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Hi guys,  I'm creating X-ref's to other HTML5 files in DITA (structured FM),These are files that are stored locally on a drive and the documents ofter refer to other documents that have been converted to HTML5.  The HREF target that I have been using has either been aquired from the 'Index' properies>security link, or from loading the index in chrome etc, and copying the link from the URL.  When I set the X-ref initially and test it using CTRL + ALT + Left Mouse Button, it works just fine.  However, when I reload the topic, the link breaks completely and upon inspecting the Href panel, the format appears to have changed.  The inital Href format looks like this and works (you won't be able to open it)file:///B:/Production%20Documents/All%20Departments%20(Company%20Wide)/TP/ATP-85800141/Responsive%20HTML5/index.html#t=ATP-85800141%2FAll_Departments_(Company_Wide)%2FTP%2FATP-85800141%2FEquipment.htmlnts_(Company_Wide)_TP_ATP-85800141_Eq

Hi Everyone,Hoping someone has seen this and knows how to fix. My book has (up until recently) always generated hyperlinked miniTOCs when saved as PDF. (Same result when Print to PDF.)Just noticed MiniTOC has stopped creating links in PDF, but all other hyperlinks still work. (Same result when Print to PDF.) See attached.Is there some behind the scene Reference Page code (or similar) that has become corrupted in my FM files?I tried deleting and inserting miniTOC, confirming the Create Hyperlinks in MiniTOC is set, for several of them, with same result.I tried another book with miniTOCs, and they Save to PDF with hyperlinked PDF results.I need to release this book soon, and this is out of my league for troubleshooting Frame to PDF.Thank you very much.fred 

Hello all! I'm working with an old manual that has been edited by many hands over the years. I'm havin an issue that looks like has been around for awhile in the document but never truly fixed. I'm hoping to change that with your help.When I look at the figure numbers they are sequential and the auto numbering works and then suddenly it doesnt. Example: Figure 4-22....4-30 and then it will go to 4-19. I look in the Paragraph Designer and it shows the same format with counter as the previous working ones"Figure <$chapnum>< >-<n+>< >< >< >< > ". I can manually enter the number and then will have to do the same for the next few figures and then the auto counter will work again but bases it on the manual number I previously entered. This scenario happens over and over in the chapter. This is driving me a little crazy. I'd appreaciate the help.

I'm not presently using FM to generate HTML, but based on a couple of recent threads about non-breaking spaces and HTML, I was running some experiments. According to the on line documentation, the mapping of special characters is controlled by the Character Macros table, found on one of the auto-connect Reference Pages all named "HTML". These RPs may not exist until you Publish to HTML5 or basic HTML for the first time. The table, however, doesn't seem to do anything. I changed the default:| ® | ® |to:| ® | ® |and the output markup remained "®" (Unicode U+00AE, also AEh in most Latin Extensions to ASCII). FM appears, by default, to render Body text CTRL+space \x11 to HTML as an ordinary ASCII 20h, Unicode U+0020 space, and not as either   or U+00A0 NO-BREAK SPACE. Adding a row to the Character Macros table, of| CTRL+space |   |did not change that. So what does control mapping for HTML output?

In my FM19 document I have a non-breaking space in a heading: I have a cross-reference to this heading:  But in the generated HTML5 output, this cross-reference looks like:  How can I avoid this   output in the generated HTML5?

Hi,   This is just for info, if anyone else needs to find non-breaking spaces with regular expressions. "\ " or \u00A0 or \s does not work. And it took me half an hour to find out that I have to use this notation: \x11 (in the online help in the appendix in Windows character sets; not described in the section about Find and Regular expressions) Characters in Unicode notation are generally not found with regular expressions.   Best regards   Winfried    

I have almost never used the spellchecker but now I am trying to make it work on some danish text, and I can't figure out the system.I want the spellchecker to find words which have old spelling conventions and correct them to new conventions. Like this:Spellchecker finds the word "Saa" which is old danish for "Så". "Så" does not figure as an option for correction so I type it myself and click "Correct". This works - FrameMaker inserts "Så" instead of "Saa".Now I would like FrameMaker to automatically suggest "Så" as the first replacement option next time it encounters "Saa". But how do I make FrameMaker do that. Apparently I should be able to add "Så" to the dictionary but that does not really seem to work.What am I missing here?

