FrameMaker

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?

I have a FM file that I need to set the text to a specific CMYK colour (90-0-49-0).I have set this colour in FM, however when I print my PDF file - the CMYK values are changed.I understand this is because FM runs the file through the Windows printer driver that converts to RGB.Is there a fix for this issue in the more recent versions of FM?If not - does anyone know how I can get FM to produce a PDF without changing my CMYK colour values?I am using FM 7.2.Thank you.

Waar kan ik de installatiecode van framemaker 11 vinden zodat ik deze op een andere pc kan gebruiken?Ik heb een  nieuwe pc gekregen en wil framemaker opnieuw installeren

Usually I have found FrameMaker's Unicode support to be pretty good, but today I wanted to use a character in the "Mathematical Alphanumeric Symbols" range (effectively just an italic serif capital I, to indicate current in an engineering expression) and it didn't appear to work... I found the character using the "BabelMap" careware utility, Paste-specialled it into Frame, and applied Microsoft's Cambria Maths font to it... and Frame still stubbornly just displayed it as a "?".This Unicode range was introduced in 2001! I'd have thought Frame would support it by now... /sighs/

Dear friends,It's quite easy to set up a new character format with 'all AsIs', but I have not found the necessary ingredients to set up one with particular properties:a) name = superscript:     all AsIs, but superscriptb) name = highlight:         all AsIs, but a colour (from the standard set)Hence I had the idea to call the Character Designer by means of F-codes.Well - it opens, but I do not see how to set the dialogue to "All AsIs" - because the user normally has its cursor somewhere in the document and the really defined properties are only seen if the cursor is outside the document.So far I'm here:function DefineCharFmt (sName, oDoc, bProperty) {var charFmt = 0, fcode = [],  msg;    msg = "Character format '" + sName + "' does not exist in catalogue\nShall it be created?";  charFmt = oDoc.GetNamedCharFmt (sName);    if (!charFmt.ObjectValid()) {        &

Dear friends,After opening a panel (wPalC) from the menu the focus is (of course) on the panel.a) Before working in this panel, the user may want to open another panel wPalS (by means of a keyboard shortcut).The focus should be back in the document for this.b) If the user choses to work in the already open panel - no problem: Either he uses the immediate focus or as soon as he does anything there the focus is there. For example tool tips are displayed on hover, no click required.But I have not found a method to get the focus into the document for case a).I have this function which works fine in other circumstances:function SetFocusToDoc (oDoc) { var tRange = oDoc.TextSelection;  oDoc.ScrollToText (tRange);} //--- end SetFocusToDocBut whether I place the call to this routine at places 1), 2) or 3) - no success. The shortcut will not be executed (no "ping" though):function Command (cmd) {  switch (cmd) {//  ...      case 5:     

Using FM 12.0I'm a coder so coding is not the issue here. It's just my lack of familiarity with FM ExtendScript and the art of the possible.I want to create a script thatInserts a marker of a custom type called Editorial Changes. We can safely assume that this marker type (Editorial Changes) exists already.Displays an advanced marker window: Please see the mock-up window below. Studying sample scripts such as SnpCreateCheckBoxRadioButtons.jsx, I know I can create something like that window, so that's not an issue.Once the user has finished filling the fields, I want to capture the data and store it inside the marker field, say as an XML snippet.Later on, when a user selects a created marker of type "Editorial Changes," I want my script to intercept that event, grab the XML content from the marker and display my custom window with all these fields.Does the sequence outlined through steps 1-4 doable via an ExtendScript? If you've done something like that and have a script lying around, w

Dear friendsFYI:   When working on "Customising FrameMaker 12/13" I was not succesful with keyboard shortcuts for a scipt.In the meantime I discovered Russ Wards post on this forum and his script 100.02__ADVANCED_Create_formatting_shortcuts.So I found the reason why my shortcuts did not work: For ESC sequences the backslash must be escaped!Then I missed the key-label in the menu. I discovered that the menu entry can be appended by a tab and the label:oMenus.MenuDocu = "Documentation\tESC,q,d"; ...FMcalcMenu.DefineAndAddCommand(1,"docFMcalcDocu", oMenus.MenuDocu, "\\!qd");Rick Quatro observed in the mentioned forum post that his CTRL + comma (^,) shortcut does not work. He argued that certain key combinations will not work: "I got some of the letter keys to work, but I couldn't use the punctuation keys. FrameScript still rules :-)".I will update "Customising FrameMaker 12/13" accordingly…Klaus

