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I am evaluating Framemaker 12 to use with DITA. I have a bookmap and want the footer on each resulting page in all the chapters and the index to include the Total Page Count of the book. I have attempted to follow the instructions inIncluding the total page count of a book in a header or footerHowever, the last document is my Index, which is only a single page. I am getting the total page count as 1. Do I need to do something extra in the dita-output.ini file or ...?

MIF Reference Manuals are now available for FM11 and FM12. They are currently only direct links:http://help.adobe.com/en_US/framemaker/mifreference/mifref.pdfhttp://help.adobe.com/en_US/FrameMaker/11.0/MIFReference/mifref.pdf

Hi,Feather space in Headings is the important requirement in typesetting. For example, every heading requires "x" amount of above space, and "y" amount of below space. This is being configured in the Paragraph style designer. Is there any option to provide how much these "x" and "y" values can be negotiated (increase or decrease) in order to base align the column/pages. This feathering option is available in both 3B2 and LaTeX to configure. Unfortunately, this option is not available in InDesign too but we could make a script to achieve but this is unlikely. Are there any feature in FrameMaker to handle this feathering option?Thanks in advance,Saravanan

I am evaluating Structured Framemaker 12 to use with DITA. I have a bookmap and want the footer on each resulting page in all the chapters and the index to include the Total Page Count of the book. I have attempted to follow the instructions inIncluding the total page count of a book in a header or footerHowever, the last document is my Index, which is only a single page. I am getting the total page count as 1. Do I need to do something extra in the dita-output.ini file or ...?

Still trying to get my head round DITA in FrameMaker 12.Today I find another anomaly: when I open a ditamap and generate it using the DITA OT in xhtml mode, only the index is generated, and none of the sub-files.I'm quite sure that when I did this a few days ago, an entire sub-directory with all the files was generated as well.I've tried opening all the files, resolving all the topicrefs, displaying the ditamap in Document view and selecting the entire thing, but nothing seems to work. Only the index is generated and when you click on any of the links in the index you arrive on a "Page not found" error message.So what magic spell was I using a few days ago to get the entire set of nesting documents generated together?Thanks to anyone who can help,Elisa RoselliCambridge Imaging Systems

I'm having trouble with a ditamap in FM 12 because two of the files refuse to save. They send up the parser error message "Required attribute 'cols' was not provided".They both contain tables imported by conref. The error seems to arise on the tgroup element. Yet the Attributes table for tgroup does not seem to contain a cols attribute and I can't see where to define it or how.In another DITA editor, XMLMind Personal Edition, I have no trouble opening and saving both the destination and imported conref source files. They seem to have the cols attribute correctly defined.What is going wrong in FM and how can I fix it? It's annoying that a big expensive tool should be so much harder to use than a free one!Thanks to all,Elisa RoselliCambridge Imaging Systems

I was reading the FDK documentation for FrameMaker 11 and I see that support has been added for Object formats using FO_GraphicsFmt.Is there support for the GraphicsFmt object in FrameMaker 11 ExtendScript? If not, when will it be added? Another question: Will the ExtendScript documentation ever be improved?

Hi,I know there's a solution to this somehow via scripting - problem is, I have no clue so far about FM scripting We're using the standard XML API for our structure and everything works out fine, except one thing that we stumbled over.When creating a TOC in FM11 based on XML files within a book, we're receiving good results (pages are referenced correctly). As long as it doesn't come down to jump marks.FM11 doesn't create the correct jump marks for the TOC entries. After an analysis, this is because the unique IDs for the referenced elements are non-existant (they're required and declared as UniqueID in the DTD and EDD, but not set automatically). Therefor FM11 points his jump marks towards the nearest element with an unique ID.This behavior points me to two questions:1. can I get FM11 to create unique IDs upon creation of the TOC (same way it creates the IDs when using XRef)? or2. what can I do to get FM11 to create unique IDs automatically on insertion of an element, that requires an

Hi,Are there any document to understand what are PI values that FM can understand. For example, if my XML has a PI like <?FM pagebreak?> will FM apply forced page break? This is something possible in 3B2.<xml><para>some text</para><?FM pagebreak?><para>some text</para></xml>When I import the XML in FM, I want the second <para> to appear in the next page. My question is about what are the PI values that FM can recognise? Thanks in advance.

