Plan T might be a borderless Table approach, but that would require separate rows for the AN heading and the item content. The entire cell content will be consistent, but it will also extend to the full width of the item content, unless further gamed by using two columns, and a Straddle for the item content. ... View more

DebralynnMedDev: …unfortunatley I don't want the entire paragraph the background color. Actually, you might, depending on progress with the An approach. Create a Character Format, perhaps named "Plain", attributes set to As-Is for everything except Background: None and apply it to the range of the para that you don't want to have the tab simulation. Update: Alas, the tabbed region is still not BG-color ... View more

The engine is up, but the database is MIA. I get: Welcome {Adobe account name} Issues Created: 0 You haven't created any issues Issues Voted: 0 You haven't voted for any issues …neither true. ... View more

Joe: …so I copied the index from the previous book but that did not work. As I recall, that doesn't work, because the IX file added isn't tagged as generated in the new .book. In the new book have FM generate a new IX file. Open that and File🞃Import›Formats… pretty much everything from the older IX file. Edit🞃Update Book… I think you can also just use the file manager to copy the entire old file into the new one, but I haven't needed to work this problem in a long time now. ... View more

Joe: Would it help to move on to the new version of FrameMaker considering I only use it sporadically? I would think only if you need some new features. You can install the latest and use it for 30 days free to find out. You can have both installed, depending on Windows version. Be sure to save the final version of any new work as MIF, for ease of opening in FM10.   Adobe really needs to offer their apps as perhaps $per-day web services for infrequent users.   I still have FM7, running in XPmode on an old Win7Pro laptop. Haven't used it in several years now. ... View more

Joe Hus: I am still on an old version. Which old version? It sounds like it was one of those then still available with a perpetual license. Some contributors here also have old versions, and can tailor their suggestions to the historical capabilities. re: Adobe wants me to buy the new version… The recent versions have been subscription-only. You can't really "buy" them. ... View more

ep_nna: … a few Greek symbols. These used to be in the Symbol font but we've replaced them with Noto Serif. You probably have this aspect of the update in hand, but did the code points for the text characters get revised to Unicode? The legacy FM Symbol scheme was an overlay/codepage font substitution. α alpha was codepoint \x61 (ASCII letter a, now U+0061) with Character Format Symbol applied. β beta was codepoint \x62 (ASCII letter b, now U+0062) with Character Format Symbol applied. When using a modern Unicode font, that populates the Greek and Coptic block, these need to be changed to: α U+03B1 GREEK SMALL LETTER ALPHA β U+03B2 GREEK SMALL LETTER BETA and the Symbol character format needs to be removed. ... View more

It looks to me like the problem is font metrics, due to a font substitution. The starting X-Y coordinates of the text are the same, but the point size and resulting spread aren't. Unlike EPS, SVG font declarations & embedding (if any) doesn't seem to be reliable yet, in FM or on the web. In my vector work, often in Illustrator, one of the last steps before saving-as to SVG, I select all (or at least all text) and Convert to Outlines. It's no longer selectable text, but it presents as intended. ... View more

Top two suspects: a. Frames not connected. b. Frames are connected, but format "Numbered1" is applied to both.   Insofar as Import, I'd need to run some experiments to see which of: ☐ Page Layouts or ☐ Document Properties pulls in Master Pages (assuming that unusual 2-col is on an MP at the source). I'm guessing that regular 2-col doesn't work for the document. ... View more

