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Hi all,I need to establish the validity of a Doc before my script transforms it to XML and applies an XSLT in the process. I have searched the FM12 scripting guide but cannot find any Doc property or method to figure out whether or not the Doc is valid. Am I looking in the wrong place?Kind regardsJang

Hello,I need to translate a whole FM12 book containing several FM12 documents.Is there a way to export the all files, including text and graphics into a new separate folder that can be sent to translation.I just to do this in FrameMaker 8:File > Utilities > Archive Bookand it would create a folder containing:FM bookFM documentsFolder for text insetsFolder for reference graphicsI don't know where this function came from.

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Hello,We have installed FrameMaker 11 in our company and all works properly except when we try to save as PDF. It appears that it works, but suddenly the Distiller 5.0 shows a message saying that "the specified Distiller joboptions file doesn’t exist". We can´t find the origin of the problem, so we can't save the structured document as PDF keeping the cross-references active.Thank you all

In FrameMaker 12, I only have Page Layout and Document available on the Format menu. All character and paragraph formatting items are missing.CTRL+D works fine to call the character designer window, but CTRL+M does not work.I need to access the Paragraph Designer window.Any suggestions?Ann Oversteyns

Greetings,I want to iterate through all paragraphs in a document and for each paragraph with the "comment" style, I want to apply an existing condition called "Comment" (as per p. 126 of the FDK Programmer's Guide)The script below iterates, selects the correct text, but it doesn't apply the condition.  I suspect I am not adding the correct information to the condid variable. I've tried adding the object or just the Id integer value of the condition without success.If I apply the condition manually to a paragraph and then run a script to look at the property values, Framemaker seems to apply the condition object to "osval" which is different than what the FDK states (isval).  And, of course, "osval" seems to be undocumented. So, I'm stumped on what Frame is expecting.I'd appreciate any pointers.Thanks.#target framemakerif (app.ActiveDoc.ObjectValid()) {    processDoc(app.ActiveDoc);}else{    Alert("No doc open");}function processDoc(doc) {  &

Hi to all.I am trying to make a very simple script that finds the first text frame that exists in a flow (in this case a secondary flow with only a line of text) ,copy that in the exact same location to all pages of the active document. Is this possible with javascript?

Hi, I'm reading the FrameMaker 12 help topic at:Home / Using FrameMaker 12 / Generating Output / Multi-channel publishing / Customizing the publish output / Customizing output styles > Using a FrameMaker templateIt is talking about a "Set Template" option in the Publish dialog. I can see no such button or option. Am I very confused, or is this help topic wrong?

That is proabably not a great title...Anyway,Ever since I have gotten my 64 bit computer, FM has been awful. I have FM10, Windows 7, 16GB RAM.When I make a pdf, it, of course as usual takes forever. But now it stops responding and never refreshes. I get an out of memory message sometimes, but I alwasy have to shut it down. Then to open my book, I have to reset every file in the book to use it and update...ect....Is there something I can do?It is only using 3.5 GB memory to make the file, so my computer isn't running out of memory.Thanks,ls

Somehow, I've managed to get through decades of authoring without ever being called on for an index … but I've recently been translating Joris Verdin's standard work Het Harmoniumhandboek, by way of busman's holiday, and this does require an index.Layout question: I've set the IX paragraph styles to Adobe Caslon Pro 10, and I find that the page-numbers are disturbingly large. I tried setting a character style for Caslon Pro 9 and using it as a building-block on the Reference page, but this didn't seem to achieve anything. Hints & tips?

Hi All,In the past, I've always printed to PS via the Distiller instance, but now we have new branding with spot colors used in the FM templates, so now Save As PDF is a must.I am finding what I think to be a bug, because it is consistently reproducible. When I Save As PDF choosing Page Range: All, I can get all of the pages printed with spot colors and working hyperlinks, BUT the leftmost cell of the first row of every single table is empty, even though the FM screen itself displays the row's contents.Here's the PDF outcome — please note the first body cell of the table is empty:All tables in the document have the same issue. I tried opening other documents, they all have the same behavior. I tried importing formats from other tables, creating new table formats, etc., and the same issue persists, even when I copy-special the char formatting of a cell that does print and paste it to the non-printing cell.Here's what the same section looks like in the FM window:However, when I Save As P

I have written a script that runs through a table and parses out the information I need to create another table with some added information.The last piece that I can't seem to figure out is how to check if some text in a cell is bold and then grab said text to put in the new table.I will give a small table demo of what I am try to retrieve.Table A.Column 1Description123456This is a description (This is a note)789123This is a description (This is note A) (This is note B) (This is more stuff that isn't needed.Table B.Column 1Column 2Note1123456(This is a note)2789123(This is note A) (This is note B)I can pull all of the other information across that I am trying to get without any issue.I can't seem to figure out how to check the formatting of a TextItem to see if it is bold. I have been able to figure out how to check if a cell has bold text in it. using if ((tItems[counterVar].idata & Constants.FTF_WEIGHT) > 0). This ends up not working well because of a few issues. I was wonderi

Hi,I've read the forum discussions/solutions on setting PDF bookmarks, but I'm afraid the various solutions appear to only work if you are consistently working in .fm book files, not if your source files are in structured .fm format.For example, I have to constantly reset the bookmark settings in FrameMaker when I follow our PDF process of saving the structured FM files via the File -> Save Ditamap As -> Book 11.0 with fm components (*.book) route. I can set the bookmarks in the first file of the book, and/or set them using the Format -> Document -> PDF Setup menu options. But an hour later, if I discover I need to make a change in our source material (.ditamap/.xml) and create a new PDF again, I must make the same exact bookmark settings at the .fm level in this process (i.e. creating new .fm files from the .ditamap/xml files overwrites the previous .fm files, requiring bookmark setting, again).I think the only possible solution for a short-cut in this situation is to writ

