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We are currently adding additional footnote references in FM tables. However, they do not automatically update when new footnotes are added. This causes a great deal of confusion regarding which reference is attached to a certain footnote.  For example, we add a footnote, then add references/link to that specific footnote in other areas of the table. However, when subsequent changes (new footnotes added, etc.) are made the footnotes are not updated. Please advise - 

Hi,I am using FrameMaker 17.0.0 version and struggling with the save as pdf option. Whenever, I tried to save as pdf, it throws out an error: "FraeMaker could not find Adobe PDF printer instance, which must be installed to execute Save as PDF command"When I go for addition of "adobe print to pdf printer", i don't see that in my printer list (using an existing port in add printer setup). Any suggestion or solution for this, please?Thanks,

Hii would like to install the FM publishing server version 2019 realease on our WS 2012 R2.Where could we download this 2019 release? regardsRichard

Hello. I have a document in which FM is not wrapping words at the end of lines:Note that the first line has broken the word "Transfer" in two, without a hyphen, when it should have wrapped that entire word to the next line. It is also breaking cross-references; see line 2. I have played around with the pagination and hyphenation options to no avail. Chanig the line alignment is no help either; the sentence as shown above is "justified" but the same thing happens when I set it to "left." Setting the alignment to "centered" has a very comical looking result, but the topmost line is still broken mid-word. What am I missing here? Thanks in advance,Bill

Hello all, I've been tasked with converting a 20-year-old aviation training manual PDF file back into Frame. The original Frame files are long gone to FrameMaker heaven!The Heading 1 & Heading 2 tags were set to variables in the header and the footers with the manual title and company name are also set to variables.So far, my only solution is to CTRL+A the PDF into my template and strip the document with find/replace and RegEx to strip the spaces. Then I use Copy Special/Paragraph Format to retag.I can get the job done but I want to ask the pros if there’s a better way.Rick, is there a script for this?Happy Easter to all that celebrate!Regards,Sam

When I edit text and the zoom level is 160% or greater, the display fails to update properly and any text which has shifted is overprinted. I can refresh the display, of course, with CTRL+L or by scrolling, but making complex edits is nearly impossible.  It's fine at lower zoom levels. Unfortunately, for the time being, I must  use high zoom levels in FM due to an eye injury.  Here's what it looks like: Changing the font and using displays with different resolutions haven't helped. I've played with the DPI compatibility settings (by right-clicking on the FM executable) to no avail. Is there anything else I can try? Graphics: Nvidia RTX A2000 laptop GPU.FM version 17.0.1.305. 

I have clicked on View-Reference Page and scrolled to the page that pertains to the formatting of the Table of Contents. I make my changes..(Bolded, added a tab, etc). I click on View-Body Page to return to the Table of Contents of the book. I save the work and the click Apply Update to Book. The Table of Contents does not change to what is on the reference page. I have no experience with scripting or the coding that is on the Reference Page. How do I get the changes I made on the Reference Page work?Thank you.

Hello. I am trying to import a cross reference format from one chapter to many. First I go to the book and select all the chapters that I want to receive the format. Then I go to the import feature and deselect all but "Cross reference formats." At that point I choose "Current document" as the source.  When I hit the Import button the program gives a little blip as if it's doing something, but when it's finished I find that the cross reference format is still not imported into any of the chapters.  What am I missing here? TIA,Bill

Hello, looking for a little advice! I understand this is probably a limitation of framemaker but hoping maybe someone else has dealt with something like this or has an idea that I am not thinking of.Per the customer’s format: Table titles end with a period and when a table rolls to another page the period appears at the end of Continued. The inserted variable is showing as a character space which isn’t what we want. Is there another way to close this space (see red arrow below)?  (And this isn’t something that we can suggest to the customer to change their style and location of the period or to nix it all together, as we are not in control of the publication just providing supplements to their existing manual. I don’t think they are using FrameMaker to author in either. Currently were are splitting the table and handling the formatting manually.)Thank you all!

My company is looking to migrate from their current Sharepoint site to a new Sharepoint drive; currently all of our images are located on drive #1. If we move those images to drive #2, I expect the links to be broken, but then if I relink one of them through Object Properties, will Framemaker try to relink other missing files from that directory automatically? Or is this something a script might be needed for? Or should we just not do that... we have a pretty fair amount of images connected to a decent number of books. 

I do not want to misuse another thread. Matt wrote about new job options in FM 2020: https://community.adobe.com/t5/framemaker/why-are-framemaker-backup-files-not-saved-with-a-different-file-extension/td-p/11825716 My questions are: Do you know why there are json and joboptions file name extensions? And do you have a description of these new job options (at least more than the very short sentence in Distiller)? In particular: Cleaner_Defaults.joboptionsLiquidModePDF.joboptionsMobile.joboptionsPDF20.joboptions What is the difference?   Additionally: When I copied some new joboptions files into c:\Users\myusername\AppData\Roaming\Adobe\Adobe PDF\Settings\ all were accessible in FrameMaker in the Publish pod. But in Distiller I can access only these two: Cleaner_Defaults.joboptionsMobile.joboptions These two do not appear in Distiller: LiquidModePDF.joboptionsPDF20.joboptions

When I click email link in pdf document it opens blank page in browser instead in g mail!Any idea how to solve it!

