I did an AMP to create the mapping table, and mapped: Para RH LH RI Heading1 Right Left Span Heading1-LS Right-LS Left-LS Span That "Span" should be "Until changed". I just had a need for a landscape multi-page table in a portrait document. I used rotated landscape (portrait) master pages, with rotated headers and footers. It works (and this is FM7.1). The table breaks across pages, and all the pages it's on are in LS layout, left and right. It is necessary for the triggering para fmts (Heading1-LS and whatever reverts to normal) to specify "Top of Page". Otherwise, you will get "content moved" alerts and some text may end up on incorrect MPs. I was unable to edit the rotated table, and chose instead to import it as a text inset from a real landscape document. It's much easier to maintain it that way in any case. There was something odd going on with the paragraph right below the inset, but it seemed to resolve itself. I didn't have a need to put a TableTitle just on left pages, but I suspect I could use a running H/F on the left MP to accomplish that. The above is only suitable for print-focused documents, because the PDF will have rotated text on the LS pages, which would be annoying to read even on a tablet (you'd be fighting the tab's orientation sensor). For on-line-focused documents, you'd probably want real LS pages in the document. I'd do that as a book, with LS chapters. For user convenience printing, that does leave page rotation, and direction thereof, up to the PDF reader, a small risk. ... Mostrar más

Make a copy & replace the text with Lorem Ipsum garbage ... keeping in mind that any cross-references containing text from the target usually contain, as <Mtext> tags, the original text at the target, even that text was later replaced (or Loremized). Check the MIF before emailing. I'd be tempted to create an all-new document that exhibits the problem, and Loremize only if that's too much trouble. _______ It's amazing how much lingering legacy garbage the typical MIF contains. ... Mostrar más

They used to put ID numbers in the lower right corner of their artwork  (and probably used that number for the filename). We sometimes do that as well. These numbers will only be searchable text if the imported object is EPS, PDF (or possibly SVG, haven't tried), and the text was left as text, and not converted to outlines (or raster). When you needed a new  copy, or needed them to modify one into something different, all you had  to do was give them the ID number and a description of the graphic. You will need at least a log file (with conflict locking) to track the numbers, descriptor, date, and contributor. That's another good idea to implement here. A caveat is that standard Frame has no means of capturing the filename of an imported object. You have to type the file name or number by hand when adding it to the caption or elsewhere nearby. So it can mismatch, particularly when cloning text with an anchored frame and then replacing the image. Don't worry, you'll only screw up when it matters. _______ It would be nice have system variables or other means of automatically capturing import names, but a big problem is that a single anchor frame can contain an unlimited number of objects. ... Mostrar más

I've tried searching the forums, but the search functionality seems to be broken at the moment. Use an external engine. Search for "framemaker pdf printer driver" Restrict search to site or domain: forums.adobe.com Numerous result hits. ... using a physical print driver was not recommended. The PostScript generated is limited by the constraints that the printer declares about itself via the PPD. Historically, this might arise as: why did my color document PDF as B&W? Ans: because you were printing to .ps via the HP LaserJet II PostScript driver. ... Mostrar más

Do you use graphics in the books? If so, and based on your description  of the checkout process, it sounds like they would be embedded into the  FM document? The CMS app supports batch publishing, so one solution might be to have it periodically (or on-demand) re-publish all images to read-only files in a common directory structure. Other apps, such as FM, would then import-by-ref from there. Only the CMS publisher would have write access to the tree. That can be a huge challenge to maintain if/when you need to replace  graphics, as there is no longer any connection to the orig. graphic file  name, no way to know where graphic xyz.jpg  or logo.gif might have been  used ... We put a visible image reference number below every called out image. A simple grep of *.pdf in our print shop dir finds every instance. If you take this approach, use a long or complex ID string. Our numbers are short, so the search gets a few false positives due to arbitrary binary data in PDF data structures appearing to be strings of 8-bit digit characters. ... within that one book, let alone across multiple manuals. Worse, with copy-into, you are strongly motivated to update every where-used, even if it's an obsolete document. With import-by-reference, updating occurs only as it needs to (when the manual is intentionally updated due to the image change, or updated for any other reason). ... Mostrar más

... im building a table that breaks across pages and i only want the table title to show up on left pages ... I'm pretty sure the Table Continuation system variable doesn't offer that level of control. If the table is reasonably static (the position of page breaks doesn't change often), I'd be tempted to handle it manually. Insert rows that fully straddle left to right. Insert as text, a cross-ref to the Table Title, plus " continued..." as desired. Use Custom Ruling and Shading to set that row's side and top borders, and the fill, to None. For extra credit, clone the heading rows similarly. Possibly it could also be handled by customizing the landscape left master page, and using Running variables for the title continuation. This might be easier if the table title isn't a real table title. I haven't time to fully explore that at the moment. ... Mostrar más

