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How can I set an auto-numbered chapter title style outside the left margin?

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I inherited a suite of documents in FrameMaker 12 that had all the page layouts, paragraphs, and references created. This is my first time working with FM, so I still find the menus a bit confusing. Our corporate branding recently changed, and I need to move the auto-numbering in the Chapter Title style outside of the left margin.

The example below shows how the numbering is currently aligned with the left margin.

 

 

I've tried the paragraph designer, master pages, but I can't figure out how to set a negative indent. An anchored frame doesn't seem to be the correct approach, because the content outside the margin is only text. I know how to fix this in Word or CSS, but can't figure it out in FM. Please help.

 

Thanks!


Can Framemaker do everything Arbortext can?

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I am not familiar with Framemaker, but we are using Arbortext to create a government document/manual. I hate the Arbortext, but I was told Adobe couldn't import the DTD files. Is there anything I cannot do in Adobe that I can in Arbortext??

Single document page numbering

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Hi all,     Does anyone know if you can format a single FrameMaker document (not in a book) to have preliminary pages with roman numeral page numbers and then switch to normal numbers on the main subject matter.  I know how to do this in a book but want to do it in a single document, I have set up separate master pages for the preliminary pages but do not know how to change the <$pagenum> building block to be roman numerals.  MS Word haters like myself  do not want to have to use Word where you have to create new sections etc. but I do not always want to create a book for shorter documents.

FrameMaker 2015 won't launch

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I have Windows 7, and have been using FrameMaker 2015 as part of the Technical Communication Suite. It is the only application in the suite that I have installed. Suddenly, it will no longer launch and give a message "Unexpectedly Quit".

I tried reinstally. No luck.

Then I tried uninstalling before reinstalling. No luck.

Then I tried uninstalling, reinstalling and restarting. Now the program starts okay.

But after I downloaded and installed the update for 2015, FrameMaker again stopped working.

 

After another uninstall/reinstall, it is working, but without the update.

 

Is there a fix for this so that I can run it with the update installed?

custom toolbar images missing

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I have custom toolbars for FrameMaker 2017 - originally created for FrameMaker 8 and FrameMaker 2015. I've updated the image pathway in the toolbar files (**.xml) to no avail.

 

This is how the toolbar is appearing. Each button is definitely working, but the images are not there.

Toolbar.JPG

 

This is the code line from the XML file - the current pathway for the image is desperation. Still didn't work.

Code.JPG

 

Any help would be appreciated.

Exceptions to the (table) Rule

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Hey folks,

 

I'm relatively new to FrameMaker (done the Lynda course, been doing a few practice documents, transitioning our existing IPCs from Word to FrameMaker 11), and I'm running across a fairly niche situation I haven't found a good solution to yet.

 

Here's an example of our existing IPC table format in Word:

IPC Sample.PNG

 

In the table pictured above, there are "Thin" column rules between all of the columns except Fig/Item and the two straddled Effectivity columns. Fairly bog-standard as far as parts catalog tables go, but I'm having a tough time duplicating it in FrameMaker for the following reason:

tabletool.PNG

 

I am only allowed one exception to the table column format rules, not two or more. Now to be clear, I know about the Custom Ruling and Shading control, but given the number of rows a table like this can have (it can range up to the hundreds) and how often we have to delete/add items to various places in the list, I'd like to avoid them if possible. Is there a way to have two exceptions to the rule instead of one?

'conditions' required for responsive HTML5 content?

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It's been a while (several months) since I had to generate responsive HTML from my docs, and need some tips.

 

Content is to be delivered as .pdf (that's the norm), and as html5.

 

Content that I recall posed problems for me in the past, and content that is posing problems right now, includes the following, which I've had to address by duplicating the content and turning it into conditional text. What I'd like to know is if there are settings that can be done to address the issues without having to use conditions (and duplicated content). Any help is appreciated :-)

 

