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Hi,I am trying to write a script where all cross-references in general can be identified in all textinsets within the entire book. I have already posted this question last week (see previous post) but due to modifications in my script, I was advised to create a separate post. I tried to break down my goal into subtasks / functions to make the script more readable.  It should go through the entire book first to identify all textinsets. Then it should identify all XRefs and MTexts in all textinsets through the entire book. I also intend to open the original files of the textinsets by including a request at the end.  However, the script does not work yet and I still need a lot of practice and insights from someone who is more proficient than me. Any help is appreciated. Thank you in advance. main(); function main() { var bookComponentsPaths = [] var textInsetsPaths = [] var xRefPaths = [] var mTextPaths = [] var sourcePaths

Hi,I am trying to write a script where all cross-references in general can be identified in textinsets within the entire book. My approach is: first, identify all textinsets and second, identify all XRefs and MTexts in all textinsets through the entire book. I also intend to open the original files of the textinsets via scripting. However, my script does not work as planned, in particular, the insetDoc cannot be opened and also all cross-references outside the textinsets are mistakenly counted instead, so maybe I might miss something? main(); function main(){ var bookComponentsPaths = [] var textInsetsPaths = [] var xRefPaths = [] var mTextPaths = [] var sourcePaths = [] var book = app.ActiveBook; if(!book.ObjectValid()) { book = app.FirstOpenBook; } var comp = book.FirstComponentInBook; while(comp.ObjectValid()) { comp.ComponentIsSelected = true; var compType = comp.Compon

Is this possible? I just opened FM 10 for the first time and and it crashes every time I open an existing document.

Deleting a master page, the pages that it was applied to remain in the document. How do I delete a master page and delete all pages in the document that had the specific master page applied? Is this possible? or do I have to manually delete all the pages?

How to delete all blank pages from Adobe Frame Maker Book. While saving the book, I noticed that there are several unecessary blank pages in the book . Please guide to supress those blank pages.  

I have been using Swiss Greek for many years in FrameMaker. However, since Swiss Greek is no longer supported, when I open my files, I get corrupted fonts and therefore unreadable content. This, can be solved (temporarily) if I install Swiss Greek again on my pc, which makes the content in the file readable (although underlined with red lines). The problem is that I can not replace that font with another legit, supported font. Replacing the font through the Paragraph Designer > Font, does not work. The font becomes corrupted again. Any idea of how replacing an unsupported font is done, would be highly appreciated. Thank you!

Hi there, I would like to have a simplified TOC in my pdf documents. I am running Structured Fm 17.0.2. Right now, my TOC looks as below.I would like the TOC to looks like shown below. I modified my ditafm-output.ini in the section  [BookWithFM-TOC]. My reference was: https://help.adobe.com/en_US/framemaker/using/using-framemaker/user-guide/frm_generating_output-multichannel-format-toc.html The mofified output is:ParaTags=title.0|title-index I updated the ditafm-output.ini in C:\Program Files\Adobe\Adobe FrameMaker 2022\fminit and C:\Program Files\Adobe\Adobe FrameMaker 2022\fminit\ditafm.I restarted FM and published my ditamap again. However, the published output in the TOC was not changed. Would you please help me to figure out what I am doing wrong. Thanks a lot!Zornitza Doneva  

I have been searching for a solution to this problem. I have had IT uninstall, redownload, and reinstall FM2020 to my system twice. I cannot upgrade to 2022. Here is my issue:  I attempted to generate a TOC for a book and it gave me an internal error 16054. That is when I did the above troubleshooting. However, even after doing this, I cannot open any books in any projects, whether I made the original book or not. I also cannot create a new book based on the files from the original books. Attempting to create a new book doesn't generate the fatal error. Attempting to open an existing book does. I have read the forum post suggesting changing the file name in C:/Users/[user name]/AppData etc., but no folder called AppData exists in my user profile. There are not that many posts with solutions to this issue, especially current ones in for this version of FM.  Something about generating the ToC for a book triggered an internal error that is now causing me major iss

I am trying to align a Frame Above Paragraph graphic with following text as per the instructions given here: Runaround with 'Frame above paragraph' setting. The problem I'm having in Frame version 17.02 is that putting negative spacing in the Above Paragraph and Below Paragraph fields has no effect in this instance.  It does work on plain body text, however.This is what I have: The graphic is in a Frame Above Paragraph setting in a paragraph style called Note and the text is in another paragraph style called NoteText. (The left margin in NoteText has been adjusted to get the proper horizontal spacing against the graphic.) I am trying to get the text and the graphic to align using negative spacing below Note and negative spacing above NoteText, but I cannot get it to work. I'm pretty sure I'm missing something very obvious here, but I'm at a loss.  Thanks in advance,Bill 

Hello. I have a PDF generated in Framemaker (version 17.0.2.431) using Save As PDF  that won't take a watermark in Acrobat Pro (version 2023.006.20360.) FrameMaker indicates that the PDF was created successfully and the resulting PDF opens normally. However, when I start the watermark procedure in Acrobat, the little watermark bar graph at the botton right of the screen comes up, says it's scanning for watermarks, and then the process stops without further ado. Sometimes if I start over and regenerate the PDF using Save As PDF the watermark procedure works fine, but not always. Grasping at straws, I tried printing the book to  a .ps file and then going through Distiller. To my great surprise and delight, this works. I was also thrillled to see that cross references made it through the process. So I have a solution, sort of, but I'd like to know what gives with FM's Save As PDF routine. Thanks in advance!Bill

Hi everyone,I'm creating a table using the "anchor frame" and "text frame" tools that have content that needs to be hidden, but the problem is that when hidden, the table will have unnecessary extra space. Is there any solution to solve this case? Please suggest.Best regards,Quan

Hello, In a FM book I have succeeded to create a Table of Contents, but I see that in the generated TOC the page number (1) is next to the text (see red line in the screenshot). I would like that FM automatically put the page number like this : "chapter number .................................................................  page number" So, I would like FM add automatically the "dots" and put the "page number" at the right. How to do this ?  

