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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?

I have converted all Framemaker v10 documents to v11 by opening and saving. However when opening the Book v11 for these documents and applying the 'clear all change bars' option a book error log message advises that the documents cannot be opened as they are in a previous version! When performing the same function on the individual documents outside of the Book this works fine. But unable to clear all change bars within a book when selecting all the files in one go. Is there a bug with Books in v11?

Hi,Thank you for answering the following questions.  Are the files created in version 6  compatible with Framemaker 11 without any modification ?Is Framemaker 11 actually available in French ?Do you have a discount applying to old version owner ?Have a nice day

I inherited a book done in FM 8 that looks correctly structured and formatted. This book has about 25 chapters, and I need to add new chapters wtihin the existing sequence. On the Reference Page, the ChapterTitle tag is associated with the "First" master page. I can't find a way to create a new section starting with the ChapterTitle tag, which doesn't throw off all the other master-page assignments. It's tedious going through the whole manual to reassign all the chapter opening pages, and then finding and reassigning all the pages that are not chapter opening pages, which have been bumped to the "First" master page. I think the "First" assignment should move with the ChapterTitle tag, and it should also move with a page that it has already been assigned to. Is there a way to make the assignments stick to the pages that already have them?

Hello,I have been able to create an unattended installer for the Adobe Technical Communications Suite 4 using the AAMEE v3.1.However, I am having difficulty performing an unattended uninstallation for the same.The uninstall string in the registry is :"C:\Program Files (x86)\Common Files\Adobe\OOBE\PDApp\core\PDApp.exe" --appletID="DWA_UI" --appletVersion="2.0" --mode="Uninstall" --mediaSignature="{A9A31111-475C-403B-A5D1-0E79748B723F}"The product uninstalls successfully with this command but in full GUI.So far I've been quite reluctant to find the silent switch to PDApp.exe.I have the following questions :1. Is there a silent switch to PDApp.exe, that could be used to uninstall TCS 4 ?2. Can we create a silent uninstaller for TCS 4 using AAMEE, just as we created a silent installer ?3. If none of the above mentioned is possible, is there a workaround ?Please help. Any lead would be helpful to get to the solution.Thanks in advance.

FM 11I know that <codeblock> is designed to represent lines of program code and that line endings and spaces must be preserved. However, my line endings are not being preserved; turn into a new <codeblock> leaving me with line after line of <codeblock> elements like this:<codeblock>Do forever.</codeblock><codeblock>Say "Hello World"</codeblock><codeblock>End</codeblock>Rather than like this:<codeblock>     Do forever          Say "Hello World"     End</codeblock>These are my Text format rules in my EDD:1.   If context is: * < stepresult < substep         Use paragraph format: CodeBlock2Else, if context is: li < * < choice     Use paragraph format: CodeBlock3Else, if context is: * < stepresult < step    Use paragraph format: CodeBlock1E

I need to take a few hundred linked graphics in anchored frames that have FrameMaker callouts,save them as PNG files with the callouts embedded (yes, I know I won't be able to edit the callouts later) using different names (or another location), and relink to the new graphics. Doing this one by one is doable, but suboptimal.I'm not sure if I need a script, some other tool, or if there is some easy way I am missing. Anyone else have to do this and can give me a pointer or two?Thanks,Marc

I am fairly a newbie both at FrameMaker 11 and XML, but have just dived into the deep end with Structured FrameMaker to produce a DocBook document. FrameMaker's DocBook structured applications seem to use the DocBook 4.1 DTD, and my documents are 4.5 (well, they were 5.0, but FrameMaker can't handle that at all, apparently, so I converted them to 4.5). Naturally, I get lots of parsing errors when I open a file. I'll bet most or  all of those errors will go away if I can get FrameMaker to use the 4.5 DTD. Is that possible? How?Do I download all of the 4.5 files and change some value to point  FrameMaker to them for each 4.5 document? Like I said...newbie.I am gathering that I could modify the DTD (or EDD? I don't have my head entirely around the relationship yet) to add elements and attributes, but that seems the hard way to go if there is any chance of simply pointing to the 4.5 DTD.help!thanks.Larry the O

I've been back in the Word world for the past couple of years. I have been trying to insert a blank page in FrameMaker using Special > Page Break and get no result. I took a look and checked the help and can't figure out what the problem is. Any ideas? In the past I was using version 5 or 6 and am now using version 11 - Unstructured.  It seems so simple to add a blank page but it isn't working like I remember from the past.  I've been away from Framemaker for about four years.  

