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I have converted a small FM9 book to FM12.  The TOC will not update with the FM12 template TOC file.  Has anyone else encountered this problem? Any tips would be greatly appreciated.

I imported an .eps file (a bar code) into FrameMaker and found that the resulting PDF omitted everyting but the .eps image.  How do I get FrameMaker to recognize the text and images in the .fm file as well as the layered .eps file image in the output PDF file? To test this, I also converted the .eps file (in PhotoShop) to a TIFF, GIF, JPG and PSD and imported each into the FrameMaker doc and created a PDF. When I imported the .psd file into .fm and PDFd it, all the text and images of the .fm file appeared, but the bar code had poor resolution.When I imported the TIFF file into .fm and PDFd it, nothing appears in the PDF except the bar code image and the text frame it's linked to. The barcode has poor resolution.With a JPG image, everything appears in the PDF but the barcode has poor resolution.With a GIF image, everything appears in the PDF but the barcode has poor resolution.

Hi all,I'm wondering if anyone knows how to easily remove all instances of a particular character format (say, "Hypertext") from a document. Using the Find/Change tool, I can easily search for the character tag "Hypertext" and try to change it to a different character format, but the only option that FM gives is to create a new character format, and even when applied the text changes but the Hypertext character tag is still applied.The only way I've been able to achieve the desired goal is to search for the Hypertext character tag (which selects the text where it is applied) and then click the "Default Font" in the character catalog, which removes the tag. But I must do this for every instance of Hypertext formatting. Am I missing something here? It seems like this shouldn't be that difficult, but I can't figure it out. Any help is greatly appreciated!

I have recently started working at a company where we use FrameMaker to create our documentation and have been tasked with finding out how to turn the books that we write into web pages. I have tried saving the book files as HTML or XML files and converting the PDFs into HTML and XML. All of these has created a page that has poor formatting and doesn't reflect the original document very well. I have tried to edit the reference pages without any success, and editing via Notepad presented me with a wall of text and code that was unreadable.Are there any options of better ways to create a web page from FrameMaker whilst keeping the formatting, or at least being able to edit it after without difficulty?One option I have considered is using Dreamweaver, but as the company does not currently have a copy, I did not want to request it without knowing that it would be useful. Is it possible to take content directly from FrameMaker to Dreamweaver and then use that to format the content?If you ne

Getting Framemaker error that it is missing Distiller 5.0.5. How do I get this product? Then, how is it installed into Framemaker?

How to find list of conditional tags in a book using script?[Thread moved to scripting forum by moderator]

FM 12.0.4.445, Windows 7My book's TOC file "lost" its Left master page. When I tried to apply the Left master page, it was not listed:I was able to fix this by deleting the existing TOC, then re-creating it and applying the formats of another book's TOC file, but I'd like to know what happened and if there is any other solution besides deleting/recreating the file. The page formatting (First, Left, Right) was correct in the previous version of this book, and nothing was done to the TOC file other than to update the book/re-generate the TOC.One other note - at one point after a book build (I presume), buried under the FM window was an error box stating something to the effect that the UnstructMasterPageMaps table was missing and a new one would be added. That table was recreated (no tags are mapped to master pages in the TOC file). Oh, and I did update all my Adobe products last week, and I think FM was among them.Can anyone shed any light on this glitch? Thanks very much.

Polish text doesn't show up properly. Instead you get weird chars like question marks. Anything but the proper Polish diacritics. I have tried with Arial CE and all the fonts that normally don't pose any problem but unsucessfully. Any clue?

Not life-threatening, but as I plod through converting/updating over a hundred tables in an inherited document I want to be consistent: each table should have two rows in the heading, so that when the lost graphics arrive and all the pagination reflows any tables that need to will have the caption (first heading row) and the column headers (second heading row) at the top of every page.What's puzzling me is that I have [at least] one table which does behave like this – and has Heading/Footing shading set to 10%, which is only visible on the first of the two heading rows. Is this a feature, or is there some subtle detail I've missed?Now I can take my long-delayed week's holiday and look forward to learning something when I get back :-}

Using Publish to HTML Help, how do I get a mini-toc in topics? I tried using the default HTML template which is installed here:C:\Program Files (x86)\Adobe\AdobeFrameMaker2015\fminit\Publisher\Template\Document\PageTemplate\HTMLTemplate.htmand also parts of the one online from here:http://help.adobe.com/en_US/framemaker/2015/using/index.html#t=using-framemaker-2015%2Ffrm_generating_output%2Ffrm_generating_output-11.htm%23TOC_Define_a_mini_TOCbc-2&rhtocid=_11_1_3_1To use the template, in the Publish pod, I select "Microsoft HTML Help", click the "Edit" (settings) then select "Use HTML Page Template", click the Import button to load the template file. I've been able to make some simple boiler plate stuff work, but the mini-toc just shows as dead text.The documentation says I should be able to insert something like this in the template HTML:<div data-type=”minitoc”>    <p data-type=”minitoc-caption”>This section covers the following:</p>    <p

