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Hi, all.I am outputting HTML Help from Framemaker 2015. When a numbered or bulleted item wraps to a second line in the FM file, the second line indents under the first correctly.In the .chm output file, the second line wraps to an indent point that is far to the right of the point where it should indent.Why aren't the indent settings carried into the .chm? How can I fix this?Thank you very much.

My computer (win7, 64) was just re-imaged. I reinstalled FrameMaker 12. I now have Acrobat DC (rather than X, which I'd used previously). I now can't Save as PDF. How do I fix this?

(Using Unstructured FM 11 in Windows 7.)I have 30 years of legacy FM files with conditional text reflecting 30 years of company growth. When there were a few differences between models, this was fine. But as things grew, more and more conditions grew. Each file is looking more like a file folder, instead of a stand-alone file; some files have no unconditional text in them other than the title. When I turn on "show all" and "show conditions indicator," I get a rainbow. There are approximately 40 various conditions in our main system now, such that updating them is a nightmare.I'm trying to get a good idea on some "best practices," so that any newly created manuals don't fall into this pattern. -- And perhaps I can figure a way to dismantle the still-live legacy documents.And, no, we are no where close to being able to move to structures XML. I looked into that already and can't justify the cost. It's just me and one 25-year (seniority, not age) colleague who doesn't want anything to cha

Fellow Forum Members,I am using FrameMaker 12 and need help with the included S1000D authoring tool. Mainly I need to know how I can prevent FrameMaker from using the default stylesheets located in the path below:C:\Program Files (x86)\Adobe\AdobeFrameMaker12\Structure\xml\S1000D\xsltAnd instead I need FrameMaker to utilize stylesheets and a BREX which I specify and which are provided to me by the Army in the link below: https://www.logsa.army.mil/mil40051/S1000D.cfmI would be tremendously grateful if a fellow Framer out there can visit the link above and click on the download link labeled, "View Army S1000D Stylesheets " and try mounting these Army stylesheets and BREX and let me know if they work or do not work in FrameMaker 12.  If they do indeed work in FrameMaker 12 where in the S1000D GUI do I have the ability to select a  MAIN.xsl file which contains links to all the other XSL stylesheets?  Any help will be greatly appreciated.  Thanks in advance.

I have a 3 column document. A large table that wraps into each column continuous flow. Tops of the table line up across columns. The bottom of the table lines do not they are different heights. Is there a setting to align the top and bottom baselines of the table?

I would like to open the "Cross-References" Pod, however, the only Pod available for selection is the Find/Change Pod.

This is making me crazy, and I know one of you super-experienced users will know the answer to my question.My company just purchased the Helvetica Neue and Helvetica Neue LT Pro font families. InDesign, Photoshop, and Illustrator (on Windows) all show the complete list of fonts.In InDesign, for Font Family you choose Helvetica Neue LT Pro, and in Font Style, there is one called 75 Bold.So far so good.In FrameMaker (and Word, and other Windows programs), there is no Helvetica Neue LT Pro font with the number 75. There is Helvetica Neue LT Pro 55 Roman, and Helvetica Neue LT Pro 65 Med, but no 75 or 85 (both of which I need).Now - I know that the FM user manual says that if you select a font in Frame (maybe it's 55 Roman) and apply bold or italic, it will pick the correct system/physical font to display/print. The problem is - I don't have any idea what that mapping is. Is 65 Med with bold applied actually 75??? I have no idea. (I'm recreating an InDesign template in FrameMaker, and it h

Can someone tell me how Adobe Tech Comm Suite 4 compares with Arbortext?-especially with regard to DITAThanks!

Hi, all.My FM template for PDF output has a text column and side heads. My H1, H2, and H3 are right-aligned within the side head, so they look something like this:                      HERE IS    Here is the text in the text column. blah blah bTHE GLORIOUS SIDE    blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah                    HEADING    blah blah blah blahblah blah blah blahblah                                        blah blah blah blahblah blah blah blahblahblah               &n

Anyone else able to get anything to work at Adobe DITA World 2016? Clicking the links to watch now and I only get a blank white bar across the top of my screen with a blue X on the right side. Tried MS Edge, MS Internet Explorer, Fire Fox and Chrome. Nothing work and no help links anywhere.

I keep getting Book errors about unavailable fonts (Simplified Arabic Fixed and Simplified Arabic Fixed Obliqued) in generated files (TOC, IX) even though these character formats have never been used in any of my FM files, are not used in Master pages or Reference pages, not found when searched for, and are affected by the Remember missing font names preference turned on or turned off. I've tried importing formats one-by-one, skipping import for some options, importing and wiping manual overrides. Sometimes the limited import works and sometimes it doesn't. This is FM 12.0.4 on Windows 10. Is this a known issue? Is there a workaround that's reliable?

