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Hi Everyone,Every time I try to open a 1.2 General Task dita topic, it asks me to select the structure, between 1.2 and 1.3, yet if I were to use and reopen a 1.3 General Task, it doesnt do this.This makes it impossible to convert Ditamaps into books because Framek doesn't know how to open the 1.2 general task topics. Anyone run into this?Thank you!

Hello,I am working a document comprised of many page-width charts separated only by 2-3 empty lines.While adjusting spacing on the page, at times I remove too many empty lines between charts, to where there remains only a single empty line between them.The makes the page look very neat but sadly removes any insertion point from within that single empty line, thereby barring me from re-entering another empty space or two between the charts if I desire.I have tried insertion point placement shortcuts to no avail.To illustrate, when the cursor is located above the whole mess, then "Beginning of the next paragraph" shortcut is employed, the cursor jumps past both 'joined' charts. From that point on, the cursor only hops to before the first chart or after the second chart, and I no longer have control of the spacing between the two charts.Any suggestions?  Thank you for your time.

I've currently got TCS4 on Win 7 and am being upgraded to a yet unknown Windows platform on another laptop. I'm wondering if it's a simple task to transfer all of my RoboHelp  projects from one pc to another without having to re-enter or re-set up things like customized skins, colors, buttons, variables, etc.After re-installing TCS on the new pc, can I just copy/paste all files from one pc to another and pick up where I left off?(If so, would the necessary files to transfer be contained in C:\Program Files (x86)\Adobe\Adobe RoboHelp 10\RoboHTML?)dan

I accidentally made a book file view only. I followed the instructions in the Help, but they don't work. I selected the file in the book view. Then, pressed Esc Shift f l k but nothing happens. The instructions say I should see a menu, but I don't. After pressing the key combination, the book file remains view only.

Hi all,I am in a bit of soup actually. I, in a fit of carelessness, overwrote an FM file and saved it. It cannot be undone now.Sometime before this event, I had created a .ps file to distill it to a PDF; so now I have only a PDF file and a .ps fileQuestion:Is it possible to salvage anything from the .ps file? if so, how?

I have some technical documents that I created in FrameMaker 5.5 back in the late 1990's. My question is: if I download the newest version of FrameMaker (2015) will I be able to open these old .fm files and save them as .fim files?  When I called Adobe phone support I was told that you can't open FrameMaker 5.5 files with the current version of FrameMaker.  Can someone confirm whether this is true? I also noticed that you can download trial versions of older versions of FM, such as 11, 10, 9, 8, or 7.2.  If I downloaded one of these older versions of FM would I be able to open my FM 5.5 files?As I side note, I am running Windows 7 64-bit operating system.  I have the original FM 5.5 application disk, but can't install it on my machine...probably because FM 5.5 was designed for 16-bit operating systems (?).Thank you in advance to anyone who can help me retrieve my FM 5.5 files.MM

The bottom portion of the window, where the buttons reside, is not viewable. How can I change this?

I've inherited a document with a ton of long tables, and I need to apply Keep With Next Row frequently. Is there a way to keep the Row Format dialog box open so that I don't have to go to the Table menu every time? Thanks for any help!

(FM12 on Win7)I see surplus end-of-flow indicators, on otherwise blank pages, appear in the middle of .fm files.Format > Page Layout > Pagination > Before Saving and Printing is set to Make Page Count Even. This is a requirement for publishing.But I expect extra pages at the end of the file, not the middle.The files use many insets and some conditional text. At one point, they had nested insets, but not now.Scratching my head about this one. Best regards,

I'm utilizing Heading Paragraph Tags but I don't know when to use "HeadingRunIn".It's only mentioned in an existing thread involving XML and I'm using non-XML Structured.Could someone provide a quick response?

We are using FrameMaker 12 on a Windows 7 64 bit system.Say someone created a paragraph style and misspelled its name.For example: Boddy Text instead of Body Text.What's the best way to fix it in the template, and then apply the change to dozens of chapters that use it?Way 1: Open each chapter and correct the misspelled paragraph style manually.Way 2: Fix it in the template, then use File > Import > Formats. The problem is that it adds the corrected style as a new paragraph style, and does not apply the new style to anything. So, all instances of the misspelled style would have the style with the corrected spelling applied manually.Does anyone have a third way to do it that automates the process?Thanks in advance.

I'm currently looking into styling FM 12 Responsive HTML output and perhaps there are some minor release mismatches between FM12 and RH-2015?I can import a style <name>.slz (generated in RH-2105) just fine, but there are some hickups in the generated html using FM > Publish.Like browser not loading content due to syntax errors. Oops. Q: Should I expect a screen-layout style (.slz) from RM-2015 to work when used with FM12?  I tested this with the "Azure_Blue" .slz example distributed with RH2015.I notice that the online www gallery of style examples you land on (both for FM and RH) if you click the "Check for new screen layouts" is the same for both products, i.e. -> RoboHelp screen profiles and layouts‌ - So I assume Adobe intends for them to be inter-changeable?Looking at the FM publish settings-file (.sts) it seems this file is a ZIP and inside this archive there's your .slz file which also is a ZIP containingthe css layouts etc, but it's not really documented as far

