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FrameMaker 7 - any way to turn off the annoying pop up message "Add new Text Frame" every time I change a header of footer?

I changed my doc to a custom size 17x11 and when I try to set it back to Letter (8.5x11) I get the message, "Resulting columns would be too narrow) and it will not change. Strange bug. Anyone know why this is happening and how do I get my doc back to letter size.

Hello ,I have the following scenario in a document:I want to align the illustration to the top of the page, but the anchor is preventing me from doing so.The best fix I can do is by reducing the font size.Does anyone have a better solution?

Kindly provide silent switch for installing Adobe FrameMaker 11Thanks!

Hi,When I am generating/ updating TOC, I am getting a blank page after each TOC content page. Can someone help?Thanks,Muralisk

Hello,How do we cross-reference an image in the same FrameMaker document as well as an image in some other document.Thanks & regards.

I am using framemaker 7.1 and windows 7. I am very familiar with this error. Every time I have gotten it save as with the same file name has always taken care of the problem. I just reloaded framemaker and now the save as does not work. Any suggestions?

FM 11DITA 1.2I just got back to working on our conversion table and have two questions today:I'm trying to wrap task topics in a task element. The headings in our source files are labeled Heading1Task, Heading1Concept, etc., so finding the tasks shouldn't be a problem for the conversion table.My Heading1Task is set to wrap in the <title> element with a qualifier of h1task.At the end of the conversion table I have this in the first column:E:title[h1task], (abstract* | titlealts*), taskbody, (concept* | ol* | p* | prereq* | stepsection* | ul*), stepsI set that to be wrapped in a <task> element.It isn't working. I have no errors on the FrameMaker Log (Structure Document Report), the Structure View, or anywhere else.Side question: Can I put the asterisks outside of the parentheses, like this (abstract | titlealts)* rather than after each element to indicate that everything inside is optional (zero or more)?2.     In my task topics, the steps are coming in as

Is there a way to list all the variables (names & defs) in a book, not unlike a list of figures, etc.?

Hi, when I open a Framemaker 10 document, using Windows 7, I receive the following Internal Error: 10024, 7687848, 7688138, 10076935 and FM10 closes down.  I can turnaround and open the same FrameMaker 10 document, using Windows XP, and it opens without any problems.  I have to be able to use Windows 7 and FrameMaker 10 together.  Any solutions?

Hi. I am looking for information regarding the Named Destinations that FrameMaker (I use Frame v10) generates when creating a PDF. Specifically, I'd like to verify/know what the following prefixes mean. I have tried to ascertain what the designations mean by clicking on them in the PDF, but some aren't as obvious as others.F (as is F#): This appears to mean the First page of a Frame file, confirmed by my clicking on the destination link, and per a reference in the Adobe User-to-User forum.G (as in G#.#######): This one perplexes me. It seems to be random paragraphs. I did find someone in the Adobe User-to-User forums who wrote that G destinations meant paragraph objects.I (I#.#.#######): Are these for Index markers?L (L#): This appears to mean the Last page of a Frame file.M (M#.#.#####.[figures, tables, headings, etc. tag names followed by the title): Various Markers in the file (also identified as such by an Adobe U-to-U forum poster)?P (P.#$##, where $ is a Letter in my generated PD

I cannot make framemaker apply a master page using the master page mapping, on a table that spans over several pages. I specified the paragraph tag on wich lays the table anchor and set the Range Indicator to "Span Pages", but it seems it does not span !This klind of table are the last of my multifiles book so i wouldn't want to insert another blank paragraph at the end of each file  (i.e. after the table) to change the "range indicator" to "until changed".Anyone got the same trouble ?

I have a client who has all their documentation in FrameMaker, but needs to export to MS Word to distribute files for editing by various parties. Once edited, my client needs to bring the updated text back into Frame, ideally without having to re-format the entire file. It was suggested that RoboHelp 10 might work, but they are using unstructured FrameMaker.Any advice would be greatly appreciated.Thanks!

