FrameMaker

Hi everyone,I'm using FrameMaker version 17.0.2 to write in structured (DITA 1.3). I wonder if there's a way to customize a list of selectable values for a specific attribute, such as a product, and associate it with a particular DITA map file. However, I don't want these changes to affect every file or map in FrameMaker. Could someone help me with this?Other tools, like Oxygen, allow you to create a subject scheme map and link it to a specific dita map. This makes it simple to choose attribute values from a predefined list.

I have had two major ongoing issues since upgrading to Framemaker 2022 from 2020. The first I have found a workaround for, although I am still trying to figure out the reason, the second is below. I'm wondering if anyone else has experienced this problem or has a solution.  I work on a User Guide that has a healthy catalog of paragraph styles and we do utilize the reference page for a feature on the advanced tab of the paragraph designer tool.  Here is what the settings look like (first two images). The third image is that paragraph style as it appears in FM (as it should). The second is how it looks when I publish a PDF for web viewing. Notice the notched left and right upper corners. I have used the reference page to adjust the Heading1 background bar, which is the selected setting in Frame Above Pfg in the advanced tab of this paragraph design element. It has not solved the problem. I have a ticket with Adobe, but have not yet had success in troubleshooting

Please help me on the below queries.- How to install plugins in Adobe Framemaker?- How to use the installed plugins to copy full table contents from word file to structiured framemaker? 

I have a series of separate documents that we want to publish to HTML5. I need to be able to deliver them in a single zip file. To make this work, do I need to combine these documents into a single FM file (a very long one) and then generate the zip?

Hello,I have created an empty template (With Times New Roman font).Then I have opened a Word file in FM (this Word file is with Calibri font). So FM creates one FM files with the content of the Word file (I can see Calibri Font).Then on the FM file opened I make File/Import/Format and applied the template format on this FM file, but it does not changed the font for this FM file  (I am always with the same font as in the Word file, ie : Calibri Font).Why the File /Import/Format does not have changed the font ? 

I lost my Help settings. One thing that I have not been able to recreate is the hierarchical Navigation Panel. It took all my Heading levels and flattened them so they are all at the same level.  Please advise.

Hi mam, I have created and  took output as pdf from FM file.. but the pdf not generating the bookmarks properly...how and where to do proper settings for generating the PDF file along with bookmarks which is extracting headings from fm file. Is there any session covered for this! Kindly support

Hi Community,After finding out why my context points didn't work (tab vs space in the .h file), we're making the jump from FM17 to FM 19 (2022).I use a mix of .png and .jpg graphics in my documentation (depending if I created them or our graphic designer did).In our HTML5 output, FM has made some of the png files into svg (with the png embedded). This is happening at seemingly random spots.My warnings, cautions and notes are using png files for the graphic at the insertion point, followed by the text. This aligns the top edge of the graphic with the top of the text.There can be two notes under one another and one will change to svg while the other stays as png. The main problem is where the svg change happens, it aligns the text on the bottom edge of the graphic, as opposed to the top. I've already tried ticking and unticking things in the publish settings to no avail. Does anyone have any pointers?

Hello,I have opened 5 FM files. So I have 5 tabs opened.I have created a template with tags.I would like to apply the template on all opened FM files (5 files) in one go. How to do this ? Because actually, I am obliged to do File/Import/Format, but for one file only. So I am obliged to do the same for each FM file opened.

Does FrameMaker support a "macro" functionality similar to what MS Word provides?  The only mention of "macros" in FrameMaker help seem to relate to HTML conversion (whatever that is).  I want to be able to automate simple tasks like special-pasting some text and setting the paragraph style.  For example, right now I have about a dozen Level 5 sections to copy and paste into FrameMaker.  So I have to copy the heading in Word, switch to FM, then do a Ctrl+Shift+v, hit "t" for "Text", then "Enter", and then open the Paragraph Catalog, click on "Level 5", and close the Paragraph Catalog (due to space limitations on-screen).  It would be a nice timesaver to have those steps assigned to a macro where all I have to do is press a couple keys.

I use FrameMaker 9.0p237When I create a PDF from a FrameMaker book, the bookmarks are misplaced in the PDF. For example, in my Frame file, I have:Chapter Title A.Heading 1 a..Heading 2 aChapter Title B.Heading 1 b..Heading 2 bBut, when I create the PDF, some of the chapters' bookmarks appear as:Chater Title AChapter Title B.Heading 1 a..Heading2 a.Heading 1 b..Heading 2 bThis doesn't happen for every chapter, but it does happen consistently for the same chapters each time I create a pdf.What is wrong with my FrameMaker file that would cause this?

Hello,I have 85 microsoft word files that I would like to select and convert to 85 frame maker documents.But I would like to do it at the same time (not one after one). How to do this ? 

