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Hi, I can't open the cross-reference panel...I updated the app to the 17.0.7 version, every time I try to click or create a new cross-reference I can't, it's not clickable and the classic panel doesn't open.  

I am publishing a book to HTML5. The text contains words which I want to have in glossary. I should be able to get a tooltip/popup etc on the glossary terms, but that does not happen in the published HTML5. The markup looks right - I do have the terms/definitions included in the glossary, but no visible indicator.  I have used all three skins with the same lack of results. So... does the feature work? If it works - how? FrameMaker  Version: 17.0.7.842  

Hi, I am working as a technical writer and we are now looking for a new tool, FM or ID.FM (FrameMaker) feels sooo old. I have been working with InDesign for years, but not FrameMaker. I know the most says it is the best for technical writers, but is i true now? Is´nt InDesign as good as FM today?  What can you do in FrameMaker that you dont can in InDesign?Is it possible to import and export FrameMaker documents in/fom InDesign? (This is needed because some of our customers and partners uses FrameMaker)  

Does anyone know how to change the .fm icons so that excluded files are more visually distinct from non-excluded ones? In the example below, both Chapter 7 files are excluded, but the difference is barely noticeable. If you're color-blind, you might not be able to tell at all. I'd really like to change the excluded icon to something more obvious (like an inverted icon) instead of relying on a barely-noticable color change. Note: I saw a reference to looking up .dll information on this issue, but that didn't help. If there's a more direct solution, please advise. Thanks in advance. 

I would like to make a standalone PDF of a list of markers that would be able to open to the correct page of the PDF of the content. Basically, I'd like to distribute a separate PDF of a list of markers so that internal team members can use it to navigate to specific markers I've coded within the user manual that would actually go out to customers. Any hints on if this is possible or how to make this work? Thanks for any feedback.

Currently, I convert .book and .fm to .xlf manually using Adobe FrameMaker (File → Translation → Export to XLIFF 1.2 → select export location).Can this process be automated via an API so it run without requiring Adobe FrameMaker to be installed? Is there any official API available for this?

Hi, I recently updated my Frame license to Version 17.0.4. 628 from an older version (I think I went from Frame 2020 (Version 16.x.x) to Frame 2022. I have a set of about 15 docs that I work on. Most of the documents are delivered as PDFs, but I have one large document that I generate Reponsive HTML5 output (using the Publish command). I turn that output over to our development team to add to a web-based product. The HTML5 output generates fine and I can open the index.html file and look at the content/images, click links, search, etc. It all seems to work just fine and I don't see any bad characters or errors in the content. However, when the development team tries to add it to the product to the build, the following error displays: A string was provided with characters that are not available in the specified database code page '1252'.I used the default Encoding (which I understand is UTF-8) from the Publish command. The development team tells me that is the correct set

In FrameMaker I have many cross references where the target destination is a Figure Caption. When I create a PDF, and view the PDF in Acrobat, when I click the link the full page containing the referenced caption is displayed. This is good in that it allows me to immediately see both the caption and the associated figure (my figure captions are all set to stay with the preceding paragraph). If I view the same PDF using Chrome or Edge, when I click the link it displays the referenced caption at the top of the window, so I have to scroll up further to see the associated figure. What I would like is either:a) all PDF pages appeared as discrete Full pages in Chrome and Edge, orb) you could scroll continuously through the pages (with the page breaks moving up the screen) but when you clicked a reference to a figure caption it would display the full page containing the target destination then allow you to resume scrolling continuously. This may be really basic, but if there's a FrameMak

FM 17.0.6.798 Our IT Department is moving all our corporate documents and files from network drives to SharePoint Online. I've not used SharePoint Online before as a respository for documents. From past experiences, I found OneDrive and DropBox causes issues with file locking when FM tries to write to the files, files getting corrupted during the synching process, to name a few. From the posts I've seen on these forums, it seems to be a bit of a hit-and-miss when it comes to success and reliability using SharePoint Online as a repository. (A collegue suggested we look at an alternative to FM if it doesn't play well with SharePoint Online. Why would you go from the industry standard to an inferior product?) Our FM manuals are also structed in such a way that the content for each manual isn't self-contained, as content/images/iconography is used across multiple manuals. I'm interested to know what people's experiences have been (good and bad) using SharePoint Online. 

Can anyone suggest a book, website, or course containing step-by-step tutorials that gradually building complexity, while teaching FrameMaker concepts? Thank you in advance!

For reference: We use FM 2022. We use "Print to PDF" to create our PDF's with a PDF printer. We do not print to postscript and distill to PDF. We do not use the "Save As PDF" option - have had issues with it locking up FM on large documents. We are in the process of getting the Adobe PDF Printer driver installed for all of our writers.We noticed some of our writers having issues with image quality in the PDF's - especially with text on imported .TIF files at high zoom levels.I tried to test with the various image quality settings in the Adobe PDF Printer Preferences and I couldn't tell much of a difference, either in quality or file size between Standard and say, High Quality Print, but another author saw a marked difference. Then I noticed that in the File>Publish>PDF settings, I was using High Quality Print.That leads to the following questions:Do the publisher settings take precedence over the printer preferences when printing to the Adobe PDF printer? It doesn't seem like the

@frameexpert I have an existing script to show/hide conditional text in a document - see https://community.adobe.com/t5/framemaker-discussions/estk-script-line-to-refresh-show-hide-conditional-text-pane-needed/m-p/14152329 In FrameMaker, the Show/Hide Conditional Text pane works on the book level, so I thought I could just change all references to doc in my script to book. I'm getting an error on book.GetNamedObject (Constants.FO_CondFmt, "Format 1"); I noted in the FrameMaker Scripting reference, there is app.GetNamedObject and doc.GetNamedObject, but no book.GetNamedObject. I'm assuming I will need to open the first doc in the book to get the conditional format names, and then process each document in the book to show/hide them. I think I can figure out how to do that (thanks to  https://community.adobe.com/t5/framemaker-discussions/searching-a-book-using-extendscript/td-p/13268771 and similar) - I just want to make sure there isn't a

I want to generate a list of figures. This is simple - I use the figure text style and a variable for paratext and paranum. But I would like the list to ALSO mention the name of the chapter in which the figure resides. Can that be be done?    

