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Please forgive if this has been asked previously ... as always the case, the timing couldn't be worse and I have a book due to print.My colleague made a pdf of this 1,000+ page book, and Frame gave him a message indicating it ran out of memory. This has happened before.What hasn't happened before: Every file in the book now crashes Frame on open. Even the backup files in the same folder crash it.  Files for another book work just fine.For what it's worth (not much, I know) the error codes on my system and the ones on his system are totally different. Help if you can, please!

I am trying to widen the dashed frame in which my text appears in the image below?  How do I do this?

Hi,I inherited a very large FrameMaker document that was originally created in FrameMaker 9. The person had a complex (and ridiculous) system of importing the Frame book into Madcap Flare to generate the Help File (and it usually took 3 to 4 tries to make it work).I purchased FrameMaker 2015 so that I could publish the Help file straight from FrameMaker. However, it has been 6 weeks and I still haven't successfully managed to publish.The Book consists of about 20 chapters. There were thousands of cross-references, several conditional Tags, and quiet a few variables. When I attenpt to publish, it will get a few chapters deep, then it just hangs.If I remove all the files from the book and attempt to publish a few files at a time, I'm successful. However, there are a few files that still won't publish, even on their own. The pop-up appears and says it is converting, but it goes on forever.I originally thought it might be an issue with the number of cross-references or conditions, so I rem

HelloI've been using FM for 18 years at my job.   I use different versions of FM.  This issue is happening on FM9.I recently noticed that my smart quotes are not working.When I hit the quotation mark key, a question mark is displayed instead.I remember this happened once before but I can't remember how I fixed it.The font I'm using is Helvetica. I've tried changing to Arial and Times New Roman and still get the same results.If I find an existing smart (curly) quote in the document, I can copy and paste it to the desired location.  But I cannot create a new curly quote.Please help!ThanksGary

Hi there,Frame 2015 comes with DITA Open Toolkit 2.1. I would like to use OT 2.3 because it supports additional languages for PDF transformations. I know how to modify 'ditafm.ini' to make Frame use another OT. But I don't know if Frame would work with OT 2.3 or newer. Has anybody tried this?Best,X el 7

Hi,with the publishing menu in FrameMaker 2015 (under files) I try to create a responsive HTML5 help output from a ditamap file. You can see that FM is using a tempory book file during the creation process. After a while FM comes up with the error message "FrameMaker book files could not be found".When I try to create a responsive HTML5 help from the example book "Personal Spaceship User Guide - EN-US.book" (C:\Program Files (x86)\Adobe\AdobeFrameMaker2015\beispiel\UserGuide(Arabic,English,Hebrew)\English) there will be no error message.Is it not possible to make from a ditamap directly an responsive HTML5 output via the publish pod? Any hints? The output path is working because of the functional by the example book.Thank youApollo102

I meet all of the min. sys req for installing FM15. I have downloaded it and tried to install it more times than I can count, both on a laptop and a desktop both running Windows 7 with Service Pack 1. It appears to be installing, as it chugs along for 30 or more minutes. At the end, I get a message saying that it couldn't install with a link to an error summary file which doesn't exist. I have Creative Cloud and InDesign on my computer, perhaps there is an incompatibility. I am beyond frustrated.

BeackgroundI have a few old documents (~150) that are having issues. When opening these documents one graphic file cannot be found. I know this file was not checked into our source control system, therefore it's missing.I can see the name of the missing file, for the moment I skip the dialog and continue.I don't have the file (since it was not checked in) so I want to delete it from the document and insert a new one.If I run a LOR/Imported Graphics I see file is located on page 42. If I navigate to that page I don't see the expected gray box to indicate the missing file.I run the script below and I get that the file is located in an unanchored frame, that I cannot see.Question:Is there a way to select either the graphic or the unanchored frame in order to delete it? Thanks for any ideas...var oDoc, oGraphic, oFrame;oDoc = app.ActiveDoc;oGraphic = oDoc.FirstGraphicInDoc;if(oGraphic.ObjectValid()){    //good to go     while (oGraphic.ObjectValid()) {&nb

