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Am trying to extract definitions from a document glossary with a script.  Have run into a problem with my lookahead that I can't seem to sort.  Glossary entries look like image below:The problem is that each entry may have one or two tabs.  The first tab is rendered as "......" separating the acronym from the definition.  Some glossaries have a second tab that appears as a blank space before the definition.  The following works fine for glossaries with a single tab. (?<=\bDRB\x08).*However, if glossary uses two tabs, regexp picks up the second tab along with the definition. If I change my look ahead to:(?<=\bDRB\x08\x08).*It works for with two tabs, but not with one.  If I change it to:(?<=\bDRB\x08+).*...which should find one or more occurance of the tab character, I get a "Not Found" error.  Apparently operators do not work that same way in ascertions as they work in regexps.  

Most of the time I can take care of unattractive line breaks in the TOC by putting in non-breaking spaces in a paragraph.However, I sometimes have a situation where the text of a TOC entry is too close to the page number on the right. The text is so close to the page number that in some cases no leader dots show, or only one or two leader dots show.The entry and its page number fit on a single line, so putting in non-breaking spaces won't solve the problem. I could put in a soft return (Shift-Enter) in the TOC entry to force a line break, but it isn't efficient because I have to put in the soft return manually each time the TOC is updated.If anyone has a tip on how to handle this problem efficiently, I'd love to know about it.

Hi!Please I need your help, I have a complex book called MO_PARTE_A and I have a lot of Chapters separated in folders (attached screenshot), but I need and idea that how can I create a TOC for each chapter (Folder) for example a TOC with the Chapter A1, A1.2 and A1.3, the solution that I have for the moment is that Im working in an individual book for each Chapter (Folder, in this case CAPA1, attached screenshot), but im sure that is not the best way to do this. Please!! thanks!!  

Just installed the latest FM update. Upon opening, the Welcome Screen looks like this image. Is there a patch to fix this like there was for a previous version? I was expecting to see the list of recently accessed files. 

I am a long time Adobe and Mac user — about 30 years — but it's a struggle having to run FrameMaker on a Mac using VM software. I have a 2018 iMac with FrameMaker 2019, and currently use Parallels to run Windows 10. Compared to running my other Adobe programs on the Mac (InDesign, Photoshop, Illustrator), running FrameMaker thru VM is slow and kludgy. And every time Windows forces an update on me, it causes things in FrameMaker to malfunction. (Like not being able to Save As PDF, or not being able to Find/Change straight apostrophes to curly — both critical to the work I do.)When I search for solutions, see mostly old threads and not a lot of help. I'm sure there must be other Mac users also experiencing issues that impact their daily work.So this is to the Adobe FrameMaker Team, and anyone else who has the answers: - Are you testing ways for your Mac users to best make FrameMaker function smoothly on a Mac?- Since VM software is currently the only option, what is the most reliable VM

I am trying to figure out why Framemaker sometimes refuses to display a horizontal divider line above the footnote section of certain pages. I created a video that shows the problem: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VEQgp9KDbDo   In this video page 370, above footnote 21, no horizontal divider line appears.  Yet, on pages 369, 371 and 372, the divider line DOES appear. Does anyone have any ideas what I need to examine in order to figure out why this is happening?

How can I create style this below. I m trying to create like this, but not reaching at a considerable point. Please Guide.  

How can I take two column in a page in Frame Maker? I am trying to take two column in a particular page, but when I am using text frame, it is overlapping with other content of document. Please suggest me the best way to take two column in a particular page so that content is not overlapped.

When I press 'enter' to change the paragraph, there is more space left between the paragraph in Frame Maker. How to reduce that space. Please guide. I have attached the screenshot for referecne.

A completely 'random' question to the community. I'm writing a novel using FrameMaker. To keep track of events, I would like to add the Date, Time and Duration for each event in the novel, akin to this:It is not part of the 'printable' content, so need to appear 'outside' the normal text frame.  I know I can create it as a Text Flow B, with the relevant elements for Date, Time, DOW and Duration, and manually enter these, then use Conditional Formatting to hide these when creating the final output. I also know that FrameMaker can't do calculations, e.g. add the duration to the Time to populate the End Time, using that as the Time for the next event. I'm sure others in the community have done something similar for other projects/documents and was wondering how this was achieved? Thoughts, suggestions, ideas welcome. Thanks,Quintin

Hi.I have created a plugin for Framemaker2020(64bit version) using visual studio 2019.When I start the debug, the message "FrameMaker.pdb is not load" is shown. Where is the FrameMaker.pdb file?What should I do for this message? Please give me some advice.Thanks.

