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Dear friends, I know that anchors of any types add 1 to an offset and that element boundaries also add 1. But how about character formats? My experiments show, that they do not count, but in the problem discussed here, they obviously have an influence. I use the following script to check the selection or location:   var oDoc = app.ActiveDoc, begin, end, oTR; oTR = oDoc.TextSelection; begin = oTR.beg.offset; end = oTR.end.offset; $.writeln (begin, " ", end);   and have this situation (you see 3 character formats applied): Can somebody enlighten me?

We are planning to do some investigations into FrameMaker 2020 before upgrading from 2017. Can we have an instance of 2020 installed on the same machine as 2017 without conflict? Or would we need a dedicated machine/Virtual Machine?

Hi Community, I have a question. How do I insert an insertion point on the reference page? I am attaching the error as well as where I am attempting to place the insertion point. I need it to be place after the colon after the word "Note". Please see the Guided Discussion example where the insertion point and end paragraph are showing. This is what I am trying to achieve.Thank you,Edrice Angry

Hello, how do I make sure the pdf I've saved from FrameMaker opens up on the first page? It will open on the first page when I first save it to pdf but if I go back later on and open the pdf it can open on any page really. Is this based on which page is open when I close the pdf down?I've seen some older posts here where you can change a setting under Pdf Setup - Settings but I don't have that option. I have 2019 version.I've also found the setting in Adobe but it's set to open on page 1 so I assume I need to set this in FrameMaker?

Hi guys Is it possible to have the complete section number in a cross-reference?I have created a marker and I am using the format: ''See section “<$sectionnum> <$paratext> ” on page\ <$pagenum>.''However, it shows only the section number for the entire document and not the specific one where my marker is. For example I need "See section 3.2.6 Methods on page 6" and I am getting "See section 3 Methods on page 6". Thank you 😃 

I have three auto-generated paragraph styles for the Mini-TOC feature H1HeadingMTOCH1HeadingNoSplitMTOCH1HeadingNoTOCMTOC I want them to use the same style as an existing style: LTTopicList How can I update the first three formats with the format existing in LTTopicList – without manually writing down all format values and manually updating the other three, style by style and setting by setting.   

I need to create a table (Framemaker 19) but with angled headings. The angle would be around 45 degrees.  Rotate... in the Graphics menu allows only 90 degree increments.

When I add a hazardsymbol element to a hazardstatement in Framemaker, this is the result (symbol below):However, I want it to look like this, but I'd rather not use a table to achieve this formatting:Our template does not have side heads, which I think would make this easier.Does anyone have a suggestion how this can be handled or should I just use tables and forget about using the hazardsymbol element? 

Hello Guys, Is it normal to have this extra bottom space when table margins are set to zero?Currently, I am setting top margins to a greater value than the bottom so it gets centralized. I was wondering if there is a way to have them with the same space measures. Thank you,Daniela   

In trying to resolve the problems in What's wrong with this find-raplace script? I have discovered (FM-15, but also FM-16), that it is not possible to assign a character format to a string ending before the ¶ mark. This mark always also gets the character format: Have a word at the end of the paragraph: window¶ Select the word and apply the character format. What you want to see is window¶ But the paragraph mark also gets the character format: window¶ Hence searching for the character format brings up a very strange text range: When inspecting this text range, I see     oTR = [object TextRange] beg = [object TextLoc] obj = [object Pgf] → ID 520257540 offset = 7 end = [object TextLoc] obj = [object Pgf] → ID 520257542 offset = 0   I  have not found a method to find the real end of the thingy i want (it's not the current selection, it is the string with the searched character format). The following does not work:   #target framemaker main (

Hi,In my FDK client, I need to read an XML file and according to the user's actions, make some changes in the XML file. I wonder if is there any library which you used or you can suggest? I really had problem finding one which works compatible with FDK. Thank you in advance,Sanam

this should be pretty simpleI have a variable that needs both a superscript and a subscript next to it.like this I have tried the equation tool, it seems to have everything you can think of except this.the only thing I can think of is to use the graphics tool but that is way overkill for a short formula that really belongs inline text.any ideas?thanks

In Framemaker 2017 wird nach öffnen eines bestehenden Dokuments wird bei Warnhinweisen das Warnsymbol (Ausrufezeichen in Dreieck) nicht mehr dargestellt. Stattdessen wird ein Fragezeichen dargestellt. (siehe Anhang). Denke die Datei ist eine stukturierte / XML-Datei.Üblicherweise arbeite ich bisher nicht mit strukturierten / XML-Dateien, dort tritt der Fehler nicht auf. Wer kann mi weiter helfen ??

I am setting up a structured application to read a client's XML files. The root of their XML files specify a schema: xsi:schemaLocation. Is there a way to get the structured application to not try to load the schema when it opens the file?

