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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?    

Adobe FrameMaker application encounters performance issues, including slowness and freezing, while editing text, and the graphical view fails to operate correctly. Team Could you assist in resolving this problem. 

How do I insert an anchored frame at exactly 1/2 inch from the left margin? Once I get that done, can I copy that frame and paste it in another location and have it be that same exact distance from the left margin? Thanks!

We have issue with an xml file imported into Structured FrameMaker 11 getting hung up and not importing into the FrameMaker template. We believe that it may have something to do with the new root element not being recognized by FrameMaker.We’ve checked the root element name in the dtd, the xsl, edd, and structured app definition and they all match. The structued app definition is mapped correctly.With the template opened, in StructuredTools > Set Structured Application…, when I try to set the structured application root element: the root element appears in the look-up menu: But when I select it, it does not accept the new root element that I selected: It will accept one of the existing root elements in the menu: Any suggestions on how to resolve this will be appreciated.

Hello everyone, AFAIK, the FM HTML5 Publisher doesn't include any option that controls which TOC level will appear expanded/collapsed by default when opening the index file. My guess is that this is controlled by some Javascript file. Does anyone know where this setting is defined/implemented? Thank you in advance! 

@frameexpert - Appreciate you looking at this. I have about 1/3 of what I need, but I'm over my head and hopefully, there is a simpler way. What I want to do is take - https://community.adobe.com/t5/framemaker-discussions/script-to-change-red-text-to-black/td-p/15293234/page/2 and expand it to work with a table selection.   I also saw: https://community.adobe.com/t5/framemaker-discussions/iterate-all-tables-in-framemaker/m-p/10338583    I found a couple of supposedly decent scripts from a google search - first: // Get the active document var doc = app.ActiveDoc; // Check if a table is selected if (doc.SelectedTbl.ObjectValid()) { var oTable = doc.SelectedTbl; // Get the row and column information of the selection var topRow = oTable.TopRowSelection; var bottomRow = oTable.BottomRowSelection; var leftCol = oTable.LeftColNum; var rightCol = oTable.RightColNum; // Iterate through the selected rows and columns to access individual cells var

I am using Tortoise SVN to checkout and commit FrameMaker books. I am not receiving a green checkmark when I commit an updated FrameMaker book. The folder has a red exclamation mark. I get an error that files are conflicted.  There are no unresolved cross-references. Can anyone help me resolve this issue?

Hi there,Brand new to FrameMaker and grateful for any help!I have several elements that contain text in my XML that I want FrameMaker to omit if the attribute display="false" is present? Can I drop/omit an element based on an attribute's value, but not drop the child element? example:<option1>  <feedisplay display="true">Text in the output</feedisplay>    <option2>      <feedisplay display="true">Text in the output</feedisplay>        <option3>          <feedisplay display="false">Text I want ignored/omitted in the output</feedisplay>            <option4>              <feedisplay display="true">Text in the output</feedisplay> 

I have an internal parts breakdown table that I need to be able to hyperlink to hotspots in graphic or from graphic to the index number in the table.   I created a hyper text in the table index using specify destination name (ie. 110).  I created a hotspot in the graphic that links to the specify destination name marker (ie 110).  That works, and I could create a goto previous link.  That works.   However, If the user decides to press on the table index first, how  do I jump from the internal parts breakdown table to the hotspot in the graphic? Thanks in advance for any help.

I have some very old code working with my Framemaker 7.2.   We have "lost" the FDK and would need it again to update some specific scripts / macros that were previously developped.   Do you know where I could find the FDK7.2?

I have a document using a template with modified right and left master pages that allow room for sideheads.  I'm trying to remove the sideheading space and apply the changes to every page in the document.  I unticked "Allow room for sideheads" in the object properties for both master pages and switched back to body page view, specifiying to remove overrides.  The new changes aren't reflected in the body pages, and I'm not sure why. I tried applying Right/Left master to pages to the fulld document flow, but nothing happens.  Stranger still, I created a fresh FM document and imported styles from the previous file, and it applied side heads to my body page, even though the master pages specify no room for sideheads.  Thoughts? Thank you!

Hello,Are you able to help?I am using Adobe FrameMaker 2022 and I am placing a SigmaPlot graph (v15) into a graphic frame in AF, when I place the graph, the lines are not smooth.  This graph was created originally back in 2011 and the curve was smooth in my previous version of AF a few years ago. I had to make a minor update to the graph and I keep it in the relevant version of SigmaPlot,  Do you know why the curve do not show smooth in AF2022 package please.  Is there a setting I need to add or untick in AF2022? Thank you for your help in advance. Above is previous version.Curve now showing not smooth

I was working in Sturctured FrameMaker (DITA) and encountered an issue, so I wanted to share it to see if anyone has had a similar experience. After entering Latin capital letter D with stroke and saving the file, reopening it changes the character to Latin small letter d with stroke. Could anyone help me understand the cause of this?  

