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The chm text is too small on my new Win 11 laptop with a high resolution screen. Settings are:   Scale 150% (Recommended) Resolution 1920 x 1080 (Recommended)   A newly generated chm file has very small text. Here you can see the same text published in two different target formats, the left side text is the chm file, the right side is responsive html 5.   The html5 text size is perfect. Can I get the same size chm text? Is this a general chm problem, or is it something I can do? Using FM2019.  

Why does FrameMaker change the paragraph format of the paragraph in which a text inset is anchored, when the inset is updated? I have an inset anchored in a Body paragraph with no other text in the paragraph. The settings for the inset are to reformat with the current document's settings. When I update the text inset, the paragraph format of the source paragraph changes to Heading1, or whatever the format of the first displayed paragraph in the text inset is. I don't understand how the paragraph format in the source document can change when the inset is updated, if the source formats are being applied to the inset. Is this a known bug? Is there a workaround? I'm at present using FrameMaker 7, but will be upgrading to FrameMaker 10 fairly soon.  Ken Dyall.

If I purchase a ryear's subscription to FrameMaker, may I install on my notebook computer and on my office computer? David McMurrey, Ph.D.Business, Government & Technical Communications Austin Community College [Personal information removed]  

Hi friends and experts, In my script FMfindRepl I have noticed that win.close()  closes the palette window leaves its status active Hence any Nofify reaction addressing an element of the UI will re-open the panel. Hence I have changed in the Notify function if (wPalF.active) { .. to If (wPalF.visible) { ...  IMHO close() should inactivate a window - but there are comments in various forums about the close() issue which lets me assume that something is incorrect with this method.

I am wording with a purchased version of FrameMaker 2017 and am having trouble with imported pdf drawings.I get exploded diagrams with part numbers that are created by another person. In these pdf's I can highlight the part number and copy/paste it into another program (WORD as example).I import these files into a FrameMaker book (File>Import>File By Reference) and they appear fine. I finish the book by File>Print Book, select Abode PDF driver.The problem is the imported pdf drawing numbers now won't copy/paste into another program (􀀜􀀗􀀖􀀃􀀘􀀙).Any advise is appreciated. 

When viewing HTML5 on computer, table with graphic seems OK. When viewing same on phone, white area below grapic expands. What can I do with coding in the CSS file to eliminate this issue? We normally do not have the borders display around the image nor blank cells, but for the purposes of this post, they help to demonstrate the issue.   

Dear wise women and men: My script FMfindReplace opens a palette wPalF via menu or short cut. The scipt is started either via the Script Library or by placing it in the Statup folder. I have several documents open and invoke the script via ESC q f It works as intended on document A, Notify reacts and does was it should, all OK I close the palette via the Exit button top right or via the button OK/Done Now I switch to another document B and the palette re-appears! Console log (see Notify hereafter): wPalF.active = true I close the palette and give focus to another application (test editor) and then come back to the document B Now the palette is really gone and for further work with it I invoke it with the short cut... (Console log: wPalF.active = false). I do not understand why the palette re-appears in step 4. I have not observed such behaviour in any other of my scripts with palettes... The Notify function is IMHO streight forward:   case Constants.FA_Note_PostActiveDocChange

I recently updated my TCS version to 2020. When I edit my documents in FrameMaker, everything looks perfectly normal, but once I generate a PDF, the second level bullets look like å. I went through similar topics on the forum and saw people suggesting converting the font used for that style from ttf to otf - I have been unable to do that (or I haven't figured out how), and also suggesting setting the colors from RGB to CMYK, but it's already set to CMYK for me. Any ideas how to resolve this issue? 

I'm guessing this is a reference page thing...? I've got six different paratags I'm using to generate the TOC, but only want page numbers after my Level1Tag2 items. What's the procedure for that?

HelloI have framemaker files in which image files are embedded by reference via web link.So the reference path has the following form: https://www.xyz.de/xxx/yyy/...The image files are in png or eps format.With FM2019 (structured), this type of reference was not a problem.However, after switching to FM2020, the image files are no longer found under the same conditions (same files, same computer, same operating system, same access rights, etc.).Does anyone have an idea what could be the cause?ThanksStefan

When I click on a document link, it takes me to the specified location. I was wondering if there is a button or way to go back to the original location of the link I clicked on. Thanks!

I can't get FM19 running on my Windows 10 computer today. First I get:   When I click "Sign In Now", I get: I do have the latest Windows 10 updates. I also have the latest versions of Firefox, Chrome and Edge installed.   I've been using FM2019 on this Windows 10 computer for a couple of years. However, occasionally I run FM2019 on another Windows 10 computer (when distance working.) Perhaps the other computer was used the last time I used FM2019. (That computer is completely turned off. And 400 miles away.)   What can I do to run FM2019 today, on this computer?

Thanks to our Frame experts, I've developed a script that finds all occurances of a word or string in a document.  When found, I want to replace the word and display it as a Track Text Edit.  I'm running into two problems.  1) After enabling Track Text Edits and running the script, all change appear as normal text; not Track Text Edits.  2) The beginning offset of the text range is correct, but the doc.Clear and doc.AddText leaves the last character of the found text after the replacement text is added; e.g., foundText = "widge"; replacement = "WIDGE"; result = "WIDGEe".   

