FrameMaker

I am on a trial of Adobe Framemaker and jhave had an issue with importing png files. I tried contacting technical support concerning a technical issue  on the phone and by email.  The gentleman on the phone was polite, but the phone connection was poor, and the gentleman had a heavy accent.  My aging ears could not understand him.  When I told him that I was having a problem hearing and understanding him, he, without warning, hung up the phone.  I do not believe my attitude was rude or aggressive and his action concerned me.  My main product is my training material.  Excellent support from the vendor providing me with publishing software is paramount.  Hanging up on a customer does not instill confidence.  Also, I have not heard back from my email I support request., but receive prompt  responses from their sales group when I asked a question.  Can anyone tell me if this is an isolated incident or is this a common issue. 

I see Framemaker in my "Included in your plans" in my Adobe account, but when I install it, it says I don't have a license. How to solve this?

I know how to create a basic mini-TOC, but I'm adding two styles for the TOC to grab (Chapter Number and Chapter Name) and whent he mini TOC is generated the TOC has the Chapter Number [page#] and Chapter Name [page#]. How can I get it to make the page number just at the end of the chapter number and name? (Chapter Number Chapter Name [page#]?

We just upgraded to Framemaker 2020 and I can't seem to find the option to set a darker user interface like I can in Photoshop, Illustrator, etc.  Surely there is a way to do this? The interface is way too bright, especially since I have all of my other programs set as dark as they can go. If there isn't, why not and can we get thus option, please. 

Hello,How to I create a named destination in my source DITA XML so that when FrameMaker publishes the PDF the named destination is unchanged from the DITA?I am trying to create an xref in one DITA document that gets published to PDF (call it document1.pdf) where it creates a hyperlink to a relative path such as ../folder/document2.pdf#named_destination.I cannot find any documentation for how to do this.If I open document2.pdf and edit the named destination, when I click on the hyperlink in document1, it opens to that specific page in document2.pdf, but it is impractical to manually edit all of the named destinations in the target PDF.Thank you!Pat

I have a table and a figure in FrameMaker unstructured. I try to add hotspots and links between different rows and parts of a figure. Each table row gives information regarding various parts of the exact figure. For this, I use the hotspot feature of FrameMaker. Now I have two issues:First, I want to add a recursive hotspot too. Whenever the user of my PDF clicks on any number on the figure, the user should be directed to the row of the table.Second, I want to highlight the hotspot on the figure and its linked table row when each of them clicked. As I understand, the FrameMaker hotspot feature doesn't have any highlighting option (change the stroke color of the hotspot rectangle and the linked table row color). So, I wonder, is this possible. Or can I reach this functionality via scripting?  Any suggestions would be appreciated.Thanks.Sanam

Where can I change text edit colors? Deleting uses red text edit, but adding edits uses green which is not a very visible color. Is there a place and/or way to change text edit colors?Thanks!

Many government organisations require PDF/A-2a nowadays but the available PDF job options in FrameMaker do not support this. As you can add your own job options to the list of available ones, I was wondering if anyone has tried (and succeeded) in creating this type of PDF ?

After 25 years of FM experience I'm "at the end of my Latin" in FM-15.0.8.979 For the attached FM file this is the situation when switching from Master Page display to Body Page display: Of course I want to remove these overrides: Set Remove Overrides and use Continue → Switching to MP view and back to BP view issues the vey same message. MIF wash the document → the overrides are still there and can not be removed by the mentioned method. Re-assign the master pages (1 → First; 2…65 → Right/Left) → Overrides still there. Create new document, import all formats, then copy the contens of the flow → Overrides are back... Assign R/L MPs to all pages (no special page 1) → Overrides still there. Opening the document in FM-16.0.4.1062 → same debacle. A visual inspection of the pages do not show me any deviations from the layout defined by the MPs - so what is the nature of these overrides?

Hello, I am new to DITA and I want to start working with some DITA topics. I started with the following order: File > New > DITA > Topic  Now FM loads a list of possible elements. So my question is, where is the corresponding FM file where the elements are defined? I want to add some elements and modify the fonts, therefore I searched but couldn't find the correct file. I started searching as described in the official FM help:... \ AdobeFrameMaker2019\Structure\xml\DITA_1.2\app Thanks very much for your help, Hannah   

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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.