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I updated an old template, with an old script. To make it more effienct (constant cut and paste) I removed a header row and programmed the new header with Paragraph Formatting. Now the script no longer works.If I read this correctly, the script identifies the table as a "Parts Table" and then runs the "Remove Rulings" script, and then runs the "Add Rulings" script, placing lines where they need to be. But it is broken, because it is not identifing the tables as a parts table or does not find the text "Part".// script in question:function main() //Removes ruling and adds{for (var q =0; q < textItems.len; q++){table = textItems[q].obj;table.HFSeparatorRuling = blargName2;table.HFRowRuling = blargName2;row = table.FirstRowInTbl;if (row.ObjectValid()){topRowCell = row.FirstCellInRow;cell = topRowCell;cell = cell.CellBelowInCol;cell = cell.NextCellInRow;if(cell.ObjectValid()){blarg = cell.GetText(Constants.FTI_String);dude = ""if(blarg.len > 0){dude = blarg[0].sdata;}if(dude.indexOf("

Hello Everyone, I have experience with unstructured FrameMaker only and I would like to explore the structured FM world and DITA. Would you recommend me any training courses? If certification is offered that would be best. Thank you for your help as always 😃 Daniela 

My current Manual Template has a Parts Table that you Insert, but each time you insert it you have to copy and paste the second header row with "ITEM, PART NUMBER, DESCRIPTION, QTY.". I have a script called "Table Ruling" with denifies the second row of the header and if the second header row has "part" in the text - it sets the proper rulings. (ie. thin line after every second number). If the first colum ("ITEM") is blank it will remove the lines between the (what we call the) parent numbers. I went to format the second row with "Paragraph Formats" and it broke the script code, since it no longer has the "Part" as plain text. Is there a way to change the current script to look for a "Paragraph Format = zCellPN" instead.Suspected code I need to change:                                if(dude.indexOf("PART") !== -1) //Checks for a

I loaded Framemaker 2020 and everything is going smoothly except the following two conditional tags are provided by default:FM_PDF_Comments_HighlightFM_PDF_Comments_UnderlineSince I use conditional tags all the time for my work, the last thing I want is two more tags. However, no matter how hard I try, I cannot get rid of these two. I delete them, they seem to be gone, save the file, but when I open the file again they are there again. Does anyone know how to permanently get rid of them. I have lots of manuals and I do not want them in every file in every manual.   thank you

Hello fellows,Just downloaded the latest FM scripting guide and discovered that it does not cover the latest versions of FM in the File Save function.The last save constant listed is FV_SaveFmtInterchange110. Are you aware of any upcoming doc. update? Thanks!Roman

Hi, I try to design a custom dialog box in a .dre file. In FDK programmer guide Tabs are not listed in items type which can be added to a dialog box. But in some of the FrameMaker dialog boxes, there are tabs. Can anyone help me with how to add it?Any help would be appreciated.Thanks,Sanam

Hi Recently I have increased the number of documents that I manage using DITA and FrameMaker to around 120. Then I noticed that FrameMaker crashes while processing the ditaval file for each document, which includes one value per document. Any reason for this? Is there a limit for the number of ditavals that we need to be aware of?Best,Hadi

I have been testing scripts to see how they work and now I have a list of scripts in my history.I have researched how to remove them with no solution."File > Script > History"Is there a quick fix?Thank you, 

Hi All,It has been around a year since I have been writing scripts. Now I have to write a new one and cannot.I can run existing scripts, but if I select File>Script>New Script, nothing happens. No form opens. Likewise, I can open the Script Catalog, but if I select a script and click Edit, the script is not displayed. I'm using FrameMaker 2019 Version: 15.0.8.979.I have tried resetting the 15 folder, deleting temp files, restarting FrameMaker and restarting my latpop, to no avail.Thanks in advance for your help!Aviva

When I open a FM book and its files, the file page is viewable momentarily, and then disappears, leaving only a white page. If I select any menu item, for example: View > Options, the View Options window pops up and the page behind it displays normally. When I close the View Options window, the page disappears again. This only happens on my laptop. The same FM book and its files opens without issue on other laptops. The day before yesterday, I had no problem. What could cause this sudden issue or conflict?

Every time I try to open one of our FM files, I get an 'internal error  15084 has occurred' and FM shuts down. I open the .backup file succesfully and overwrite the original file. Until the next time I try to open the file - then the error occurs again. This is starting to happen on several of our FM files. Everthing worked fine yesterday, though. I've even tried saving the .backup file as a MIF first, then overwriting the FM file. The error still occurs the next time I try to open the FM file.Window 10FM2019 64-bit

Hi,   Our support asked me whether it's possible that the PDF shows a specific number when the user moves the mouse over some text. I tested all hypertext commands (possibly not in the correct way), but nothing worked. The alert command created permanent icons and did not create a hover effect. Is there anything?   Best regards   Winfried

Hi, I have a legacy version of Framemaker (v5) and a collection of .fm files that I am trying to edit.One of the edits tries to add a .jpeg image to a file. To do this, I create and select an emptyGraphics frame. I then click on File -> Import -> File... I then navigate to the .jpeg file andclick on Import. When I do this, I see the message:    The filter encountered an error and could not compete the translationwhich, I don't understand.Although I have been able to import many such images in the past, doing this no longer worksfor me. I have tried different images and different image formats, all with the same result. I havesearched online for interpretations of this message, to no avail. I have even tried completelyreinstalling Framemaker. Nothing I do changes the outcome.Can anyone provide an interpretation for this message? Can anyone suggest a workaround?Of course, one possibility would be to buy a more recent version of Framemaker. But beforeI do this, I

How could I create a pop-up in Framemaker 12 by hovering over a word, say, an acronym, and have a pop-up displayed with the acronym spelled out?  Thanks.