>> I haven't ever used mixing portrait and landscape in the same document. I just ran a little test. I created a new port document, and two new Master Pages ("Right-LS" & "Left-LS") that were a clones of "Right" and "left" except that the Flow A text frame was rotated (I didn't bother with headers or footers, but could have). I also created a paragraph format ("Heading1-LS") based on "Heading1". Both Heading1's had pagination set to Top of Page. I did an AMP to create the mapping table, and mapped: Para RH LH RI Heading1 Right Left Span Heading1-LS Right-LS Left-LS Span AMP works perfectly. The text at and following a Heading1-LS is rotated. Layout reverts to port at next normal Heading1. i need landscaped pages for a table that wont fit in portrate but i have  portrait graphics that need to go on a seperate page every few lines in  the table. the graphic needs its own page. Is this a multi-page table? And you need some port content in some cells? You do know that you can rotate text (and content anchored to text) in table cells? Click in cell. Graphics > Rotate ... Mostrar más

You have to sign files in and out. I was told it was supposedly more difficult to manage multi-file books (not clear why), ... This suggests that you have to check out/in the .book file, and all component .fm files, as separate objects. Since this would even nastier with a CAD model having a tree of subassemblies and components, I'm wondering if the CMS (content mgmt sys) doesn't have some way of doing batch check out, or if it might support directories as objects. ... requiring that each book be named with its part number and not the book title. Pub numbers are generally easier to manage than titles, but not if you'll be obliged to pull a pub number for every book component file. Perhap's they'll let you use a -01.fm throught -99.fm pub number extension. Van's suggestion of zipping would reduce the book to a single object, but it might break the search and index features of the CMS since a compressed .zip might be an impenetrable binary object to the CMS. Also, the auto-diff at check-in is likely to result in a huge difflog, as a single-character change could cause the entire zip file to be completely different than the previous one. This will annoy the admins when they have to keep adding disk space for you. But I'm thinkin' that even in the CMS worst case, doing a book makes more sense. ... Mostrar más

... when i use the format, layout, master page usage, pick the proper masterpage and hit apply nothing happens. Even if you get that working, it won't be stable. Any edits resulting in more or fewer pages prior to that page will reflow the content onto a page of a different layout, and flow undesired content onto that special MP. You'll have to re-apply by hand to fix it. If you don't already have a master page mapping table for the document, use AMP, Format > Page Layout > Apply Master Pages to auto-create one. Edit the new "MasterPageMaps" Reference Page to match your key paragraph formats (usually Headings) to the pages they are to be on. Then use Update References, or Update Book, followed by AMP to keep your content on the desired page formats. Make sure that you don't create any contradictions. Frame can't resolve conflicts where page content calls for two different MPs. ________ I haven't ever used mixing portrait and landscape in the same document. I normally just rotate the content. If I had to mix layouts, I'd be strongly tempted to put the content in different component files of a book. ... Mostrar más

im having this problem too. how was it fixed? The usual problems with AMP (Apply Master Pages) failures is one of: The mapping table doesn't exist. This is the UnstructMasterPageMaps object on Reference Page "MasterPageMaps". The mapping table does exist, but one or named Master Pages doesn't exist, or has a slightly different name. It only takes one missing page name for an AMP request to fail. The mapping table exists, the MPs exist and match, but the text on the Body page doesn't have a precisely matching paragraph format* name. You invoked: Apply Master Pages from the Update Book menu. In Fm7.x, this is unstable. Also, even if this feature is fixed in later versions, in a book, each component .fm file must have its own mapping table, which must be valid for that .fm file. ________ * I've never tested to see if AMP is sensitive to whether or not the para fmt is in the Catalog. ... Mostrar más

If both books include the same set of fundamental files and you show one  condition and hide the other for all files in the book, then when you  open the other book and update, FrameMaker will complain ... I would say "almost certainly", without even having tried it yet. I do not see how having  two books solves the problem. It doesn't, in terms of auto-applying the conditions. If the filesets are identical, having two books could confer the following advantages: Unique default file names for .ps or .pdf output. Unique default PDFinfo for each book. Puts future writers on notice that the .fm files represent two different books. Speculation: variant scripts would have their own book files to operate on. ... Mostrar más

