FrameMaker

Many moons ago, we used FM2017. Since then we've upgraded to FM2019, FM2020 and recently to FM2022. We never unstalled previous versions, just in case we needed to go back to a FM file created in one of those previous versions.One of our writers decided to free up some space and uninstalled FM2017 from their PC. Suddenly, their Adobe PDF printer has gone missing, preventing them from using the Save as PDF or Publish options in FM2019, FM2020 or FM2022 - they are presented with the error message FrameMaker could not find Adobe PDF printer instance, which must be installed to execute Save as PDF command.We've never used Adobe Acrobat Pro, so I know it's not related to that. Reinstalling FM2017 didn't reinstall the PDF Printer either. Any suggesions on how we can fix this so this particular writer can print/save to PDF again?

My father used to say: if it's your birthday, you have to spend one. It’s not exactly the correct date now, but a tolerance of less than 1/4000 week is acceptable for my 80th next Friday. FMfindRepl is a response to some wishes expressed in this forum: Be able to store and retrieve the Find/Replace settings with a name Have information about the RegEx constructs available and provide a t least a minimum check of the RegEx Allow to replace text by a variable Allow pasting of text without format My own demands - mostly rooted in clean-out processes - added some find types: Find the use of a miss-named colour Find/remove empty TextLine - the hideout of old fonts Find overflowing cell and overflowing text frame Find/replace User String - used by my script FMgraph for data tables and diagrams (anchored frames) On the other side I did not implement the following Find Conditional Text. ES fails for this. Hence the script searches only for Conditional Tags. Find Character Format… I have n

Dear friends. I'm still struggling with this problem It seemed not possible with ExtendScript to have both fast access to UI elements with shortcut keys and fast access to list elements by typing characters. For a single list in the UI I had no problem, but in FMfindRepl there is a great mix of UI elements. Typing a character for the list access may inadvertently press a button. In case of D this deletes the current item in the settings list. Other characters (R, E, A etc.) are also dangerous. For this to happen it is sufficient to have button labels with the & notation for t shortcut key - no need for the shortcutKey definition in the UI element. → The combination of list access and shortcut keys is very dangerous! I experimented more than a week to conclude, not to implement the shortcut keys: the benefit of the list navigation with characters seemed greater than that of shortcut keys. But working alternately with the original FM panel and the script panel demonstrated the need

There is a TAB order - by default the order of creation of controls. I run into some questions here: I do not find a property to explicitly define the tab order. → How to? When amidst an assembly of controls and i want to got to the first one (tab index = 0), it seems that I have the option to back-TAB as often as nescessary - HOME does not work at all. → Any other ideas? Thank You for any insight.

I have a script that uses character background color to highlight a list of special words throughout a book.  When the editor is done checking the words I have another script that changes the background color back to "None." The script works great removing the background color from from both pgfs and tables in individual documents.  However, when running it on an entire book, it won't remove the background colors in the tables, even though I'm stepping through each document in the book one by one.  It seems to find the tables, because I can get a table count for the book, but it appears it isn't stepping through each table cell by cell.  Any suggestions?function stepThruTables() { for (n = 1; n <= count; n++) { totalTbls = 0 doc = SimpleOpen(openDocs[n]); doc = app.ActiveDoc; pgf = doc.MainFlowInDoc.FirstTextFrameInFlow.FirstPgf; tblCleaner(); } } function tblCleaner() { while (doc.ObjectValid()) {

Hi all, When saving a FM book as PDF, there is enormous difference in the time it takes, depending on whether I refer to PNG or to SVG files. With PNG, the process takes 20 to 30minutes, but with SVG, provided FM does not hang indefinitely, more than 4 hours.I noted that the TPS file created during the process is way bigger when using SVG. I scripted the process and use GetSaveDefaultParams(). Are there parameters in my script (or settings in FrameMaker) I could change to improve the situation with SVG? My FrameMaker version is 13 Best regardsFabian

I need to find out ASAP whether there is an application or software that will convert FrameMaker documents directly to Word to where the Word document is editable using Word Track Changes. I haven't found such a tool, but I'm always hoping. My boss wants a Word document of the FrameMaker manual, where he can do redline changes. Does such an app or software exist? Or, is there a way to do it? I have converted a FrameMaker book to PDF and exported the PDF to Word, but that does not allow Track Changes to add redline markups. It only converts to Word without Track Change capability. I understand why...because of the PDF to Word conversion. Is there anything that will do this without the PDF conversion or having to apply Word styles to plain/rich text? Thanks!

