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Hi all,I have a question about how to implement HTML-like sidenotes.Here is my attempt to create a sidenote in FrameMaker (using Side Head-Alignment option). As you can see, the sidenote is colored into olive color:But I want this:In the start of my post I call it "HTML-like sidenotes" because it may be easily made by HTML tables.May be you ask me, why I want such thing? The answer is:That's because sometimes every paragraph has it's own sidenote, and so, I want to see a clean visual relationships between each paragraph and it's sidenote, i.e. Paragraph1--Sidenote1, Paragraph2--Sidenote2, Paragraph3--Sidenote3, and so on.Has anybody succeeded in making this?

I have recently updated to FM 2015. When I open an older FM11 file (DITA 1.2) and export the EDD then I cannot import it any more even if I have made no changes.My assumption is that the EDD structure might have changed in FM2015?Addition: The error message also appears when I try to import the EDD into any other file, also a newly created document.

This problem happened once before and cleared up after several restarts. I've installed the latest patch, and I still cannot open my FM files. The computer freezes.

I have taken over some documentation from an individual with no training in FM.  They made multiple AutoNumbering paragraph styles, and it is a mess. Going through their documents manually to find all of their AutoNumbering formats is quite time consuming.Is there a method to just pull the AutoNumbering formats and formatting data regarding such? Heck, even just a list of the Paragraph Styles they made that use AutoNumbering would be a good start.Thanks!A

With FM 2015 the hyperlinks between files in a book don't map correctly when saving as HTML. Hyperlinks between points in a file are fine and links to external URLs are OK. Also, when I save the book as a PDF file the hyperlinks to other files in the book are fine. Any suggestions or is this an FM bug?

Hi in my FMClient I have the following method for checking if API is alive: bool FMClient::IsConnected() { return F_ApiAlive() > 0; } After I connect to FM with F_ApiStartUp the IsConnected method returns true. However, If the user closes the FM application then this method still continue returns true. How can I check if the FM application is alive and the FMClient is connected with it? Should I run and test an API call? e.g. Try to get the current active document or something else?

I'm using FrameMaker 13, as a part of Adobe TCS. I have created a book in standard Frame, no structured content. Track Edits has never been used with this content.The book was generating fine without complaint until this morning (4/13/2016) after Adobe applied updates to TCS. Now I see a "Book is not self-consistent" message. After reading some other posts, I experimented with the Update box and discovered that it's the cross-reference update that's causing the problem. I went through the book (which is only about 20 pages) and replaced all the cross-references. I still get the message.It would seem obvious that the updates caused the problem. Does anyone know a solution?Thanks.

G'Day guys,So as the topic header states, we have a 4 volume document, 400+ pages that I'm told were originally created in Framemaker. We have to make amendments to this document as it doesn't contain all the material we need it to, however, we don't posses the original Framemaker files - only .PDF versions. My question is are we able to reverse engineer this document by using Framemaker somehow?It consists of a working navigation menu / contents at the beginning of the document and this is the main issue we are having trying to edit it in word. When we add a new page to the document it doesn't adjust page numbers. footers etc etc because we have lost this in the conversion from .PDF to .doc/.docxI hope this makes sense, any extra info needed let me know. I just want to find out if purchasing a copy of Framemaker could allow me to make this ammendments myself or if I'm going to have to pay a page designer to rewrite this document.Thanks in advanceTrent

Hi,     I take over to maintain the document that is implemented by FrameMarker today, so I download the trial version to see if I can edit this document before I decide to buy formal version. but I found the .pdf converted by trial version is different to original .pdf...     I am wondering if this issue happened only on trial version and it will work fine on formal version?BELOW is original .pdfBELOW is .pdf converted by Trial VersionThank you for your feedback in advance....

Hi All,I am unable to print the Book because one of the Chapter has Unavailable Fonts issue.How can I find those Text or Paragraph that uses unavailable fonts???It is only one page document, and I reapplied Paragraph Tags to all the lines, yet I have not been able to figure this one out.Thanks.

You know, my favorite errors ar typos... but I have not found any in my codet. So I hope You see my error.I have settings stored in paragraphs of a reference page and want to replace them from contents of an array.At line 6 fo the code snipped the alert displays that replaceString contains 5 lines.Leaving debug mode after line 7 displays that the current content is selectedHowever, after performing line 9 nothing is inserted - the paragraph is empty// var tr is defined in a subroutinevar replaceString  = "";for (j = 0; j < gasUserVariables.length; j++) {  replaceString = replaceString + "\n" + gasUserVariables;   // \n gives new paragraphs}alert (replaceString);targetDoc.TextSelection = tr;                 // some ¶s excluding last ¶-marktargetDoc.Clear(0);                     &nbs

Since I have updated to CorelDRAW X8, the illustrations suddently are shown as wireframes in FrameMaker. I import the illustrations as "objects from a file", as I ude to do. How can this be - and would it help to update FrameMaker also and what version should I choose? I realy hope, someone are able to help me Thanks in advance /Eva

Hi gang,I've got a simple question that is oddly vexing.  I have some page inserts that need to have a "dot number" added to the page number, e.g., 1-1.1, 1-1.2, 1-1.3, etc.  I currently use the <$chapnum>-<$curpgnum> for page number; I just need to add .1, .2,  etc, to the end.  There has to be a simple variable for this, right?  If not, how do I create a variable that does it?Thanks in advance,-terry-

I exported a file into HTML5, but the resolution of all pics in the file become very low...When I exported into PDF, it was okay. So I guess it should be setting of Publish functionality. If you know how I can set up, please let me know!!

