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Hi, I am testing FM 2020 for DITA1.2. While choosing save as PDF option for my BookMap my PDF output is not picking up the templates from below area. However, this was happening in FM 2017. <Fm_install_location>\Structure\xml\DITA\outputTemplates Please suggest what additional change is required to be done.

I've been working with a translator to have a chapter in a manual translated. The translator said that he could handle FrameMaker files (we usually copied and pasted into Word), so I sent him both an FM and a MIF file of the chapter. For some reason, FrameMaker 2017 wouldn't open the FM file that he returned to me, so I opened the MIF file that he sent, saved that to a FM file, and placed that into the book. I tried doing a Save As to get a PDF of the book three times. Each time, FrameMaker was busy as though it were printing a PDF, but the little Adobe Distiller menu never appeared, and the PDF never printed. The first few attempts, I closed FrameMaker after 45 minutes of waiting (the document has taken no more than 12 or 15 minutes in the past). Last night, I left FrameMaker running when I left, and it was still running when I returned this morning. I tried to do some troubleshooting. When I went to print a different chapter, one that I created (this one has no links or images), a di

Hi,I'm fairly new to Framemaker 2020 so hopefully this question will have a simple answer.I'm creating a multi section document that includes numerous tables in each section. what I want to do is include the section heading number in the table. I can do this manually by going into the Paragraph Designer, Numbering and physically typing in the Section number as shown below.This then gives me the following in the table title:Replacing the  "2" with either <$chapnum> or <sectionnum> simply resets the table to 1:How can I get the table title to reflect the section number? Any advice will be most appreciated.:

Windows 2020 (or, whatever the newest version is)UnstructuredFrameMaker 2020 (or, whatever the newest version is) I want to change my default paste option from Embedded Microsoft Word Document Object to Text. I don't know if my FM is broken but:I can't find anything in the Maker.ini file that has the word 'Paste' in itt.If I open a big file, my menu choices start moving when I try to select anything. For instance, I will click 'File' and start to go to an option in that pull-down menu but, then the cursor will jump to the 'View' pull-down list.I understand that FrameMaker is the 'red-headed step son' and doesn't get much positive attention from Adobe but, please don't make it worse. 

Hi,  I'm creating colored text boxes for different note types, e.g. Note, Caution, Warning, Danger.  I've been using the Frame Above Pgf function and Frame Below Pgf function to add spacing of the colored text box above and below. The frames for Frame Aboe Pgf etc. are being sourced from the reference page.  The colors look good, but the resulting PDF has white artifact lines on the text boxes (noticable in below pic on Caution box, but happens randomly on other colored boxes also). This seems to be a consistent Adobe problem, as Word doesn't cause these artifact lines. I know that I can modify the preferences of the PDF, with things like uncheck Smooth Line Art and Enhance Thin Lines, and this does seem to get rid fo the white artifact lines. But then it screws up the way that the border lines on the headers and footers look.  I'm wondering if there's a way to create colored text boxes and not have these white artifact lines. Is t

Hi,Any reason the startup screen suddenly looks like this in FM 2019?Kind regards,Mats 

I know this is primarily an ExtendScript forum, but I see other questions about FS, so thought I would give it a shot.My project uses an FS to get data from an Access database and create a structured assembly consisting of a graphic and an accompanying table . All great, but the FS has to be run several hundred times manually. I'd like to have a wrapper FS that runs this assembly creation FS automatically.The assembly creation FS has a popup window that takes 3 parameters. Basically, the wrapper FS would read these parameters from an Excel/.csv file, insert them in the popup window, then go to a folder and select a graphic or graphics. After creating the assembly, the wrapper program would move the insertion point and run the assembly creation FS again, and so forth until the loop has completed.I have no knowledge of FS but I do have programming skills. Was wondering if this is feasible and if so, could someone point me to some examples that might assist me? Obviously, it would be bett

Friends, Romans, Countrymen, I wanted to create a list of commands with this (now stripped down) script:       // ListCommands2.jsx ====== UTF-8 ====================================== //@target framemaker var KLD_Z = KLD_Z || {}; // global script object KLD_Z.main = function () { // <><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><> $.bp(true); var j=0, line, cmd = app.FirstCommandInSession; while (cmd.ObjectValid()) { line = cmd.Name + "\t" + cmd.Label+ "\t" + cmd.Fcodes + "\t" + cmd.KeyboardShortcuts; // $.writeln (j, " ", line); j += 1; cmd = cmd.NextCommandInSession; } $.writeln ("Finito ", j-1, " ", line); } //--- end main ------------------------------------------------------- KLD_Z.main ();       In ESTK the script run for a while - visually not recognisable, because the initial b

Hello fellows,I'd like to write a script that will find broken external xrefs and attempt to restore them.  In my case, the xrefs get broken because the xref markers appearing in the source files are often updated by a system that generates these source files. I'd like to restore the xrefs by retrieving the xref string and attempting to find this string in the source files. But here is a problem: when an xref is broken, it no longer allows to retrieve XRefSrcText properly. The xref string no longer appears in XRefSrcText. I used the following code to test that:Set vCurrentDoc = ActiveDoc;Set vXRef = vCurrentDoc.FirstXRefInDoc;Loop While(vXRef)If vXRef.XRefIsUnresolvedWrite Console  vXRef.XRefSrcText;EndIfSet vXRef = vXRef.NextXRefInDoc;EndLoopSo, the XRefSrcText of an unresolved xref appears as follows:25117: TableTitleTable Entry: ;2511718;2511719While the XRefSrcText  of a live xref  appears as follows:41369: TableTitle: Table 329: Item NumberingWhat I would need

I am looking to convert some long FrameMaker tables to SVG. I don't have any SVG experience yet and am looking for pointers to existing tools, etc. Thanks.

When trying to open old pdf files in FrameMaker - the thumbnail fields are empty.

 I have DITA files that use PDF files as graphic objects. The first one is fine, the second one gets scaled down to about half its size, the third one to about 3%. I have no idea what is causing this but it looks like some internal variable that is not being reinitialised with every new PDF import.But in any case, I would expect the height and width attributes to be used. It seems that scale is overriding these and when scale is not defined something crazy starts happening. When I manually change the height and width, the same crazy scaling reappears after saving and reopening the file. Only when I set the scaling to the correct percentage are graphic sizes kept when saving and reopening the DITA file. Does anyone else have similar experiences with using PDFs as graphic files in DITA ? Is there something I am missing here?

Earlier i use to open any book with some Framemaker files and do pagination. Now i have coded to paginate in a batch.  my code loops through and opens up books one by one from a folder structure and does Pagination. However i get "Insufficient memory to open the dialog box, close one or more windows and try again".I cleared my Temp folder in local and also coded to close the book after pagination.Kindly provide some Suggestions. Thanks in advance. 

I incorpoated a .ai cover photo into my framemaker document. I tryed to save the .ai file as pdf and import the pdf directly into framemaker. as well as copy and pasting the pdf into a new document and resaving the .ai file. 3-4 of the clickable buttons do not work. a large portion or all of the buttons are not clickable when the document is saved as a pdf. Everything from the maintenance pushbutton adn below do not function as designed. i cannot come up with a different work around for the issue. This is a non-structured document.

As described in my previous post https://community.adobe.com/t5/framemaker-discussions/navigation-panel-problem-responsible-html5/td-p/12769011, I have created an additional "Heading 1 new html page", to add the choice to have a new html page for each such heading. This paragraph style is a copy of the old Heading 1. For the TOC I have created a copy of Heading 1TOC, called Heading 1 new html pageTOC. This works fine when I publish as Responsible HTML5. But I also publish pdf. The TOC looks a bit odd - in at least 3 ways. 1) The new Heading1 new html page entries have the correct font, size etc, but the page number isn't right justifed (as for the regular Heading 1.) There seems to be a missing <tab>. (If I enter it manually in the TOC, it looks fine until the next update, when the tab's are lost.) 2) The TOC indentation is messed up. All Heading 2TOC entries in a chapter having the new Heading1 new html page have been moved to the left.   3) A

I have a Framemaker file containing all my text insets, each text is in its own text frame with a text flow name. All in one page, in one file and with different flow names. No problems using the insets. But, on the second text inset file page, there are empty text frames with the same flow names, all in the same order and all have order, sizes and locations of the original frames. Sometimes there might be more than 2 pages with empty text flow frames (idential pages with empty frames). I have no idea why they keep on appreading, nor I have succeeded to delete them. I can delete the extra frames but they keep on apperaring again while opening this inset file again. Luckily, this seems to not harm my book writing, but I am wondering if this causes some problems at background. I use the latest updated FrameMaker in unstructured mode. MIF wash did not help. I see increased stability problems after the last FM software update. What is going on here? How to fix this?

At work we currently are using Framemaker 11 (I know) and Framescript 6. We have been talking about finally upgrading to the newest version of both programs, but we have some concerns. We have several framescripts that we use daily when we make our manuals and they have been working perfectly for years. We are concerned that the switch will cause issues with the functionality of our scripts. Has anyone experienced issues with older framescripts no longer working correctly when upgrading? 

Greetings, I've spend waaaaayy to much time trying to open two old .FM documents.  I don't know if they are FileMaker or FrameMaker.    I've downloaded free trials but still stumped.  If you can open it and provide PDFs I will pay $25 via Paypal.  I prefer to work through private message or email not post it on here. Thank you for you time,S

Dear all, Digging through the FDK documentation and a list of commands generted from the app object, I come across terms that are not explained anywhere. What is/are: Key Catalog commands ThemeLoad, ThemeSave ("theme" does not exist in FDK reference) commands ShowNextKit, ShowPrevKit (there are "rmkits" connected to DITA, but kit?) command WinSlavics (has same ESC sequence with ShowNextKit and ShowPrevKit) Any enlightment possible?

Dear Friends and Gurus, I want to understand this business with the called clients. Success with ApplyMasterPages and BookErrorLog, but no success with the Structure Generator. The following script runs without error, but where is the generated table document? /* E:\_DDDprojects\FM-JsxLib\FMjsxLib\Functions\Demos\GenerateConversionTable.jsx Test/Demo for Generate Conversion Table History 2022-02-15 */ ; // ======================================================================== //@target framemaker var KLD_Z = KLD_Z || {}; // global script object //@include ..\Message.jsx KLD_Z.GenerateConversionTable = function (oDoc) { // ========================== /* Generate a conversion table to convert document to structed document Arguments oDoc Document for which to generate the table Return false in case of error, else true; Comment See also function UpdateConversionTable Reference FDK Programmer's Ref

I asked this a couple of years back and was curious as to know if this can (will) be added to potential future versions of FrameMaker?ex: 1-001 to 1-025, 2-001 to 2-370, 3-001 to 3-500, 4-001... etc.[where the first value is the section (or chapter) and the 3 remaining digits represent a counter of files in that section] 

When I use FM2019 to generate Responsible HTML5, I usually have one html page per chapter (.fm file.) But a couple of the html pages become far too big, so I have decided to break them into several html pages. I made a copy of a heading paragraph style, which I use to control if a heading should be on a new html page. This works pretty fine, I get several html pages when used in one of these big chapters.   But one thing troubles me, the navigation panel doesn't look the way I want to.   If I have this "new html page" paragraph style for all headings in a chapter, it looks like: I.e each heading gets its own entry in the navigation panel - not what I want.   However, if I replace the last instance of the "new html page" paragraph style with the regular (no new html page) heading paragraph style, the navigation panel suddenly looks the way I want it:     Where I can click the Chapter title to expand and list the contents:     How can I keep this beh

Hello!I faced with a problem and tried many variants, but nothing works. I hope you'll help me.Our colleagues from Germany sent me a folder with .mif content and reference images (EPS-format) and I should change the content. When I open the book in Framemaker, the file cannot find the path to the folder with images and I manually indicate the path to each image.Then the following message appears: "Cannot display imported graphics. The images will appear as grey boxes". WHY?I tried many variants to solve this problem, but the result is the same.Maybe someone faced with the similar problem? Thank you ahead of time for your support! 

I'm looking to findout what causes this and how can i mitigate such errors. Any Ideas? I'm not the only one with this problem... 

Is it possible to autonumber headings in the format <Text><AutoNumber><Text>, e.g. Step 12: Issue Notices.I know Autonumbering can be used, but that only allow for the number to be prefix, e.g. 12. Issue Notices and that I can set up the Autonumbering to include 'Step', however, the heading may not be Step #, it could be Appendix # instead. Creating different Heading elements is not ideal. I could use Attributes. (I find it annoying that there isn't an option to surpress the prompt to optional Attributes and only show the prompt for required Attributes. Not to mention that you can't set a default attribute value for text-type Attributes. But that's just my opinion.)Is there a way to set up the Autonumbering to insert the number at a specific position, rather than first?