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Using the following across all documents in a bookpgfId = F_ApiGetNamedObject(docId, FO_PgfFmt, "100_TOC_Header01");F_ApiSetInt(docId, pgfId, FP_AcrobatLevel, 1);pgfId = F_ApiGetNamedObject(docId, FO_PgfFmt, "010_01_00_Heading01");                        F_ApiSetInt(docId, pgfId, FP_AcrobatLevel, 2);F_ApiSetInt( bookId, docId, FP_DocAcrobatElements, False);F_ApiSetInt( bookId, docId, FP_PDFBookmark, True);    F_ApiSetInt( bookId, docId, FP_PDFBookmarksOpenLevel, FV_PDFBookmarksOpenAllLevels); F_ApiSetInt( bookId, docId, FP_PDFRegistrationMarks, FV_PDFRegistrationMarksNone);F_ApiSimpleSave(docId, F_ApiGetString(FV_SessionId, docId, FP_Name), False); to set bookmarks for PDF when doing a save as PDF on the book.This works for all FO_PgfFmt's defined in the document except when the FO_PgfFmt is defined in a master page.Is there some setting that is needed to ge

Hi,We have recently done few template changes and applied single sided pagination to our documents. However, whenever we are trying to update the book, or add the TOC, the Frame is crashing with the Internal Error 10024, 6382424, 6369617, 6383085. Can anyone suggest a solution? I have already applied the 10.0.3 patch with no help.Thanks,Mahuya

I am working in FM11. What's the best way to clean up my paragraph and font catalogs. The previous writer used quite a few paragraph tags that I no longer  need. My concern is to keep the tags I am using or may use and delete the wonky ones. Is there a way to print a list of used tags for all chapters in the book? I am hoping this will also help with the "unavailable fonts" error I get in almost every chapter when I open my book. Thanks for your help.

I'm writing a software guide where I need to include code that the reader can copy and paste in their Linux command terminal. I obtained this code from the engineer who wrote the software. He copy and pasted the sections of code for me into a .txt file. I pasted the unformatted text into FM11 and then applied my code example paragraph tag. Please note that the code sections have lots of dashes "-", blank spaces " ", as well as periods "." and slashes"/".When I convert the FM11 guide to PDF, then copy and paste from the PDF to a Linux terminal window as our readers will need to do, a paragraph return line break is added to each line.I've tried all of these, without success. I don't know if I need a combination of what I've tried below, or to change a setting when I convert to the PDF, or what else to try.1. In FM, Paragraph Designer, unchecked hyphenate.2. In FM, Used Control+space to place a nonbreaking space symbol between all the words in the sections.3. In FM Format>Document>T

(Win7 / FM11)FM11 crashes when I rename a chapter in the book.I have seen crashes before, but never while renaming a chapter.Happens with more than one chapter file in the book.Immediately before the attempts to rename files,  I had updated and then saved the book.Any thoughts?

We recently upgraded to FM 12, and I am playing around with the ePub output function. I have two questions:1. We use track text edits to show our audience recent changes to our publications. When I publish to ePub, it essentially accepts all of our edits (we lose the visibility - i.e. different colors/strikethrough). Any thoughts on how to keep our tracked edits showing in the ePub?2. We are having issues with anchored frames. One anchored frame contains an image (a jpeg, I believe), and it is not carrying over into the ePub (i.e. it is blank where the anchored frame/image should be). The other anchored frame we have contains a flowchart with hypertext markers linking to various URLs. None of the links are carrying over into the ePub. Thoughts?Any help is always greatly appreciated!

I am trying to create a subject matter index using the marker type Index (using unstructure FM 12). The output should look like this (the image below was created using the "Subject" marker type; I need to use "Index" because that is what generates in the ePub output):However, when I generate using the Index marker type, I lose the blue text and the chapter number before the page number. From what I can tell, FM is somehow inserting <$pagenum> into the index specification reference page, even though I have specified in there that it should be  <hyperlink><$chapnum>-<$pagenum><Defalut Para Font>.Any ideas how I can get it to stop inserting the <$pagenum> into the reference page?