FM 12.0.4.445 on Windows 7 EnterpriseI've created a character tag (Skip Spelling) with all properties set to "As Is" except for Language, which is set to "None." The purpose of this tag is to have FM skip certain terms for spell checking. For example, my document discusses many different file extensions, such as .TXT, .DAT, etc. These terms can't be added to the dictionary due to the "Space Before" setting for periods, which I don't want to change.Applying this character tag works fine, except in two instances:First, applying it occasionally forces a term to the next line of a paragraph, as if the term has grown in size. Not a big deal, but I am curious as to why this would happen. It also makes me wonder about the Spread and Stretch settings, which remain at 0% and 100%, although I tried deleting them in the character tag definition.More importantly, using Find/Change with change = By Pasting applies the new character tag but also changes bold to plain text, especially in bold heading

Hi all,I'm wondering if there's a way to get the default paragraph font as a character format via ExtendScript. I currently have a script that records all the character formats in the active doc. var arr = new Array; var tag = active.FirstCharFmtInDoc; var tagname = tag.Name; var count = 0; while (tag.ObjectValid()) {      arr[count] = tagname;      tag = tag.NextCharFmtInDoc;      tagname = tag.Name;      count++; } return arr; In FrameMaker, this list looks like:Default FontEmphasisEquationVariablesHypertextBut when iterating through the character formats in the script, it omits the default font. Any ideas on how to stop this omission or why it occurs?

Hi all,I'm quite new to FrameMaker scripting and trying to figure out how to tell if flags have been set. I have a function that takes an element and returns its text as a string. Simple enough:function getElementText(elem){    var text = "";    var textItems;    var textItems = elem.GetText(Constants.FTI_String);       for (var i = 0; i < textItems.length; i++)    {        switch (textItems.dataType)        {            case Constants.FTI_String:                text += textItems.sdata;                break;        }    }    return text;}Now I would like to add an e

I'm investigating utilizing structured FrameMaker with an existing schema which is causing issues due to what appears to be limitations of DTDs vs schemas.The schema that I'm using has a number of cases where it uses elements with the same name others at different levels of hierarchy. For example it has the following to 'description' elements, one as a common type defined at the top level of the schema and another as a sub-element within another element in the schema:<xs:element name="imageType" minOccurs="0" maxOccurs="unbounded">     ...     <xs:element name="description" type="xs:string" minOccurs="0">          <xs:annotation>               <xs:documentation>String for describing this file to users</xs:documentation>          </xs:annotation> &nb

I would like to see a feature (if it is not already in FM2015) that would allow the user to search and replace text in all of the master pages in a book. If there is a way to do it or a plug in available, please let me know.Thank you!Salome

When I click on Dictionary in the spelling checker, the path for the user dictionary shows:C:\User\Windows . . .\FMUserDictionaryYet I can't find that file when I do a search.(Wish I could see the whole path, but it is cut off and the dialog can't be expanded.)

I have a TCS5 subscription and want to upgrade FM to 2015.I cannot find anywhere which allows me to do this and the ridiculous Akami Manager doesn't even want to install on my machine.Any help appreciated.

In InDesign I can choose to create a Print PDF or an Interactive PDF. I don't see that setting in FrameMaker. Is it possible to create an interactive PDF from a FrameMaker file that has an imported interactive 3D object so that the 3D object will work in the PDF?

Hello fellows.For some reason, when I paste a script that I wrote in a regular text editor to the FS Script window, I can't make any further changes to it in the Script window. The cursor just jumps to the 1st line and does not allow me to move to the relevant line. Any idea why this happens?Thank you in advance!

Hi All,I am new to the forum so please bear with me. I am a 'user' only of frame (being that am not overly experienced with all its features) and have been asked if we can create XML files from some FM10 files. I have tried the using the DITA options in the 'set structure options' and it works  but comes up with a long list of errors in the log of items that are unknown elements.But if I use the book options when i go to save it, it comes up with an error of Framemaker and shuts down. It does create the CSS but going into the XML file there is nothing there. What selection should I be choosing if I just want it to generic XML, or is that not an option?Are any of the later versions of Frame a better choice if I want to save as XML?Any suggestions would be greatly appreciated.I know this is probably a very complex issue but am hoping it may be an easy fix.CheersJohn

Today, only fourteen months after placing the original order, End User Support showed up and let me run the FrameMaker 12 installer. Because I already have Acrobat X, I watched the dialogues very carefully for any sign of a [ ] do not install PDF Creator and saw nothing. Following advice in an earlier thread, I also took a look at the Control Panel: no PDF Creator listed there.Then I tried Save as .pdf – failed, with the message Could not open the file {name of source file}.LOGAny ideas on what's wrong? permissions? but I can open an editor and save a text file to the location where Acrobat says the .log cannot be saved.Thanks in advance for any help! I really am quite looking forward to getting to work with the new FM …

Hi, I'm a newbie to FrameMaker, and I'm learning the 2015 version. I've just been learning about using conditional text, but all the information so far has been about individual documents, not about whole books. So I'm wondering:1. Is there a way to globally create a condition tag that can be used in all the documents in a book?2. If the answer to 1 is No, then is there a way to manually copy the condition tags from one document to another?3. Is it possible to change the Show/Hide Conditional Text settings globally for all the documents in a book?Thanks for any suggestions!Joseph

Or, how could I convert mif 2015 or mif 7.0 to mif 12.0 if there is no possibility to save it in this format.

In FrameMaker's Color Definitions dialog box, if you choose Print As: Tint, the Tint slider goes from zero to 100%. However, it is possible to type in a percentage for the tint that is more than 100%, for example 120%, and FrameMaker let's you save the Tint. Is this a bug in the program?