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MrsVJW
MrsVJW
Inspiring
June 19, 2014
Question

Page number problems in Framemaker 12

  • June 19, 2014
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I ran into this issue earlier this week with one book, and I have suddenly seen it happen with another.

We moved from Frame 10 (where all worked fine) to Frame 12.  Run an update of the doc, and for some reason, the auto-numbers in the TOC seem to assume that each chapter is only a single page or two pages long.  But when you open the chapters they are longer than that.  Within the chapter numbering seems to continue fine, until you open the next chapter and it says it's one page beyond the first page of the last chapter. What up, Framemaker?  Nothing has changed at the chapter level in these files from when I last ran an update in Frame 10.

Anyone else seeing this issue?

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Arnis Gubins
Arnis Gubins
Inspiring
June 20, 2014

It might be easier to just create a new book file in FM12 and add all of the chapters back in, rather than trying to mess with the book file that doesn't seem to want to convert to the newer version properly.

Book settings always trump file settings so trying o fiddle an individual file may not get you anywhere.

MrsVJW
MrsVJWAuthor
Inspiring
June 19, 2014

Also, just trying to reset the page numbering for the impacted chapter is NOT working either.  Have to remember how I fixed this before....

Bob_Niland
Community Expert
Bob_NilandCommunity Expert
Community Expert
June 20, 2014

> ... the auto-numbers in the TOC seem to assume that each chapter is only a single page or two pages long.

So how is the TOC numbering the contents that are not on page 1? Is everything "1"?

> ... trying to reset the page numbering for the impacted chapter is NOT working either.

Are you doing that in the component file or in the book menu?

We set all of that in the component files, and then set every dialog and subdialog in the Book to:

  • Read from File

    Having never seen this anomaly before, I'd also consider doing a MIF wash on all the component files, and the .book.

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