Does anyone have an fmbatch file which could find all the .fm files in a given directory, open them with FrameMaker and the save them as a PDF file.OrCan someone show me the commands required to do that?

I am converting a large complex unstructured doc set to Structured Frame. I'm starting off with Tom Aldous' webinars. I have many questions. First, I am performing my conversion to DITA (because this is how the webinar guides us). Is this the best format to use? I will have PDF User Guide with multiple role based outputs and Robohelp Webhelp output. Am I better with a DITA or Custom Structure?I am using TCS 3.

In Frame10, I am converting my unstructured documents to structured. I found Russ's sample conversion and EDD files (Resources/downloads - West Street Consulting), and I'm customizing those with great success so far. (Thanks, Russ!)When I convert and apply my EDD, an extra paragraph is inserted to contain my anchored frame and marker. I don't want the extra paragraph. I have tried with and without the (promote) qualifier, both add the extra paragraph, but the promote sticks it in a Body paragraph with no formatting.In Russ's original EDD, there was a GraphicSpacer inserted for every Figure. I removed this, as I thought it was adding the extra paragraph. Alas, still getting the paragrapg insert,Here's my EDD spec (which of course is copied from Russ's):Element (Container): FigureGeneral Rule: Graphic+ (Caption |CaptionNumbered)?Automatic InsertionsAutomatically insert child: Graphic Element (Graphic): GraphicInitial graphic element format1. In all contexts.Insert imported graphic file.A

I have a paragraph that contains a number of inline elements, such as a <link> and a <uicontrol>. When these are only separated by a whitespace (which is significant in this case, as it separates the characters in the <link> from the characters in the <uicontrol>, the XML file produced by FM has replaced the whitespace with a carriage return, which of course disappears as it is supposed to be meaningless in XML.I have tried to set the "preserve line breaks" rule on the enclosing <p> element but, apart from the fact that this is not what I intend to do, it does not make any difference on the whitespace between the two inline elements.Is there any way to make FM not perform this obvious mistake? Or do I really have to use ExtendScript to first change the whitespace to a special <whitespace> character, so that this is kept in the XML output and can then be changed back into a regular whitespace by my XSLT (which I need in any case). Kind of ugly but it

Just talked to support and was told that it is expected that when your book includes folders or groups, the files underneath the groups will be shown in the HTML5 output in the TOC as filenames, not the heading/title inside the file. So for example, if you would have in a normal TOC:Getting StartedWhat Is This Nifty Product?Installing Our Nifty ProductIn HTML5 you get in the contents pane:Getting Startedwhat_is_niftyinstall_niftyAdobe support in its infinite wisdom suggested I change my filenames; not an option for me sadly.Does anyone else know a workaround? Thanks!!

Hi all,Using FM12 on Windows 8 (for good measure). So .. I want to created my own "gallery" to create a responsive HTML5 output for all of my books. Here's what I did:1. In C:\Users\<username>\AppData\Roaming\Adobe\FrameMaker\12\ResponsiveHelpExt\Layouts\ I copied Theme1_Standard.slz and renamed it MyCompany.slz2. In C:\Users\<username>\AppData\Local\Temp\TPUBTMP\!ScreenLayout! I copied the Theme1_Standard folder and rename it MyCompany.slz3. In FM12, I did book>Publish>Responsive HTML5>Edit Settings>Gallery and selected the MyCompany gallery.4. I edited the gallery with the look and feel I wanted, and published the output. At that point I did notice that the C:\Users\<username>\AppData\Local\Temp\TPUBTMP\!ScreenLayout!\MyCompany folder miraculously disappeared. I copied back in from the template folder in the output.But then I opened a new book and set the gallery to MyCompany. When I clicked Edit I noticed immediately that it showed the Theme1_Standard g

Hi all,I'm using FM 11 on Windows 7.I'm having trouble deciphering the scripting guide (http://help.adobe.com/en_US/framemaker/scripting/framemaker_10_scripting.pdf) in relation to the SetProps() function. Specifically, I haven't been able to find a good description of the TypedVal properties (p. 400). Does anyone know of a document that describes these properties and how to use them?My current task is to apply a conditional format to a row, but I would also like to apply a condfmt to an entire table. Here is my most recent (unsuccessful) attempt: function setRowConditional(row, condFmt) {     var props = row.GetProps();     var prop = new PropVal();     prop.propIdent.num = Constants.FP_InCond;     prop.propVal.ival = condFmt.id;     prop.propVal.obj = condFmt;     props.push(prop);     row.SetProps(props); } Thanks,Trevor