Since an older discussion of this seems to have vanished from the forum, here's a short summary for future reference. Most web browsers, and many word processing apps do “font fallback”. FM does not. Here's a neat article on the concept: When fonts fall In FM, the current Paragraph or Character Format specifies a font. If you use a codepoint for a character not populated in that font, you see a single question mark (?) for it instead. For example, if you are working on a Creative Commons license document, and need a ⊜ U+229C CIRCLED EQUALS for the colophon page, and your Body font doesn't have it, you get ? The correct codepoint (byte string) is still present there in the FM file, but FM can't render the intended glyph to screen or other output. The quick workaround for this is to create a Character Format and Variable for it, perhaps: ƒStyle: Glyphs Family: Segoe UI Symbol Attributes: ■ all As-Is Variable Name: U+229C CIRCLED EQUALS Definition: <Glyphs>\u229c   On the other hand, if you need most of the other native Unicode CC characters, you are presently out of luck in FM, as they are all codepoints above U+FFFF, which FM can't yet do (FRMAKER-10976). You'll have to use a legacy overlay font or import an EPS object. Rina J: …in wingdings but it turns into a "P" if I try to insert it… And that's the problem with using the legacy overlay fonts scheme. Ditto when people try to copy it back out of the PDF. ... View more

With cursor | in the table cell of interest in between the text strings to be tab-separated, let's assume: Leading|Following hit (and release, don't hold) the  [Esc] key and then the [Tab⭾] key. If you have View🞃Text Symbols on This should then at least appear as Leading〉Following The Paragraph Format for the cell, often ¶CellBody, does need to have tabs defined in /Basic\ for the tab to do anything.   ... View more

Vicki: what is: As ␉ is used for Table navigation, to insert a ␉ character ␉ is Unicode U+2409 SYMBOL FOR HORIZONTAL TABULATION used to denote the [Tab⭾] key on the keyboard. If it's not visible in your view of the forum, it is usually rendered as HT or H T . ␛ is Unicode U+241B SYMBOL FOR ESCAPE used to denote the [Esc] key on the keyboard. If it's not visible in your view of the forum, it is usually rendered as ESC or E S C In a Table, if you just hit ␉, the cursor moves to the next cell. If you hit ␛ followed by ␉, you insert a tab in the current cell.   These ␉ & ␛ codepoints are one of the intended use cases for these Unicode characters, visually representing, for discussion and document purposes, the actual characters generated by those keys: U+0009 HORIZONTAL TABULATION U+001B ESCAPE which are not normally displayed, but executed instead.   In some future that may or may not be near you, any single character can be represented, at final document or web page render, as a keycap, via a trailing: U+20E3 COMBINING ENCLOSING KEYCAP Browser support for this can't yet be relied on. I've actually never seen it work {…properly; Firefox tries}, but here they are as a test: Enclosed tab: ␉⃣ Enclosed escape: ␛⃣   The letter strings Tab⭾ and Esc followed by a U+20E3 can't be relied on at all, because 20E3h is only documented to enclose a single character. ... View more

FrameMaker-dk: I have not seen any announcement, but I have not looked for one either. I had a client in 2022, who came with that exact problem of the bmp's and after a little trial and error i managed to figure out the bitdepth issue. If that happened to BMP, it may also have happened to any number of legacy graphics file formats, such as PCX, RF (Sun raster), and TGA. People also might exploit opportunities to migrate EPS to SVG. ... View more

FrameMaker-dk: The new version of FrameMaker doesn't support bmp anymore… What release was that, and was there any announcement? ... View more

re: … but not all the graphic BMPs are displayed Does that mean that some of the BMP files are displayed? If so, that suggests that the offending files might be using some of the more obscure BMP encodings or options. Nonetheless, FM filters that were previously working would be expected to keep working.   As a graphics file format, BMP was obsolete shortly after introduction, because TIFF was then available. You might have your organization give some thought to mass cloning all the BMPs as PNGs going forward. That way, if flowchart13.bmp doesn't open someday, you can try, from the same file path: flowchart13.png   I had abandoned BMP even before starting to use FM in the early 90s. As I recall: BMP has no dimensions (although 72dpi is often presumed). BMP is RGB only (no CMYK). Compression is RLE only, no LZW or curve-matching. BMP has no transparency. BMP has nil metadata. ... View more

