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I have a client that has a bunch of IDU files, which I understand are Interleaf documents. They are looking for someone that can convert them to PDF. Please contact me if you are interested in doing this and I will connect you with the client. Thank you.

Hello, I have a Word file made from a conversion : Word has converted a PDF file in text. I have done this :1) I copy a one page text from Word.2) In FM I do "special paste" + I select "text"  :  3) in FM I do File / Save as PDF. Problem : the saved PDF has 600 KB file size. Why is it so big for a single page of text ?

I set up right-hand and left-hand custom master pages for my document and added them to the UnstructMasterPageMaps reference table as the right-handed and left-handed page for when the relevant paragraph tag is used.  Then I saved, applied the master pages, and hoped for the best... Well, the master pages don't appear to be applying as-intended.  While the apply function did update on my first test page (a left-hand page), typing to the end of the page and carrying over adds a new standard Right page and then one of my custom left-hand pages to continue the text flow, rather than continuing the text flow on the right-hand custom page I entered in the reference table.  Both text frames in my custom master pages have tag "B" and autoconnect checked. If I force it to have a left-hand custom page and start typing on that, the text overflow on that will start a new left-hand version of the custom page rather than a right-hand one to follow. The pagination of th

Our corporate style guide specifies the Roboto font, which is a variable font. Are there any near-term plans for FrameMaker to support variable fonts?

 I used a registered character in superscript in my headings, but the TOC and Running H/F are not recognizing it. Please suggest solution. 

Hello,Can anyone help me please?I create my technical document in FrameMaker, and the team gives me their documents in Microsoft word.  The word document as text and equations and once brought into FrameMaker, the equations are not displayed nicely in order to use the FrameMaker Equation palette.  Can you let me know how can the Microsoft word document come through into FrameMaker with not a lot of errors, as my team does not like to reproof, once I format the word document presentably in FrameMaker?How the above makes sense.  Thank you.

How do I add/remove the black frame which is outside the Anchored frame?Many thanks!

I'm converting DITA XML bookmaps into Structured FrameMaker books. At this point it is easier for me to use the FrameMaker EDD and Paragraph Designer to produce the desired format in PDF and not use another DITA-OT method. My douments periodically include published changes (CHG1, CHG2 ...). I have generated the change bars for the desired elements that appear on the page as well as their citing in a auto generated TOC, LOT and LOF. When the changes appear on the page I have also been able to automatically update the document master page headers on pages that include the paragraphs with change bars using the Reference Page. All using present FrameMaker features (FrameMaker 2022, v17.0.4) Can anyone share how to also automatically change the TOC, LOF and LOT master pages depending on a changed title element? Without a custom script. Thanks,Bruce Sanchez

Hi, I have a TextLoc problem. Sorry, when this is to basic for some of you. I have a paragraph with text. My script does this: 1 Applies a condition to this text. 2 Adds new text after this text. 3 Then applies another condition to the new text. I do not know, how I can remember the offset of the TextLoc at the end of the text after step 1. I use Constants.FV_OBJ_END_OFFSET-1 for this TextLoc. However, when I add the text, the offset is still at the end of the paragraph and not at the end of the first text. When I store the offset in another variable, it's always at the end of this paragraph. Is there another way to to count the offset? Or do I have to use TextItems with GetText and somehow calculate the single text items? This snippet illustrates what I mean. "789" should be inserted after "123". However, it is added at the end of the paragraph. #target framemaker "use strict"; #strict on var loDoc, loPgf, loTLoc, loTLocStartOffset; loDoc = app.ActiveDoc; if (!loDoc.ObjectValid ())

I have any "see" or "see also" occurrences in my index markers set to italic format.Using one HTML5 layout (Theme1_standard), this is simply ignored in the HTML5 output. This is not great, but I can live with it.Using another HTML5 layout (Charcoal_Grey), the format tags are displayed in the HTML5 output, which is awful. See attached screenshot for a comparison of the two outputs.There doesn't seem to be a way to tweak this in the Publish Ssettings, especially since the paragraph formats used in the index file (the standard Level1IX and Level2IX) aren't listed on the Style Mapping tab of the Publish Settings dialog, so I can't manipulate them at all.If I manually remove the italic formatting from my index markers in the source files, the HTML5 output looks better but my PDF output suffers. Anyone know a workaround for this?

I'm trying to save my work as a PDF file but keep getting an error message: "FrameMaker could not find the Adobe PDF printer instance, which must be installed to execute the 'Save as PDF' command."I’ve tried repairing Adobe Acrobat, manually adding the Adobe PDF printer (which does not show up when adding), and reinstalling both FrameMaker and Adobe Acrobat, but nothing worked. I've tried many solutions, but I’m still unable to resolve the issue.Please assist.

Hi, I do not have much time to rewrite my FrameScript scripts in ExtendScripts, but I have to. I see that FrameScript will not be supported forever. In one of my scripts I have to remove conditions from a paragraph. It does not matter which conditions are there, and it does not matter, if not all of the paragraph has a condition.In Rick's FrameAutomation blog he suggests this to remove all conditions from the text: http://frameautomation.com/removing-conditions-from-text-and-table-rows-part-2/ #target framemaker var doc = app.ActiveDoc; var textRange = doc.TextSelection;var prop = doc.GetTextPropVal (textRange.beg, Constants.FP_InCond); // Remove all conditions from the text.prop.propVal.osval.length = 0; // Apply the updated list back to the text range.doc.SetTextPropVal (textRange, prop);   When I create a short dummy file and apply a condition to the second to last paragraph, select this paragraph and copy this snippet into ESTK and run it, I get the following:• The paragraph s