  • Tables - Our documents have room for on the left for side heads. So, tables that fit in the main text area (not extending into side heads) are Left justified. If a table is too wide (must start somewhere in the side-head area and extend to the right-hand margin), it gets set as right-justified.
    That works fine for .pdf. However, for html5, the right-justified tables anchor on the right edge of the webpage. So, the only solution I found was to duplicate the table and make it left-justified and apply condition 'PrintCondition' to the right-justified table, and apply 'PDFCondition' to the left-justified table.
    Is there a different way to accomplish this?
  • Figures - I have some figures (in anchored frames) in indented paragaphs, only content on line. I use anchoring position At Insertion Point and the frames left-justify as desired (these are images that are hanging below corresponding indented instructions steps). Works fine in PDF, but if I generate HTML5, they left-justify on the webpage (so not in line with indented steps).
    For HTML5, I had to duplicate the paragraph (with image), and use a 'wide' paragraph format (extends into side-heads), use anchoring position Below Current Line, and then manually position the image inside the anchored frame so that it would appear indented in the webpage.
    I'm sure there's a better way to do this, but I'm getting all twisted up.
  • Text with background color -- In my PDFs, I have text (linux commands) that the user must enter. For these, I used a paragraph type that had  Pgf Box set with a color. This looked great, but.... it gets rendered as a graphic when HTML5 is generated. Can't have that, because users need to cut from doc to paste in terminal emulator.
    So... I set Pgf Box back to none, and the set background color on the Fonts tab of Paragraph Designer. Not as nice since doesn't define an actual 'box' around multi-line commands, but acceptable (the text itself has background color).
    HOWEVER, if I generate HTML5 'as-is', the background color doesn't appear on the text.
    If I modify the style mapping and set the Background Background-color, the color doesn't appear on the text, it only appears *after* the text
    If I create a *new* paragraph style (duplicate of the one that works in pdf), but don't have a background color, and then I set the Background Background-color style, the color *does* appear on the text, but also extends all the way to the edge of the page.
    So... I'm having to duplicate my 'command' content, apply PrintCondition to the content with a background color, and apply PDFCondition to the content with a different paragraph style that does not have background color, and apply a css style mod for the background-color.
    Again, this seems like a lot of work :-)

 

If anybody can point me toward easier solutions, that would be... WONDERFUL! :-)

 

Thanks either way.

bug found in FM2017 paragraph formats when printing to PDF or postscript

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We have FrameMaker 2-17  Paragraph Formats for Figures and Tables.

 

In FrameMaker these are just fine in FM2017 as they were in FM12.

 

However, when we generate a PDF from any document or book from FM2017, then there is an additional graphic added to every Figure or Table name.  This is creating a noticeable CHANGE in each and every book that we PDF from FrameMaker.  This shows up in compares and will trigger change notifications in all of our translations.

 

See below the image of an extra line that shows up on each FIGURE and TABLE name.  This was never the case in FM12 to PDF conversion.

 

see overlap of figure graphic line.jpg

 

Our documents are worldwide and require translation, and this kind of issue will increase our translation costs exponentially.

We need to hear that someone is addressing this issue ASAP.

Please advise.

thanks.


Publish table to html5 -- allowed Anchored Frame 'Anchoring Postion's?

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Following on from a deeeeep post earlier, I have a pared down question.

In our docs there are many images in anchored frames where the frames use Anchoring Position "At Insertion Point".

When I tried to publish to html5, these frames don't appear in the output.

 

We use three of the possible positions overall in our docs -- At Insertion Point, Run into Paragraph, and Below Current Line.

 

I simply changed the position of one of the images that didn't display and got the following results:

- At Insertion Point -- frame does not display, line before and after the image print one after the other, nothing to indicate the image should have been there.

- Run into Paragraph -- same result

- Below Current Line -- this one works

 

Question -- Is this the expected behaviour? (I'm fine if it is, just want to know if I'm doing missing something here.)

 

Thanks!

FM 12 Keeps flipping "Delete Empty Pages" to "Make Count Even". Why?

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Platform: FM 12 on Win 10.

 

I want every document in my book to have pagination set to "Delete Empty Pages." But whenever I refresh the book, the pagination preference mysteriously switches to Make Page Count Even, or Make Page Count Odd.

 

Why does this continue to happen and how do I stop it?

 

Your help and insight is appreciated.

How to get graphics to appear in HTML conversion

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Years ago, using FrameMaker 7.2, saving a book file as HTML yielded every link and every graphic found in the book files.

Am upgrading toward FM 2017, and saved the book as XML. Nothing but the main text flow appeared in the HTM file.
Do I simply connect the text frames, or must I laboriously use a text editor to rebuild an HTM file from scratch?

Am currently working with FrameMaker 11. But will soon be advancing to 12.

Script to delete all object styles from a book?

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Hi everyone,

 

I recently found a script posted by Adobe in 2011 that removes all unused paragraph, table, and character styles from every file in a book. It proved to be extremely helpful.

http://blogs.adobe.com/techcomm/2011/10/extendscript-of-the-week-deleting-unused-formats-i n-a-book.html

 

I need also to remove unused object styles from several books. Does anyone know where to locate such a script? I haven't used the current scripting tool so it would take me a very (very) long time to edit the one Adobe provided. Also - no need to recreate the wheel, right?

