FrameMaker

While aware that some error messages in no wise indicate a genuine problem … I always prefer to keep my source files clean and my error logs empty. So, I'm a bit peeved that the latest irritation appears to be a present from FrameMaker; even more so that it is intermittent and (for me) unpredictable – but since I've started posting I may as well finish:The "font not found" message when I try to create a .pdf refers to Stag-Book. The PC has, indeed, no font called Stag-Book – the hyphen only appears in the FPostScriptName attribute buried deep in the .mif file.  <PgfFont    <FTag `'>   <FPlatformName `W.Stag Book.R.400'>   <FFamily `Stag Book'>   <FVar `Regular'>   <FWeight `Regular'>   <FAngle `Regular'>   <FPostScriptName `Stag-Book'>   <FEncoding `FrameRoman'>What's to do?

Why won't Adobe FrameMaker 11 generate a PDF?

How to modify the color of an "xref" element existing as a cross-reference? It's color now is black, but I want it blue. Excerpts from the EDD file are as follows. Can someone help? Thanks in advance. You can also give me your skype if you have the answer.Element (CrossReference): xrefAttribute listName: show Choice Optional Choices: new, replace, automaticDefault: automaticName: ref-text String Optional Name: ref-external-id String Optional Name: ref-file String Optional Name: ref-id String Optional Name: window-number Choice Optional Choices: 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10Default: 1Name: condition String Optional Name: condition-model String Optional Name: property String Optional Name: revision Choice Optional Choices: changed, added, deleted, offName: anchor-id String Optional Name: msg-info String Optional Initial cross-reference formatIf context is: * < (list-steps | block)Use cross-reference format: numberElseUse cross-reference format: number-and-text

Pls see the title. There are hundreds of elements/paragraphs.

Printing to PDF crashes FM12 every time - I lose work even though it's saved before printing the book - specifically the TOC.I've installed the patch for 12.0.2 but the crashes are more than annoying and seem to have happened after installing the patch.

It asks me for a serial number, which I entered. Then the computer asks me to allow program to make changes to the computer, which I allow. Then nothing happens.

When using the paragraph designer to insert a frame with reference graphics it works out great when generating a PDF. But when publishing to html5 it just adds space - ie the size of the frame - and the graphic is missing.Is this related to editing the publishing preferences?Has it something to do with the image file/format? Does it have to have a generated version of itself for the html-code to reference? How would that be accomplished?Is it a feature that has yet to be implemented?Please help out, as I have quite a lot of material that needs sorting out in about a weeks time.regardsFrederic

Hi, I am working with a project that needs to highlight certain word or phrases with different colours. I use the background colour option to do this, but when making a pdf, the colour disappears. How do I get this to work? FM10 unstructured.JW

Master pages went missing from my FrameMaker 12 setup about 4 days ago. I can see body and references pages. I have tried reinstalling. The master pages are missing from all of my FrameMaker documents, absolutely all of them. I have done two new installations of FM 12, no fix.

FM12: From the Show/Hide Conditional Text pod, Show as per Condition applied to entire book does not consistently update book with correct condition. Now to get the desired condition, I have to apply the condition per section in the book. Has the workflow for this feature changed with FM12? Or is it a bug? Thanks, Patti

Using FM10 ....I clicked Format > Page Layout > Pagination (on a file in the bookfile, not with the file open) because I want to set pagination to "Next Available" and "Delete Empty Pages".But when I click Set, FM pops up a warning:     The new column layout in xyz.fm seems to overlap with other objects on the Left and RIght master pages. Are you sure you want to do this?What is it trying to tell me? Thanks.

