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Dear All.Good day, i face a problem in FM 2015, I have Framemaker 2015 as Trial and installed last updates on it, working in project in Arabic language.I will try explain my problem in short linesArabic Language has special letter typing called "Arabic Diacritization" for example the in the below pic. (The Pic from FM)The problem is when i type such letters in arabic and get print the .fm file, the result in the PDF is shown as below pic.The New Version of FM 13 is really good in handling such language like arabic, but i want to know why this ONLY issue still exist in the Version (Even after update).the characters that include the arabic diacritics is breaking in the baseline. and this totally wrong in arabic language.so if you know anything can help or plugin or script to solve this issue, as this way of type in arabic can change the meaning in language.please try to send any thing help me here ASAP.

I'm using the Adobe Technical Communication Suite 5. I've got two FrameMaker 12 books, each linked to its own RoboHelp HTML 11 project, and I'm generating two separate .CHM files.My goal is for a topic in one .CHM file to contain a link to the other .CHM file. The two .CHM files are going to be in the same directory, but customers have the option of installing both .CHM files in any directory they choose, so I need to use a relative path name.Since the sources are all in FrameMaker, I need to specify a hyperlink in a FrameMaker file that uses a relative path name to open a specific topic in a .CHM file. That hyperlink needs to be preserved when I run the FrameMaker file through RoboHelp.I tried posing this question to the RoboHelp/FrameMaker Integration forum, but I only received responses from RoboHelp experts. They know how to solve my problem in RoboHelp, but not how to specify such a link in FrameMaker. I'm hoping someone here has solved this problem from the FrameMaker side.Thanks

Hi all,I am currently developing a script that automates the addition of new paragraph text comprising variables and string. b_user_input is the the variable name defined in framemaker which is input by the user. However doc.NewAnchoredFormattedVar is not able to recognize the same and prints nothing in the document. Then I tried putting the input string within quotes thinking it might work, but that didn't work too(i.e.  var  b_var = "\""+ffFmt.Name+"\"";                                                            var bbFmt = doc.GetNamedObject (Constants.FO_VarFmt, b_user_input);   //b_user_input = "Variable_b"          var  b_var

Hi,I am currently trying to insert a Char tab into a new paragraph, I'd like to separate each variable I insert into the paragraph separated by a Char Tab.I am updating an existing mif file. I am trying to figure how to insert the <Char Tab> using Extend Script.Any help would be appreciated.Thanks,Sebin======================================================Existing Mif File Screenshot:        <String `Attribute1: '>        <Variable          <VariableName `Variable_1'>         <Unique 6767868>        > # end of Variable        <Char Tab>        <String `Attribute2: '>        <Variable          <VariableName `Variabl

The heading says it all.Any help gratefully appreciated.Jack

Hello,I usually work with structured FM doc, but for once i need to work with unstructured doc.I need to make a script that check if there is only few chararter at the last line of a paragraph, and if yes, to apply a "spread -2%". and check if i lost one line.I was thinking, if i can compare the number of line of a paragraph before and after the "spread -2%" and if it's "after" is smaller than "before".If yes => i lost one line in my paragraph.In million paragaph, i can win few pages in my doc (doc large than 1.000 pages)I already have script to walkthrouth all the paragraph of a doc, another to apply and/or check paragraph values (spread).But how can i count the number of line in one paragraph?Do i have to put my cursor in each line of my paragraph and check the FTI_LineEnd (normal, hard, hyphen) to know when i reach the end of my paragraph? Or there is another way?

After generating the Responsive HTML 5 project, only the TOC is visible, but the topics do not open.

When I generate a responsive HTML5 help file, and I perform a search, the search results look like this:How can I get rid of the "Enter a Title for This Document" headings?Thanks,Andy

Hello all,Currently tearing my hair out with the direction/placement of parentheses in bilingual Arabic/English document.What I want to achieve is what's on the bottom line of the screenshot, but without the question mark, so PCV(TgV) not (PCV(TgV as the line above.If I put the cursor where the yellow highlight is and insert a Left-to-Right Mark, the parentheses are correct but the question mark appears (which shows in the final PDF).I've tried all sorts of combinations but I just don't know what mark/embedding I need to put where to make it work.I did read a post about FM 2015 that outlined the direction feature, which also said "Optionally, flip individual objects, such as paras, tables, images, lists, and neutral characters such as parenthesis." How do I do that?

Hello allI read Arabic/LTR/bidi parentheses in FM2015  articleDo I have to fix this problem manually? How can I automate this process?Thanks in advance.

When creating a book of several imported pdf's the ctrl find does not find any words.If I open a pdf alone that was imported into that book then ctrl find works 100%Thank you in advance

I am trying to compare new and old versions of a document and suddenly the resulting file does not show the red/blue highlighting what has changed.Any ideas?All other colors in the result are showing.

Why does each document get its own subfolder in the tree?

Hi, is it possible to customize keyboard shortcuts in FM? I want to assign a keyboard shortcut for Paste Special > Text. Is there any way I could do it?

I'm working with a very long, complex FM template with many mapped paragraphs -> template pages. I just inserted another row and the last row of the table runs off the page, but doesn't display on the next page. (I even tried adding a page.) It is there, just being cut off by the limited page length. It is worth mentioning that our user manuals are 5.5" high, not 11". I used to love working with this product, but these are the things (seemingly undocumented) that are taking the fun out of it.Has anyone else run into this? There is actually a table format for this table - UnstructMasterPageMaps, but I cannot see a setting that would prevent the page from flowing to the next page.All this trouble for a reference page.

