FrameMaker

FM12, landscape-format three-pager, containing a title and a table: no problems distilling a .pdfI daringly add table footnotes … distiller hangs, and Windows explains confidentially waiting for splwow64.exewhat's all this, then?

I have a document that I've edited extensively. There are now many images that are not being used. Is there any way to quickly identify which ones are not used in the updated document, short of looking at each one and checking if it appears in the document?

I am still at a loss to understand what the error message means. Can someone help me?

Hi,I have a FM 11 book with the existing Index, which I keep updating from release to release. This time, when creating Index markers, they do not appear in the generated Index. Typically, after creating Index markers in chapters, I update book, and then new Index entries appear in the Index. But not this time. Could you please advise how this can be fixed?Thanks you!

Tech Comm Suite 2 (out of a box) was installed on an old laptop that has since malfunctioned. When I tried to reinstall on a brand new computer, it won't let me. Help!

When I try to generate a TOC from a Book file I get the message the book is not self consistent. What does it mean and how can I rectify it?

When I try to click on a menu item such as View or Help, and try to scroll down the list, the cursor jumps to another menu item and you can't keep the cursor on the menu long enough to select anything. Also, the font used in the interface is so tiny that it's barely readable. Is this a function of my screen resolution? I'm running Windows 10  on a Dell laptop but FM17 ran just fine on a Lenovo laptop.As it stands right now, I can't use FM17 for anything - it's pretty much useless. FM15 let you select small or large icons, etc. Was that removed in FM17?

Good morning all you FrameMaker wizards. I've run into an issue (er, learning opportunity) that I cannot figure out.I have a table of format "Symbol Tabl2col." Image of cell margins included.I have an object style "Symbol Frame Large" - anchor type included.I have a paragraph style where the images are placed called "TableCell - Vertical Center." It is set with alignment = Left.When I put it all together, the gap to the right of my images (which should be 7.5 points) does not exist. I have tried many adjustments on table format, object style, and paragraph style and cannot seem to get the correct gap to appear.Someone out there knows the answer. (I love the internet.) Thank you in advance for your help!! Diane

Bonjour,Nous souhaitons pouvoir convertir les données FrameMaker en données Word, le format RTF 1.6 permet d'avoir un fichier que l'on peut ouvrir sous word.Cependant lors de la conversion on perd pas mal de contenu comme les hyperliens et la mise en page aussi est dégradé.Est ce qu'il y aurait une solution pour conserver les informations de mise en page ou de pouvoir exporter dans un autre format en vue de pouvoir l'ouvrir ensuite avec Word ?MerciThéo GRASSETIngénieur Stagiaire REEL

I'm creating a directory-type document in 6 languages, that has multiple sections. The headers of each section need to display the section title in all 6 languages, so I've created 6 Running H/F variables that pick up the section title in each language, on the first body page of each section. However, I don't really want the 6 different language versions to appear in the main text of the document, I only want those text values to be picked up by the Running h/f variables and displayed in the page headers.My work around at the moment is to make the section titles on the body pages tiny and white (2 point text on 2 point line space, font colour white) so that they are not visible in the printed output, but are still visible to the Running H/F variables, but this creates a large space on the first page of each section where these 6 "invisible" lines of text appear.Does anyone know of a smarter way of doing this please?

I am trying to print a framemaker document to a postscript format.  We used to use version 7.1, and now are at version 13.  Many of our framemaker files have an include statement which was supposed to reference postscript code produced by a different program that was inserted into the document.  This is the following code in the framemaker file:/showpage {} def#include "s:/DIRECTORY/SUB_DIR/FILE.cps"/CPSFILE (s:/DIRECTORY/SUB_DIR/FILE.cps) def CHECK_FILEOur previous version of framemaker used to insert the actual code from the 'FILE.cps' into the printed document but now this no longer happens.  I have opened up the old and new versions of the output postscript format documents in text windows and seen that this is the case.  This leads to distilling errors when converting to a PDF because the #include statement seems to not be supported by that (even though #include command isn't even supposed to be in the (PS) document.

I've created docs in  FrameMaker 2015 that developers want to export into Sphinx. Is that possible, and if so what is the best way to do that?Thanks,Neysa

FM 13.0.5.547This behaviour is completely new to me... I have a book and its twenty chapters open in Framemaker.Do a Find (ctrl+f) for a string. Each time I get a hit, I press <shift-f7> to jump into the text and make corrections.Then I click 'find' again.If no more instances of the string are found in the current document, Frame is now *closing* the document (prompting to save changes if any were made) when it goes to the next doc in the book.Have I somehow flipped an option that controls this behaviour, or is this actually broken?Thanks!

