Generating a book from an XML bookmap, the frontmatter template header is not generated correctly.

[Bruce A Sanchez - FAA]

I have examined all of the FrameMaker book template Master pages in detail. The Frontmatter.Tpl has 3 master pages. When the book is generated from XML, the "cover" page in the frontmatter contains 9 master pages. and the header font size is 11pt. NOWHERE in any of the book templates is there a template with 9 pages or a header with 11pt font. Where can the cover.fm document be getting that information?

[Winfried Reng]

Hi,

Do you use DITA?

Which template files did you check?

When I search the FrameMaker installation folder for tpl, there are also template files in the fminit folder:

c:\Program Files\Adobe\Adobe FrameMaker 2022\fminit\Publisher\Template\Document\outputs\DitaTemplate\

Somewhere in your structured application the path to the template files might be listed.

In the maker.ini there is also a section about template files.

Best regards, Winfried

[Bruce A Sanchez - FAA]

Yes, I'm using DITA.

All of the templates in the C:\Users\Bruce Sanchez\AppData\Roaming\Adobe\FrameMaker\17\FAA\MTHB_6980_29C_CHG1 .book folder used to convert the DITA do not have the Master page used. 

 I'll look for another template somewhere. Thanks

[Winfried Reng]

Hi Bruce,

Did you check the path in your maker.ini?

There are two:

c:\Program Files\Adobe\Adobe FrameMaker 2022\maker.ini

c:\Users\xxxx\AppData\Roaming\Adobe\FrameMaker\17\maker.ini

In these maker.ini files there is also a section [Directories] with the path to your templates.

If you want to change something, then only in your personal maker.ini in AppData.

Klaus Daube had described the meaning of these maker.ini entries:

https://www.daube.ch/docu/fmaker65.html#directories

Best regards, Winfried

[Bruce A Sanchez - FAA]

Thread closure.

Winfried, 

While investigating the tamplate differences I inadvertantly discovered the possible underlying (and very strange) cause. I was creating a new template from scratch and copied (contol-a, control-c) the header contents. When I pasted the contents (control-v) into the new template header, the text was TOTALLY different from what I had copied! What?! I continued to creat the new template without copying from the old template. The generated Frontmatter now has the correct Master page information but I have not discovered why the documents created with the Frontmetter template still have 9 master pages when the template has only 3. At this point I don't care and consider this just another FrameMaker annomoly. Thanks for your input!!