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Hi All,   We are pleased to share that the Update 4 for FrameMaker (September  2022 release) with Version: 17.0.4.628 is now available.   Update 4 of FrameMaker (September 2022 release) provides fixes for Adobe Experience Manager connector, HTML publishing, and security vulnerabilities.   For a complete list of fixed issues, visit the Fixed issues article.   Updated Documentation - User Guide - HTML | PDF   Note - Due to library updates, a new  FDK is also being released. Custom plugins will need to be recompiled using this new FDK.  It can be downloaded from here.    Please let us know in case of any questions/issues.   Thanks, FrameMaker Team

Hello.I make user manuals with FrameMaker, and I am working on a manual, when the PDF is printed, all graphics are moved. There is also a logo that should be on every page and it's just gone, also most text from the cover is out of place.I had been working on other files and this is the only one with this problem, but I don't know how to fix it.Thank you.

I know how to add them so they are displayed (Right click TOC>Set up TOC & include subheading level 2), thats not the issue. The issue is im trying to add them in the same format as the existing TOC, see below circled level 2 headingsWhen i click view reference pages it seems to contain the script for the TOC (admittedley, im venturing into unknown territory for me here). I have messed around with it a bit, trying to add in level two subheadings where the arrow is in the image below, but it doesnt seem to be doing anything. Does anyone know what im doing wrong? 

Like export to PDF?

Hi, Everyone: I'm having a problem where the Adobe PDF driver keeps getting removed from my computer. Three weeks ago, I went through manual steps to install and rename the driver. Yesterday, I saw that there is a patch available, so I installed that. Same thing happened today... Here are the steps to reproduce:1. Open and use FrameMaker2. Connect to my company VPN.3. Lock and leave the computer.4. Return. When I return, I have a message that my selected fonts are not available, and I check to see that the Adobe PDF print driver is gone again. I'm running FrameMaker 17.0.3.546 on Windows 11. Is this an issue that I need to report and escalate to my IT department? Thanks!Cindy 

I am typesetting a large  book with a lot  of full page images. I use a special blank master page for this with a single un-anchored frame on each. But when I import my graphics into the frame, the "the fit to frame" feature does not seem to be working. It works in anchored frames, though. Is there some sort of logic to this?

Hello,I am trying to make a layout inside Frame Maker, by putting several text frames inside the page (with the text frame button at left). But I don't see any smart guides between these text frames : by example, if I want to align two text frames, I would like to see some smart guides between these two text frame.How to see these smart guides ? 

Hi everyone, It seems that the FM2022 ES client is buggy. An event-driven script that works perfectly well in FM2020 doesn't work at all in FM2022. The script just saves an active file as FM13 upon FA_Note_PostSaveDoc. Has anyone encountered this issue? P.S.: I've updated FM2022 to the latest build -- same issue. Thanks!

I have a ditamap containing about 30 referenced topics. I can open all files in the ditamap, but I want to adjust the page scrolling view option so that pages are vertical (not side by side). How can I do this for multiple topic files at once???In unstructured framemaker, you can select files and go to View/Options and set the page scrolling preference for all selected files with one click. In a Ditamap, though, this View-Options command is available only for each separate dita topic file (not for multiple selected ones and not for the ditamap), which means I have to open each topic file and set each file's page scrolling preference separately. Clearly this is not a doable workflow (and we expect to have much larger ditamaps in future.)What's the trick???

I'm curious if anyone has come across this issue and how they resolved it. I am new to FM but even our IT folks cant figure out what is going on. When I use FrameMaker almost every time it deletes the fonts that are being used in the document and we have to reinstall them all over again to my computer. They aren't just deleted from FM, but from my entire computer. I have seen posts about how it can happen and that you have to reinstall them, but this happens almost every time I use FM and I can't keep reinstalling them several times a day. Has anyone found a permanent solution or perhaps what I am doing wrong that is causing this? Thank you. 

Hi, I'm new to framemaker, taking over froma colleague who left the company.We have existing documentation stored in GIT and I don't seem to be able to open it, anybody using GIt with framemaker ? How do you acces your doc?Thanks.

Links created through the hypertext function suddenly are not working in our PDF output, but appear fine in Frame. Cross-reference links also work just fine. Any idea what could cause this when everything appears to be set up properly in Frame and how can we fix it? We have to get a PDF generated as soon as possible for one of our documents and need the links to work. The problem did start when we upgraded to FrameMaker 2022 from 2020.  

OK, I have a document with over 300 pages. I am added images to a lot of this. The orignal document had most of the images centered. The customer doesn't like most of these and wantes them moved to the side cloest to the binding. No problem moving them. Now for the problem. The figure numbers stay in the center of the page. Is there a way to link them to stay with the anchored frme centered under it and move with it to the side closest to the binding with having to add a test frame to each anchored frame?