I have a successful import process going now (DTD, EDD, ReadWriteRules, and Template) that imports a number of elements, but each onto a separate line. I now need to import three elements in a row on a single line. How do I set up to do that?@

Hello,I'm planning to set up a documentation project using DITA and I'm evaluating which editor would be better. I don't know Framemaker and one of the things I don't understand is what are the read/write rules? When do I need them? What does it take to define them?  My output will be PDF files and the content will be translated in more than 20 languages.Many thanks if one of you can clarify that point for me,Regards,Annette

Hello,I'm planning to set up a documentation project using DITA (1.2) and I'm evaluating which editor would be better. The output will be PDF files (in various formats: A4, A5 and Letter for various documents: instructions for use, technical manual, etc) and the content will be translated in more than 20 languages (including Japanese, Chinese and Korean).I saw that some consultant managed to define only one EDD for all languages but then does it mean that if I can't have one, I need one EDD per language? Then do I need one template per EDD or can I have several templates for an EDD?Best regards,Annette

I can easily generate CHM and PDF using the Generate Output option offered by DITA-FMx, but the output is just standard and I would like to customize it according to the company style. Which files should I work on to modify fonts, colours, indentation, etc, both for CHM and PDF?

Still exploring the possibilities of DITA as a newbie...I notice there is a CMS menu in Structured FM12. My company is already using a Confluence system to manage documents and code. At each product release, everything in the Confluence directories is built in synch.Is it possible to output from FM directly to this? How would I use the tools under this menu? Is it all complicated API stuff?(I don't want to publish from FM XML to a Confluence wiki - I've seen instructions for this on the Web. I just want a mechanism to upload and track and version-manage the DITA topics.)Also with respect to Content Management functions:Of course, every time I change a file name or directory, all the xref links and inclusions get broken. Correcting this is very time-consuming. Is there some integrated tool between TCS5 and Confluence that I already possess to manage these link and name updates? When I was using unstructured FM, I remember it was no terrible hassle to change the name of a file in a book

Hello,I'm still quite new to DITA and unhappy about the way the wintitle element is rendered in FrameMaker 12. Unlike uicontrol, which comes out in bold, wintitle is completely undifferentiated from ordinary text.Is there a straightforward way to change it to bold and perhaps a different font, so that the names of applications can be displayed differently?I have no idea how to edit an EDD or even find the EDD that is controlling this (if indeed that is how character styles are controlled in DITA fm).Thanks for any help,Elisa RoselliCambridge Imaging System

I'm still trying to get to grips with some DITA Frame basics and another piece of info that I would like to have is how to get the ditamap to use a custom css when it is output to xhtml with the DITA OT. Is there any simple non-super-techie way to do this without having to learn how to hack the ANT programs? Under the StructureTools menu, there is an Import CSS styles item, but I can't find instructions on how to use it accessible to my level.Also, is there a way to apply a company stylesheet to the Responsive html output generated with the new Publish tool? I realize the two provided templates can be modified element by element, but it does mean a lot of modification, and it would be cool if we could just invoke the stylesheets that already govern our web site so that the output could match.Thanks to anyone who can help,Elisa RoselliCambridge Imaging Systems

We have hundreds of XML files. Those files are handled by Framescripts in Framemaker to generate a Framemaker book with more than 1000 pages. As soon as the screen is locked by user or automatically Framescript stops immediately. Has anyone a solution? Any suggestions?Windows 7, Framemaker 10.0.2.419, Framescript 5.2R1p251

FM 11DITA 1.2I've made minor changes to the following EDDs to syhchronize the formatting of our DITA documents with our parent company:uidomain.eddmod.fmconcept.eddmod.fmreference.eddmod.fmtask.eddmod.fmcommonElements.eddmod.fmsoftwareDomain.eddmod.fmI've also imported the element definitions from the list above into the following files:uidomain.edd.fmconcept.edd.fmreference.edd.fmtask.edd.fmcommonElements.edd.fmsoftwareDomain.edd.fmI've also imported all the changes into these files:topic.eddmod.fmtopic.edd.fmditabase.eddmod.fmditabase.edd.fmThen I imported concept.edd.fm, reference.edd.fm, and task.edd.fm into their respective templates (concept.template.fm, reference.template.fm, and task.template.fm.).When I open a new concept, task, or reference from the DITA menu, my changes are not there. What step am I missing?(I've done this before but it was months ago. I even wrote myself some detailed instructions and put them where I would always be able to find them - but I can't find the

