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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/

Seit dem Update auf die ajtuelle Frame-Maker-Version haben in unserem Projekt Inhaltsverzeichniss un Indizees jegliches Format verloren.Der Versuch, Vorgabeseiten erneut zuzuweisen scheitert an der Fehlermeldung: "Die Tabelle mit den Vorgabeseiten ist leer".Beim Versuch, zumindest erts mal das Inhaltsverzeichniss neu einzurichen, scheitere ich bereits daraen, einen "Seperator" zwischen Absatztitel und Seitenzahl unterzubringen. Zumindest kann ich auf der Refernzseite keinen entsprechenden Eintrag findenZur besseren Erläuterung eine datein 20_0_0_2, da funktionierte noch alles uns dann die Datei nach dem Unpdate (20_1_0_1)

Hi There,I had a Framemaker document which was functioning well.Then I upgraded the FM to 16.0.3 and tried publishing PDFs but unfortunately it is crashing. 

Hi,I am using DITA 1.3 Concept to create a topic. There is a equation in it.I initially insert the equation in element <equation-block> using the FrameMaker equation pod. FrameMaker create an element <EQUATION> which is a invalid element. So I add an element definition <equation> in the EDD and allow it to be a child element of <equation-block>.The <equation> definition is:Element (Equation): equation Attribute list Name: id Unique ID Optional Name: class String Optional I also add a read/write rule for <equation>, like this:element "image" { is fm equation element "equation"; } When I save the concept topic with a equation, there always is a error message shown on the console:XML Write Messages… Cannot export graphic or equation contents. Check the element mapping and description. I have modified the read/write rules for several times, but this error message is always there.If I colse the topic and reoped it again,

When I publish a PDF book from a ditamap, the List of Figures and the List of Tables appear at the end of the book. I changed this entry in the ditafm-output.ini file: OutputFilesOrder=BookTitle|FrontMatter|TOC|Files|BackMatter|AppendixMatter|ListofFigures|ListofTables|Index to  OutputFilesOrder=BookTitle|FrontMatter|TOC|ListofFigures|ListofTables|Files|BackMatter|AppendixMatter|Index but this did not work. Does anyone have any suggestions?   

Hi everyone,I've recently completed a ~400pp book in InDesign; it had lots of varying content and I ran into some issues that (once again) caused some angst with design and development. I've tried searching around but haven't found the answers here (and the Framemaker online help brings up WAY too many answers...)So, here are a few things I'm hoping to find out about Framemaker: 1) How does it handle Styles in Book documents? ID only gives the option to synchronize to a single document, or import from an external document, but it must be done manually, and it's a one-way street. Ideally, there would be the equivalent of an external global CSS style sheet that a) allowed the user to modify it from within any document, and b) allowed the option to synchronize automatically, so changes in one Book file would immediately be applied to all files int the same Book document. Anything like global style sheet functionality in FM? How do you handle this? This was really one of my

I have a valid license for FrameMaker 2019. I want to apply Update 8. Whether I install inside FM via Help -> ...Updates or locally with the downloaded update file, the update proces fails with this error: Update requiredYour browser or operating system is no longer supported. You may need to install the latest updates to your operating system. Learn more The Learn More page takes me herehttps://helpx.adobe.com/x-productkb/global/update-operating-system-and-browser.html I tried every step in the document and I am still unable to apply the update. The past two hours, I installed IE 11, even though I updated to Edge and set IE requests to use Edge long ago. Applied every patch Microsoft had for my laptop (Windows 10 21H1), reset compatibility mode in IE and forced via policy then reran gepedit.msc /force, also set IE as the default browser for everything I do, added registry keys for FrameMaker as well as the standard Adobe products cited in the document link above. Reb

I'm running FrameMaker 2020 version 16.0.3.979. I have a *.png file that I created from Visio, and saved at 96 dpi. When I import it into Frame, and set the resolution to 96 dpi, the graphic is imported with the incorrect resolution and is around 1 in. square in size. According to the object properties, the graphic is 835 dpi. Only the frame is 96 dpi. What can I do to get the correct resolution and graphic size? Also, this is a recent problem. I don't recall having the problem before. Maybe I need a different way to reference graphics in the Frame file? Thanks!Cindy 

When importing images into our documents, the placement of the image depends on the context:Inline images - appearing on the same line as the text with the Anchoring Position set to At Insertion Point and the Distance from Baseline set to -3.7pt.Product images - appearing below the line of text with the Anchoring Position set to Below Current Line and the Alignment set to Center.These images can be varying sizes and resolutions. Currently, we have to manually apply the settings to the Anchored Frame after inserting the image.To insert any image, users insert an Image Element defined as:We prefer this method as it prompts for the image file and automatically places the image inside an Anchored Frame.We tried setting up an Element as follows:However, we found with this method, the user has insert the image into the Anchored Frame afterwards. We prefer to automate as much as possible for our content writers.We also find that if the image size is changed, and the option to fit the Anchored