I’m have a terribly hard time formatting my HTML5 output of the giant-book (600pp) we’re creating.  I’ve scoured the internet and keep coming up empty trying to figure out the following layout issues in the HTML5 output…Every FM document has its own folder and html-page in the HTML5 output, vice having a hierarchy of content. There are no indents whatsoever in the HTML5 output...The FM documents are organized in a Book and the order of those FM documents is how I want the book to read…however, many (not all) of the FM documents show up out of order in the HTML5 output Table of Content pageNone of my GlossaryTerms are showing on the HTML5 Glossary page

Hello,In FM 17.07, when I am in the character custom list, my goal is to display only :— titre souligé— police by default (default font)But I see that I cannot select "police by default" in my custom list. Why ? 

I have an unresolved cross reference on many of my .fm files' master pages in my .book file. I can find them when I go to View -> Master Pages and then CTRL-F (even if I cant necessarily see them), and replace them with a blank, as they are outdated cross references and just need to be removed. Is there a quick way to get rid of them that does not include manually going into each file, clicking View-> Master Pages-> CTRL F-> (etc.)?I have tried to apply the Page Layout format from a corrected file to the remainder of the files and it doesnt seem to want to replace the master pages entirely the way I would generally expect.I also attempted scripting to open files to their master pages so I could do CTRL-F for the whole book, but I did not have much success there.Thanks,

Hi All, I have a script that builds and XML object of a FrameMaker document's structure. I use this map in subsequent functions that need to query the document's element/attribute structure using ExtendScript's xpath function. This is faster than traversing the document's structure multiple times.   Now the client has a large document--almost 700 pages--that has tons of tables. The script uses recursion to traverse and build the XML object map and I think that is where it is failing. I am not sure there is a good solution, but I wanted to put it out there in case you wireheads have any ideas. Thanks.   #target framemaker var GS_XMNT = GS_XMNT || {}; GS_XMNT.version = "Version 0.1b November 18, 2024"; GS_XMNT.file = $.fileName; GS_XMNT.main = function (doc, element) { var xmlMap; if (doc.ObjectValid () === 1) { if (element.ObjectValid () === 1) { xmlMap = GS_XMNT.getXmlMap (doc, element); alert (xmlMap.hasComplexContent ());

I don't like visual noise, so I want to disable the welcome screen. I found this post which outlines an addition to the maker.ini file to disable the welcome screen. But it doesn't seem to be working: every time I open FrameMaker, the Welcome Screen is displayed. Even when I double-click a .fm file to open Frame, an extra tab is added for the welcome screen. Preferences->Global->General contains a setting "show tabbed welcome screen". I've unchecked this, but the next time I start Frame this preference is checked again. I cannot emphasize this enough: I don't use the welcome screen. I don't want to see the welcome screen.FM version 16.0.0.754

Guten Morgen,ich bräuchte eure Hilfe.Kann mir jemand sagen, wie ich die Navigationsstruktur bei der Veröffentlichung "Responsive HTM5" anpassen kann?Im Moment exportiert FrameMaker eine fortlaufende Kapitelstruktur (siehe 1. Bild IST-Variante".Könnt Ihr mir sagen, welche Einstellung ich machen muss, um eine Kapitelstruktur zu erhaltend die die einzelnen Kapitel untereinander stellt (siehe 2. Bild SOLL-Variante)?Ich habe FameMaker Version 17.0.4. 628 installiert.Viele GrüsseStefan

I'm using FM 2022. I created a style for numbered steps in my documents. When publishing to pdf, the output includes the numbered steps as headings in the sidebar TOC. 

Hi,Task is to skip the letter 'I' in Appendix numbering (structured FM).Chat GBT tells me:FM will always include 'I' unless you break out of the automated sequence by:-Manually typing letters-Using a custom counter and string mapping-Or scripting a solutionDon't want to do it manually, and was wondering what is a good solution for this?I am new, so any helpful information about document numbering would be helpful.ChatGBT <again> tells me that  FM uses an automated sequence for appendix numbering, and that automated sequence is:  <A+> building block is based on the ASCII values of uppercase letters, starting at A (ASCII 65) and incrementing by 1 for each new instance.How can you 'see' this in FM?  I get the panel at Format >Numbering that gives you an interface to set the numbers.Thank you,Vicki