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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

Internal Error: 10024, 5912162, 9090514, 10030315 が原因で FM10 のファイルが開きません。解決方法を教えてください。

FYI.With both FM 11 & 12 saving a Structured Application via the Structured Application Designer leaves the structapps.fm file (%appdata%\Adobe\FrameMaker\[11|12]) with invalid structure, if the element RulesSearchPaths is present.  I have reported this to Adobe as bug #3943816.The scenario is most probably unlikely as most of the time an application would use the default search paths for rules.  I have chosen to use the element due to the previously reported entity mapping errors (see Incorrect entity mapping in FrameMaker 11 and 12 - A FYI!). I have placed screen snaps of the before and after to illustrate the problem.The scenario is the same for applications in the Global Application Definitions, i.e adding a RulesSearchPaths will cause the global structapps.fm file to have invalid structure if the Structured Application Designer is used to Save the application.An important note is that is not necessary to make changes to the structured application definitions in ether

Why doesn't Framemaker trial sw install?

Framemaker10において、「PDF形式で保存」にてPDFを作成した場合は問題なくPDFが作成できるのですが、印刷でAdobe PDFからPDFを作成すると画像データがないPDFが作成されてしまいます。OSはWindows 7 (64bit)です。特定のPCからの問題のようですが、原因はどこにあるのでしょうか。

I have an unstructured FM (12) book with 14 chapters and 5 appendices. For the first 100 pages, the running footer looks fine: 100 Chapter 8, but from Chapter 9 and onwards, it looks like this: 102Chapter 9. In both cases, the Running H/F 2 says<$paranum[Chapter.number, Appendix.number]>.Any ideas?

For some reason, some of my book files do not seem to have any "knowledge" of the IndexIX paragraph tag, which I need for creating PDF files from a FM book (so it will go in the bookmarks list), and also for when I generate a TOC, because I want to include the index chapter in the TOC.If I start with a book file that doesn't have the IndexIX tag in either of the bookmark lists (include or don't include tag), I have no idea how to add it. I can't find anything about that in the help files and I spent a lot of time looking.I found a workaround, which is to copy a book file from some other book that shows the IndexIX tag in the include or don't-include list. I delete all the FM files from the book file, and then I add the files from the current book I'm working on. This book file does reference the IndexIX tag. I rename the book file for the current book title, and I'm set.However, even that workaround isn't working today. The IndexIX tag is there at first (because it was in the book file

When saving a PDF from a FrameMaker book, is it possible to set document filenames as bookmarks in the PDF? Currently when I have a Framemaker book that I want to save as a PDF, I choose Save Book As and then choose PDF for the file format. A dialog box comes up in which I can choose the Bookmarks tab and choose which tagged content I want to be made into bookmarks in the PDF file. What if I would rather have the filename of a document rather than the chapter title be a bookmark in the PDF? Is that possible? Where would I choose that option? Thanks!

  I have two Win 7, 64 bit machines (one desktop and one laptop) both with Framemaker 10 installed, all patched and current. I need to deactivate the instance of FM 10 on the laptop so that I can install and activate it on a second laptop. When I open the instance of FM 10 on the desktop, the Deactivate option is available from the Help menu. Great, but I do not want to deactivate this instance. When I open the instance of FM 10 on the laptop, the Deactivate option is grayed-out and no matter what I do, I cannot get to become enabled. I have closed and reopened FM multiple times, I have opened and closed existing FM documents, I have created and saved new FM documents, but no joy.     I can't deactivate the FM instance on my desktop . . .it has to be the one on the laptop. 

