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Greetings,We have a 2017 version of Framemaker. When we try to save the document as a PDF it gives an error:Missing Distiller error on saving a document as PDFI have already tried to run this guide, Missing Distiller error on saving a document as PDF in FrameMaker (adobe.com),  but it DOES NOT SOLVE.Thank you.Best regards.

Hello everyone, I'm authoring content in DITA 1.3 in FrameMaker 2020.If I change the value of the 'frame' attribute on a <fig> element, the value is reset when I save and reopen the file. (The 'frame' attribute adds a border to figures in the output.) This only seems to happen with the 'frame' attribute.And it happens whether I change it in either authoring or XML view. I am not very familiar with creating/customizing structured apps, so I don't know if there is a file I should edit.Any help would be appreciated. Thanks in advance!

Adobe Support says it cannot do anything and that my request must be posted to a forum.  I'm here now, but I doubt Adobe wants a product serial number and an authorization number posted here in order to get an authorization code response from Adobe support.  The online support says adobe also monitors these forums.  So are you here?????Adobe, give me an answer:  how do I move an older Adobe Framemaker product from one computer I am retiring to a new computer?By the way, deactivation on the older computer also fails.  The claim is that the reason is that it's not internet connected.  That's false.The same claim (no network connection) is made when trying to activate the product on a different computer.

Hi, When I save FM to XML with extendscript, I see errors in the console which are not available in the AppData\Roaming\Adobe\FrameMaker\15\consfile.txt Please find an example issue attached. do you see a way to get this errors with extendscript ? thanks.

Hi All, I have an interesting EDD issue that I am trying to solve. Here is a screenshot of my document and structure. The requirement is to have the range1, range2, and child3 elements on the same line (in the same paragraph). To achieve that, my EDD has the yellow elements defined as text ranges. And it works.   However, here is the mystery. While I can apply character formatting to each of the text ranges, I can't figure out how to affect the paragraph where all three text ranges sit. It defaults to Body, but I can't figure out how to access the paragraph in the EDD. For example, this rule doesn't do anything:     And I guess that makes sense, since I had to define the child2 element as a text range. I am thinking that the paragraph where all three text ranges sit is unreachable in the EDD. Anyone know for sure? Thanks.  

Hi , I have been successfully working on shared FM documents saved in Sharepoint. If I tried to open a document that somone else was using  I got a warning and could either open a read-only file or reset the file lock if I was sure that no one else was using that file. That safety net seems to have disappeared and now my colleague and I can edit the same file without realising it. Unlike MS products in Sharepoint, the changes made by multiple users are then saved as separate documents. Can anyone assist?Many thanksKeli 

Hi,is it possible to import an XHTML package (ZIP) into FrameMaker? If so, is there a step by step guide?Greetings Stefan

Hello. When I publish to Resposive HTML5, all of my topics (headings) appear on one single (long) page. In the Settings File under Style Mapping I have "Split into topics based on this style" checked but they are still all showing up on one single page. Does anyone know how to correct this?

I have a script to open documents, make a modification, save and close the document but when reaching a large number of documents an alert pops up: "Insufficient memory to display the dialog box. Close one or more windows and try again" But at this point all the documents are closed and I can't open any more.Does anyone know how to clear the memory or expand the memory.

In this snitppet the if is entered - but I do not understand why: $.writeln (oFound + " " + KLD_F.iError); if (oFound == undefined || (KLD_F.iError != 0)) { // Nothing found ----------- KLD_F.DisplayInfoF (KLD_F.UItxt.ButtonFind.@msg_07.toString(), "red"); // not found (anymore) KLD_F.bNextCompOK = true; // propably look into next book component } The writeln says:  null   0 Is in the condition null the same as undefined?

