What newer version of FM? I'm not seeing this behavior in a quick FM2020 test. And what's the setting for Format 🞃 Document » Footnote Properties… /Footnote\ Maximum Height Per Column: ... View more

In addition to your license issue, also check the forum for vanishing-PDF-driver solutions, and consider doing installs for-all-users, if not as admin anyway. ... View more

The full Acrobat Pro is part of 'Cloud. You might [re?]install Pro and see what happens. As it happens I have both Pro and Reader installed (Win10), and PDF generation in FM works. ... View more

RQ: There has to be an attribute that I can use to scale them to the text frame width on import, but I can't figure out what it is. The investigation might need to start with what FM thinks the size is, which is why I asked about typical ‹svg declarations.   I just did a couple of basic tests in FM2020 unstruc, using SVGs from Illustrator (that got generated with dimensionless units for the art, a 4×4in rectangle with 1mm stroke). FM is ignoring the viewBox,   ‹svg id="Layer_1" data-name="Layer 1" xmlns="{elided}" version="1.1" viewBox="0 0 576 576"› Illustrator exported the 1mm stoke as px:   … stroke-width: 2.8px; … FM is treating the maximum content extents as points (72dpi).   ‹rect class="cls-1" x="144" y="144" width="288" height="288"/› This got imported at 100% as a 4.056×4.056in rectangle (the excess due to the width of the ‘2.8px’ stroke).   Doing a hand edit on the SVG and specifying width="4cm" height="4cm" resulted in FM honoring that, and treating it as a 1.639in rectangle.   So a huge factor in this import:default process would seem to be what the SVG exporting app is generating. If dimensionless, they are apparently assumed to be 'pt ... View more

In some of the SVGs, what's a typical ‹svg … x="#u" y="#u" … viewBox="# # ### ###" … width="###u" height="###u" … look like? Unlike EPS, which could specify absolute dimensional units, SVG dimensions may be completely abstract (no units), or follow HTML/CSS conventions, like 123px, which are likewise meaningless in a dimensioned page layout context.   I haven't used SVG in FM enough to even have a guess as to how FM default-sizes various viewBox and/or width:height declarations.   All of which is by way of suggesting that with SVG, there may be no "actual size". ... View more

Color model conversions are almost never fully satisfactory, so I'm wondering what your criteria are. If manually saving from FM to PDF is producing a different result than scripting the same thing, then there is clearly a software problem. Screenshots of the two outputs might be helpful in the troubleshooting here. And is it all color images in any FM document, or just some file formats? ... View more

I presume that ‹Cross Reference› is a Character Format. ‹Default ¶ Font› is in there twice, so I'm not sure what the 2nd instance is trying to turn off. Also, you can use ‹/› as a shorthand way of doing that. I further see a space in the first instance of ‹$paranum› ‹$paratext›, but not the latter. Not sure if any of this explains the colors. ... View more

tracey: I've got an extendscript app that has worked fine for years in FM 2017… Stopped working in FM2017, or in a later FM? And if so, which major & point release, as I seem to recall reports of script problems in the latest. ... View more

Steph: …our process requires us to copy text from one Frame file and paste it into another, replacing existing text that may contain an index marker. The trashed text may {have} contain{ed} a lot more than that. Index markers are only one type of marker that would be lost, not to mention Anchors, Character Formats and other meta. And then there's the question of what might get dragged in unintentionally. Is this via simple paste, or via some flavor of Paste Special? And if there's any risk of bringing in formatting from the source document, how well defined and implemented are enterprise standards for formats? ... View more

Matt: …was the underlying issue that Roboto was only installed for a specific user on your machine? Whether or not the case in this case, I'm wondering why that would matter. One conjecture is that in recent FMs, not all output workflows execute in their entirety as the authoring user. Some spawned:parallel processes could be a different user or group. How FM itself was installed might come into play.   But it looks like, in FM, a PDF rendering defect checklist might include: Install fonts for all users (and they aren't, by default) If a Google font, get it from Google If an OTF Variable font, install only the Static instances ... View more