I have a set of steps that I am referencing via conref.  In the source document there are no <data></data> tags. But every time I conref to the source document the results inserts those tags, the xml line in my resulting file (not the source file) looks something like this:<taskbody><steps conref="blahblahSourceMaterial"><data></data></steps></taskbody>This always creates a validation error that the data tags are empty, but I can't find anywhere that indicates they're required when using a conref -- this seems to only happen when I conref the Steps element. I seem to be able to delete these tags in the destination file and it works fine, but it's frustrating to do this.  Is this a bug, or am I missing some knowledge here about how to appropriately conref steps?Additional note, the <data></data> tags also never display when View > Element Boundaries (as Tags) is set in the WYSIWYG view.

I am experiencing 2 issues.1. The "Next" and "Previous" buttons don't always work right. Sometimes it skips a topic or they don't appear at all.2. The page I am on should be highlighted on the left panel but often, the very first page is highlighted instead.Anyone else experience any of this?Thanks,Greg

I have an XML file, which I want to generate a Framemaker (tried with both 11 and 2017) document out of it. The following extract shows only the issue-related part:XML-File (CrossReferenceExample.xml):<?xml version='1.0' encoding='UTF-8'?><!DOCTYPE Root [<!ELEMENT Root (Section)><!ELEMENT Section (Paragraph*)><!ELEMENT Paragraph ANY><!ELEMENT XRef EMPTY><!ATTLIST XRef type CDATA #REQUIRED><!ATTLIST XRef text CDATA #REQUIRED><!ELEMENT HRef EMPTY><!ATTLIST HRef format CDATA #REQUIRED><!ATTLIST HRef refid CDATA #REQUIRED><!ATTLIST HRef sourcefile CDATA #IMPLIED>]><Root>  <Section>    <Paragraph>Hello <XRef type="Cross-Ref" text="world-link"/>world.</Paragraph>    <Paragraph>Here is the link: <HRef format="Page" refid="world-link"/></Paragraph>  </Section></Root>Read/write rules (read_write_rules.fm):element "HRef" {&nbs

FrameMaker 2015: I inadvertently touched some key combination that made the Graphics Toolbar and the Variables Pod "free-floating" on top of other parts of the document. Previously, they did not obscure the document. Instead, they fit around the document. How do I restore that view?

I'm using unstructured FrameMaker 2015.  Some of the documents in the book I'm working with contain Mini TOCs.  The Mini TOC in one document is not updating when I add or delete sections in the document.  The sections changes update accurately in the Main TOC.  In the Update Book dialog box, the Mini TOC check box is selected.  Any ideas how to fix this problem?

I have got the Trial version of Framemaker 2017 and wanted to open a MIF file someone sent me but I keep getting the convert window up and when I click OK I get a message telling me it is impossible to open the file. Have tried another MIF file and the same thing. I thought this program opened MIF files?

Buongiorno a tutti,la presente per chiedervi aiuto sul software FrameMaker 2017.Quando tento di utilizzare la funzione "Save Ad Pdf" mi appaiono questi errori:-The Selected PDF Job Option does not exist in the current installation. Either create this Job Option on select an available Job Option. Continue ?Se seleziono ok mi compare questo nuovo messaggio:-FrameMaker could not find Adobe PDF printer instance, which must be installed to excecute Save as PDF command.Ho provato a creare l'instanza/stampnte/convertitore pdf, reinstallare il programma, creare e copiare in varie cartelle i file *joboptions ma i problemi persistono.Inoltre quando tento di utilizzare la funzione help (topics) non mi carica nulla, rimane la finestra con i quadrati che caricano senza dare alcun risultato neppure dopo diverso tempo (il pc è collegato alla rete e naviga normalmente.Vi ringrazio in anticipo per il supporto e inserisco sotto la "traduzione" in inglese.-------------------------------------------------

Hilfedateien sind nicht zugänglich. Ich bekomme immer eine Fehlermeldung bei diesem Link: http://help.adobe.com/de_DE/framemaker/2017/using/index.html?

Moving callouts around is slow. How can I speed this up? I am used to graphic software.

How can I use Framemaker 2015 on a second computer as well as the one where it is now?

FM Folks:Downloaded a trial of FM 10, loaded old 7.2 files. FM 10 read them perfectly, but, when I tried to save the file, an error message popped up that said I didn't have 'write permission" to lock or write to these files. How do I get permission?Is this a Windows, not an Adobe issue? Does the trial version only allow creating of new files, but not editing of others? Am running Windows 7 and using a downloaded trial version of FM 10. Two days down on my thirty, and I can't save the files in the new format. Darn, darn, darn.~Don Spencerbeamwardpublications@earthlink.net

The Archive utility (a script Adobe created that packages all of a book's files, including images regardless of their source location) does not work in FrameMaker 2015. Is there a new version available? FrameMaker's built-in Package function only pulls in images if they're in the same folder as the book.