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Souki363420673t2g
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March 29, 2024
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Open existing documentation on Framemaker

  • March 29, 2024
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Hi, 

I'm new to framemaker, taking over froma colleague who left the company.

We have existing documentation stored in GIT and I don't seem to be able to open it, anybody using GIt with framemaker ? How do you acces your doc?

Thanks.

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    Matt-Tech Comm Tools
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    Matt-Tech Comm ToolsCommunity Expert
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    April 2, 2024

    My understanding is that GIT is a code repository. Are you saying that you have .fm files stored in GIT?

    -Matt Sullivan, FrameMaker Course Creator, Author, Trainer, Consultant
      Bob_Niland
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      Bob_NilandCommunity Expert
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      March 29, 2024

      I've never used GIT, so am shooting in the dark here.

      What is the failure presentation? (i.e. dialogs or error messages)

      Can you pull an instance of a document, as *.fm, and open it locally?

      Does your FM platform (presumably Windows) have a GIT client that makes the GIT appears as a virtual file system?

       

      FM has integration for a variety of CMS servers, but GIT doesn't appear to be one of them.

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        Souki363420673t2gAuthor
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        May 2, 2024

        After I had time to play with it, I discovered that my predecessor had a local copy he publishes to. I copied his Got repo into my machine and I wsa finally able to open the book on FM.

        I'm trying to add minor updates to see if I can publish them but no success so far. I get error messages that the file is open or beig used but I'm the only person manipulating this file, any idea what this could be ?

         

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          Winfried RengCommunity Expert
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          May 2, 2024

          Hi,

          Can you describe in more detail, what you exactly do?

          What is your FrameMaker version (exact numbers from the Help/About menu)?

          How do you try to print something? Save As PDF? Print to a local printer? Print to a PostScript file?

          Are there native FrameMaker *.FM files on GIT? Do you open these? Any messages, while you open the files?

          Best regards, Winfried

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