Hi, I have a script which should remove conditions from a table. This is based on Rick's blog post: http://frameautomation.com/removing-conditions-from-text-and-table-rows-part-2/   To test my attempt, create a document with a table, apply a condition (or several) to the table rows and place the insertion mark in the table. Here is my script attempt: #target framemaker "use strict"; #strict on var loDoc, loTbl, loTRange, loTblCell; loDoc = app.ActiveDoc; loTRange = loDoc.TextSelection; loPgf = loTRange.beg.obj; loTblCell = loPgf.InTextObj; loTbl = loTblCell.CellRow.RowTbl; RemoveCondFmtFromTbl (loTbl); function RemoveCondFmtFromTbl (foTbl) // From Rick Quatro. // http://frameautomation.com/removing-conditions-from-text-and-table-rows-part-2/ { var loRow, laArrayInCond; // Remove all conditions from the list and update the row. loRow = foTbl.FirstRowInTbl; while (loRow.ObjectValid()) { laArrayInCond = loRow.InCond; $.writeln (" laArrayInCond:

I have inherited a FrameMaker project that is missing some documentation. I am trying to understand how something was accomplished (so that I can modify it...). In our .DITAMAP files, we have <prodname> elements. Somehow, when our PDF is published the contents of the <prodname> element appear on the Title page of our PDF.  This is great, but I am trying to understand how that mapping occurs. Setup:FM2020 or FM2022 (works on both)We are using DITA 1.3.When I publish a PDF, we use a .STS file:on the DITA Options tab it has Apply Output Templates checked.On the DITA Template tab, I have previously imported from TitlePageTpl.fmWhen I open the TitlePageTpl.fm file, I can see a variable has been inserted in the exact location where the <prodname> contents magically appear in the PDF output (i.e. clearly this is somehow "inserting" the correct title":The Name of this variable is BM_ProdNameThe Definition of this variable is Product What I cannot see/figur

Hello,I would want to populate the book title page with ditamap metadata.variables can be uses in such a scenario but it is not documented. What I found so far:Metadata                                    Variable nameauthor                                          Authorprodinfo/prodname                     BM_ProdNameprodinfo/vrmlist/vrm/@version  BM_Vrm1 Have you complementary information about this Thanks in advancePhilippe 

Is there a way to flag a list of words or phrases in FrameMaker automatically?  My company has legacy documents with terms and phrases no longer in use. The find and change function works but our list of terms and phrases is long and a way to automatically flag them or even replace them with the acceptable work or phrase would be much more helpful. 

How do I get spellcheck to highlight incorrectly spelled words with the red underline?  The auto spell check preference is on, all items to find are selected, and none are avoided. The spellcheck function works properly, if I click it, but it does not automatically underline the incorrect words. 

I'm using FM 2022 to rewrite our guides in DITA 1.3 compliance.So far I have made minor adjustment to paragraph style and save them in EDD file, and combined the EDD with a topic template - which keeps all of my specific formatting.I have began to create my first bookmap by "chapter/topicref" the contents.I published the book with 'save PDF via Book with components route' to get the best visual result, while generating TOC and everything else.My current problem is to limit TOC entries within the first two level headings, because my level 2 heading is practically just an intro title for the level 3 heading. This means both headings would have the same page number, and it's doubling the TOC length for no purpose.How do I exclude the 'steps' section from the TOC? I have tried to modify the TOCTpl.fm reference page, but all I have done was removing the trailing dots and page number - the section heading is still included.Some heading titles are also longer than the rest - i.e. page 2 and p

I'm on a FM 17 trial, and it seems the PDF Printer was never installed. Repairing installation/reinstalling doesn't fix the problem.  FM is the only trial product I have installed, and I don't have any other purchased Adobe products. 1. I can't print the documents to PDF.2. I can't print them to HTML5 either, mentioning something about JRE.

How to read contents from a structured FM document?I was trying to identify elements from a text inset and if the element is from a MIF file then want to read the element content.

Hi All, I want to experiment with specializing DITA in FrameMaker. For example, I want to have a data-rev element that is similar to the data element, but that I can convert to a FrameMaker marker. I do not know the correct process for specializing DITA. Can you recommend any books or concrete examples that I can follow? Thanks in advance.

I'm trying to publish to PDF and I get a message that the Adobe PDF printer instance is not installed. How can I solve this issue? 

Hi,I am new to Adobe Framemaker scripting. So could anyone help me with this,Consider that we have an FM document and this file imported some other FM/MIF files.When I am traversing through all the elements in the FM document, how can I identify the element is in the main file or in referenced file.Thanks in advance.

Hi there, Ref: Structured FrameMaker I was asked to put the ditamap name in the header of my published document (for an internal customer, this a work instruction name). I opened the structured output template ChapterOutputTpl_WI_0104.fm and renamed it to ChapterOutputTpl_WI_test.fm.I tried 2 approaches:Entered a variable <filename short>Entered a fixed number in the header that is the work instruction name and my ditamap nameMy ditamap is as shown below.When I published, I got the following headers:On the title page:    On the Caution page- why is not the layout on the title page,  I don’t know   On the Step_1_test file   On the Step_2_test file – why the layout is not as this for Step_1_test file and doesn’t have file name, I have not idea.   The fixed number shown as item 2 was shown everywhere.However, I would like to have the ditamap name in the header, so when I change the file name and the

Hello,In my FM document (master page), at the top, I have put a title, but after print, I have noticed that this title was cut by the printer.  In the FM master pages, how to make appear the printer zone limit, in order I could put my title below the printer zone limit (ie : inside the printer zone) ?