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Maybe Adobe can give me more insight  here. I want to provide my toolbars also in French. Hence I was looking for the French User Guides in https://helpx.adobe.com/ch_fr/framemaker/archive.html It turns out that the guide for FM-16 is in English and also the guide for FM-17 I understand that it is somewhat early to complain about missing French (and German) user guides for FM-17 - But that for FM-16 should exist since some time. I did not find a (for this problem) relevant e-mail address on the French Adobe site.

I have an issue with editing and saving files, then remembering which file were changed. Ihave several manuals that are updated regularly. They all have several chapters in them.Not all chapters are updated. I want to add a variable that will post the date saved on the bottom. As updates are made and the chapter is saved, the date will show when, or if that chapter was updated. Any ideas would be helpful. 

Dear all - especially FM users with a German implementation. User Guide and other documentation is found by using the links provided by Help > Getting Stated > Learning Resources. But although these links claim to provide a PDF they actually provide the same thing as you are already in - a HTML thingy presented in a special app - not even a  browser. → Where are the UG PDFs located? → How to get them in another language (my installation is English International). Using the URL https://helpx.adobe.com/de/framemaker/help/help-resources.html provides the English version for FM-17... → Where to find older items: FM-15 (2019), FM-16 (2020), and also the newst one in GERMAN? Any help is welcome!  

Hi,In FM 2020, I have a table that continues over two pages. Within the table I have rows that have superscript. The definition for that superscript is placed after the end of the table. Is there a way to decrease the space between the end of the table and the text that explains the superscript. There is currently too much space between the end of the table and that text. Thank you. Cheers,Elizabeth   

I generated a MTOC for my document but it jumps to the next column way before it gets to the end of the first column. I "balance columns is unchecked in both the "Customize Text Frame" and "Column Layout". Any idea what's causing this (and how to fix it)? 

Hi all, When you install FrameMaker (2019,2020,2022) the version of English can be one of several, however I am particularly interested in North America (aka USEnglish) or International (aka UKEnglish). These options are also available if FrameMaker is packaged in the Adobe Admin Console, as shown below. The Use OS Locale, presumably overides this, unfortunately clicking the 'i' does nothing, so I can only guess. The choice, after a both a manual and a packaged installation seems to be reflected in two places:maker,ini - Language=UKEnglish under ;Frame] (this setting is not in the latest ini settings PDF); orthe registry - HKLM\SOFTWARE\Adobe\FrameMaker\17\Language=en_GB So the questions are:What is the effect of this choice, or at least what is different between the two. For example if I have the word 'realise' in text and run a spell check, I would expect it to pick this up if the language was International and vice a versa for 'realise' if the language

I have created a book with six front matter documents, then Chapters 1-17. Everytime I try to insert a stand-alone TOC, the chapter numbers I have set for each document revert back to their order in the book. In other words, no matter how I number my chapters, Chapter 1 always starts numbering as Chapter 7, because it's after the six front matter documents. Chapter 2 is Chapter 8, etc. I know there is a way to circumvent this, but it has been a couple of years since I used FM, and I'm a little rusty. Also, my TOC is just 20 pages of my cover page??? Never seen this before. Any help is appreciated. Nick

I have a lot of problems using Translation and export/import XLIFF. I am working with structured documents running FrameMaker 2020 16.0.4.1062 on Win10.The documents look ok. Valid structure. All cross references ok. All insets ok. All fonts ok. Nothing suggesting that this is somehow a corrupt document.When I export to XLIFF I get a "clean" conversion report with no errors. So IMPORTING the XLIFF I have just exported ought to work painlessly.Only it doesn't. FrameMaker crashes while importing into the exact same FrameMaker file the exact same XLIFF  I have just exported.And this time theres lot and lots of errors in the conversion report. Leaving me wonder about the reliablity of the first export report. Has anybody any experience to share regarding this feature?

I would love an extension of the book panel that displays a + sign next to each file in the book. Clicking on that plus sign would expand the file and list a hierarchical outline of its Double-clicking on a heading would take me to that section.Anyone has seen or has an extension that could do that?

