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I'm able to use the Doc Splitter in Fm 2022, roughly equivalent to the Fm 2020 version.  However, the process hangs up before producing a book name with a valid name. In otherwords, instead of getting ProjectName.book, I'm given ProjectName.txt. I can quickly give the file the proper extension, but I feel like there's something I'm missing that is halting the process prior to delivering the .book. Anyone else see or solve this?   -Matt

When I launch Framemaker 9, the app hangs/crashes/spits out the following message:  I have uninstalled the software, then reinstalled it. Rebooted. Deleted files from \temp folder. I have made sure I have all the patches in place.  None of this resolves this issue.  Everything was working fine weeks ago, and nothing changed on my PC other than typical Windows 10/64 updates and a removal of a wireless printer from Printer > Config. I have followed all of the steps outlined on your https://helpx.adobe.com/tech-comm-suite/kb/known-issues.html page, under the “Crash/Launch Related” section.  None of that helped. 

I have a customer who wants a para numbering scheme like this: 1.00 1.01 1.02 1.03 etc. 1.10 1.11 The first digit is a chapnum. How would you accomplish that using numbering blocks?

Bonjour,Je ne suis pas identifié par Adobe comme un utilisateur autorisé à accéder à ce site web (LWS) pour avoir un numéro de licence alrs que j'ai un compte chez AdobeMerci de me dire pourquoi ?Laurent

hello.I am using Framemaker 2019.There are dozens of book files.I need to create a PDF of each book.It takes about 20 minutes to create a PDF of a book with Publish.Is there a way to make it in one batch?thank you

Hello. I would like to know how to completely clean Framemaker 2019. Even after reinstallation, the following symptoms continue to occur.Index creation doesn't work.When I press the shift key and make a selection, it freezes for about ten minutes.No response is also not displayed.Other programs do not experience the problem. Installing it on another computer works fine.After uninstalling, traces remain and the above problem seems to continue to occur. Thank you

I've modified the Azure Blue template slightly to fit our purposes when publishing our documentation as responsive HTML5 on the web. It works as expected on desktop and laptop computers.But on Android phones I have a problem that pages look different depending on if I come via the TOC/menu frame, or if I access the html page directly.For example, on Android, when accessing an html page directly, images are displayed very small. Also some paragraph/character formats are displayed too small to read.But if I follow the "Click here to see this page in full context", I come to the main TOC/menu frame, and the same html page is now displayed as desired - i.e. both the previously too small images and too small text are now properly sized.How can I get the same, proper size also when accessing the html page directly? Edit: I now realize it's only text inside tables that becomes too small. 

I have read many different posts on this. So, I'm very confussed. On my master page I put a veriable in the footer <Number><$curpagenum>. Then when I go back to the Body page it is displayed on the bottom of the page. I have a working chapter with page numbers, but I can't get just a single page number to work. Any ideas what I am doing wrong?

Is there some option within Framemaker that will prevent words from hyphenating between pages?  I realize there is an option within the Paragraph Designer > Advanced page that turns hypenation on/off, but I need hyphenation ON but I don't want words to be hyphenated between two adjacent pages. IOW, this is what I do not want:   Jack and Jill went up the hill to fetch a pail of wa- ----------------- new page --------------- ter. Jack fell down and broke his crown and Jill came tum- bling after.   I want "tumbling" hypenated, but I do not want "water" hypenated.   I understand I can manually apply a ESC n s  sequence to prevent "water" from hyphenating, but I was looking for an automated solution to keep words from splitting across pages, rather than manually searching for such instances.  When you are working on a large book, you don't want to have to manually examine the bottom of every page every time you insert new text.

Hi,I know that this specific question has been considered irrelevant in this community, but my client demands that the exported XML file explicitly contains the numbers generated automatically by FrameMaker.The source file is a structured document with several paragraph labels with autonumbering. We cannot easily regenerate the numbering after the export because the autonumber rules are quite complicated (with a lot of resets and gaps in the numbering, so not that "automatic").I have searched several developer guides and read about read/write rules, without success.I assume that these numbers can be retrieved since it can be done when exporting to html (checking the box about autonumbering) or rtf formats.What would be the read/write rule to get the autonumber of an element 'NUME' with a paragraph style having autonumbering ? Thank you in advance for your time and effort.

I need help fine-tuning the appearance of the Responsive HTML.- I want to have Figure captions in the PDF, but not to include the figure numbering in the Help. How do I accomplish this while also using cross-references to the specific graphic, not just to the section that contains it because there can be several graphics in a section. - In the Help, section numbers are numbered except for the Heading 1 - this is because for Heading 1, the number was defined on the Master Page (which creates a problem for numbering in the PDF). I am more concerned with getting rid of the section numbers in the Help.  

I have added THIS PAGE INTENTIONALLY LEFT BLANK pages to numerous manuals, but never added to the very beginning of a book. I am needing to add a blank, non-generated title/copyright page before the generated LOEP pages in my book. I obviously need the text frame, so that I can add content to the title/copyright page(s), and I need to start the first title/copyright page with Roman numeral i (a Right Page, obviously). Currently, in my book's page-numbering properties, I already have the LOEP starting with page i. So, how do I add the new. blank title/copyright page, starting with page i and renumber the first LOEP page as iii. Thanks!

