FrameMaker

i want to add a cross reference but i get a message saying i can't add one at the document, any ideas why??

Hi all,I am having trouble getting our structured app/template to apply master pages properly. We're on Frame 11 using an XDocbook, customized app.Here is the configuration:1. Reference page structMasterPageMap:Maps element E:BookInfo  to the "Title Page" master page.  Maps element E:PrefaceInfo to the "Frontmatter" master page.2. Frame XML document content:<bookinfo>     <title>     <edition>     <copyright></bookinfo>As you can see, this doc does not yet have a PrefaceInfo element, although one is allowed by the DTD.  So the obvious solution is to either: 1) add one (wrap the <copyright> element in a <prefaceinfo> element as allowed); or 2) add an "E:Copyright" mapping to the ref page. Yet, neither of these work.  Here's what occurs:Solution A: On the Ref page, add a mapping from E:Copyright to the "Frontmatter" master page:1. Open the document in Frame and note t

Hi all! I have been making a book, and have been using our standard master page layout. I now have to change the master page layout of the whole book, and I have made a document that uses the new master page layout. I did the typical make new master page layout, gave it a name, and everything seemed normal. I then went to add it to the existing documents but, my new layout is nowhere to be found. How do I add this new layout? I thought I could just change out the current master page layout for the new one. The only changes are the graphics at the top, and some header and footer changes. Body text stays the same. I'm on FM11 by the way.

Hi all...Minor problem that I've been "working-around" for a long time now, but this AM, it just finally hit me to try to search out a solution.  I'm currently using FM 11 (in Windows 7), but this has been an issue as far back as FM 7.In a Bulleted List-type paragraph style, if I apply a Character Style to it, it seems to be "stuck" with that style -- Attempts to highlight it and set it back to the "Default (Paragraph Symbol) Font" Character Style don't work.  My work around has been to:Highlight the offending text.Select the "Default (Paragraph Symbol) Font" Character Style (even though nothing is applied).Select a new Paragraph Style (any one).Re-select the appropriate Paragraph Style.This resets the Character Style to the Default Font, but it's kind of a pain.Any ideas on why this is the case?Thanks a lot, - Chris

Hi,I've had FM 8 since 2008, and it's always worked fine, but since I upgraded to Windows 8 a couple of months ago, FM has started crashing randomly. It wasn't so frequent at first, and the symptom of the crash made me think it was just slow (it will suddenly say "Not Responding" at the top of the FM application). That can happen with anything, and it usually means that something is temporarily hogging the system or slowing it down for some reason. But in this case, FM never comes back from the not-responding state. If I click on the application, everything goes gray. Eventually I have to exit the program or kill it through the task manager.Here's mybasic info:System: Dell - 64-bit processors (2), 4 GB (3GB usable) RAMOS: Windows 8 Pro, 32-bitFrameMaker: 8.0p266I saw a similar post from 3 years ago, of FM 8 crashing in Win 7. There were several responses with suggestions, but I know that Win 8 is different from 7, so I'm not sure those suggestions will apply here. The incompatibility b

how can I scrolling together two or more documents such as the "synchronized scrolling" in MS Office Word?- Thanks, Marco

My Pro Tools program was damaged by the Creative Cloud system.I was invited to install and try the Cloud,but it did me a great dis-service and has set me back in Production and personal time trying to get my pro Tools working again. I am really disappointed and would like you to advise me how to restore my program to its working state. I am in a traumatic state since I have Artistes life work being processed in the Pro Tools 9 Program. Help! Help! Please.Ps. I tried reinstalling the software from the Disc....Still NOT working.

I have a contract to edit and save documents in this version format but I only have 1 license. I need 3-5 licenses. Any ideas? I cannot find any legitimate websites that sell legacy versions.

We are working on technical publications that require the use of MIL-STD-40051 for the US Army, some of the Frame files we have have master pages that are set up to use certain system variables such as <$filename> to display what would be the work package number, this is great because the the filename is the work package number, the problem is this also displays the file extension which is not good and we need to eliminate otherwise we are then having to go and create a file that has no extension in order to make sure this doesn't appear, we would like to just use the .fm files to make this happen but unless we can modify this to not show the file extension we are left doing extra work. Any assistance would be great on finding a fix for this.Thanks,David

How to save a book as PDF with bookmarks?I am exporting an open book as PDF using the following script:var params = GetSaveDefaultParams()var returnParamsp =new PropVals()var i = GetPropIndex(params, Constants.FS_FileType)params.propVal.ival =Constants.FV_SaveFmtPdffile.Save(pdfName, params, returnParamsp)This works fine but the pdf document does not have bookmarks. I would like to get the sameresult as if a selected "Generate PDF bookmarks" (translated from German) on the Bookmarspage of the PDF Settings dialog.I guess I will have to set some property value, but which one? Is there a place where I can look it up?Thanks

Hi,I have Frame Maker document which was created in version 8 with lot of equations. The document used Symbol font for all operators including +, -, = etc.,I want to apply "Mathematical Pi 1" font for all operators. ie., I want change Symbol to "Mathematical Pi 1".Please advise how to change this globally?

