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Has any body experienced the Paragrapg Designer freezing in Framemaker 9 after a short period of use?  By freezing I mean that the format selection window freezes at the displayed font and doesnt allow any changes to be mede.  I have to restart Framemaker and sometime have to reboot my PC.

Dear all,The purpose of my function copyToWinClipboard (text) is to get a string directly into the Windows Clipboard. The purpose is to allow the user of my project just to paste into the open-dialog of the application EndNote. I’m not certain whether the FM clipboard (supported by the copy/cut/paste methods for Doc) really fills into the Windows Clipboard also.In the PhotoShop script forum I found the idea how to do this. #target framemaker// note the blank in the pathcopyToWinClipboard ("E:\\_DDDprojects\\FM+EN escript\\FM-11-testfiles\\BibFM-collected.rtf");function copyToWinClipboard (text) {  var theCmd, clipFile = new File(Folder.temp + "\\ClipBoardW.bat");  clipFile.open('w');//  theCmd = "echo \"" + text + "\" | clip"; // this doesn’t help either  theCmd = "echo " + text + " | clip";  clipFile.writeln (theCmd);  clipFile.close ();  clipFile.execute ();} Running this script provides a short flicker (the command prompt), but the clipboard does n

two .fm files in book, both with Page size A4 letter (8.268 * 11.693) and both with the same master pagessave book as .pdf, page size (as usual) set to 8.268 * 11.693pages from first file distil as 8.26 * 11.69, pages from second file distil as 8.27 * 11.00what's going on? and how do I correct it?(and when I quickly check a .pdf from another book, I find a similar discrepancy – but only in the width, where it is less eye-catching)

Hello Framemakers,I am in the process of switching from Word to FrameMaker 12.0. I need to typeset a book and all the research I have done suggests FrameMaker is more stable and less, shall we say finicky that Word is. I have begun creating a book template. Things are moving well but a few things are still confusing me: Please answer whatever you can. Your feedback is truly appreciated!1. Word as a notion of a 'gutter' which is an extra space resulting in uneven margins. Framemaker does not seem to have this concept, so I have      1. Set the left margin of the left page to 0.6" and      2. The left margin of the right page to 0.9"Is this the right way to do this in FrameMaker?Additionally, the first page of a chapter is more complex. It has     1. A title with a different font and size     2. An image     3. One or two quotations     4. The top left corner of the bod

Why instead of a TOC does FM return blank pages?

I would like to link to a separate FM file in the same book using hypertext markers, but I don't know what prefix to use. If I would normally say, "gotolink x" to link to a hypertext marker in the same FM document, what do I need to add or change if I want to link to a marker in another document contained in the same book? I remember seeing something about adding the file name to the marker text a few years ago, but I can't find the discussion anymore.Thanks!

FM Version: 12.0.4.445Windows 7 Pro.Here is what the cross-references are supposed to look like:Here is what it looks like after I run 'Update Book':I can remedy this by running 'Update References' for the individual file.Is this a Reference page issue? A bug? A wacky feature?Thanks!Louis

I just upgraded from FrameMaker 7.2 to version 12. When I create the .pdf of a book using the SaveAsPDF option, the many of the graphics are either missing or partially missing. Any ideas why?

Hello,I'm using DITA in structured FM 12 and want to use the ditamap-to-fmbook-to PDF workflow. However, I was expecting the nested topicrefs to aggregate into a chapter fm file when I save the bookmap/ditamap to a FrameMaker 12 Book with Components. Instead, I'm simply getting a separate fm file for every single DITA topic/topicref regardless of how it's nested in the bookmap/ditamap. When I Save as PDF each topic starts on its own page in the PDF.  I was expecting that FM would pull these nested files into a FM chapter file, so that when the PDF is built, there would be a break before each chapter, but the topics within the chapter would flow continuously.Couple of things to note: FM correctly puts the top level topics as chapters in the TOC, and I get the appropriate heading levels/styles.I've tried this with bookmaps and ditamaps with individual topicrefs and maprefs to sub-ditamaps and get the same result regardless of the configuration.So I have a couple of questions:Does Fr

I try to set up a script for this function - but do not get any useful results.Obviously my understanding of TextRange is not complete... CopyToClipboard ("E:\\_DDDprojects\\FM+EN escript\\FM-11-testfiles\\BibFM-collected.rtf");function CopyToClipboard (theText) {// - create a textframe with a paragraph on the first masterpage (which always exist)  var masterPage, textFrame, pgf, textLoc, PT = 65536;    var oTRange = new TextRange, oTexts;  var doc = app.ActiveDoc;    masterPage = doc.FirstMasterPageInDoc;          // Get the first master page in the document.    textFrame = doc.NewTextFrame (masterPage.PageFrame); // Add a temporary text frame to the master page.     textFrame.Width  = 480 * PT;    pgf = textFrame.FirstPgf;    textLoc = new TextLoc (pgf, 0);    doc.AddText (textLoc, theText);          &

In Framemaker 12, is it possible to create a PDF that includes chapter numbers, as well as chapter titles?

