How can I insert a cover page in my document? I would suggest doing the document as a .book, with components: COVER.fm TOC.fm BODY.fm If I apply a master page  then it included with header and footer. You can set the Master Page formats as desired in COVER.fm ... and  when i create the TOC why it appear in a new document? Frame's initial generated TOC for a new document is always a separate file. Once created, you can edit it's Master and Reference pages to get the formatting you need, then do either of: incorporate the file as a .book component (which gets auto-updated uopn Update Book), or just copy and paste the TOC into the BODY file where you need it (but this is not auto-updated). _______ Book is the way to go. ... View more

Still did a save as pdf that took 30 minutes. Was kind of scared to print to a pdf. As Arnis suggests, print to .ps and Distill from .ps to pdf separately. Report the time for each, and see where the time sink is. I never save as PDF or print to PDF anymore, because the Distill path provides much more control (plus, I'm usually printing to PS from FM7 on Unix, and Distilling on Windows 7 with CS5 Acrobat(9)). I only see serious slowdowns when there are network issues, or the PS or TPS object is really huge (2-4GB) due to some imports. ... View more

It seems that In and Not in should relate to whether or not the text  appears in the document, but instead it's Show and Hide that determine  this. I concur. It would likely be much less confusing if the status columns were "Tagged" and "Untagged", rather than "In" and "Out". It seems to me that Frame has made conditional text very complicated. I suspect the Conditional Text nomenclature is little changed since its introduction in version 3.0, which is well before the product was acquired by Adobe. _______ At this point, the customer demographic is probably more interested in new or fixed features, and less in what they are named. ... View more

google this search string: framemaker 7 "windows 7" site:forums.adobe.com Just wanted to know the support of Framemaker 7.2 on windows 7 Not supported. Known to not work by default. Some effort can get it working. On what platform are you presently running 7.2? Is the Windows 7 system 32-bit or 64-bit? And is the Windows 7 system "professional" (which would be helpful), or "server" (which might not be helpful). If you are running Unix 7.2, the code won't install, and the license may not either. 1. Any of you faced any problems? Printing to PostScript is a challenge. You may need Acrobat X to cleanly fix it. You may also have better luck using the XP virtual machine if you have W7 Pro. ______ I'm not running FM7 on W7, but search is weak on this forum, so those making inquiries need all the help they can get. ... View more

In the console I have the error "one or more master pages do not  exist. Aborting Apply Master Pages...  The Gill Sans MT Font is not  available. I have never seen a missing font cause an error like this - Nor have I. I'm inclined to think that's a separate problem from the Apply Master Pages (AMP) issue. What master pages would it be looking for? In my experience, the usual causes of unexpected AMP errors are: MP is declared (in mapping table)  and invoked by paragraphs, but is not present in the current .fm file (which you have ruled out) MP is declared, but not invoked by any paragraph, but it still has to be present in the .fm file subtle errors in MP names or mapping table declarations, such as: upper and lower case, trailing blanks I might add that I no longer elect: Apply Master Pages when performing an Edit > Update Book In FM 7.1/Solaris, it frequently fails to correctly apply MPs. I don't know if this is fixed in later FM versions. I do Format > Page Layout > Apply Master Pages in the component .fm file. _______ There's also the corner case of MP assignment causing the controlling pgf to move off the page. ... View more

In: the selected text has or will have the named Condition Code applied on [Apply] Out: the selected text does not have, or will have the named Condition Code removed on [Apply] Text can have multiple Condition Codes applied, and the Condition Indicators are insufficient to tell you, because they may be ambiguous (or not even defined), and the color always goes to magenta on code overload anyway. So you need the menu to show what's in or out. ... View more

Let's start by ruling out the obvious: You have master page mapping tables in the Reference pages of both the TOX.fm and IX.fm files. Are they by any chance calling out Master Page names that don't exist in the  TOC.fm and IX.fm files? ... View more

The text goes along and says, “See Figure #x”. It seems to be tied to the caption under the Figure it refers to. Does that help? There was lately a long discussion about that in: A way to label graphics? http://forums.adobe.com/message/3510675 ______ If this forum had a working search engine, you might have found it. As it is, I had to use Google to rediscover it. ... View more