How to set the screen option in frame maker 2020.

Hey guys, we're trying to figure out how FrameMaker creates the identifier numbers that are linked to the headings in a PDF file with the "nameddest" tag. (For example:  <li><a href="https://file-path/Test.pdf#nameddest=G1061061" target="_blank">1 Titel</a></li>).We are using a 3rd party tool to save the bookmarks as HTML, so we can use these links to jump to therespective heading in the PDF file from an external website.We'd like to have more control over these identifiers, if possible. Are these numbers generated randomly, or is there a certain pattern that we just fail to see?Thanks in advance! Cheers,Alex

I've been using the Azure Blue template which came with FM2019 for a couple of years now. I can't really remember why I chose that one.Are there other templates that can be used?Same or different functionality? Pros and cons?Why I'm asking? Because I've run into a problem I don't know how to solve - different page display on Android depending on if the page is accessed directly or via the regular menu frame.https://community.adobe.com/t5/framemaker-discussions/resp-html5-azure-blue-displays-pages-in-different-ways-on-android-fm2019/td-p/13348809Perhaps another template handles this better?(I'm planning to upgrade to FM2022 in a couple of months.) 

Hi all, I have come across a behaviour change for bookmark creation in FrameMaker 2020 where the first component is not structured. In 2019 the bookmark generation always worked as expected, whether the first component was structured or not. This is also the case for 2022. The books typically have a structured first component, which has no content used for bookmark generation, followed by a generated table of contents, followed by one or two structured components, which do have content used for bookmark generation and of course for the toc. The toc provides a single paragraph style 'Content' which becomes the root bookmark, with the selected elements (or context labels) supplying the children and sibling bookmarks. This generates bookmarks exactly as expected. However in 2020, if the first component is excluded (I only just found I could do this, rather than deleting the component, while troubleshooting this bug! &#x1f605), the only bookmark generated is 'Content'. In bo

During some tests I accidentally un-tabbed a document (a new one without name). I tried to tab it again, but this is not possible. The blue line in the tab area does not appear when moving the free floating document windows over this area. Save it with a name did not help Close it, and open it again integrated it into the tabs IMHO this is a bug newly introduced (it does not appear in FM-15, 16) FRMAKER-12519 

Hi all!Here's a problem:VoidT F_ApiInitialize(IntT init) { F_FdeInit(); F_ApiEnableUnicode(True); F_FdeInitFontEncs(ConStringT("UTF-8")); switch (init) { case FA_Init_First: F_ApiAlert(ConStringT("Всем низдрасти!!!"), FF_ALERT_CONTINUE_NOTE); break; } }In FM17 alert box is empty. Something wrong with cyrillic text in FDK?

I'm working in the FrameMaker ExtendScript editor and want my script to log start and end times to the console in hours:minutes:seconds.  I've written the code below, which just keeps writing the same time over and over.  The timeNow variable only changes when the script is first started, and sometimes not even then.  When I run the script without the loop and without the function, it appears to run fine; giving me a new current time each time I run it.  Thoughts, suggestions...easier way to do this? //Test of a timeNow function for timing script //start and end var timeNow, strSeconds; for (var i = 0; i < 6; i++){ //Function test loop for (var j = 0; j < 100000000; j++){ //Timer } getTimeStamp(); $.writeln(timeNow); } function getTimeStamp() { var timeNow; var hours = (new Date()).getHours(); var minutes = (new Date()).getMinutes(); var seconds = (new Date()).getSeconds(); if (seconds <= 9) { strSeconds = "

When splitting documents, I've seen that em dashes, commas, periods, and other problematic characters are not filtered from filenames. Other than manually changing filenames prior to the split, anyone manage to get around this?   -Matt