... battle on with pairs of tags for now ... Since I'm a few hours ahead of you in the battle, here's another caveat I just discovered. If the leading characters/word(s) of a paragraph are conditional, they control any markers auto-created at start of para. I want a level3 heading that is TyreTire Inflation Specification where the leading term is XOR'd by locale. Example in pseudoMIF: <Heading3><CC.UK>Tyre</cc><CC.US>Tire</cc> Inflation Specification</H3> After tagging the Tyre and Tire cc's, and with both codes "in" (visible), I then create a cross reference to that heading. The Cross-Ref marker gets inserted at the beginning of the paragraph, apparently INSIDE the <CC.UK>. When I switch off CC.UK, bye bye marker, and an unresolved Xref error arises. You can, with some effort, select the marker and deliberately tag it unconditional. I also move it to an unconditional portion of the para. This tends to be less of a problem for TOC gen, because Frame will just generate a new marker if none is there. Chances are you'll also accidentally tag some hand-inserted markers as well. Expect a few unresolveds on the first Update attempt. ... Mostrar más

Firstly, unless there is some compelling reason to in-line the TOC, do it as a separate xyzzyTOC.fm file in the book. I had to manually insert each tab. In the TOC Reference page "openObjectId" of the xyzzyTOC.fm file, merely insert the tab in each line. These objects control TOC formatting. Once set up, you almost never need to touch the TOC.fm file again. We clone new books from old without ever touching the TOC ref page. We only edit ours for copyright date and history, although you might also need to edit for publication/edition history if you put that there. ... Mostrar más

... but it all boils down to having two tags and then relying on the person  creating the document to rememebr to include one and exclude the other,  which is what I was hoping to avoid. Yes, it adds yet another thing to stewardship. What we do: Each manual source resides in its own directory, based on the document part number, say M12345. In addtion to the expected M12345.book, M12345_BODY.f, M12345_TOC.fm, we create and maintain ... An M12345_readme.odt*, that contains important info for future authors, including condition codes and workflow instructions. With the advent of XOR books, the variant editions are getting a part number suffix, for example: M12345-US might be the U.S. edition M12345-UK might be the U.K. edition As a great big hello-there-pay-attention flag, there will be TWO book files: M12345-US.book M12345-UK.book both of which invoke the same component files. The existence of two book files just might get the writer to read the readme. _______ * We also use the readme as a repository for fixes and enhancements for the next edit, plus a ./pending/ subdir for emails and scanned/markup PDFs. This works tons better than the previous hanging file and unsorted in-basket system of paper update requests. ... Mostrar más

Can this be done or am I stuck with two tags? Stuck with two tags. A single XOR tag might be handy, but having two is hardly much extra work. I'm doing several manuals with the XOR challenge right now (localization, not media content). In the Book menu, select all the book component .fm files, then View > Show / Hide Conditional Text <*> Show Hide Web-Only Print-Only Others Swap two *-Only codes with the <--- ---> [Set] Push Caveat. The Push workflow order gets important when you have extensive CCs: Book: View > Show / Hide (almost certain to cause repagination) Book: View > Hide Condition Indicators (assuming your codes have text decoration) Book: Format > Page Layout > Apply Master Pages* (assuming you aren't just Left/Right) Book: Edit > Update Book* Book: View > Color Views (assuming you have some author-only stuff to switch off) Book: File: > Print I have not looked into scripting the above. Another tip: for your XOR content that is not normal text flow, you can apply a condition code just to the anchor glyph for anchored frames and tables. Avoid, however, having the XOR'd anchors on top of each other in the paragraph. This can get messy when both conditions are "In", as  they commonly are for authoring, so it may be cleaner to have clone  paragraphs, or even entire pages of content, which can be switched on  and off. ________ * There's an AMP option in Update Book. It is seriously unreliable in FM71./Unix. So we AMP separately. ... Mostrar más

... but searching the forums produced no results. How searched? The built-in search that the forum provides is broken. You need to use an external search engine. For Google: http://www.google.com/advanced_search?&hl=en all these words: framemaker (plus your AND terms) Search within a site or domain: forums.adobe.com other fields as desired. ... Mostrar más

One has always been able to turn off the line-breaking at a slash  character by removing it from the Text Options panel "Allow Line Breaks  After" item. A feature I'd totally forgotten about. Thanks for the reminder. However, that TO setting turns it off for the entire document, and the basenote did say "I'd like to be able to allow line breaks at slashes in some instances and suppress them in other instances". It would be nice to have the equivalent of the non-breaking space and non-breaking hyphen, or more generically, a non-breaking tag that could be applied to any run of text. ... Mostrar más

