Questions

I got the classic book vs. file numbering error while updating a book. I checked the box to hide the messages for the rest of the update. I’d like to turn it back on. I could swear it used to be in Preferences > Global > Alerts, but can’t seem to find it. Does anyone know how to get to it?

FrameMaker 17 fails to install on two machines. When I run set-up.exe on a Dell laptop with Windows 11 Education, I get a message “You need to turn on User Account Control first”. I will talk to our IT support. When I run set-up.exe on a Macbook Pro with M4 chip, Tahoe 26.3.1 and Parallels 26.2.2 with Windows 11, I get a message “Installer is corrupt.” I read in posts from 2021 that FrameMaker doesn’t run on Apple chips, so this may be why? Someone suggested running set-up.exe silent=1 in cmd in admin mode. That didn’t help. Please help.

DITA and FrameMaker. We have two different layouts for same information. One template for one column layout and another one with two columns. Despite the template, tables should spread in all columns. One column template works fine.We have made a two column layout with same table style but spanned for both columns. The table is anchored in Body paragraph with format: one column. If I insert a new table, it will be formatted correctly to all columns. But if I open the converted DITA document, tables are in one column.I added a new paragraph format in template with ‘all columns’ layout and changed the edd to use that in table anchoring paragraph style. It does, but still the table does not span in all columns.What have I missed? Thank you in advance.

I am using an autonumber format that is not incrementing the n variable within the same file. The autonumber format is F : Figure <$chapnum>-<n+> \sn. The first instance numbers properly, to wit: Figure 2-1. A second instance of the paragraph style delivers Figure 2.1 again. It appears that the n value is not getting updated. I have made sure that the paragraph numbering property is set to “Continue numbering from Previous Paragraph in Book” and I have updated the book innumerable times.This is happening with all numbering series: F for Figures, T for Tables.Anybody got any ideas?Thanks in advance...Bill

My company gets PDFs that we have to insert into our manuals from an outside vendor.  These PDFs have hyperlinks in them that need to work in the final PDF.  We *thought* they were working in the output, but it was just Acrobat identifying URLs.  The PDFs are regulatory and are updated on a frequent basis, so trying to recreate them in Frame probably isn’t an option. Is there a way to save PDFs with the imported PDF links working?  I also tried converting to SVG, but no dice. Thanks.

I want to export a FrameMaker book as PDF (or some other format) and retain the names of all the embedded images. My company needs several user guides ultimately converted to Markdown for use in a custom LLM. Currently, the LLM returns text but skips over any and all images unless the image is specifically referenced in the text (see image below, etc.). Is there a way via a plugin or script to accomplish this?

Hello,I would like to create a character designer adding automatically “underline + quotation mark” to a selected text. How to do it ?

Hello,I would like to set the default quotation marks in FM to this type of quotation mark. How to set it in preferences ? or set it in a specific FM document ? 

Hello,I would like to create a character designer that could add a parenthesis at the begining and at the end of a selected text. How to do it ? 

Hello,In this example (at the blue lines), I have set 2 paragraphs styles (“Cantate début” and “Cantate”).You can notice that at the end of each paragraphs concernig “cantate début” and “cantate”, there is no dot. How to set “cantate début” and “cantate” in order to add a dot at the end of each paragraph ?  

Hi, I am new to Adobe framemaker & i have a set of word document which i want to convert it into framemaker document. After importing the word document, all my images are enlarged, different to that appeared in word format. How can i import both content & image without disturbing the image size. I have prepared a standard template but the problem is the image getting enlareged after import. Please help!

I am working in a FrameMaker (version 17) book and the lists in my text insets in one of the FM files unexpectedly changed from bullets to numerals:  I checked the source file that contains the text insets and the lists show bullets as expected:  The numbering in the two other FM files (Spanish and French) is correct.  Important things to note:I did not create this book, so the text insets were already there. The source file that contains the text insets is used across multiple FM projects and I checked other projects and the numbering is fine. When I select a text inset property in the impacted FM file, and go to Edit > Text Inset Properties > Settings, this is what I see: I’m sure I’m missing something obvious, but there has to be a way to revert the lists back to bullets without too much re-work. Thank you.

Hello,In this example, at the bottom, I have several bullets (see blue line) where I have not used some tab stops.Do you advise me to use tab stops in that case (for these bullets) ?  

Hi there,I have a big problem,I am trying to use Neural Filters on Photoshop, specifically smart portrait with eye direction but every time I do I get this error I attached. I tried log out and in, I tried unistall everything and reinstall, I also tried removing the Neural filter plugin data from the library. Still same problem. Please help because I really need it, fast.Alessandro

Hello,For this FM file (see screenshot), I have set the paragraph designer /Numbering like this : → “cantate début”  : <n=1>→ “cantate”  : <n+>→ “cantate fin” : <n+>So, for the “Cantate BWV 107” in the screenshot, the auto numbering goes from 1 to 7.Is it good to do it like this ? Have you some advises to give me ?   