1. placing anchored frames where I need them Where do you need them? As long as it's not "above current line", there's usually a solution. 3. some help with graphics, and cross references. That's a trifle vague. ... View more

Tried searching the forum for this topic but have been having trouble getting any results for even the simplest search criteria! That's a standard feature on a surprising number of internet forums. What I do is: Use an external search engine, such as Google. Use their "Advanced Search" page. Restrict the site or domain to: forums.adobe.com Always put "framemaker" in the must-find (AND) word list ... View more

... create leading zeros using tab leaders ... The tab with custom leaders fills in the leading zeros. Elegant. This might even work for TOC, and avoid having to use the hidden body text trick. Of course, this does not change the actual format of the system page number variable, so any cross- references in the body text also need to use that same tab leader trick. I'd be tempted to re-state the page number in the body text as a hidden run-in paragraph, named, say, Xref.PageNo, at each point where there will be an Xref marker. And none of these work-arounds are going to result in correct (LZ) page number display in PDF reader toolbars (the page content will have LZ numbering). ... View more

I have a matrix, originally created in Excel. See if it will open in LibreOffice or OpenOffice calc. If so, you may have more flexibility. I've had to break it down into six sections column wise to get it to fit onto the page. Calc can export selections very cleanly to PDF. Excel can save to PDF, but I don't know with what granularity. I tried screen captures, but while it looks fine in the FM doc, it's fuzzy in the pdf. Export or Save from the spreadsheet to PDF or PDFs. If the client on FM7 needs to be able to import them, also provide them as EPS, either opened and re-saved in Illustrator, or printed to file, as EPS using a PostScript driver (I can respond with details if you need to know how). Either PDF or EPS import will provide high res fully scalable PDF output from Frame. FM7 is unstable in PDF import. I presume FM8 fixed this. Nor can I edit the table. Correct. Frame is very weak on this. Format in your spreadsheet. Import by reference as graphical object. I NEED that extra space!! Set that paragraph to a very small point size (4 usually works), or set the anchoring to at-insertion-point, adjusting baseline as needed, or .... Give it a unqiue paragraph format name. Master Page map that Pgf Fmt to Left-Special and Right-Special page layouts with reduced top margin. ... View more

Are these chapter and page number references on the source Master Pages, or something in the source body text? There are apparently things that do not work as expected when using text insets from other .fm files. ... View more

I've never used a comma in a file name or path in my life; I'm curious as to why anyone would do so. Multiple versions and archival copies of the same document. We routinely generate two versions of the .ps output: 12345M_web.ps and 12345M_print.ps (visible navs in doc suppressed) Because the platform is Solaris, we'd gotten into the habit of using: 12345M,web.ps We'll eventually have to migrate to Windows, and unless the comma bug is fixed by then, we'll have problems doing this. When we release a new version of a manual, we make a second copy with a time-stamped filename, for archival purposes. "12345M.pdf" is always the current version (of the web version). The document source directory might also contain: 12345M_1999-03-17_jfk.pdf 12345M_2002-04-03_gwb.pdf 12345M_2010-07-23_ati.pdf where "ati" are the Author's Three Initials. Memorializing the vintage in the file name matters because we have multiple versions of the same document, and the directory timestamp isn't necessarily preserved in network copying. The author info is for knowing who to blame. There are well-known characters [e.g. /\:;] that need to be avoided because they are legal on some OS'es and not on others. But I'd expect commas to work [now] because they apparently haven't been "illegal" since NetWare on DOS. _______ Frame does work fine with spaces in filepath. Personally, I consider spaces in filepath to be extremely unwise. ... View more

Sounds like this is a now-known Win7 64bit issue that Adobe is working on. Quite likely. But until the comma-in-the-Windows-filepath problem is fixed (and it doesn't appear to be fixed in FM9), it's going to continue to pop up, and can easily be mistaken for some other problem, and cause substantial time wasting. It can also prevent you from confirming that some other problem IS fixed or worked around. As I recall from years ago, it took me quite a while to figure out that what had changed between "can print" and "can't" was a trivial change of a single otherwise legal filename character. There are complaints on the old newsgroup comp.text.frame about this, dated 2003, and claiming that the problem was at least 2 years old then. So this probably has been there since FM6 if not earlier. ... View more

