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December 15, 2025
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Strange table footnote behaviour on landscape pages

  • December 15, 2025
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FM 2022 (17.0.6.798)

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I have a table footnote on a landscape page. In FM, when I view the page, the text for the table footnote appears correctly:

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When I rotate the page to work on it, it also appears correctly:

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However, when I Save as PDF/Publish to PDF, the text on the footnote is rotated:

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I've not used table footnotes before, but this behaviour seems a little odd to me. Any suggestions/thoughts?

    Correct answer QuintinSeegers

    Before I logged a but, I thought I'd test it with a blank document. No issue. Will have to look at my EDD and template that I use - that may be the cause instead.


    So, here's what I've found (and it was all my own doing, it seems). I wasn't using the built-in Footnote and TableFootnote functionality properly. In my EDD, I had an Element (Footnote) but it didn't use the built-in Paragraph Styles for Footnot and TableFootnote.  I modified these to match our style settings as per our EDD and changed the document Footnote settings to match. I also created the missing TableFootnote frame on the Reference page. Once I did all these corrections, the TableFootnote now converts to PDF correctly, regardless of which method I use (Save as PDF, Publish, Print to PDF) or whether Distiller is used or not.

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    Winfried RengCommunity Expert
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    December 16, 2025

    Hi,

    How do you create your PDF?

    With or without Distiller?

    I guess that this might make a difference.

    Best regards, Winfried

    QuintinSeegers
    QuintinSeegersAuthor
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    December 16, 2025

    @Winfried Reng Without Distiller. A long time ago I had a subscription to Acrobat, which I've since cancelled. When I try to use Distiller now, it says I need an active subscription for Acrobat. Realising I still had Acrobat installed, I uninstalled it, which now broke Framemaker because it's now missing the Adobe PDF printer. So now I have a different issue to resolve first.

    Jeff_Coatsworth
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    Jeff_CoatsworthCommunity Expert
    Community Expert
    December 16, 2025

    You probably need to reinstall FM to get the "headless" Distiller back - search the FM forum for the topic of "missing Adobe PDF printer instance" for threads on how to fix it.

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    FrameMaker-dkCommunity Expert
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    December 15, 2025

    How do you "rotate the page?" Do you mean rotating the textflow? I have just tried that and was unable to reproduce the error.

     

    Bjørn Smalbro - FrameMaker.dk
    QuintinSeegers
    QuintinSeegersAuthor
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    December 16, 2025

    @FrameMaker-dk ,

    I set up a Master Page with the text frame rotated 90 degrees so the text is oriented landscape across the page, like so:

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    I then rotate the page, so it appears onscreen like a landscape oriented page:

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    I do this because it's easier to read the content that way.

     

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    Once I'm done, I "unrotate" the page again.

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