Hi,I used FrameMaker till 2005 and was pretty good at it.Now I have purchased FM 2015 for some work I am doing.I have some questions about whether and how I can perform certain actions on an entire book or most of it.This is probably pretty basic stuff for experienced users.1. Can I control line numbering for an entire book? Both turning it on and off and controlling it (e.g., color)2. Master page propagation. I want to make changes to master pages and have those changes apply to all the files in the book. Is there a way to exclude certain files from that?3. Similarly, I want to define new character formats and have them appear in the catalogs of all the files in the book.Thanks!Shalom Bresticker

Here's a weird one: updating a book with Frame 2015 (13.0.1.385); the doc has several settings of conditional visibility, plus a couple of imported mifs that are also conditionally visible. While updating, I got an unresolved cross-reference error out of one chapter. The link in the error file went to the first page of that chapter, not to the erroneous cross-reference. Searching for unresolved cross-references produced no results, in the body or master pages. I set the conditional visibility for that chapter to "show all" and updated the book again. I got the expected errors for inconsistent show/hide, but no errors for unresolved cross-reference. I set the show/hide back to the correct settings, updated the book again, and got no errors. This solution scares me - what do I do if it doesn't work? Is there a better answer?

There used to be a way to generate a Graphical Map of the EDD (a utility by www.caxton-inc.com) but this no longer exists. Would anyone know if there is a way to print out the content of a Structure view? Or even a third party product that can be used to do this?

Where are the templates stored? I would like to move our team templates into the templates folder so we can get to them easier, but I can't find it.

I have a MacBook pro running Windows 10 with parallels (all most recent versions). Framemaker 12 works much better than it did in bootcamp, as drivers were always a problem on my MacBook and there was no ability to copy and paste between OSX apps and FM, nor could Framemaker store its files on the OSX side - where backups were easy. I have no problem printing on FM, but I cannot get a good pdf save from FM. I have tried "save as pdf" which appears to lock up the FM application. I also have tried using the pdf printer option and printing. That works fine so long as hyperlinks are not selected, but if they are, it creates a tps file but no pdf. If I try to create a pdf using distiller on the OSX side, it gives me an error message.I have tried changing Parallels to not enable OSX applications, so that the conversion will not default to the OSX side, and I have Acrobat DC on both the Windows and OSX sides. Has any one used Framemaker successfully on a virtual drive and converted to hyperli

Has anyone successfully integrated TCS with a Continuous Integration - Automated Documentation program?As our software developers are building their code, they are submitting information artifacts, in MarkUp format, into a GitHub repository. We manually access the information, groom it in FrameMaker, and  manually update the repository file.  Has anyone developed an automated solution for this process?

I'd like to have my source png images retain their original size in the HTML output. They are scaled in the frame doc.  I'm sure this is a common question, but the only forum post I found suggested a method which does not work. See Are there already experiences with FM 2015, scaling images to its original size in HTML output . The answer suggests there was a bug that was fixed. After reading the post, I updated Framemaker. Version now shows 13.0.1.385. I see the same behavior as before the update: Set width and height to 0pt:  Images don't display. According to the post, this is the correct behavior. However, the docs are incorrect if that is so. Bug. Set size to 100%: Images are scaled to the size in frame and both width and height attributes have pt setting in the HTML output. Set nothing: same result as above (the 100% setting). So, the question is how to I get the HTML output to not set any width or height or style attributes on the image so that they appear the original,

When I save a document to PDF all the spaces between words in text have been removed. Any idea what causes this?

After importing a .docx file – well, sometimes we have to do these things – I was hoping to find empty lines with the (relatively) familiar ^$ wildcard, but all this is managing to locate is empty table-cells. Any hints?

if there are several update releases available, must they all be applied sequentially, or are they cumulative, and only the latest update needs to be applied?

I am working on FrameMaker V12. I want to link the icons with the text given on the same page. The purpose is to highlight the text in a defined color while clicking onto the icon. Please help. Thanks

A typical marker window looks like this:Can I create a custom marker with a window that would like more like the below? Please ignore the grid; this image is a mocked-up marker type done outside of Framemaker.I'm using FM 12 by the way.