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Dear friends, be prepared for a lengthy explanation. There are already reports about similar effects: Beware of side effects!Side effect of menu to UI-object colour But this one took me a very long time to verify and accept - I can not eliminate it. It is not about scripting, but menu customisation (the main process in the Enhanced Tool Bars). I came across the problem again when trying to harmonise the various installations of ETB into one for FM versions 14 upwards. The syntax of  cfg files in FM  considers everything outside of <...> as comment. Hence introduced the notation [label] on a line to ease navigation in these up to 1000 lines long files. The obscurity occurs with two buttons, which activate a fly-out menu: ETBChangeCasePopup    and   ETBCellAlignPopup There are two menu files involved: ETB-menus.cfg which is in the user area in Workspaces\...\menus and customui.cfg which is normally placed in $HOME\fminit\configui\, but

I worked on various devices with Framemaker and this error shows everytime. I use structured FM and always have open book and files within. It can happen during work on a file or an update of a book... and it happen one time or 5 times per day or none. Please help. 

I am using Framemaker 11 (Windows) and have not yet figured out if the following task is possible. What I am looking to do is simple in Microsoft Word, but I can't find a way to do the same in Framemaker. Task: I am using a single column layout to start a chapter of a book with, but at some point, I need to switch to a two column layout.  However, the point at which I will make the change from 1 to 2 columns will not be at a page break.  The change will occur mid-page or somewhere other than a page break.  I need a way to have both column formats exist on a single page, but at the same time, allow me to add text to the single column section should I need to come back and add a paragraph or a new sentence to the single column section. IOW, the dual column section should dynamically move as the single column section expands. I've created a video in MS Word to show what I'm looking to do: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iQK84TWurxo I can create a ne

As stated in title, I'm having no luck connecting FrameMaker to our SharePoint Online document library. I've followed the instructions listed here to no avail, inevitably ending up with the error message: "FrameMaker could not connect to the repository. Verify the connector installation and configuration." Here's the exact sequence of events that get me there: Open Connection Manager Select "Microsoft SharePoint Online" Fill in all fields (Name, Server [doc library URL], Local Path, and Repository) Click "Connect" at bottom of Connection Manager window Browser window appears, with Microsoft prompting me to sign in Successfully sign in to Microsoft via browser window Browser window closes Error message appears: "FrameMaker could not connect to the repository..." Not sure if this is relevant, but my FrameMaker license was purchased through my company’s VIP admin console. I was told by an Adobe rep that for multiple FM users

Hello,I am experiencing this strange issue with one of my book.After printing the book, when I open the PDF, it opens on the page 39 instead of the first page of the PDF.I have verified the following as part of the self troubleshooting:1. Verified the PDF setup screen.2. Verified the page numbering. The page number n the PDF is also correct.NOTE: I know that PDF properties can be modified after generating the PDF. But I am looking for a permanent resolution that fixies the issue in FM itself.

I would like to output FM files using Responsive HTML5, but without the header bar or TOC/navigation. Essentially, I want what I get with Basic HTML output in terms of the index and separate (not linked) HTML files, but still keep the Responsive HTML5. Is that possible?

I have a document in a book that says it has pages 23 - 30 where as the document only has pages 23 - 27. How can I get the book numbers to update. I have tries Book Update and Format/Documents/Numbering and neither of them are updating it. Image shows 'Pages: 23 - 30' and the last page shows 27. Can I be told what I need to do. Many thanks

Hello, Note: somehow switching computer solved the forum's "wrong html" issue so I updated this post to have the images directly here.... I have encountered an odd behaviour in the following situation:Document is structuredPage layout is 2 columns (scientific type)Some conditional text that hidden within text paragraphs"Body" element paragraph design states that allowed orphan lines number is 6          EDD for graphic object option allows for 1 clumn wide captions and 2 column wide caption, depending on attribute value as follows:           When switching from one conditional-based document to the other I apply the following script, in that particular order:Show/Hide conditional textUpdate template with the following settings          Import variables from an external .fm file with following settings      &n

Hi,I am working on a FrameMaker 2020 document. I copied and pasted text from a Word document. The text I copied is underlined and I sopmehow managed to change the green color to blue. I have a L1 Head as the title for the segment I copied. When I changed the color for that setting, all the body text I copied changed to that same color; the body text needs to be black. Additionally, the text I copied is underlined and I don't know how to remove that underlining.  I also created and added a table, below the copied text, and it does not look good.  A series of small x's surrounds each row. Thank you for any help. Cheers,Elizabeth 

Hello, I am in the process of creating a script to automatize exporting applications with variants (contitional text + variables) to pdf. I have tried to use 2 different methods but they both lead to wrong bookmarks, as shown below, screenshot from Acrobat Reader:<GRAPHIC> shouldn't appear here, but somehow it does. I have tried changing the book and documents settings using menu "format > document > pdf setup" but nothing seems to have an effet. Those are the methods:Method 1:  params = GetSaveDefaultParams (); returnParams = new PropVals (); params[GetPropIndex (params, Constants.FS_FileType)].propVal.ival = Constants.FV_SaveFmtPdf; params[GetPropIndex (params, Constants.FS_PDFUseDistiller)].propVal.ival = 1; FA_errno = 0; book.BookIsSelected = 1; book.Save(projectBasePath + pdfNamePrefix + tag + startDate + pdfNameSuffix, params, returnParams);   Method 2:  CallClient("FMPublisher", "SetOutputLocation " + proje

I have inherated books with many files. Each has many Master pages that I don't need or want. Is there anyway to delet them all at one time? Or, do I need to go into each fiel and delect them one at a time?