Hi Everyone:   I had a question in an intro class today that I couldn't answer. 😬   What is the difference between Chapter Title Name and Filename (Short)? Both work on body pages and master pages. Both produce the filename with extension at the insertion point.   For example, if the file is saved as "formats.fm", both add formats.fm at the insertion point. What does Chapter Title Name do that Filename (Short) does not and bonus points if you remember when it showed up!   TIA,~Barb

Hi community,I am trying to set numbering format of footnotes in document. Manually I can do it with Format -> Document -> Numbering... Here is the script I have which is not working.var oBook = app.ActiveBook if (oBook.ObjectValid()) { var oBookComp = oBook.FirstComponentInBook; while (oBookComp.ObjectValid()) { oBookComp.TblFnNumStyle = Constants.FV_FN_NUM_ALPHA_LC; oBookComp.FnNumStyle = Constants.FV_FN_NUM_ALPHA_LC; oBookComp = oBookComp.NextBookComponentInDFSOrder; } } Thanks

Hello guys, Happy new year 🙂 We are testing FrameMaker along with Sharepoint Online. For some reason we cannot edit files from FrameMaker. What could be the reason ?  Thank you very much

When I select the "Save PDF via Book with components route" option in the Publish Settings window for a ditamap and include List of Figures and List of Tables in the book, both lists appear at the end of the PDF book. How do I get these lists to appear after the table of contents and before the first chapter? In other words, where is the book template that the Publish command uses?

Hi everyone,being a newbie in terms of scripting, I can't figure out how to change some scripts I found in this group in order to get help with a repetitive task – maybe someone can help.I often need to implement small changes in translated manuals in several languages and then save the books as single PDF (one for each language), but need also to bypass occasional error messages if single files are saved in a former Frame version.I created a book containing the single books (book in a book) for all languages and tried to use this script, but I didn't find the way to open files 'no questions' and the end result is a single PDF with all subordinate books together.Thanks in advance for any help.  ––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––#target framemaker;#strict on "use strict"; var doc;doc = app.ActiveDoc;     openBookFiles(book);  saveDoc (doc);doc.Close (true);  function openBookFiles(book) {    var doc, component, c

I posted two questions in the community, and receives several replies asking for more detailed information.But when I click the button Reply, the button vanishes and nothing happen afterwards. There is nowhere for me to input words to reply.I also read the same issues posted by others, but haven't find any solutions.https://community.adobe.com/t5/using-the-community-discussions/can-t-reply-to-a-post-anymore/m-p/10950059  I have used three browsers (Google Chrome, Microsoft Edge, and Sogou Browser). None of them works. Anyone knows how to solve this?

I am trying to convert the Sections of my Chapters in Framemaker 2017 into individual HTML files so that I can use those files in Robohelp. I was tasked with generating a new Help file using Robohelp and am super unfamiliar with the program, and I'm hoping instead of manually editting the changes into the preexisting Robohelp file, I can save the Sections of my Chapters into HTML and replace them in the current Robohelp file, which has all the correct formating.

I cannot figure out how to prevent the text from getting cut-off by the Text Frame. I'd also like to have the text centered vertically, but apprently (from reading other threads, here) that is not possible.

I need a script wiwh can import multi pages PDF. Please help !chris

I'm using FM2015 alone. I don't have RoboHelp. I also tried this under FM12 with similar results. I'm trying to use the Publish to Responsive HTML5 feature, but my TOC is not looking correct. I started with a new simple book with 1 document and 1 generated TOC. The main problem I have is that the resulting table of contents that appears in the left pane of the resulting html lists all my topics at 1 level, instead of an "outline" of the topics. For example, if have TOC levels for H1, H2, and H3. I expect to see something like:* H1 heading     * H2 heading          * H3 heading     * H2 headingInstead I get everything at the same level.In the "Style Mapping" settings I marked the heading paragraph styles as "split into topics based on this style". I also have a standard TOC generated with all the headings in there. Can I control the TOC that appears in the responsive HTML output? I'm using the "Azure_Bl

I customized the master pages in ChapterOutputTpl.fm (changed page size and text frame) and generated a PDF from my DITA book with the Publish command (after importing the customized ChapterOutputTpl.fm). The headers, footers, and main content of the PDF have the correct page layout; however, all of the tables extend into the (right) page margin. I have tried to resize the tables in the *.dita files, but they keep reverting to their default width when I reopen the file. I tried the solution in https://community.adobe.com/t5/framemaker-discussions/framemaker-dita-tables/m-p/10956885#M65232 but this did not work for me in FrameMaker 2020. Can anyone help me with this?