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How to use Standard Template in Adobe Frame Maker?

Hello, I just generated two PDFs using Structured FrameMaker Version 17.0.2.031.  In my first PDF my assembly drawings looked a little small.So I went into the framemaker file that contained these drawings and, one-by-one, changed the sizes to 75% via object properties.  They were originally 60-something percent.Now these pictures and others in the PDF are moving OFF the page at the top.Why? What I can do to fix it?  I just want these pictures to fit on the PDF pages at a good size.   Please let me know.  Thanks and have a great day!Brian

How to add a Book Cover Page in Adobe Frame Maker?

I'm growing increasingly fond of invoking XSLT from FrameMaker Extendscript. I can now consolidate formerly multi-tool, multi-step workflows into a single Extendscript.But ... in scripts for distribution to others, I don't know where to put the XSLT file. FrameMaker wants a fully-qualified path for the XSLT stylesheet. My AppData folder seems right for "me", but the path will vary with the user. And without a fully-qualified path, FrameMaker looks for the XSLT stylesheet in the FrameMaker application folder -- not really an option because of Windows filesystem protections.I don't want to tell my customers to "edit the Extendscript to point to your copy of the XSLT stylesheet". I could set the location in a config file, but even that doesn't seem optimal. How have others handled this issue?-Alan-- Alan HouserGroup Wellesley, Inc.Consultant and Trainer, Technical Publishingarh on Twitter412-450-0532

I've tried this in both the Personal Speceship demo files and in a document of my own. I go into the Reference page of the Index.fm file, find the SeparatorsIX paragraph style and put a tab with leader dots just before the page number. When I regenerate the TOC and Index, the page number still has no space between it and the index entry. 

A header for stationery first page Includes a simple image (a yellow circle) an overlaid organizational name.  This page is called "right."The first page of the stationery is associated with Master page "right". The image from the Master page right does not appear on the first page of the stationery.  I've been using FM for more than three decades.  What have I done to screw this up? 

I received an error from FM 17, and after sending the log file to fmerror@adobe.com, it bounced: Is there another email address to send crash log files?

Das ist die Fehlermeldung von Adobe, wenn ich einen FrameMaker-Absturz melden will.Hat sich die E-Mail-Adresse geändert oder nimmt Adobe keine Fehlermeldungen zu FrameMaker mehr an? 

FM dies with attached DITA filewhen switching from wysiwyg to XMLwhen restoring the session that killed FM This is reproducible every time.  The XML file:  <?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?> <!DOCTYPE task PUBLIC "-//OASIS//DTD DITA 1.3 Task//EN" "technicalContent/dtd/task.dtd" [ ]> <?Fm Condition DITA-Prolog AsIs NO_OVERRIDE hide AsIs?> <?Fm Condition DITA-Comment AsIs NO_OVERRIDE hide AsIs?> <?Fm Condition FM8_SYSTEM_HIDEELEMENT Dark%20Grey NO_OVERRIDE hide AsIs?> <?Fm Condition FM8_TRACK_CHANGES_ADDED Forest%20Green SINGLE_UNDERLINE show AsIs?> <?Fm Condition FM8_TRACK_CHANGES_DELETED Red STRIKETHROUGH show AsIs?> <?Fm Condition domain-xml-d AsIs NO_OVERRIDE show AsIs?> <?Fm Condition domain-ui-d Red NO_OVERRIDE show AsIs?> <?Fm Condition FM_PDF_Comments_Highlight AsIs NO_OVERRIDE show Yellow?> <?Fm Condition FM_PDF_Comments_Underline Blue SINGLE_UNDERLINE show AsIs?> <?Fm BoolCondExpr

FrameMaker changebars work well in text, but it is difficult to put a changebar next to an entire table. I have a free scripting solution that puts a nice changebar along the whole height of a table. The script is free and can be downloaded from my Store page at frameexpert dot com. Feedback is appreciated.

I am trying to loop through all of the items in a FrameMaker menu with ExtendScript. I am using this code, but it only gets me the first command on the menu. Any help would be appreciated.   #target framemaker var menu, item; menu = app.GetNamedMenu ("!HelpMenu"); Console (menu.Label); item = menu.FirstMenuItemInMenu; while (item.ObjectValid () === 1) { Console (item.Label); item = item.NextMenuItemInMenu; }  

Is there a way to find overrides in the Body page when you get the Keep/Remove Overrides message?

Is there a way to add a graphic/text in the side head next to a specific table row?When our documents are going through a review, our reviewer would highlight content that needs to be reviewed by the subject matter expert (SME). I can easily achieve this for any paragraph-type content using the following Element set up in our EDD:(Icon_UnderReview is an image to mark content to be reviewed). When using this element in a table, the image (Icon_UnderReview) is added above the text in the cell. Is there a way to have the image still appear in the side head next to the respective table row? I don't want to use an Anchored Frame as that will require the reviewer to manually insert the graphic every time.

