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Hi,There are some instances in my document where the heading titles continue onto a second line of text. When this happens, my mini TOC does not format correctly. I'd like for the second line in the mini TOC to format like the first line, with the leader dots and chapter/page numbers on the right of the page. Is there a way to do this? Mini TOC:Reference Page:  Thank you in advance.Nick Caggiano

I have been using a fairly ancient version of TCS that includes Frame 12 and RoboHelp HTML 11 for more than a decade now, and though I purchased a monthly subscription to the latest version (2020, I believe), I am terrified of the time-suck involved in converting, and what if things don't work? I am talking about 1600-page user guides developed in Frame and then LINKED in RoboHelp 11 for context-sensitive HTML help. These are complicated documents with lots of conditional processing, cross references, cross-document links, etc. I know how to do this in ancient TCS, but when I opened up the latest version I was COMPLETELY lost. I need to estimate the time involved, as well as get approval from the boss before diving in, or I need to just cancel the subscription and keep my stone tablet. Suffice it to say, I need some serious advice, and possible hand-holding here. Does Adobe Tech Support help with massive conversions like this with the subscription, or is this an extra charge? Is this s

I am using FrameMaker 2020, and when I am working remotely, something is going wrong when I convert Frame files to PDF. I have tried all publishing methods (Save as PDF, Print to PDF, and Publish to PDF). Each time, the PDF displays the bullets as ellipses (three dots). I don't havc this issue when I convert files while working in the office. Any idea what the issue could be?

Dear experts The standard Find/Change panel provides immeate reaction: both the edit field for the search term and the Find button are active. Hence I can work like this: Invoke the panel with CRTL+F Type what I want to look for Press Enter In ScriptUI i can not mimic this behaviour. The following does not work: wPalF.g02.eFindWhat.text = KLD_F.GetTextOfSelection(); wPalF.g02.eFindWhat.active = true; wPalF.g08.btnFind.active = true; wPalF.show(); Only the button is active when this snipped has been executed. In ScriptUI  obviously only one element can be active in a dialogue/panel.at a time. → Any ideas how to overcome this limitation?

FM 17.0.0.226 - The same thing happens as I had in FM-16.0.0.764: No MiniTOC in PDF via PDFL There is no *.sts file in %appdata%\...maker.ini - hence the default is used. Now I have copied from FM-16 to FM-17 appdata my Standard.sts and opened it in FM-17. It has been converted. But when using this: Saving does not end - FM stalls What is saved already is opened and contains 8 pages with just some picutres out of the context I can not close the Saving message (progress bar), need to kill FM-17 After a new starat of FM-17 I check for the sts in the Publish panel: it is still there. I try again to creae a PDF via Publish: This time it completes after Postprocessing PDF But the output does not show the miniTOC - see screen shot above Now I do the same via Save as PDF (I do not expect a change in the output, but one never knows): Nothing new (no miniTOC) → How to get the miniTOC into the PDF?

I'm having a problem using capture replace groups in my Find/Change script.  For example, I'm fixing missing hyphenation in phrases.  I find "aim off points" using \b([Aa]im[ ]?off[ ]?point)([s]?) and replace it with aim-off point$2, which should give me "aim-off points" as my replacement. My find/replace works perfectly using FMs Find/Change panel (see below).  When I try it in my script I get this result:  aim off pointaim-off points$2. The $2 capture group searches for the plural of "points."  In my script tester I am using this to mimic the FM Find/Change panel:FindReplace ("\\b([Aa]im[ ]?off[ ]?point)([s]?)", "aim-off point$2");  I've searched the blogs, reviewed K. Daube's Find/Change PDF, and tried various syntax combinations, without luck.  Any help much appreciated.  

