FrameMaker

My department will be updating to Windows 11. Currently we are working with FrameMaker 11 (Version 11.0.0.380). Are there any performance issues with FrameMaker 11 under Windows 11?:

When I export a book to epub using Publish, the epub file will always come out with the TOC at the very end of the file rather than after the front matter where it sits in the FM book file. I can't figure out why. It seems like a bug somehow. Can it be fixed I wonder? Anybody here who can answer?

We have several users running Framemaker 2015.  Files with no graphics will load quickly.  Any time the file contains graphics, it will load very slowly at the page that contains graphics.  It happens whether the file is local or on a server.  Are there any best practices to speed up the loading of a file?  Should the graphics be converted to a certain type of file?  We are currently using jpgsThanks

Hi,I am trying to remove empty space that exists between a graphic banner and a Chapter Title. When I click in the blank area, the space and the Chapter Number Heading turns black, and Not Applicable appears in the display. I inherited this document and am not really sure about the setup.  Thank you for any help. Cheers,Elizabeth     

Kind of like the R with a circle like the Registered Trademark, but with a W instead of R.Or do I have to create that as a graphic to have it stay in line with surrounding text?

Trying to do a Find for apostrophes (I want to eliminate contractions) but seaarching by text or wildcard s doesn't seem to work, What's the secret?

I am hoping someone else has seen this problem and found the solution for it. I am creating large documents using a custom schema. I now have to add a cross-reference to it. It all works fine while I am opening and editing files in FrameMaker. But when writing the valid file to XML, the writer does not generate a close tag for the <xref> element, which makes the XML invalid. I am hoping there is a simple switch somewhere in FrameMaker's many settings, or an instruction I need to add to the read-write rules. Before trying to read through the many pages of the Structured Application guides, I thought it might be useful to post my question here. If any of you knows where the catch is, and how to get around this obvious flaw in FM, let me know asap. Kind regards from Amsterdam Jang

Hallo,wenn ich eine FramMaker Datei aus dem lokalen Dropbox-Ordner öffne, dann kann ich in FrameMaker weder Speichern noch Speichern unter anklicken. Beim Schließen der Datei werde ich gefragt, ob ich speichern will. Es speichert dann wieder in Dropbox. Ich kann die Datei aber nicht auf einem anderen Ordner auf dem PC speichern. Das ging bisher ohne Probleme.Ich arbeite auf meinem PC in Italien und ein Kollege arbeitet auf meinem PC in Deutschland. Wir haben beim Synchronisieren mit Dropbox Probleme. Einmal funktioniert es und dann wieder nicht.Wer kann helfen???

At work I have been thrown into the role of becoming the Framemaker expert. I'm familiar with Photoshop, Illustrator and InDesign, but brand new with FM and trying to figure it out. (I'm using version 16.0.4.1062.) We have many documents that need to be updated that were formatted by my predecessor. They all have, at the top of page 1, a text frame with title information. At the bottom is a text frame containing the document text that flows to the following pages. I need to first export them as .rtf files so that others can open them in MS Word and redline the changes. This is working fine. However, several of the .rtf files have the title information at the very end of the document instead of at the beginning. In Framemaker, those documents display correctly with the title at the top of page 1. But when I look at the Navigation View, the title is at the end of the list instead of the beginning. So I believe this is why the .rtf document isn't correct. Is there a way I c

Hi, all. There are times where I would like to set the dimensions and position of frames manually (x, y), as can be done with objects. However, I can find no way to do this (with text frames, for example). How do people apply/create specific layouts without being able to set (and view) frame position to specific requirements? What am I missing? Thanks, in advance; I appreciate the help!

When 2022 was released, I complained that the colors of the icons are all the same. Book and fm files are indistinguishable from one another.  Adobe promised this would be fixed in the first update. But now I have the first update and it is  not fixed. Or is it? Is this what it looks like for everybody else or is it just my install?    

Hi, In FM2022, I'm trying to retrieve via a script the text of all XRef of a document. The problem is, the content is an autonumbering ($paranum) and, for every note, the property XRefSrcText contains only the Unique ID (no ":" inside, as supposed, so no source file, and no content text). I can access the source file via the property XRefFile, but not the text (even via the method GetText(), but I'm not sure I understand this one correctly). By the way, all the references are resolved and displaying the right number in FM. I know that it is not supposed to be done, since it's a number generated by Framemaker, but my client wants it writen in the XML export as it is in the PDF export...   Thanks in advance for any help ! Xavier

I need to proofread FrameMaker files for a book translation. I have version 7.2 and I want to install it on my Mac Book Pro (M1). First I downloaded Parallels Desktop and tried to install FrameMaker. At the last stage the warning "Your registration number is no longer valid" appears and the installation does not finish. How can I solve this issue?Thank you very much.Şükrü Hatun, Istanbul

We recently had to update our FrameMaker generated user guide (over 500 pages, 100s of graphics) and updated to a newer version of FrameMaker to do so (FM 2017 release). Now, we are finally at the point where we need to publish the PDF. And have run across a number of issues. 1. Save as PDF fails. Always. It spins for minutes on end, then FM crashes, leaving all .fm files locked. Sometimes a .tps file is created.2. Print Book has had issues as well. There are a number of settings that MUST be set before this (sort of) succeeds. A 3-year old discussion on this forum revealed many insights.(see: https://community.adobe.com/t5/framemaker-discussions/unable-to-save-as-pdf-in-framemaker-2017/td-p/10373159)3. Print Book and Print to File as .ps file fails to generate the .ps file IF the destination is on a mapped drive. We got around this by saving to the Desktop, then distilling the .ps file there. So, we are largely back in business. One issue remains. In the past, the PDF file w

I don't know if this is possiable but her we go.I have a manual that ahs been updated many times. Soome of the documents in the manual are years old and there are several versions. I want to export/copy the list of documents and put them in Excel to sort and then clear some of these files.Does anyone know how to copy this list and put it in an excel file?