Howdy,Sometimes when I use Track Text Edits and Accept and edit, it will accept the new text, but the old, deleted text remains as redlines. Any idea why this happens?I've tried turning Track Text Edits off and on (hey, I'm using Windows), but it doesn't change anything.

When opening an fm file in FM2019 I do get a 'font missing' message. But the fm search doesn't show me where the font is. The MIF version of the file shows the missing font:<Tbl <TblID 99> <TblTag `B-Sb'> <TblFormat <TblColumn <TblColumnNum 0> <TblColumnWidth 100.0 mm> <TblColumnH <PgfTag `A4_Tag'> <Pgf <PgfFont <FTag `'> <FPlatformName `W.Frutiger 45 Light.R.400'> <FFamily `Frutiger 45 Light'> <FVar `Regular'> <FWeight `Regular'> <FAngle `Regular'> <FPostScriptName `Frutiger-Light'> <FEncoding `FrameRoman'> ... > # end of PgfFont > # end of Pgf > # end of TblColumnH ... I'd like to change the missing font to an existing one, i.e. Arial.The tags that need to be changed are:<FPlatformName `W.Frutiger 45 Light.R.400'><FFamily `Frutiger 45 Light'><FPostScriptName `Frutiger-Light'>  Is there a way to change the font in FM directly (and not in MIF)?

HI All, try to install 2019 FM , getting the Browser error . On the same machine FM-2020 able to install. Not sure what could be the issue , please asisst 

I'm trying to teach myself to script. I have a basic understanding of programming syntax and a passing familiarity with basic JavaScript, but I'm pretty much learning on the go. My goal is to write a script that steps through each table in a document and modifies various settings of each. The first part of the script is borrowed directly from the second example script of the Adobe FrameMaker Scripting Guide (Ch 3, p. 8). The Tbl properties I took from the same doc (Ch 5, p. 523). When I run the script in the ExtendScript Toolkit, the script executes without error, but none of the settings are applied in my open Frame document (i.e., all of the tables appear as they did before I ran the script). I'm not sure why it's not working. The documentation available (PDFs and Object Model Viewer) are pretty opaque, and there's very little in the way of explanatory information to help me connect the pieces. I'm guessing I'm out of my depth, but I'd really like to gain proficiency;

Hi, I am looking to check if a book/doc is valid (same as doing Esc v d) but programatically. I can't find this in the documentation; the closest I can find is:CallClient("FmValidateXml", "XML pathname"); Is there an equivilent of this for binary FM docs and books? Also, is there any documentation available for built-in API clients beyond the few examples in the FDK docs? Thanks,Dan

Since several years I have been working with a large multinational translation and publishing company, who needs to get a FrameMaker expert on board. This person will be maintaining and extending the structured application(s) and automation code. Thorough knowledge of FrameMaker as a user and implementer of Structured Applications plus experience in ExtendScript are required, knowledge of XSLT is a big plus. Contact me via direct message if you are interested in discussing this opportunity.

Now when I publish my responstive HTML, the topics folder is capitalized. None of the other folders are capitalized. Please help this will create a lot of relinking work.

After FM 2020 is reinstalled on new laptop, navigation view options such as select heading and content and delete are not working, Can anybody please help on this?

We have book files that contain several chapters and a glossary. We created numerous named destinations (specify named destination/jump to named destination) throughout the FM files. If we check the links in the FM files, they work fine (i.e. the linked word jumps to the correct spot). However once we PDF, it loses some (not all) of those links. Anyone have any suggestions for figuring out why or fixing the issue? To PDF, we print a PS file then distill it. We are using FM 10. There appears to be no rhyme or reason for which words work and which words don't. Any help is greatly appreciated!!

Today, I found out that I cannot sign in to FM 2019. I get a Sign-In Now dialog box and click Sign in.Then, I see an error, "Update Required Your browser or operating system is no longer supported. You may need to install the latest updates to your operating system." I am using Windows 10 all patched up and have tried the latest versions of Chrome and Firefox without success. Help? Cheers, Sean

Hi, one FrameMaker instance (technical writer located in India) cannot correctly render some characters in a MIF file. I don't recognize any systematical logic. What is really strange is, that the ciphered chars "ņ" and "ā" are correctly displayed in the same file at a different position. The problem is reproducible, but only on one specific computer/FrameMaker instance. Do you have an idea? I've already tried setting the Windows locale to UTF-8, but this did not help.https://superuser.com/questions/1033088/is-it-possible-to-set-locale-of-a-windows-application-to-utf-8 Adobe does not allow me to upload the original MIF file, therefore I've renamed the MIF to TXT and upload it here. If you want to open the file, please rename the file extension from TXT to MIF first.