I've got one very long continuous table broken up into three columns per page and a lot of pages of that... everything seems to flow well right up until the end, when this weird break happens; I tried fixing it by: selecting all then setting Page Break to "Place at its default location", changing Format > Column Layout so "Balance Columns" was unchecked, trying variations of "Keep With" options... nothing seems to fix it. Any ideas? 

Is there a way to save the chapters of a FrameMaker document as separate HTML files so that the cross-reference links between them work? If I save each chapter separately in HTML format, the links between them are broken. Thank you.

Hi all, If you have not seen this (as I did not) there is a new vunerability in FM 2019/2020 to do with SVG files and fonts (Fix critical vulnerabilities in FrameMaker | August 2022 (adobe.com)). Note that for us Aussies, the link on the Australian site is broken so you have to use the US site!). For any Adobe folk, was this posted to this community? If not, why not! It would also be nice if the FrameMaker team had packaged up the update, not left it as a manual copy of files. Jon 

The latest release of FrameMaker comes with an out-of-the-box support for the translation framework. Easily convert your FrameMaker book or a DITA map into XLIFF (XML Localization Interchange File Format) and share it with your localization vendor for easy processing. Once you have the translated files back, use the import feature to get the converted content back into FrameMaker. With a wide range of options to control what in included in your translation package, you have a better control over your content.   For more information, see Translation. See videos on Out-of-the-box translation support and Pre-segmented XLIFF for easier translation.

Hi,I am using FrameMaker 2020 and I am trying to figure out how to have the table numbers in the book appear in sequence. The book has many tables and there are 14 chapters.  Is there a simple way to do this, and if so, can someone please give me explicit information on how to achieve this? Thank you in advance. Cheers,Elizabeth   

We are also struggling with the result of the HTML5 output. When the file is export as a PDF all hyperlinks work fine, but when exported to HTML5 the link adress is modified if the adress contain characters as "?". If a link to a external file end like this: http:xxxx/view the adress in the HTML output is modified to http:xxxx/view%20 We have contacted the support about 15 times during the last six month, more or less without any response from Adobe and they just close down ticket. Still waiting for a solution -not any manual work around. Also have the problems with broken internal X-ref.   Very disappointed  of Adobe unproffessional support and ignorance of their customers. After this we now active looking for other solutions to create proffessional manuals with any Adobe involvment.

Is there any method to batch remove conditional tags (both used and unused) from FrameMaker 17 documents without writing or buying a script?

Being one of the people that (dare I say) like using the Welcome Screen, I've customised the Welcome screen in both FM2019 and FM2020. In particular, I've added the following HTML to open a PDF document located on our corporate network: <a href="file:///K:\Training Admin\Training Collateral\Source Material\Templates and Style Guides\Style Guide\Structured Style Guide\PDFs\Current\Training Manual\Structured Style Guide.pdf" target="_blank">Open PDF</a> In both FM2019 and FM2020, this works perfectly. Click the link and the PDF document opens in Adobe Reader. In FM2022, I can't seem to get it to work the same. Using the same HTML, nothing happens when I click on the link. For some reason, FM2022 doesn't recognise the target="_blank" attribute. If I remove the target="_blank" attribute, the PDF does open, (it does replaces the Welcome screen tab, which is annoying but understandable), so I know there's no problem opening the PDF. It just won't open with Adobe Re

Hi All, I have this basic markup in XML, although I can modify it if necessary: <figure> <image src="graphics/FEA77D1FF412F5D071259E7DF30D9C0F.cgm.gif" dpi="600"/> </figure> When I open the XML with FrameMaker, I want the graphic to import at the correct DPI. This is what I have in my read/write rules: element "image" { is fm graphic element "image"; attribute "src" { is fm property file; is fm attribute; } attribute "dpi" { is fm property dpi; is fm attribute; } } This is what I get in FrameMaker. The graphic doesn't import and the src attribute value doesn't get passed in. I think I may need to have something in my DTD to make it all work. Any pointers would be appreciated. Thank you.