I've never done much with ExtendScript and am trying to get a little bit familiar with it. Assuming I have a paragraph object, how can I get the x, y location of the beginning of the paragraph? Thanks,Nick

Trying to study for a certification using a practice exam which I've used many times. For some reason, I'm getting this webpage when trying to access 

I've converted a 60,000+ manuscript from a plain text editor to FrameMaker. In the plain text document both the opening and closing quotation marks (around dialogue) use the " (double quotes). How can I convert them into the appropriate “ (smart opening quotation) and ” (smart closing quotation) respectively? Straight Quotes are turned off in my Preferences, so the smart quotes appear when I manually type them in the FM document (needless to say I'm not keen on doing this manually.)

Framemaker 17.0.2.431, structured.Source .fm files contain multiple hyperlinks, cross-references and hotspots. All are functional within Framemaker. However, when the book is output to PDF (using 'Save as PDF..') all the hotspots in the PDF lose linking functionality. All hyperlinks and cross-references in the PDF remain functional.Some notes.....Acrobat Reader recognises the hotspots (clickable 'pointing hand' mouseovers), but the reader (me) is not taken to the destination, sadly.All the hotspots were applied to text frames in the .fm files and reside in the master pages.Thanks in advance for any help you can provide with this issue.

In the screen shot attached, I have text on page 8 and I want Policy - Configuration - Uncategorized and the text and following table to continue in the space on page 8 instead of starting at the top of page 9.  Probably a simple fix but haven't run into this previously. Thanks.

hello.I have a question about scripting to resize graphic.This is the script to resize graphic doc = app.ActiveDoc;graphicObj = doc.FirstGraphicInDoc;while(graphicObj.ObjectValid()) {graphicObj = graphicObj.NextGraphicInDoc;if(graphicObj.type == Constants.FO_Inset) {name = graphicObj.InsetFile;graphicObj.InsetDpi=300;}}but I want to resize graphic only having attribute placement "break"How can I do this with script??

Hello.I'm here to ask the problem to make mini toc automatically.I'm dealing with structured document so I can't use the menu to make mini toc.Even I try to convert xml to fm file or erasing structure menu, I couldn't make mini toc.Is there anyway to make mini toc automatically for structured document with scripting or somthing?I wish I can get some tips to learn about this.Thank you for reading this. ps. In ditamap, there is the top level topic xml document and 2 level topics are under top topc as different documents like the below image. 

I’m converting DITA XML documents into FrameMaker documents by applying paragraph and table styles through the EDD. I’ve created a new table style, formatted it in my document template, defined it in my EDD with a context formatting rule. The table cells are being correctly formatted, but the table seems to default to having the row lines included. I don’t want the row lines and have removed them from the table style in my document template. FrameMaker 20 (v17.0.1.305) Thanks, Bruce Sanchez   [PII removed by Moderator]

I used structured framemaker. I saved the book file as XML.In XML file, And I look at the tag, the alignment value for the image has been entered. (align="acenter")Where can I modify this value? I want to set the align value.I checked the attribute values of the elements, but there was no connection.I checked the attribute values of the element, but there was not relevant. <ImageData entity="ImageData1" impsize="5.421in 3.955in"impby="ref" sideways="0" impang="0.000" xoffset="0.000in"yoffset="0.014in" position="inline" align="acenter"cropped="0" float="0" width="5.449in" height="3.983in"angle="0.000" bloffset="0.000in" nsoffset="0.000in"/>

I have created a List of Effective Pages using the List of Paragraphs function. It is all working exactly as intended except for one thing. For the first page of each section the entry for the Issue Number and Issue Date is listed before or above  the Section Number. Thus the Issue Number and Date appears as the last page of the section before.  How can I change the order of the items so that the Issue Number and Date appears below the Section Number. I have attached a picture where you can see what I'm talking about. Currently the text for the Section Number is in the heading for the the Table of Contents page for that section.  I could "fix" the issue by inserting another page at the front of each section which has just the Section Number on it but I'd rather not have to do that.  I've figured out how to re-arrange the order of the data contained within each entry by re-arranging these on the Reference pages and figure there is probably a

How do I get FrameMaker text into a string using ExtendScript?

I am writing code in C++ on Visual Studio (hereinafter referred to as VS) to create a plug-in (dll) to add a menu using FDK.I created a simple sample using VS2022 (FDK2022 specification) to display "Hello World" when FramaMaker2022 starts."Hello World" is displayed when common language runtime support is set to "Do not use common language runtime support"But,If I select "Common Language Runtime Support (/clr)", an error message will be displayed indicating that the API client cannot be initialized.Do you know if it is possible to specify "Common Language Runtime Support (/clr)" as the common language runtime support when creating a FramaMaker2022 plug-in (dll)?If it is possible to specify this, I would appreciate it if you could give me advice on setting other items.

I am trying to delete this 'Chapter 1' from the template, but when I do that, it appears in the next page. Please suggest how can I delete this.