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Question for the gurus: How do I make FM use the next page (left or right) for documents in a book? I.e. if the previous document ended on a right-hand page, the next document needs to start on a left-hand page, if the previous document ended on a left-hand page, the next document needs to start on a right-hand page.  There is no defined way to determine which page to start the document on, because the previous document (based on the content) could end on either and could change if the content changes. Left and right pages have different page headers, so I need to use the double sided option. I've seen screenshots of the Pagination where there is a 3rd option: Next available page, but I only have the options Right and Left available. Suggestions?

Hi,   FrameMaker 2020 (16.0.4.1062) Every some months I get this issue: I have a FM file or book. Create the PDF with Save As PDF. (In the Publish pod Distiller is activated.) FrameMaker creates the PDF. However, the file name is not that of the current FM file or book but that of a file ABC which I had created a week ago. And I had created this file ABC with Word and not with FrameMaker. Additionally: o PDF is not in the folder of the FM file, but in C:\Users\xxx\Documents\ o Application is not FrameMaker, but InDesign 17.3. (I do not have InDesign on this laptop and never had.) The FrameMaker file is on an external SSD, no network.   I have no clue, where this might come from. Has anyone else seen this as well?   Best regards   Winfried

Hi,  I'm trying to create table styles for all the notations within my manuals (Danger, Warning, Caution, Note). I currently have a decent looking format, but want to add a caution logo on 3 of the tables (Danger, Warning, Caution). I'm trying to figure out a good way to do that. My currenty method I'm trying is: - Add caution logo to reference page, within a graphic frame- On body page, create a table with two columns in the header- In the left column of the header, use a paragraph styles that uses Frame Above Pgf and references the Caution logo It should work, but FM is glitching out and showing a white background on the logo I altered the logo in Photoshop so that it's transparent and doesn't have a white background. But FM isn't honoring the transparent background  Also, using the Frame Above Pgf feature adds a bunch of extra space to the header I don't want.  The white background on the logo shows up in the outputted PDF also, so i

I have written jsx scripts from existing documents but am having issues creating new objects.How do I create a new blank portrait document? the app.documents.add() command does not work for me. The results will only contain a single table so I do not think a template is needed.

Is there an easy way to rename color definitions in many, many files, or to delete color definitions using old format names in favor of the new ones that have already been added?   I'm trying to clean some things up in my documents and the idea of having to remove 10 or so color definitions, one-by-one, from a few hundred files is making me blanch. (Yes, I could leave them in, but it offends my sense of tidiness.)

I trying to apply the "None" background (Character Designer) to tables in a document.  Some searches I run leave text within the tables with background highlighting. While I can select the entire document and apply the "None" background to the body text, it doesn't change the highlighting in the Tables. I have a script that steps to each table in the document and selects it, but can't figure out how to apply the desired background color after it's selected.  Any suggestion?  

Hi all. Is there a way to merge two different versions of the same FM book and maintain the unique tracking bar colors for each one? If not, maybe there is something that can be done in the published PDF file for each book version. Any ideas? Cheers -- John

Colleagues,I'm trying to figure out _why_ the Extendscript below works, to move a chapter to the end of a FrameMaker book.I understand that the value of "NextComponentInBook" is always zero for the last book component. But when I explicitly set this property to zero for an arbitrary book component, the current "last" book component already has a "NextComponentInBook" value of zero.Does Extendscript perform housekeeping to set the "NextComponentInBook" value of the _previous_ last chapter to the _new_ last chapter, automatically?Perhaps my confusion is in thinking about the list of book components as a conventional linked list, in which I would need to do this housekeeping myself.TIA,-Alan Houser  // Get the active book var book = app.ActiveBook;\ // Add new chapter to book. '0' argument puts it first var NewLastChapter = book.NewSeriesBookComponent (0); // Set the name of the new chapter NewLastChapter.Name = "lastchapter.fm"; // Move new chapter to the end of the book. NewL

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Hello scripter friends, Has anyone tried (with success) to set PDF properties via ExtendScript ? I have retrieved the PDFDocInfo property, which is a propVal with an ssval string array inside. But when I push strings into the ssval array and then use Doc.SetProps( ) FM freezes. Apparently, I need to use some other method to push the string values into the PDFDocInfo property, but I have always struggled with the many variations of TypedVal elements. If anyone has a useful idea let me know. Thanks in advance Jang

I'm used to other Adobe products where you can hold down shift as you drag a corner of the image frame to constrain the aspect ratio of placed graphcis, but that doesn't seem to be the case with FM. How do I do that here, and is there a command which will fill the image frame with the graphic at the correct (original) aspect ratio? Thanks!

I have a book which successfully published with FrameMaker 2019. I copied the folder with the book and accomopanying files to a new directory and upgraded everything to FrameMaker 2020. The PDF produced by this causes the dreaded KDP message of "There are errors in your file" message with no further diagnostics. (I'm using a 64 bit Windows version of FrameMaker version 16.0.4.1062) Many thanks for any insights! 

I have a very strange issue with FrameMaker 2019. When I specify a font using Paragraph (font tab) or Character Designer, the font that actually appears is the font listed directly above the one I intend to display. I have attached an example showing that I selected "Keysight Sans" font, but Frame selects Kazuraki instead. If I change the font using the information in the tool bar, the correct font appears. Any ideas? I have uninstalled and re-installed the application with no success. I am using the latest version.