I'm trying to step through multiple open documents and do something in each.  Have had no luck searching the forum for an answer...probably something discusssed and forgotten years ago. The procedure I'm using works when the "do something" is: tbl = doc.FirstTblInDoc;foundText = tbl.MakeTblSelection (Constants.FF_SELECT_WHOLE_TABLE, 0, 0, 0); However, when I try to do something else, like change font color of first paragraph of each document, it just keeps doing it to the first document.  I'm guessing it has something to do with making each document the focus, but I've had no luck figuring out how to do that.  Here's my code... doc = app.FirstOpenDoc;Alert ("Testing script to step through documents.");while (doc.ObjectValid()) {   //Do something in the open document  doc = doc.NextOpenDocInSession;}

I am once again stuck with a document with lot and lots of missing files. The files can be found,  but they are distributed in a very large and seemingly random number of folders.There is no easy way to "fix it all" in one take, but FrameMaker could certainly be more helpful.So please vote for this suggestion! Let's have the missing files dialogue be selectable making i possible to copy/paste the missing file name and do a search on your drives.https://tracker.adobe.com/#/view/FRMAKER-11504 

I use FM19 to publish as responsive html5. I have a table that looks fine on my desktop pc and on my laptop:As you can see above, the table text has the same size as the body text.However, on my Android phone, the table text suddenly becomes very small:(Sorry for the scaling issue, image size should be much smaller, as my cell phone screen.)Anyway, as you can see, the table text isn't even half the normal text size. Due to this, the google indexing says "Page isn't usable on mobile", "Too small text to read" and "Viewport not set". What can I do to get bigger table text?

Hi,In our application we are using F_ApiAlive() method to check if it's connected to framemaker session.Initially F_ApiAlive() return 0  and F_ApiStartUp() connects the application with framemaker but if FrameMaker is closed manually then also F_ApiAlive() returns "Non Zero" value(which means connected to frameMaker but FM is already closed). After that F_ApiStartUp() also doesn't connect with new FrameMaker session. So basically i need a way to connect to new FM session if first one was closed. Thanks

FrameMaker 16.0.4.1062. As I understand it, with FrameMaker 2020 we were supposed to be able to have a uniform fill behind paragraph text AND with no white lines below. In this document I have added grey background colour in the font setting. I have added grey color in Advanced - Paragraph box and a grey line above and below, the paragraph. This should give me a uniform grey colour behind the entire text. Only I STILL get white lines below the paragraphs.So... CAN this be made to work? Is it possible to have a uniform fill color behnd the text with no white lines? 

While importing several .png images into a chapter with anchors and Figure placeholders [+ Figure captions] already in place for each Figure, using the menu as follows File> Import > File > and then checking the radio button to Import by Reference (as opposed to Import by Copy), I inadvertently checked the Import by Copy option. The image was Saved there in the frame-inside-a-frame placeholder. I attempted to re-do the action by File > Import > File and planned to check the radio button for Reference. But FM won't allow me to go to that window. Instead, the following error message appears. How to get the Import by Reference function back to that placeholder so I can update the image properly and consistently with the rest of the import-by-Reference images in the book? I tried looking around for a similar post - only found this but it does not address 'my book's issue: Thank you~https://community.adobe.com/t5/framemaker-discussions/swap-image-or-change-import-by-refe

Hi,This is a general ES question, but since I'm working with FM, I'll try here first.I am able to create dropdown lists with ES and set/get the current selection, but I'm not clear on why it is working the way it does. It seems that when I set the selection, it uses an index of the current items, but when I get the selection, it gets the actual value.Consider this sample, with its comments://create the dropdown, for the dlg dialogdlg.dropDown = dlg.add("dropdownlist", undefined, [10, 20, 30]);//this sets the current value in the box to 30dlg.dropDown.selection = 2;//however, this reports 30, not 2alert(dlg.dropDown.selection);Does anybody know about this? Is it true that it is an index when set, and a value when gotten? I couldn't find anything in the documentation about it.Thanks,Russ

