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On 1/29/2021 I entered a bug about 2 default conditional tags (which cannot be removed) in FrameMaker 2020:FM_PDF_Comments_HighlightFM_PDF_Comments_UnderlineWhere I work we heavily use conditional tags and having 2 that cannot be removed is not acceptable (which is why we have remained on FM 2019). I have posted about this roughly 5 to 6 months ago where I was told it would be in the next release, but my bug is still listed with a status of Open.The bug has 18 votes from other users who also want this fixed. How many people have to vote for this before this gets fixed?If others would like to vote for this, go to Adobe's tracker at:https://tracker.adobe.com/and look for bug 9622thank you for those who have voted

Hello everyone,i have a problem when i print cropmarked PDF it came out with most of  Registration marks but not the cropmarks (the lines), it appears when i print through "Publish" or "Save as PDF", but the thing is these methods makes my file corrpted (fonts and colors,....), so the only way i have is through "Print" and choose "Western" and fix the page size so the cropmaks would appears like the image below: is there any solution for this issue? 

I'm working on a project for which the files have to stay on my company's server. When I try to save a FM (2020) file as .rtf, Framemaker quits responding and I have to force quit. It seems to start creating the the rtf file but that file won't open (error says it may be corrupt). Are there certain approaches I need to be taking when working in FM on a network server, and/or can someone help me with the words I'll need to get help from company tech support, who will know nothing about Framemaker itself. Thanks!

Hi,I am publishing a book that has multiple chapters grouped in seperate folders. When I publish the book, the bookmark does not include the Folder Name and thus all chapters come in continuation withoud grouping. Is there a way to include the folder names in the bookmarks?

Hi All,Update 4 of FrameMaker Summer 2020 (Version 16.0.4.1062) release is now live.Now with Update 4 of FrameMaker 2020, FDK will be shared as a ZIP file. You can download and unzip the file to get started. This new process solves the issue of the existing version of FDK folder getting overwritten when a new version of the FDK is installed.Please find the release notes and other relevant documentation below.FrameMaker Downloadshttps://helpx.adobe.com/framemaker/kb/framemaker-downloads.htmlUser Guidehttps://help.adobe.com/en_US/framemaker/using/index.htmlhttps://help.adobe.com/en_US/framemaker/using/framemaker_help.pdfFixed Issueshttps://helpx.adobe.com/framemaker/kb/fixed-issues.htmlFDK Guidehttps://help.adobe.com/en_US/framemaker/pdfs/fdkinstallguide.pdfPlease let us know if you have any questions.ThanksFrameMaker Team

Are there release notes or a compatibility matrix that indicates which versions of ESTK are compatible with versions of FM? Specifically, will the "AdobeExtendScriptToolkit_4_LS22.exe" version interface with FM 11 or FM 14? The version I have installed hangs after processing a large number of paragraphs. I'm hoping a newer version fixes the problem.

I have a large book with some spare parts lists. I want to print each FM file as a separate pdf, and can do that using the Print Selected Feature. I would like, however, to override the naming prompt and just have FM print the files with the name it has chosen anyway.Is that possible?/Bjørn

Hi, I am using AEM and FMPS. I am specifying a ditaval file in AEM. I need to postprocess the FrameMaker book with ExtendScript and I need to know which ditaval file was specified in AEM. Any ideas on where I can grab this information? Perhaps from a log or registry entry, etc. Thanks in advance.

Hi guys, Do you know possible reasons for this paragraph, which has the exact same configuration of the others, to appear like it?  

Hello Folks, So! I'm going through a challenge! I have a TOC for each chapter and more than 10 chapter. I would like that all TOC pages have the pagination number has: Chapter.TOC.PageTOCNumber and the chapter have Chapter.PageNumber both starting in page 1. Any suggestion?

HelloWe have purchased an older version of framemaker in our organization. Due to a machine issue I had to start from scratch and I installed Framemaker 2015. But I dont have the serial number currently. Is it possible to look up for my serial number through my organization account? (TIBCO)Thanks.

Hello,My client has asked for a couple of impossible things. The one I haven't explored except superficially (yesterday).My client wants to exclude the chapter numbering for specific instances of 3rd level titles.I have my own opinion, but my job is to give the client what they want (or have a very good explanation of why I can't).I thought of using a variable in the title element to indicate instances that do not get numbered. I muddled about with the EDD without success (in fact I managed at one point to remove all content from the PDF output).Does anyone have suggestions for how I could do this?FrameMaker 16.0.3DITA 1.3

In a DITA task, whenever I add a <fig> element with a <title> to a step via an <info> element, FrameMaker assigns the step.info.begin paragrah format to <title>. In order for FrameMaker to assign the the figure.title paragraph format (which has numbering) to <title>, I need to add a <p> above <fig>.  This also affect the PDF output. Is there anyway I can get the numbering to appear without adding an empty <p> tag before <fig> or editing the EDD?   