 

Thanks in advance,

Diane

Convert sgml to xml?

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Is it possible to convert a sgml file to xml in FrameMaker? If so, how?

 

Thanks.

Where are conditional text 'build expressions' stored?

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Was working on a doc on a loaner machine. The doc has ample use of conditional text, and 'Show as per Expression' is used to generate the many variants of the doc.

 

However... there were no expressions in my Expression list. So, I assume that expressions are saved in a file *somewhere*, but don't know which one. (The expressions are all present on my regular machine.)

 

Can anybody point me in the correct direction?

 

thanks.

Framemaker 2017 clean install on Win 10 64bit error message (0xc000007b)

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when opening receive error message (0xc000007b).

this installation file worked fine on Win7

can framemaker work as standalone app not part of a suite?

 


License prompt reappears every few days

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Hello,

 

I have a licensed version of Adobe Technical Communication Suite 2017. I use FM and RH almost daily.

I noticed that every few days on either of the software the license prompt reappears asking me to re-enter the license key.

 

Is there a way to save it permanently until the software is uninstalled manually? Each time digging out the license and entering it is tedious.

 

Any suggestions on how to fix this?

............

-Tejas

Dimensions of imported SVG files

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Hi group

 

I've got 2 SVG images which have the following size in Inkscape:

 

Image 1, the "large image:

width: 448 mm

height: 316 mm

 

Image 2, the same large image which I scaled in Insckape to the following size:

width: 166

height: 153

 

When I put this image in a DITA topic and generate a FrameMaker file from my ditamap (using DITA-FMx), I see that the size of the images becomes as follows:

 

Image 1 (large size):

width: 280 mm

height: 198 mm

dpi: 72

scaling: 50%

 

Image 2:

width: 207.496 mm

height: 191.763 mm

dpi: 72

scaling: 100%

 

In DITA, I haven't used any scaling attributes (@scale, @scalefit, @outputclass...).

 

When I import these graphics into a new FrameMaker file, the size is as follows

 

Image 1 (large size):

width: 560.0mm

height: 396,001 mm

dpi: 72

scaling: 100%

 

Image 2:

width: 207,496  mm

height: 191,763 mm

dpi: 72

scaling: 100%

 

When I import the graphics at 90 dpi, they have approximately the same size as their original size in Inkscape.

 

Does anyone have any idea why the large image is scaled 50% in the FrameMaker file generated from the DITA topic?

 

Also, I see that, DIP is greyed out in the Object Properties dialog, so there seems to be no way to change the DPI setting afterwards (using a script, for example)?

 

I'm using FrameMaker 2017 with DITA-FMx 2.0.

 

Thanks

Cannot initialize API client svg2pdf.dll

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Hi group

 

I've got a ditamap with some 250 referenced SVG files. When I generate a FrameMaker book from my ditamap, I get the following error message:

 

Cannot initialize API client c:\program files\..\svg2pdf.dll

 

My "APIClients section" in my maker.ini seems to be OK and I have 16 GB RAM (running FrameMaker 2017 on Windows 7).

 

Any ideas what could be wrong?

 

Thanks

 

Yves

DITA html 5 hierarchy different when using Tasks

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In Framemaker 2015 I Have a Ditamap with various nested Concepts, Topics and References. When publishing to HTML 5, the hierarchy always puts Topics and References at the top level.

 

For example

Ditamap

     Concept 1

          Concept 2

     Concept 3

          Task 1

               Reference 1

     Concept 4

          Task 2

               Reference 2

 

Results in a HTML 5 output of:

 

Map Name

     Concept 1

          Concept 2

     Concept 3

     Task 1 (should be nested under Concept 3)

     Reference 1 (should be nested under Task 1)

     Concept 4

     Task 2 (should be nested under Concept 4)

     Reference 2 (should be nested under Task 2)

 

Where do I find the configuration or setting that will give me the required hierarchy?

 

Cheers

Peter

Trying to install Acrobat Pro 10.1.7 & get error: "Setup has detected that you already have a more functional product installed. Setup will now terminate."?

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IT is trying to install Acrobat Pro 10.1.7 & we're getting this error: "Setup has detected that you already have a more functional product installed. Setup will now terminate." I've put the screenshots from IT below that show the error & all the Adobe products I have installed on my system & they have confirmed that the install works with Adobe Reader XI. I cannot uninstall FM as we don't have the CD and I already have all the scripts and Patches downloaded. Can someone help us get this working? Thx.

Error1.jpg

Error2.jpg

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