I need to save a book and all its files as version 11 (from version 12)

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Hi,I am using FM12, and I can create display equations using "Special->MathML equation" menu. How to generate inline MathML equations? ie., I want to have equation along with text, something likesome text goes here and having inline equation (x+y+z=10)[Thread moved by moderator from FM General Discussions Forum]

I'm using FrameMaker 12 to edit topics in DITA. Unfortunately when I add an image, FrameMaker re-sizes it. I want to stop it doing this, but I can't work out how. It looks like FrameMaker correctly reads the image size in pixels, but adds the width and height in pt not px. For example, I have a 602px by 265px image that gets added to a DITA topic as the following:<image href = "adobe.png" height="265.000px" width="602.000px"  />

I'm running FM12 on Windows 7 Pro. I want to make a Warning paragraph format that always has a graphic at the front of it. I'm going to use this in the sideheads only. I have other sidehead formats that start with one word, such as "Note:" in the Autonumber Format, but I can't figure out how to put a graphic there. I've seen this done before, I think, but didn't see how.

Hello,I try to fight my way through the xml Structured FM jungle.To this I read various documents (e.g. STRUCTURE APPLICATION DEVELOPER REFERENCE).At the moment my main goal is to find out what works and how to do it best.Therefore I will probably here in the forum to try one or the other question to be answered.I want to create a message tree in xml and publish via FM PDF.Because I want to filter the messages, I have declared various descriptive numbers of the message as an attribute.As far as I understand, attributes are the only way in FM to do some filtering of the content which will appear in the document (without a CMS). If I am wrong, please correct me.XML-Example:<MESSAGE_TREE>    <MESSAGE Group="FF03" Message_No="1" Status_No="1">        <Message_Text>Message Example 1</Message_Text>        <Status_Text>Message 1</Status_Text>      

FrameMaker 11.0.2.384DITA 1.2We need to have our <note> element so that the first or only paragraph is *not* wrapped in a <p> element. However, we want to add additional <p> elements after the first paragraph when necessary. Here is what we want:Here is what we get:I have defined the following paragraph tags:Note1Top (includes the frame above with the Note graphic and the rule)Note1Middle (no rules and no graphic)Note1Bot (a bottom rule and no graphic)Note1 (use for scenarios where there are no additional paragraphs)I have defined the <p> elements in my EDD and they are working correctly. I need to figure out how to define my <note> element in the EDD so that it uses Note1Top when they are child paragraphs or Note1TopBot when there are no child paragraphs.Currently I have this in my <note> element in the EDD:Else, if context is: note < (stepxmp | stepresult | info) < step     1.1.7. If context is: {first}   &n

My hard drive fried and had to be replaced. I'm trying to install CS4 from my original discs but keep getting this error message - "One or more of the required components of Adobe Creative Suite 4 Design Standard failed to install correctly". A customer service rep gave me a link to download off the Adobe site, but when I try to open the file to run it, I get this error message - "A problem occurred extracting the archive".Can anyone help?

Hello, I'm new to structured FrameMaker and to DITA. I'm using TCS5.I'm having to compile a set of training materials that include video tutorials generated out of Captivate. I'm thinking I might have a ditamap of the text tutorial with all its concepts and tasks as topics, and then a separate topic at the end with the video, to which the others could link. I'd prefer to use the mp4 format rather than the outdated swf.I've found how to do this by saving the ditamap as a Frame book with composite fm files. Of course I can just import the mp4 into the corresponding fm file. But this import is then not reflected or present in the pure dita topic and that makes exchangeability and re-use problematic. Ideally I would like to be able to do everything in pure dita without having to pass through fm files, much harder to maintain.I've seen there is an "object" element in DITA which can be used to include video streaming, but I can't for the life of me find intelligible instructions on how to us

I have a couple questions about the HTML5 Output:1. I have images that are not appearing in the output (they are in the source FM file, but not in the HTML5 output). What am I doing wrong?2. Is there a way to disable the glossary function so that it doesn't appear as an option in the HTML5 output?Any help is greatly appreciated. Thanks!

Hi All,we run Framemaker 10 sucessfully for 2-3 years on a row on Windows Server 2008 R2 with Remote Desktop Services. We use a specific concurrent useer license for max. 5 users. works great without any problem.I updated to version Framemaker 12 last month.PROBLEM: when saving to PDF .. the FM session just crashes without any message .. application is just gone.I know that the specs of Framemaker doesn't show Windows Server 2008 R2 (is 64-bit), but from what I know, the architecture of Server 2008 is for a big part the same as Windows 7 (64-bit).Does anybody have any experience with Framemaker crashing when saving to PDF .. and a solution to solve this behaviour?(I already updated with the latest patch)?Please also answer when you solved your issue in Windows XP sp3, Windows 7 or Windows 8.Thanks!Hans Janssen

When I check a script I use the alert to see if the code is working, such as "Current tag is body".Is there a function that outputs alert results to a file? For example, a way to send to a file allof the paragraph tags that are used in a document. (The actual code could be a loop). I coulduse this as a start to produce what I really want, an array of all the valid tags, and then print to a file a list of all the "rogue" tags that are not in the valid list