FrameMaker 12 will oftentimes copy only plain text
Hello everybody,
I am working with FrameMaker (not structured) as a daily driver for close to 20 years since FM6 on Windows NT, right now on FM12 and Win10Pro in a corporate environment (everything is managed by IT, patches, licenses, updates etc).
After getting a new hard drive and having most of my software reinstalled I ran into a strange problem.
If I copy a paragraph or part of a paragraph or a table row or a cross reference etc, and then paste it in the same document even on the same page to a new paragraph, there is a 50% chance of getting unformatted text as a result, much as you would paste it as text or as unicode.
Going back and repeating the copy process and paste it again - again 50% chance of it working or pasting as plain text. Same if I cut something and try pasting it.
This behaviour is the same as follows:
- Regardless of selection, e.g. double click or mark with mouse (end to end),
- regardless if copied and pasted via keyboard shortcut or context menu or FM
- regardless if the paragraph marker is copied as well,
- Regardless if I just et the marker in a paragraph before pasting, or mark the paragraph before pasting to replace it,
- regardless of the document (I tried with several copies which worked fine before),
- regardless of the keyboard (tried with USB keyboard and notebook keyboard),
- regardless of PC and installed software (same on my local machine and on an virtual machine I have available for testing,
- regardless if the file lives on a network share or on my local computer /virtual machine
No framescript installed. No extend scripts loaded. No custom extensions. I even did a fresh FrameMaker install on both machines as local administrator.
The virtual machine has a standard corporate office environment (including group policies, malware scanner, backup software etc) and only FrameMaker 12 and FM 2019 (for testing) added to it. It is still the original installation, no updates, 12.0.0.329 while the FM12 installation on my local machine is 12.0.4.445.
The local machine and virtual machine both had FM installed to C:\Program Files (x86)\Adobe\AdobeFrameMaker12 so I assume they were both the 32-bit version. On the virtual machine I tried installing the 64-bit version instead (at least it installs to C:\Program Files\Adobe\AdobeFrameMaker12) and got the following errors:
-------------------------------------- Summary --------------------------------------
- 0 fatal error(s), 2 error(s)
----------- Payload: MSXML 4.0 SP2 4.0.0.0 {82A867E9-52D6-4f0d-B5F1-D96965B1D3B3} -----------
ERROR: DW071:
ERROR: DW003: Third party payload installer msxml4-KB973688-enu.exe failed with exit code: 1603
-------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Not sure what to make of that ...
The more interesting thing:
When I copy a table row, then mark another table row and try pasting it there (replacing the selection) and it does not paste correctly, the error message says "No table cells on the clipboard":
Going further, if I copy an element then use the "Paste Special" command, it either shows a full selection of options if copy was successful, or shows only "Text" and "Unicode" as options if only text was copied.
So I think the copy functionality / clipboard is compromised. But why?
Maybe a Windows Update issue?
Any help appreciated.
Best Regards, Andreas
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