FrameMaker

Greetings, Am I correct in assuming that the only way to have figures with captions that float and can be programmatically placed, e.g., at top of column, at bottom of column etc. is to use an anchored frame that is taller than the graphic and insert a text box inside the bottom of the frame? Obviously, I cannot use the "one row table with the table title at bottom" method, since tables cannot float at the same time as they are programmatically placed, e.g., at top of column, at bottom of column etc. Those choices are mutually exclusive. Which - if I'm not missing something - is a major disadvantage that I cannot understand is not fixed yet. And I can neither use an anchored frame with a next para tag for the figure title, as that title is kept with the insertion point and not the programmatically repositioned anchored frame e.g. on the next page. Am I missing any other methods? /Mats

I recently upgraded from V16 to V17. When I've converted my V16 *.fm files to the new version, images that were properly centered on the ouput PDF file pages using "File/Save as PDF..." are now often shifted up and partially off the page using the same command in V17. If I use "File/Print" and direct the output to Adobe PDF the images are correctly located. So far, I'd call this an inconvenience and not a game stopper. But, when I publish the entire book, all images exhibit the location shift up and partially off the page. Any suggestions?

Hello I am having an issue getting my total page count correct (using FM 2020, v16). In the Paragraphs: Page Right, the number is way off. It should be 131 pages total, not what is shown. I think I am using the correct cross reference format (<$paratext>). Is there any way I can manually change that number? How do I get it so that 131 shows up as the total page count and not what I currently see. Thanks for any help you can provide.

Hello,about the text in black : I have set paragraph designer like this :- space before paragraph : 3 pt- space after paragraph : 4 pt My goal would be to have 4 pt inside the paragraph only, and 3pt around the paragraph. Problem : around the paragraph I have :- at the top : 3pt (no problem)- at the bottom : 4 pt (but I would like here to have 3 pt) How to set my paragraph designer "Cantate" in that case ?

去年までフレームメーカ2015を使用していましたが、今年からフレームメーカ2020を使用しています。FM2015では取り込んだグラフィックのファイル名を「オブジェクトの属性」で確認することができましたが、FM2020では、取り込んだグラフィックのパスまでしか確認することができなくなってしまい、業務で大変苦慮しています。どなたかFM2020で取り込んだグラフィックファイル名を簡単に確認する方法がございましたらご教授いただきたくよろしくお願いいたします

I need to publish structured documents to xml. Some of the Headings are created by prefix rules in the EDD. When I publish the document to xml, the headings are missing in the xml.I am a scripting novice to be honest, I have no clue how to get the text out of the prefix rule, which depends on the context. In the FrameMaker scripting guide I found  the following objects which may or may not handle the prefixes- Element.MatchingPrefixClause; of data type Objects (ID of the prefix clause that apply to the element)- ElementDef.PrefixRules; of data type objects (IDs of the prefix format rules)- FmtRuleClause.ElemPrefixSuffix: of data type string (The text of the string)I am able to select the heading element, but how the hell do I get the content of the prefix from there?Any hints appreciated!

A.fmとB.fmの構造図を比較をして差異を見つけたいのですが、そういった機能はございませんでしょうか？よろしくお願いいたします

Good afternoon,I created a named frame on the Reference Page.I added the graphic frame and named it. Then added a text frame inside of the graphic frame.Content was put inside the text frame, from Word, using, File>Import>File.Question is: Can I now change the (imported) text inside the text frame?I am having trouble doing that. With Smart Select, I get a 'black frame,and with Select Tool it is just activating the frame handles.I can't seem to get into the text frame to edit it - I want to change the dates.Thank you,  Vicki 

Good afternoon,I am in the process of re-creating a Word document in Framemaker.Below is a snap shot of a feature in Word that I need to repulicate.I don't know what it is called, so I will describe it:it is a paragraph that has an underscore line, next to the text.Text is then typed over the underscore line, like 'abc'.Can you do this in Framemaker?Thank you, Vicki

We are using FM 2022 and use the Print Book,  Print-to-ps-file & distill method, with Adobe PDF printer and Adobe Disitiller, and are receiving the error message:  %%[Page: 396]%%%%[Page: 397]%%%%[Page: 398]%%%%[Page: 399]%%%%[Page: 400]%%%%[Page: 401]%%%%[Page: 402]%%%%[Page: 403]%%%%[ Error: undefined; OffendingCommand: load ]%%Stack:/S-mark-%%[ Flushing: rest of job (to end-of-file) will be ignored ]%%%%[ Warning: PostScript error. No PDF file produced. ] %% We don't know what would have changed to cause this or how to correct. Can anyone help advise, please? 

