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I opened a structured fm file wrongly in unstructured mode and saved it. When I opened this fm file again in structured mode, the structure view has been blank. Does anyone no how to withdraw this?

We run an old application in a structured FM.  Now that we must switch to win 11 and frameMaker 2022, do we have to update the EDD and DTD files as well? or will it still be working with the old settings?Maybe a strange question, but I normally don't work in FrameMaker and I'm trying to get the app running in the new environnement. Thkx Gert

Hi, Immediately when trying to publish books or separate documents after updating to FM 17.0.5 all attemps crash with Internal error 17054. Have mif-washed and also tested on local machine. Working with structured FM. Any hints?  Best regards,Mats

I found an answer from last year related to lock files, which was... turn off the lock file feature in Preferences. While I can do this, there are some concerns about fallout. For example, one book has +200 files. The editor might touch 30 to 50 in any given month. If he were to leave one open (perhaps he minimized or otherwise failed to close it without noticing) and run a book-wide operation, I'm not sure what might happen. More vexing is this simple fact: it hasn't happened since an update problem some years back, but its happening again after the last two updates.  Does anyone have any theories about what might be setting off these behaviors for files? Is there some other solution besides turning off lock files altogether? Should I be poking Adobe's bug report system?

Good evening all,   In an Fm 17.07 project I've created a generated list of elements, and on the reference page I am asking for the value of a Date attribute using the following code:<$attribute[Date]>   Unfortunately, though I believe the building block to be correct, it returns <$attribute in the generated file, rather than, say, 10/9/2025 Has anyone seen this, or know the reference page syntax I need to do this?   

Hi thereI'm new to Framemaker. I've downloaded a trail version with the hope I could add hotspots (for use in technical publications/S1000d) to either a PDF or CGM illustration.I can't seem to be able to open either of these file types?Can anyone help please! Thanks 

I have a customer who has some dire issues with the font Aptos. FrameMaker is installed locally on C, but the documents reside on OneDrive. The font is installed in the Windows font directory, but for some reason it is not available for FrameMaker.  Any ideas what may be the issue here?

I'm using FM 2022 and I use Hypertext links. When I do a Save as PDF the links are not working. Is this a known bug and is there a workaround?

Background: We use red font to indicate changes in the draft document. Then we change the red text back to black before issuing the final version of the document. We sometimes have master page borders and artwork that we use red text with that we do NOT want to change. Four questions: Is there a way to manually search for red text and find it? I didn't see it in the find and replace options? (If I could find it manually, I would be better able to find a way to script it.) Is there a way to script this? I found a script on here to find and replace text, but I don't think this would be the same thing. I know tables present some difficulty, in that if press Ctrl-A to select all and change the font, I usually have to change the tables. My lead would prefer for the script to find the red text and prompt if you want to change it or not? (He's worried about the automated script changing the artwork and/or occasional (rare) times that we actually want red text in the docume

I have been using FM 2019 for years, on a Windows 10 pc, publising pdf, chm and repsonsive html5. (The upgrade to FM 2020 didn't include a sts file upgrade, so I decided to stay with FM2019.) This week my PC died, and I got a new one. This one running Windows 11. I installed FM 2022 and converted one of my FM 2019 documents. The pdf came out perfect. But the sts file conversion from FM 2019 to FM 2022 didn't turn out well. Font and other formats were lost, both for chm and resp html5. Can I from a FM 2019 chm file extract the sts file contents?Can I from FM 2019 responsive html5 files extract the sts file contents?(I can spend some time manually entering the sts values in FM 2022, if required.)

I have a book containing many .fm files, which is a complete manual. I'd like to also create PDFs from specific collections of these same .fm files, where each PDF is to address a specific user type. However, I'd like each PDF to be able to continue to use the cross-references that link to what will now be a location in a separate PDF. For example, I would have a general info PDF and both the user PDF and the admin PDF would need to be able to link into the information in the general info PDF. How would I set this up? Thanks for any tips.

I am updating a FrameMaker book in which a previous author used an indexing technique I haven't encountered before.There are conventional markers of type "Index", but these are replicated as text with a conditional tag called "Index" applied to it. The markers use this syntax: .i.[topic]:[sub-topic];How do you turn these conditional text markers into an index, and why might an author use this approach?Thanks in advance for any insights!  

I recall a couple of earlier posts regarding ES support for assertions; specifically, that while ES supports lookahead assertions, it does not support lookbehind assertions.  In my experience, while the Find/Change panel appears to support both, and I've successfully used positive lookbehinds in the FrameMaker 2022 scripts, negative lookbehinds do not appear to work in ES.  Can anyone confirm this and/or point me to a more definitive discussion regarding ES support for assertions.  I use these extensively to search documents for capitalization, hyphenation, spacing, and spelling errors that are outside the scope of the dictionary. My other question is regarding capture groups.  While capture groups seem to work OK in the Find/Change panel, I've run into problems using them in scripts.  Maybe I'm doing something wrong.  Any suggestions welcome.  

I want to update the master pages of all docs in a book using a jsx script but im not sure how to do it.I have a template.fm file which contains the desired master page format . This format has to applied to all the docs in the book file.Can someone help with any pointers so that the necessary script can be completed??THANKS IN ADVANCE!!

We use the Adobe Technical Documentation Suite and want to update the suite to the latest version. We wnt to make sure to use the latest version. Where can I download it?

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.