Exactly  what functionality is missing in RTF content generated from FM? Word opens RTF seamlessly, just like FM opens a MIF file, so except for dealing with functionality that Word/RTF doesn't support (like true sideheads and run-ins) providing a list of missing features that are required for current versions of Word would be more helpful then a blanket dismissal. ... View more

Bob, Actually using standalone files - not in a book, it's more work than having them in a book. You have to update each generated file individually using the Special Menu in FM2015 or Insert Menu in FM2017. No book is in use for this. The last two versions of FM allow the creation of a mini-TOC of the file to be included within the same file, but unfortunately does not expand to other types of generated files (even though the mechanism is identical for other types - and yes it was requested to extend this in the pre-release program to cover the other file types). ... View more

A tutorial on creating live transparency in PDFs with any version of FM has been posted in the Documents section: How to create live transparency in PDFs using FrameMaker ... View more

To get everything into a single file, you would have to create stand-alone files for the TOC, LOC and LOF and then create text insets of these within the FM10 document. Unless your requirement is to have these items flow consecutively together on the same page(s), you may as well create a book file, as it will be the same amount of work. If you need to create dot leaders between the heading text and the page number, you need to do two things. First, using the Paragraph Designer create the appropriate tab stop for the TOC style. Second, insert a tab-character or \t on the TOC Reference Page in the corresponding TOC style between the <$paratext> and <$paranum> building blocks. ... View more

Inserting a footnote does NOT automatically create a hypertext link between the footnote designator (symbol or number) and the footnote. You have to add a cross-reference to it as well. The easiest way to do this is as follows: 1. Create a Character Style that only has the Subscript enabled (Shift+F8 to set everything to AsIs first) and call it Footnote. 2. Create a Cross-Reference format called Footnote that uses the "Footnote" character style followed by a thin-space (\st in the dialogue box). 3. Place the cursor in front of the Footnote number in your text. 4. Insert the "Footnote" format cross-reference to the corresponding Footnote paragraph in the Cross-Reference dialogue. You will now have a link from the footnote number to the corresponding footnote. This works (in PDFs) because FM uses changes in the formatting as boundaries for the active link area. Since you inserted a thin-space with a subscript format, then the entire tin-space and number are now an active link. ... View more

Have you enabled the S1000D plug-in in FM and looked at that? Look under the Edit > Preferences > Launch and remove the s1000d scripts from the Don't Load Startup Scripts line. Please start a new thread on using s1000d in the Structured FM forum to continue this, as this is really veering off the original question. ... View more

In the XML Author mode, a number of the toolbars (especially anything to do with formatting) are simply not available. The intent is to have authors provide content and not have to worry about how it looks. The visual appearance is taken care of downstream in the structured FM application at the publishing stage. ... View more

The best way to "hide" text, but still make it available for running headers/footers or cross-references is to use FM's Color Views (Views > Color > Color Views or <esc> v c v). First, create a new colour (make it something bright that will stand out) and give it a name, something like "myInvisible". Then switch to the colour views. You will see that there up to six different views available. In View 1, select your "myInvisible" colour in the left-side "Normal" column and use the arrows to move it to the right-side "Invisible" column. Click Set to establish this an invisible colour. You can now use this colour in your Paragraph or Character designers to apply to any text that you do not want shown, but still want FM to be able access. Once you've applied the tag and the text disappears, the fastest way to "see" it again is to switch to a different  colour view. Use <esc> v 2 (or any number up to 6) to toggle to a view where the "myInvisible" colour is not set to Invisible. Make your edits and then toggle back to View 1 using the <esc> v 1 shortcut. ... View more

Since you're not using the $chapnum variable (which you really  should), I suspect that you're numbering scheme is being reset by the paragraph numbering control that probably is set to re-start the paragraph numbering for every file. ... View more

How is this set-up in the book file (book file trumps individual fm files)? Did you import a template or formats across all files recently? ... View more

Have you checked to see what the environment variable %FMHome% is pointing to? ... View more

