Description</p> </td> </tr>    <tr class="tr1">    <td cl

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