While publishing a unstructured framemaker document to pdf, the Header and footer is getting in the final published document. Please provide a solution.

Hello All!I'm using unstructured FM11.Suppose I have the following conditional tags:- Audience_Developers- Audience_Marketing- Audience_Techwiters- Product_A- Product_BIn an FM document, I have two tables. Each table contains 10 rows. I applied the conditional tags to the first table as follows:- Product_A tag is applied to the entire table- Audience_Developers is applied to to one row. So this row is tagged Product_A+Audience_Developers.- Audience_Marketing is applied to to one row. So this row is tagged Product_A+Audience_Marketing.- Audience_Techwiters is applied to to one row. So this row is tagged Product_A+Audience_Techwriters.I applied similar conditions to the second table as follows:- Product_B tag is applied to the entire table- Audience_Developers is applied to to one row. So this row is tagged Product_B+Audience_Developers.- Audience_Marketing is applied to to one row. So this row is tagged Product_B+Audience_Marketing.- Audience_Techwiters is applied to to one row. So this

I'm trying to get FM 10 working on my new computer, but after installation when I go to open the program I get the "Licensing for this product has expired" message. I downloaded the TCS3Update.zip patch the website recommended to fix this, but when I try to run the patch I get a "Update not applicable" error message. I'm on Windows 7.Any suggestions?Thanks, Greg

I'd like to download the trial version of TCS4 and start trialling it, to produce HMTL5 output for the next version of our software, prior to purchasing in the new year.I currently have RoboHelp x5 that I will be using to maintain our existing CHM help systems - or maybe I can also use RoboHelp 10 to do this?Will installing RoboHelp 10 with TCS4 effect my current install of x5?Thanks,Ken

I would like to create graphs and pie charts in Framemaker. Does anyone know if FM can do this - the same way you can use data tables in Excel to create charts and graphs.If FM doesn't have this functionality in-built, then is there a plugin available that will allow me to do this?

Can anyone who has dealth with structured documents using external DTDs/Schemas tell me if they've had this similar problem? Our whole department just recently got FrameMaker11, and uninstalled our FrameMaker10s. Using the computers and the same DTDs we're experiencing crashes ... frequently. Is there something we're doing or not doing? Appreciate the help.

Hello,I have a running header in my document that picks up the ChapterTitle. For one particular chapter title, there is a superscript applied to one of the numbers in the ChapterTitle. The superscript doesn't come through on the running header. I cannot figure out a way to get the character style changed just for that specific number of the running header other than making the running header a completely manual entry in the Master view, but that isn't ideal. Is this an easy fix that I am missing?  Image of issue here: http://cl.ly/image/370Y3n0O1g1rThanks,Marita

I borrowed and modified a skip I found here: http://forums.adobe.com/message/4808804 with code borrowed from elsewhere.I noticed that it seems to run fine, but it skips any word that appears right before a variable. The point of the script is to find any text using an italic override or bold override, and replace the override with the appropriate character format from the catalog.Can someone tell me why the code below skips words before a variable? I am sure it is a simple thing, but I am teaching myself Extendscript, and only recently started the attempt/Thanks,Marcvar doc = app.ActiveDoc;removeOverrides (doc)function removeOverrides (pDoc){    var vDocStart = pDoc.MainFlowInDoc.FirstTextFrameInFlow.FirstPgf;    var vBoldFmt=pDoc.GetNamedCharFmt ('bold')    var vItalicFmt=pDoc.GetNamedCharFmt ('italic')    initFA_errno ();    var vTextLoc = new TextLoc(vDocStart,0);    var vFindParams=findOverrid

When I installed FrameMaker 11, it uninstalled my Acrobat Pro 8 without asking. Now I get the error message "Setup has detected that you already have a more functional product installed. Setup will now terminate."Is there a workaround for this? I called tech support and they could not help.

FM 10, fully patched, Windows 7 …I have a book containing a dozen or so files which I prepared by adding MML tags to a Word source and saving out as text. They're all very much of a muchness, and most of them include a couple of referenced .eps graphics.Saving the book to .pdf threw up the message 'may happen with FM 6.0 or earlier', so for form's sake I ran Format > Optimise. This cleared things up, and generated a .pdf with all the book content but a sniffy message about just one of the files. When I save that specific file I get a moral/societal observation "File has Bad Type". What does this mean, and what can I do to reform the type in question?

Can an overline be extended to the right margin without placing the tab mark there?