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FM 12.0.3 patch released

Forum|Forum|11 years ago
September 26, 2014
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A new patch (12.0.3) has been released for FM12. It is available for direct download at: http://www.adobe.com/support/downloads/detail.jsp?ftpID=5847

It is not yet available through Help > Updates in FM.

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David__D

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Are we to understand that the regression test spec for Frame 12.0.3 did not include anything so esoteric as "Can you still make a PDF without it going pear-shaped"? :/

craigede2

Participating Frequently

This upgrade, applied to my colleagues installation of FM12, has resulted in the disappearance of all body page elements appearing on even numbered pages in books she PDFs. Reinstalling FM12 and updating brings back working PDFs with 12.0.0 and the two updates (12.0.1 and 12.0.2). Installing the 12.0.3 update breaks the PDF rendering. The elements are there (you can click on the "blank" TOC and it jumps to the linked page, for instance. However, that page will be blank (except for master page elements) if it happens to use a right master page.

BEWARE!!!

Craig

craigede2

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Sorry, I meant odd numbered pages missing the visible representation on those pages. The even pages appear normally.

Craig

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fifelaura

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I cannot get this update to install.

I have tried all the suggestions on Error "Adobe Application Manager is needed" | CS5, CS5.5 but could not get the final one to work.

I type Setup.exe--mode=silent in the folder containing the application update but just get the error "Setup.exe is not recognised as an internal or external command, operable program or batch file"

I then asked our sys admin who made sure I was using DOS as admin and got me to enter AdobePatchInstall.exe in the folder containing the update. I did this, and got taken to the screen:

..which is the problem I was trying to solve....

Any ideas?

Arnis GubinsAuthor

Inspiring

Laura,

Did you try manually downloading the patch from the updates page (see first post for link) and just running the AdobePatchInstaller.exe after unzipping the download?

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fifelaura

Inspiring

Arnis, that worked for me now. Thanks very much.

And I have no subsequent PDF blank pages either. :-)

Thanks

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David__D

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I installed it this morning. The Adobe Update Manager crashed at 97% completion.

Then I clicked OK and it said it had been successful.

Quality software

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David__D

Known Participant

Good grief, they've finally enabled moving through table cells with the arrow keys! Astounding.

And you can resize the tiny cross-reference dialog. Hurrah!

Re: some of the bug fixes: I think the one about crashes when you had a 'corrupted colour definition' may have been mine, so nice to see that fixed.

I wonder if this one is anything to do with all the grief I've had with colours in Frame not looking the same in CHM output? We'll soon see, I guess...

" In the output, a character style defined in a FrameMaker document is defined in theCSS inline style attribute as well as the CSS class attribute. The inline style attribute then overrides the class attribute."

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David__D

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Hmmm, well I just regenerated a CHM, and some of the mysterious instances of cross-references not retaining their formatting appeared to have gone away. I'd cautiously accept this as a fix!

Arnis GubinsAuthor

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For the 17 enhancements and 28 fixes see the readme file at: Adobe FrameMaker 12.0.3 ReadMe.pdf

Arnis GubinsAuthor

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There's a blog post about the patch at: FrameMaker 12 Update released (FM 12.0.3) « TechComm Central by Adobe

There also has been a RoboHelp 11 patch issued. See: RoboHelp 11 update released (RH 11.0.3) « TechComm Central by Adobe

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David__D

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The fact that graphics from Reference Pages can now make it through the Publish command into CHM output is welcome..... although having just tried it there, I found the Publish engine's rasterization of them was so nasty that I got better results just sticking with my old workarounds!

E.g. I have boilerplate icons for "Warning", "Caution", "Note" etc - for my print/PDF manuals, I have vectorized PDF graphics of these on the documents' reference pages, so I can pull them in to the document text using paragraph/table formats... whereas on my online help, previously I just had to just manually position a PNG of the correct resolution where I wanted an icon.

When I tried making a CHM just then, the Publish engine invokes Distiller to make a nasty, overly compressed, low DPI JPEG of the vector PDF graphic on the reference page. It's not even the same *size* as it was in its anchored frame on the body page.

There doesn't seem to be any way in the Frame GUI to change which Distiller settings are used by the Publish command?

Another tiny point: any graphic on a body page is given a tooltip in CHM output (by default, its filename... you can specify one in via the anchored frame's properties) - however, when a graphic is taken from a reference page, it doesn't get a tooltip?

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