As Winfried related, this is caused by the current printer changing while FM has a document open. I seem to recall that there is a script available (SetPrint?) that can set the printer every time you open FM, avoiding this minor annoyance. On my system, the printer is normally set to the actual PCL laser printer at hand. I'm just in the habit of doing a File🞃Print Setup… for the specific project, usually to a PDF driver & custom page size.   The original goal of WYSIWYG on Windows was that text processing apps would render to the screen exactly as the document would appear on the target printer. Switching to a daisywheel driver was a shocking visual experience in FM then. ... View more

Saved from what Adobe application? This is the Framemaker forum, and FM, per se, doesn't save images. The output to HTML/XML has settings for converting images to various formats, including JPG. ... View more

If Roboto is an OTF Variable font, was it installed as a Variable, or were the Static instances installed? FM doesn't support Variable fonts yet, so the statics (if supplied) need to be used for stable results. ... View more

Alt+242 is the Windows keyboard shortcut to generate codepoint ò U+00F2 LATIN SMALL LETTER O WITH GRAVE Even in legacy FM practice, applying Character Format to that would get: Symbol: ∫ integral Dingbat: ➲   What you really want to use is ≥ U+2265 GREATER-THAN OR EQUAL TO which I'd expect most fonts to support, but when they don't, you get "?" I don't know the keyboard shortcut for Unicode ≥ Use Character Map, Babelmap or FM Character Pallete to inspect your font. ... View more

Moshe: Are there settings in Framemaker that I can make to ensure a better outcome? Unless a different output workflow (Publish-to-PDF, Print-to-PDF, Save-as PDF, Print-to-Ps&Distill) fixes it, nothing inside FM may be effective. If the problem is the Variable instance of Open Sans, it will need to be uninstalled from the machine, and replaced with the Static instances. Doing that might require Admin privileges on the machine. ... View more

Winfried: There are different font files for variable and static version of Open Sans. Thanks for pointing that out. It's probably similar for most Variable fonts, and when there's a problem with font metrics, installing the static would be the first thing to try. re: I use Open Sans for several years now and never had a problem with it. Static or Variable? ... View more

Siara: Very strange! I have never saved to or imported a .MIF file It's not customary to use MIF as the working file format for an active project, except perhaps in scenarios where authors are using mixed versions of FM. I've never seen it used in a .book, and suspect that there may be some downsides. It is commonly used for exporting a project for translation & such. re: It doesn't sound like it will be an issue. Project-wise, it won't be, unless it becomes one. On Save after modification, for example, does it cause a Save-As dialog to pop? Anyway, there is a real issue here, which is that it appears that Adobe doesn't document these book menu icons. I wasn't able to find anything in either the FM7 print manual, or a later on-line. I've never paid much attention to them on account of this. These icons are intended to make you more efficient. The icon design, text and current aspect convey a lot of information about the file type, whether generated or not, and perhaps other status. It's not terribly efficiency-promoting if the average author doesn't know what they are saying, and doesn't know where to find out. Perhaps one of the aftermarket authors could add a summary to their FM book. ... View more

Open Sans is an OTF Variable font (OpenType Font Variations). FM doesn't yet fully support Variable fonts, as far as I know. Failure modes may or may not depend on internal font details, such as outlines being TTF, Ps, CFF or CFF2. It appears that there are tools available to generate static instances of Variable fonts, aka "freeze" them, much as would be routinely done in the Adobe Multiple Master days of yore. This is all a bit more than I know about it. ... View more

The /Pagination\ properties need to be checked for: ⇧ the preceding paragraph ⊥ the para with the frame anchor  🗏 the caption para ⇩ the following para Check Start and both Keeps. ... View more

