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Drag and Drop graphics from Adobe Bridge into Framemaker 2017

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Hello, we have recently upgraded to Frammaker 2017 from Framemaker 10. In Frame 10 you were able to drag and drop graphics directly from Adobe Bridge and have them "Import by Copy" into an anchored frame. With Frame 2017 the graphic only comes across as "Import by Reference".

Is there a setting that can be changed to have the graphic "Import by Copy" using the drag and drop method from Bridge?

When doing many graphics, it's a bit long winded going through the File-Import-Graphic and then select the file and remember to check the "Import by Copy" check box each time.


Why is the title tag inserted incorrectly in tables into invalid structure?

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I think this is a bug, but every time I insert a table it inserts an invalid format-->  The title tag is inserted under the tgroup element instead of above it.  And the structure is automatically marked invalid.  I tried deleting the title element and it wont let me unless I go into the code view and delete the title tags. 

I've also had it do this and there are no title tags in the xml at all, and then when I place them in the correct location in the xml and switch back to wysiwyg then the structure is fixed.... 

Has anyone else seen this issue?

Adobe pdf's embedded into Excel as inserted objects best practice?

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Once embedded, they seem to fail upon execution, usually only half of the pdf is available. Error message is: "There was a problem reading this document (14)."

A clue may be that after first opening the Excel workbook, the first pdf always works well, but after one or two, they start failing even though the first ones have been closed and this suggests to me that it may be a "tray" issue. If I save the excel sheet it seems to help (tray?) and if I close the workbook, it seems to help. I can't get anyone at Adobe to deal with me because the help line to to a foreign country and they are not trained in Excel and very quickly blame the case on excel to avoid embarrassment. Does anyone know how to get these two programs to work together better and are there larger trays or maybe trays specifically made to work better with Excel? Thanks!  

Space in para style name on ref page - TOC

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I have two different para styles that show up in different section titles depending on the length of the text. I can't change the length of the text, because the titles are existing and the FDA doesn't like it when you just go changing things willy nilly.

 

So on the reference page the line reads like this:

Section <$volnum> – <$paratext[SectionTitle]><$paratext[SectionTitle 2-Line]>

 

However, in the TOC the SectionTitle is showing up twice and the SectionTitle 2-Line not at all. This tactic does work in the chapter headers. But I have a sinking feeling it is that pesky little space before the 2.

 

Can I replace it with a %20 or something Windows-y like that to make it work?? (Please say yes. Please say yes.)

 

Happy Monday everyone.

How convert pgfId to id?

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In file1TOC.xml:

<ChapterTOC>

<A ID="pgfId-238889"></A>

<A href="file1.xml#id(pgfId-1019761)" xml:link="simple" show="replace" actuate="user" class="Index">Functions 16</A></ChapterTOC>

 

But in file1.xml:

<title blockcode="A01PART1P017N01" version="1" id="A01PART1P017N01">Functions</title>

 

How can convert or fill object in xml byhref="file1.xml#id(pgfId-1019761)"

FrameMaker Datei lässt sich nicht als PDF speichern

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Hallo,

 

folgendes Problem

 

wenn ich eine FM-Datei mit "Datei->ALs PDF speichern" als PDF speichern möchte, bricht FrameMaker den Vorgang einfach ab.

Egal ob einzelne Datei oder Buch-Datei - Egal ob ich die Dateien im Buch alle offen habe oder nicht.

FrameMaker arbeitet ein paar Sekunden und macht dann nichts mehr - als wäre die Datei fertig.

Im entsprechenden Ordner lieg dann aber keine PDF. Auch keine log Datei oder sonstiges.

 

Meine Kollegin hat die selben Einstellungen wie ich - bei Ihr funktioniert alles.

