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I have an issue while converting .fm files to pdf dome of my fonts are crashed. How can I solve it?

I am a Framemaker book developer. I have a customer that wants to convert his book from Word to FrameMaker and export to Amazon Mobi format. My understanding it that Fthe rameMaker book can convert to RoboHelp and RoboHelp can covert the book to Kindle (Mobi) ebook. I have no experience with RoboHelp, so my question is whether there are explicit instructions to do the conversion from FrameMaker to RoboHelp ebook, OR what it might generally cost me to do the RoboHelp Kindle ebook coversion of the FrameMaker book. The book is about 250 pages and five chapters. Thanks!

I have a two column FM2022 document with a lot of footnotes. About 10 footnotes on every single page. I would like to have the footnotes column balance, making them the same height across the two colums. But can it be done?I do think the footnotes behave rather oddly. When I add text to the page so the footnote reference moves to the next page, this is what happens. Suddenly the footnotes are floating on the middle of the page.   

We just upgrade to FrameMaker 22 version 17.0.0.226. The locked files are not deleting when we close our files. They don't go away so the files don't open. We have had to restart our machines to several time and then they sometimes go away? Is anyboby having this issue and is there a fix for it? 

Hi all,I'm looking for a solution for the following problem: I need a smart table that calculates certain values. The result value is supposed to get referenced in several  FM files. When the values in the native smart table get modified the referenced value is supposed to change automatically to the new value. I tried to insert an Excel table to FM but I have problems referencing one single cell as well as to keep it updated. in specific I managed to reference one cell, but it doesn't look very nice plus the value of the cell always stays the same, no matter how many modification are done in the native Excel table.I'm interested in a solution for both DITA and unstructured FM. Since in DITA the same problem occurs because I'm not able to reference one single cell with conref. Is there maybe another way to make this working? Also Smart Paste is not working well in this situation.Thank you in advance for your help!Kind regards,Amy

As I recall, this is something that has to be fixed on the backend, so if someone could, please?  

I am generating a PDF using Print Book.Pagination is set to...Double Sided1st Page Side: RightThe first page should be the cover, so when it's flipped, the next page should be on the left.In the PDF, the first page is on the left, which throws off the formatting of the subsequent pages.

I've created a PDF using AEM Guides (via DITA-OT 1.23). The PDF contains several ohm symbols. When viewed in the PDF in a browser (selecting the PDF from the Generated Output area in AEM), the symbol appears correctly. When I download the PDF to my local system and view it in Acrobat DC or Reader, the ohm symbol disappears (blank space instead). Any help/tips is greatly appreciated!

I am opening some older FM documents I am working on for a client. I get the below error message when opening the documents in FrameMaker 2022..... And I am not really sure what FrameMaker wants me to do here?-------------------------The spelling provider Hunspell for the language German - Germany (2006 Reform) does not match the session settings.The hyphenation provider Hunspell for the language German - Germany (2006 Reform) does not match the session settings.New dictionary settings will apply, which may affect the text layout.----------------------------Can anyone explain?Best regardsBjørn

Hello all,I have generated HTML5 output from Framemaker 2020 and had relatively good success with the styles translating correctly. However, bulleted and numbered lists are not indenting correctly...with the first line extending farther to the right than subsequent wrapped lines. I've tried manipulating the styles using the built-in style editor...but apparently whatever I'm doing is not making a bit of difference. Has anyone worked through this and have any advice or fixes?  In sample HTML5 output below, bulleted list and numbered list wrap issue is displayed. I'm not sure what the 3 dots after the bullet are either.    

Hi there, we have been trying to find solutions to this issue for some time to no avail, thought I'd post here in case others have had similar experiences. Thanks in advance for any insight or things to try!Issue Description:FrameMaker is not responsive for ~20 seconds when switching between tabs within a book. This happens on the first load of a .fm file, as well as every time we switch between another file and back again. It is very disruptive with our workflow, especially when working on multiple or complex books in parallel. This occurs to both technical writers in our department. My colleague has been experiencing this for some time, I experience the exact same issue with a brand new computer and fresh install of FrameMaker.Troubleshooting Steps Taken:Updating Frame (the issue occurred on FrameMaker 2019 as well as 2020)Disabling graphicsUpdating .EPS files in the book to use PostScript3 and no thumbnails Issue persists despite steps taken.FrameMaker Information:Adobe FrameMa

To save a .Book as a pdf. This has worked flawlely for four years, however, something changed yesterday.I go to File > Publish and the window in blank. Settings File: Default.sts is missing. 