FrameMaker 2022 help (in Home > Structured authoring > Author structured content > Create equations using MathML) provides a link supposedly to information about MathFlow. It now displays info.wiris.com/mathflow-info, which explains that MathFlow has been replaced by MathType. The 30 day temporary license to MathFlow is still available, but attempting to convert that to a permanent license attempts to bring up a web page that doesn't exist. Attempting to purchase MathType directly does not list a FrameMaker version. Is there an available way to use MathML in FrameMaker?    --Lynne 

Hi, FM 17.0.2 I have a problem which I noticed today. In one of my paragraph formats I have this autonumbering: F:< ><n+>\st–\t The dash is an en dash. The font is OpenSans Light Italic. https://fonts.google.com/specimen/Open+Sans Today I created a draft PDF, and today I had some new paragraphs with this format. The en dash looks fine in FrameMaker, but in the PDF it is converted to a w with diaresis. Only for Open Sans Light Italic. Not for Open Sans Light. Not for Open Sans Italic. Not in Word and a PDF created from the Word file. Not on the Google Open Sans web-site. (There I can enter characters to test.) Also in regular text without autonumbering. Also in a new FM file with the FM default template with Open Sans Light Italic. Also after a FrameMaker restart and a Windows restart. Also after a MIF wash. Also with the latest version of this font. Not when I print to a PostScript file with or without Acrobat data. (Printer is Adobe PDF.) Not with Publish with Acrobat Dist

Am trying to extract definitions from a document glossary with a script.  Have run into a problem with my lookahead that I can't seem to sort.  Glossary entries look like image below:The problem is that each entry may have one or two tabs.  The first tab is rendered as "......" separating the acronym from the definition.  Some glossaries have a second tab that appears as a blank space before the definition.  The following works fine for glossaries with a single tab. (?<=\bDRB\x08).*However, if glossary uses two tabs, regexp picks up the second tab along with the definition. If I change my look ahead to:(?<=\bDRB\x08\x08).*It works for with two tabs, but not with one.  If I change it to:(?<=\bDRB\x08+).*...which should find one or more occurance of the tab character, I get a "Not Found" error.  Apparently operators do not work that same way in ascertions as they work in regexps.  

Most of the time I can take care of unattractive line breaks in the TOC by putting in non-breaking spaces in a paragraph.However, I sometimes have a situation where the text of a TOC entry is too close to the page number on the right. The text is so close to the page number that in some cases no leader dots show, or only one or two leader dots show.The entry and its page number fit on a single line, so putting in non-breaking spaces won't solve the problem. I could put in a soft return (Shift-Enter) in the TOC entry to force a line break, but it isn't efficient because I have to put in the soft return manually each time the TOC is updated.If anyone has a tip on how to handle this problem efficiently, I'd love to know about it.

Hi!Please I need your help, I have a complex book called MO_PARTE_A and I have a lot of Chapters separated in folders (attached screenshot), but I need and idea that how can I create a TOC for each chapter (Folder) for example a TOC with the Chapter A1, A1.2 and A1.3, the solution that I have for the moment is that Im working in an individual book for each Chapter (Folder, in this case CAPA1, attached screenshot), but im sure that is not the best way to do this. Please!! thanks!!  

Just installed the latest FM update. Upon opening, the Welcome Screen looks like this image. Is there a patch to fix this like there was for a previous version? I was expecting to see the list of recently accessed files. 

I am a long time Adobe and Mac user — about 30 years — but it's a struggle having to run FrameMaker on a Mac using VM software. I have a 2018 iMac with FrameMaker 2019, and currently use Parallels to run Windows 10. Compared to running my other Adobe programs on the Mac (InDesign, Photoshop, Illustrator), running FrameMaker thru VM is slow and kludgy. And every time Windows forces an update on me, it causes things in FrameMaker to malfunction. (Like not being able to Save As PDF, or not being able to Find/Change straight apostrophes to curly — both critical to the work I do.)When I search for solutions, see mostly old threads and not a lot of help. I'm sure there must be other Mac users also experiencing issues that impact their daily work.So this is to the Adobe FrameMaker Team, and anyone else who has the answers: - Are you testing ways for your Mac users to best make FrameMaker function smoothly on a Mac?- Since VM software is currently the only option, what is the most reliable VM

I am trying to figure out why Framemaker sometimes refuses to display a horizontal divider line above the footnote section of certain pages. I created a video that shows the problem: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VEQgp9KDbDo   In this video page 370, above footnote 21, no horizontal divider line appears.  Yet, on pages 369, 371 and 372, the divider line DOES appear. Does anyone have any ideas what I need to examine in order to figure out why this is happening?

How can I create style this below. I m trying to create like this, but not reaching at a considerable point. Please Guide.  

How can I take two column in a page in Frame Maker? I am trying to take two column in a particular page, but when I am using text frame, it is overlapping with other content of document. Please suggest me the best way to take two column in a particular page so that content is not overlapped.

When I press 'enter' to change the paragraph, there is more space left between the paragraph in Frame Maker. How to reduce that space. Please guide. I have attached the screenshot for referecne.

A completely 'random' question to the community. I'm writing a novel using FrameMaker. To keep track of events, I would like to add the Date, Time and Duration for each event in the novel, akin to this:It is not part of the 'printable' content, so need to appear 'outside' the normal text frame.  I know I can create it as a Text Flow B, with the relevant elements for Date, Time, DOW and Duration, and manually enter these, then use Conditional Formatting to hide these when creating the final output. I also know that FrameMaker can't do calculations, e.g. add the duration to the Time to populate the End Time, using that as the Time for the next event. I'm sure others in the community have done something similar for other projects/documents and was wondering how this was achieved? Thoughts, suggestions, ideas welcome. Thanks,Quintin