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My books contain multiple documents/chapters. Each one has variables in the footer for Issue and Amend . All variables start out with the values Issue = 1, Amend = 0. If a chapter gets updated, only the variables in that document/chapter get updated to reflect the new values, i.e. Chapters 1-2 might but Issue 1, Amend 0; Chapter 3 = Issue 1 Amend 1, Chapter 4 = Issue 1 Amend 2, Chapter 5 = Issue 1 Amend 0, and so forth. I want to compile an abbreviated List of Effective Pages that pulls in:Chapter 1 Issue 1 Amend 0Chapter 2 Issue 1 Amend 0Chapter 3 Issue 1 Amend 1Chapter 4 Issue 1 Amend 2Chapter 5 Issue 1 Amend 0Chapter 6 Issue 1 Amend 2Chapter 7 Issue 1 Amend 0If I start from the LOEP document and look in the Variables pod, I can select the different documents from the drop-down list, can see and select the variables with their different values from each file, but when I click Insert, FM inserts the selected variable into the cursor position in the source file, not the LOEP file! I've

It must have been changed in Framemaker 2017, but I don't see the option to delete a paragraph format where it used to be in FM 12. Where is delete paragraph format now located? Thanks.

Hello,I'm trying to create a script that go to the Right Master Page used in my document and create a round rectangle (at pos x, y and size h,w).But i can't go to the right page. (I'm already in the Master Page View, using Fcodes)I'm using :Fcodes([app.GetNamedCommand("GotoPage").Fcode]);I have the GotoPage dialog box, but how can i force it to got to the page named : RightMasterPageEnglish intead having the dialog box?I'm trying with RoundRectanble too, but how to define the x,y,h and w parameters to past with the fcodes ?

Hey gang,I have a multi-page, multiple-column table that needs to have a blank row inserted after every 10th row.  Is there a way to do this automatically? It's a real pain in the tuches to do this by hand when you have 1000+ rows in a table, not to mention the risk of error.Thoughts?-terry-FM12, Windows 7

Hi,We currently moved to FM 2015 and have our User Guide there. But we need to save the book in FM 11 version to make use of the plug-in that is compatible only with FM versions prior to FM12. How can I save my FM 2015 book in version 11 without any major issues (e.g., bunch of unresolved cross-references)? I will appreciate any feedback!Thanks,Oksana

How do I create a Keyword in published CHM output? I've tried adding a Marker of type "Keyword" with no luck

Hello,Our team is having difficulty with publishing to Microsoft HTML Help.We can produce the help file, but the "Contents" tree is messed up.Here are the problems:-Everything is appearing at the same level in the tree-The very first contents topic shown is the name of the document rather than the first Chapter titleIn "Style Mapping, I selected the "Split into topics based on this style" check-box for first three Headings.This is the result I get:The first topic is the name of the file, not the section in FrameMaker (Introduction). And everything is at the same level.Can someone please walk me through the basic steps to produce an HTML help file with a proper contents tree?There is virtually no help in the FrameMaker Help Document, nor online. Thank you,CJ

Hi.FM2015 occasionally crashes while I save .fm file as .rtf (About 5 or 6 time in 10).When it finishes the conversion, the rtf file size goes well over 800MB, even though the .fm size is about 1.64MB.Question 1)Is there any know bag fix about FM2015 crashing while saving as rtf?     * I found a topic with same problem with FM12 but not FM2015...Question 2)Is there any way around to make the rtf file size smaller?If it was Office word, there is a registry key to add to avoid rtf becoming massive.Thank you for your help in advance!!Message was edited by: ModeratorJC - [changed crush to crash]

Since I installed the FM 2017 upgrade, every time I open a document I get "The 'AVM Bolded' Font is not available. "AVM" will be used in this session. I experimented by deleting the objects from a document one by one, saving and reopening. Even after deleting every object, when I open the blank document I still get the error 24 times in the Console.(related question: in 2017, the console disappears once I click "OK". What happened to "Clear"?)Thanks in advance for your help.Jack

Hi,Based on a specific paragraph tag, I would like to add an existing variable (Name and Fmt) as part of the paragraph's text. I am able to add strings as part of paragraph texts at the moment.I was looking up extend scripts to do this, however I am quite not sure how to add a variable. I could only find instances of updating variable values and so on.Any help would be appreciated.Giving a brief overview of my intention: (For example; Variable = "Part Number: 0x404"                            var newpgf = doc.NewSeriesObject(Constants.FO_Pgf, pgf);                             var attribute= doc.GetNamedObject(Constants.FO_VarFmt, "Variable");              &

When I save a structured documents as XML (File -> Save As – XML), messages and errors appear in a Console Pod but are not reflected in the Console Window or in consfile.txt Any help appreciated.