I get the "printing book" dialog box but nothing happens....the PDF is not created and no errors are reported. Is there any chance that the filename, or any of the directory names above it, contain a comma? If so, change the commas to underscores and try again. ... View more

Clean the machine, means, clean the locations where framemaker components gets installed in the machine. How are you cleaning the Registry? And what about: While opening old .fm (binary) files or old .mif files? And which old Frame versions? From what operating system platforms? ... View more

it has ever been thus Since the thread topic is "Footnotes 101", this keep-with problem also exists for Table Footnotes, but is often easier to work-around. Use manual footnotes, as above, but put them in a borderless extra row at the bottom of the hosting table (or at any point in that table that keeps the footnotes on the desired page or in the desired column). A further persistent issue is that footnotes and table footnotes don't use the same numbering sequence. This can be a benefit or a hazard. If it's a benefit, it's not my problem. A monster hack to address all of these is to put all of the footnote content text on a Reference page, in auto-numbered paragraphs, and use Xrefs in the body to pick up the bottom-of-page displays and narrative indicators. End notes historically had to be done this way too, but that's apparently now a mostly-solved problem*. ________ * End note: now that I've looked at the FM9 & 10 Help, I'm not so sure the EN problem really is solved. It appears to merely document the long-standing hack. ... View more

I add a footnote (four or five words) in the last two lines of the body, and FM whisks it away to the next page. Unless there is a new feature in FM10, it has ever been thus. FM9 help says: Adding text to a footnote may cause the last footnote in a column or on a page to move to the bottom of the next column or page. To reduce the chance of a footnote not fitting in a column, allocate more space for footnotes in a column. If footnotes are sparse in the document, and are not being cataloged, a work-around hack would be to fake a footnote. In the host paragraph, insert an anchored frame, "bottom of column". This frame behaves the way you would like footnotes to behave. It "keeps" on the same page as the host pgf. Insert a text frame in the anchored frame. Write the footnote text in the text frame. Apply a paragraph format named, say "FootNote.Frame" (but not "Footnote"). Give it an auto-number (it won't be possible to use the real footnote numbering sequence, as far as I know)*. In the host paragraph insert a cross-reference named, say "FootNoteXref", to the footnote, formatted as superscript <$paranumonly>. _______ * You could assign the next available real footnote number by creating an invisible real footnote nearby and Xref'ing to it by <$paranumonly>. But now we'd be escalating from hack to kludge. Disclaimer: this paragraph is not a real footnote. ... View more

... trying to create invisible text. NEVER, ever use white! That's a strong statement. It sounds like there are further downsides to white on white (w-o-w). Some I can think of are: It really needs to be pure RGB or CMYK white. Acrobat won't redact if it's even 1 bit different than the background color. Even so, if even one coordinate of a w-o-w- font outline lies on a non-white color object, that entire character will still be present in the PDF after redaction. The invisible text color needs to be named something other than "White", which Frame might set to Cutout rather than Invisible. ... but use something that really stands out, like a magenta I agree on standout, but I wouldn't recommend magenta. Frame is hard-coded to use magneta to flag Condition Code overload. So there's nothing to redact in Acrobat either. Turns out we have to do that anyway. We use EPS imports. Unix Frame is apparently passing them to the .ps file with the preview/thumbnail images intact, and they are being distilled to pdf with the (large, but now useless) preview images embedded, along with EXIF photo data, pixels and vectors outside clipping paths, etc. This undesirable metadata can constitute some 40% of the final pdf, which matters on 20MB pdfs served on the web. So we routinely redact them, and the process stomps the invisible text with no extra effort. I looked into Color Views at one time, expecting that it could provide different definitions for colors in each view. It doesn't, so I abandoned it. I just took another look, and it turns out that between Cutout and Invisible, the feature apparently can handle our two magic color requirements, so we'll probably switch to Views. Thanks for bringing it up. ... View more