Is there a simple way to fix multiple (over 100) "Unresolved Cross-References" in a manual I am updating?

If there are changes to conditional text in FrameMaker, can they be tracked by author and date? The goal is to create a log of changes that my group can reference.Thank you!

I am trying to insert graphics in table columns by using "Frame above" but the inserted graphic, does not center within the column as the paragrapgh text does. The horizontal alignment setting seems to be ignored for the graphic.I can solve this by changing the frame containing the graphic in the reference page, alternatively by changing the Cell Margins setting in Paragraph designer but neiter of these solutions is really good. I would lika a solution that really centers the graphic in the table column not just simulates it, since I would like it to be compatible with future design changes in master pages etc.Is there a beautiful way to solve this?

I'm using Framemaker 11 and I have two TOCs in my book: one in English and one in French. Each TOC links to different documents in the same book. The reference page for each TOC is set and correctly displays the heading 1 and 2 I've told it to display, but the numbers do not update when the content in my document files changes to a different page. I've checked the conditional text settings in my document files; they are correct. When I update the book, I choose to update Numbering, All Cross-References, All Text Insets, OLE Links, Generate Table of Contents, Lists, and Indexes. What am I doing wrong? Thanks.

Good Morning... Have updated Framemaker to the  12.0.4 version. When I try to use the type "A" button, I click in my frame and a message comes up giving me a Hotspot window.Can I still type text somehow without using the text box and then typing the text?Thanks,ls

After a RTF has been processed by EndNote it is opened in FM and the paragraphs are handled.It turns out that I do not need to set special Open parameters to specify the filter RTF (which is requested when opening manually). This is the central part of my script: openParams = GetOpenDefaultParams();  openReturnParams =  new PropVals();    newDoc = Open (fileName, openParams, openReturnParams);    pgf = newDoc.MainFlowInDoc.FirstTextFrameInFlow.FirstPgf;  // get first pgf in flow All works fine - for me it's a mystery, but a welcome one!See the whole test script and test-file at my DropBox.

Hi,I'm using FDK.I try to work with cross references and I have problem with path name <XRefSrcFile>. Every time when I set it using by F_ApiSetString, it's set as an absolute path and I need to set it as relative path.Has anybody any idea how to solve it?Kate

I am working on a set of structured FM chapters. Before creating a book, I have been testing them for XML conversion. However, every time the XML document takes up the chapter number as defined in the structured template. I am using the structured application for this conversion. It consists of EDD, DTD, read/write rules document and the structured template. If I use a template generated from chapter 1, all the XML documents take up chapter number as 1 and so on. How do I set the chapter numbering so that it works correctly at the chapter level?  Secondly. for the chapter element, I have defined Otherprops as chapter. In spite of this, when I render the XML, the Chapter Title shows up as Heading 1. I need to reset this in the XML code view of the document where the Otherprops is misplaced. How do I make this work?Do let me know.

I downloaded a trial of FrameMaker 12 from an email that offered the subscription for 29.xx. I lost that email and my trial is almost up. How do I license it?

I know that by using the proper Rename function, I can rename a .fm file in a .book file and all cross references from other chapters remain valid.But some of my .fm files are in non-obvious directories, and are referenced like ..\..\BigBook\LittleFile.fm.If I simply use Windows to move LittleFile.fm to another folder, the .book file with implode.If I use the book file's Rename button, I can rename LittleFile.fm but cannot move it.Is there a way to move the file and maintain all those cross references?Thanks.

FM 12: How do I create a .ps file of a book? (errors prevent PDF generation)

problem copying a Microsoft Word picture with rotated text into Framemaker - the rotated text gets stacked (each letter is individually rotated)

I have created a paragraph tag for a table title but this does not show up in the catalog. I cannot create a list of tables because the paragraph tag does not show in the set up list of table dialog box. can anyone help?

In testing round tripping of XML to FrameMaker to XML I came across a particular ISO character 'lsquo' (Unicode x2018) which FrameMaker happily converted to the equivalent internal character xd4, and then promptly converted it to the entity 'rsquor' when saving as XML.  I have traced the cause to incorrect mappings in the entity files as shown below.  The same entity mapping error exists in FrameMaker 12.  I am guessing that the mapping may have been in the early version of the standard, however the latest version has the correct mappings (http://www.w3.org/2003/entities/iso8879doc/isopub.html).In the file isopub.rw in folder %ProgramFiles(x86)%\Adobe\AdobeFrameMaker11\Structure\xml\isoents the following entries are incorrect, and should be set as shown:entity "rsquor" is fm char 0x2018; should be entity "rsquor" is fm char 0x2019;entity "rdquor" is fm char 0x201C; should be entity "rdquor" is fm char 0x201D;In the file iso-pub.ent in folder %ProgramFiles(x86)%\Adobe\Ado