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For an illustration of the consequences of missing precise documentation see Importing fm-doc fails miserably In the Function Summary of the FrameMaker Scripting Guide there is misleading information concerning the properties for the Import function. FS_AlertUserAboutFailure: Alert user if an unexpected condition, such as an unrecognised file type, occurs. Set to either True or False. Missing: Open dialogue Unknown File Type in case of importing text (FS_ImportAsType set to FV_TYPE_TEXT). FS_ForceImportAsText: Import the file as a Text Only document, even if it is a MIF file or a filterable file. Set to either True or False. Missing: If this setting is missing when importing text (FS_ImportAsType set to FV_TYPE_TEXT) does not interpret UTF8 files correctly. They are treated as ASCII files. Reporting bad filename The import functions requires a parameter named filename, which should be a full path. If this is wrong - file can not be found - FA_errno is set to -43 (FE_BadParameter). This

Dear friends, I try to import an FM file (or later also a txt file) to a text location (current location). I tried the properties now commented out in the following script, but even with the default import parameters the import does not work. ESTK wheels until i stop it... ► Can you spot my fault?     /* Test_ImportDoc.jsx ====== UTF-8 ====================================== Import a document or text History 2023-04-18 */ ; // ================================================================= #target framemaker main(); function main() { // ==================================================== var oDoc = app.ActiveDoc; // have text location defined by cursor placement ImportDoc (oDoc, "E:/_DDDprojects/FM-Graphics/FMgraph-examples/insets/legend.fm"); //ImportDoc (oTL, "insets/legend.fm"); //ImportDoc (oTL, "insets/legend.txt"); } // -- end main -------------------------------------------------------- function ImportDoc (oDoc, sFile) { // ===================

Hi, there. Some paragraph styles are not present in the PDF bookmarks chooser for my book. Why would this be? I am going kind of nuts trying to figure it out. The styles I'm looking for are actively being used in at least one file in the book, so this doesn't make sense to me. I am guessing it's something easy and I'm overlooking it (the user guide did not help, lol). Thanks, everyone!

I am searching for Adobe FrameMaker 2019 version setup, I cheked for the setup on Download and Install page but I was able to find the setup only till 2020 version.Is there any other way, i can get the setup?

Good morning,The paragraph numbering appears correctly for Chapter 1 in my TOC; however, for subsequent chapters, the paragraph numbering continues instead of starting over.I am seeing this:Chapter 11.1.1.2.1.2.1.Chapter 21.3Instead of this:Chapter 11.1.1.2.Chapter 22.1.2.1.1. Thanks

Hello I have a very complex document at my work, which I'm looking to provide some efficiency around. It's currently built in MS Word and effectively the user needs to delete portions of the 90 page document depending on what content is/isn't required. My intention is create either a checklist or a series of dropdown options which would then automatically populate the relevant text. I'm told this is possible using Adobe FrameMaker - is that the case? Thank you Andy

Hi, I'm a newbie. I don't know how to fix missing Cross-ref marker. It's empty in cross-reference makers as picture below. So, is there any solution to auto recovery these links? Thanks,Sun B.

Does anyone have any comments about the relative merits of importing graphics via pdf, png, gif etc.?

I have a clean licensed install on Windows 10 of Adobe FrameMaker v16.0.5.1096. I do not have a paid Adobe Acrobat product (only reader).When I select Save As PDF, I get an error dialog with "FrameMaker could not find Adobe PDF printer instance", and the save fails.When I select Print Book, Adobe's PDF printer is not installed (only Microsoft's), so that doesn't work properly. I've searched Adobe's support forums, and I've found obscure instructions for INF files (which doesn't work since I don't have Acrobat), and good 'ol uninstall/reinstall (which I tried and doesn't work).  Isn't saving to PDF a basic use of FrameMaker?If I can't create a PDF document, what format does Adobe propose? 