Dear all,Our site currently uses FrameMaker 12, and we're looking at updating to FrameMaker 16 (2020); I'll call it FM2020 for brevity.We have a number of dependencies for the project to succeed, and one of them is FrameScript. In order to use FrameScript in FM2020, I believe we'll need FrameScript 7.However, when I went to framescript.com, I got a [[403 Forbidden]] error. A web search gave an unfamiliar site framescr.com as the top match, so I had a look there. It's a strange mixture of secure and unsecure pages, for which I got warnings in the browser. They only accept checks or PayPal as payment. There's no evaluation version available. Does anyone have any thoughts on this, please?

I've been using WebWorks to take my user guide content from FrameMaker and convert it to HTML online help. Can I take FM content and use it directly in RoboHelp somehow, or is there a more elegant solution? I'd rather stick with the Tech Comm suite. Thanks.

I have a perpetual license of Framemaker 2017 and am looking to add a license. Is it possible to buy another 2017 seat? From what can see on the website I can only buy the latest (doesn't state the version). If I can't buy 2017 then can I at least work on and save as FM2017 format on the latest version of the tool?

Hi Adobe Support Community gals & guys, I have a problem with my index being published in HTML5 format but not in pdf output.I created an index in DITA and tested it publishing in HTML 5 and pdf. It appears as designed when published in HTML5 (see below):However, in the PDF output, I get only an empty index page (see below).I am using metadata and keywords elements in the prolog part:Or my my code is:<prolog><metadata><keywords><indexterm>help</indexterm></keywords></metadata></prolog> My test example is a simple ditamap file with 4 xml files containing metadata.I am running FM version 16.0.2.916 and using DITA / Structural FM. Tried testing also with the default.sts file and the result was the same (the empty index page). Maybe some update to the output template IndexTpl.fm should be done. When I opened in FM, it appears exactly as shown in the pdf output - an empty page with a title Index. Any

https://drive.google.com/file/d/1eGGKl6IUtjYvTEckgVlV9zlMkZ_phSJ6/view?usp=sharing https://drive.google.com/file/d/1ulCXuFVchemSYAuZZAnGdpQRl5jWsKT8/view?usp=sharing   We have also noted that if you have some data in the metadata field for copyright, this is inserted as text. This was not the case in earlier editions. And no option to turn this off, except to delete the metadata

I lost my serial number for Framemaker 2015. Is it possible to purchase a license?   See https://community.adobe.com/t5/framemaker-discussions/re-adobe-framemaker/td-p/12703663

In FrameMaker 2020, whenever I insert a PDF, EPS, or SVG image (created in Illustrator) with a transparent background, FrameMaker displays the background as white.However, it appears correctly in the PDF created from the FrameMaker file.EMF is the only format where FrameMaker recognizes the transparent background (I also tried PNG and TIFF).Is there a way to display imported PDFs correctly in FrameMaker, i.e., without the white background? Is this a setting somewhere?

Hi Everyone, This is my first time creating a script for FM and I'm having some trouble getting this to work. I have some index markers that have had a semicolon replaced with a colon, which is creating havoc in my Index file. I wanted to use an regex expression with a Find and Replace script to correct them. There are a great many of these to find and fix and doing it manually isn't too appealing (though if I have to, I will). My script, which has been stolen/cobbled from other posts here, seems to run (I get the message box showing X number of replacements made) but it doesn't actually perform the replace part (script below). I'm not sure it's performing the Find part either, come to think of it. Any help would be most appreciated!Thank you in advance,Megan #target framemakervar doc, marker, nextMarker, regex, regexRvar markersAdjusted = 0;// Set a variable for the active document.doc = app.ActiveDoc;// Make a regular expression for the text.regex = /:([A-Z0-9. ])/;regexR =

Hi  Guys I have  FrameMaker 2012 .I am printing a book.When  I converted the  Framemaker file to a PDF file to send to the  printers, the figures in the converted  version appeared in  RGB even thouhg  I actually  choose  the  colour  definition as CMYK.  My  printer needs to convert RGB to CMYK.  But the  vidid colous are almost  lost  when the  printer  converted  the file from RGB to CMYK.I have  too many  figures in the book to convert each figure to CMYK using photoshop. Cany any one  help please? regardsHussain

I just received a file from the mother ship. It looks like every page or two is a different file. I want to bring them all together into one file of several pages. I tried to copy and paste, which is driving me crazy. Can anyone tell me how to do this quick and easy?

The new version 2.6 of my javascript »Save-Incrementally.jsx« can be used in FrameMaker as well. See https://www.behance.net/gallery/133799381/Javascript-for-AI-PS-ID-Save-with-automatic-numberingor in German http://www.computergrafik-know-how.de/javascript-datei-mit-automatischer-nummerierung-speichern/ – j. 

Here is a link to a recent article that mentions FrameMaker and shows a screenshot of version 3.0.   https://blog.mozilla.org/en/internet-culture/why-are-hyperlinks-blue-revisited/