Running new install of FMv16 on Win 10 (Just now upgrading from FMv12). Upon File>Open, when .fm doc has .cgm (Import by Reference), we get error about not being able to initialize isoconverter.dll (see screenie below). The dll is not included in the FMv16 installation but the call for it IS in maker.ini - but is commented out. We have hundreds of .cgm's we need to use (or, maybe convert to . . . . say . . . . pdf), but if we can still use .cgm's that would be preferrable. Any help, please? Regards,  Dave  

Hello! I'm pretty familiar with Adobe's search options, including searching for a specific character format, searching for a specific string, or searching for a string + copied character formats, but is there any way to search for a specific string while specifying a single character format? For example, I'm trying to capture all instances of the word "analyze" that appear in Roman type so that I can conver them to italics. I can search for "analyz*" using a wildcard search or "\banalyz*\b" using a regexp search, but I can't specify the character style (Roman type) this way. If I copy "analyz" and search for text and character formats on clipboard, it won't capture variations in, for example, font size. Is there a way to do what I want to do that I'm just not seeing? I was hoping at first that there might be a regexp flag for this, but I can't find anything online... Thanks!Matt

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I am now including a MiniToc at the start of each chapter when there's either a long book or at least one chapter longer than 14 pages in a book.   Some of these chapters are have lots of major subsection headings, and the TOC runs into a second page. This is obviously not ideal. If I can figure out a way to dual column the MiniToc so that the frame holding it adjusts its vertical space without having the rest of the file in dual column or having to set up new tags so that the body of the doc is across both columns, that would be really, really nice.   Is there a way to do that, or do I have to deal with a page+ of MiniToc? There doesn't seem to be any way to put the MiniToc in its own frames, although it does appear to act like a text inset.

Some of our users in Japan are getting an error similar to (though the message is in Japanese): “Internal error, Closing FrameMaker due to critical error. FrameLog_22.09.****.dmp created. Submit this FrameLog****.dmp to Adobe technical support. This happens when the users attempt to connect to the AEM repository via the FrameMaker 2020 Connection Manager. We've submitted the issue to Adobe FrameMaker support, but in the meantime, they suggested that we also post the issue to this community to see if anyone else has experienced this and has workaround steps to suggest. Thank you in advance for your help.  

When FrameMaker adds an extra page for an even paging (two side printing) ...can that extra page, automatically be assigned a different Master Page...? I can do it manually...but rather not have to go through the whole document to check each time.

My serial number is valid (confirmed by support), and since I have a non-subscription version, no charge method is needed. It says I have 38 days left! How do I fix this? 

I can't figure out whether FrameMaker 2022 is going to be an automatic update, which will be pushed out to 2020 subscribers, once it is released? Anybody who knows it?Bjørn

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Hi All, Clients are using FrameMaker 16.0.4.1062 with structured documents. I am seeing some cases where cross-references are working in FrameMaker but not in the resulting PDF. When I check the PDF, the link is pointing to a named destination that did not get created; in other words, the named destination is not in the PDF. Has anyone else seen this? So far, I have seen this with two separate clients. Thanks.

Hi everyone! I'm fairly new to FrameMaker 2020 and recently inherited a document with some chaptering issues. In the ToC, two different chapters are listed as "Chapter 5," which also appears in both sections' page/chapter headers. This happened after I'd used the "Update Book" option to try to fix some other page numbering issues. The correct Chapter 5 looks like this:  And the incorrect Chapter 5 (which should be Chapter 6) looks like it's formatted the same way, so I'm not sure what the issue is: I've tried to check the overall chaptering settings for the book file for disceprancies between that and the individual chapters, but it's greyed out:  I've been trying to fix this for a few days without any luck, so any help would be greatly appreciated! 

The Enhanced Tool Bars got the following updates DocNav now displays header labels correctly: control chars are replaced by spaces Edit view and Print view now also observe the session wide settings. You should see grid and ruler only if you have expicitly set it either in the session or the document. English version: https://www.daube.ch/docu/fmaker75.html German version: https://www.daube.ch/docu/fmaker76.html

I use FrameMaker 12 for my technical writing work. I ahve been using it for years. The past two times I updated a document, all of the chapter headers and footers from the Master pages I created were woiped out. the fitst time it happened was with a 2000 page software manual, so I thought the number of pages might be te issue. However, it just happened again with a much smaller user manual. The message in the Book Error Report is shown below. I am thinking next time I update I can uncheck the apply master pages option - does anyone know if that will work? Or can anyone tell me how I access the MasterPageMaps table?Thanks in advance!Frustrated in PA