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I am attempting to install FrameMaker 2020 on Windows 11, in a Mac Parallels 18 Pro vm environment. I get an error 501 - unable to install due to unavailable resource, with no reference to an unavailable resource. What can I do?I have attached a screenshot of the error message.

Hello, I'm trying to  make the book with the ditamapbut I have problem now.for example when I take ditamap and xml files from another person and save these as book component but delete first xml file in ditamap, the files are broken or some errors are occured (changing lines not following original form).It seems like there is the setting to form making book.So my question is, is there anyway to set the form of book components? ps. for more detailsif there is ditamap like below1. xml2. xml3. xmlIf I save thes as book 2022 with fm components after I delete 1.xml, results are wrong (it doesn't follow the form of original, like changing lines, using different fonts or master page )

Hello?I want to know about the way to adjust master page with EDD using props or outputclass.is there any way to adjust master page with structured authoring way?Thank u for reading this.I wish I can find the answer.

I got this error:"When you create a PostScript file you must rely on system fonts and use document fonts. Please go to the printer properties, "Adobe PDF Settings" page and turn OFF the option "Rely on system fonts only; do not use document fonts."This strikes me as bad practice. I only want to use system fonts and document fonts will muck me up.That being said, I could not easily find a way to fix this with Acrobat Pro XI. I opened Control Panel (Windows 😎 and found the printer and mucked around in the various ways to get to change the PDF settings (there are several ways, and some of them present the choices as bold and not just regular). I found two separate switches for "Rely on system fonts only; do not use document fonts" and turned both off, BUT that did not work.Frustrated, I went back to FrameMaker and clicked File > Print Setup and then for the PDF printer, Printer Properties. There I found a THIRD instance of "Rely on system fonts only; do not use document fonts"

In the framemake interface the standard menus like File  Edit Insert   Format.... the font is too small. How do I increase it?

Hello,I would like to set the space between the footnote number and the text of the note. How to set it in order that when I create a new note it will keep the same setting ? 

I want to add a leader to my mini TOC so that the page numbers are right-aligned. I've added a tab stop to the relevant Paragraph Style (Heading1MTOC style), but that doens't change the formatting. I've tried deleting and re-creating the mini TOC and changing the tab position, but nothing works. I feel like I'm missing something obvious. Any ideas on how I can add the leader? I'm using FrameMaker 17.  What I have: What I want:

I'm looking at a manual made in structured FrameMaker and I am a bit out of my league here. The book file holds a number of TOC's. I'm trying to figure out how these TOC's are put together. I can create a stand alone TOC by defining elements to include, but the TOC file I generate seems to break the structure in the book. And I am not able to insert an element in the books structure. Trying to so just doesn't call up the elements dialogue. Anybody who can point me in the right direction?  

Is it possible to customize shortcut keys?

There are blank pages at the end of several of my documents. I cannot delete them in FrameMaker. Or, it might appear that I have, but when I generate a pdf from the documents the blank pages come right back. First I tried Format/Document/Delete Pages. This dialog appears:  I select "Delete," and presto! Page disappears! Great, right? NO. As soon as I save my work, the page reappears. So I did a little research, and tried the following. Format/Page Layout/Pagination:From the "Before Saving and Printing" dropdown menu, I select "Delete Empty Pages" and hit "Set." Bravo!  No more blank pages! Yay! Solved! Sorted! Mystery SOLVED! Nope. I generate the pdf and...Blank pages are BACK, in all their glory. HOW DO YOU DELETE BLANK PAGES IN FRAMEMAKER? This should be the simplest, easiest, most obvious, accessible and elementary task in what claims to be such a robust, industry-standard of an application. I swear to all that is holy in this world, if s

Chapter in Book TOC is not clickable. How can I make it clickable? 