Adobe FrameMaker application encounters performance issues, including slowness and freezing, while editing text, and the graphical view fails to operate correctly. Team Could you assist in resolving this problem. 

How do I insert an anchored frame at exactly 1/2 inch from the left margin? Once I get that done, can I copy that frame and paste it in another location and have it be that same exact distance from the left margin? Thanks!

We have issue with an xml file imported into Structured FrameMaker 11 getting hung up and not importing into the FrameMaker template. We believe that it may have something to do with the new root element not being recognized by FrameMaker.We’ve checked the root element name in the dtd, the xsl, edd, and structured app definition and they all match. The structued app definition is mapped correctly.With the template opened, in StructuredTools > Set Structured Application…, when I try to set the structured application root element: the root element appears in the look-up menu: But when I select it, it does not accept the new root element that I selected: It will accept one of the existing root elements in the menu: Any suggestions on how to resolve this will be appreciated.

Hello everyone, AFAIK, the FM HTML5 Publisher doesn't include any option that controls which TOC level will appear expanded/collapsed by default when opening the index file. My guess is that this is controlled by some Javascript file. Does anyone know where this setting is defined/implemented? Thank you in advance! 

@frameexpert - Appreciate you looking at this. I have about 1/3 of what I need, but I'm over my head and hopefully, there is a simpler way. What I want to do is take - https://community.adobe.com/t5/framemaker-discussions/script-to-change-red-text-to-black/td-p/15293234/page/2 and expand it to work with a table selection.   I also saw: https://community.adobe.com/t5/framemaker-discussions/iterate-all-tables-in-framemaker/m-p/10338583    I found a couple of supposedly decent scripts from a google search - first: // Get the active document var doc = app.ActiveDoc; // Check if a table is selected if (doc.SelectedTbl.ObjectValid()) { var oTable = doc.SelectedTbl; // Get the row and column information of the selection var topRow = oTable.TopRowSelection; var bottomRow = oTable.BottomRowSelection; var leftCol = oTable.LeftColNum; var rightCol = oTable.RightColNum; // Iterate through the selected rows and columns to access individual cells var

I am using Tortoise SVN to checkout and commit FrameMaker books. I am not receiving a green checkmark when I commit an updated FrameMaker book. The folder has a red exclamation mark. I get an error that files are conflicted.  There are no unresolved cross-references. Can anyone help me resolve this issue?

Hi there,Brand new to FrameMaker and grateful for any help!I have several elements that contain text in my XML that I want FrameMaker to omit if the attribute display="false" is present? Can I drop/omit an element based on an attribute's value, but not drop the child element? example:<option1>  <feedisplay display="true">Text in the output</feedisplay>    <option2>      <feedisplay display="true">Text in the output</feedisplay>        <option3>          <feedisplay display="false">Text I want ignored/omitted in the output</feedisplay>            <option4>              <feedisplay display="true">Text in the output</feedisplay> 

I have an internal parts breakdown table that I need to be able to hyperlink to hotspots in graphic or from graphic to the index number in the table.   I created a hyper text in the table index using specify destination name (ie. 110).  I created a hotspot in the graphic that links to the specify destination name marker (ie 110).  That works, and I could create a goto previous link.  That works.   However, If the user decides to press on the table index first, how  do I jump from the internal parts breakdown table to the hotspot in the graphic? Thanks in advance for any help.

I have some very old code working with my Framemaker 7.2.   We have "lost" the FDK and would need it again to update some specific scripts / macros that were previously developped.   Do you know where I could find the FDK7.2?

I have a document using a template with modified right and left master pages that allow room for sideheads.  I'm trying to remove the sideheading space and apply the changes to every page in the document.  I unticked "Allow room for sideheads" in the object properties for both master pages and switched back to body page view, specifiying to remove overrides.  The new changes aren't reflected in the body pages, and I'm not sure why. I tried applying Right/Left master to pages to the fulld document flow, but nothing happens.  Stranger still, I created a fresh FM document and imported styles from the previous file, and it applied side heads to my body page, even though the master pages specify no room for sideheads.  Thoughts? Thank you!

Hello,Are you able to help?I am using Adobe FrameMaker 2022 and I am placing a SigmaPlot graph (v15) into a graphic frame in AF, when I place the graph, the lines are not smooth.  This graph was created originally back in 2011 and the curve was smooth in my previous version of AF a few years ago. I had to make a minor update to the graph and I keep it in the relevant version of SigmaPlot,  Do you know why the curve do not show smooth in AF2022 package please.  Is there a setting I need to add or untick in AF2022? Thank you for your help in advance. Above is previous version.Curve now showing not smooth

When publishing my book to HTML5, the first 3 chapters of the book publish correctly in the left pane in HTML 5 generated output.  However, the remaining chapters all populate nested under the 3rd chapter (see below). How do I solve this?  Chapter 1Sub sectionChapter 2Chapter 3Sub sectionChapter 4Sub sectionChapter 5