Some specifics: I have run-in head paragraph tags used throughout the book going from Level1Tag1Run all the way to Level6Tag 3Run (and maybe beyond), and most of them have a line after it (FederalRegistry) which has In Column formats. I have styles set up for this item (FedLevel2Tag1, etc) but the file that I was sent has every instance of that item coming in with FederalRegistry and not the correct Level tags. Is there a way to automate a global change so that whenever that kind of tag is following, say, a Level3 paragraph tag, that it switches to the FedLevel3 tag? Is that something I would need Extend Script to do? Or is that beyond automation? (Attached image key: Yellow Highlight is Level5Tag1Run, Blue Highlight is FederalRegister but SHOULD be FedLevel5Tag2)

Having answered xxx successfully I became insecure about the process and tested the situation again. I had observed the following since years (windows XP up, FM-8 up to 16), but now I want to find a solution/reason. I have not yet tested in full the new feature "last line indent" - the demos are controversioal for me. Expecting more than one line for items in generated lists i have > 1 TABs between the <$paratext> and <$pagenum> element on the reference page. When the list (e.g TOC) is generated and I look at it, the TABs seem not to be used at all (in this screenshot it is only one TAB): Refreshing the screen, re-generating the list - does not change anything. No I select the TAB and enter one manually: → The TAB  has expanded. See the same effect in a list where I have 3 TABs provided to cope with even more lines: → Why are the generated TABs not expanded in line 2…n ?

Hi all, On one Windows 10 computer, which just happens to be my Visual Studio development system, I have both FrameMaker 2019 and 2020 installed. When I right mouse click in File Explorer and choose Open with, the two FrameMaker options are identical, as shown below. As identified the top choice is actually 2020. The registry entry for .fm, shows what I would expect to see, as shown below.The FM16.FrameMaker.Document classid points to 2020 as expected, and is proven by clicking on the top entry from Open with. The Open with menu has the correct details on another identical Windows 10 computer where I just installed the same 2020 package, as shown below. On my main development computer, also Windows 10, where I have installed and uninstalled various versions of 2020, and now installed 2022, the Open with details are perfect! I have tried resetting the icon and thumbnail caches as discussed in these two articles:How to reset the icon cache database on Window

We have a situation in the company where we translate into 9 languages. Those in charge have determined that the language code must appear in the source files for the book, and our translation team currently has to:Rename the book file with the language code replacing EN for English.Open the book file, and all files in the book.Select and rename each file in the book with the language code, allowing FrameMaker to update all x-refs.Close and same the files and book.The format of our filenames is, for example, Template002EN01-01-Title.fm where the EN represents English, and would be replaced with ZH for Chinese.Does there exist a scrit that one could execute from within FrameMaker after opening the book and files that would take as input a code to replace for EN and rename the files in an automated batch?

Hello,I am using FM 2020 version 16.0.4.1062 and have created a PDF of my non-structured document. When I went to the TOC to test the links, all of them work except for one.  I don't know where to look to find information about the issue or how to fix the issue.  Please help.   Thank you. Elizabeth       

I am inserting a check mark character found in the Arial script in an unordered list in order to generate an HTML5 version of my document. While the character works great in the normal textflow, it won't show up properly in the list, where I have put it into the numbering field. Same character but for some reason FrameMaker seems to treat it differently. Can't figure out what is happening in the conversion process, that causes this  

How it works with dita and dita map files in framemaker?, dita map includes multible dita files, when published as pdf, each dita topic will start from new page?

The majority of the FM 2019 documents I work in use 2 particular Type 1 fonts...!! Thankfully, it looks like I can 'simply'(lol) purchase the OpenType versions of these fonts and replace the Type 1 fonts...has anyone had to do this w/ LOTS of documents?? Is this an extremely painful process? Do the OpenType fonts match up exactly when replacing Type 1 versions? FYI, I haven't begun this process yet, but I'm about to dive in...any assistance/suggestions would be appreciated...Cheers!!