Both documents and pictures are on the network. Where are the servers? What is the network connection from them to the clients? We are also using net-hosted document and imports, although Unix Frame 7.1. The performance is fine, as long as the documents and imports are on servers at the local site. If any content is remote, our T1 line ensures sloggy performance, and there is no solution other than paying for more external bandwidth. Consequently, each site keeps its Frame files, and import assets, on local servers. If we needed to share more than we do, we'd probably use active replication between sites. You, on Frame 9, are on Windows clients, and may have added challenges. The PC that sits beside my Unix box was lately updated to Windows 7/64, and it has been randomly exhibiting long spells of glacial network performance, to the same site-local servers (which are Samba, AFAIK) and using the same digital assets that Unix Frame gets quickly. This problem started about the same time that Oracle bought Sun. So I'm not sure if I should blame Bill, or Larry. _____ If we resolve the Windows network performance issue, and it seems to be something that might affect the market generally, I'll post an update. ... View more

... while opening old Framemaker files made in previous versions ... While opening old .fm (binary) files or old .mif files? And which old versions? From what platforms? ... View more

msmincho.tff Is that a typo in the posting or is the filename extension really .TFF ? I was expecting to see .OTF, or at least .TTF. And what is the vintage of the font file? ... View more

... it may no longer be necessary to provide online help at all, given that  we PDF our end-user documentation and could just have our apps launch  the searchable PDF user guide when a user clicks the Help menu item. If the machine has a PDF reader installed ... which I suspect was the historical hesitation with relying on PDF-only help (or PDF-only documentation generally). I think this ceased being a concern some years ago. I've bought numerous products in the meantime that have PDF-only documentation. Manufacturers used to include an installable Acrobat Reader, but they often don't even do that now, and just include a link to Adobe. Also, Windows 8 will have a native PDF reader. That officially makes PDF generic mainstream. ... View more

I'll have to digest it, and give it a try. If you get it working, I can offer some tweaks to address the PDF bookmark issue. Basically, what we are doing is generating fully formatted but largely invisible TOC entries in the main document file, then gathering them by generation in the TOC file. Since you have to hand-hack the leading zeros anyway, this puts the formatted page number string right in your face, so if an incorrect number of zeros show up, they are apparent while you are working on the page. ________ By the way, what exact MIL spec is involved here? ... View more

I've got a hack, but you need to treat the page display and the TOC display as separate problems. The variable format for the page numbers is: 0001-<$curpagenum>. You could make that 000<$chapnum>-<$curpagenum> That sort of fixes the page display. Aside: The "Current Page #" system variable seems pretty useless, as the re-defined variable appears correctly only on the MPs. Xrefs to any page using <$pagenum> still only get the basic page number. The hack: I created a special Heading for headings intended for TOC. For example, Heading2MIL It has a large right-justified tab defined with dot leaders just for offset. I also created a an Xref format: PageNumOnly, defined as <$pagenum> I also created a color "Invisible Text", which has an obvious non-text color that is set to pure white for final publication (and optionally bulk-redacted in Acrobat Pro using "Examine Document"). The body text entered in Heading2MIL is: My Topic[tab]000[variable <$chapnum>]-[Xref-to-self, format PageNumOnly] This might appear as: My Topic ................................0001-1 Highlight the leaders and page number. Apply color "Invisible Text". In the TOC file, Reference Page TOC, instead of the typical definition: <$paratext>>.............................<$pagenum> We just have: <$paratext> (because it now includes it's own tab and our fully formatted page number). Be sure to set tabs/leaders in the Heading2MILTOC paragraph format. In the generated TOC body pages, I now see: My Topic ................................0001-1 Downside: The PDF bookmarks will contain the page numbers for the included headings. This could be worked around by making the "MIL" headings complete phantom clones of real headings (small point size - entire paragraph Don't Print). ________ If MIL docs commonly have this requirement, I have to imagine that there is an aftermarket solution. And if this requirement has been around a long time, I'm surprised that FM hasn't picked it up as an enhancement. Color "Don't Print" didn't work as expected when tested. ... View more

I used a variable on Master Page, and page numbers in each work package generate properly. So your 00nn-0n numbers do appear correctly on each page via Master Pages? What variable construct are you using? Can you get the formatted numbers to appear correctly as body page text, or as Xrefs? If so, I may have a solution. _______ I've never needed to do this, but got curious. ... View more

I'm finding these forums a bit difficult to search ... Use an external search engine, such as Google. Use their "Advanced Search" page. Restrict the site or domain to: forums.adobe.com Always put "framemaker" in the must-find (AND) word list ... View more