Hi,
I need to edit and save FM 2012 files in my FM 2015 version. If I am using the unstructured product interface, all buttons and menus are gone, but the pods are still there. What am I missing?
Thanks, Philip
Menus and buttons not showing (structured vs. unstructured)
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Image in side bar displayed incorrectly (cropped)
Hi all,
what we want is this, an image in the side bar that is level to the title of the topic (DITA 1.2):
So what I did was to create a corresponding paragraph style that is moved to the side bar (and the corresponding context rule in the EDD), and then insert an image with the placement set to "inline":
The result, when opened in FM 2015, is displayed cropped:
At first, I thought is was a simple formatting issue and that I would just need to fiddle around a bit. However, now I noticed that this is more a display error. When I select the anchored frame, open the frame properties and just click "Edit frame" without making any changes, the frame is displayed correctly (as in the first screenshot).
The side bar images are also displayed cropped when I publish a PDF from the ditamap, so I really need to solve this, it is not just an annoyance during editing.
Do you have any ideas, or an alternative solution for these side images?
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Why are my graphics fuzzy? I use photoshop to edit graphic and than save as a eps.file than link to my FM file
I'm using Adobe Creative Suite 3, photoshop and AI software to edit my illustrations. I save as an eps file and link to the art. When I make a PDF the art I edited in photoshop or AI comes out fuzzy.
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How can I get the Paragraph Tags to carry forward to Stand alone TOC?
They also don't carry forward into stand-alone List of Tables
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PDF Setup: unable to select "None" for the option "Bookmarks Expanded through Level"
I am not able to select "None" for the option "Bookmarks Expanded through Level". It always jumps back to Default. Any suggestions? I am using FrameMaker 2015 on Windows.
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How to save MIF 12.0 from FM 2015?
Hi,
we switched from FrameMaker 12 to the version 2015 and I noticed that I can only save the MIF formats 7.0 and 2015, but not the format MIF 12.0 that was used by FM12. Am I missing anything? Is MIF 2015 identical to 12.0 and just renamed?
We use MIF for localization and I have the impression that switching to MIF 2015 has drastically decreased the number of matches, which would make sense if the TM was established with a different MIF 1.0 format.
Robert
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Best file organization for output to PDF and HTML5?
Hi, all.
I want to get your opinion on the strategy I intend to adopt unless someone tells me about a better way!
I recently imported ~150 .html files into FrameMaker, and tidied them all up, so that they could become the basis of future single-sourced PDFs and HTML5 help systems. I find it hard to scroll through 150 .fm files in the .bk file to find the individual topic I need, and I can't think of a reason to keep the .fm files separate.
Therefore, I am going consolidate the .fm files in large chapter files and, ultimately, create a traditional FrameMaker book file that will produce a traditional PDF. Then:
1. I'll generate PDFs in the usual way.
2. In order to create HTML5 Help, I will use the Settings option to split each .fm into topics at the H1 and H2 levels, and suppress my Chapter Title sections completely (since they contain book-metaphor connective material).
Would any of you use a different strategy? If so, what are its selling points? Would you keep the ~150 separate .fm files for any reason?
Thanks.
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Saving as .rtf file
When I try to save FrameMeker file as .rtf, I always have following error message and cannot save it.
Is there any way I can fix this issue?
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Need help in converting legacy Dita maps into FM and creating structured templates
Hi,
Our Organization has recently bought FM.
We have many ditamaps and files made in XMetal that we need to convert to FM.
I tried to create a structured template but the existing files are not adopting all the inherent styles automatically.
Like I want all concept titles to be blue font size 18 and all tasks to be red font size 12. how do I define these properties in the template? and how do I ensure that all ui controls are bolded and all this to happen automatically.
Please suggest good resources/ videos/ steps.
Garima
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Need to make a .book with subset of final book - ok to put in original .book folder?
I need to produce an interim manual for review.
This is about half of the overall project and thus will contain roughly half of the original book's chapters.
Is it okay to make a second .book file and place it in the same folder as the full .book file?