Hi, I am working on some functionality which opens a new framemaker session and tries to connect with it.Currently in the application if framemaker is somehow closed we need to restart the application from start. I have added a button in app which actually open a new framemaker session but lookslike it is not in sync with the app, I have the following code which tries to make a connection with framemaker.  int FrameSession::ConnectToSession(){FontEncIdT feId;StringT encName;// Connect to the frame sessionif (!F_ApiAlive()) F_ApiStartUp(NULL);if (!F_ApiAlive())return 6; // No Registered Connectionelse{F_FdeInit();encName = F_ApiGetString(0, FV_SessionId, FP_DialogEncodingName);feId = F_FdeInitFontEncs((ConStringT) "FrameRoman");/*Get Path for ICU Data Directory */ConStringT icu_dir = F_GetICUDataDir();/// Set Path for ICU Data Directory for ICU Mappings.F_SetICUDataDir(icu_dir);return 0; // Connected to session successfully}} Same piece of code works when application

My FM19 book has about 50 fm files. Total of 1550 pages. Perhaps 200 images, lots of cross references etc. After adding one more fm file (a small one, just a few pages), FM has serious problems creating the pdf. The "Postprocessing PDF document" takes very long time, and at the end either FM crashes, or a "done" message box is shown. (Not the regular one, with view log, show output etc.) As you can see above, the computer has lots of CPU and RAM available. If a pdf is created, it looks fine. However, its filesize is suddenly 384 MB instead of the normal 12.5 MB. Running on a i7 desktop, 32 GB RAM. Windows 10.

Paraphrasing Shakepeare's Hamlet, I wonder what this parameter of t he Find method is all about: When starting a search for a word which exists multiple times in a document, and continue searching after t he last find in the document (at that moment of course I do not know that it is the last occurrence), I find find myself again in the first find... With my development FMfindRepl I have the same effect, even defining the parameter as 0. In the FM Find/Change dialog Wrapping can not be influenced. FDK reference states: FS_FindWrap A BoolT flag that determines whether the find operation will wrap when it reaches the location where the search began. Default is True; the find operations wraps. If False, after reaching the location where the search began, the find operation returns an emptyF_TextRangeT and FA_errno is set to FE_NotFound. In FMfindReplace I have this defintion for the Find parameters:   oPropVal1 = new PropVal() ; / oPropVal1.propIdent.num = Constants.FS_FindW

Dear colleagues,Stumbling over a sad information in the Indesign forum I want to forward it to you FrameMaker scripters.Theunis De Jong (aka Jongware) is the author of the indispensable tool for scripting for FrameMaker: the Windows Help file ObjectReference.hlp. Although developed in the FM-12 times it is still most useful to find all the properties and methods of an FM or Script-UI object. Thanks Marc Autret for the thoughtful and moving words on the passing of Theunis as well as the tribute site https://www.indiscripts.com/pages/theunis

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I have some documents with a sidehead page layout. When I change some of the paragraph styles which have had a setting to "In Column" to "Across All Columns and Sideheads", I get this message.But the page layout HAS room for side heads and FrameMaker accepts the changes and the paragraph style works as intended across sideheads and columns. But apparently FrameMaker is still dissatisfied. But with what?....Has anyone experienced this? Am I overlooking something obvious?...  

I am trying to include PDF structure tags using the FDK. I set the FP_PDFStructure property in the document object to true, then for each paragraph format I want to include in the structure tags I set the property FP_PDFStructureLevel to an integer value greater then 0. When I look at the output document's PDF settings the tags are not there (i.e Format->Document->PDF Setup). What am I missing here?

I have a team of approximately 40 users, all running 64-bit FrameMaker 2019 on Windows 10 (PC).  We print to the Adobe PDF printer to create pdfs, and check the box for "generate Acrobat Data". For *decades*, when we need to print a document as A4 instead of US Letter, we have been able to simply select the correct paper size in print setup and proceed (templates are set up with text frames that fit on either size). For the last couple of months, this no longer works. Frame will alter the width, but the height stays at 11", no matter what. The ONLY wany print to pdf results in the correct size is without generating Acrobat data, but then we have 200-page books with no bookmarks, and adding them back manaully is not an option. I've tried the following:Changing the default paper size of the printerreinstalling Adobe pdf printermanually setting a paper size within the Acrobat data setupCreate a new set of joboptions for Distiller with A4 as the paper sizeSave as pdf does not wor