Hello FM community,
I am creating an output template for FM2022 for HTML5 output from unstructured FM books. I have two
issues with output that I have not been able to resolve.
Issue with navigation menu entry for the home page:
We have been using this method in the past (FM2017/FM2019), and I have found that a workaround that was possible in 2017/2019 does not work in 2022.
The entry for the home page in the HTML5 navigation menu is not displaying the correct text for the home page. In past versions of FrameMaker, it was possible to save the FM document for the home page as a MIF file, search for the PDFDocInfo section, edit the Title value, remove a string of nonsensical numbers from PDFDocInfo, and save the MIF back to FM document. After doing so, the correct title would appear in the HTML5 navigation menu.
In FM2022, if I do the same process, the navigation title still does not appear correctly, and additionally, the main title of the entire document disappears completely from the HTML5 output, from the displayed content and from the source HTML pages:
Before:
After:
It also happens if I edit certain variables in the home page fm file. It appears to be irreversible. Once I edit the file in this way, nothing I do makes the title appear again.
Issue with size of the Logo file in the page output:
The size of the company logo always comes out the same--square and very small--regardless of the size and dimensions of the file that I insert in the template. I located the css page where this is controlled, and it is the one that is part of the Azue blue responsive template. I can manually edit the CSS on the output to change the div size that holds this logo, and it displays the way I want it to. However, when I add an override in Options > Override Styles for this Output, it does nothing, even if I make it important (I also tried adding it to the style mapping CSS, but that did not work either). I tried to export and reimport the entire Azure_blue layout, and edit just that stylesheet before reimporting. This ruined the output completely and I could not further edit that sts version.
Does anyone know a workaround for either of these issues?
Thanks,
Robin
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Hi Jeff, thank you for replying 🙂
One issue is that the navigation panel does not display the correct text for the first page:
Currently it is picking up a line of variables from the file. The information I have about why it was originally hacked with the MIF washing in FM2017/2019 was that it would sometimes display the filename and you could edit it to display "Home" or your chosen text instead. (I did not work here when the original workaround was documented and I could not find FM documentation about how to troubleshoot these things.) I can edit the PDFDocInfo title field by right clicking the file and choosing File Info, but there must have been some reason why the edits did not "stick" unless made in the MIF file.
If I edit the copyright variable definition that appears in this line, the title of the document disappears from generated HTML5 output.
Hi Jeff,
Here is what the TOC looks like. I also included a view of the book file organization.
 
The TOC is second in the order. Among the things I tried was to remove the TOC before generating the HTML output. In this case, the Home file came out named correctly, but a new problem occurred. The new problem was that every chapter came out with a double-nested topic. As in, I had to expand an empty topic to get to the real start topic in each chapter. And when I put the TOC back on, it was no longer identified as a generated topic with the darker icon.
I also tried rearranging the topics before generation, with the TOC first. This did not solve my problem either.
Hi Jeff, it looks like this:
 
It is set up the same as it was in FM2019 (but started with a fresh settings file). There were some options in 2019 that do not exist in 2022, but we do not appear to have been using them.
You mention that you're setting up a template...are you describing the Use HTML Page Template option shown below?
In my experience, when creating/editing an HTML template, any missteps are very difficult to remedy.
You can try resetting your preferences (close Fm, then rename the 17 directory found in your C:\Users\(USERNAME)\AppData\Roaming\Adobe\FrameMaker directory as I did for the 16 directory, and then restart Fm)
I believe that will give you fresh publish settings, including the HTML Template.
If you can't quickly figure out the solution, you can always delete your new 17 directory and rename 17x (or whatever you renamed it to) back to 17 and restart FrameMaker.
I made a change in the source files to add a line of text before the variables that form the first line of the page. I added what I would like as the "Home" text, and it does display what I put there. I'm not sure I'd want this as a permanent solution, because writers would have to change the cover page back and forth between producing PDF or HTML output and I am sure accidental omissions would happen. But it seems to prove that whatever is the first line on this page is getting put as the navigation text, regardless of what I put in the File Info.
When looking at the whole page though, it is a bit silly because this title also appears further down.
I'm wondering if there is a way to control which flow is coming out first in the HTML5 output. This is Flow B coming out first, but Flow A is first in the source file and in PDF output.
 
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