Hi allIs it possible to produce a script that creates a table from the currently selected text?I can find plenty of discussion about going the other way (ie converting a table to text) but none about converting a text selection to a table. I've looked everywhere I can think of, including the Adobe FM Scripting Guide, but no joy, so I'm beginning to doubt it's even possible.Apologies if the scarcity of info is because it's so laughably simple that everyone else has worked it out -- I'm still at the stage where I'm quite surprised to be able to create a table at all (using NewTable), never mind anything more sophisticated!Any clues will be extremely gratefully received.Many thanks

I've got a simple 3-column newsletter layout where some information repeats from one month to the next. But the repeated pages are less important in the subsequent months, so I'd like to deemphasize them. Is it possible in Frame 11 (Windows 7) to simply move these pages to the back once a layout is complete? This is something that even Pagemaker could do, way back when, but I can't find an easy way to do it with this program. Am I missing something? Thanks for any tips you can give,Gail

Hi,I'm using FM 10.I'm working with cross reference. I'm trying forbid creating reference for some Element Tags, when a new reference is inserting.FM Documentation says, that notification FA_Note_PreInsertElement takes iparm value as an ID of the inserted structural element.But when I try to get some more information from this ID nothing works.If any one can provide me solution it will be great!Regards,Kate[Thread moved from FM general discussions]

Dear patient helpers,I want to 'dump' the contents of an array into a series of paragraphs. Two problems appear in my script:- inserting a TAB by \t inserts a NewLine- items are not placed in succesive paragraphs but at the start of the flow - hence in reverse order and not in own paragraphs // write array to multiple paragraphs  var items      = new Array ();  var nItems, pgf, textLoc, oDoc;   items = ["Århus", "Çedille", "Dandy"];  nItems = items.length;  oDoc = app.ActiveDoc;    pgf = oDoc.MainFlowInDoc.FirstTextFrameInFlow.FirstPgf;  // get first pgf in flow  textLoc = new TextLoc (pgf, 0);    for (var i = 0; i < nItems; i += 1) {    insText = items;    oDoc.AddText (textLoc, insText + "\t" + insText); // \t insert a NL...    oDoc.NewSeriesObject(Constants.FO_Pgf, pgf);  // add a paragraph    pgf = oDoc.NextPgfInFlow;  }

HiMy colleague and I use FrameMaker 8 but I'm considering whether it would be a good idea to upgrade to FrameMaker 12. So today I installed a trail version of FrameMaker 12.Before opening a book file in FM12, I copied it to another folder so I wouldn't mess up anything. Unfortunately, I forgot to copy the chapter files so I opened most of them from FM12. As soon as I found out about it, I copied them to the new folder, but too late.Now I'm not able to open the original files from FM8 (and even worse, neither can my colleague). I read somewhere else, that I should save the book file in the .MIF format (I tried both 12 and 7.0) and then open it from FM8. I tried that, but I still cannot open the chapter files.I get an error message saying: "Althoug xxx.fm appears to be a FrameMaker document, it can't be opened with this release of the product".I didn't make any changes to the chapter files when I looked at them in FM 12.What should I do? I case we decide not to upgrade, we will not be ab

Hi there,I have Adobe technical suite 3 currently installed on my PC, the IT guys at my company installed it.My problem is that my pc is up for replacement and the IT guys that installed the Adobe technical suite have moved on and no one has the license numbers. They have apparently vanished into the wind.So I was thinking, is there a way to get the license information from my existing installment, so i can install the software on my new PC?Kind Regards,Paul HiggsAustralia

I have FM9 and am using it in the unstructured mode. For my manuals that mix two papers sizes I must Print Book instead of Print PDF. When I do this my colored lines and arrows and colored text for hyperlinks turn black in the PDF. Any suggestions how to fix this? Thanks.Jon

Why was Acrobat Pro 9 uninstalled when I installed FrameMaker 12?

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Hello fellows,AFAIK, Framescript v5.x does not support this option. Am I right?Thank you!

Dear all patient helpers,My current project is 're-furbishing' the FameMaker to EndNote' connection. This task comprises several steps:Collect temporary citations (such as [Daube, 1969, #123] ) from text, footnotes and tables into an array. This part already works fine (I had to postpone further development for a year now...).Then I write this data to a new document (which is created from the template) - with your help this came to work today.This file then is saved as rtf to be worked off by the bibliographic application EndNote (or Citavi in another case) to resolve the temporary citations into formatted citations and the bibliography.After that the modified rtf is opened as an FM docment. The information from this is used to replace the  temp. citations in the user-document/book by the formatted citations.The user then copies the bibliography (as text only) into his appropriate chapter/section and formats it to his liking.For step 3 I have now researched a lot and found this:ap