I'm using structured FrameMaker 10 on Windows 7, and I'm using AXCM 3.11 to filter my book. For the first time, I'm getting an error message that I've never seen before when I update the book: Expressions and conditions settings in the book are inconsistent. It's complaining about the first chapter. I'm used to the message about inconsistent condition settings, so I've deleted all the conditions from Chapter 1 and the TOC, and imported the conditional settings from the cover, but I still get that error. In desperation, I've copied the Conditional Text Setting from the TOC to the rest of the manual, but I still get that error. I also tried copying the Conditional Text Settings from chapter 1 to the rest of the manual; no good.The funny thing is that in the filtered book, I was able to get rid of the error by deleting all the conditional text settings in the TOC and chapter 1, and importing the settings from the cover. I don't know what's different about the source book.I also read someo

How do I globally replace a bold character override with a specific character format from the character format catalog in FM10? I am not concerned about filtering for specific paragraph tags.Thanks,Marc

Hi,I am currently in the process of converting from Unstructured FrameMaker files to DITA using FrameMaker 11. When I structure the document using the conversion table, I'd like to be able to save the Idref value for the cross-reference as an attribute in the element it is wrapped in. At the moment, when I structure the document, all I can manage is to wrap the text in a <xref> element.Is this possible?Cheers,Zane

Working in a 60+ page document and when it gets to page 42 it will not display the remaining pages. I know they are there as I can see the curser work through the page flow using the arrow key to move down but the page stays at 42.

FrameMaker 11Vasont CMSArbortext editorIn order to comply with our parent company, we are converting all of our FM docs to DITA. We check before conversion to ensure all cross-refs are working.  When the cross-reference comes in to DITA from FM, it looks like this: xref format=”dita” href=”MSC_c_Introduction.dita” scope=”local” type=”concept”But these do not work.When the cross-ref is created in either the CMS or in Arbortext, it looks like this:xref href=”MSC_c_Introduction#MSC_c_Introduction/MSC_c_Intro” outputclass=”fm:HeadingOnly”These work properly.Is there a way to get the cross-refs from FM to have the correct syntax? Or is this not a syntax issue? We would much rather use FM than Arbortext.TIA,Marsha

Hello ,W7, FM11.I think I might be doing something fundementally wrong, but I cannot change the size of a Side Head.I have already populated the document and can add a Side Head by Format > Page Layout > Column Layout... and checking Room for Side Heads.However, no matter what I change Width to, it always remains the same size.What am I doing wrong?

Hi,I get the following error while trying to save fm files as XML.=== Header Begin ===Internal Error: 8004, 4867936, 4920984, 4921436FrameMaker 8.0.0 for IntelBuild: 8.0p266Window System: MSWindowsOperating System: Windows NT 6.1 (major.minor.build: 6.1.7600 ) Generated on: Tuesday, November 26, 2013 2:01:40 PMTo file: c:\program files\adobe\framemaker8\FrameLog_13.11.26_14.01.40.txt=== Header End ===-ramesh

I have a relatively new Win 7 box, running TCS 4. So in Frame 11, I have checked out a book (using CMS/SharePoint) and everything checks out ok. But when I go to edit the files, they all have question marks and if I try to open them, the message is "cover.fm does not exist." for example.Also, a long file directory is showing instead of just the file name.Other users with similar setups are not having this problem.I can work with other books just fine, but not this one (which is the MAIN one I use FM for!).Help!

In PDFs I'm generating using FM 11, the word spacing for some paragraph tags widens.  I cannot see any difference in the paragraph tag properties.  Sometimes this causes the text to extend into the margin or even outside of the table borders as shown in the examples.Note that I'm using the "Save as PDF" option.Please see the attached examples which show the PDF output and the FM source of the same thing.  Notice that the extra word spacing does not happen to every paragraph.What causes this and how can I fix it?

Our department just lost two people; both with legal, active licenses for Tech Comm 4. IT is going to purge the systems for new users and I need to recover the software licenses before the systems are purged so that the software can be installed and activated for new users. I understand that the software needs to be deactivated to facilitate the transfer. The issue is in finding the license info. I don't know if the software was ever registered, or how it would be registered with, or even who the software was purchased from. I work for a very large multinational with a centralized IT department who originally pushed the installs out to these two user's computers and they have been less than responsive in getting the license info to us; waiting around for them to reply is not an option since we need to install the software ASAP for new users.Can anyone tell me how to recover these licenses?

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