I can't enter the Latin small n with long right hand leg (U+019E) ŋ in FM 9. The only response is a question mark. Help please? Thanks, Sandy

Using FrameMaker 11, when I create a .pdf file, the bookmarks are out of sequence.  Is there a way to confirm the sequence of bookmarks while still in FrameMaker, or is the only way to shuffle them around in Acrobat?

We produce large operation and maintenance manuals. We are reference based. We'd like to move to a CMS. What sessions during the DITA conference are for newbies and what sessions are advanced topics?

Dear all,For absolute addressing a table cell out of the current cell I need to know where I am.I have not found a proporty like CurrentRow or CellRowNum. CellRow is an object Row.// CellNumbering.jsx// have cursor in a table cell#target framemaker  oDoc  = app.ActiveDoc;  oTbl  = oDoc.SelectedTbl;  oPgf  = oDoc.TextSelection.beg.obj;    oCell = oPgf.InTextObj;   //jRow  = oCell.???;              // ???  jCol  = oCell.CellColNum;       // 0 ... n$.writeln (oTbl.TblNumCols);      // 4$.writeln (jCol);                 // 2Is it necessary to loop through all rows and cells to find the currentselection => current location found?

New to Framemaker and trying to teach myself.  Using FM10.I am working on designing my master pages.  I started with one of the sample templates and have figured out how to get images on there and alter some of the existing variables (e.g. font size for page numbers).  But I can't figure out how to adjust the "Chapter 1" variable.  I'd like to change it possibly to 'module' or just put a gigantic '1'.  I can't seem to select it, delete it or anything.  What am I missing?

I need equations to look crisp when I output to a Responsive HTML format. My equations look blurry from an initial import of a Word document. Then, I tried using MathFlow Structure Editor to paste in equations from a Word Document I created. How do I fix the resolution of my equations?

Hi,when I set a value for the outputclass attribute of topic elements, then FM does not preserve it when the topic is saved as an XML file. Do I need to adjust the r/w rule, what would need to be added?What I want to get is simply<topic id = "id123" outputclass = "abc">I have already tried adding lines such aselement "topic" {attribute "outputclass" is fm attribute "outputclass";}But evidently it is not that simple.Robert

I've been using a number of PNG files for some time with no issues and everything has been smooth. Now going back to these files, pages the previously opened very fast now take a very long time (a number of minutes, not seconds) to render the graphic. This also has slowed PDF creation of those pages to a crawl as well. I'm using Framemaker 10 on Windows 7. Has anyone else had this issue or discovered a fix to this problem?

I am working on a book and I need to be able to link to other pages and in some cases different sections of a document within the book. Every time I convert the book into HTML5 the formatting goes away and the links don't work. I have no idea how to fix this. Please help! Thanks!

Dear experts,My project steps further - but as soon as I have to deal with FM-objects I still struggle. The script should do this:In the document (http://www.daube.ch/zz_tests/Markers-and-variables.fm) there are markers of type #calc (which are all found and stored into an array.Some of them are immediately followed by a variable (called temporary variable, because the names are built by date/time).Before I insert the new variable, the old one should be found and removed.The problem is that I do not find the old variable and hence can not remove it, before the new one is inserted. The inserting is OK, but it occurs independently of existing variables.Line 49 always evaluates to false, even if there is a variable present.How can I find (at first hand) any variable (Later I will need to check whether it is really a temprary variable) ?#target framemaker// Required doc: Markers-and-variables.fm:  aVariables = ["#DOCname", "#TEST", "2016-09-27T10:28:46.060Z"];  goCurrentDoc =&nbs

Where does FM saves a temporary file?What does it mean by "an odd suffix"?

Framemaker 13. The default folder name is <mybookname>-Responsive HTML5. I want to control this. I don't see anything in the settings file.tia.

Hello all,Notice how the second line is justified all the way to the left.  Can I align this somehow so that is it justified with the previous line?Many thanksRegards,Ben

Hello all,I've recently stepped into a role where I will be doing the customer facing and technical documentation for our company.  I am by trade a Business Analyst and have up to this point always used Word and other MS Office tools to create documentation.  I have so far only had to modify existing FM documents and it has not bee too difficult.I would doubt there will be any training $ in the budget, so I am left to use resources such and this forum in order to learn.  This no doubt, will be challenging at times.Questions like:"Structured" vs. "unstructured"?Anything required when working on documents created using previous versions (I've v 12 and many if not all of our legacy documents were created in 9 or 10).More to come I'm sure.Many thanks in advance.