I have leveraged a lot of FM files from my Japanese parent company over the past 22 years, and they have a habit of using soft returns (SHIFT+ENTER) to maintain the same indentation formatting from one paragraph to the next. For example, if the original paragraph has a bullet point, using a soft return will make the next line have the same indent without the bullet point. This results in fewer Paragraph formats. (I’m not saying I agree with that approach…)In addition, they use full justification for all their paragraphs. This was all fine and dandy until I upgraded from FM 2020 (16) to FM22 (17). Now all the words in the last line of a fully justified paragraph followed by a soft return are spaced across the entire width (see below).Before Upgrade to FY22: After Upgrade to FM22: In the Paragraph Designer I tried adding a checkmark to the ‘Advance’-->"Allow Automatic Letter Spacing," but that didn’t help—all it seemed to do was add more space between each of the letter

Hi All, I am trying to define a command and add a shortcut to it. I want to use Control+/ but I can't figure out the correct syntax. I tried this, but it didn't work: cmd = topMenu.DefineAndAddCommand (40, "MyCommandCmd", "My Command", "\^/");

I'm wanting to create (or find) a basic FM document that can be published to HTML 5. As a result, I don't need or want right/left/first pages. But every time I try to create a brand new, blank project, it automatically comes with those master pages. Deleting them isn't working. Advice?

As an introduction just a few quotes from the Coding Corner forum. Lumigraphics 2023-03-29: «You'll have a revolt if you kill ExtendScript on Photoshop. Oh boy. A LOT of people rely on it in production. I do get the shift to UXP, but for those of us who aren't dedicated developers, we just need something that's easy to use and works. I'm first and foremost a working professional photographer, not a developer. I don't want to write a complete plug-in for simple stuff that I need automated.»PECourtejoie 2023-04-04: «If ExtendScript is to be retired, I seriously hope that developers will have enough time to convert their work to the new language, or many users will be stranded.»My personal view concerning FrameMaker [2023-04-11] My way into FM scripting: My entrance to the world of IT was 1964 a class on Fortran at the Adult education centre (Vokshochschule) in Zürich. It allowed me to shrink a two-person workload of 3 weeks with goniometric tables and a mechanical calculating machine to

Dear fellow FrameMaker scripting geeks,I am creating graphic objects (rectangles) in FrameMaker to make the content look 'boxed' without having to revert to 1-cell tables. My script is creating rectangles on the page with the right location and dimensions to make the content look boxed. So far, so good. But when I have a filled box, I need to push it to the back after creating it. And although I can do this for a single box using the Fcode for the GraphicsSendToBack command, this turns out to be very unreliable when I have a number of boxes in the same document.Does anyone know an alternative method to make the new rectangles move to the back of the page so that the actual content becomes visible again after creating the boxes ?Many thanks for any ideas you might have.Jang

Old scenario:Using FrameMaker 11, I create B&W objects(CGMs) generated in ISODraw with a black text (content) and color specific text (file name for editing purposes) in the object, (color is 194 115 143, a magenta-like color)In FrameMaker 11 the graphic would be imported, and it would show the color text.When ready to publish, I would go to view/color/views and switch to view 2, which would move 23.8-54.8-43.8-0 to the cutout box from the normal box.This would ‘hide’ (turn the text white) the color text within FrameMaker as well as the color text in the objects. And of course upon creating a PDF, the color would not show.The problem: New computer, new latest version of FrameMaker. Now when I follow those same steps, working on the 2011 version documents the color remains on newly inserted objects, but not on un-touched objects that were there from the 2011 version. Even if I add an old object it still will not hide the color text. And even when I put the new or old graphic on the

I need to learn how to produce accessible PDFs from Framemaker. I have read through both the Framemaker and Acrobat Help articles aobout the mechanics of how it's done, but I'm looking for more details and am not succeeding in finding good information. I would appreciate if someone recommend an online (or in-person) course or tutorial (bonus if it's tailored to providing accesible documents to US govt. agencies ;-)) that  would help me get answers to the following kinds of questions and issues:Which joboptions to use for best results?Better to use Save-As or Publish or Print to PDF?"Tagged PDF" failed in the accessibility checker even though in the file properties it says "Tagged PDF: Yes""Annotation tags" in the accessibility report failed for all of the cross references to figures - why? and how should I fix it?All numbered headings get tagged in the PDF as lists - how to map tags?Odd behavior when moving tables in the reading order pane in Acrobat (I just asked about this

Hi,I am new to framemaker. I got this template to work on.So I am tring to add 10 line space between tabels. When I press enter key after a table is added i get another dialog box which shown below to insert a table. How do i remove this format to give spaces between tables. Thanks in advance.

