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Installing the trial version of Acrobat has uninstalled the Adobe pdf printer instance from my Framemaker 8 installation. I can no longer make pdf's with Framemaker! Can these two Adobe products run on the same machine? How do I get Framemaker working again - do I have to reinstall?

My apologies if I don't use the correct terminology. I use InDesign, but I need to lightly edit a FrameMaker file that was created in 2003 on a Mac. I'm editing it on a PC because that's the only version available now (FrameMaker 10). I have been able to figure out how to make any edits needed except one. There is a "graphic" that is used as a section header that I need to replace with a "graphic" from another chapter. I'm calling it a "graphic" because there is clipart plus text that appears as a unit. When I highlight the paragraph above and below this "graphic," copy, and paste it into a new chapter, the "graphic" does not paste. If I select the paragraph below in the PARAGRAPH DESIGNER with the ADVANCED button selected, the FRAME ABOVE PGF button displays a selection named after the "graphic." If I change the selection in the FRAME ABOVE PGF button the "graphic" goes away, so I know that "graphic" is tied to that paragraph. The FRAME ABOVE PGF description I need to use is not avail

Hello,I have a Terms list chapter in one of the book. I am trying to create a mouse over a highlighted term in the document to see its definition in the output PDF file. Is it possible for us to perform this operation in FrameMaker?Currently I am using Specify Named Destination and Jump to Named Destination.

Has anyone else noticed that when publishing from Frame12 to Responsive HTML5, Print Preview doesn't work in IE, Chrome, or Firefox ? I'm setting up my first project, using default settings at this point, and when I Print Preview from a topic, the only content I see on the preview page is:Help title                     URLSample BookHome > Topic Title1 of 1                         date & timestampThe preview appears as Page 1 of 1, even though there are many more pages in the topic. When I print the topic, the entire topic prints normally.I want users to be able to print any range of pages from a topic, so a working print preview is really necessary.Any ideas on how to fix this?

Hello all,I am working in FM 10 unstructured. With a book that has a generated list of markers. Entries look like this "Abnormal.....220" I got everything to work properly for the content, leader dots, page number and the hyperlink. The trouble I am running into is when modifying the font and size of the paragraph tag Level1IOM the hyperlink area changes and is now only applicable to the leader dots and page number ".....220" instead of the entire line. Any ideas on what I am doing wrong?Thank you,Jenn

I have a manual that contains headings and index entries that contain less than and greater than characters, < and >. The Publish to Responsive HTML5 function escapes these correctly in the main body of the text but does not work correctly in either the Contents or the Index of the generated HTML. In the Contents the words are completely missing and in the index entries the '\' characters that are required in the markers remain in the entry but the leading less than symbol and the first character of the word is deleted; hence what should appear as <dataseries> appears as \ataseries\>. I believe this is a FMv12 bug. Has anyone else experienced this? Is the FM team aware and working on a fix. Any suggestions for a workaround?

I am creating a image and need to use text boxes in order for the text to be translated. When i place the text boxes on the image, about half of the text appears below the text box.  If I remove the image, the text appears in the proper place in the text box. When i print the page with the image, the text is printed below the text box, and not where it should be.

Hello fellow FrameMaker Scripters,I was just wondering if anybody knew a way to use Extendscript to create QR codes in FM. I'm creating several thousand files and would like to be able to tag each output with a QR code so a person in the field can simply scan it to pull up the PDF file. Unfortunately this would mean individually creating and saving thousands of QR codes. If I could automate the generation of QR codes mid-export I could do the tagging automatically and all would be right with the world.Any thoughts or suggestions on where to look?---Corey---

How to start with Adobe Framemaker 11 for online documentation?

Is there a quick tutorial on  Creating new commands in FrameMaker? Would I have to use FrameScript? I am a coder and have no issues writing code. I just want to know  Assigning a keyboard shortcut to a command?Am I better off using a third-party program to configure framemaker?[Message moved from Feature Requests by moderator]

I have a FM document that contains checkboxes. However when I conver to ePub, the checkboxes turn into o's. I have tried editing the settings (both the character format and paragraph format being used), and I can't seem to get the ePub to translate correctly. What am I doing wrong? Thanks in advance for the help!

Is there a way in an unstructered Frame11.0 file to change all anchored frames in the file to a specific size at the same time?

I have FM12 and started having trouble with weird extensions getting added to FM files, and today, I cannot save a file with another name it is greyed out. What is going on?