 

ich brauche dringend eine Lösung

DANKE

 

Bis neulich, Dagmar

Framemaker 12 won't display files

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When I double-click a file to open it directly, Framemaker reports the following error.

frameerror.PNG

 

When I open Framemaker and click File>Open and select a Framemaker file, it will appear to open the file but no content is displayed. It is completely blank.  If I close, save as, or print the file, the file content appears in the background but it disappears when I close the save/print window.

 

This happens to every Framemaker file including new files. My colleagues can open and edit the files normally. I have uninstalled and reinstalled Framemaker 12 but it did not fix the problem. 

 

Kind regards.

Converting from QuickSilver or PDF

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Hello.

 

I've just started converting thousands of pages of docs. The native files were created in Quick Silver but I also have the PDFs. Is there any easier way of converting into FrameMaker than copying and pasting PDF content into FM? I know there is a new Word-to-Frame converter in 17; would it be worth it for me to convert PDF to Word and then import Word into Frame?

 

Thanks!

Meredith


Welcome screen displays less than one second and is replaced by another screen

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Hi,

 

I checked that C:\Users\{username}\AppData\Roaming\Adobe\FrameMaker\14\resources\welcomeScreen\welcome.h tml is ok with IE11, but I start start Fm 2017 (in trial mode so far), the welcome screen flashes briefly, and is replaced with another pretty useless one, showing link on the top to White Papers.

 

Any idea how I can avoid that?

 

Thanks!

Help with FrameMaker deactivation

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I am trying to activate a frame maker license on a computer, but frame won't let me because it was registered on an older computer that failed several years ago and was tossed. No one is using the license, but adobe apparently has recorded that it was associated with the old machine and won't let me activate it on the new cpu.  We have the license, records and installation DVD, but I can't find a method to deactivate the license via Adobe so I can reuse it.

 

Any ideas?

Use a Variable for "label" Attribute?

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Hi, all.

 

I am using FM 12.0.4.445. I am required to have the label attribute populated in section, subsection, figure, and table elements. The label attribute is what is used to build the table of contents, therefore, I have to have the label be the section, figure, etc. number. As I'm sure you can imagine, this makes it very difficult to add a section at the beginning because then I have to go back in and rename all of my labels because the sections numbers increment by one. It wouldn't matter if I was only using FM to convert to .pdf, but I have to round trip this to XML to be kept in a database.

 

Is there a way to make the label attribute of the section, figure, etc. pull the number of that section, figure, etc. with something like <$paranum>? I've tried several different ways and when I save the file as XML, the section number doesn't come in as the label attribute. It comes in as the text "<$paranum>.

 

Any help would be greatly appreciated. I'm stuck with my DTD and schemas (from 2001). I am not permitted to modify them.

 

Thanks!

FM12 suddenly opening multiple docs in a book in different windows instead of tabs

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In unstructured Framemaker 12, when we select all of the documents in a specific book, they used to all open as tabs of the same Window. Most of the are now opening in individual windows apart from the last five or six which appear as tabs in a single window.

 

Nothing was changed in the book document or the files themselves. And this only occurs with one book.

 

Any thoughts?

How to check if a paragraph is/contains an anchored frame or not? if it is/does, apply/remove conditional tags on it?

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Hi, I am new to Extendscript and Framemaker. I am trying to cycle through a book and find which paragraphs are/contain anchored frames. If they contain an anchored frame, I want to be able to select the paragraph and apply/remove conditional tags on the paragraph.

 

This is what I have so far:

 

//code to Show All conditions including hidden ones in book.