While this might seem like a dimwit question, I've learned to tread lightly when it comes to FrameMaker references and internal interconnections between files, as well as FrameMaker's penchant to treat cross-refs and links as absolute rather than relative.
More detail:
The people working on this have named the original (full) book as "book.book."
Is there any problem making, say, a (~half-length) "10-1-16.book" and putting that file in the same folder as "book.book"?
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Create tags in FrameMaker 2015 to html 5 output?
I am about to make a book with recipes in FrameMaker 2015. The book is to be published as html 5 and pdf. I would like to be able to tag all recipe ingredients, so that one may click on them and get a search whice encompasses all the instances of the tagged work.
Is it possible to do that with variables ? Or is there another solution?
Best regards
Bjørn
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ExtendScript Find() methods - FS_FindCustomizationFlags constants
Hi,
While attempting to do Find operations with ExtendScript, FM2015, I find that the documented constants for FS_FindCustomizationFlags do not resolve. From the doc:
Constant.FS_FindCustomizationFlags (15) - An optional parameter of type FT_Integer that may be any of the following bit flags OR’ed together:
• Constants.FF_FIND_CONSIDER_CASE (0x01)
• Constants.FF_FIND_WHOLE_WORD (0x02)
• Constants.FF_FIND_USE_WILDCARDS (0x04)
• Constants.FF_FIND_BACKWARDS (0x08)
For example, this just reports "undefined":
alert(Constants.FF_FIND_CONSIDER_CASE);
I worked around it by specifying the hex integer directly, but I'm wondering if I'm just missing something. And FWIW, I originally bumped into this looking for a way to search with regular expressions. I found this in the FDK fapidefs.h file, which fortunately allowed me to get it to work:
| #define FF_FIND_USE_REGEX | ((IntT) 0x10) |
Russ
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Programmatic equivalent for the Find dialog Change functions
Hi,
Is there a reasonable programmatic equivalent for the Change buttons in the Find dialog? FDK or ES? I have no urgency to find one, but I was going to use it if available. I'm looking for something simple and direct, no wild button-pushing-automation-routines or anything like that.
I hope this isn't a dumb question. I'm amused that after all these years, it is the first time I've ever thought of a need for it.
Russ
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Table of Content - Multiple Line Page# Alignment Issue
Hi All,
I have a Table of Content, in which I have some entries that expands to two lines.
When Table of content entries expand to two lines, Leader Line are not added and page Numbers shows next to the entry.
See Image below: Entry with RED ARROW - 1.9.4 shows Page 44 without Leader Line:
Any explanation will be appreciated.
Thank you.
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Is there anything that XPP can do that FrameMaker can't do?
I'm very new to XML publishing but my company is migrating from SGML to XML and is looking into a product called XPP from a company that used to be called Xywright. If anyone here has knowledge of XPP, can you please tell me if it can offer any features not available through FrameMaker? Thanks.
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How to create an image map
Hello,
I tried to understand from the FM help how to create an image map but I just cannot work out the details. At least the German translation of the help is partially very unintelligible. Can someone point me to the required steps?
From what I read, image maps will be converted to HTML and XML. So when I edit DITA files, does FM create the correct imagemap elements? And when I import to Robohelp, are HTML image maps created?
Robert
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I would like to know if you can create embeded drop down menus and check boxes in FrameMaker.
I would like to know if you can create embeded drop down menus and check boxes in FrameMaker.
We are publishing documents that require DTDs and we want to incorporate some drop down menus and check boxes.
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Frame 5.5 on Windows 10?
Can Frame 5.5 be used together Windows 10?
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what are the system requirements for installing framemaker 2015
Hi,
if we are setting up framemaker in our company what are the system requirements needed?
Do we need a database? separate server ?
What are the IT requirements resources for implementing the software?
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Can you control the initial page width of HTML5 help?
Hi, all.
I am creating HTML5 help from FrameMaker 2015, and I would like to set the initial page width to 4 inches. I've looked at editing the Layout and creating an HTML page template, and so far I haven't found a control to do this.
Does anyone know of a way?
Thanks.
--Nancy
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