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Hello,  I made my TOC but each time I update the book, it goes back to the defautl police and color. How can I define my police for the TOC ?   Thanks  Sarah  

Hello Dear Readers, I am facing the issue in applying the color palette in FrameMaker tool as explained and shown below.As I have the requirement to update the font color as per below snap and requirements of CMYK specification.  When I tried to apply above said color in FrameMaker (View-->Color-->Definitions..) to text but the desired color is not fetching to the text as shown in below snap. I am using the Adobe FrameMaker 2022, version 17.0.3.546.   I would request if anyone knows the instructions to update the color to the text through CMYK specification , please share. Thank youShiddalingeshwar 

Hello Please advise on the following ...I am using File>Utilities> FileSplitter to breakdown a document into separate documents based on their Headers. However, when I click the Analyse Document button, it just hangs and creates a file called "xxxxCopyFile.fm".  

I am exporting a FrameMaker book to XLIFF, but I get this foot note error when doing the export: I cant' figure out how to troubleshoot this. It looks as if it actually ALL the footnotes which have this ID error. What might cause it? Any suggestions how to fix it?

Hey folks,I'm thinking of writing a script to add local LLM api support to FrameMaker. I basically want to get AI assisted proofreading/text correction by doing the following (using a local lightweight Mistral-7B model):1. Select text, then send it via button press to an LLM client  running on my computer (LM Studio or ollama) for proofreading2. Receive & process the proofreading results3. Apply the suggestions to the text in FrameMaker Before I dive into what might just be an impossible task due to ExtendScript limitations (I'd have to do quite a lot of digging, I'm not a real coder), do you think this is doable? I'd be very grateful for any insights, or tips where to start. 🙂🙏

Hello everyone, I'd like to know why the "Evaluation Kit" section doesn't fill the space on the previous page. Also, why does the graphic appear before the table when the table comes before it in the structuring of the text? How can I solve it? When I insert a paragraph between the table and the graphic, it works, but the same happens with the next section, it doesn't fill the space on the page.  

I want the cell alignment to be central when importing the XML. How can I set the cell alignment to "center" in the rules? Since I can't define it in the EDD as I can in the vertical alignment.  I saw that I could use this info, but I can't make this work.     

I have an HTML Help system created by publishing my Framemaker book file to HTML5. When the Help is created, it has the Search function provided by Adobe. Our customers are finding that the search results are too general/broad. When they enter a term to search on, they often get back a long list of results that they have to wade through, making the Search function somewhat useless.  I have discovered that if they enter multi-word terms surrounded by double quotes, you can target the search results a bit. Is there anything I can do within Framemaker (before I generate the HTML5) to improve or target the search results provided? The development team for our product has suggested that they can provide search functions in the HTML5 files after they are generated, but we were hoping maybe there was something I could do within the source files to provide a better search function.  Please note, I do have an index and that works fine in the Help, but users often just t

The updating of the index for a book in my copy of Framemaker 12 ceases to update.  It has also merged together two separate sets of markers.  Probably a corruption in the program file.  How do I recover? 

Hello, I would like to know if I can create a format for this table type (this is from Word). With independent cells. I tried to do it as in the image below, but I don't think the cells are independent. Is it possible?   

When I import the XML, the columns and rows are mixing in a single-column table, how do I solve this? I'm attaching how it should be and how it's looking.   

Is there a way to create something similar to the following example created in that MS product-whos-name-I-shall-not-speakI tried using the custom leader in the tabs, using an underscore, but that didn't look right - it doesn't line up properly with the actual underline from the text. I'm writing a document and this is a format requirement, so I don't any option of ignoring it. Thanks,Quintin

I have a custom structured application in FrameMaker 2020. When I open the XML file it has the original XML filename with a .xml extension. Is there a way to have the document open and display a .fm file extension? Is this a Read/Write rule setting or something I can set in structapps.fm? Thanks!

We have a Conditional Tag (AU) for content that is specific to Australia and a Conditional Tag (NZ) for content specific to New Zealand. We also have documents with generic content that apply to both. However, there may be subtle differences (e.g. terminology) that is specific to Australia or New Zealand. Instead of maintaining different versions, we assign the respective Conditional Tag to the Australian/New Zealand-specific content. It sometimes happens that this common content may have additional text that is applicable only if the content is used in relation to a specific product. For those, we have another Conditional Tag (e.g. PPLQG_CASHOUT) that is applied to said content. We have a scenario where within the same document, we have content with all three Conditional Tags (AU, NZ, PPLQG_CASHOUT) applied to various content, e.g.Paragraph A: Conditional Tag AU (only shown for AU)Paragraph B: Conditional Tag NZ (only shown for NZ)Paragraph C: Conditional Tags NZ & PPLQG

I get this script error every time I open Frammaker. It doesn't seem to affect anything, but how can I eleminate it? 

Whenever I import the XML into FrameMaker, the flow duplicates, why does that happen? How do I solve this?   