Does anyone have experience in tracking the status messages for an XML export from within ExtendScript ? One of my scripts publishes a book and all its chapters to XML and needs to report on possible errors that occurred. The export also includes running an XSLT for post processing. I can see the status messages in the console panel but I need to know the status from within the script, so that it can handle possible error situations elegantly.CiaoJang

We are using FrameMaker 12 (unstructured) on a Windows 7 platform (64 bit).I have the following anchored frame and paragraphs that together form a block of conditional text:Small icon graphic in an anchored frame aligned to left margin.Body Text paragraph (this text runs around the small icon graphic)Body Text paragraph (this text is below the small icon graphic, aligned to the left margin)1. List Num 1 paragraph (aligned against left margin)2. List Num + paragraph (aligned against left margin)3. List Num + paragraph (aligned against left margin)I block everything described above, and apply a conditional tag.When I hide the conditional text, 100% of the conditional text disappears, except:Tthe "1." that is part of the Autonumber format for the List Num 1 paragraph. (The text of the List Num 1 paragraph disappears as it should.)The anchor for the small icon graphic's anchored frame.The "1." and the anchor seem to be stuck to each other when I try to hide the conditional text. (They are

Has anyone seen where conditional text is turned invisible (or white, perhaps) when displaying conditional indicators?Settings for the 2 tags in question are red/strikethrough, and green/underline.MIF wash yielded no improvement, and I've tested on 2 different computers.-Matt

We are looking for a web authoring, or content management tool, other than Robohelp, to publish and maintain Framemaker files online.  Any suggestions?

Can someone post the following examples:1. Loop through all paragraphs in a document and if the paragraph has a specific paragraph tag (e.g., Heading 1) change one aspect of the paragraph, for example, the text color. (This avoids the need to change the style and remove all the overrides.)2. Loop through all the tables in a document and change one aspect of the table, for example the column width of the second column.Thanks

Evening all -this is by no means the first time I'm banged my head against the colour management brick wall, and I doubt it will be the last I am running Frame 12 and Illustrator CC on Windows 7.Both these Adobe products ship bundled with Pantone libraries. (Correct me with I'm wrong, but these "libraries" are basically a bunch of look-up tables, mapping named Pantone colours to various CYMK, RGB, etc equivalents?)Can anyone tell me why these two different Adobe applications appear to give different definitions for the same Pantone colours?For example, if I choose the Pantone Coated library > 'Warm Red'In Illustrator CC (left screenshot), it offers this as C0% M87.4% Y79.9% K0%in FrameMaker 12 (right screenshot), I get C0% M79%  Y91%  K0%Why are they different?Are the library definitions shipped with the products simply different?Frame's dialog ominously mentions "© Pantone, Inc., 1986, 1988"And if I go to C:\Program Files (x86)\Adobe\AdobeFrameMaker12\fminit\color and op

Try as I might, I don't see how it can be done. Thanks for your help.

Where can I locate great FrameMaker templates?

I'm interested in learning from Adobe or experienced users about best practices to follow (or references worth reading) about translating FrameMaker publications.

I've created a book with 2 files - the pages in the first file are 8.5 x 11, the pages in the second file are 8.5 x 14.How can I save the book as a PDF but keep both page sizes? Right now if I change the page size in the PDF settings dialog, it changes all pages.Thanks.

Hey there,I would like to save (multiple) *.fm files as XML, preferably via command line and was pointed to this forum by the Technical Support.So far I don't have any experience with ExtendScript but general programming experience is available.Edit: Using FrameMaker 12Appreciating any hints in the right direction or a simple solution.Thanks and best regards!

My FM12 is running on a VM with Windows 7 and 6Gb of Memory - it's a pretty large book, 750+ pages. When I get more than 700 files open, it crashes. Then it will crash while numbering.What should be a straight forward publishing of the book is taking two days due to crashes. I have to save the files after I open a batch and apply numbering or I lose the entire book.Also, when I select a few files in a folder, FM opens the entire folder of files which is really weird.It's version 12.0.2.89

I am working in FM11 and found my 494 pg PDF has 3 pages that needed replacing. I made the fix in FM and wanted to PDF just the chapter with the updated pages and drag them into the original PDF. Thanks.

I have used Framemaker 6 to produce and publish a few guidebooks. I would like to take the most recent book from this year and make available an eBook version for Kindle.My book is about 400 pages and has many maps, photographs, and tables. I doubt running the PDF thru any of the tools like Kindle Direst Publishing (KDP) will produce output acceptable to me.My questions:1. Does FM 12 do a good job of importing an FM 6 book source?2. Would you recommend this as the best path to do produce a quality eBook?PaulF