FrameMaker

I am maintaining and updating a small list of developers, designers etc, who specialize in Adobe FrameMaker. It can be found here:   https://framemaker.dk/en/good-plugins-utilities-for-adobe-framemaker   If you know of other companies/persons/software etc, which you think worthy of an inclusion, please let me know, and I shall include them.

I am using Adobe TCS with FM 17.0.4.628When I publish a FM book to HTML5, MiniTOCs are pubplished as text instead of links. When I inserted the MiniTOC I have selected the option "Create Hypertext Links". This works fine in pdf but not in HTML5.How can I solve this?Thank you and best regards;Rainer

We are trying to reconstruct documentation that was developed in FrameMaker but we only have the PDF output. We can use Acrobat to convert PDF to DOCX which works well and we get the cross references working in Microsoft Word. When we try to open the docx in FrameMaker, the application crashes. If support is intersted we can share the document to reproduce the crash. If we try to import a much smaller version of our DOCX,  we can see that the cross references  are not correclty imported., the markers are there, but the cross references are all broken. If there is a better way to recostruct the FrameMkaer files from the PDF we would love to hear. It seems bizare that Microsoft Word does a better job importing from the PDF. ThanksIvan Pedruzzi       

The footer note is located at the bottom of the page, is there any way to move up to be under the words?

I am trying to change the font color for "Contacting"on page 92 only. However, when I highlighted on the specfic words and change the color from paragraph designer, all the words on the same row is changed as well. How can I change the color for the specific words only? 

How can I move the table 1 to left as positioned in the image?

Hello all, I'm using FrameMaker 2022 version 17.0.4 and have an issue with cross-references. I'm writing my FM files both in German and in English. In some of my English language files, some cross-reference links look like this:    '(siehe 11.7 "Control panel" auf Seite 12-9)'    The German, bolded text should be in English. The referenced content is in English. I can't find a method to correct this.  Most of the cross-references are in the correct language, i.e. English, but some will have to be corrected.    Grateful for any help!    

 Console error is shown .... even thoughi remove the unavilbe font... how this error affect my document .... please anyone can  explain

What software are you using? Which version?   See https://community.adobe.com/t5/framemaker-discussions/getting-problem-to-genrate-pdf/td-p/14766222

 what is this error...  2. tp concvert .fm file of frame maker  to PDF..  is Adobe PDF paid software is required or not... getting problem to generate PDF in frame maker   See https://community.adobe.com/t5/framemaker-discussions/getting-problem-to-genrate-pdf/td-p/14766222  

Hello, I have a problem which I have not found any solutions to yet. I have an XML file that looks like this <root> <firstelement> <text>content</text> <description>content</description> <secondelement> <text><variable>variable</variable>content</text> <description> </secondelement> </firstelement> </root>I wrote an XSLT to transform this into a flat hierarchy so I can display it as table. My problem is that I may be too inexperienced with XSLT or my googlefu is not strong enough but I haven't found a way to transform the <variable> elements & their content into <!ENTITY> elements.Is it even possible to do this with XSLT? Thank you for any help.

Can FrameMaker connect to Sharepoint 2019?  

I have a ditamap with about 40 topics, and each has or should have a ShortDesc element. I want to review and (where needed) edit all of these ShortDesc elements to make them more consistent. How do I do this? 

I want to use a date in my FM (2022) document - it will be a user-entered date - in a process document. The user would specify how many days it takes to complete a specific process. The aim is to say that if you start Process A on the 1st of July, and the process takes 2 days to complete, you should start on Process B on the 3rd of July. Process B takes 1 day to complete, so Process C should start on the 4th of July, and so on... The aim is that the content writer would specify the duration (in days) of each process. When producing the final document, they would update the start date for the first process and the start date of all subsequent processes would be updated accordingly. Without using an scripts, is this possible through the use of Variables? I am using Structured FrameMaker, so could do something with Attributes in the EDD, though I'm not sure how practical that would be - if it's even possible. Suggestions for the experts?

