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The office where I work uses and automated process to import xml files into FrameMaker. When the xml is imported it formats correctly in the appropriate FameMaker template.In a FM template, there is a master page that includes a Running head that contains the main header and there is a smaller running header. Both use variables that extract the text from an element in the xml file that is imported and inserts the text into the text boxes. This master page is set up to be a left page. There is another master page in the template that is set up the same way except that it is set up to be a right page. It is applied when this first page needs to be a right page instead of a left page. After importing the xml into this template, the file formats correctly, with the left master page applied as the first page. The text imported into the headers formats correctly. When I replace the left master page with the right master page, the smaller running header text is duplicated. It displays where i

Is there a way to remove these elements after converting a Dita map to FM files? They clutter up the output, I would prefer a clean structure with tasks, concepts etc. as root elements for chapters.Perhaps somebody knows a script that searches for these files and unwraps them?Robert

Hi,I just trying to use webdav in one of my cq5.4 instance..Here what iam finding is when i upload an image from cq5.4 digital assets itz showing up correct in my webdav folder with generating the rendations for that particular image...And when use webdav folder to upload image it is showing u[p in the cq dam but rendetions are not getting created..Is there any solution for this..And images names which are showing with some 1.0 , 1.2 like names in webdav folder... Can i get help on this...Thanks,Sony C

I'm using Framemaker 11, and have tons of tables that need to be resized so that they fit within the text frame. Does anyone know of a script or a fast way to resize all the tables in a document at once?

Our group has a requirement from the government to output SGML data. Right now, the group from whom we're inheriting data are using UltraEdit to write the text, Arbortext to tag the documents as SGML, and outputting to Xysoft (XPP). The writers are separate from the "coders/taggers." We're hoping to use FM to reduce that process to a single doc for writing and output. There's another requirement to output to pdf, but Acrobat will handle that.Right now, my concern is finding a way to simplify this process. Can FrameMaker output raw SGML data? If 10 and/or 11 cannot, is there a version that can?Thanks for any help. I've done some research online, and from what I've read, it's a possibility, but then the tech support guy I spoke with said that neither 10 nor 11 is capable of outputting to SGML ... which is why I'm here.Any help is appreciated. Thanks, everyone.

In a FrameMaker book, how can I display filename without the file's  location on the hard drive? For example, The book would list:"MyFile.fm" instead of C:\windows\documents\Framefiles\XYZ Company\widgets\draft_2013_1111\MyFile.fmIf this cannot be done, then how can I get the book to list a name for the added file other than the name of the first heading in the file contents?

So this is really odd. I have a situation where I have a document that I am developing in Framemaker 10 several different paragraph tags are intermittently not printing when the document is physically printed. When I go to print the document from Framemaker 10 to a physical piece of paper some tags are printing partially or not at all. What makes this stranger to me is that when I print the document to a PDF, all of the content and tags show up in the PDF. Then when I try to physically print from the PDF, the tags do no print from that document as well. Typically the tags that are not printing are those that have been bolded, but are across several different tags. Also the problem is sometimes only to the first line of a tag, where if the tag carries over to a second line in the document, the text on the second line prints. Another quirky instance that shows up is where the text a line will print only parts of the text. The document uses the same type font for the entire document, Helv

I have nearly finished my conversion table but I'm having issues with two things: notes/cautions and lists. For simplicity and brevity, I'll discuss lists in another post.My <note> elements that have an attribute of caution are simply being formatted as a Level0 paragraph. My conversion table looks like this:I've stared at these for way too long to be able to determine why the Note paragraph tag is converting properly, but the Caution paragraph tag is simply a paragraph.TIA,Marsha

I'm making a structured Framemaker book with some of the chapters having tables with graphics in them. However, the system doesn't recognize the graphics in the table cells as valid elements. Anyone out there have any ideas?

cross posted in FrameMaker forumDoes anyone know of a script that will resize all tables within a document at once  so that the tables fit the width of the text frame?

I'm having several problems with my lists, both <ul> and <ol>. I'd appreciate any advice I can get.Any time I have a <p> element inside a <ul> or and <ol>, two things go wrong:1. The <body> element closes before the <p> element2. The <p> element is at a level 0 indent rather than a level 1 (L0 and L1 in the Qualifier column of the conversion table)Example:This: From the menu bar, select Help, and then select About Whatever.          An information box appears showing xyz.  Select Close to close the box.Comes out as this:ol> <li> From the menu bar, select Help, and then select About Whatever. </li> </ol></body>.<p> An information box appears showing xyz. </p><li> Select Close to close the box.</li>and the "An information box" paragraph is not indented.Bottom line: I want to be able to have a <p> in a list without breaking the structur

How do I install the Adobe PDF Creation Add-On printer instance in FM11? I don't recall NOT installing it, but I can't save any FM doc as a PDF. Unfortunately, the Help guide simply tells me not to delete the Adobe PDF Creation Add-On printer instance plug-in, which isn't very helpful at this point.Thanks.

