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My client has different files that I am putting into FM. They all have numbered headings. How do I set it up so that the file heading increments as I add a file? In the attachment I show that heading 1.0 and 2.0 are actually in the same file so ignore that. However for the News file the heading number does not increment but starts over at one. It should increment the number every time I add a file. So for the News file, in the TOC is should say 3.0 News instead of 1.0. And I need to also increment the page number to start at one for the first chapter and then to increment when I add a file to the book.  I assume it has to do with Format>Document>Numbering?

Hi to all,I have a structured FM book in english language.The client exports all FM files to xml to use in cat tools to translate.I have one of these chapters translated and I'm trying to open it in FM again.I want to have the same layout, formatting, rules, xrefs, and so on of the source files in translated ones.It's enough to:- open xml in FM- Import formats (all?) from the correspondent source file- Import element definitions from the correspondent source file. Because doing these steps it alerts me with some validation errors (only for some title tags). And the master page usage, some xrefs, etc is not exactly the same.Other question: Could I change paragraph styles option, like I'm used to do in not structured FM files with translation process? For example, when I open a German translated file, with text longer than English source, could I decide to reduce font size? Because it alerts me than it could be dangerous in structured fm files. Thanks. Ciao, Mario

I am a folklorist trying to wrap up an approximately 500-page FM book that is a guide to a folklore archive housed at the Library of Congress - American Folklife Center, the Danish Royal Library and the Digital Library of the Caribbean. The book is 90% complete, but I need help finalizing the layout and design. I will need a few hours here and there over the next couple months. I am preparing all the content myself, but am not a serious FM or PC user, so I am looking for both technical and design assistance. If this is not an appropriate forum for looking to hire someone, I’d appreciate other suggestions for locating a freelancer to help with this project. A PDF of an early version of this book is attached.

Call me brain dead, but I've forgotten how to create generated LOEP and IOM files. I already have references and master pages (in another book) where I can import the formats, styles, and master page formats, but I have forgotten which INSERT Menu item to select to create the LOEP and IOM generated files. I am assuming I use Index of Markers for the IOM, but wasn't sure about the generated LOEP fike. What do I use in the INSERT Menu to create the LOEP and IOM files? Thanks!

Hi, I am currenltly developing a framemaker plugin that uses dot net dll via C++/CLI wrapper but when i register this client within framemaker and run, everything works till we call the Dot net methods but it crashes framemaker thereafter.If someone has worked on this kind of scenerio who can help me to load dot net dll successfully within C++/CLI wrapper so that FM doesn't crash. Mostly it is because of dot net dll is getting loaded within FrameMaker memory. There is something called AppDomain and CreateInstanceAndUnwrap that can solve this problem but i have no idea about this concept. Any help would be greatly appreciated.I get the below error when i run the plugin. If there is any Developers forum, can you please share the link to that.  ThanksRam

I recently upgraded from FrameMaker 2017 to the TCS suite (FrameMaker 2019). I have a couple of documents that were created using older versions of FrameMaker and that contain png images. These images have always displayed just fine when generating the PDF output. Now that I am using FrameMaker 2019, some of the png images appear completely black (they have a transparent background) in the generated PDF. The images look fine when I'm in FrameMaker itself. This does not occur with all of my png images. I can't figure out what is different between the affected files and the files that are generated correctly. Has anybody else seen this issue or have any ideas how to fix it?

In my FM documents I have the regular Heading1 paragraph style. In the page header, even pages have the most recent Heading1 displayed.I've also created a copy of Heading1, called Heading1new_html_page, to get a new html page when generating responsive html5. (Some chapters are too big for one html page.)The problem is that I still get the most recent Heading1 in the page header, even if there's a more recent Heading1new_html_page. For example, if I have the following headings in my FM file:"Aaa" (Heading1)"Bbb" (Heading1new_html_page)"Ccc" (Heading1new_html_page) Now I get the "Aaa" in every page header, but I also want "Bbb" and "Ccc" when those headings are the most recent.

Hi Fm Friends:   I am looking for a space followed by (Former and want to add a hard return in front of the space. (Or after, don't really care.) My cursor stops in front of the space but \r gives me a line break and not a paragraph break. It works correctly in InDesign but not in FrameMaker. What am I missing?    ~Barb   

I have recently moved school and was wondering what the best solution would be for transferring my files across accounts?

I'm testing the new release and came across a strange behavior that was not present before with the forced return in a justified paragraph. With the previous version, the line ending with a forced return character (Shift+Enter or Shift+Return) was NOT justified. Now it is. I didn't find any option to specify a "left justified" or a "right justified", like in other programs (indesign and other). Here screenshot with 2017, 2020 and 2022 Fm The documentation from 2019FM even said :Note: If you use Shift+Enter or Shift+Return to insert a forced return within a fully justified paragraph, the line that ends with the forced return is not justified.This line disappears in 2020 and 2022 docs. Did i miss a new option somewhere ?