I have a single, small unstructured FrameMaker 2015 document. When I generate a PDF, the bookmarks are not indented correctly.The document has headings in this order:Level 1Level 5Level 5Level 4Level 5Level 5My PDF bookmark settings are:Level 1. Level 2.. Level 4... Level 5When I generate a PDF, I get the following:Level 1  Level 2     Level 5     Level 5     Level 4        Level 5        Level 5It is indenting relatively, treating level 4 as another level 5 and then further indenting the level 5s that belong under the level 4.Anyone ever see this before? Any suggestions for fixing (short of changing the order of the headings)?

Hello,I am working with someone that works only on Microsoft Word files, and send its  Word files to me (he has not Frame Maker). On my side I have Frame Maker and I have converted the first version of the Word files sent by him.As he makes a lot of changes on its Word files, is it a way that this person could work directlly on the converted FM files (converted from Word to FM) that I have made on my computer. Problem : he has not the same computer as me and does not have FM.The best way would be a cloud sync of my FM files between me and him.As I have integrated these FM files in a book, it would be great if these FM files from this book could update automatically when he change something on the cloud.I don't know if all that is possible, and if there are other solutions ?

Hi mam,   I want to know create TOC like below content, Requirement Backeyecamera.....6-25 Backeyecamera is the subtitle(TitleSection) in 6th chapter 6 is the chapter  25 is the page number    What I got is  Backeyecamera.......25   Can u please post clarity on this please...

Hello, We want to print PDF in PDF. We place drawings in PDF format in MIF files. After creating a PDF via FrameMaker, some elements are rastered. If we use EPS instead of PDF for the drawings, no elements are rastered. Does anyone have an idea why FrameMaker rasterises elements or how we can avoid this?original PDF: FrameMaker output:  

Can I save a FrameMaker file to an older version of FrameMaker?

This came up in a thread in the main FrameMaker forum: I'd like to be able to allow line breaks at slashes in some instances and suppress them in other instances within the same document. This could be by including a nonbreaking slash special character, similar to nonbreaking hyphens and spaces, or perhaps a simpler and more comprehensive solutiion would be a tool to suppress line breaks within a selected string, regardless of what characters it includes.

Hi all: Searched for this in the FM community but didn't find this exact thing...We were using FM 2019 and this worked. Created a file with all the cross reference text. In the final file, indicated the cross reference text. Because subscripts did not work, we went back and created a subscript character style and applied it to the source in the cross reference file. Saved, replaced the cross references in the final file and voila! Subscripts. Recently, we updated to FM 2022 and this does not work. If you can suggest another way around this or what we're doing wrong, we'd be very appreciative! Thanks so much!Fran H.

The screen capture below shows the Word TOC I'm trying to replicate in FrameMaker. The volume number and three column headings will not display in my FrameMaker TOC. I tried including both on the reference page (see below).  My chapter info is coming from the reference page, so I know I have that set up correctly.Thanks for your help!  

Hi all, I'm working with a pre-created file. I have changed the number of the file and while it puts the correct page information on the top per the publishing specifics, it places the OLD file number at the bottom of the page in an area that will be cropped off. I know that our quality management system will not appreciate the old file number however I cannot figure out how the creator added that information. Does anyone know how I can get rid of it? I've highlighted the text below. Thanks much. 

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When I open a Framemaker book, select all and show/hide conditional text apply I get an error which nobody knows what it it and how to solve it.Sometimes things help like:1. Apply the conditional text one by one,2. Update book,3. Open all files and 'save and open files'.Usually they don't help. I have hundreds op books and there is no way to solve this problem...Is anybody familiar with this? This is in the log: === Header Begin ===Internal Error: 17014FrameMaker 17.0.1 for IntelBuild: 17.0.1.305Window System: MSWindowsOperating System: Windows NT 10.0 (major.minor.build: 10.0.22621 )Generated on: donderdag 25 mei 2023 13:21:42To file: C:\Users\yvet\AppData\Roaming\Adobe\FrameMaker\17\FrameLog_23.05.25_13.21.42_meta.txtLocale: EnglishCurrent Mode: MakerCurrent View: (null)=== Header End ====== Open Window List Begin ===# not implemented=== Open Window List End ====== Recent Commands Begin ====== Recent Commands End ====== Recent API Calls Begin ===# not implemented=== Recent

I would like to have a footer that shows page number, but I am using paper that I will cut in half after printing. What I've done is created a master page with two columns to facilitate this. But I think I'm going about this in the wrong way, since the page numbering variable is showing the same number beneath each column. Can anyone please point me to a different workaround? I would prefer to avoid moving to InDesign. Thanks.

Hi everyone,I'm working with FM22 on structured documents. I have a two-columns layout and I want all my pages to be fully filled. But it can happen that after some action (find/replace for instance), one of my pages is not filled anymore (a column breaks before the bottom of the textframe).So I'd want to write a script checking this, and I need to locate the y-location of the end of each subcol and/or footnote. After numerous attempts, I need your help.I think I know how to loop over all subcols and their footnotes, but I can't figure how to consistently reach the last character of these and how to get a y-location I can use (TextLoc object doesn't have a LocY attribute for instance).Would you help me ? Thanks in advance, Martin