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Hello,Recently upgraded to 8p273 due to known bug with indexing; this solved that problem.However--I find that from time to time (increasingly frequently, it seems) control commands (cntl-c, cntl-v, cntl-m, etc.) stop working, in an erratic fashion. I.e. one will stop working properly (seemingly cntl-c to copy things), but cntl-v still works, then after a while cntl-v will paste, but in the main frame not in the marker dialogue box, etc. (difficult to describe all this accurately).Eventually, I close FM and restart it, and I'm good for a few minutes.I've tried downloading p277 (in case it fixes this) but only 7Mb of 32 download, and when I try to run it, as far as I can see, nothing happens. So not getting anywhere there.I'm running this on Win XP SP3 under Parallels 8.0.18494, but I don't know that that's the problem; cntl-c and cntl-v still work in other applications.Any ideas?I'm near the end of a project (well, if I can get the work done!) so it doesn't make sense to upgrade to a n

When copying chapters within the same book, the newly created copy caries with it the memory of all the previously created markers defined within it.  Frame seems to be ok with keeping track of this, but the problem I have is when I convert the book to a MS help file using Robohelp.  All those duplicate markers cause Robohelp to create links to the wrong locations.I there anyway to get Frame to correctly update the text within the markers (and their associated links) when copying (or even just adding) chapters to a book?  The book I am working with has 64 chapters in it, and it is a real waste of time to have to go in and manually change hundreds of markers and cross-references when making changes/additions to the chapters.Thank you.

I am trying to turn the third rule in a four row table thick. I go into Table Designer and select Every 3rd Thick.  The others are all none.  The table is not responding to the command to make the third rule thick as I need it to be.  Does anyone have any suggestions?  Thank you.

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While checking earlier threads about insets and unwanted spacing, I came across references to PgfLocked as a property you need .mif to get to. It wasn't part of my problem, but I'm curious: what would it have been doing, if it had been there?

I recall seeing another post about this issue and I can't find it now, but none of the workarounds mentioned there worked for me, so here goes:I am working on a book migrated from FM 9 to FM 11, and when I print to PDF, I specify the bookmarks I want to display in the Bookmarks tab of the PDF Setup for Selected Files dialog. The PDF prints fine, but when I want to print the book again, FM doesn't remember my settings, forcing me to set the bookmarks from scratch every time. This has proven pretty tedious seeing that I'm working with an old book in which the styles aren't intiutive, so trying to remember all of them every time isn't the best of fun. When I print a single file in the book, the settings are saved properly.In the previous post, I remember reading that this was a bug in FM and trying the following suggested workarounds (none of which worked): Switching to structured mode; saving the desired setting in one file in the book, printing that document, and then printing the book

Hi all,In my book, I have an introductory document which is the same for all books. Sort of a foreword. So I import this into an empty document which I then save and rename etc. In other words, the foreword is a regular text inset. For some reason, Framemaker adds the paragrap tag for title after/before the inset, while leaves me with a numbered blank entry in my toc and an ugly orange bar below my inset, which I usually use as part of the title layout. Not only the TOC entry is a nuisance, but also the fact that even after deleting the inset I cannot change or delete the paragraph tag. How can I fix/prevent this?ThanksPieterAdded screenshots show the document with the inset selected and the title paragraph underneath, and without the inset showing the unremovable and unchangeable paragraph tag. (the blue curly sign and orange bar)

Hacking my way through various operations, trying to root out "unavailable font" messages, and I've noticed (not for the first time, but for the first time I've been minded to ask questions) a whole slew of paragraph style definitions in the .book. Even if I assume they've drifted in there from the component .fm files, I'm still left wondering why.And considering I've just exposed one area of ignorance, let's go for broke with another question: what is encoded in the BookFileInfo block?

Hi All,Does anyone have any suggestions on the best way to save approximately 50 FM11 files to .mif version 7 (for translators who only have FM9) ?I was hoping there was a script or tool to speed up this process, or will we have to save each invidually ?Thank you,Tina

My PDFs are doing an odd thing with bookmarks. They list as bookmarks every entry (paragraph) on the TOC and APL. But not consistently. Any ideas?And is this an Acrobat issue or a Framemaker issue? Individual book chapters are okay as PDFs. It only happens when I make a PDF of the entire book. I've looked at the paratags and the bookmark setup, and can't see anything out of the ordinary.

Partly for more control of vertical white space, and partly for control with master page mapping, I've used a pairs of styles for certain types of content: FigureAnchor and FigureEnd, TableAnchor and TableEnd.What about text insets? Any advantages to using InsetAnchor and InsetEnd?

Hi all,I use a MacBook Pro for work and in my down time, I'd like to be able to do some assignments for my FrameMaker class. I found a few guidelines for running FM on a Mac, but I couldn't seem to get any of them working. So for the Mac users out there, which VM do you suggest for running FM 11 on OS X? I'd like to run FM within OS X, without having to dual boot or boot into Windows. Thanks! P.S. -- I apologize if this has already been asked.

