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FM 17.0.6.798Structured FM (saving as .fm not .xml) Is it possible to generate a List of Footnotes in a book? I have several footnotes in a FM book and would like to generate list of all footnotes and the pages they appear on, similar to  a TOC or Index. I tried using the List of Elements & Paragraphs, selecting the Element I use to insert Footnotes,  but all I got was a blank document.

I have been working on developing a template which allows the user to work with a List of Effective Pages. This feature is essential in many types of documentation. Lists, however, are not exported as HTML5. Some lists are, in a sense, exported , like the TOC and the Index, but a list of figures, tables etc will not appear in the HTML5 publishing output. I believe this is unfortunate and it makes HTML5 publishing a poor option in many scenarios.  Can it be fixed? Beyond workarounds like pasting the document into other documents and similar "magic"?    

I've spent the last week making revisions to my 50k+ manuscript (Book) in Framemaker, using the Track Text Edits function turned on, saving each document within the manuscript before closing it. When I opened the manuscript  (Book) today, all of my changes are gone and Tract Text Edits is turned off. Where I inserted text, it now shows as blank lines in the document.Any way to recover the changes, or have I just lost a weeks' worth of revisions?

When writing my manuscript (I use FM to write my fiction novels), I sometimes add comments for myself in the side heads. These comments can sometimes be fairly long - too long to fit nicely into the width of the side head. As en example (the text is in Afrikaans, in case you were wondering 😊):I'm using Structured FrameMaker, so the Structure view for the above example looks like this:The EditorComment relates to the first Paragraph only, but because of the length of the EditorComments text, it pushes the text below the Paragraph beginning with "Iets wat Rudi gesê..." down the page. Is there a way to have the text in the side heads rotated vertically instead? The EditorComment is specific to the Paragraph, and can appear anywhere (and multiple times) on the page, so having a text frame on the page isn't practical. I tried insertig it inside a Table, but can't seem to find a way to set the Cell Rotation, and when I manually rotate the cell, it automatically changes width to

I have about 20 different Framemaker books I manage. One of them is defaulting to 2 copies in the print dialog, the rest are set at 1. For this particular book, it creates 2 sets of every chapter (i.e., 2 covers, 2 preface, 2 introduction, and so on). In other words, in just this document - Copies defaults to 2. In all my other books, default is 1. I've also checked my printer dialog and it's default is 1.I create .ps files, then use Adobe distiller to create .pdfs.  

Hello,From my FM file I would like to export a specific page to a PDF file. How to do it ?

Hello All,I figured I would ask this question and see if there might be an answer. I am working on an update of a manual that is about 700 pages long. In updating I changed the book and all the file names to the next letter (i.e. 82932A to 82932B). In doing so, any cross references across chapers were broken because they are looking for the source document 82932A. Is there any way to update these broken cross references without doing them one by one by just updating the source document name? I even saw in Find & Replace you can search for unresolved cross references by their source document name, but I don't know what option to choose in the Replace field to change that source name. Was this something I could have done when I started creating the updated version?  Thank you so much. 

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Hi all,Using FrameMaker version 17.05.725.I have been using lists of tables and lists of figures for ages with FrameMaker and PDF, and it works fine as long as you read the manuals in Adobe Acrobat or Reader.Now one of my colleagues brought to my attention that when you open the pdf in a browser and click in the list of figures (or tables), the figure or table is not visible on the resulting page ☹ The figure or table title is placed at the very top of the page, and since I have my titles below the figures/tables, the figure or table is not visible.Have any of you experienced this, and/or do you have an idea what I can do about it, except place the titles above the figures or tables (which I don't think looks right...)?Thanks for any help,BR Christiane

Didn't have time to capture the error message, which basically said an unrecoverable error occurred and FrameMaker had to quit. My file was saved as "filename.fm.492." It is 0 bytes in size. File cannot be opened, even if I remove the "492" appendage. Not too big of a deal. I lost about an hour of work. Has anyone else experienced this error with FrameMaker 2022 unstructured?

いつもお世話になっております。FM2020で質問です初歩的な質問で恐縮ですBook内のFMデータ(複数データ)の表示倍率を一括で「デフォルト」にする方法が知りたいです。FM2015では、ツリー上のFMを全選択して表示のズームから一括変更ができました。よろしくお願いします

The team I am on is upgrading from Structured FrameMaker 11 to Structured FrameMaker 2022. There is an issue with line breaks being inserted after importing an xml file via FM 2022. I think that this may have something to do with the new ‘Last Line Right’ feature that has been added to FM2022, but have not been able to resolve it:   In the following example, line breaks are embedded above paragraphs, which should not be there, and are not there when importing into FM 11:   It appears to be occurring in the XML when a tag that is embedded in another tag have no data between them. For example, for Growth over time:   The <bodycopy> tag and the embedded <emphasis> tag do not have text between them:Ex: <bodycopy><emphasis role="bold">Growth over time</emphasis> performance is for This formatting issue does not occur when text separates the embedded tag and the parent tag. For example the following tag that superscripts the trademark:<empha

Hi community,I have this in me EDD: Prefix rulesIn all contexts.Prefix: Tails: <$attribute[Tails:ItemL3]> the "Tails" attribute is a strings attribute, with multiple values in some cases, however I only get the first value displayed. How can I get all values displayed? TNX

Hi team, I work in FM 2022, but my teammate works in FM 2017. I saved my book as MIF files, but she is still unable to open my project. Did I have to save each chapter separately as a MIF file? But I couldn't find such option. Please share your experience.Thank you,Mariya

Hello, I have a display problem about apostrophe in french vesrion of FM. It is concerning the apostrophe position that is non correct if I write it myself inside FM : 

Hi, I am having issues with a file in my book. Everytime I try to print to PDF I get this error message:  However, I didn't insert a Mini-TOC in this file and when I go to Insert>Table of Contents> Delete Mini-TOC is disabled. Any idea why this could be happening? Do I just create the file from scratch again?   Thank you! 