HiI just wanted to try out Framemaker 2015 on a clean Windows, but I can't install it. I get the following Errors (I have admin rights, Euclid cannot be found in the Fonts folder):Exit Code: 6Please see specific errors below for troubleshooting. For example,  ERROR: DF023, DF024,D ...-------------------------------------- Summary -------------------------------------- - 0 fatal error(s), 12 error(s) ----------- Payload: Adobe Acrobat Distiller DC 15.0.0.0 {9C2620D0-DCA1-489C-9689-A45A61FCBEC2} -----------ERROR: Third party payload installer DistillrStarter.exe failed with exit code: 1603----------- Payload: Adobe FrameMaker 2015 13.0.0.0 {91A351A5-44AE-4BA8-87F5-1557C09287D1} -----------ERROR: DF024: Unable to preserve original file at "C:\Windows\Fonts\symbol.ttf" Error 87 The parameter is incorrect.(Seq 11365)ERROR: DF023: Unable to delete file copy at "C:\Windows\Fonts\euclidb.ttf" Error 5 Access is denied.. Try setting correct permissions to the specified file/folder or parent

Whether I AutoRun at startup, or wait and run manually when needed,I add a menu to the main menu bar with this://Create menuvar myMenu = DefineMenu("Daves_ScriptingMenu", "Dave's Scripts");//Get the main FM document menu, so we can//add our custom menu, then add it.var fmMenu = app.GetNamedMenu ("!MakerMainMenu");fmMenu.AddMenuToMenu (myMenu); . . . I add commands, etc. that are working.The problem is removing the menu when I don't want it there.I'm trying this code. It appears to run, but nothing happens. And there are nomessages generated in the Console.Notice I tried using the menu name as well as its label.//Get the main FM document menu, and then remove custom menu.var fmMenu = app.GetNamedMenu ("!MakerMainMenu");//Using LabelRemoveMenu(fmMenu, "Dave's Scripts");//Using Name//RemoveMenu(fmMenu, "Daves_ScriptingMenu");UpdateMenus();Can I get a hint as to what's up here?Thanks,Dave

Can Framemaker be set to display font size in millimeters or inches?  We are trying to update a document to meet UL Certification and they have text heights listed in millimeters.  I can find a conversion online, but if it could be done in Framemaker that would be a lot easier.

Just opening the publish pod via File -> publish destroys the database connections that I have established in my FDK framemaker clients. Has anyone experienced anything similar?Does the Framemaker 12 publish functionality have any documentation or configuration?I can't see how just opening the pod without actually performing any publish operation could have such unfortunate consequences.

Does anyone have experience with publishing online help systems to a salesforce community (force.com site)? Our support site is hosted within a salesforce knowledge community. I'm coming up empty handed when searching for an app that allows me to embed my online help within my community portal. For example, I'd like to publish something like salesforce has done themselves at: https://help.salesforce.com/apex/HTViewHelpDoc?id=deactivating_users.htm&language=en_US

I have cross references to "numbered" paragraph tags.  In the document, the lines with numbered tags have a right parentheses marker after the number.  When I make a cross reference to these items, the parenthese is included.  Is there a way to exclude the prarentheses in the cross referenced item?Thank you in advance,Bill

aaaaaaaargh …… Just received a document with a number of diagrams that need updating: imagine my distress at discovering they are OLE links to Visio files … I do have Visio, but absolutely no idea of how to open the diagram that I see in my FM10 document in Visio. Is this remotely possible, am I better off saving the document as .pdf and trying to rescue the graphics with Illustrator, or is there some better approach I haven't thought of?Thanks in advance!

What should I change in the reference page if I would like to generate a Greek index?

(FM12 on Win7)I see surplus end-of-flow indicators, on otherwise blank pages, appear in the middle of .fm files.Format > Page Layout > Pagination > Before Saving and Printing is set to Make Page Count Even. This is a requirement for publishing.But I expect extra pages at the end of the file, not the middle.The files use many insets and some conditional text. At one point, they had nested insets, but not now.Scratching my head about this one. Best regards,

At least since beginning of july 2015 the service of frameusers.com (framers) is down, not avaliable, dead. Does anybody of You something about the destiny of this service ?I had to re-assign my account and then got just one mail from somebody else who did the same - but there are no digests since that time.Is'nt the admin of that listIt seems to me that the mailing list frameusers.com is hosted at http://www.beyondprint.com/ which is run by Brad Anderson.Has something severe happend to him personally?Thanks for any straw on this matter.Klaus Daube

As previously stated in the thread: Bad instructions in the FrameMaker 2015 Help File, sections have been rearranged, and references poorly established, such that it is difficult to understand the procedure for working in structured FrameMaker.Despite the problems, I managed to discern what the text was trying to say, and I had created an application before continuing with subsequent sections. In particular, I had created an application using the following sections:Build a structured applicationCreate a DTDCreate a structured templateConfigure the structured applicationCopy the application filesAs noted in the previous thread, you can't create the DTD prior to configuring the application, so the order of these sections actually needs to be:Build a structured applicationConfigure the structured applicationCreate a DTDCreate a structured templateCopy the application filesNow, in the Configure the structured application section, I note lines (4) and (5), which state:4)Insert a DTD element

Hi,FM11. I can't seem to get the Delete() method to work on commands, nor can I retreive the proper CommandNum property. For example:cmd = DefineCommand(1111, "TestScriptCommand", "TestScriptCommand", "^q");alert(cmd.CommandNum);...the message box displays some other number, like 48 or something. Then, cmd.Delete() seems to have to effect, because the command stays active and remains on any menus where I placed it.the Command() callback works OK. It properly executes on 1111 for the command.

aaaaaaaargh …… Just received a document with a number of diagrams that need updating: imagine my distress at discovering they are OLE links to Visio files … I do have Visio, but absolutely no idea of how to open the diagram that I see in my FM10 document in Visio. Is this remotely possible, am I better off saving the document as .pdf and trying to rescue the graphics with Illustrator, or is there some better approach I haven't thought of?Thanks in advance!