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how do I save a FM10 book as FM9 book including all its content?

Hi,I have FM 12.0.4.455I have a book that contains about 5 chapters.  Each topic within the chapters are separate files, beginning with a "home page" file which is really just the master page and nothing else. For example-Getting Started chapter----getting started home.fm <home page>----intro.fm  <content>----database.fm <content>-Installation chapter----installation home.fm <home page>----system requirements.fm <content>I would only like the 1st page to contain a Chapter number, so only the "home" files should display this information.  I also want the page numbers of each page to contain the chapter number + current page number, for example, 1-1, 1-2, 1-3, 2-1, 2-2..For the numbering -First I used the autonumber format of <n=1>.0\t for the first chapter and <n+>.0\t for the other chapters.  This worked well, but it's stopping me from adding the chapter number to the footer because I can't figure out how to get it in the fo

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Dear all,Again I'm stuck with some silly problem.When I cancel the ChooseFile dialogue, I want to bail out of the function GetTheFile. However, I have not found the appropriate test for this.The inputFile is reported to be null in the Cancel case: var prompt = "Select the formatted Citation file";GetTheFile ();function GetTheFile () {  var inputFile = ChooseFile (prompt, GetDocPath (), "*.rtf", Constants.FV_ChooseSelect);  if (inputFile == 0) {    alert  ("No input - no processing");    return;  }  alert ("Further processing of the inputfile = " + inputFile);} If I cancel, line 10 reports "Further processing of the inputfile = null".Testing in line 6 for the string "null" does not help either.The Scripting Guide says for this function:«The method returns 0 if the user clicked Open, Select, Use, or Save; a nonzero value if the user clicked Cancel or an error occurred» function GetDocPath () {// --------------------------------------

I have used FM since version 5, but since FM9, the Graphics Toolbar continually resets itself to the defaults so that you need to constantly set the various tools that you use the way that you want them (color RED, line 3pt, line with arrow at one end, etc). Is this a bug? Or is there a way to make it stay the way that you set it? I use this Toolbar all through the work day, and it gets very irritating to have to constantly change how I want it.

How can I quickly and easily remove Paragraph and Character Styles in my Frame books?

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.