While .mif (as for .fm and .book) have strict internal structure, there is no connection to Structured documents. A MIF can contain a Structured or an Unstructured FM document. Merely saving an unstruc as a MIF will not convert it to structured, and no similar dialog is expected on re-open. MIF is merely a {mostly} human-readable version of .fm binary.   What seems to have happened here is that the outside translators imported your unstruc content into their structure templates, editted, rendered, and sent you back structured MIF. Your choices would appear to be to either: collapse the document back to unstruc, or elect to maintain it as structured (and they may not have sent you everything you need for structured stewardship (DTD? EDD?). Not having worked in structured FM, I'm not sure what external resources a project might require. And then there's the learning curve… ... View more

At what point in what operation is that being reported? And what is the actual error message?   In general, it is theoretically impossible for a computer program of any complexity to determine if a loop will ever complete (the "halting probem" in computer science).   FM usually dodges the whole issue by doing only one, or a finite few, passes through the document on any operation, such as open, update, save. This means that it is possible to have non-terminating loops, such as reciprocal cross-references by $paratext, or self/reciprocal Text Insets. The document can grow without bound, and FM cannot detect it. In the 32-bit days, it would eventually crash at 2 or 4GB. But a bounds crash was the definitive symptom; FM couldn't pre-detect it. In FM2022, you probably have to fill VM or the file system to get such a crash. ... View more

Creation Date (Long) or Creation Date (Short) are System Variables, composed of pre-defined FM building blocks, such as: ‹$monthnum› For dates, I see that there are various options for Asian locales, such as (for month): ‹$monthnumkanjikazu› I don't actually know whether FM has a global control for localizing date formats. The Paragraph Designer /Font\ Language setting, for example, doesn't seem to do anything. ... View more

What data object is the creation date in the FM document? There's not really any such thing as an "EN" or "JP" font. Those are usually just ISO language codes. The month abbreviation would be different codepoints for English (April 2011) and {per Google} Japanese (2011年4月). If the font in use doesn't populate 年 (U+5E74) and 月 (U+6708), it might render as "2011 4". ... View more

For Xref'd content, including TOC, IX, LOF, etc., I wouldn't be surprised if the Condition Code state that hides it at the source needs also to be applied to the referencing files. As far as the autonumber issue, what happens if you perform an Update (file, then book) after applying the CC? ... View more

It sounds like FM is either confused about who is identified in the .lck file, can see it, but not open it, or can open it, but getting some error on read. You might open a .lck file with notepad and see what's in it. It's probably going to look something like: UserID/UserID/YourPCname/Tuesday, December 17, 2024 11:14:20/1734455660/1/ ... View more

Barb, have you any insights on what can cause a RefPage TOCn to get created? I've never encountered it. ... View more

Is what you are describing just how the HTML renders, or have you confirmed the problem by checking the ‹ol› tags for their type & start attributes (or any parent CSS generated that controls those)? ... View more

Susan: But I have a stupid question: How do you create an anchored frame in the Paragraph Designer? I am a relative newbie. That operation is not done in Para Designer. The Import you are already doing does that, implicitly, in the currently selected para. Manually, use Insert🞃AnchoredFrame… from the top menu. re: Also, do you set the style to the graphic itself or to the frame around it, that appears automatically when you insert a graphic? In this context, probably the para. "Style" is a recent FM concept that can applies object-specific catalog attributes to varied objects. A Style assigned for Anchored Frames probably includes not meaningful controls over the anchoring para other than the limited selection of placements. ... View more

Who might be the customer for this template? Being Unstruc FM, and thus having no DTD or XML, it presumably can't be used for documents that require S1000D.   I've been fortunate enough to never have worked under S1000D, so if there's an obvious answer to my question above, I wouldn't know it. ... View more

How was the change made? Copied files & renamed before opening? Opened files and re-saved as new names? Are the 82932x strings plaintext, via Xrefs or Variables in the document?   All the new files could be saved as MIF to .mif, and then use a plaintext editor to block swap all old instances of /82932A/82932B/. Thiere is a slight risk that the character string …82932A… might semi-randomly appear in the hex encoding of some binary object, and get damaged, so make backups. ... View more