Hi,I imported a Word document with lots of tables into unstructured FrameMaker 2020, and the tables are not aligning properly. The are positioned outside the page parameters. The tables have landed near the middle of the pages and the right sides are not where they should be. I don't know how to fix this. I would appreciate any advice/help for this issue. Thank you.      

I've been working to get FrameMaker (Win11) and RoboHelp (MacOS version) to run on an ARM-based processor. (FrameMaker works, except for PDF workflows, with some system hacks covered elsewhere in this forum. RoboHelp for MacOS churns at the initialization screen).   Adobe has communicated on this forum that these products are not supported on ARM-based processors. But I've been a bit mystified trying interpret this from the product system requirements. For FrameMaker, Adobe says (https://helpx.adobe.com/framemaker/help/fm_system_requirements.html😞 Core i5 or faster processor RoboHelp says (https://helpx.adobe.com/robohelp/using/rh_system_requirements.html😞 Intel Core i5 or faster processor (recommended)   I think there's a discrepancy between what Adobe means and what they say (certainly ARM processors are faster than Intel Core i5s). Should Adobe consider specifying the Intel requirement as "Intel processor, Core i5 or faster recommended"?   -Alan Ho

I am working with DITA template design right now and I am constantly annoyed by the design of the PDF Publish dialogue for DITA. So here is my suggestion https://tracker.adobe.com/#/view/FRMAKER-12699 Make the Publish dialogue window scalable so you don't have to scroll in order to see all templates Make the dialogue showing the template file name large enough that it does not truncate the name. Substitute the "name box" with a proper window showing the entire url so it is transparant which file is being used for which template. Please vote if you like 🙂

In the FrameMaker User Guide, System requirements topic, there is a note that says:Maximum supported screen resolution: 4K (3480 × 2160).The 3480 is a typo, because 4K is twice 1920 × 1080, which is 3840 × 2160).This is FrameMaker (2022 release), Version 17.0.0.226. It shows September 29, 2022.

Hi All, Update 1 for FrameMaker September 2022 release (Version 17.0.1.305) is available since last week. It has many improvements like removing system-generated prefixes from named destinations, better handling of SVGs, improved handling of conditional tags in faster PDF publishing route, and security issues. For more information, see What's new in Update 1 of FrameMaker (September 2022 release). For a complete list of Fixed Issues visit https://helpx.adobe.com/framemaker/kb/fixed-issues.html You can get the update in FrameMaker 2022 from Help -> Updates section. Thanks FrameMaker Team

I'm finding moving tables (cutting and pasting them) to be difficult.  The only way I can seem to select the table for cutting is to find the text symbol of its placement in the document, then click and drag over the symbol until the table is shown as highlighted.  I then cut and paste it elsewhere.  The problem is I usually end up cutting and pasting one or more characters adjacent to the table symbol, like newlines.  I then have to re-add the accidentally cut characters at the cut location and delete the extra characters at the paste location.  Is there a better way to move JUST the table?I am using "float" for the placement of the tables.  Another problem with this is trying to find the place where the table is inserted in the text.  If I have several tables on the same page, I have to highlight the various insert position text symbols in the text until the desired table is highlighted.  Why can't I just use the mouse to drag over the table to

We've been doing several books with multiple documents in each book; up until now, TOC creation has been pretty easy; select the book, create standalone TOC, select which paragraph tags to include, and then apply or import formats, edit reference pages, etc. For whatever reason, the book we just finished pulls in all of the para tags we designate EXCEPT Level1Tag2, and it ONLY fails to do this when we try to make a TOC for the entire book. If we make separate standalone TOCs for each document in the book, each document TOC brings in the Level1Tag2 and includes it. It's only when we try to do the whole book that it fails. Every other tag we select gets pulled without problem. Any ideas what might be causing this and how to fix it? Thanks in advance.

Hi,A previous writer created a Product Name variable, and three books share a cover page. When I edit the Product Name variable and change the name, it applies that name to the cover page throughout all the books. Is there a way to use the Product Name variable and make each book's cover page different? Is there something I am doing wrong?? Thank you for any help. Cheers,Elizabeth  

We just updated our Adobe Pro 2017 to Adobe Pro DC and some of the internally created job options we have installed  using Microtype Timesavers do not work.  This happens when using the Distiller.  Is Microtype Timesavers a thing anymore?  My Google search came up with only out of date websites for them.  Someone in our department created a special job option with the Timesavers (plugin) so that certain pdfs would automatically put a bookmark link to an external website and set up the other bookmarks to two levels.  Naturally, this person is long gone. What say you fellow FrameMaker users? 

We're running into another bug with the HTML5 conversion in Frame. This time, if a URL ends in .pdf, it is converted so that the HTML points to <a href="../assets/"> instead of the URL. However, if the hypertext marker and text are in a TABLE, the URL is converted correctly. I can't think of any logical reason for this behavior and can find no relevant settings of any kind that might affect the URLs in this manner. Has anyone else had this issue? Or can confirm that this issue happens for them? We've run testing on 15 different machines, people, browsers, etc. and it happens all the time.  We've opened a bug report here: https://tracker.adobe.com/#/view/FRMAKER-12619.