I foudn an old thread which advised that it was possible to save an InDesign file as am RTF, open it in Word, save it as a .doc or .docx, then import the copy of the file into FM and FM would prompt to convert styles; I tried that and it worked... partly. Does anyone have tips on how to maybe edit the styles in InDesign (or Word?) so things like carriage returns, tabs, etc transfer over. And (dare I hope) nester styles? Thanks.

Hi,   I have a question about EPS and PDF.In one of my graphics there is a terminal with a semi-transparent foil.When I create an EPS file and import this into FrameMaker and create a PDF (or when I convert the EPS directly to PDF), then the contour of the semi-transparent part is now pixelated.When I create a PDF file from my vector graphics application, then the PDF is _not_ pixelated. Also when I import this PDF into FrameMaker and convert to PDF, the resulting PDF is not pixelated.   Does Acrobat Distiller change anything on an EPS file, when it converts it to PDF? So that I can find out, if this is a FrameMaker/Distiller issue or a problem of my graphics application.   Best regards   Winfried

I am working with a large table with a lot of table footnotes. But FrameMaker seems to have a mind of its own with the naming of my footnotes.I want to insert a table footnote beside the "g" and according to the continuity of the other footnotes, this footnote should be "i".BUT FrameMaker can't figure that out. It inserts an "h". If I insert my footnote in another place in the same table, I CAN have my "i" (which is the right letter), but apparently not beside a "g"...What is happening? And how do I fix it? It seems like some sort of bug.?

Hi -, I'm trying to use sharepoint online as a CMS with Framemaker 2020.I can connect to sharepoint, create files and check them inBut when I go to check them out, they download locally, delete themselves and get the message that Framemaker cannot find the file.The SP log has the below information... Source        : SystemMethod        : DownloadFileDate        : 15:39:41Time        : 12/07/2022Computer    : STKLOFC0388Error        : The underlying connection was closed: An unexpected error occurred on a send.Stack Trace    : at System.Net.WebClient.DownloadFile(Uri address, String fileName)   at WindowsFormsApplication1.Utils.downloadFile(String url, String path)   at WindowsFormsApplication1.SharePointOperstions.downloadSimpleFile(String path, String pathToDownload, String driveid, String siteid, String token, String siteweburl, String

Each time I generate a new TOC, the TOC generates, but I cannot click on a chapter and have the chapter display. I clicks on a chapter and only the TOC displays. I am using FrameMaker 2019.Also, I keep getting errors that say the book numbering is not correct. I set the first file as Volume 1 and Chapter 1. Then set all the others as Same as Previous, but  the page numbers do not advance correctly. The first chapter goes from page 1 to 60, but the next chapter does not start at 61.

Hi,We are migrating from FM 14 to FM 16. While doing so we have noticed that the DITA templates that were working for FM14 are not working in FM16.For instance, we have modified the ChapterOutputTpl.fm to change the properties pf "title.0" and "title.1" as should below in the snip.Now when we are generating the PDF the output is taking the modified properties of title.0 but not of title.1 as shown in the bleow snip.Other than this the overall template with modified page layout, document properties, table properties, charater and paragraph formats is not getting picked-up at all except for title.0 format. Whereas he same ChapterOutputTpl.fm was giving correct PDF output with FM14.Please help in resolving the issue.Thanks

At our company, we use Jenkins to build software projects. With the FM2020 update, the length of the paths has changed, it is longer, and this makes it impossible for them to integrate the help due to the number of characters. In 2019 there was a folder and all the files were inside it, now in 2020 each file generates a folder where it is stored. Is there a possible way to publish it following the old structure? Or cut the names of the generated structure and everything still works fine?

Whenever I click anywhere in the document, the Structure View appears to be refreshed/redrawn (best I can describe the action). There is no smoot jump/scrolling. FM also appears to be refreshing/redrawing the Structure View three times. The same happens when using the scrollbar to scroll down the Structure View - it's not scrolling smoothly, but refreshing redrawing the text as it becomes visible. We had similar 'visual' issues in the past where document pages would only render when they become the active page - as though FM is only loading the content visible on screen into memory.Thoughts? Suggesions?

I am having a numbering issue that seems like a glitch, which I can't seem to solve, In one instance and going from an H2 3.2 followed by body text, and an anchored frame at the bottom of the page. At the top of the next page, I have the next H2, but it restarts at 3.1. This doesn't happen all the time but I can't find the condition that is causing it. Any ideas?

I purchase FrameMaker but it is stuck on a Trial, are all products like this?

Hi Everyone,I have some questions regarding "g" element level tags. How do I modify the translation XTS file to remove the following? <g translate="no" id="ID0EYX3O" />, where the "id" could be any value.My translation provider has flagged the <g translate="no" id="........." /> string as being incorrect.Example below <trans-unit resname="p[Bullet]" restype="x-paragraph" id="ID0EL3DQ"> <source xml:space="preserve" xml:lang="en-US"> <g translate="no" id="ID0ET3DQ" />The charger is for indoor use only. Do not use outdoors.</source> </trans-unit> I have noticed the application of  <g translate="no" id="........." />  seems to be related to paragraph styles that include bullet points etc. But it also seems to apply some what randomly as in the example below which contains no bullet points or character formatting. <trans-unit resname="p[Body]" restype="x-paragraph" id="ID0EZYDQ"> <source xml:spa