Hi,  I am creating a List of Figures and a List of Tables for my document. Some of my figure and table headings are fairly long, and, the description text in the list continues onto a second line. I placed an extra tab before the <$chapnum> and a nonbreakable hyphen between <$chapnum> and <$pagenum> on my reference page (see below). However, when the text length is such that the number is split between the first and second line, the alignment does not work. Please see the example below and let me know if there is anything that I can do to get the chapter and page numbers to align right.  Tab Setup:  Reference Page:  Thank you,Nick 

Hi,   I'm having issues getting the second line of a TOC to tab to the right of the page, but only when the chapter and page numbers are the only text on the second line. The only way I can get it to appear correcly is if I manually tab to the left of the chapter number. I'd like for this to format automatically if I can. I'm using FM 2017, and I've tried everything I can think of. Please see an example below. Thanks, Nick   My Reference Page and Paragraph Designer settings:        

Hi, I am trying to import the S1000D version 2.2 schema in Framemaker. So far unsuccesful. I read about a simple application pack for this version but cannot find it anywhere.Anyone any ideas on how to go about using this version of S1000D in Framemaker? all help is appreciated! Marcel Veenhof

All the numbers in this graphic are svg files, but they are being previewed incorrectly. There is no white background outside of the circles. They print correctly, but the poor preview is misleading. The same svg files are being previewed correctly in InDesign, though. Is it not possible to make FM preview this stuff correctly?  

We've recently updated from FM v12 to v17 (Structured) (I know.. don't get me started 🙂 ) and we're running into an issue with the document headers. For some reason, on of the header fields is changed to Align Center instead of Aligh Right. When you look at the properties is still says Align Right. I'm attaching screenshots of the Master Page from FM12 and what it should look like, and also the converted Master Page from FM17 and the resulting page with the incorrect alignment. I appreciate any advice.

Hi, I have [edited by moderator] copied added existing documents into a new book I'm working on and updated the variables with the relevant information. I looked at the documents that [edited by moderator] I copied from are referenced in both books, and the variables in [edited by moderator] those pre-existing files have also changed the files change, which is not what I wanted or expected to happen. Is there a way to update [edited by moderator] the variables in the copied documents each book and have the 'original' documents files retain their old variables?   Thank you.   Cheers, Elizabeth   

I have a very old version of FrameMaker (7.1), but I guess this question is valid for all versions. In Sweden we write words together, that you English spekers write separately. Example:supply air plenum (3 words)tilluftsplenum (1 word)When I spellcheck and see where "tilluftsplenum" can be hyphenated I gettil-lufts-ple-numCorrect, but not... If the word is hyphenated at the first instance, it should betill-luftsplenumAn extra "l", as "till" has two and "luft" begins with one. So how does FrameMaker fix this? IS there a way to fix this, or do we have to proof read everything?  Just curious.

This may have been covered before, but I couldn't find it online. I am using FrameMaker 16.0.4. How can I review two FrameMaker pages side by side that are in different books and show the word differences between the two? If that's not possible, how can I at least preview both pages side by side? Thanks!

Hi FrameMaker Friends:   I finally gave up on trying to run Fm on my M1 Mac, and now am working like a "normal" user, running FrameMaker on a Windows computer as the Adobe team intended.   What is wrong with my scaling? I'm on Windows 11 and the Fall 2022 release of FrameMaker (though I have seen this occasionally on student computers in the past on earlier versions of Windows and FrameMaker).   Note: small menu bar, giant menu items, smushed rulers, and my catalogs are illegible.    I have tried out multiple display and scale resolutions but I can't figure out how to make this work.  Any ideas?   Thanks in advance, ~Barb

This must be simple fix, because I don't see this covered anywhere in the forum. Why does my PDF from FM 2020 have gridlines? I don't even have gridlines on in the project. Must be missing something simple somewhere...  

Hi,I am in the process of trying to create a new book. I have copied all the files from the pre--existing book and my goal is then to update these files as required. The 'old' book has many variables. I'm trying to edit the variables in the new version, but when I try to edit the variables, they cannot be modified because in the 'old' book they are correct.  Is there an easy way I can update/edit the variables in the new book I'm creating? Thank you. Cheers,Elizabeth  

Hi,In my company has FrameMaker2017 version, but I have a FrameMaker 2020 documents as a template. I try to open templates in 2017 but the error message appears:  Although this appears to be a framemaker document, it can't be opened...Is there any way to open 2020 document by using 2017 version.  PS: I do not have any other version of FrameMaker, only 2017. 

Hi,  I have recently installed RoboScreenCapture v2.0 on Windows 10. When I capture a screenshot, the screen automatically zoom-in. Therefore, the screenshot is not correctly captured.  This issue was not observed on earlier versions of Windows.  Could you please help me resolve this issue?