I get this error message message when FrameMaker (structured)  crashes (wihich is 5 to 6 times a day!).  Does anyone know what's causing this?   FrameMaker Version 17.0.6.798Processor 13th Gen Intel(R) Core(TM) i7-13850HX 2.10 GHzInstalled RAM 32.0 GB (31.8 GB usable)Device ID 9C6B79F0-289A-4A6F-8935-F865C4EEC5E1Product ID 00355-62073-68731-AAOEMSystem type 64-bit operating system, x64-based processorPen and touch No pen or touch input is available for this displayEdition Windows 11 ProVersion 24H2Installed on ‎4/‎24/‎2025OS build 26100.4061Experience Windows Feature Experience Pack 1000.26100.84.0

Hello,First I have created a new document with these settings : So it created a document with one single page. Then I have done File/Import/File and chosen a Word document.So I have imported the Word document inside the FM document.Problem : FM has imported the Word document inside the FM document but with facing pages (instead of single pages). Why ? 

I am having a situation where I build conditional expressions and save the document, but the expressions are gone when I close and reopen the document. I have the same expressions saved in other documents in the same book, but they only seem to disapper in this document and not the others associated with the book. Any idea as to what could cause something like that to happen? Happy to provide more details if needed.

Dear community,we publish some of our FrameMaker documents as Responsive HTML5. As we describe a quite complex software with many parameters, we inserted Hypertext markers for nearly every parameter in the FrameMaker files. Reason: from the software we want to jump directly to the corresponding description on the HTML page. With FM 2019 everything works as expected, with FM 2022 (17.0.6) the Hypertext markers are missing in the HTML files (so there is no "a" element with the content of the hypertext mark as "name" attribute). Any ideas?Many thanks in advance, Andreas

Hi all,My problem.  I'm trying to do a short (5 or 6 rows) two-column frame in the middle of a one-column text frame then place footnotes inside the two-column frame. Solution #1.  Make a table with no ruling.  This is what I would normally do, but this time I need footnotes to go to the bottom of the page instead of the bottom of the table.Solution #2.  Make a new two-column text frame then connect the flows.  Unfortunately, this is pushing the flow into areas where I don't expect them to be.  Must be doing something wrong. What I've been doing that doesn't work.1) Making a normal multiple page flow.  Say, 5 pages.2) Going back to (say) page 2.3) Inserting a new two-column text frame.4) Inserting text into the two-column text frame.5) Connecting the two frames. But this is feeding text that should be inside the two-column text frame down to below the point where I inserted the two-column text frame.  And reversing steps #3 an

We are upgrading from Structured FrameMaker 11 to Structured FrameMaker 2022.We have an automated process that imports an xml file containing multiple factsheets into FrameMaker. When the import completes, the factsheets are fully formatted. These factsheets include graphic eps files that are included in the import process.When testing in FM 2022, we are using our existing FrameMaker templates, DTD, EDD, Rules file, and xsl. When importing, the file are formatting correctly in FrameMaker 2022, except for the graphics, which are not scaling correctly. After importing, the images in the first factsheet are scaling below 50%. In the subsequent factsheets, the images are scaled larger, but not scaling to the correct size - 100%.We are not encountering this scaling issue with FrameMaker 11.In FrameMaker 2022, are there additional instructions that need to be added to the EDD, XSL, Rules file, etc. so that these images import to the correct size?

I’ve created a PDF from an unstructured FM document that needs to be downsized from 16MB to below 10MB.I can not compromise quality. The images are linked (not embedded) so I can understand why this PDF is so much bigger from previous years when the content hasn’t changed much. The typical PDF file size for this document has been 2-4 MBs and I’m using the same distiller option (high-quality print). I don’t know what’s so different.Although this same image was processed in smaller PDFs, I noticed one image file that was 21MB so I was able to downsize to 1.8 (keeping the quality); however, when I republished the PDF file size was barely reduced.There must be a default setting that changed or I missing that I need to adjust in my distiller options that won’t compromise the quality of the PDF out.Any suggestions? Thanks

I am using a variation of @Russ Ward 's 100.04 Favorites menu from here: http://www.weststreetconsulting.com/WSC_ExtendScriptSamples.htm I modifed the script to change the order and to display and run macros rather than opening favorite documents. The script reads a text file where each line contains script name displayed, followed by ~~~~, followed by path to script, i.e.My script~~~~<Path to My Script> It works fine, but I would like to put two BLANK lines between commonly used scripts and rarely used scripts. I don't want  separator, I want blank lines ... (The script adds separators and that works well). If I try (in the text file) "  ~~~~~ "", the script changes that to a separator in the drop-down menu. If I use "<br>~~~~A", the script displays "<br>" in the drop-down. If I use "_~~~~A", the script displays "&&&&_" in the drop-down - not sure where the "&'s" come from. If I "&lt

Hello Adobe Community,We are facing an issue activating our valid and purchased copy of Adobe FrameMaker 10 on a Windows 11 machine.When we enter the serial number, we receive the error:"This serial number is not valid for this product."We have confirmed that the same serial number works without issues on a Windows 10 machine, which leads us to believe the problem may be related to retired activation servers or compatibility with Windows 11.Adobe Support confirmed that:"Activation servers are retired for certain older licenses, so this cannot be activated anymore."We are trying to:Continue using our licensed software legallyExplore any offline activation methods, workarounds, or alternate installersUnderstand if it’s possible to transfer activation from the working Windows 10 machineGet guidance from anyone who has dealt with a similar situationAny advice or suggestions from the community would be greatly appreciated.Thanks in advance!