Of course, in a dot or bar font with sufficiently simple geometry, some letterforms simply can't be done unambiguously.  In a 7-segment, I'm not sure how one might diferentiate U&V, K&H, or how to implement W at all. The font designer may have left them out deliberately. ... View more

MB: We rarely copy from PDF into FM,… Perhaps the more likely risk is some document consumer copying out into email or another document. Where you wrote: "This mission requires more Δ𝑣 than the last." doing that with the legacy Symbol overlay hack would result in it getting pasted as: "This mission requires more Dn than the last." ... View more

MB: …Character Palette, the pop-up display for two or three seconds and closed by itself… That was reported, fixed, but may be broken again. Oddly, CP also covers the Unicode SMP range (above U+FFFF), which has yet to be supported in FM. In any case, I find the freebie BabelMap applet to be much more convenient and comprehensive than either FM CP or Windows CMap … Cmap often shows things that aren't really there. re: I didn't ask about a zero-slash, I asked about an Oh-Slash… Ah, that might be  Ø U+00D8 LATIN CAPITAL LETTER O WITH STROKE but there are a number of other candidates, depending on slash direction or semantics desired, such as ⌀ U+2300 DIAMETER SIGN ... View more

re: DIgitFonteN Have you a link to where this font may be downloaded, so that forum members can try it? Usually "?" means either: a. the legacy overlay, Unicode BMP (up to U+FFFF), or Unicode PUA font has no glyph for the codepoint, or b. it's a Unicode SMP font (U+10000 or above), which does not work in FM yet at all In this case, the "with letters V, W and K" suggests that this is a legacy overlay/codepage font, and not a particularly thoughtfully populated one.   If I had a requirement for 7-segment or dot-matrix digits, I'd be inclined to find a Unicode font that placed them in the usual U+0020…007F (ASCII) range, at their expected glyph locations, or in the U+FF** fullwidth range. ... View more

Meanwhile, back at the subject line, you also wanted a zero-slash. If this needs to be a semantic digit zero, you need a font that represents a "0" that way. How to differentiate 0 from O tends to be font-specific, with most opting for narrow, some center-dot, and a few slashed. If the semantics don't matter, consider: ∅ U+2205 EMPTY SET ... View more

Marshall_Brooks: Found it!!! There is a font called Symbol - not sure if it is native to FM or not. Capital D in that is Delta !!!! Don't do it that way. It will not flow reliably to all outputs (esp. HTML). That method relies on the final display/print client being able to perform a codepage font glyph substitution. Instead, use native Unicode: Δ U+0394 GREEK CAPITAL LETTER DELTA or ∆ U+2206 INCREMENT depending on the context. Most fonts populate one or the other. This is \u0394 or \u2206 markup in FM dialogs. I don't immediately know the Windows shortcuts for these. While an overlay Symbol font is a long-standing (pre Unicode) feature of FM, using markup: \x44 Delta, with font Symbol applied is at some risk of rendering as D, down the road.   …unless you are on FM7.2 or earlier, which had no Unicode support. ... View more

You can add a separate text frame to the Master Page(s), with a Flow letter different than "A", perhaps "Flow P". It could be 1 line high. The text in it would just be an auto-numbered paragraph, perhaps of stylename FilePage, with an AN Definition of <n+>, with Next Para set to FilePage. It may not be necessary to have a separate <n=1> variant. As content pages are created/added, just hit [Return] in the little text frame to have a number appear. This content can be visible or not in the final work, using Color Views or Conditional Text. The number can be Cross-Referenced as needed for in-line mention or hyperptext. It's a bit hacky, but seems to work. Hitting [Return] in that text frame can crate new empty pages. Where unwanted, just backspace them out & save. ... View more

Yep. Revised. Thanks. Of course, this presumes that it's just FM that's crashing, and not the whole VM. ... View more

What version of Windows are the VMs emulating? Anything interesting in: C:\Users\{UserName}\AppData\Roaming\Adobe\FrameMaker\fmlogs\16\… ... View more