I am trying to get a TOC to generate based off of a number of elements in a structured FrameMaker document pulling from an XML file. Currently, I don't have a book with separate chapters, rather the chapters are an element I have created in the EDD. When I build my TOC, I have not had any luck with other building blocks other than the standard <$elemtextonly> and <$pagenum>. I would like to pull an attribute from the Chapter element that includes the chapter number into the TOC, but I can't find any way to write the building block that would make this work. I have tried <$attribute[TaxSort]> where TaxSort is the chapter number, and I think I have tried various alterations of the above, but it just prints the text rather than pulling the chapter number. Is there a comprehensive list somewhere of which building blocks can be used in which contexts? I have run into this issue in other situations where I try a building block that works in one place but it doesn't tra

Hello,I followed the instructions how to insert video and its poster. In Framemaker it works properly.When I double click the poster, then the media player opens. The MP4 is only 8,4 MB, so nothing big... But I struggle with publishing to PDF.When I do a Save as PDF or Publishing procerude, my Framemaker always freeze like this:  Maybe I should do some PDF print setting to export PDF rich content. But I do not know which setting.I use 17.0.3 version I will apreciate any advices. Thank you Adam 

Hi all, I'm exporting .fml files into HTML. The exported HTML, for my case is 95% there, but there are a couple of issues that I need help with. The figures in the document (images + their captions) are anchored frames and they're always exported as a single low-resolution image (an image that contains both the figure and its caption). In an ideal world, since the pictures are included as external files, i would get that external file location and caption as text in the HTML.  But so far, I wasn't able to that. So I tried a couple of things:- I tried to get the anchored frame id into the target HTML so that I can then pick the remaining anchor info from the mif file, but no luck there. I wasn't even able to get the id into the generated html.- I'm able to programatically set the alt text for the Figure Anchored Frame (I was hoping to write the location of the original image + caption in there), but I cannot get that alt text into the generated HTML- I trie

In previous versions of Framemaker (2017), you were able to select Keep all topics in one folder in the Style Mappping > General Settings. However, in the current Framemaker version this is no longer an option. Is there a work around or another way to accomphish this as the developers need this folder for publishing? 

I have added a hypertext command "Jump back to previous link" In FM book.  It is working file in FM file but not working in converted PDF file. Please someone explain what can be the possible cause of it. 

I'm working on a user guide where some chapters are split across multiple files. Because of that, I need figures and tables to auto-number so any future additions won't affect the numbering across every file. However, when I am adding table information to one of the files, the auto-numbering bugs out to where it goes from table "1" (the first table for the section, but 19 overall for the chapter) to "5", and the auto-numbering won't allow me to correct the sequencing. I even tried adding the tables all at once and add the information after that. The numbering is correct when I first add all the tables, but then the numbering changed as I added information to the first table. I then thought that the first table being across multiple pages is messing with the numbering, but it's only been one section where this is happening to me while everything else has been working correctly. Am I missing something?

Hello, I am working on creating some PDF files which will  have some chapters, TOC & Index pages. I have .mif template files ready. What i am looking for is the way where framemaker will create book file and fm file out of XML instead of writing all the contents manually to .mif. Basically I am trying to find some automated way to generate PDF out of xml. 

Hi, I have a legit AV and I have a monthly subscription for FrameMaker. I am working on Windows 11. Recently, I received a notification from my AV that a file from Adobe FrameMaker was infected. Does anyone else have the same issue? What shall I do? See the attached screenshot. Since all my applications are licensed I am not using/downloading pirated applications. Quite unusual considering that the file is a file related to the FrameMaker application and not with a third-party application. Any idea is welcome. Sebastian 

We are facing the issue of inserting a lengthy code in a Framemaker table.Is there an option to split the table automatically to multiple pages.i.e. After generating the pdf with multiple pages, and if I copy the code, then it must copy only the code and not the other contents of the pdf, like headers, footers, dates and other variables. Thanks in advance.

There is a custom style table that was created by a colleague who’s no longer with the company. I’ve removed the custom style table formatting; however, when I attempt to add the new color to the table header row, the top and bottom portions of that header row will not fill in with the color I’ve selected. I used Pargraph Designer > Advanced tab that gave me the new color blue. I attempted to use Table Desinger > Shading tab to no avail. Does anyone know how I’m able to get the top and bottom portions to fill in with the blue color I selected? See the images below for clarity.  Initial color (Gray) for the table header row   After adding the blue color to the table header row 

Hello there, I want to edit the Danger block (also to add Warning and Attention ones). I want to make them to look like the picture below with the option to write inside: Is it possible to do this with FrameMaker? Thank you! Mariya

Hi, please someone hints how can I increse the size of the word "Chapter" (please refer the image below). I am using standard template (Book > Chapter).  

How can I design a cover page of a book in Adobe Frame Maker?

Hello, I did new instalattion on my Win11 and now I am missing the publishing outputs icons (like PDF icon etc.)  Thank you for advices. Adam