FrameMaker

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/

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?