Book printing with FrameMaker 11?

[eleo_redactech]

Since I got FM11, I can't print books anymore. Do you have the same problem?

How did you manage to print books again?

[Jeff_Coatsworth]

Printing to what? PDF? Physical printers? Need a little more explanation of what’s happening ;>)

[eleo_redactech]

Sorry,

actually I can't print at all, Ctrl + P on a book only enlightens the files the book is made of and then nothing happens.

My book is made of FM 10 files, that may be an explication ...

[eleo_redactech]

....it doesn't work with FM11 files either.

[Jeff_Coatsworth]

What does FM think is your default printer? (hint – it should be AdobePDF – use the free SetPrint plug-in to set this inside FM)

[eleo_redactech]

Thanks

I changed the default printer to AdobePDF but it still doesn't work (I still don't even get the Print window) .

The thing is, I have no problem printing FM files, only books.

(and FM11 just crashed again as I was closing the book)

[Jeff_Coatsworth]

Can you post a screenshot of what you’re getting? Use the camera icon in the web interface of the forum to do so.

[Arnis Gubins · Accepted solution]

Is you FM11 patched to the latest 11.0.2 patch (there have been two patches to date)? There was an early release bug that caused actual printing (not save as PDF) of a book to fail in unstructured mode (a temporary workaround is to switch to structured mode).

[Jeff_Coatsworth]

@Arnis – totally forgot about that one ;>)

[eleo_redactech]

Thank you very much for your help guys, it works!!!

The strange thing is that we bought FM 11 in September 2013 (in France)

[Jeff_Coatsworth]

& if you didn’t update it, it would still be broken no matter when you bought it ;>)

[Matt-Tech Comm Tools]

You will likely find that your recently purchased version of Fm is no different than the initial release version, which is no different than the available trial version...

To keep each of these locations up-to-date would probably create more problems than it solves, so you need to run the updaters available in the Help menu to get on the "current" version.

[Bob_Niland]

> Since I got FM11 ...

On what operating system?

32- or 64-bit mode?

... since we just had someone try to install FM11 on NT4 ...

[eleo_redactech]

Windows 7

32-bit mode (I think ...)