I use the Adobe Framemaker using a VM Ware image on my mac. When I open Adobe framemaker, the screen resolution is somehow too small.. This behavior is not seen in other applications.. I tried to find a setting to increase the resolution, but could not find anything.. Have you seen this and can you help me please? (I attached a screenshot).

Does anyone know why, after HTML5 output, my listed numbers are serif but all my text is sans serif? Thanks.

I want to create a list of figures for a book, but I would like to separate the list showing which chapters the figures belong to. Like:Chapter 1   figure 1.1   figure 1.2   figure 1.3Chapter 2   figure 2.1   figure 2.2   etcWhile I can make the List of figures work to my liking, I have trouble figuring out a smart way to add the chapter titles?Can anybody help?

Hi, Please guide me how i can read the .sgm file using Framemaker Extendscript.

FrameMaker 16.0.4.1062Acrobat Pro DC 2022.002.20191 For accessibility, I've added alternate text to anchored frames that contain images that we import by reference. Our organization's documentation also makes extensive use of icon images for notes, warnings, examples, etc. We define those icon images in our Reference Pages. When I use the File > Publish > PDF option, the process automatically adds "Imported into FrameMaker" as alternate text for all of the icon images from our Reference Pages. The Acrobat PDF screen reader correctly reads the alternate text that we've added to anchored frames, but it also reads "Imported into FrameMaker" every time it encounters one of those icon images. I have the following PDF Outputs settings configured in the Publish dialog:General tab:Preset Name: StandardOptions:Selected the "Create Tagged PDF" check box.Selected the "Convert text and graphic colors to RGB (excluding images)" check box.Cleared the "Use Acrobat Disti

So firstly I checked the logs, it said it was not picking up the license, so I needed to sign into my adobe account within the application, I could not do this initially because of error 205, it just kept force quitting the software. I have had an issue like this before and signing in and out usually fixes it in adobe products, but how can I do this if it force quits on opening? Well I found a trick:  Click 'Restore Last Session' button as soon as you open FrameMakerIt ideally should be a fresh install, no sessions on your computer anywhereLeave open the message box and wait for Error 205 message to display, then click OKYou should then get another message box come up saying "Can not Quit" or something like thatNow you should be able to sign in and out of the software and enable the license in the cloud. Other things I did / tried:- Ran the program as administrator- Enabled it in the firewall settings I am not sure if these made a difference or not. A

Hi, I want to delete certain conditional tags for all files in a Book without having to delete the tags file by file.However, I couldn't find an easy batch function in FM interface.With references from other scripts, I wrote this script to delete specified conditional tags in a Book.The script is only available to delete an unused Cond tag you specified, not considering the cases that the tag is used in expressions or applied to the text. (Violent lol)However,  I am not sure if  this would ruin the conditional tag structure in FM.Does anyone have experience on this?It will be great if someone would help check this script and share your experiences on this.(or you have other tips on deleting cond tags?)Many thanks.----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------var book = app.ActiveBook;var Condname=prompt("Please enter the condition tag you want to delete");//user input cond nameif (Condname!=null){alert(Condname);var comp =

Is there a way to easily keep a book in its "older" FM format when editing it with a newer version of FM? This can be done using Save As for each .book and .fm by selecting FM2019 when editing using FM2020, but it looks like the files get upgraded to the newer format when using the standard Save / Save All functions?

Hi once again! I'm using the standalone Index generation, and it's giving me the subtopics nested under the main topics (Topic:subtopic for the markers) but I want the numbers to be a different tag (entires are regular weight, black-colored Arial, and I want the numbers to be bold, red, and italics). Is there a way to force the process to put a return in before the page numbers, or even better to assign them a tag of my choosing during the generation process?  

Only recently I have discovered the directory %appdata%\Adobe\FrameMaker\fmlogs which has subdirectories 16 and higher. ...\16\2022_8_15\ cotains two files FM_Log_1660546056890.log and FM_Log_1660546064347.log with the very same time stamp 2022-08-15 08:48:11 FM_Log_1660546064347.log This seems to log the correspondence with the license server (A) FM_Log_1660546056890.log IMHO this is a (partial) trace of the initialisation process (B), as there are entries such as [INFO]: SmartQuoteManager_Initialize, 81 ::Reading SmartQuote Preferences for Language UK English is ‘’“” [INFO]: LingoLanguageInit, 484 ::Setting Frame Language to UKEnglish [ALWAYS]: MainInitAllComponents, 2045 ::All Components Loaded Successfully [ALWAYS]: CopyAdditionalPDFSettingsToUserArea, 1894 ::copied PDF settings Also a directory CQ (empty) is created with the start of FM-16. What is this good for? Namita from Adobe tells me, that these were introduced with FM-16 to add log that can be used later for diagnostic pu

Running FMv12 on Win 10.Programming Variables on Master Page, eg: Running H/F 10.Variable Definitions set to read-in an Attribute Value, truncated by a string of text, thus:<$attribute[SectionTitle]> (Continued)Would like to insert Line Break before the text string, such as:<$attribute[SectionTitle]>//r(Continued)<$attribute[SectionTitle]>\/r(Continued)<$attribute[SectionTitle]>/br(Continued)How to do this?Thank you!Dave