How can I resize all images of FrameMaker Document altogether?

I am editing and republishing a book that was originally done in FrameMaker. I need to fix the left and right margins throughout the book (both the left and right side pages). How do I edit the master pages to fix these margins? Is the master pages the place to do this?I will be so grateful for your help!

When I try to print a PDF I get the message 'FrameMaker could not find Adobe PDF printer instance which must be installed to execute Save as PDF command.' Glen Ballou [PII removed by moderator]

I am using FrameMaker 2019, version 15.0.6.956.My Table of Figures is showing five "phantom figures," and I can't figure out why. (It also has Figs. 2 and 3 out of order ... I'm not sure why that is, either.)The table references all instances of the FigureCaption style. I only have four instances of FigureCaption in Section 11 (see attachment), including in hidden conditional text.The text of this section was copied and pasted from another FrameMaker document, so I'm wondering if there are some hidden tags in there somewhere. I can't find them though ... but it's possible I'm not looking in the right place, or using the right approach. Would appreciate any advice. 

I am saving a FrameMaker document to PDF and I get this message at the Console:   The "Times" Font is not available."Times New Roman" will be used in this session.   It is causing the document to reflow. The font is not Times or Times New Roman but Calibri. Querying the properties in FrameMaker and Acrobat show that they are both Calibri 9 point. I have seen this message in the past, but the reflow is a big problem for this project. Is there a setting that will give me an exact FrameMaker to PDF text match?

How to minimize line Spacing between two paragraph in Adobe Framamaker? 

Hi All,I am using Adobe FrameMaker 2020 (version ) on Parallels VM. The application crashes every time I reach the last page of any document. Earlier, it crashed when I just opened any file. I couldn't fix it, I reinstalled windows and now it can at least open the files, and I can make changes. However, it still crashes upon scrolling to the last page of any FM file. Any solution on how to fix this? This error popup is displayed jus before the application quits - 16004. 

Hi, I'm an adjunct lecturer at my local community college and need to update my book which was written ages ago using FM7.[12]? on a WinXP Pro SP3 PC. Fast-forward to today where I have a Mac and university has an Adobe subscription that does *not* come with FM. Some questions:Is there a way to request FM as part of my college's subscription? And if not...Is there a perpetual license I can purchase with an edu discount? And if not...I don't prefer a subscription, but if I don't have a choice, what's the edu annual subscription dues?Will modern FM on a Mac still be able to read FM7.x .FM files created on a PC? I remember "the good ol' days" when I could move .FM files b/w a PC, Mac, and Sun Micro workstation and be able to edit at-will on any machine then switch to another machine without any issues whatsoever!

Greetings,I changed the maker.ini file some time ago to paste as plain text as first priority. Works fine when pasting from external sources and is a great feature when working with Microsoft Office or other sources.However, I noted that when pasting from the active FM document it picks up the paragraph and character formats. Now, it may be that I have just not noted this behaviour before (or that I'm really absent-minded) - can anyone confirm that it is expected?Best regards,Mats

I am trying to keep the heading increased by 1 but it is increasing by 2. Can someone explains how to fix this. I am attaching the screenshot for reference.  

Hi there,first the facts - I´m usingFrameMaker 2019 (15.0.8.979)ElmScript Version 7.0R1p25 (the german FrameScript)Windows 10 Pro (22H2)I have been using my trusty Script for years. It pulls texts from the text resource database for the machines we build (sql) into FrameMaker variables.Since recently the script stops with the following error message:     The error is clear to understand, the question is "why can that variable suddenly not be found any longer?".I appreciate any guesses about the reason of this behaviour. The only thing that has changed shortly before was a Windows update. Could that be the reason? Best regards,Lutz

Since at least FM-6 there is the following command in fminit/cmds.cfg:   <Command YankKillBuffer <Label Yank Kill Buffer> <KeySequence \!eY> <Definition \x32C> <Mode All>>   In Shlomo Perets' early enhanced tool bars there even was a button for this function. He describes this command as Yank (retrieve) erase buffer). But I do not have a clue any more what this command is doing. To yank means 'pull out' (at least by Deepl) ► Does a graying user still know what this could be?

Hello,I have inner ruling missing in table, that is published to HTML, as you can see.Is there any further publishing HTML setting, that affects this? The table should look like this: Thank you. 

I follow FrameMaker's directions on importing a variable but the variable I want to import does not appear in the new document https://help.adobe.com/en_US/framemaker/using/index.html#t=using-framemaker%2FFrameMaker-2022%2Fuser-guide%2Ftopic_variables.html%23topic_variables&rhtocid=_8_3 -- David