Dear community,I retrieve some strings from a *.txt file over a local network, and later store those into the variables of a *.fm file.The *.txt file is UTF-8 encoded. However, the UTF-8 encoding changes to ANSI, the characters change e.g. from "面の定義" to "面の定義"I don't understand why the encoding changed.How can I encode the ANSI string back to UTF-8?Thanks!function GetProp(doc, information) {    var conn = new Socket;    if (conn.open ("localhost:8000", "UTF-8")) {        var getRequest = "GET /workbench/" + doc + "/" + information + "/ HTTP/1.1\r\nHost: localhost\r\n\r\n";        conn.encoding = "BINARY"; //this line does not seem to have impact        conn.write(getRequest);        var endlessLoopCounter = 0;        var responseHeader = "";    &

I'm running Framemaker 2015. I can create PDFs out of books just fine, but when I try to save an individual FM file as a PDF, I get this truncated window and can't continue the save:Has anyone else seen this? Is there a solution?

Hi all, I am currently working on some updates to a project I originally did in Frame12.It was just an ordinary bunch of Frame files, with a fair few screenshots (PNG format), that were output as HTML Help (CHM files) using the Publish command.I still have all the original source files (and the .sts settings fill and .htt template file).I tried opening one of the chapters today in Frame 2017, where it looks fine, nothing wrong... until I do File > Publish... the CHM output has every single graphic missing! Replaced by a blank line.    There's no error message that I can see. If I view the Log file, each of the PNG files I was expecting in my output is mentioned by name. I then tried going back to Frame 2015 and doing File > Publish there. ...  there result is not as bad, but still basically awful:  all the PNG screenshots have been resized, so look fuzzy.  One graphic (where a PNG is in an anchored frame with some text annotations added) comes through wit

I'm running FrameMaker 12.0.4, and I have a bunch of books that I am converting the HTML Help via the Publish command. I've been working on these books for a couple of years and thought they were pretty stable.However, I have discovered a particular graphic in a particular book which is just simply not there in the HTML Help output.There's no error message, everything else is as expected - this graphic is just missing!It is a PNG in an anchored frame like pretty much all the others in the book. I am at a loss to understand why it's vanishing.Any suggestions?I've already tried opening and resaving the PNG in MS Paint (just in case it had some weird unsupported chunks - although I generated it from Illustrator CC 2014, don't see what could be wrong with it),and I've tried deleting it from the page and reimporting it.I've tried placing it in different parts of the page.I've tried turning my computer off and back on again.

We want to upgrade historical files that were created in FrameMaker v5.0 on a Windows XP workstation to the current FrameMaker version 2017.  Hypertext were employed to link FrameMaker files [Example: gotopage ($Home)/TestFile2.fm:1].  As a test case, we rendered a subset of files to FrameMaker v2017 and noticed a problem with hypertext links accessed thru popup sub-menus as follows.As an example, consider to popup menus called cars and trucks.  The cars popup menu has the sub-menu items: Accord, Impala and Focus.  The trucks popup menu has the sub-menu items: F150, RAM and Sierra.  With the FrameMaker v2017 rendered files, we were able to hyperlink to all sub-menu items under the cars popup menu but were unable to hyperlink to any sub-menu item under the trucks popup menu.  After verifying that all hyperlinks were correct, we swapped the order of the popup menus.  Now we were able to hyperlink to all sub-menu items under the trucks popup menu but wer

On certain pages throughout the document, it stops letting me type partway down and automatically continues on the next page. I am not sure why since it is stopping me from continuing on these pages about 1/3 of the way into the page.

Hello fellows,Is there a way to check whether a doc contains unresolved xrefs without the need to loop through each and every xref and check its status?What I'd like to do is to state "if there are no broken xrefs in doc, <do xyz>" or "if all xrefs are alive, <do xyz>". 🙂Thank you in advance!

Hello scripters!I've recently run into a small problem and I'm wondering if anyone has experienced the same and/or could shed any light on the issue. I have a script which, when run on large (~250 page) documents, renders FM completely unresponsive and requires me to force quit the application. The script isn't anything fancy, it simply walks through the active doc and inserts index markers into specific paragraphs. These are the important bits:// adds index markers to docfunction addIndexMarkers(doc, pgf){    // walk through pgfs in the main doc flow    while (pgf.ObjectValid()) {        var pgfFmt = pgf.Name;        if (pgfFmt == "thing1" || pgfFmt == "thing2") {            var offset = getOffset(pgf);            var text = getText(pgf);      &nbsp

How do I get Frame to acknowledge the colwidth value in the <,colspec> element of a CALS table when opening a Dita file. I have already commented out "writer use proportional widths" in the R/W rules. This preserves the values when saving but on Open the column widths are changed. This really throws a wrench in round tripping Dita files. We end up spending days copy-fitting tables after a book build. I used DitaFMX for a while to solve the problem. But that comes with other baggage like no support for DIta 1.3. - Guenther

Hi everyone !Here is a trickie one : I made a script to get the keys property by property in a layer. If I enter a full property name by hand like thismyProp = app.project.item(55).layer("titre").property("Transform").property("Position");alert(myProp.numKeys);It gives me the number of keys on my property... But, if I get the exact same property path by another way (text file, script...) it doesn't work anymore.myProp = myTextFileDataArray; //the exact property path is entered in the text filealert(myProp[0].numKeys);Returns "undefined".My program has to scan all the layers and properties in a comp, so I need to have a myProp value dynamically.Hope my ask is clear 😕😕