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Got this message yesterday (recalled this morning). Anyone know what's happening here? Dear Adobe Technical Communication Suite Month-to-Month Subscriber,              We sincerely appreciate your continued patronage of Adobe Technical Communication Suite. We wanted to reach out to you in advance and notify you about some important changes in the product offering expected to come into effect very soon. Starting January 14th 2014, Adobe will no longer offer the month-to-month subscription plan for Adobe Technical Communication Suite. If you have purchased a month-to-month subscription and are on the auto-renewal plan, you will be able to renew your monthly subscription for Adobe Technical Communication Suite only till January 13th 2014.Etc.

I gotta be missing something pretty obvious here but the text, not headers, are showing up in Latin. For example,plain report:ReportAuthorHeading1Meditabar aliquid enotabamque, ut, si manus vacuas, plenas tamen ceras reportarem. Non est quod contemnas hoc studendi genus.Heading2Ridebis, et licet rideas. Ego ille quem nosti apros et quidem pulcherrimos cepi. Ipse? inquis. Ipse; non tamen ut omnino ab inertia mea et quete discederem. Ad retia sedebam: erat in proximo non venabulum aut lancea, sed stilus et pugilares: meditabar aliquid enotabamque, ut, si manus vacuas, plenas tamen ceras reportarem.Is there a parm that I should have set/change?Thanks.  Alot.Jerry

I am currently using Excel spreadsheet for my project but find it cumbersome with large amounts of test. My requirement is to create a table that contains the day of the week, Month, day and year then data that belongs to that specific date.  I need but be able to automatically update the date, for example Monday, January 6, 2014 then when I have enter the date it will automatically update to Tuesday, January 7, 2014 and so on for the entire year.  Then when 2015 arrives I just have to update the 1st date and all others are automatically updated.  Can this be done in Framemaker 11?Thanks for  your help

Posting this here for future reference, as Adobe Support gave wrong answer.Problem: Converting FM 7 book to FM 11 (by opening in FM 11), all documents show as having invalid X-Refs on opening, but search from Invalid XRefs only shows valid XRefs.(This is a problem because it makes it really difficult to locate "valid invalid" xrefs)Tried the usual workarounds (save as FM11, restart FM 11, reopen saved; convert to MIF in FM 7, convert to back FM in FM11; etc.). No joy.Adobe Solution: Called Adobe Support: after a lot of going around in circles, told me I would need to install FM 8 and FM 10, and do a step by step conversion (FM7>FM8, FM8>FM10, FM10 > FM11) to fix. This seemed silly (they couldn't say why that would work) and impractical (I only have FM7 and FM11, they couldn't provide trial copies of FM 8 or FM 10).ACTUAL SOLUTION:Actually caused by missing fonts in FM11 (installed on different PC). Once I changed got rid of those, the invalid "Invalid X-Ref" messages all went

I am trying to open an existing project in Frame Maker 10. Some of the files are created in Frame 7 and the rest are created in Frame 10. Now, when I try to open a file in the book, it throws the  error " Internal Error 10024, 9323487, 9022944, 9008636. Frame Maker has detected a serious problem and must quit."I have already tried some of the work arounds like renaming the Linguistics file and deleting the temp files etc. Still the problem persists. Any thoughs?Thanks, Arun

I am having trouble generating a book pdf. 1. Cross-references lose their blue font, although the hyperlinks work and do go to the chapter being referenced. Page numbering are also color-defined, this is lost in the generated pdf.  Ruling lines that are red are turning black.2. The headings have a pink-red background at top of page but this is turing black, obliterating the text of headings.

Is there a way to improve the onscreen preview for tables with fill or shading set to less than 100%? I have a corporate template for a long user manual. Their warning/caution tables have a 30% fill of a pantone color to achieve their shading effect. The 30% (or any %) makes the shading appear like a dot pattern. That pattern makes it very hard to read the content in the cell (only onscreen preview -- PDF or printed output is find).I am in FrameMaker 11.02.384, Windows.I have searched Google and this forum for information or advice, but have come up empty.If I can't get it, or if there is no workaround, I'll try to find a gray that matches this level of tint/color at a 100% shading value.I

I have just recently acquired FM11 to continue building structured documents and books. We use an externally generated DTD and I have set up the application files accordingly. I have added the plug-in 11.0.2 update, and when calling files or trying to regenerate files in the book compiler, it crashes repeatedly. I need to have this tool working now, and it's frustrating to see this happening. What is going on and how do I fix it?

I've changed the position and size of the text frame on both the Left and Right master pages of my document. But the Body pages are not updating to show the changes, even though I select Remove Overrides when I switch the view to Body pages. And when I go to Master page view again, each time I switch back to Body page view, I get the message that I have overrides on all of my pages.To get the correct text frame on the Body page,  I have had to change the frame on each Body page individually. And I still get the overrides message each time I switch from Master page view to Body page view. Is what I'm describing a known bug? I've  searched the forums and have found reports that people are getting the override message when they are sure they do not have overrides. But I have not yet found the exact problem that I'm reporting.I have a large number of documents to convert to new text frames. I do not want to have to change every page individually for all of these documents.