Hi,For all who have similar needs and who might find this helpful. I know that you could also combine this in an ExtendScript script, but for now this is just a short hack.Usually I enter non-breaking spaces before units. However, sometimes there are regular spaces.And when I get translations back, the translators often ignore this as well. Therefore here a regular expression to find numbers with units with no or regular spaces. Of course you can adapt this to your needs.And do not forget to select Regular Expressions in the Find/Replace dialog.I closed all units with \b, although this is definitely not needed for all.Find:(\d) *(%\b|(°C)\b|(µm)\b|A\b|(Ah)\b|(bps)\b|(Byte)\b|(Bytes)\b|(cm)\b|(dB)\b|g\b|(GB)\b|(hours)\b|(Hz)\b|(Jahre)\b|(kA)\b|(kB)\b|(kbps)\b|(kg)\b|(kHz)\b|(km)\b|(kOhm)\b|(kV)\b|(kW)\b|(kΩ)\b|m\b|(mA)\b|(mAh)\b|(MB)\b|(MHz)\b|(Minuten)\b|(minutes)\b|(mm)\b|(mT)\b|(mTesla)\b|(mV)\b|(mW)\b|(MW)\b|(Ohm)\b|(Pixel)\b|(pixel)\b|s\b|(sec.)\b|(Sek.)\b|(Stunden)\b|V\b|W\b|(year

Twice in the last 3 or 4 weeks, my PDF print driver has been removed from my computer. First, is anyone else having this problem? Second, what’s causing it? Is this something my IT department is doing, or is this an Adobe problem? I’m running the repair app through Acrobat. It takes forever. 

Hello,I send you a video of my problem.In this FM file the first line contains a variable, and the second line contains normal text.In this FM file, at the second line, I have applied a character style (“Essai style”), and then I tried to change the font for “Essai style”, but when I “update style” in “Essai style” it says me that I have an override.I would like to understand what is the cause of this override.

FrameMaker v17. I can't seem to get the Runaround properties that I need to stop a gap on the left side of the page. 

I discovered that the text on the third page of my document is overset (extending beyond/behind my footer). I searched online and found and tried a number of suggested fixes (such as verifying that the text frame is the correct size, and the master page has Autoconnect set in the Text Frame), but the issue persists. I'm obviously missing something. I could start from scratch, but would prefer to understand the cause so that I can better avoid it next time.I would attach the file, but each time I try to attach it I get a message saying the portal doesn’t accept that file type (even though it is .fm). 

Working on a project in unstructured Framemaker. The client has a TOC in each chapter that lists each paragraph, but then below that TOC is basically another TOC listing each table.  It's been done this way for years and the guy who set it up this way passed a while ago, unfortunately. The problem being, however they were set up gives "Unresolved Text Inset" errors everytime you open the book.  There are nearly 100 chapters in the book and the Unresolved Text Inset generates pages of errors everytime you try to update the book. The easiest thing to do is replace all the TOCs with MTOCs, but the manual owner says the separation of paragraph and tables needs to stay.  As far as I know, there is no way to sort/group a TOC by tag. The other issue is that even if I can sort the MTOC, can you put a header above each group that says "Paragraphs" and "Tables"?  If there is another way to do this easily, I'm all ears as well. TIA.

I am editing som FM documents that were created in - I believe - FM 4 or 5. There is a lot of equations and they look allright. But not ALL of them. Some look like this: It looks like there is a missing font with the "?Plus Symbol?"... I don't have a lot of experience using the equation editor but the font palette does not show any missing fonts. What might be the issue here?  

Hi,At the right of my FrameMaker window I have about 20 panels, separated by a few separator lines. I want to insert a new separator line in this panel area. Does anyone how to to do this?When I right-click somewhere in this area, there is nothing.I could edit the workspace file (rather experimental), but I would prefer to do this in the FrameMaker window.c:\Users\xxx\AppData\Roaming\Adobe\FrameMaker\17\WorkSpaces\Structured\WYSIWYGView\xxx.fwsThere I have a *.fws and a *.cfws file, but I do not know the difference.Best regards, Winfried

I just updated to Frame's version 17.0.8.853 (the latest)..I'm outputting to Responsive HTML5.When I specify a term in search that returns instances of Heading1 and Heading2 that contain a comma, colon, pipe, those characters appear as their Hex equivalent. For example, the Heading1 paragraph style that reads "Log In | Change Password: Overview" on the page appears as "Log In | Change Password: Overview." Also related to Search, in some instances a result item includes the file name and its path. In this case, not only does the Header1 entry show Hex equivalents, that entry is followed by the containing file's name and path specification.  

I have xml files that I am opening in FrameMaker. My graphic element has a file attribute that imports the graphic. I would like to keep the file attribute visible in FrameMaker so I can see the path in the structure view. The file attribute doesn't appear in the structure view. Is there a Read/Write rule that will allow me to keep it on FrameMaker import?