I can't find reference to this question anywhere on the forum, in the online help, or the printed help, so perhaps the answer is so easy that people don't need to ask??I have moved the location of a book file with regard to it's fm files. So, now that the file names show with the ? icon next to them when I open the book, isn't there a way to tell FrameMaker to look in a different folder instead of adding all of the files again?Thanks in advance! If there is a way this will make my Friday!Diane

Dear friends and experts!To avoid one (or more) of the special effects reported in this forum Klaus Göbel proposes to unregister the script when it is closed. But: when is the script closed?I did not get a formal education in interactive programming, hence I have no real clue about the process: what is calling what. My programming experience is in procedural languages starting with Fortran in the 1960ies. Please point me to a document describing all this - the Scripting Guide does not tell. And of course JavaScript books don't either.The only sample script using Notify is FM_Suppress_Alerts.jsx and this is absolutely simplistic.My understanding is this:Starting the script registers it - 'purchases' a watch dog (IMHO not the same as registering an FDK client).After starting the script it establishes the menu and configures the watchdog called Notification.Within FM there is a nother watchdog barking at (the cat) Command when a menu item is selected.Command calls the appropriate routine

I downloaded the trial version of FrameMaker 2015. When I run the installer, I get the message "adobe extractor has stopped working." After I close the dialog box, Windows give me an exception message "EOleSysError in module Framemaker_13_LREFDJ.exe at 0078171. The specified module could not be found." How do I get this to work?

Hi, all.It seems that some settings we make in the Publish Settings do not travel with the settings file (or anywhere else in the project files). Can that be right?This is the situation: We use FM 2015 to save to PDF and output to .chm format.When we generate .chm files, we need to override our H1-H4 heading formats because they are right-aligned as side heads for the PDF. We need them to be left-aligned in our online help topics.Therefore:I go to the  Publish/Settings/Edit/Style Mapping window, select one of the headings, such as H1, I click the Edit Style button and select Block.I set text-align to Left.I save the change.I put the entire working directory onto our shared drive, and my fellow tech writer copies the files to his hard drive.When he generates .chm help, the left-aligned setting does not come through. The same H1-H4 are still right-aligned.It seems impossible that the setting overrides are not stored in the settings file, but they don't seem to be. Does anyone have a

My List of Figures in Figure 1 - 1 text, Figure 1 - 42 textMy Captions are Figure I - 1 text, Figure II - 1 etcI either need to have captions numbered from previous section of LOF to be divided by Section. Any advice?

I'm using structured FM2015 DITA 1.2. All the templates (and other fm files) in the following folders and sub folders are set to A4:\Structure\xml\DITA\outputTemplates\\Structure\xml\DITA_1.2\app\When I print (File>Save as PDF) an individual topic, the PDF print setting dialog opens with width 210.0 mm  Height: 297.0 mm, which is what I expect.When I print a ditamap, the PDF print setting dialog opens with width 215.9 mm mm  Height: 279.401 mm, which translates as US Letter (8.5" x 11'').When I switch to document view, and view the page layout, the map opens using the correct template (A4).The PDF job settings are set to A4.It is easy enough to change this to A4, in the PDF Print Settings dialog, however, I'd like to know where the US Letter size is coming from.CheersPeter

We would like to purchase "Adobe Framemaker 11". Where can we purchase it from ? Adobe website ?

My document has lots of math equations and everytime I need to add a small Greek letter Mu I get the following error:Please help!

Dear experts(FM-13.0.5.547) I have discovered a strange behaviour:In the following order the location is not restored after the actions. It seems that SetDisplay destroys it:  SetDisplay (false);  savedTR = goCurrentDoc.TextSelection;// Do a lot of things (loop) on various places in the document  RestoreTR (goCurrentDoc, savedTR);  SetDisplay (true);In the following order things work as expected. Cursor location is restored.  savedTR = goCurrentDoc.TextSelection;  SetDisplay (false);// Do a lot of things (loop) on various places in the document  SetDisplay (true);  RestoreTR (goCurrentDoc, savedTR);The two functions arefunction RestoreTR (oTargetDoc, oSavedTR) {// actions may have left us on a reference pagevar bodyPage = oTargetDoc.FirstBodyPageInDoc;    oTargetDoc.CurrentPage = bodyPage;    oTargetDoc.TextSelection = oSavedTR;    oTargetDoc.ScrollToText(oSavedTR);  } //--- end RestoreTR function SetDisplay (bW