Create a Character Format of "Superscript" that is "As-Is" for everything except Superscript Pair Kern Create a Variable named, say, char.mark.reg <Superscript>\xa8<Default ¶ Font> Insert the var where you need the mark in body text. Doing it as a var eliminates the problem of staying in Super for subsequent characters typed, entirely apart from having to look up the key sequence for the glyph every time you need it. However, I find I rarely need to use this var, because I end up setting up variables for the few registered trademark names actually used. So variable "Cite.Microsoft" would be: \_Microsoft<Superscript>\xa8<Default ¶ Font> ... Mostrar más

I notice that this is old thread, but I, too, would find a non-breaking  slash character handy, along with a non-breaking  period/full-stop/dot/whatever you want to call it. The non-breaking period seems to be an easier case. If the problem is a leading and/or trailing space, use non-breaking spaces (Ctrl-Space). Slash is tougher, and I solved my one instance of it by using a completely different presentation, requiring no slashes. But in experimenting, I found that an italicized or oblqued "|" would not break, nor would a math "fraction" (\xda). If I were using either hack, I'd be tempted to put the whole mess in a variable, say char.sym.slash.NB. Another approach might be to find a comparable glyph in some non-Latin region of Unicode space. I need to stay 7.1-compatible, and didn't explore this. It appears that the normal slash character is being special-cased for line breaks, and is always used if needed for line breaks, even if surrounded by non-breaking stuff, and even if Hyphenation is turned off. ... Mostrar más

... on my Windows 7 (64-bit) laptop ... What flavor of Windows? If "Pro", and the CPU supports virtualization, and you can resolve the license issue, you might consider re-installing FM8 in the XP32 emulation environment. In the past I have had some success running repair and rebooting, but no longer. No backups? Any System Restore checkpoints? but I cannot find my license key. Didn't Adobe switch to activation at some point after 7.1? If so, and this is a registered copy, they may be able to help you. ... Mostrar más

I never thought of trying to search with google. Until Adobe fixes forum search (and it apparently isn't a Jive problem per se), using an outside search engine is the only way to find stuff, and it provides more precise AND/OR/NOT/date filtering when you use an "advanced" UI. For Google: http://www.google.com/advanced_search?&hl=en all these words: framemaker Search within a site or domain: forums.adobe.com other fields as desired. ... Mostrar más

The more I think about it, I cannot see any actions that I can  perform within frame that will allow me to insert multiple conditional  tags into a single atomic cross reference. Makes me think it might be a bug during conversion when reading Frame 7 data into Frame 9. I'm seeing it while working strictly within FM7.1/Unix. I have FM9/Win7.64, but am not using it for the current project. I'm not sure how it's happening, but I see it sometimes when saving as MIF (to clean up some legacy format names in overrides and Xrefs), then re-opening in FM. I did one test of what I thought might be the cause, but it wasn't. I may do some additional tests, as it's important that text which is the target of Xrefs permit multiple CCs. ... Mostrar más

... but the search engine is not working, so I cannot find it. I will try to repeat it as much as I can remember. Perhaps: http://forums.adobe.com/message/3060560#3060560 Found with a Google search restricted to site:forums.adobe.com ... Mostrar más

I am now using FreePDF and then I am printing from the OpenOffice files to pdf! That shouldn't be necessary. I just tried creating a page in OO Draw, and Exporting as PDF (PDF/A-1). The imported PDF* text is selectable and searchable in the resulting PDF. I can see controls in the OO PDF Options, such as "[  ] Reduce image resolution" that could easily wreck text, as would the previously discussed Security settings. The problem was lying with the fact as to how OpenOffice was exporting to PDF. If you get a chance to chase that down, it would be interesting to know what the core problem is. _______ * I also imported the same page image as an EPS, re-saved from AI (Acrobat can also re-save as EPS). The text was also selectable and searchable. If you run into stability problems with importing PDFs into FM7.x, re-save the images as EPS and re-import. ... Mostrar más

Try something OTHER than one of the PDF/A, PDF/B, etc variants. I just tried, in FM7.1/Unix, importing a PDF/A-1 page image as originally exported to PDF from OpenOffice calc, and as re-saved to EPS v9 from Illustrator CS5. Both the PDF and EPS imports are text-selectable and fully searchable. I suspect the problem is elsewhere, perhaps in how the PDF is being generated from Frame. I print to .ps, then Distill. Or possibly it's a font issue. If there is an issue with finding the fonts during pdf generation, or their permissions, then they may end up as outlines in the final pdf, and won't be "text". We catch that problem in our process, because when we run the batch AI script to generate the EPS versions of the PDF import pages, it stops and dialogs if any text would go to outline. Importing PDF and then printing to PDF or PS might easily be silent on this issue. ... Mostrar más