Hi,I've created a Framemaker XI package with the "Adobe Application Manager Enterprise Edition", provided the serial number and added patch 11.0.2. The package was successfully created on a network share the installing admin account has full access rights to. Target system is a W2K8 R2 64bit terminal server.When installing, the msi rolls back, throwing error 1708/1603 after collecting all it's msi properties, nothing gets installed. In the LOCAL folder of %APPDATA%, I find a file called PDApp.log with the follwing content:6/27/2013 17:16:47 [INFO] DeploymentManager - Build Version - 3.1.105.06/27/2013 17:16:47 [INFO] DeploymentManager - Logging Level verbosity Set  to 46/27/2013 17:16:47 [INFO] DeploymentManager - Executing the deferred custom action.6/27/2013 17:16:47 [INFO] DeploymentManager - Obtained the following as CustomActionData6/27/2013 17:16:47 [INFO] DeploymentManager - mode=install;sourceDir=H:\TIMRS\4 ACME_Framemaker_XI\Build\;installDir=;origDB=H:\TIMRS\4 ACME_Frame

Afterinstalled the Framemaker, everytime i started it, there will be a dialogue appers, as shows in the attachment. If click [confirm], the Framemaker will be closed automatically.And my operating system is Windows 7.

FrameMaker 11DITA 1.2Is it possible using FM 11 and DITA 1.2 to use a soft return (as in Shift+Enter)? There are times when I want to avoid bad line breaks in a line of code or when I just want to keep a line with the previous line rather than having the extra space generated by a hard return.Using a soft return disappears as soon as I save my file and reopen it. By "disappears" I mean it acts simply like a space rather than any type of return.Thanks in advance,Marsha

Dear all,The script I'm developing creates a menu for the various steps to be taken by the user. It acts both on a single document or on a book (all of it's documents). Adding the custom menu to the SpecialMenu works fine for the documents. This standard menu is not available if a book is active. Hence I tried to connect it to the FormatMenu.function DefineMenus() {      var menuMain = {en: "Bibliography with EndNote …",                     de: "Bibliografie mit EndNote …"};      var menuDocu = {en: "Documentation",                     de: "Beschreibung (en)"};      var menuLocation = app.GetNamedMenu("FormatMenu");      var bibenMenu  = menuLocation.DefineAndAddMenu("!BIBENmain", (localize(menuMain)));  &nbsp

I have files in framemaker version 6.0 and not able to open  inside framemaker. give error unknown file type. Is there a solution for this? Browse thru inside forum but no solution on this.

Hello friends,Now that I have managed to find citations (special strings) in paragraphs, footnotes, tables and table footnotes - all with your generous help - I need to find out the file name (path) of the current document (or book).All that i have found is how to get the file name of a book component (well, that i'll need also, but later).How can I find the file name of the current document (that is not part of a book) andHow can I find the file name of the current book?Thanks again for Your helpKlaus

OK, I admit it – I've never managed to get my head round OO :-{ and, accordingly, never got very far trying to understand FrameScript. I did, though, manage to use some of the default scripts while I had FrameScript on another installation.So with that as context, I was sheepishly wondering if anyone happened to have a new-fangled script to share that will save all .book components out as .mif for FM 10 – I have various housekeeping tasks to perform, and they'd go a lot faster with mif.N

Sorry if this is a dim question, but I'm a FrameMaker novice and I'm not sure how to go about the following:My document makes lots of use of cross-references and I've always created these with the source type as 'Paragraphs' and a format that uses <$paratext>  For example, a cross ref displayed as:How do I perform task A?takes the user to a pargraph titled:How do I perform task A?I'd like to change this a bit by editing the text displayed in the link to be:task Abut have it still take the user to same paragraph as before:How do I perform task A?I just can't figure out a way to have different text displayed without having to set up a new format for every cross reference that I create (which can't be the right way to do it).

Writing stuff to the console displays some characters not correct. When I copy the string in question from the console window into the document window - or into another application, the string displays correctly.What I see in the console:Copied from the console log and pasted into EditPad:p-Sèsíüs,  #26p-Šèšíüš,  #26                «-------t-Friðriksson, 2005 #31; DaubeT, #312Hence the string is correct, but not correctly displayed...I have not found out, which font is used in the console, because further tests show, that all character with the hacec accent (the small v) are not displayed correctly. Other specials such as single guilliments (›) are also not displayed correctly. Take this small script to check:var testText = "U0100: ĀāĂ㥹ĆćĈĉĊċČčĎď \nU0110: ĐđĒēĔĕĖėĘęĚěĜĝĞğ \nU0160: ŠšŢţŤťŦŧŨũŪūŬŭŮů \nU0170: ŠšŢţŤťŦŧŨũŪūŬŭŮů"; Console (testText);What you see on the console is this:I have not found any

Is it possible to anchor a custom master page?.  I'm using a custom master page for rotated pages to adapt as well the header and footer but I want to use the same text flow. When I'm inserting something before the rotated page, it moves all the content. So text which should be on the rotated page moves then to the following normal pages.By addressing the master page usage, I couldn't find any function which anchors it to the text like e.g. tables or anchored figures.My system: Win7-64, FM11 (unstructered).

What does this sybilline message mean? I assume we can leave aside the possibility that FrameMaker has analysed the text for discrepancies and contradictions ...