Hello.Recently the Publish to PDF routine has been including the paragraph tags in the PDF bookmarks list: This is new behaviour and I'm hanged if I can find where to go to stop it. It's not in the .sts file setup, at least not that I can see.  Anybody have any ideas about this? I really don't want my PDF bookmarks looking like this.  Thanks in advance,Bill 

My team has recently converted to FrameMaker 2022. Our version is up to date, but when I convert a document containing landscape pages to PDF, the header and footer text on the landscape pages becomes jumbled (rotated). Is there a setting I can tweak to correct that?

Is it possible to automate the conversion from MIF to PDF in Gitlab CI/CD using publishing server? Steps:A. Conversion from MIF to PDF from the command line?B. Enable this conversion in Gitlab CI/CD (Possible?)

Hello, colleagues! How can I get rid of the link "Parent topic"?. Where do I need to add "args.rellinks"?

 

Hi, I do not know, when this was introduced, but I find this highly annoying. (I think with FrameMaker 2022 or 2020.) Often I want to move the insertion mark to the beginning or end of a line. E.g. I want to insert a paragraph before the existing paragraph. However, when there are also markers or table anchors at the beginning of the line, I get problems. E.g. the insertion mark is below a paragraph with a marker and I press the left arrow key. Then the insertion mark is at the beginning of the paragraph with the marker and not at the end of the paragraph. You can test this, when you press the left arrow key again (moves to the paragraph above the marker paragraph) or the right arrow key (moves to the right of the marker). When the insertion mark is at the beginning of the marker paragraph and I press the End key, the insertion mark is still at the beginning and is not moved to the end after the marker. For me this is very irritating. When I want to insert a paragraph before a paragrap

I have document with two master pages left and right... Every chapter is started on new page... Some chapters contains only one page of data... when i save that single page chapter after clicking on save one blank page is atumatically added at the end. when i delete this page  foramt>document >delete page . page will deleted and when i save that new updated file blank page is added....

While try to creating PDF of book 

Hello,I am a technical writer with a moderate knowledge of Framemaker. I am doing a conversion project for a client (FM to ST4).  Last weeks I work from home and the performance of FM dropped dramatically. It takes 1-4 minutes to open a .fm file. Scrolling through a .fm file (no matter how big: from 4-60 pages) is very slow: you watch the page building up almost line by line.When I work in the office it's working fine.At home I have no problems with other applications, also the heavier apps like Inventor, I can open several models and work on it without problems.The client is a small company with an IT department of 1 person, who is willing to help but he says he cannot do anyrhing because the FM application is running locally on my laptop.I'm looking for advice. Is there anything we can do for better performance?Thank you in advance,Liduine 

Does any one know how to install a Webworks Rasterizer printer? I know it will automatically installed after the ePublisher Designer software, but mine just don't get it. Which makes it impossible to generate .chm file from FrameMaker. 

Hello,when I do Ctrl+P, in the windows that opens, I don't find any option to print on both sides. Why ? Is it a simple way to do that ?

I am marking up and editing an old, poorly written FM document and I need to highlight numerous different kinds of problems in the document with different colors. I have absolutely no use for these non-colors taking up room in this dropdown:    Does anyone know how to delete these useless color choices? Thanks!

Hello, I'm using FM 2015 (TCS) and have inserted quite a few comment markers in the book's files. When generating the PDF I expected to see these comments as comment notes in the PDF file, but this isn't the case. None of these comment markers appear. (There is no condition applied to these markers and there's no problem in generating a LOM with these comments.)Are there any specific settings that need to be enabled to include these comments in the PDF output in their actual context?Will greatly appreciate any advice.Thanks, Donna

On longish pages that have multiple headings within them, I'm finding that if a referenced heading is partway down the page, clicking on the cross ref (from a different page) jumps to the top of the page containing the heading, rather than to the heading's location. This is going to be pretty confusing for users who won't know that the heading they're looking for is further down the page. Does anyone have any advice? I can only assume that we'll have to rejig the heading levels so that each referenced heading is on the top of a page to prevent this happening.

Dear friends, Appreciate if anyone could kindly advise whether FrameMaker 2020 and 2022 is compatibile with Windows 11 please? Thanks all & best regards, ST