Questions

One of the layers in a symbol I've made keeps disappearing while the other ones are still there. How can I fix it so it doesn't disappear?

Is there a way to configure chapter autonumbering that skips over single page files that are section dividers and not content chapters?

BackgroundLast week I started production on a large translation project (4, 100+ page source files into 9 target languages). Worked on Latin-based and CJK-based documents without issue.I use Extensis Connect (EC) to manage my fonts.The workstation is Windows 11.All software is up-to-date. IssueAs of yesterday FrameMaker is suddenly reporting: The "HelveticaNeueLT Pro 75 Bd Bold" (HNLTP) Font is not available.To the extent of my knowledge nothing changed between Friday and Monday on my workstation. Steps TakenVerified that HNLTP activated through EC displays correctly in EC, and that the font is available and working in other apps (INDD / AI / PS 2025 all show the font correctly).Deactivated all fonts in EC (Vault / System / User / Google) and activated just HNLTP form my Vault. (No change)Deactivated all fonts in Creative Cloud Desktop (CCD), and removed an locally installed fonts, while having only HNLTP active from the EC vault. (No change)Deactivated HNLTP in EC and u

I have a book with a bunch of tables. I want to generate a TOC or a List of Paragraphs BUT I want that list to be in the shape of a table.  I have tried various trick to cheat FM into generating the list inside the table but to no avail.  Can it be done?... FrameMaker Version: 17.0.7.842

Hi.I have a custom dictionary that I want Framemaker to use. I have inserted a path to it in Maker.ini, but FrameMaker does not seem to get it. When I try to get Spelling Checker to Import Personal Dictionary, Framemaker just crashes.

Hi everyone,I would like to use ExtendScript to modified the master page of my document but it doesn't work.Here is my code:   var doc = app.ActiveDoc; var mp = doc.FirstMasterPageInDoc; var tempWidth = mp.PageWidth; mp.PageWidth = mp.PageHeight; mp.PageHeight = tempWidth;When I look into my variable with a debugger, it behave like it is in read-only mode

Hello, I notice that the hyphenation instructions in the help are not that helpful.I have a text with Swedish set as language and I find a word with incorrect hyphenation in the FrameMaker dictionary.Östafrikais for some odd reason hyphenated as Östa-frika. How can I change this (among many other similar issues). I see help on the forums about going to the spelling checker and then set "show hyphenation" and change > and then press learn, etc. But since the word is correctly spelt from the beginning, FM does not accept my suggestions. So, how do I do?Regards

Hi, Our IT department wants us to switch to Windows 11. Users should not have admin rights. Here in this forum participants always comment that admin rights are needed, especially for the Adobe PDF printer. However, Adobe does not mention admin rights in their system requirements: https://helpx.adobe.com/framemaker/help/fm_system_requirements.html?promoid=XKMMH7MW&xProduct=&mv=other&mv2=ahome&xProductLocation=&x-product=AdobeHome%2F2.0&x-product-location=Search%3AForums%3Alink%2F3.7.4 What is correct? Do I need admin rights or not? Best regards, Winfried

Hi, I usually copy strutured xml content to FM and publish as pdf.To streamline work I am importing the same xml content as a text inset but the insets are not updating (automatically nor manually) any changes to the  source xml file.Is there something I'm missing or this funtion really not working?Using FM 17.0.7

Hi I am getting started with structured FrameMaker 2019. I have a two column table with a straddled heading row. The body rows are not straddled. The heading also has a colour fill. However, when the document is converted to PDF, these changes are lost.  

don't want to repat table on next page just forward remaining rows on next table.

Hi FrameMaker Friends:   I'm trying to help a client locate all occurrences of a specific image and delete it. Here's what I've tried so far: If we assign an object style to the ones we are looking for (it's the same image used in multiple places, removed after each round of edits), Fm can use Find/Change to locate and select a frame based on the object style name, but won't delete it. Fm can use Find/Change to locate all anchored frames and remove them but it's all of them.   So, how is the text field used for an anchored frame search? Is there something I can type in there that will allow me to narrow the scope? I tried filename and full path with filename, neither worked. Any other ideas?     Thanks in advance,    ~Barb

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?