2024-05-01-03T15:20ZWindows 11 Pro operating systemInstalled RAM 32.0 GB (31.7 GB usable)System type 64-bit operating system, x64-based processorFrameMaker 2017 14.0.4.511 and FrameMaker 2015 13.0.5.547Help, please.¿How to I "deactivate" a computer that no longer exists?When I run both versions (at different times on my brand-new workstation), the program complains, "The serial number ****************** is already in use by the maximum allowed computers. You need to deactivate another computer in 29 days to use this product.__ Retry activation. I have already deactivated one of my other computers."I had two instances of FrameMaker installed quite happily on only _one_ workstation. That was my former, lap-top, workstation, which crashed _hard_, and backup could not include anything from C:\.¡Thanks!DaveFort Wayne, IN

FM 2020 won't start because it can't find a printer attached to my machine. Error message: There are no fonts available on printer. Cannot start Framemaker.

Since yesterday I have massive problems with FrameMaker 17.0.3 on a Windows 10 laptop.After doing some operations in the structure view, FrameMaker becomes unresponsive and quits suddenly. There is no error message, no .dmp file, FrameMaker just vanishes from the screen.I only  found an application error in the windows logs :I did a DISM Healthcheck which reported no problems with the windows system files.Any help appreciated.

Hi,I'm preparing my company to move from MS Word documentation managment into FM. But...I haven't found any solution yet for creating a Summary of Changes/ List of Changes to the document which covers a live document and not a comparison log. The standard log doesn't really meet our expectations and taking into consideration that I lack experience in the matter of this particular software, I imagine if it is even possible to achieve. If we want to operate fully on FM, tracking replaccement of figures and tables should be available.The perfect way that i'm looking for is to list changes inside one of subchapters of the initial document and it will be up to date (creating new entries with every change made) as new rows in table with date, version number, affected pages and brief description of changes made.I don't know if my explenation is sufficient, but anyway thank you for any provided support that will bring me one step closer to achieve this goal.

For about 2 weeks now, we have been experiencing an error when writing books to PDF (Save as PDF). Previously it worked without any problems for months. The process now suddenly hangs at different times. The CPU load increases sharply at this point. Even after hours, the situation does not change.Unfortunately, there is no indication as to why the process is not continuing. The log file for the PDF writing suddenly ends without any indication of the problem.The problem seems to be related to the referenced images in a cloud.After several attempts, the process always stops at a different point. In rare cases (1 in 10) it also runs through to the end.The error occurs in Framemaker 2019 (client and server) and also in Framemaker 2022 on several computers.Is there any additional LOG information to narrow down the error or does anyone have an idea what the problem could be?

Has anyone run into issues with the HTML5 conversion in Frame 2022 automatically changing % into %25 (the UTF code for %)? There was a similar issue with ? in Frame 2020 (https://tracker.adobe.com/#/view/FRMAKER-11210). While the issue specific to ? has been fixed (theoretically), this issue remains. I'd like to confirm whether anyone else has or can reproduce the issue. Browser type makes no difference. Most current version of Frame--17.0.  Note: we have links in our materials to sites we don't control, so changing paths or naming conventions isn't always going to be an option. 

Hi, we use pdf files that we insert in framemaker to make a catalog.when we save as pdf, certain pages (always others) showing only parts of the inserted pdf file.how it looks in framemaker en how it should be:what the pdf file shows after Framemaker save as pdf:as you see, a lot of details are missing. Sometimes even a black shape shows in the pdf output... that shouldn't be there at all... anyone tips to solve this? Framemaker 2022, latest updates installed.  

I have just installed FrameMaker but it acts weirdly. The user interface is now a mix of English and Chinese (I think). As yo can see in the screenshot the menus are in English but a lot of the other stuff in Chinese. How do I change this?

Hi all,I'm trying to use a script to save all files in a book as single PDF files, but for some reason the value for Constants.FP_PDFSeparateFiles pops up an error; no matter if I try to set it as integer or boolean –can anyone help? var params, returnParams, i;params = GetSaveDefaultParams ();returnParams = new PropVals ();        i = GetPropIndex (params, Constants.FS_FileType);    params[i].propVal.ival = Constants.FV_SaveFmtPdf;    i = GetPropIndex (params, Constants.FS_PDFUseDistiller);    params[i].propVal.ival = 0;    i = GetPropIndex (params, Constants.FP_PDFSeparateFiles);    params[i].propVal.ival = true; //1 

Hi All, That funky graphic is showing up again when I open Frame 2019.I knew there used to be a fix but I can't find it! Thanks! Sam 

Does anyone happens to know how to remove an existing watermark in FrameMaker?

Helle all,I am creating an Arabic manual using FrameMaker2020.I'm using Arial font, but I can't display italics.I tried to make it italic, but the characters are garbled.Is it impossible to display Arabic in italics using Arial font in FrameMaker?I was able to display italics using the Arial font in InDesign, but is this not possible in FrameMaker?