Hello all, I'm a technical writer and im wondering if there is any way to automate the process of importing graphics and imatges into the books. My current dilemma is that when something on my company's software chganges (user interface) I then have to go retake and re-upload 50 images. Is there any way to automate this process? Any advice is helpful, thank you! 

Hi,There are some instances in my document where the heading titles continue onto a second line of text. When this happens, my mini TOC does not format correctly. I'd like for the second line in the mini TOC to format like the first line, with the leader dots and chapter/page numbers on the right of the page. Is there a way to do this? Mini TOC:Reference Page:  Thank you in advance.Nick Caggiano

I have been using a fairly ancient version of TCS that includes Frame 12 and RoboHelp HTML 11 for more than a decade now, and though I purchased a monthly subscription to the latest version (2020, I believe), I am terrified of the time-suck involved in converting, and what if things don't work? I am talking about 1600-page user guides developed in Frame and then LINKED in RoboHelp 11 for context-sensitive HTML help. These are complicated documents with lots of conditional processing, cross references, cross-document links, etc. I know how to do this in ancient TCS, but when I opened up the latest version I was COMPLETELY lost. I need to estimate the time involved, as well as get approval from the boss before diving in, or I need to just cancel the subscription and keep my stone tablet. Suffice it to say, I need some serious advice, and possible hand-holding here. Does Adobe Tech Support help with massive conversions like this with the subscription, or is this an extra charge? Is this s

I am using FrameMaker 2020, and when I am working remotely, something is going wrong when I convert Frame files to PDF. I have tried all publishing methods (Save as PDF, Print to PDF, and Publish to PDF). Each time, the PDF displays the bullets as ellipses (three dots). I don't havc this issue when I convert files while working in the office. Any idea what the issue could be?

Dear experts The standard Find/Change panel provides immeate reaction: both the edit field for the search term and the Find button are active. Hence I can work like this: Invoke the panel with CRTL+F Type what I want to look for Press Enter In ScriptUI i can not mimic this behaviour. The following does not work: wPalF.g02.eFindWhat.text = KLD_F.GetTextOfSelection(); wPalF.g02.eFindWhat.active = true; wPalF.g08.btnFind.active = true; wPalF.show(); Only the button is active when this snipped has been executed. In ScriptUI  obviously only one element can be active in a dialogue/panel.at a time. → Any ideas how to overcome this limitation?

FM 17.0.0.226 - The same thing happens as I had in FM-16.0.0.764: No MiniTOC in PDF via PDFL There is no *.sts file in %appdata%\...maker.ini - hence the default is used. Now I have copied from FM-16 to FM-17 appdata my Standard.sts and opened it in FM-17. It has been converted. But when using this: Saving does not end - FM stalls What is saved already is opened and contains 8 pages with just some picutres out of the context I can not close the Saving message (progress bar), need to kill FM-17 After a new starat of FM-17 I check for the sts in the Publish panel: it is still there. I try again to creae a PDF via Publish: This time it completes after Postprocessing PDF But the output does not show the miniTOC - see screen shot above Now I do the same via Save as PDF (I do not expect a change in the output, but one never knows): Nothing new (no miniTOC) → How to get the miniTOC into the PDF?

I'm having a problem using capture replace groups in my Find/Change script.  For example, I'm fixing missing hyphenation in phrases.  I find "aim off points" using \b([Aa]im[ ]?off[ ]?point)([s]?) and replace it with aim-off point$2, which should give me "aim-off points" as my replacement. My find/replace works perfectly using FMs Find/Change panel (see below).  When I try it in my script I get this result:  aim off pointaim-off points$2. The $2 capture group searches for the plural of "points."  In my script tester I am using this to mimic the FM Find/Change panel:FindReplace ("\\b([Aa]im[ ]?off[ ]?point)([s]?)", "aim-off point$2");  I've searched the blogs, reviewed K. Daube's Find/Change PDF, and tried various syntax combinations, without luck.  Any help much appreciated.