Hi.I have a document where I would like to cross-reference paragraphs that have forced returns in them.Unfortunatelly the returns are lost. Any idea on how to accomplish this?I am using unstructured FrameMaker 10.Thank YouPeter

Has anybody had to deal with longish autonumber texts in a narrow text frame [can't use a sidehead due to other issues]? I'm finding that the autonumber string [Facilitator/Self-Study Participant Note: ] doesn't wrap to the next line as shown in this screen capture:I've verified this happens in FM versions 6 through to 11. Unfortunately, I'm away from my resources for the week but don't ever recall coming up against this before. Any comments, help highly appreciated.

Hi ,W7, TCS4 subscription.I am having problems with a computer at work, so I am moving to another terminal.Am I OK to install and use TCS4 here and will I be fine to go straight back to my old terminal when the issue is resolved?

Hello.I have windows vista and adobe framemaker 9 installed with all updates.My problem is:when I put a vulgar fraction like two-thirds in round brackets, left bracket is not showing propertly - there are two question marks one over anotherright bracket is showing only top part correctly, bottom part is again question mark. (see on the screenshot) Please help me with this problem.

Thx to anyone who can answer today's FM trivia question!!-Matt

Can you create fillable fields within Framemaker files in Framemaker 8? Thanks! Meaghan

I am using framemaker 7.1 with windows xp on 1 computer and windows 7 on the other. Unfortunately I have to run on both because of 2 problems I have with windows 7 that does not occur on windows xp (my backup computer). Problem1: When I try to insert a video file by File - Import object - create from file - link and select the file -  (.flv file) it works GREAT on XP - but crashes on windows 7.  Problem 2: Every so often if I try to do a copy by selecting some text with my mouse, the program crashes. I have to do a control alt delete to exit the program. Unfortunately this is usually BEFORE I have saved my work. I have never had this problem on xp. The windows 7 has 8 gig of ram, and 1 tb hard drive, so that is not the problem. Any suggestions would be GREATLY appreciated.

I come to the conclusion there's something I don't understand about FM searches … by scrutinising .mif copies of existing .fm files, I have discovered a redundant style.FM knows it's there – because saving the relevant .book as .pdf throws a warning about a missing font that's only used in this style – and admits it in the paragraph catalogue:On the other hand, FM steadfastly the style denies exists if I search on Paragraph Tag (virtuously checking body pages, master pages and reference pages) in the files concerned.Does Find Paragraph Tag actually mean "find paragraph tag as long as it's applied to some text"? That would be rather limiting.

I have many unstructured documents. Is it possible to convert these documents into strcutured documents? I know that structured FM uses DITA which is different from unstrcutured document. This is client's requirement so I want to get community views on this.

I have a complex document set with multiple conditions to support brand and output, and now I want to add roles. Prior to the roles, I had it set up with the following conditions:BrandABrandBHelpPDFBrandA HelpBrandA PDFBrandB HelpBrandB PDFetc. When I build my documents, I would just use the Show/Hide functionality and come up with something like:Show: Brand A, PDF, BrandA PDFThis worked OK, but has been getting more complex as I have now added two more brands. Now the business wants to add Roles... for example "Read Only" and "Update"I know I can set up additional conditions for the roles, and then append those roles to each of the above conditions as well, but this number of conditions is really starting to get unmanageable. I was wondering if I could cut down the number of conditions and use complex Boolean Expressions to represent what I need.So I'd have something like:(("BrandA" and "PDF") or "BrandA" or "PDF")This would give me the same result as my previous "BrandA PDF" or "Bran

Greetings,I'm trying to figure out how to properly structure and style FigCaptions and images using DITA 1.2. The tagging structure I've been using to insert images into topics is as follows: <fig><title></title><image></fig>. In this scheme I have to set the image placement attribute to "inline" for the image to line up correctly in the left margin (which is determined by the <fig> element), but this in turn makes the image try to wrap around the caption, so to speak.Here's what I'm getting:Here's what I'd like to get (minus the stretched anchored frame kluge):Anyone have any ideas on this? Thanks,Daniel

Does anyone know how to improve the speed of the up/down keys in Frame 11?  Scrolling is very slow compared to Frame 7/Win XP.  Thanks in advance!

How do I get leader line after the text in the table cells? As the tab stops doesnt work inside the table cell. Kindly suggest what needs to be done?