I'm able to use the Doc Splitter in Fm 2022, roughly equivalent to the Fm 2020 version.  However, the process hangs up before producing a book name with a valid name. In otherwords, instead of getting ProjectName.book, I'm given ProjectName.txt. I can quickly give the file the proper extension, but I feel like there's something I'm missing that is halting the process prior to delivering the .book. Anyone else see or solve this?   -Matt

When I launch Framemaker 9, the app hangs/crashes/spits out the following message:  I have uninstalled the software, then reinstalled it. Rebooted. Deleted files from \temp folder. I have made sure I have all the patches in place.  None of this resolves this issue.  Everything was working fine weeks ago, and nothing changed on my PC other than typical Windows 10/64 updates and a removal of a wireless printer from Printer > Config. I have followed all of the steps outlined on your https://helpx.adobe.com/tech-comm-suite/kb/known-issues.html page, under the “Crash/Launch Related” section.  None of that helped. 

I have a customer who wants a para numbering scheme like this: 1.00 1.01 1.02 1.03 etc. 1.10 1.11 The first digit is a chapnum. How would you accomplish that using numbering blocks?

Bonjour,Je ne suis pas identifié par Adobe comme un utilisateur autorisé à accéder à ce site web (LWS) pour avoir un numéro de licence alrs que j'ai un compte chez AdobeMerci de me dire pourquoi ?Laurent

hello.I am using Framemaker 2019.There are dozens of book files.I need to create a PDF of each book.It takes about 20 minutes to create a PDF of a book with Publish.Is there a way to make it in one batch?thank you

Hello. I would like to know how to completely clean Framemaker 2019. Even after reinstallation, the following symptoms continue to occur.Index creation doesn't work.When I press the shift key and make a selection, it freezes for about ten minutes.No response is also not displayed.Other programs do not experience the problem. Installing it on another computer works fine.After uninstalling, traces remain and the above problem seems to continue to occur. Thank you

I've modified the Azure Blue template slightly to fit our purposes when publishing our documentation as responsive HTML5 on the web. It works as expected on desktop and laptop computers.But on Android phones I have a problem that pages look different depending on if I come via the TOC/menu frame, or if I access the html page directly.For example, on Android, when accessing an html page directly, images are displayed very small. Also some paragraph/character formats are displayed too small to read.But if I follow the "Click here to see this page in full context", I come to the main TOC/menu frame, and the same html page is now displayed as desired - i.e. both the previously too small images and too small text are now properly sized.How can I get the same, proper size also when accessing the html page directly? Edit: I now realize it's only text inside tables that becomes too small. 

I have read many different posts on this. So, I'm very confussed. On my master page I put a veriable in the footer <Number><$curpagenum>. Then when I go back to the Body page it is displayed on the bottom of the page. I have a working chapter with page numbers, but I can't get just a single page number to work. Any ideas what I am doing wrong?

Is there some option within Framemaker that will prevent words from hyphenating between pages?  I realize there is an option within the Paragraph Designer > Advanced page that turns hypenation on/off, but I need hyphenation ON but I don't want words to be hyphenated between two adjacent pages. IOW, this is what I do not want:   Jack and Jill went up the hill to fetch a pail of wa- ----------------- new page --------------- ter. Jack fell down and broke his crown and Jill came tum- bling after.   I want "tumbling" hypenated, but I do not want "water" hypenated.   I understand I can manually apply a ESC n s  sequence to prevent "water" from hyphenating, but I was looking for an automated solution to keep words from splitting across pages, rather than manually searching for such instances.  When you are working on a large book, you don't want to have to manually examine the bottom of every page every time you insert new text.

Hi,I know that this specific question has been considered irrelevant in this community, but my client demands that the exported XML file explicitly contains the numbers generated automatically by FrameMaker.The source file is a structured document with several paragraph labels with autonumbering. We cannot easily regenerate the numbering after the export because the autonumber rules are quite complicated (with a lot of resets and gaps in the numbering, so not that "automatic").I have searched several developer guides and read about read/write rules, without success.I assume that these numbers can be retrieved since it can be done when exporting to html (checking the box about autonumbering) or rtf formats.What would be the read/write rule to get the autonumber of an element 'NUME' with a paragraph style having autonumbering ? Thank you in advance for your time and effort.