If you used a template or imported a template to configure/modify your FM files, be aware that there is a setting in the maker.ini that will let FM overwrite a file's FileInfo contents with those of the template (or any file that you import formats from). CopyFileInfoOnImport This should be set to CopyFileInfoOnImport=Off, to avoid any accidental over-writing of your FileInfo content. IIRC, it is not defined in the default maker.ini file and the default setting is On. So you may want to add this line to you maker.ini file in the [Preferences] section. ... View more

Re-arrange this line so that "TEXT" comes first, e.g. ClipboardFormatsPriorities=TEXT, UNICODE TEXT, FILE, MIFW, MIF, RTF, OLE 2, META, EMF,  DIB, BMP ... View more

Jeff, The Tracker system was just introduced at the start of this year. The old "Bugbase" was put into a read-only mode, but the old link to get to it was broken due to a re-drect. Messages to both the Engineering team and the Forum management have gone unanswered. ... View more

Stefan, It would be nice to have a description of what caused the issue and how it was resolved in case other users run into the same thing. ... View more

Is this repeatable? How often does it happen? Does it happen more when you've been using FM for a while or can it happen as soon as you've started a session? You should report this to the Adobe's bugbase at: Tracker  Include as many details and screen shots as possible. There have been mentions of other odd issues with FM2017 and I've had some wierd happenings on my version as well, so there very well coud be some sort of memory leak in this version. ... View more

Which version of FrameMaker? Is there a specific font of Open Sans that is unavailable (bold, italic, etc.)? One approach is to turn off the remember missing fonts in your Preferences, save the file(s) [accepting FM's substitutions]. Then re-open the file and turn back on the remember missing fonts in your Preferences. This should clear any missing fonts. ... View more

Nope, feeling like a mushroom [kept in the dark and fed ....] ... View more

I've sent another message about the broken link - this time to the Forum management team instead of FM engineering. Hopefully, there will be a response to this soon. ... View more

In  the upper-right hand corner, there is a Workspace button that will have a label, e.g. From this you can select pre-defined Workspace layouts or create your own. By opening various Toolbars or Pods (under the View menu), they will automatically populate the workspace in pre-defined locations. You can then drag them to a different location/side and/or re-arrange the order until yo get the tools that you need where you want them. You can then save this custom layout (as I have) and assign it a name relevant to what you  are using those tools for. Click on the Save Workspace option to give it the name. By clicking the "Reset Workspace" option, any changes that you've made to a pre-exisitng workspace, are reset to the original layout. This allows you to play around with the layouts, add or remove tools, etc., but still get back to a starting point. The Blank workspace, allows you to build from scratch. Using any of the others, i.e. Authoring, Design, Manage Graphics, Review, let's you customize specific tasks to your liking. There's a video showing how this done on Adobe TV at: FrameMaker for Word: Work Spaces [in depth] | FrameMaker for Word: Do you Write Right? | Adobe TV ... View more

Which toolbar? You can dock any toolbar where you want (right, top or left sides) in whatever Workspace that you are using. You can create your own custom workspace by starting with the default "Blank" one and then place whichever toolbars and pods where you'd like them and then save that as a named workspace. [P.S. Please don't create multiple posts on the same topic with slightly different headings. The duplicate was removed.] ... View more

Do you have many graphics (especially JPEG's) imported by copy in your FM document? If so, these are probably being output in a more simplified raster format within the RTF and can be huge compared to a compressed JPEG file. ... View more

Depending upon how the FM file was created, saving as MIF organizes and cleans up the internal database, so I think it's possible that some items in the document order may be re-arranged vs. accessing those in the flow order. However, my scripting experience is much more ad hoc and most of my stuff is generated as MIF first via Miramo, so I'll defer to your and Rick's expertise on this. ... View more

As Barb mentions, just open all of the files in the book (press the shift key first and then click on File > Open all files in Book) first and accept the missing font warnings. FM will make substitutions. You can then update the book or SaveAsPDF without any further issue (in that session). It's possible that your linking of the Powerpoint slides (which uses OLE) may be rendering these as EMFs in FM, and this may be affecting the actual font names used. ... View more

In the FM doc, you should be running the script against the first paragraph in the flow (typically Flow "A", but FM docs can have many flows). The first paragraph in the document may not be the first thing that you see in on a Body page. The Body page shows the flow content. ... View more