My customer got FM 7 and we have FM 11. Can I still edit and save FM 7 files in FM 11? If yes, later, can customer open the edited files in FM 7?

Hello fellows,Are you aware of any way to convert a Mif file to HTML outside of Framemaker? In the past, there were attempts to create tools that convert Mifs to XML, but they weren't really successful.Thank you for your suggestions in advance!

I have tried to open a file (configuration.fm . I give this file name because I am not sure whether the name has anything to trigger the crash) in FM12 and the system shows an error and close. The screenshot of the error is given below.I am using a Virtual Machine to access FM 12 as this product license belongs to my company. FM 12 shows this error only when I open a particular file from the book which contains more than 20 files. Can anybody here to help me to sort this out?I am ready to provide you any further information you may require for clearing this error.  The error log is given below.=== Header Begin ===Internal Error: 12024, 5109364, 5109658, 8042869FrameMaker 12.0.2 for IntelBuild: 12.0.2.389Window System: MSWindowsOperating System: Windows NT 6.1 (major.minor.build: 6.1.7601 Service Pack 1) Generated on: Tuesday, July 29, 2014 6:03:53 AMTo file: C:\Users\Administrator\AppData\Roaming\Adobe\FrameMaker\12\FrameLog_14.07.29_06.03.53.txtLocale: EnglishCurrent Mode: MakerC

I just got a new computer and want to install the old license of Framemaker on this new PC.  Where can I get the download for Framemaker 11 from?

Hi I am a Newbie to Framemaker,I have some rows in tables that are larger than the page size and find that the text flows off the page. How do you 'break' the table text so the text automatically flows to the next page ie similar to a Word table?. Michael

If I am highly experienced with InDesign/Pagemaker, Flash, Illustrator and Photoshop, how hard would it be to come up to speed on FrameMaker?  Any online training resources you would recommend to shorten the learning curve?  I am interviewing for a tech writing job and need to know (a) how fast I can learn FrameMaker and (b) what online training resources you might recommend to get me there F-A-S-T!!

Our company has a 3600+ page manual for a software program that has been around for 30+ years. The software product is very antiquated - in fact, it's mostly a text-based program. Users navigate to the different areas of the program by typing in menu numbers, which is listed on the screen. Originally, the manual was organized by these menu numbers, but our new customers had a hard time finding information. A few years ago we reorganized the topics to be task-based, but we have some experienced users as well as our support staff that still want to be able to look at a list of the topics organized by menu number. In our last release, I did this all manually by printing a list of all the headings and their corresponding menu numbers, and added them as cross-reference links in the back of the manual. This took over a week and was a major pain. Obviously, from a maintenance perspective, it's a nightmare. Is there any way that I can automate this process by using an index or modified TOC to

FM 8 kept crashing when trying to build/generate a book.  Error codes that came up in the error message were:  8004, 6335581, 8468256, 0.  Any ideas would be appreciated since I cannot do my job with FM crashing every time I attempt a build.  Colleagues have no problems and have the same configuration.

Does anyone know what the entries in the FrameMaker "lck" file represent ? I can guess at some of them, but if there is some kind of reference info somewhere, that would be useful.ThanksJang

An English MIF was translated for us into Korean.When we read the MIF file into FM11 we see questions-marks (?????) instead of the actual text.If we copy&paste the question-marks-text into MS Word we see the Korean fonts looking good.If we we create a PDF from that MIF file then the bookmarks look fine but the actual text is scrambled - here is how it looks:Appreciate any related assistance.Thanks,Eitan

When I do Hindi layout in FM, some word shows wrong. (The font we use: Mango)I don't know how to fix these bugs.

News posted by Carolyn Stallard on the framemaker-dita list:Jeremy Griffith, the creator of Mif2Go and DITA2Go, died on May 15 after a long illness.

Have just installed latest patch and cannot now change any attributes in Structured FrameMaker - FM12 crashes.

Hi allUsing Framemaker 12 on Windows 8.1.I have made a copy of my colleague's Framemaker files and images from our document management system and am finding the age-old problem of missing images.My problem is that the files are in four different locations, and Framemaker seems to only be able to remember one path at a time. This means that unless two files from the same folder happen to be sequential in a document, I'm having to find each image manually, which is very tiresome.I found the following thread about this and was full of hope..."Manage Graphics". It seemed oh-so-promising.In this thread it says "So, if your graphics are in even just two locations, FrameMaker may ask you over and over for the locations because it is jumping back and forth between the two. This case is the case that I have. I typically give the location of the first graphic, then click ignore for all of the rest in the file (or until I get bored). Even though I am ignoring the remaining graphics, FrameMaker st