I am working on a medical device user manual, 3-columns per page, and there are many warnings and precautions that are set up as tables so that a caution icon can appear to the left of the Warning/Caution text in the first row. Subsequent rows are a different para format.I need these tables to extend to the bottom of a column before breaking, which is not the behavior I'm seeing. Can anyone help? I'm having the same problem with some of my other paragraph styles. So they look like this:Row1 Col1 <cool caution icon> Row1 Col2 WARNING -> para format for these both set to orphans=1, no keep with next/prev setRow2 - columns are straddled and the specific warning content may go on for 10-15 lines since it is a 3-column format. -> this para format set to orphans =2, no keep with next/prev set.The table itself has orphan rows = 2, but this is clearly not what is happening. Can anyone think of any other reason these are not breaking properly? Thanks in advance!!

My Problem is, that it´s not possible to convert  a "table of content" of an unstructured-document into a PDF/X-1a:2001 file. Everytime I try to convert, The system stops at the end without a new PDF - but following report i9s create: <PDFX ISO="15930-1:2001" COMPLIANT="false">PDF/X Compliance Report1.  Content   [Violation] Annotations were found inside the BleedBox, TrimBox, or ArtBox on the following pages:      Page 3, Occurrences: 30      Page 4, Occurrences: 35      Page 5, Occurrences: 35      Page 6, Occurrences: 6   Violations: The total found in this section was 106.2.  Summary   Warnings: The total found in this document was 0.   Violations: The total found in this document was 106.   This document does not pass PDF/X-1a:2001 compliance checks.</PDFX>%%[ Warning: Did not pass PDF/X compliance tests. N

FM is corrupting my files when I save a book, leaving temp .fm files, sometimes losing the .fm completely. FM also crashes when I do book updates. It's happened on three separate projects, all using very different templates. All unstructured. I'm on Win10. I've replicated the problems on all three of my Win10 machines, a Surface Pro 3, a Surface Pro 4 and a desktop. I recently rebuilt my Surface Pro 4, so it's completely clean and standard. My projects are stored in Dropbox, but the problem also appears when located on the local disk. No idea what's going on. Help!

I can't find a way to do this, and am wondering if such a beast exists.While editing document(s), press CTRL+F to display Find/Change panel.Enter appropriate options and click Find.The document advances to the next instance of the content being searched for, and the content is highlighted. Keyboard focus is still in the Find/Change panel.At this point, I decide that I want to edit the text in the document. The only way I can find to change focus to the document is to move my cursor onto the doc and click at the point I want to work.QUESTION: Is there a keyboard shortcut that will allow me to switch focus to the highlighted content in the document, rather than using the mouse to reposition the cursor?Thanks!

I need to expand the size of the footer, on the master page. the default is set for 1 line. How can I increase the footer to display 2 lines of text

Hi, all.My book file converts to PDF successfully if RGB is selected but fails when CMYK is selected. Unfortunately, RGB colors are distorted and CMYK colors are correct.I will re-establish the colors as RGB values if I have to, but that affects other single-sourcing output ...Any advice?Thanks.

I'm using gotolink/newlink to create custom cross-references. It's working just fine for all but two of my documents (the error message is telling me that the document doesn't exist). Upon inspection, it looks like the "gotolink..." is truncating (omitting characters from) the path. This is my best guess as to why it's not working. The path is, otherwise, precise.Any help would be appreciated.Thanks!

When I try to work together with my colluague in Germany, we can exchange the .fm file via dropbox. But then FM can't find the images and saves the file at the end without them.Opening the file on my pc I see only grey frames instead of the pictures. As it is a catalogue with hundreds of pictures, it is impossible to put them in again one after the other.Is there any possibility to avoid this problem?