Folks I am using Adobe Framemaker 2020 - Unstructured. I wanted to create a PDF output and I link the required documentation to a book but a blank page is getting created automatically after the last page of each section when updating a book. The blank page is created even after deleting it Format > Document > Delete pages

Hi all, I'm running FM15, FM16 and FM17 here and they all have the same issue: when I want to insert an element FM crashes. Any idea what can be missing? Or where to look? Note: I copied the complete installation folders from my Windows 10 machine to Windows 11 ARM - at first it all seemed to work fine but then this issue appeared.  Wim.

We have online documentation based on the Azure Blue template.How can we automatically forward a reader who follows a direct link to a html page, to instead get the regular frame with TOC to the left, and search field above etc? (I.e. get the same result as if the person had clicked "Click here to see this page in full context".)But, we don't want this behavior for Googlebot and other webcrawlers. the should stay at the first html page, to make the indexing correct. 

I need to format part of a paragraph to be in bold font, in a paragraph style that is auto-formatted and auto-numbered, for example:     fig.1.1. blah blah blah as a figure caption. I need "fig 1.1." to be bold, and the rest of the caption to be plain text. I can't use "control B" in-line, and am looking for something like <Bold> (which doesn't work). suggestions?  thanks. 

Folks, How to insert graphics in the Side-head of the Column layout?

@Fightergator asked a question, which I will handle in an own post here: I have one questions related to a brief discussion we had a couple of months ago. I'm using the Find script snippet that has been posted here numerous times, and with it I can Find using wildcards and regular expressions, along with consider case. What I can't seem to figure out is how to extract capture groups from the found text and use them to customize the replacement string. Currently all I can do is insert a fixed (dumb) replString that I load along with the findString. From what I can see, your script has the ability to process capture groups. I had the very same problem during the development of FMfindRepl. Hence the published version 0.80 diverted the  handling of Replacing something found be RegEx to the original FM panel. But then i had an idea which is implemented in the current versio 1.00. In module FMfindRepl_PalF, function ButtonFind you see 518 oTR = KLD_F.FindSomething (sFType, sSearch, iMo

Hi,   I notice an issue, but I do not know, if this is a common issue or only on my laptop. Yesterday I wanted to copy a few pages and put the insertion mark into the heading of the first page and then clicked the small right arrow at the bottom of the FrameMaker window to go to one of the following pages. There I pressed SHIFT and put the insertion mark somewhere on this page and copied everything with CTRL+C. However, when I pasted this section into another file, I noticed that the first paragraphs were missing. FrameMaker moved the start of the selection some paragraphs down. Today something similar. The insertion mark is almost at the end of a file. When I clicked the left arrow at the bottom of the FrameMaker file three times, the view always jumps back to the page with the insertion mark. Did anyone notice this as well? Always related to the arrow buttons at the bottom of the FrameMaker file. This is new in FrameMaker 2022. In FrameMaker 2020 I did not notice anything like t

Hi I am hoping someone can help as this is driving me insane.I am using the latest vesions of Framemaker and Illustrator to Author and generate graphics exported as PNG and saved locally. The graphic/s are copied into Framemaker rather than impoted by reference as I work in various locations:I create manuals which I created an EDD for so they are done in structured Framemaker.The manuals I produce are reviewed and sometimes it may be necessary to change a graphic/s. The process I use is as follows:Open Illustrator to change the graphic, once changed save the Illustrator file as an .ai on asking do you want to replace it I say yes to over write the original. I then export as to PNG format and again over write the existing PNG.I then return to Framemaker go to the graphic that needed the change/s and delete it and then re-import the new graphic that I changed earlier. However I have noticed most of the time (but not everytime) when imported the graphic is the same as the old graphic as i

Hello everybody, I'm working on my first DITA publish into PDF. I set up all templates to insert the xml text into the layout I want. The current problem is the Book Title Page. In the settings.sts options I choose to "Generate Book Title Page". It prints the page, but only the Master Page of that template -> How can I insert my Book Title, Subtiltle and Footer onto that Book Title Page? Thanks a lot, Hannah   

Arnis Gubins: ... so that the "Invisible Text" is seen in (say) View 6 and set to "Invisible" in View 1 ...It appears that CV (Color Views) does indeed work for three main elements we need to twiddle in every document:authoring-only information (Invisible for all publication modes)masking graphical elements (Cutout for all publication modes)web nav (Invisible only for print publication)So the question arises, what standardized Views to use. If a random CV-aware Frameuser took over these documents, what "best practices" might they expect to see?My inclination is to use:Web publicationPrint publication<reserved for future use><reserved for future use><reserved for future use>Authoring/draft modeWhat say ye?

Hello, We have documents with a lot of conditional text and variables, that allows exporting lots of versions of the document. We use structured documents. Before exporting the document we usually do the following for the whole book:- Set show/hide consitional text- Import variables from an external .fm file (File / Import / Formats...)- Import template (File / Import / Formats...)- Update book for numbering etc.- Import EDD from external .fm file to make everything re-align This is working well but it is also quite long when one need to do this for several versions of the output. What would be the best way to aytomatize the whole process ? I wanted to look at the scripts but when I do File / Script / New Script... nothin happens. Should I install some additional software apart from Framemaker to use scripts ? Thanks in advance. Best regards Eric    

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