I asked a similar question about a month or two back, and I had originally thought that using Matt's trick of renaming the preferences folder had solved the issue.I was wrong. It solved it temporarily, for the first use, and then it went back to misbehaving. I've repeated the cycle several times with the same result.I've put in a bug for this, but I'm also curious if anyone else is having the same issue. Basically, if I open either the Hex Input or the Character Palette, the windows close themselves in about 10 seconds (maybe less, not using a stopwatch!). Since the Character Palette always opens on the Courier font, I generally don't even have time to scroll down to the font I'm using (Source Sans Pro, for the record) before the palette window closes. The Hex Input window usually closes before I finish typing in the 4-character code and doesn't insert anything when it does, even if I've managed to finish the code.Anyone?

Hello everyone!I use unstructured FrameMaker 2019.I created a Character Style "Change Bar" (all options are "As is" plus the "Change Bar" option).With this style, I marked places with changed content (text, graphics and tables). After publishing the revision, I used the option Format – Characters – Change Bar – Clear All Change Bar.By removing the vertical lines in this way, I was sure I was deleting style "Change Bar" entirely, returning the content to the default state.I recently discovered that only vertical lines have been removed. All content remained marked with style "Change Bar".Now I have a multi - volume document with hundreds of such places.The question is:Is there a way (or script) to quickly remove my named Character Style by bringing the content to the "Default" state (Default Font)? With respect,Igor

I generate a standalone TOC and it comes in without formatting. I am using numbered headings. I don't really have another TOC to replace it with (like I saw in other posts).

Error Message: <html><head><title>FrameMaker Publish Log</title><style>body{ padding: 20px; font - family: monospace; font - size: 14px; line - height: 21px; }#log{ margin - top:0cm; margin - bottom:0cm; margin - left:0cm; color:black; } #add{ margin - top:0cm; margin - bottom:0cm; margin - left:0cm; color:#444; }</style></head><body><p class = "log"><table cellspacing="0" width="100%" border="1"></p><p class = "log"><col style="width: 50%;" /></p><p class = "log"><col style="width: 50%;" /></p><p class = "log"><tr></p><p class = "log"><td>Source</td></p><p class = "log"><td>J:\CL415_515\CL515\FTP IW\S415-5203-A-2\DHC515-522101.fm</td></p><p class = "log"></tr></p><p class = "log"><tr></p><p class = "log"><td>Output Published</td></p><p class = "log">

I had this problem already during developing my Enhanced Tool Bars - but have no clue anymore how I solved it: Either I get a message that a menu has not been defined while reading menu customation file), or I do not see the main menus of FM as soon as I open a document - and workspace is ETB. Clicking on that small thingy opens the menu. De-installing ETB of course restores the original FM function. Switching Wokspace to other than ETB does not show the main menus - so where is the culprit?

I am using SnagIt capture to capture a screenshot. But it does not scale correctly. Is it my monitor resolution? I have existing images like the one attached. Can I fix them or have to recapture them with specific properties? I think the final output will be to PDF.

I have two paragraph tags/styles named Title and Subtitle.I cannot figure out how to create a custom variable with the correct syntax for each. 😞 I want to put them in the header of each master page.

Looking for thoughts on how to clone case of the first letter in my find/replace script.  For example, I search for \b[Aa]ll inclusive.  It finds "All inclusive."  When found, the replacement text is "inclusive," but I'm not smart enough with regexp or scripting to figure out a way make the first letter of the replacement text upper case.     Was thinking along the lines of getting the first letter of the found text string, determine it's ascii no., then replacing the first letter of the replacement string with it's asci(no) - 32 if uppercase.  Sounds easy on paper, but not so much fun trying to script it.  I'm guessing their's an easier way.  Any thoughts appreciated. 

I am trying to convert a Word document with autonumbered headings (five levels).I save as RTF, then do the mapping to new frame style. The indents come in but there is no autonumbering.I had selected the copy into document option.   

I created a table with a heading row of blue background and white letters.Using custom shading.When I insert the table it gives me everything BUT the shaded heading row. See image.

If I write a new text in a FrameMaker 2017 file, the cursor moves according my entries, but now text is visible, only white paper at the new entries. Despite I use an existing file with text in it.It also happens typing the new text in the middle of  an existing text in black, the new inputs are not displayed.  

Hi,   FrameMaker 17.0.0.226, unstructured I just wanted to replace text with something else. As this text can start with an upper or lower case character, I activated the Clone Case option. However, it did not work. The replacement always started with an upper case character. The issue is that the Clone Case option works only, when you enter the search text with a lower case character. Enter this text in a FrameMaker file:TextThistexttextThen search for "text" (or "Text", this does not matter).Replace with "string" (with lower case s).Simple search. Activate Clone Case.Everything fine. FrameMaker replaces with the correct case.However, now replace with "String" (upper case S).Now FrameMaker always replaces with "String" with an upper case S. It does not use the same case as in the found text!This bug makes this feature for many users unusable (i.e. all users who enter the replace text with an upper case character)! I hope that this issue gets fixed in the next update. If you agree

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