Hello, I need help to make the font of cross-references blue. I've looked at other posts related to the issue and have attempted the steps but for whatever reason, my cross-references remain black.1. In the character catalog, I create a new style:2. In the cross reference pod, I click on the building block labled 'hyperlink_blue' and add it to the cross reference I'm trying to create3. When I click on insert, I get the following. The font remains black, not blueIn other posts, some say to go to View>Colors>Views to see if the color blue is hidden. As far as I can tell it's not.Any help is greatly appreciated. Thank you,  

Hello. I have a book with several chapters. I have set the footer numbering to be bold and it works in all but one of my documents (see below.) I have tried reworking the paragraph style in just the one offending document and, while the paragraph designer shows everything the way I want it to be, the actual footer isn't correct.  FM version 17.02.431, font used is Arial.I have even tried deteting the footer frame and recreating it, to no avail. Thanks is advance for your help.Bill

Hi,I am currently working on a script for FrameMaker which should directly jump to the orphaned target markers (MText) inside the book. To identify them in the first place, I have already written a code where I collect all cross-references (mainly the ID numbers), both source markers (XRef) and target markers, to match them. This works for me so far. However, I am a bit stuck with the part where the according book components of the orphaned target markers should be directly accessed. I was thinking of running through the entire book again while trying to match with the ID numbers of the target markers but since I collected them all in an array, this does not work properly. Maybe my approach is not that elegant.main(); function main() { var numXRefTextPaths = [] var numMTextPaths = [] var book = app.ActiveBook; if(!book.ObjectValid()) { book = app.FirstOpenBook; } var comp = book.FirstComponentInBook; while(comp.ObjectValid())

Hi all, None of the links in the pinned post titled Update 2 for FrameMaker September 2022 release is now available!  work. All return 'You must sign in to the private community.' This post does have links that work, although not directly to the documentation. New Release of Adobe FrameMaker is Now Available!  Jon

Hello,I have an FM file where I have a text with notes.  But these notes are very long.But I have noticed that for the note "3" (that is in the text of the page 1), this footnote "3" begins on page 2 (it begins in another page). Why ?

When I insert Images in Adobe Frame Maker Book, it is not clearly visible. Is there any specific way to optimize images  in FM? 

初めまして。FM2022になって、いろいろなエラーが見つかっていますが、そのうちの１つで、大幅に選択したいときに、Shiftキーで始点から終点を選ぶことがあります。その動作をしたとたんに、FM2022がフリーズしてしまい、強制シャットダウンが必要になります。ほかの方もそのような症状ありますでしょうか？

Is there a way to use the Jump Back hyper-command in an end-product PDF? This command works fine within FM, but does not function on the resulting PDF.

I have added a coverpage into Adobe Frame Maker book, but when I am updating the book with coverpage, it is showing errors. Please hints.  I am adding a cover page through add button displayed in a book. 

I am trying to decrease the space between two tables in a structured document. I have tried a few things, including setting the paragraph designer below paragraph setting to 0 pts. in the last cell of the first table, setting the above paragraph setting in the first cell of the second table to 0 pts, setting the top and bottom table margins to 0 pts in the table designer. None of these have worked. I was able to get the space between my first table and the text before it to a reasonable size by setting the paragraph design for the previous text to Run-In Head, which pulled the anchor into the line with the text. Both tables are set to pgwide, so I don't know how I might be able to pull the anchor for the second table up further or otherwise shrink the distance between tables. 

Hello. I have a situation where the text of a heading looks fine in FM but gets all jumbled when a PDF is made from it.  This is the section heading for a table, and the table heading itself doesn't misbehave—it's only the section heading. The numbering parameter is H:<$chapnum>.<n>.<n+>\t< =0>< =0>< =0>< >< > which works fine everywhere else in the book. Any and all help will be greatly appreciated. I have spet three days trying to get this PDF ready for my boss and guess what... I'm three days late and I have worked all weekend on this. 

When I publish to HTML or HTML5, FrameMaker changes the lang tag to lang="ja-JP" in the HTML output. The Language field in all the Paragraph and Character styles is set to English or As Is.I stripped the page to the frame and only had  one word appearing on the page. Even with only one word on the page, the language was still changed to "ja-JP".Text on the master pages is set to English (master page content should not matter, but I have to try everything).2 files in the book (out of 66) export with the language correctly set to lang="en-US".  I imported all the formats from one of the correct files to the ja-JP producing files, and still, the language persists as ja-JP in the HTML. If I save as HTML instead of publishing to HTML a lang tag is not written in the HTML, so the issue must be with the Publish option? The Language field on the General tab in the Publish Settings Outputs tab is set to English. My question: Is there another language setting?

Hello,I don't remember how to write numbers in FM.By example, if I have 12.25 : between 12 and 25, I would like FM uses the point instead of the comma.How to set the "point" (instead of comma) in preference panel ?Because actually, in the page layout settings I can only use the comma (but not the point).