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April 20, 2017
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Easy question, Why is Framemaker Structured Dropping the Image

  • April 20, 2017
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Hi again.  I'm getting it down, however in structured when, I click on the red graphic box to add my graphic.  Select the image, make sure copy into document is checked, select "fit in selected rectangle", click set. I look at everything "figure title, graphic, fm.graphic, fm.title, fm.titleref" , everything looks great.  I put in a cross-reference, everything looks great. 

So, I save and close, then reopen.  The graphic is missing, and error for unresolved cross-references come up.

Why won't it save the image?

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Ian Proudfoot
Legend
April 20, 2017

Hello,

Are you using the S1000D application? I'll answer this assuming that you are...

The problem is that you are copying the graphic file into the FrameMaker document. You should use Import by reference instead. There's a lot of XSLT processing going on in the background when you save the file. It expects to have a file name to work with. Without that the output fails. Do you you get any error messages when saving to XML?

Ian

SherryJAuthor
Participating Frequently
April 20, 2017

I've actually tried it both ways.  I changed it to "import by reference", and the same thing happens.  I close, then open, and the image is gone.

Ian Proudfoot
Legend
April 20, 2017

Can you show us the following please?

  1. The <!DOCTYPE... part of the saved XML
  2. Any <graphic> element's XML content.

Together they may may indicate where the problem is located.