FrameMaker 16.0.3.979; Windows 10 Enterprise 1909 (18363.1854) When I publish multiple books as PDFs, the hyperlinks from one book to another work as they always have. In other words, cross-references within one book that link to a heading in another book function as expected. When I publish these same books as Responsive HTML5, these cross-references from one book to another do not work. The cross-references from one place to another within the same book still work, though. Is there anything that I could be missing in the Publish settings?

Hello everyone, We have contacted Microtype.com to find out more about the add-on that creates fillable PDFs from FrameMaker (FrameMaker-to-Acrobat TimeSavers), but we haven`t received an answer yet. Do you happen to know if PDFs, created from FrameMaker TimeSavers, can be read and filled on Adobe Reader as well? We are wondering if Adobe Acrobat Pro would still be necessary...

We are a US-based company and write all service and operator manuals using Framemaker. We have distributors worldwide. What is the best way to translate these documents to other languages? any suggestions?

Hi, just trialling version 16.03.979 of FM publishing responsive html5. Text frames added to an image are shown as black rectangles in an svg in the generated  html5 but display fine in PDF output. Hoping can help with this problem. Thanks

My DITA specialization (based on parml) works fine in XML Documentation for AEM and in Adobe's web-based editor for AEM XML, but I cannot get FrameMaker 2020 to recognize it (to create output templates).I am following these instructions: Customizing DITA for Adobe FrameMaker.My .mod and .ent files are in the dtd folder. I have added the information to both concept.dtd and ditabase.dtd. In a new concept, I can add in the new elements directly into the raw/source view, but they are not listed in the Element list and they display as red in the Structure View.I am new to FrameMaker and have to be doing something simple and obvious wrong, but I can't figure it out. 

Dear all, Colleague Thomas Becker used some of my scripts from the collection FMjsxLib to do this: Find the text-range with a particular character format ("window" - red) At the end of this range insert a closing quote and format it with "sCharFmtQuote" At the beginning of this range insert an opening quote and also format it with "sCharFmtQuote" Advance the text location behind the closing quote and find the next occurrence of "window". Both the test document and the script are  here (reduced to the minimum by me): enclose_with_double_quotes.zip The main probem is here: var trFind = new TextRange(); trFind.beg.obj = trFind.end.obj = tr.beg.obj; trFind.beg.offset = tr.end.offset + sQuoteOpen.length + sQuoteClose.length; trFind.end.offset = trFind.beg.offset; $.bp(true); tr = oDoc.Find(trFind.beg, findParams); At he break point the variables have the status as shown to the left and after executing the next statement (find) the status depicted on t he right: → A

Hello there,I'm having an issue with the checked out versions of files from my Sharepoint Repository.I can check out a file, no problem, and return the check out.However, I get the error "Cannot find the file named c:\>folder<\...\****.fm. Make sure that the file exists" when trying to edit a file:If I do the Checkout command, then Edit command, I simply get the error.If I do the Checkout and Edit command, in the working folder I can see the file be created then instantly removed. (In both instances, the file remains checked out.)This is happening on multiple machines. From what I can tell my Sharepoint permissions are fine. Any help is greatly appreciated.Cheers, Tom.

I've found out that the hypertext formatting of "Lists" are forcing us to use a single character style format for each row on the list (for each paragraph). Add hypertext commands to documents The "Define an active area for a paragraph" section on this page says that "Ensure that the same character format is applied to the entire paragraph.". What I understand from this statement is that a hypertext marker does only create the actual clickable link on the first character style in a paragraph. I'm changing the style of the "paranum" part of my list row reference definition to "emphasis" (bold) and the actual "paratext" parts back to "body" (normal). This cuses my list texts to only be clickable on the "paranum" parts and not on their "paratext" parts. My reference definitions are :<Emphasis><$paranum> <Body><$paratext> ⭾....<$pagenum>"Emphasis" is the character style for "bold" text and "Body" is the character style which changes it back to n

I am trying to build tables that act as objest so that I can insert them at will and not have to build it every time I need to insert one into  a document the attached image is what I am trying to acomplish. I tried creating an object or a reference frame but would really like to make a table so that cell 2 expands as the text is typed into the cell 

I'm trying to create a MiniTOC, but I failed with this code: var goDoc = app.ActiveDoc; var gaMiniTocPgfFmts = ["Title1","Title2"]; var oTextRange = goDoc.TextSelection; var oMTOCPgf = oTextRange.beg.obj var oCursor = new TextLoc(oMTOCPgf,0); var oMiniToc = goDoc.NewInlineComponentOfType(Constants.FV_MiniTOC,gaMiniTocPgfFmts,Constants.FP_InsertLinks,oCursor);FA_errno always is -1I did it manually with the same unstructured document and was successful. Has anyone managed to do that? The documentation is very poor or non-existent.

Color me crazy, but I can't figure out why my IOM is publishing in my LOEP each time I update the book. What might be causing this.  I imported known (good) LOEP formats, but I still get the IOM in the LOEP of the book.  I know there must be some kind of marker or something causing it.