Hey gang,Is there a way to create a custom fill pattern for FrameMaker?  I'm working on an emergency procedures manual and the pages have a heavy diagonal line pattern framing the content around the border of the page.  FrameMaker's diagonal Fill pattern is what I want, but with a 10-pt stroke (see below).  I don't know any way to do this other than to create the frame I want in another program and import it as a graphic.  Any ideas?-terry-

We recently got new laptops and upgraded to FM13 from FM 11. I noticed 1's or 6's that are where I'd expect to see cross reference source markers. Since I couldn't manually delete them, but they would disappear if I turned off the text symbols option, I'm guessing those numbers are displayed instead of the expected symbols because I'm missing a font.Does anyone know what font Adobe uses form its cross-reference markers?Thanks!Barry Jorden

I am having a "unavailable fonts" problem. I am developing a template for Users' Guides, using unstructured Frame12.My company uses "Metric" as its company font; the entire metric family (Metric Black, Bold, Light, Medium, Regular,  Semibold, and Thin) are all installed correctly and all fonts are available in the font list. In the font pod, none of the fonts used in the files are unavailable. They're all from the Metric family, Courier New, and Symbol. None of these fonts show that they are missing or have been replaced with something else.When I go to update my generated files in the TOC, I get the error that FM cannot open the file because of unavailable fonts. I have tried everything I can think of, including saving each chapter as a MIF file and changing back to a FM file. The last time I shut down and went so far as re-booting, the FrameMaker console showed a number of replacements... which make no sense.What could possibly be going on here?1. Font Pod2. Book Error Report3.

Does FrameMaker 12 work with Windows 10?

Actually, it's ALL of the Proxima Nova Condensed fonts, except for Proxima Nova Condensed (i.e., not thin, extrabold, etc.), that won't distill.______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________I'm using the Proxima Nova font family as synced fonts from Adobe CC. They work fine except for one typeface: Proxima Nova Condensed Black. I get an error message every time I try to distill a file to PDF from a Framemaker file that uses that specific font.Here is the message:%%[ ProductName: Distiller ]%% %%[ Error: invalidfont; OffendingCommand: definefont; ErrorInfo: StemSnapV --nostringval-- ]%%  Stack: /Font -dict- /ADCFAA+ProximaNovaCond-Black   %%[ Flushing: rest of job (to end-of-file) will be ignored ]%% %%[ Warning: PostScript error. No PDF file produced. ] %%Plans are in the works to purchase the font family and install the fonts locally (Windows 7), but in the meantime, I'm trying to print usin

I've never tried to do this before, but now that I do it seems it can't be done. I'd like to wrap a text range (tagged with a character style) in two elements. Let's say I've got a character style called "bold-italic" and I want to wrap it in .. "b" and "i" elements ..     <i><b>bold italic text</b></i>I'd expect this conversion table to do the job ..Wrap this objectIn this elementWith this qualifierC:bold-italicbbiE:b[bi]i.. but it doesn't seem to work.Am I doing something wrong ot is this a known limitation?Thanks!...scott

Hello everybody, if I want to convert back a FM file into a MIF, is it sufficient to rename the file extension or must be done through the "Save As" function of FM. A) What is the difference at the end? The simple renaming worked perfectly for us. A customer calls and said that the "Book Update" do not working anymore. B) What is the problem or what could be the cause? To convert multiple files at once is not possible with FM12 C) Does anyone know of a script or tool to convert multiple files simultaneously? Thanks for notes and best regards

Will FrameMaker 8 work on Windows 10, 64-bit system? Will I still be able to edit files/books and create PDFs?Also, okay suggest best alternatives, if interested.Thanks,Roger

Hello FrameHive,I am interested in editing the underlying the underlying structure of a generic EDD. More specifically, I would like to add nested formatting and structure rule options to a context rule. For example, in my table definition I want to make the InitialStructurePattern rule context sensitive, as shown below:I know that I have seen at least one tutorial video from Tom Aldous or one of the other greats that mentions the file that defines the underlying EDD structure, but I can't pinpoint it in the FM folders. Does anyone know where this file is located?

I am using FrameMaker and the CMS feature to check documents out of our SharePoint repository at work. I can check documents out and edit them after I have logged into the repository manager. I edit my document but then when I right click on the document in the repository manager to check it back in, the "check in" option is grayed out or not selectable. Does anybody know what I have to do to correct this? I have the correct permissions to the SharePoint directory since I am the one who created the directory in the first place.I thank you for your help!

Hello,I have the following code. I'm attempting to parse a document and search for specific keywords based on regex. This part is working. I then get the text range for those keywords and highlight the text. This works. What doesn't work is when I try to do the same thing in text that is in a Table Cell. #target framemakervar doc = app.ActiveDoc;var totalPgfs = 0;var pgf = doc.MainFlowInDoc.FirstTextFrameInFlow.FirstPgf;function do_table_work(pgf){    var result = pgf.GetText(Constants.FTI_TblAnchor);    var all_text = '';    for (var i = 0; i < result.length; i += 1) {        var t_object = result.obj;        var t_cell = t_object.FirstRowInTbl.FirstCellInRow;        while(t_cell.ObjectValid()){            var cell_items = t_cell.GetText(Constants.FTI_String);   &nb