I am trying to publish a ditamap to pdf with FM11. Adobe seems to recommend to save as a FM book with components and then to PDF. Then the hierarchy was lost in the PDF even though it looks very good in the FM book structure.Almost all topics are rendered as a  chapter;the exception is when the chapter has a href to a dita file;all sections are rendered as a section no matter where this section belong to and which layer its parent topic is on;all the topic title use title.0 para tag, and sections use title.1 para tag, so they are all included in the TOC as chapters and sections, no matter which layer they are on in the ditamap;the numbering of chapter/section are in a mess.I have looked into the ditafm-output.ini and didn't find useful settings. Any suggestions or clue? or FrameMaker is only not capable for these issues? or can only publish a flat topic PDF?Thanks!

I'm having trouble getting the new FrameMaker 11 Publish features to work as expected.I have a ditamap with three levels of headings. When I use the Publish feature to output in Responsive HTML5, a TOC is produced, in which there are no links below the second level.Moreover, even some files at the second level randomly are not accessible from the TOC. A link is present, but when I click, it lands on a page that says "this webpage is not found".When I look in the output directory, all the files are present in html form, so they do exist.One file, however, although correctly formed in the xml source with a series of unordered lists, comes out looking like this:*****An interactive script called bootstrap_.cmd is provided when you run the installation package for the Control Centre. This script simplifies the configuration of the sample database with a MySQL database engine. It performs a series of setup tasks, including:ÃÃââ‚

I have several FrameMaker files that will eventually be combined into one book. In some chapters there are references to outside chapters. At some point another person that was using these files had to switch the Chapter title; for example Chapter 7 became Chapter 6. Now when I open up, lets say Chapter 5, and I set up a cross reference to chapter 6 I got throug the following steps:I make sure both files are open in FrameMaker, I put my cursor in the spot I want to make a hyperlink > Right click > Cross ReferenceWhen the window Pops up I make the following selections:Document: Chpater 6Source Type: ParagraphsParagraph type: Heading1Paragraphs: Page 7I select the exact paragraph I want referencedFormat: CH XX, # When I hit replace I am expecting the text on the screen to say something like "CH06, 3-1 Title" but instead it says "CH07, 3-1 Title" The link goes to the location I want, it goes right to Chapter 6 but the visible text says Chapter 7 which is wrong. I assume this is happ

So far, I have the following in a JavaScript:if (tbl.FirstRowInTbl.FirstCellInRow.FirstPgf.PgfFmt.Name === "tblHead")        {            if (tbl.FirstRowInTbl.RowType === 1)                 //1 is Constants.FV_ROW_BODY                tbl.FirstRowInTbl.RowType = 0;                 // 0 is Constants.FV_ROW_HEADING            else                continue;         }        else            continue; This does not work. I'm no

When I import a Word file into Frame - the italics and bold characters are maintained. But if I save the file as HTML or XML - they disappear. If I retag them with the character tags they are maintained, but working in a science document the italics are everywhere. Is it possible to search for the original italics and replace with character tag?I am using FrameMaker 11.

Hi, I am trying out a copy of FrameMaker 12. Whilst I can do a lot with the settings available to tweak in the Publish dialog, there still doesn't seem to be any way to include objects from Master Pages or Reference Pages in the CHM output? When using TechCommSuite, I can get around this by applying "Master Pages" inside RoboHelp (e.g. to add a boilerplate footer to each topic with a small copyright statement and company logo).It doesn't look like there's any way to do this with Frame12's Publish command? Or am I missing something?

The FM 12.0.2 patch has been pushed out with 22 fixes, 14 enhancements and 8 FDK/Extendscript issues resolved.There also is a RoboHelp 11.0.1 patch out.This update is being pushed through the update manager (use Help > Updates...). It's not yet available for downloaded directly from the FM updates area.The ReadMe file is available here: Adobe FrameMaker 12.0.2 ReadMe.pdf[Addendum: For more details, please see Kapil Verma's blog posting on this release: Important FrameMaker update released « TechComm Central by Adobe]