I used framemaker 15-20 years ago before it was dropped from the mac. I have one file (small, 91K) from an old project I’d like to examine. Would anyone have framemaker on a windows or other computer, and could extract the text from it (save as MS word, txt or rtf)? I have attached the file, email me at charris@bu.edu, I had to use the file extension 'raw' instead of frame because does not support frame filetype; and using 'fm' I was told the contents didn't match.  Ok.... raw didn't work.   I tried .mif.Thanks. Catherine.     

One of my scripts requires entering a unicode character, but I have not yet found the method to do so. I need to use the oDoc.AddText method, which requests the second parameter to be a text string. I can enter a unicode character in the script, but it needs to be pulled from an attribute which carries the unicode number for the character. So how do I go from unicode number to an actual character to be pushed into my doc?Maybe this is trivial, but I am not getting any results with my trials so far. I have tried using the String.fromCharCode(  ) but that results in a question mark (indicating an unknown character).Any help is greatly appreciated.

I'm working with a book and have a 2 page appendix that I'm now unable to edit or save. It states "Cannot lock this file for your use. Your changes to it may conflict with other users.I can't save any edits or save as under another name. There are no .lck files on computer. All files are on local disk. Any suggestions?Thanks in advance.

I am using FrameMaker 2020 and have tried several times to use the File > Translate > Export to XLIFF 1.2. Each time FrameMaker completely closed before converting the documents into XLIFF and creating the translation package (ZIP). FrameMaker did not show the XLIFF Conversion Report and did not show any other error messages. I tried using the Export to XLIFF 1.2 option on both a book file and on individual files from the book, but saw the same results each time. I am able to Save As or Print the book to a PDF file successfully, so I don't think that file errors are necessarily causing the problem. I have not yet found a troubleshooting resource for this issue. I followed the instructions from the Adobe Help site, found here: Adobe FrameMaker. I am using FrameMaker in unstructured content mode. Can anyone share any experience with this issue or suggest troubleshooting steps to take? 

New user here...the body of the author's content contains hard returns at THE END OF EACH LINE in every paragraph. Not sure why they did this, but is there an easy way to remove hard returns in an entire paragraph at once? Maybe using find/replace? TIA...

Hello. I use FM2019 to maintain books comprising documents which contain several different conditions for customer-specific output variants. My deliverables are PDF.These documents include tables. Within a table it is common for one or more specific rows to be entirely conditionalized (at table row level, not cell content level) for one or more customers. When Show Condition Indicators is checked, conditionalized table row cell borders are cross-hatched, as expected.Prior to PDF creation I set the appropriate Show/Hide Condition Text settings to show only the material for the appropriate customer, and uncheck the Show Condition Indicators box. For tables,  the cross-hatching is now hidden.To indicate document content changes in the PDF, I have previously applied change bars manually (Format->Style->Change Bar) and then post-publication I’ve cleared them all en masse, starting the next iteration of the document with a clean slate. However, for various reasons I am now conside

I updated the Adobe Technical Communication Suite to the current version 2022 and I am not able to activate Acrobat. The Adobe Reader with reduced functions is activated. When I want to use a classic Acrobat function like edit or print output preview, then the dialog for purchasing Adobe Acrobat Pro appears.Until now these functions were included in the Adobe Technical Communication Suite.Regards,Rainer 

We use Master Page Maps extensively in our documents. All of them are applied to body pages based on an Element appearing on the page.We have a Master Page called IconographyOn our StructMasterPageMaps table, we have  rule to apply this Master Page whenever the ConvensionsHeading (Top-level) Element appears on the page:On the Body Page, we have added this Element:However, when we use the Apply Master Pages command, the Iconography Master Page isn't applied. To ensure there aren't any typos, the Element Name was copied and pasted from the EDD into the MPM table. Likewise, the Master Page Name was copied and pasted from the Master Page Name window. All our other Master Page Mapping rules (15 of them) are being applied correctly, except this one. The Console window also doesn't show any errors. Any suggestions?