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How do I find original source files for an XML-generated online help system created in FM12? What are POM files?I must take over from previous tech writer to fix the files and regenerate them and I haven't a clue how to do it in FM 12.I've created online help in the past, using RoboHELP without any coding.HELP PLEASE. I am under the gun and struggling.Thanks.

When a table row is deleted, there is no change bar indication. Does anyone have workarounds for that?It seems like revision management in FrameMaker is not as full-featured as one would like. Any tips on revision management in FrameMaker would be welcome.

We just upgraded from FM8 to FM12 on Windows. I was hoping that by now, there would be an easy way to change the default colors for condition tags. I can't find a way to do this. I happen to hate the bright green used for inserted text and would like it changed in all documents for all time. Is there a way to do this? Thank you.

Why is FMv12 not handling my font callout the same as FMv7?Running FMv12 (and v7) on Win7 pc.Using Wingdings and Symbol font families for Bullet Types in an Unnumbered List.The bullet symbol is changeable via an Attribute setting in Structure and Context Rules in the EDD.My file works fine in FMv7, to include changing the bullet to a chevron, asterisk, etc.However, in FMv12, the very same file does not show the correct symbol, even for a regular bullet, which is using the Symbol font. The symbol it shows will change with each attribute value, but the symbol is never the correct one.Closing the file, Save/Yes or Save/No, and then open again in FMv7, and it all works correctly.Why is FMv12 not handling my font callouts the same as FMv7?Thanks,Dave

Installed FMv9 after installing FMv7.On file server, v7 files now show v9 Icon.When doubleclicking v7 files, they open in v9.When right clicking v7 file, to Open With, v7 is not listed as an option. If I Browse to v7.exe and select it, the Open With dialog still does not show v7.We have to abort Open With, start FMv7, and then drag v7 file onto FM program window. Or, in FMv7 program, do File Menu > Open and navigate to v7 file.What happened to the File Association to FM v7? And why can we not open v7 files via Open With?Thanks,Dave

Hey,When I create a table using the "Simple table" format and save the file (in xml-format), the table is converted to Table formatA the next time I open the file?When I change the left indent from 0.0 cm to 2.0 cm in the table designer in the DITA structured templates it is not applied to any of my working files when I open themYour help would be greatly appreciatedBest regardsRonny

Hello all,I am developing a structured app in which I need to split my FM file into a number of separate XML output files. Using xsl:result-document works fine outside of FM, but when using the same XSL from inside FM there are no result documents. I tried to run this on a network drive and on a local drive, but that does not seem to make a difference. I did switch the default XSLT processor in the maker.ini file to use the Saxon XSL 2 processor, so that cannot be the problem. I am guessing it has something to do with the Windows privileges in creating new files but how can those be different for the program when it creates a new file and the same program running an XSLT processor that creates a new file.If anyone has used xsl:result-document succesfully in the postprocessing of FM, let me know what the trick was.Jang

The table-designer does not work in FM12 . How do you creat a table without this option?

Is it possible to install Technical Communications Suite (TCS) 5 while retaining the TCS4 applications? I need to run both Robohelp 10 and 11, and FrameMaker 11 and 12 in support of team members who cannot upgrade yet due to project timelines. In case it matters, I'm running Windows 7 64-bit w/ 8 GB of memory.Thanks,Alan

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I have FrameMaker 7 docs that I'm now editing in FrameMaker 9 (9.0.4). I need to wipe out some old variables and update some definitions. When a select a user variable in the Variables list and click the Edit button, in the Add/Edit Variable box, the Name box is blank (or has a single invisible character highlighted).When I try to do the same thing with a system variable, such as Table Sheet (or any other one), the Edit System Variable box appears but the Name field always displays "Page Count" -- not whatever variable was selected.It seems there's some corruption or problem with variables in this document. Could this be a character set problem? Some variables were defined long ago with German text. The Table Sheet variable is defined as "(Abschnitt <$tblsheetnum> von <$tblsheetcount>)" for example.I applied all FrameMaker 9 updates today, and this behavior hasn't changed. According to the Help, I'm doing this correctly. Is it user error, Frame weirdness? Is there a way to

We are using Framemaker 12 version 12.0.3.424, it tells me it is the latest patch level, and the issue we are having is that it won't either save as or print to PDF, both options are failing, they start up and then go to a certain point and come up as "not responding" and then just stops. I have managed to get a postscript file on two occasions that got 141 pages out of 1400+. I have gone through a bunch of the threads here and made sure that I have changed Adobe PDF printer to the default and deselected the box about using the specific fonts, still nothing. We are also using Adobe Acrobat XI Standard, and that is now up to the latest patch level as well. I am running out of things to try in order to get this full book put together and ready for delivery. If anyone has any additional things to try that would be great. One thing I feel might be an issue is that some of the files seem to be using a different font, "Times" vs. "Times New Roman", Frame automatically substitutes it, so was

(FM12 trial on Win7)Looking for a trailhead...I don't see "the" console in FM12, the one I knew from FM11 and before.A quick check of the Help indicates that a potentially related concept, an error pod, exists under View > Pods > Error, but that path does not exist in the menus that I see.Best regards,

Hello All,I am new to Adobe Frame Maker and want to understand Workflow concept for Adobe frame maker.I have multiple Authors want to perform role of editor / reviewer etc.. want to follow process before doing publish.Is there any pre-defined workflow template in Adobe frame maker ? multiple user / author / reviewer decide and edit the 1 document before doing publish.I have EMC Documentum CMS integration, will it be Documentum workflow or normal Frame Maker workflow.Can some one provide pointers/ URL/ documentation for Workflow integration for XML file / DITA file creation using Frame Maker.Thanks in advance!