Hi all,I'm just getting into Extendscript for FM 12 so bear with me.I have found the FM_Outputs_CondText file which does everything I need it to do except for I want the file to be saved as a review PDF. I've found the FCodes.KBD_SAVEASPDFREVIEW command and can get it to open the saveas dialog. However, I cannot for the life of me figure out how to interact with this. Any thoughts on how I can achieve the following process:1: Apply conditional text show/hide (included in FM_Outputs_CondText)2: Change output file name (depends on how I achieve step 3)3: Save as review pdf4: Move to next conditional text show/hide (included in FM_Outputs_CondText)Any suggestions of what to do or where to look would be amazing.(any FM scripter/user groups in Portland, OR?)---Corey---

Hi all,We recently upgraded to Frame 12 and now have a persistent issue with relative paths to referenced images becoming absolute.  These paths do not traverse a drive and so I believe Frame should be maintaining a relative path for these. In most cases -- perhaps in all, although I have not done exhaustive testing --  the problem paths are for images on a master page.Any idea why this might be occurring and what we can do to fix it?  Our docs team shares files checked out from a server, and each time one of us opens a document, it has an absolute path to a location on another writer's computer.  We each maintain the exact same directory structure for all Frame/image files, and again, the path to the problem images is local and does not traverse the C drive.Thanks in advance,Shelley

I've deleted several pages in a Frame12 manual and the cross-references "See page XX" throughout the text body didn't update. Any suggestions?

Hello fellows,I am trying to change properties of a certain condition tag through extendscript. For example, I'd like add a background color to the condition tag. So I came up with this (faulty) code: The ES toolkit complains that UseBkColor and BkColor are "undefined", but according to the FM10 Object Reference, these are properties of CondFmt. What am I missing?  Thank you for your inputs in advance!#target framemakerCondApplBcolor(doc, TestCond);function CondApplBcolor (doc, TestCond){var doc = app.ActiveDoc;var TestCond = doc.GetNamedCondFmt(Insert);if (TestCond.ObjectValid()){   Props = TestCond.GetProps();   Bcolor_en = GetPropIndex(Props, UseBkColor);   Bcolor = GetPropIndex(Props, BkColor);   Props[Bcolor_en].propVal.ival = 1;   Props[Bcolor].propVal.sval ="Pale Green";   TestCond.SetProps (Props);   return(1);}}

Hello fellows,When I loop through a list of book files and write their names to the FM console, the full list is displayed. However, when I write the list to a text file, only the 1st file name is written. Any ideas why?Loop ForEach(BookComponent) In(vCurrentBook) LoopVar(v_File)...Write Console v_File;vs.:Set vPath = v_UserPath+DIRSEP+'_'+'Test'+'.txt';New TextFile File(vPath) NewVar(vFile_Listing); Write Object(vFile_Listing) v_File;EndLoopThank you for your input in advance!Roman

I am adding some new pages/charts to a manual and I can't seem to get the TOC to update. Suggestions?

Hi,When I save a document as a PDF using the "Save As" and selecting PDF doc type (Not using the "Save as PDF" menu item. I haven't tried this yet), I get some photos that are cut up with white strips as if several small white boxes were placed across the graphic. The graphics print fine from the Frame Maker doc and appear fine on screen. Another company we are working with is having the same problem.See the second graphic in the illustration Below - The stripped graphic is anchored to the second Caution. This is a screen shot of a PDF saved from a Frame Maker Doc.It almost appears as if the "Caution" or "Warning"  frame from the reference page is covering the graphic, but I checked and the frames are only about 1/3 to 1/2 the width of the text column.I tried to "bring" the graphic to the front but it had no affect.Has anyone seen this before?

Can FM12 be installed by batch including entering license key? My supervisor does not want to issue the single license key to all users, so a single account is used to login to Adobe and activate the license. Can the Adobe account be a generic corporate account not associated with an individual? E.g., corporate_user@corporation.com.Also, how can I contact Adobe on an issue like this? The chat is never open, there doesn't appear to be an email contact.

Hi,I have a book with 3 files, the first file is meant to be front matter, and the other 2 files are Chapters. I am using the page numbering convention Page # of #.Right now my front matter file is 2 pages, Chapter 1 is 2 pages, and Chapter 2 is 3 pages. I have set the page numbering as 1 for the front file, and the 2 chapters are set up to continue numbering from previous page, however the last page for each file is currently showing:Front Matter: Page 2 of 2Chapter 1: Page 4 of 4Chapter 2: Page 7 of 7How can I fix this?Thanks!

Function window (i.e., print, save) open over sized so cannot select final options (i.e., save, cancel, print) at bottom of windows in FM12 structured.   How can reduce the view inside the window to allow my entry? See bottom of images for example of missing final options buttons for each window.

Hi,I have come across one issue as shown in the screenshot. I am unable to make the table continue to next page once the current page getting over.Please assist me on this.Thanks,Praveen

When I generate a TOC, it comes out beautifully. However, when I press control + alt to check my links, I receive a "cannot find the file named" error message. This happens for the majority of the links. All of the files are present along with the graphics. Everything is in the same folder. They are saved on our network. However, I have packaged and copied the files to my desktop to see if that makes a difference. I am still receiving the same error message.Has anyone seen this before? Any solutions in Adobe world? All help is appreciated.Salome