I am working in FM11. I need to make a certification page layout using each heading (Heading1 - Heading7). The certification pages would look something like this:Certification DateHeading (Headings1-7)PassFailCommentI  have 20 TOC pages and if there is a relatively simple way to create a table with the TOC headings that would go in the Heading column, it would save a lot of time. Thanks.

I am almost killed by this. By the way, I am converting unstructured to sturctured.

The behaviour of FrameMaker 10 when I page or scroll down is driving me crazy. I open a file, start to page down, get two or three pages into the file, and I'm back where I started. The only way I can keep this from happening is to click in the file each time I page down.The same thing happens when I try to scroll down.I know this was a bug in earlier versions of Frame but I thought it had been fixed. What the heck is going on? This is getting really annoying.Keith

Info requestWith FM10, when I save a file in mif format for translation, it loses its cross-references. With the 7.2 release, instead, there is a way to prevent this or automatically update the cross-references.Is there such a system also for release 10?

Hi everyoneI was very sorry to see a recent post on the dita-users list saying that Jeremy has died. We've used Mif2Go extensively and found Jeremy incredibly helpful. The FM community won't be the same without him.RegardsRebecca>>> 8/06/14 10:25 >>>Jeremy Griffith, the creator of DITA2Go and Mif2Go, died on May 15 after a long illness.  He will be missed very much. --Carolyn Stallard[Thread locked: earlier messages already in play. See: https://forums.adobe.com/thread/1492743 ]

Hi everyoneI was very sorry to see a recent post on the dita-users list saying that Jeremy has died. We've used Mif2Go extensively and found Jeremy incredibly helpful. The FM community won't be the same without him.RegardsRebecca>>> 8/06/14 10:25 >>>Jeremy Griffith, the creator of DITA2Go and Mif2Go, died on May 15 after a long illness.  He will be missed very much. --Carolyn Stallard[Thread locked: earlier messages already on this subject. See: https://forums.adobe.com/thread/1492743 ]

I'm using FrameMaker 12. I seem to remember that in some previous version when you reached the last page in a chapter of a book, the "Go to Next Page" arrow would open the next chapter. Am I dreaming that up?

I'd like to inc;lude grahics in my help files when authoring them in xml and converting them to Responsive HTML5 web documents.  I'm not sure of the proper way to inc;lude javascript scripts into the XML documents that could be used to make the images zoomable and panable.  Codeblock elements don't seem to work - all that happens is the text of the script is displayed in a font different from the font I'm using for the Help text. Maybe I'm using the wrong elements?  I'm using Framemaker 12. Any ideas here would be greatly appreciated.

With FrameScript, I am able to use its EActiveXObject object to read and write to Excel spreadsheets. I need to read some data from Excel with ExtendScript. Has anyone figured out a way to do this with ExtendScript. My client wants to avoid intermediate formats like csv or xml, if possible. Any pointers and advice would be appreciated. Thanks. -Rick

Hey, this is a problem I've seen on occasion over the years, but currently it's really present in a FM8 document I'm working on. It's not a deal-breaker, but it's highly annoying. I once heard someone say they knew how to fix it, but then the conversation went elsewhere. Anyone here know how to fix this?The problem: You're in FrameMaker and using the PAGE DOWN key to move through the document. You go to page 1, 2, 3, 4, 1... What? Instead of going from 4 to 5 it blinks and sends you back to page 1. You try again and the problem doesn't recur; you get to page 5 and onwards. Next time you try, the problem happens again. It seems random, and there's no obvious reason for it.Anybody know what causes this, and more important, how to fix it?Thanks!ed

Created a document with FM Author 12 and added a template in FM12 to the document. Can't open the document again in FM Author 12 "This file does not have a program associated with it for performing this action. Please install a program or, if one is already installed, create an association in the Default Programs control panel".