Hello All,I have created DITA task Topic and saved as *.dita fileNow i want to upload this dota file to CMS repository, required connection is done able to browse the Documentum cabinetsBut when click on Uplaod active document i get following error.Create Operation failed.Task name [id=null] Properties {object_name=<file_name>, File not found at E:\Program Files\AdobeFrameMaker12\Structure\xml\XML_DITA_Sample\TechnicalContent\dtd\task.dtd.Am I missing anything.. as per error location file is missing.. but i am trying to create new DITA Topic task and got created but while upload to CMS repository creating problem..

Hi everyone.What i am trying is creating an empty frame for graphics.i´m using Extendscript for this purpose. I can create Frames with Graphic. but no empty Frames.I Tried following code:                                          frame = doc.NewGraphicObject (Constants.FO_AnchoredFrame, doc.TextSelection);                frame = doc.NewGraphicObject (Constants.FO_UnanchoredFrame, doc.TextSelection);                frame = doc.NewUnanchoredFrame (doc.TextSelection);          None of those is creating an empty Frame. I have an unstructered Document but tried this with structered documents too.I tried t

Hello!I have a couple of questions concerning working with elements form ExtendScript via FM API.1) How to assign a text value to an element?2) Can I insert a new element to an existing element? If it is possible then what objects or functions should I use to do this? They write in a reference that the Element object has Delete() method but I failed to find Insert() method or anything looking like this.Thank you!

I am working in FM 11 and have crashed FM a few times. What is the best way to use the recovery files and save them as the normal file? Then should I filter an explorer window for "recovery" so FM won't keep asking me if I want to use older recovery files? Thanks for your help.

Can I disable this annoying attribute pop-up menu that appears whenever I press CTRL and the mouse cursor happens to be over an element tag?This has disrupted my work more often than I care to count, and I'm tired of hitting CTRL+C or X only to later CTRL+V a weird empty table where I wanted to paste text. I don't want to have to pay attention to where my mouse cursor is every time I want to copy or cut something.

Hello!We have a custom XML schema and a structured application that allows us to edit our XML documents in FM. The schema contains a definition for a cross reference element and a definition for a target element.=============================================================Example:A cross reference element (say, documentA.xml contains this element): <cref target="documentB.xml#sect123"/>.A target element (say, documentB.xml contains this element): <section id="sect123"/>.Also I have a book in FM that includes both documentA.xml and documentB.xml.=============================================================FM outputs error messages when I try to save documentA.xml.So, I have few questions concerning this issue.How should I describe the cref element in EDD?A manual says, that the @Target attribute must be of the IDREF type. Sounds good but the # char is restricted for IDREF values. How can I resolve this contradiction? If I write <cref target="sect123"/> (target id witho

FrameMarker 12: if there are so many font,  font page is truncated, then I cannot selected what I want, like Simsun.

I know how to replace it in one file, but when I try to apply it to the book, it doesnt work.

I want to start the process of transferring a licence for FrameMaker from a seller to myself.  But the instructions at <Transfer an Adobe product license> ask me to contact Adobe to first obtain a case form, but the "Contact Us" link just sends me to the forums, not to a message form I can fill in.  How can I get out of the product support universe to find someone to email re a legal issue?  Is it possible to reach a human any more or has Adobe delegated pre-sales and post-sales support totally to users?Hedley at [email address removed by host]

Hello,I am using the Trial version of FM 12 and attempting to export to both WebHelp and CHM.We would like to use the original images, but the Publish process is resizing them. I read that setting Maximum Dimensions, Width and Height to 0 will cause the program not to resize the image. However, when I set W/H to 0, the images are deleted from my project output.When I generate WebHelp I noticed that the HTML has a set style, but I haven't selected any of the options in the Image style. <p class="FM_Figure"><img alt="UserRoles04NewRole.png" style="width : 306.319pt; height : 96.559pt; margin-bottom : 0.000pt; " id="image3" src="UserRoles04NewRole.png" /> </p>I'm glad that the HTML is referencing the original graphic, I was thinking that for sure that the graphics were converted during the Publish process. But how do I configure my .sts so that the images are not resized?Thanks!

Hi allI've been struggling with this all morning and think it's time to give up and ask for help.(Btw there is a similar topic here: Creating Parts or Volumes in FM Book Files but it doesn't really help me much)I want to have the following structure in my FM 12 book:Some introductory filesSECTION 1  - Getting Started     Chapter 1     Chapter 2     Chapter 3SECTION 2 - Configuration     Chapter 4     Chapter 5 etc etcI cannot get the section numbers (or in FM's case, are these Volume numbers?) to number sequentially. For some reason the first two are ok, but for Section 3 and 4 they still say Section 2.Also, the chapter numbering has also now gone wonky.I've hunted high and low but cannot work this out. I've added folders, thinking that this might help, but it doesn't.This is my actual book structure:The tags I'm using at present for the chapter titles and section/volume titles are: