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I use FM 2019 to publish as pdf, responsive HTML5 and chm. My FM book consists of a number of FM files. Most of the files are just fine to have as one HTML page each, but a couple of them turn out too big as HTML. Can I somehow have just these big FM files split into many HTML files? (Typically I'd have one HTML page for each "Heading1" paragraph style.)  

When I publish to HTML5 Indigo output, the landing page TOC icons are picking up the names of the source FM TOC and document files instead of Heading 1:  Then if I select a landing page topic, the right aligned TOC shows the names of the TOC and source doc file as H1 and my heading 1s are sub-topics:I have no idea how to fix this, any advice would be greatly appreciated.-Bill 

Hi there! I am on FM 2020 structured XML, with FrameScript 7. In order to address an apparent bug, we need to explicitly set the FM workspace. (This is because, if the Structure View is open, running a script on our books always launches a popup asking to save structure.fm. I don't want to save structure.fm and am not even sure if that is a file that exists.  But this hangs the run.  So I want to set the workspace right at the start to one that does not have the Structure View open.). According to the FrameScript doc, the command is:Set ret = eUtl.SetWorkSpace{fm_workspace}; where ret is the return code, and fm_workspace is the name of the workspace. We have tried:Set ret = eUtl.SetWorkSpace{Struct_noStructureView}; Set wrkName = eUtl.GetWorkSpace{};or justSet FMWorkspace = eUtl.SetWorkSpace{Struct_noStructureView}; But we always get the error: "FrameScript: Run Error (Invalid Property) on command (SET) at Line (17) -- which always points to the 

Hi Folks, We have just upgraded to FM 2020 and hence to FrameScript 7.  I know that many users have migrated to ExtendScript from FrameScript, but that is not a task we want to take on now. We have a few questions regarding FrameScript -- I am wondering if there is a forum that has replaced the old Yahoo FrameScript group?  Or if there is an archive saved somewhere in the cloud of all those discussions? It was a treasure trove of info. If not, I will likely post a couple of specific questions here. Thanks much,Shelley

The default PDF output for nested DITA <title> elements in a ditamap is to number the top two titles in the hierarchy 1, and 1.1. The numbering is assigned via the title.0 and title.1 FrameMaker paragraph tags (which I assume are applied from the files in C:\Program Files\Adobe\Adobe FrameMaker 2020\Structure\xml\DITA\outputTemplates).  I would like to have 4 levels of section numbering, i.e.,1.1.11.1.11.1.1.1I added numbering to the title.2 and title.3 paragraph formats in the ditabase1.3.template.fm file and imported the file here:However, the numbering didn't show up in the PDF. What am I doing wrong? 

I want to sweep templates for almost 100 Books and each book contains 1000's of FM files. 

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Hi all,I tried to change the color in CellOverrideShading but I didn't get it.My attempts were the following:First I tried to get the index of the color property via GetPropIndex: var testProp = cell.CellOverrideShading.GetProps();var testPropIndex = GetPropIndex(testProp, Constants.FP_Color);But the result is "-4", so it seems that CellOverrideShading has no FP_Color property.Second: I tried to change the color via the PropVal object:     testProp[1].propVal.sval = 'Olive';When I print the properties to the Console the color name seems to be updated to 'Olive'for (var i=0; i <testProp.length; i++){            propText = propText + ' \n' + i + ': ' + testProp.propIdent.name + ' - ' + testProp.propIdent.num + ' - ' + testProp.propVal.sval;}1:  - 20 - Olive Then I assin the properties to the cell.cell.CellOverrideShading.SetProps(testProp);But the color in the Frame document remains unchanged. When I print

My table caption numbering is all correct except for 1 number. I am using 2 styles. Table Caption Start - T:table\ <n=1>: (so it doesn't start with zero) and then Table Caption - T:table\ <n>: The table caption after  number 4 is 6 instead of 5.I have checked the numbering at the file and book level and they matchI have auto-numbering on Let me know if you need more information

Working on a file that has disconnected pages part of the way through.  The TOC generates just as it should, however when saving the file to PDF, the bookmark for the disconnected pages appear before the chapter title does.What is happening:What I want to happen:Am I doing something wrong/is there an easy way to correct this issue?

I recently had to re-image my laptop and lost the roboto font I had installed previously. Yesterday I searched the forum and found this article: Solved: Embedding fonts used in a source Framemaker file i... - Adobe Support Community - 11929791 I followed the directions, but the fonts in my document don't appear to be roboto. They look more like arial. This is for my project that's a book. Another document I've created does seem to have roboto, but that isn't a book. Any help would be appreciated!Cindy 

Hi All, I am having a problem programmatically saving a structured book to PDF with ExtendScript. I can run the code below repeatably on an unstructured book. But when I run it on my structured book, it runs fine the first time, but the second time it gives me an error and locks up FrameMaker. Script Error : Error Message : Uncaught exception Script, Line# : C:\Users\rick\AppData\Roaming\Adobe\FrameMaker\15\WE-SaveActiveBookAsPdf.jsx, 22 I tried adding a try/catch block but it still fails without catching the error.   If you have a structured book and can test this on your machine, I would appreciate it. I am using FrameMaker 2019 15.8.979. Here is the code: #target framemaker; var book, name; book = app.ActiveBook; name = book.Name.replace (/[^\.]+$/, "pdf"); saveBookAsPdf (book, name); function saveBookAsPdf (book, name) { var params, returnParams, i; params = GetSaveDefaultParams (); returnParams = new PropVals (); i = GetPropIndex

When using "confirm", the text is displayed in the languagewhich is selected in the system setting:var Input = confirm("Header",1,"Message");But there is no way to translate the text by myself."$.locale" also doesn't work. Has anyone found a way to do this?

Hello, I have a modeless dialog (palette) that is open in FM. Is there a way to notify the dialog when the insertion point changes in the target document? Looping through all tables in doc, but need to refresh the dialog if the user skips a table and selects the next one or last one.Any help is greatly appreciated!

I am making a huge bunch of XLIFF files, but the xts file keeps corrupting on me. Right now I have made a backupversion of the original xts file which came with the installation of FrameMaker, but is there and option to create a brand new one like we do in the Publish panel?

Dear friends, I have finished the first version of a script to handle markers: FMmarkers. You can do several things which have been requested by users on this forum. See my website. The interface looks like this (If you feel it to be too crowded, please give hints for improvement).

Not sure if this question has been asked before. Is there a way to align the text to the bottom of a text frame, instead of the top.We have a text frame with legal disclaimers: (text masked for confidentiality reasons)There are certain clauses in the text that are shown/hidden depending on the context in which the disclaimer is used. Is it possible to have the text always align (for want of a better word) to the bottom of the text frame, rather than the top?

My company has just updated to Framemaker 2017 in order to generate HTML5-based CSH. This is the first time we are trying to implement context-sensitive help for our software.Our developers have taken a look at the HTML files I generated ("published") with Framemaker and say they cannot create a link to the markers because they are just listed as "CSH <number>" in the code. This number changes depending on the actual number of CSH markers before in the document.The infamous map file contains the Map ID and the Map number. But neither of them appear in the generated HTML file. How are the developers supposed to link my markers to the application when the HTML file does not contain any unique information about them?Can you explain in more detail what the map number does? Are we missing anything? Why do I use a unique Map ID in my markers when it does not appear anywhere in the HTML file? Why are there a Map ID, Map number AND this CSH number in the code?Thank you for your help.Best

Hi there.DITA 1.3We noticed that in existing topics, where a keyref to an image is defined, FrameMaker unsollicited adds an empty href attribute (href=""). FrameMaker itself doesn't seem to bother about it, but we process the XML using other tools as well and the processing breaks because of the empty href attributes. 1. why is this added?2. anything we can do to avoid FM adding empty href attributes? Thanks,Wim. 

We're currently using FM2019 (Structured) and are investigating upgrading to FM2020. I have seen from other community posts that users have had some issues with FM2020. Our documentation contains a lot of graphics (imported by reference), text inserts, cross-references, Variables, Conditional Text, Hypertext. We make use of a range of Master Pages. Our FM books contain anything from 4 to 20 FM documents, each varying in size from 2 pages to 100+ pages. What is everyone's experience in using FM2020, working with large documents containing graphics, etc? Are there any 'breaking' issues, features that no longer work as intended? Are there any advantages to upgrading? Is it worth upgrading? Much appreciated.Quintin

Hey,I spent all day fiddling with the trial version and watching YouTube videos.I got a good hang of inserts, cross references, references & master pages.Still not sure if FM is good for my use case, so I need some help:I'm creating 3 manuals for 3 productsI have:Baseline text, which is the same across all manuals~20-30 unique text blocks for EACH product I want to insert text blocks for product 1 inside the baseline text at the respective spotThen I only want to change the text blocks for product 2 + 3 - so I don't have to touch the baseline text at all any more. Do I:Create a master sheet with 20-30 inserts, also meaning 20-30 reference files?Create 20-30 paragraph styles from frames on the reference page? This is probably not a super special use case, so any tips welcome! 

This seems so elementary I feel foolish, but how do you get the bottom rule of a table header to repeat to subsequent pages? The top rule, side and column rules, and row rules repeat just fine, but the bottom rule never does. This means I have to go in and manually specify the top rule on the first row of every subsequent page. And when changes make the table re-flow, I have to manually re-do all the first row lines.I've tried highlighting and sepecifying a bottom rule on the header row(s). I've tried specifying it in the Table Designer (bottom rules for header rows are not specifcially mentioned anywhere). Am I missing something really obvious?Note: Just having rules on all rows isn't an option in this case.Thanks for your help.Jerry

We are moving from Framemaker 2019 to 2020. However, the JPG images in FM2020 output appear in a much lower quality compared to the FM2019 output. Further, the Image Settings are missing or very limited in FM2020 compared to FM2019. See the two settings dialogs below.  This is FM2020: (ver 16.0.3.979) This is FM2019: Where are these settings in FM2020? I would like to change the JPG Quality value. If there isn't a setting somewhere in the GUI, I was hoping there might be some other configuration settings I can make. Thanks! 

So far I've been working with unstructured FM templates. I'm using FM11. I plan to move to structured authoring. I downloaded DEVELOPING STRUCTURED APPLICATIONS WITH ADOBE® FRAMEMAKER® 9 from Adobe website and working on creating a basic structured template. I had already worked on an xml based authoring tools (not FM) in my previous company and I know how my structured template is going to work. Now my question is about the DITA tab in FM application. It looks like there already are templates for topics and concepts and there is also a map using which I can create a PDF of my documents. How does it differ from the structured template I am going to create? Please also suggest me of any online tutorials or training materials available on FM DITA at a beginner's level.

I am pretty sure I asked this before but I can't find the thread. I am using XSLT to transform XML to a FrameMaker table on import. I want a literal tab character at the end of the cells in one of the columns. Here is a snippet of my XSLT: When the file opens in FrameMaker, I don't get the tab character: If I substitute any other character for testing, it comes over. Any help will be appreciated.