"Can't launch Acrobat Distiller to create PDF file."I cannot find Distiller on my workstation.  I do not see it in the Control Panel.  I also cannot find Distiller on the distribution media.I suspect it is not installed.Can anyone help?Thanks,Jerry

need to convert frame meker file to indesign

Hello,I have a ditamap that consists of files converted, using Mif2Go, to DITA 1.2 <concept> and <task> files. Each file is a heading from a single chapter in a manual. The ditafm-output.ini has the following:TemplateDir=$STRUCTDIR\xml\DITA_1.2\app\technicalContent\templateCompositeDocTemplate_1.2=ditabase.template.fmI do not have each <concept> and <task> file wrapped in <dita>. Questions:Is there anyway to tell FM to use the respective template for each root-level element? I looked in the FM 11 ini Reference and it appears the answer to that is no.If I do have to wrap the root elements in <dita>, is this considered a less than best practice? If I do have to wrap in <dita>, does anybody know of any potential issues with a CMS or whatever?FYI1: We need to go with DITA 1.2, because down the road we are going to use the learning modules.FYI2: I will be using RobeHelp to to create Web Help from imported book files.To Scott Prentice: Are you coming

Hello ,When Adobe first shipped FM11 there was an example on their help liturature of embedding a 3D model.This model could then be advanced through its representations/angles by clicking a button.The model was something with a couple of cogs on if I recall.Anyone remember where this is located?

Guys,I wonder if there is there a way to make a script event-driven, so that it will be triggered, for example, after importing formats from another file? The FM help says that 'Registered' scripts are event-driven, but there is not even a word on how to define the event.Thank you for your response in advance!My best wishes,Roman

Hello everyoneI am having issues connecting to the activation center behind a proxy. Can i please have the exact link that activation tries to access in order to add it to the proxy so that activation completes?Thanks

Is there any way to get rid of most or even better all of the warning messages that come up?                                                                                                     

Hi, I want to edit or delete footer of chapter but i am unable to do it. I am able to edit the footer of other pages, but finger pointer of link appears for the same(But there is no link).  However,graphic tool as well as variables window is inactive.can any one please suggest me any solution. Thanks,Nutan

Something amazing has happened. After countless attempts to get a toehold on the glassy wall of structured Frame, I've suddenly managed to run up it as far as writing my first EDD – it works, it handles tables, I've successfully tried both ParagraphFormatting and ElementPgfFormatTag, and I still understood it the next day.So now I'm happily experimenting with some very simple DITA files, prepared and validated elsewhere. I used a <ph conref="_ymvProductVariable.dita#terminal/product"/> construct in my DITA file to replicate the behaviour of a FrameMaker user variable. Opening the DITA file in FM and applying my EDD highlights the <ph> as an invalid element, which I can accept.Question – to which I may not understand the answer, but I'll try: how do I define the <ph> element, so I can include it in a General rule like (<TEXT> | ph)+ and have it show the value of the variable?My apologies for trying to run before I can walk, but after years feeling my feet were na

Can FM 11 run on a HP  Notebook 1000 - 1403 AU with AMD E1-1.5 GHz processor, please?

FrameMaker 10 (Windows)It seems that if I specify the sort order for Simplified Chinese (pinyin) on the reference page,index entries that start with "i" and "v" are not shown under their corresponding group titles.(I assume that this may be due to the fact that pinyin words never start with these letters.)If I have an entry that starts with an English word like "IP," it appears under the "J" group.I want the entry to appear under the "I" group. How can I do this?I have the IX reference page set up as follows:GroupTitlesIX paragraphSymbols[\];Numerics[0];A;B;C;D;E;F;G;H;I;J;K;L;M;N;O;P;Q;R;S;T;U;V;W;X;Y;Z;SortOrderIX paragraph<$symbols><$numerics><$alphabetics><$pinyin>I've also tried:SortOrderIX paragraph<$symbols><$numerics><$pinyin>Thanks in advance.Tak Osato

I have Technical Communications Suite 4.  How do I publish My Frame Maker 11 books into Multiscreen HTML 5 or E-pub 3?  I see Robo help 10 can do these things, but I don't know how to import my FM 11 books into Robohelp. 

Hello Framers,In the extendscipt toolkit data browser, I don't see an option to apply master pages to a document (as in Format-->Page Layout--> Apply Master Pages...). Shouldn't this be some kind of a function? Am I missing something?Thank you in advance!

I'm using FrameMaker11, and some sentences aren't displayed even thought they're there.When I turn up the display magnification to over 160%, it's displayed normally, but in smaller scales only a blank is displayed.There are no problems with printing.Is there something wrong with my computer settings, or is there a setting in FM11 that can fix this?

I have Windows 7, and am trying to update a FM 11 book. When I click the update book icon, the software starts updating but then hangs indefinitely. I have to go to task manager and end the FM task. I have the latest update, 11.0.2. I cannot add an index because that requires the book to be updated. Prior to updating I have verified there are no unresolved cross-references. I am using structured Frame. Any suggestions?Thank you,TaniEdited to add, I don't believe it matters whether I am using structured or unstructured, does it?

I inadvertently copied too much data from one FM document to another. I discovered that I did this only after making further changes in the second document, so I was unable to undo the copy/paste operation. Deleting the unwanted text has left my document with more than 80 empty pages that I am unable to delete.i tried copying only the text I still needed from the second document, deleting everything in the document, and pasting the needed data back in, but the empty pages persist.How do I solve this problem?