Bonjour,Nous souhaiterions  acheter une licence Framemaker mais nous sommes sur un réseau isolé.Je sais qu'il y a une procédure pour claquer la licence la première fois mais comment faire si on veut transférer la licence sur une nouvelle machine (traitement obsolescence par exemple) ?Est-ce possible sans repayer une licence ?Merci d'avanceCdltGael

I recently updated my Adobe products and now I am receiving an error in FrameMaker 2015 that states "To execute "Save as PDF" command you must have Acrobat Distiller version 5.05 or higher installed." and it will not produce a PDF file for my Book.  In looking in the Adobe site, I see no way of getting the Acrobat Distiller 5.05 version.  Any thoughts on how I should proceed, before I remove and reinstall the software?Thanks!

How about everyone else? I can still set my presets up to 1600%, but can't manually type a value into the box.

I'm currently working for a client in developing and improving their documentation. The project requires an authoring tool that allows you to format documents, organize graphics, and generate HTML5 output. The client wants the final draft as a responsive HTML5 page.I started working on that project using Adobe FrameMaker 2017 a few days ago. I formatted some of the documents and inserted lots of diagrams.As part of the project, I need to link all the diagram parts to external documents (Word, Excel, etc.). The client wants the external documents to open in a new window after clicking the link instead of just downloading them. In my experience, if you click the link to a PPT, Word, etc. it will automatically be downloaded.  I tried using Hotspot to add multiple links to the diagram, but it didn't give me an option to link to external documents. I may be wrong, but I think hotspot only worked for links within the source document or within a page of a website. To test the other links

Hi everyone,I have master pages for my table of contents, and there is a right master page and a left master page. In the master page (aside from fancy headers/footers) there is just a text frame located on the page where the table of contents should be located.Now - when I generate the table of contents, I get the TOC information, but it looks like it is creating a text frame lying on top of the text frame from the master page?? (There are definitely two text frames on top of each other.) This appears to be why my TOC master page mapping is not working.Doesn't the TOC master page need the text frame to know where the text should go?? I am clearly doing something wrong here. Any advice is greatly appreciated.FrameMaker 2015

Dear all,Blanks at the beginning or ending of user variables seem not to be possible any longer.They are removed automatically.Character sets like "\sm" do not work either.Does anybody have a clue?

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Hi All,I am facing a peculiar issue when I import Corel X8 version files into FM12.All the open 'curves' are getting closed with unwanted lines.The process I follow is File > Import > Object > Create from file...Please let me know if any of you have faced a similar issue and if is there a solution to this issue.Thanks,JayaprakashPS: I was using Corel V12 till recently and never faced such an issue.

I have tried almost everything to resolve this issue, which is preventing me from doing anything other than editing files using Framemaker 2015. When I attempt to generate a PDF from a book, I get the same message in a pop up. The document(s) contain linked Powerpoint and imported tiff images. On opening, I see the popup unavailable fonts message for any document I have created.I have installed/reinstalled/removed/installed the offending font at least 4 times, but have not been able to resolve this issue.Could this problem be related to my use of Arial fonts in the linked Powerpoint slides?It has been YEARS since I used Framemaker, so; I will call me a novice with a deadline on Friday! Please help.Thanks, in advance...

How do I create relative links in a Framemaker document that is output to PDF, which links to an Excel file? My client is asking for a link in the PDF to an Excel file that will reside somewhere on their directory. I want a relative path that will allow for the destination Excel file to be moved, so that the hyperlink to it will not break. An absolute link is too risky.

In the Responsive HTML5 output, when I perform a search, the results which show up in the left pane are simply a list, all called "Training Guide" with the text <Put your header content here>. When you click one of these results the search criteria does show up correctly in the right pane.Two questions:1. How do you edit "Training Guide" to instead list the correct chapter of the content?2. How do you edit the text to, in the words of the software "Put your header content here?Any further insight on this is appreciated.

Hi.I try to create function for remove documents in structure view and have problem. When I create funciton, were I want to stop dragging document in structure view by using F_ApiReturnValue(FR_CancelOperation); I stoped the drag action, but document in my book list disappear. This document shows only when FM is reopened.I have already tried redisplay for book, deselect element range, but it doesn't help.Are there any other options?Thanks.

Hi,I am opening a pagemaker document (.pmd) using trial version of Framemaker 12.0. It opens and is fantastic. I then convert this file into a html as that is my goal. Now I see lot of other text in the converted html. I do not see these text in the Framemaker window when I open the .pmd file. Where can I uncover these hidden texts?Another problem that I am facing is that the conversion order gets jumbled on its own. I am not sure if there is any numbering that the Framemaker follows in doing the conversion. But I see the heading at the end of the article. How to rectify this and get the document right after conversion to html?I would like to know how to copy a frame with text inside and paste it in another framemaker document. This means I have opened an existing .pmd file in Framemaker. Now I open a new blank file and try to copy a frame with content and place it in the new blank document that I opened. How do I do this? Sorry for asking multiple questions in one thread. As all these

I have a document wherein the table numbers are out of sequence and I cant change them nor edit them. These are numbers that are automatically assigned when you put in a new table. However, I copied pasted a table from another document and it may be carrying over the properties from the original document. What do I do?