I discovered an annoying ExtendScript bug. Background text is not reported as a character property change in ExtendScript. To see it, create a single paragraph and apply a Background color as an override. Click anywhere in the paragraph and run this code. It will show 0 in the alert dialog. It should show 2.   #target framemaker var doc, pgf, textList; doc = app.ActiveDoc; pgf = doc.TextSelection.beg.obj; textList = pgf.GetText (Constants.FTI_CharPropsChange); alert (textList.length);

Dear all, I want to use the automatic numbering for paragraphs to convert an arbitrary integer into a string. The automatic numbering provides a great range of numbering systems (numeric, roman, ...) In the following script the text range does not behave - although I have used this method in other scripts with success.     //@target framemaker var KLD_Z = KLD_Z || {}; // global script object //@include ..\GetText.jsx KLD_Z.main = function () { // <><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><> $.bp(true); var oDoc = app.ActiveDoc, oTL1, oTL2, oTR, sText, oMasterPage, oTxtFrame, oPgf, PT = 65536; oMasterPage = oDoc.FirstMasterPageInDoc; // Add a temporary text frame oTxtFrame = oDoc.NewTextFrame (oMasterPage.PageFrame); oTxtFrame.Width = 400 * PT; oPgf = oTxtFrame.FirstPgf; oPgf.PgfIsAutoNum = 1; // se

We have a user using FrameMaker (FM) 2019/2017 that has issue reading files from SharePoint 2019 (on-prem) document library.  The issue is that when trying to read the file(s) on SharePoint 2019 from FM  client, the files is not able to render on FM.  However, the same steps to read file on SharePoint 2013 it has no issue - able to render the *.fm file on FM.  

I have created an EDD based on the FM Structured EDD Development Workbook.  This includes elements like Chapter, Title, Section, Para, Warnnote, Item, Footnote, Table, and more.  However, I can't create a book.  The structure view displays the highest level element as NoName and each file as BOOK-COMPONENT. The NoName element shows that FM does not know which part of the structure should be applied. The book I'm reading has practice files that are already structured.  However, I can't find these practice files due to a broken link so I have been practicing with copies of existing files.  Please give advice as I have an existing manual I need to make an EDD for but am stuck. The structure view shows:  V   NO NAME||----BOOK-COMPONENT ..... Chap 1 ----BOOK-COMPONENT..... Chap 2 ...etc  

We have started using a custom marker to create revision highlights sections for our books.   I would like to find out if it is possible to clear out the markers between revisions.   In addition to the custom marker used for revisions, we are using two other types of markers to denote regulatory references.   As a result, we don't want to clear all markers, just the custom one.  Is there a method to accomplish this?  

Hi all, I want to access to Framemaker Spelling Checker properties. Manually, when we go to Edit -> Spelling Checker -> Options, we can change them but is there a way to access and change them programatically? Thanks in advance

I have been trying few python libraries to read data from a PDF made using FrameMaker. I am able to fetch hyperlinks that point to external public web pages. But I am not able to find the hyperlink URI for cross reference links. For example, This is the annotation for cross reference hyperlinks.{'/A': IndirectObject(2374, 0), '/BS': {'/S': '/S', '/Type': '/Border', '/W': 0}, '/Border': [0, 0, 0], '/Rect': [53.9978, 711.363, 131.515, 699.124], '/Subtype': '/Link', '/Type': '/Annot'} This is the annotation for external hyperlinks.{'/A': {'/S': '/URI', '/URI': 'https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apple_Inc.'}, '/BS': {'/S': '/S', '/Type': '/Border', '/W': 0}, '/Border': [0, 0, 0], '/Rect': [53.9978, 673.685, 178.073, 661.685], '/Subtype': '/Link', '/Type': '/Annot'} How can I fetch an URI like link for cross reference hyperlinks to open the pdf in a new tab, not redirect within the same tab, pointing to the exact section/figure/table mentioned in cross reference link?