There is a *.fm file and within it, I am importing by reference a pdf file. Is the text searchable and copiable in the original PDF before importing? What options are you specifying when exporting it from OpenOffice? The Security tab settings would be the first place to look. I am having an unique problem with FrameMaker 7.1! My experience with PDF import in FM7 and 7.1 is that it is unstable. Import enough objects, and after a while they turn into little gray squares, and fail to render correctly in the output. Nothing can be done to fix them other than to totally delete the anchoring frame and re-import, which only works for another while. So what we do is convert the PDF page images to text/vector EPS, and import those. The resulting page content is searchable and copiable. _______ I do not yet know if PDF import is more stable in FM9. ... Mostrar más

I especially like point #3 about TCS !! Mentioning TCS "4" did seem a bit incautious. I would't rule out that it's just a typo. It's not immediately obvious what a TCS4 might include. The only component of TCS 3 that has rolled lately appears to be Photoshop, to 5.5. I would expect a TCS track of that to be called TCS 3.5. What component(s) triggered the previous full-digit rolls of TCS? ... Mostrar más

Dove, thanks for the response. No version of FrameMaker beginning with FrameMaker 6 through the current release has bundled Courier,  Helvetica, Symbol, Times and/or Zapf Dingbats as part of the product. I've been using Frame since 3.1, so I might have a dimming recollection of an earlier bundling. I also dimly recall some Usenet grumbling about bundle changes at one point - which grumbling I now cannot find, of course - the past isn't what it used to be, I suppose. If such fonts were actually installed on your system (as opposed to seeming to be available by  virtue of use of a PostScript printer that has such fonts defined as  “printer resident” in the device's PPD file, they came from some other  source. On my home PC, there is now no way to determine where some of the legacy Ps Level 2 Type1 font files came from. Could have been ATM, Adobe Type products, Acrobat, any of several Postscript printers, prehistoric Frames, or even other Adobe products. On the Unix systems at work, the FM7.1 and fonts were there when I got there, and the trail of how the fonts got there is equally indistinct. The enterprise has been running Solaris Frame since 5.0 if not earlier. However,  as someone else indicated, if you have virtually any printer with Adobe  PostScript (not “CloneScript” devices), the diskette, CD, or DVD that  came with same has the fonts you need for installation on your host  computer systems. (Even the newest Xerox Phaser laser printers come with  such a CD!) This is the direction we will take on resolving the current requirement. Generally speaking, at some  point you are much better off to bite the bullet and move to OpenType  fonts as you create new documents and you modify or augment old  documents. The longer you wait, the more difficult the transistion will  be. At some point we'll need to move off Solaris desktops altogether, and onto Win7/64 or Win8/64. The Frame migration, and font aspect thereof, will be least painful part of that process. And FrameMaker 7.0 is a rather old version of the product, dating  back at least 8 to 9 years. We have users running FM6. FM5.x is still installed as well, and I suspect some are using it too. Every once in a while, a casual legacy-version user complains that one of my documents won't open. I spin them a MIF. _______ Then they discover that the content they wanted to swipe is actually an imported object from some other app. ... Mostrar más

... starting with FM7.1 ... Thanks. I was thinking it was 7.2 or 8.0. Good know the exact demarc. FM never has supported ligatures (without a third-party plug-in) ... We print and pass through manuals from PDFs provided by a subsystem supplier. Based on the PDFinfo, they are using Frame. When we started doing our own printing of them a couple of years ago we encountered apparent missing ligatures on display or print, depending on the system or printer. "fi", "fl" and similar were blanked. We asked the supplier to tell their writer to embed the fonts, and that solved the problem. Any idea how those ligatures got into the PDF? Any chance Distiller is doing that downstream? HelveticaNeue is considered a different typeface from Helvetica (it's completely re-drawn). You and I know that, but my co-worker does not. And as I look at font catalogs on line, I do not see anything just named "Helvetica". Presumably "Helvetica Standard" shows up in the font menus as "Helvetica". And they'll wonder if "Helvetica Oblique" is the same as the "Helvetica Italic" they need. It would easy for the neophyte to buy something that either had to be remapped in maker.ini, or had undesired presentation even if remapped. ... Mostrar más

If you have any PostScript printers, you might look on the installation disk for those fonts, which normally come with a PS printer. You can install them from the disk. We have essentially only PS printers (due to pervasive Unix desktops and servers), all networked. Most are so old that I doubt anyone knows where the driver floppies are. But some are reasonably recent, so I'll put that question to IT (who have so far not exhibited any font awareness in their responses to the co-worker needing the fonts). We out-source the printer maintenance, so it's possible we simply never had the media for them. Unix doesn't care. Windows PCs just grab the driver from MS or HP. ... Mostrar más