Bonjour, J'ai une licence pour la version 17 de 2022 mais je voudrais pouvoir télécharger et installer la version 14 de 2017Ou si il existe un convertir V17 vers V14Je dois abosluement faire des fichiers .fm V14 de 2017 

I have a ditamap with several nested topics describing different products. When I run my ditaval, it filters correctly at the root map level and inside of topics but it does not filter nested topics.I've tried rejigging the ditaval file to both exclude all but my desired property or only include my desired property. Neither works.Help, please. Wanda

Bonjour, Comment faire pour enregistrer en version 2017 à partir de la dernière version 17.0.4.628 acquis en 2024 Merci d'avance

Problem:  I have FrameMaker 2020 version 16.0.4.1062.    ­­­­­­­I have a book that contains 404 pages and many chapters.  The first page of every chapter starts at 1 and I can’t get it to continue numbering.  I have set the variables "page # of 404 " on each master page.   I have followed all the suggestions currently in the forum with no avail.  I have performed the following” Right-clicked individually on a  few  chapters in the book and then clicked Numbering. On the Chapter tab, I clicked the Continue Numbering from Previous Chapter in Book radio button. I did this to a number of chapters in sequence then updated the book.  The chapters did not renumber as expected and continue to individually start at 1. On a few individual chapters on the master pages, I highlighted the Current page number variable and then clicked Format àDocumentàNumbering, the Continue numbering from the previous chapter radio button is set.  I updat

I have a book where I need to work with Section/Subsection variables, but I can't make them work. The tabs for Section and Subsection are inactive. I have added the variable both to master pages and to paragrah styles, but the tabs stay inactive. Volume, Chapter, Page, Footnote work as they should. Is there something here I don't understand or is this a bug? FrameMaker Version: 17.0.4.628, Win 11      

Hi all, it's good to be back.I'm very familiar with Frame 4, 6, 7 and 8 from my days as Tech Writer before retiring 9 years ago.  My next private writing project needs Frame but  some behavior 4 or 5 revs down the road still puzzles me. Specifically, Frame inserts a gap of about 1 inch between the body text and the footnotes any time the footnote (or footnotes) exceeds four lines of text. A paragraph can rattle along, get to an EOL then boom!  Frame inserts the gap, cites the footnotes (correctly) then creates an ophan on the next page to finish the paragraph. Changing the orphan/widow protection has no effect.  I found the frame attributes dialog for that master page but there didn't seem to be anyway to control the gap.  But maybe I'm looking in the wrong place.  Everything seems to have moved around in 9 years.... 😉 And yes, this won't occur unless the footnote(s) exceed(s) 4 lines.  The gap disappears (as does the orpha

Hi Folks, Im trying to streamline out in house processes and have concluded (with the help of this community) that automating some of our basic steps would be the way to go. Below is the process when we get our files back from the translation company of the part i think we can improve on.Now the issue is i need a script to relink text insets to updated files, currently i have to point it in the direction of the folder for say 'Hydraulic Pin adjustment.fm' and relink it to the relevant language like this 'Hydraulic Pin adjustment_ES.fm' and so on with each language. If i could just singly click a link to connect that to the correct path&file name that would be a huge time saver for us. Currently im selecting through the folder structure, which when added up for multiple insets & multiple languages, takes some time.Similarly with our cross references, currently would say '(See hydraulic pin adjustment)'  need to have the word updated, so 'See' is replaced by 'Consulte' follo

Why the table is different when editing? Need to change to preview final only can see clearly on the table design.

Im reviewing our current workflow as its very timeconsuming and would love to hear what other peoples processes are, or even suggestions for improvment. Our general process is as follows:Currently we use framemaker to create the source manual and then send it away to a translation company, they translate it and send it back to us as mifs, which we convert back to framemaker and then reformat it to our standards. We use a lot of text insets which all need to be relinked to the appropriate language file and the cross references need to be reformatted (to use the correct language) and then relinked, its the relinking part of this process that takes a lot of time. In addition to all that you have to carry out the usual processes such as pagination, numbering, creating TOC etc etc. This process for one langauge can take anywhere between half a day to a full day per manual, depending on the size of the manual and experience level of the person doing it. Currently we are not using any xm

Is there currently a built-in scripting/macro capability in FM (Version 17.0.0.226)? I haven't needed any such thing in ~25 years as a user, but I think I might now. Specifically, I need to import large (potentially hundreds of pages) multipage PDFs into individual anchored frames in my book. TIA for any pointers in the right direction....

Hi there.Sorry to bother you with this (seemingly simple) question, but I've tried everything and still can't find the solution.I recently inherited a document and am setting up the files.It's mostly finished, I just need to clean it, PDF, and forward along....except for ONE problem:All the chapters say "Chapter 1"I have tried Format > Document > Numbering, have looked online, and have tried every other method I can think of.Every time I update the book, all the files still say "Chapter 1".Please help!Any advice would be greatly appreciated.Thanks very much.~Chrisps. Please see attached JPEG for reference (I blacked out proprietary info) -thanks again!