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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

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