When I edit and update a paragraph style in a Lw DITA topic document, close and save the file, and then reopen it, the paragraph style no longer has my changes. Similarly, if I create a custom paragraph style, it is no longer available when I re-open the file. What am I missing here?

I have a client importing CGM images into FrameMaker 2020. They are saving down to 2017 via MIF and when they open the FrameMaker document in 2017, they get the "filter may have changed" message. The top and left offsets of the CGMs are different in the 2017 documents. Is this a known issue?   I am assuming the something changed in the CGM filters between 2017 and 2020, especially since everything was recompiled for the newer 64-bit versions.

I have a new laptop and we have documents which use the Bembo fonts. The fonts are installed and the document looks great in Framemaker. When we print the document comes out as if it has lost the Bembo fonts and it comes out as nonsense, worse than wingdings. Does any one have any ideas how to fix this/what i am missing on this new laptop which is required? My colleague also has a new laptop and experiencing the same.

I believe I understand well-enough how cross-references work in Framemaker, but one thing that bothers me is how, when generating a PDF from Framemaker and clicking on a cross-reference, the resulting page view locates the cross-reference marker at the very top of a page. This is very inconvenient and confusing when, say, cross-referencing a figure caption that appears at the bottom of a page. The resulting page view when following such a cross-reference in a PDF centers the text of the _following_ page, with the text of the figure caption barely visible at the top of the page. My question: Is there a way to construct cross-references such that that the resulting page view, when clicking in a PDF, is centered on the page on which the cross-referenced material appears?Thanks so much.JMW

Hi,Is there a way to get the tables to be published to responsive html5 as separate files in addition to being part of the text, as the image files are?I need to associate them to separate help buttons. Thanks

Hi, I am new to Adobe FrameMaker FDK. I read the FDK developing guide. I tried to build a sample client using one of the sample codes given in the guide (adding elements to menu). I downloaded  FM2017_FDK pack from Adobe website. I couldn't build my sample code in Visual Studio 2017 (I got lots of errors that I could't solve them). I downloaded Visual Studio 2013. I was able to build my code (eventhoght there were still some errors I had no idea how to solve them). I copied the .dll I built and copied it to the direction written in the guid (fminit/Plugins/). Add it to maker.ini as it was written in the guide. When I run FrameMaker I got an error message.  I don't know what should I do to run this sample client. I also copy my code here. #include "fapi.h" #define LOAD 1 #define QUERY 2 void main() { IntT initializer = 1; F_ApiInitialize(initializer); } VoidT F_ApiInitialize(IntT initialization) { F_ObjHandleT specialMenuId, databaseMenuId; /* Get the ID

My FM user interface seems to change (or reset) on its own so the panels on the right side I have customised are missing. I have now done the customization few times but it does not seem to stay. Previously I have saved my own interface but that does not restore my panels now. What might be ongoing here? How to ensure that user interface is not changing? I have not found ways or settings to fix this. Previously, over several years, this has not been occuring at all. Any ideas?

We just installed Acrobat DC with the Adobe Tech Comm Suite, and when we try to use the Save as Review feature, we get an error stating "Error opening PDF file! Please check of you have correct version of Adobe Acrobat (8.0 or later) installed." If we try to generate a PDF from the .ps file, Distiller comes up blank. 

After years of using FrameMaker, suddenly I get this. It still works, but it's too small to read. I fear I have somehow inadvertently changed a setting someplace, and can't find where. How do I make it big again? Sorry if this should be obvious.Jack

In our unstructured documents, we have a table (nt Notes Table) we use to insert various notes. We use a paragraph style (ns Notes) to format the note text. We also use diffent paragraph styles to insert an appropriate image, depending on the type of note, e.g.:nti  Notes Table - Important Notes Iconntg Notes Table - General Notes Iconntr Notes Table - Reference Notes Icon, etc.In our EDD, we have a NoteType attribute against our Notes Table Element that identifies the type of note, e.g. Important, General, Reference, etc.In our Conversion Table, we have the following:The conversion correctly converts all the elements. Our problem is that the NoteType attribute isn't assigned correctly. It is always assigning the "General" attribute value, which is the last one in the list.I know it's probably one of those "can't see for looking" mistakes I've made in the conversion table.Asking the EDD gurus 🙂

Hey All--my machine suddenly began to have this issue: I cannot open .book files in FM 2017 (with the latest updates installed), but have no problem opening the .fm files in that book. When I attempt to open a .book file, the program begins to open, then almost immediately stops responding, and then throws an internal error message and has to close. I can't open any .book files, nor can I open a new .book file.And it gets more interesting: I can push the apparently un-openable files to our central repository and my colleague is able to pull and open up the .book files that I cannot.I have yet to contact adobe support as I'm hoping there's a simple fix that I'm missing, but looking up the error codes yielded nothing. So--any ideas? I'm a little stumped.