 

//take the object of the active book

var openedBook = app.ActiveBook;

//function call - defiend below

openBookFiles(openedBook);

 

 

function openBookFiles(openedBook)

{

    var bookChapter = openedBook.FirstComponentInBook;

    var counter = 0;

    if(bookChapter.ObjectValid())

    {

        var chapterId = bookChapter.id;

        while (chapterId)

        {

            var chapterName = bookChapter.Name;

            chapterId = openFile(chapterName);

            var msg = "Opened Chapter " + chapterName + "Component #"+ counter + "\n\n";

            alert(msg);

            counter++;

            bookChapter.ComponentIsSelected = true;

            chapterId.ShowAll = 1;

            bookChapter = bookChapter.NextComponentInBook;

            chapterId = bookChapter.id;

        }

    }

 

//code to find all paragraphs in book, check to see if they are/contain anchored frames or not.

    var mainflow = doc.MainFlowInDoc;

    var tframe = mainflow.FirstTextFrameInFlow;

    var pgf = tframe.FirstPgf;

    while (pgf.ObjectValid())

    {

        //find out if the paragraph is/contains an anchored frame

        //if it does, deslect/select a condition tag applied on the paragraph.

        pgf = pgf.NextPgfInFlow;

    }

}

FrameMaker locks up when trying to Publish

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Using FrameMaker 15 with Windows 7, why does FrameMaker lock up when trying to Publish? I can select the format I want, but when I try to change settings, and select Style Mapping, it closes my Publishing options and then nothing happens. If I bypass the setting options and select Generate Selected Output, it creates a file in the location I indicated, but it won't let me view the output file. Nothing really seems to be working for me.

Assigning an object style based on context

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Greetings!

 

I am working on an XML application that uses the same element <graphic> for inline elements (for example icons in a paragraph) and general figures.

 

I have two object styles:

  • inline: sets the "anchor position" to "insertion point"
  • figure: sets the "anchor position" to "Below current line"

(I apologize if my property names are off; I'm actually using FrameMaker in Japanese, so I don't have the correct English names.)

 

I want to have a context rule where, if the <graphic> element is a child of <para>, it's assigned the "inline" style. If it's a child of <figure>, it's assigned the "figure" style. My current EDD looks like the following:

 

Initial graphic element format

1.     If context is:para

Insert imported graphic file.

Anchored Frame Object Style:inline

Else

Insert imported graphic file.

Anchored Frame Object Style:figure

 

However, when I import my XML into FrameMaker, only the "else" clause takes; all <graphic> elements have an object style of "figure".

When I change the Else to ElseIf and specify the context "figure", no object styles are applied to any <graphic> elements.

 

So it seems that the context is not registering. But I'm pretty sure my context specifications are right. Below is the structured view:

inline_structure.PNGfigure_structure.PNG

Any ideas?

This doesn't seem like it should be too hard (paragraph formats all work correctly in their contexts).


Can I reference a step number and not include the period behind the step?

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This may be another no-brainer, but I'd like to create a cross-reference to a step number. The problem I'm encountering is when I want to reference, for instance, "step 14 and step 15." I can't seem to figure out how to exclude the period behind the first step so it looks like "step 14. and step 15." Anyone know of a workaround?

 

Thanks,

Leanna

FM 14.0.1.406 Help not working

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I have just discovered - is it only on my system? - that F1 (Help > Help Topics…) does not do anything.

This is an installation from the TCS6-suite with a registration key lasting until november 2017 + the update.

 

Previously I had the last beta-version installed (which was the same as the published: 14.0.0.361 - just no ReadMe file available) + update.

I had not checked then, so I can not say, that there was no problem with Help.

 

My system is W7 x64

 

Can this problem be confirmed by others?

Klaus Daube

PDF-creation from book - mixed page sizes

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Currently i find no way to be able to have A4 files and A3 files in the same book and get an output according to that. All A3 are cropped to A4.

 

EDIT: I could make this wor by making a PS and Destill it.

 

Those damn paragraph to bookmark settings keeps changeing - whi cant they just save?

Support for including PDF-files in the book and still export book to PDF

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I have a lot of PDFs that belongs to the publication that i need to add after exprting a book to PDF. Would be better to have them in the book to save time.

THe included PDFs could be re-PDFed again or not.

Buttons to compress or expand the book structure

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Would decrease work. Maybe shortcuts too.

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