I am trying to remove the registered symbol from FM TOC, but unable to do that. When I generate TOC, this registered symbol R (big and bold one) appears in the TOC line. Please suggest any idea how to remove it. 

I'm a relative FrameMaker newbie. I'm having trouble figuring out how to position graphics on a page (sometimes the seem to align right, sometimes they go to the center). Instinctively, I've used Import/Image to (and "import by reference"). But recently I reviewed a training video from a couple of years ago and the trainer said to use File/Import/File to import a graphic. I'm wondering if there is a difference?

Up to this point, I've been the only one in my group to use FrameMaker and I'm using the 2022 version. I've created all the content and set up the book files. My coworkers want to start editing these files  but they're using 2020. Today, one of them tried to open a book file and received an error. They want me to save all the files as 2020 files. I'm urging them to upgrade to 2022 instead, but in the meantime they want me to save the files as 2020 so they can make small edits. I thought I would check here to see if there could be any issues with doing this because I will still have to open the files, generate the TOC, and fix any issues with the book or files, etc. Then I'll have to remember to keep saving them as 2020 files.  It seems like the best approach would be for everyone to upgrade to 2022.

I am using FM2020, with structured documents (DITA 1.3).When I generate a PDF (i.e. using the Publish feature, which uses the STS file I have generated), all of the PDFs always show the contents of the PDF's Title field/metadata in the Title bar, rather than displaying the PDF's filename.I can manually fix this issue via two different approaches:Open the PDF in Acrobat, go to File > Properties, select the Initial View tab, and in the Window Options sub-panel, select "File Name" for the Show fieldAlternatively, open the PDF in Acrobat, go to File > Properties, select the Description tab, and clear the contents of the Title fieldHowever, what I am looking for is an automatic solution, i.e. something I can set within Framemaker, so that I do not need to perform this step manually afterwards.I have looked in the Publish Settings dialog (i.e. editing the STS file) and could not find any options that appear to control this behaviour. I have also looked in the Job Options file (i.e. PDF

After I publish a PDF file from FrameMaker and view the output an error message occurs. "An error exists on this page. Acrobat may not display the page correctly. Please contact the person who created the PDF document to correct the problem." I have tried to publish to PDF several times and the result is the same. How to I correctly publish to PDF with the entire document appearing correctly?

Our product manuals are in self-contained folders, e.g.Product Name- Common Images- Manual A  - Content Documents  - Images- Manual B  - Content Documents  - Images These are stored on the network. However, because the network is accessed via VPN (working remotely), it is very slow. To get around this, the whole folder is copied to the local pc and worked on, then the whole folder is copied back to the network. However, we find that any images inserted (by reference) are using the absolute path, e.g. when the folders are copied to the local pc, images point to the images on the network. When the folders are copied back to the network, any images inserted while working on the document locally (inserted by reference from the local "images" folder) are still pointing to the local images. Is there a way to resolve this so FM uses the relative path, e.g. Images used in Manual A will use the relative path \images\ or ..\Common Images\, rather than the absolute p

FrameMaker was crashing when I used "Publish" with a PDF output or "Save as PDF..."  Using the "Print" dialog with output to the Adobe PDF printer or postscript worked just fine. Maybe my experience will help someone else who is dealing with mysterious Publish crashes. The problem was an image where I had replaced a TIFF with a PNG by changing the object properties to point to the new file. Apparently this is a bad idea. FM kept a TIFF facet after the image was replaced, and the PDF engine in the Publish module is rather brittle when it encouters this. My lesson: When replacing an image with an image of a different file type, don't just change the file path/name using the Object Properties. Instead, delete the image from the document then insert the new image from scratch. I was using the Publish PDF engine because I had a couple of PNGs with transparency which I wanted to preserve. Publish can deal with transparency in FM, but Distiller (in all of its forms) cannot.

Hello, Yet ANOTHER thing that is so simple in Word yet seemingly impossible in FrameMaker. I want to put a hyperlinks in my files in my book that, when clicked on, will open a pdf file in an adjacent folder. For instance: I have a chapter where I list the manuals for indivdual parts on the machine that I'm writing about. So, say I want to link to the power supply instruction sheet. I want to be able to have the phrase "Power Supply" be a hyperlink, that when clicked, will open a folder that's adjacent to the FrameMaker files.This is what my superiors are telling me is needed in our manuals. The trainer I had for this program assured me that it's doable, but we didn't get around to covering it. There is nothing covering this anywhere in these discussions, at least not one that tells specific commands on how to make it happen. There are some discussions that make reference to commands that I can't find in any of my menus, so I'm completely lost. The FrameMaker ma

We are currently adding additional footnote references in FM tables. However, they do not automatically update when new footnotes are added. This causes a great deal of confusion regarding which reference is attached to a certain footnote.  For example, we add a footnote, then add references/link to that specific footnote in other areas of the table. However, when subsequent changes (new footnotes added, etc.) are made the footnotes are not updated. Please advise -