Hello, I have noticed inconsistencies in the information (messages) about missing fonts between Console view and Fonts pod.Sometimes console has more items with missing fonts. I have even tried to find them according to names in console, but without a success (I have searched through application and through MIF).What can be the cause of that? What is the difference between these two functions? Is console information more accurate or perhaps it shows false positive occurrencies (but if so, why)?Files I work with sometimes had been converted in the past, some contain XML structure.I have workaround solution to get rid off the messages (unchecking Remember missing fonts function), but I would like to understand the logic of mentioned functions.Could you please help with this?Thank you in advance 🙂

Hi all, Adobe have made available updated PDFs for the 2022 FDK with the links in this bug report FRMAKER-9169 | Tracker (adobe.com). I have downloaded all of them, and reassuringly they all have a September 2022 date. As well the FDK Progammers Guide now has Visual Studio 2022, rather than the FDK downloaded version which refers to 2017. disappointingly the FDK ZIP has not been updated as yet, with the PDFs undated and the aforementioned reference to Visual Studio 2017. Jon

I am inserting a whole lot of footnotes in my text and was expecting to have active links from the reference numbers to the footnotes when I published as pdf. But that is not happening? What may I be overlooking here? I feel pretty convinced that this used to work. But now I have tried in both 2022 and 2020, and... no hyperlinks! I am using tagged  pdf and distiller.... shouldn't this work?

I don't mean dragging and dropping all the document icons into the book side panel, I know that method.I mean if I have all the documents open that I want in a book, when I create a book FM asks me if I want to add the currently selected document to the book... but there doesn't seem to be an option like "add all open documents to book" or something like that. Am I missing something, or is that just not a thing at all? Also, I have several documents in a book which currently shows a path through several directories so I can't see the document name without scrolling to the right. Is it possible to change some kind of view setting so I just see the document name and not the path?

Hi-Team, I have a large number of Structured FrameMaker files to be edited and combined as a single manual for publishing. So, how can i go further to complete the process?

I'm publishing Responsive HTML5 from FM2020. I'm using the azure_blue style, but I don't see any way to turn the print function on and off like you can the glossary, etc. Can anyone help?   

I have an issue while converting .fm files to pdf dome of my fonts are crashed. How can I solve it?

I am a Framemaker book developer. I have a customer that wants to convert his book from Word to FrameMaker and export to Amazon Mobi format. My understanding it that Fthe rameMaker book can convert to RoboHelp and RoboHelp can covert the book to Kindle (Mobi) ebook. I have no experience with RoboHelp, so my question is whether there are explicit instructions to do the conversion from FrameMaker to RoboHelp ebook, OR what it might generally cost me to do the RoboHelp Kindle ebook coversion of the FrameMaker book. The book is about 250 pages and five chapters. Thanks!

I have a two column FM2022 document with a lot of footnotes. About 10 footnotes on every single page. I would like to have the footnotes column balance, making them the same height across the two colums. But can it be done?I do think the footnotes behave rather oddly. When I add text to the page so the footnote reference moves to the next page, this is what happens. Suddenly the footnotes are floating on the middle of the page.   

We just upgrade to FrameMaker 22 version 17.0.0.226. The locked files are not deleting when we close our files. They don't go away so the files don't open. We have had to restart our machines to several time and then they sometimes go away? Is anyboby having this issue and is there a fix for it? 

Hi all,I'm looking for a solution for the following problem: I need a smart table that calculates certain values. The result value is supposed to get referenced in several  FM files. When the values in the native smart table get modified the referenced value is supposed to change automatically to the new value. I tried to insert an Excel table to FM but I have problems referencing one single cell as well as to keep it updated. in specific I managed to reference one cell, but it doesn't look very nice plus the value of the cell always stays the same, no matter how many modification are done in the native Excel table.I'm interested in a solution for both DITA and unstructured FM. Since in DITA the same problem occurs because I'm not able to reference one single cell with conref. Is there maybe another way to make this working? Also Smart Paste is not working well in this situation.Thank you in advance for your help!Kind regards,Amy