FrameMaker 2019 troubles with html5 publishing

January 18, 2019, 2:35 pm

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Am I the only one to have troubles with the html5 publishing from FrameMaker 2019?. I am running win7 64, and the latest update of FrameMaker 2019, and I have just spent three hours watching my documents slowly disintegrate, What started as a couple of documents with some mp4's embedded and an, almost, working publishing to html5, has ended in corrupted documents where nothing really works. Videos disappear from the published files and program starts crashing and making strange errors. Underways I have tried doing all the common magic. Deleting preferences. Deleting exported files. Mifwashing etc.

I can't figure out what is happening and it seems the only solution is rebuilding everything from scratch and hope the process does not repeat. I wonder... can this kind of trouble be caused by running Win 7, as opposed to Win10?

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How to get SN?

January 21, 2019, 10:43 am

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I have FrameMaker 11 and need to upgrade to FM 15.  The download page is asking for a serial number which is available from my account but I have long since forgotten my password and no longer use the associated email address.  How can I get the SN so I can purchase an upgrade?

Element: NoName is undefined

January 21, 2019, 10:46 am

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Using FrameMaker 2017

Step 1.  From FILE->NEW->BOOK

Step 2. Using the STRUCTURE pulldown menu, validate the .book

 

Error: Element Validation

Element: NoName is undefined.

 

From the Structural Development Ref pg 178/262  I have to add RootElement as highest element.

Modified the Element Definitions Document to create a RootElement as highest element.

Now it tells me I need to edit the "Conversion Table"?

 

What is the easiest solution to this?

Cross-Reference in DITAconcept & DITAmap

January 21, 2019, 1:06 pm

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I am using FM2019, can someone tell me how to use Cross-References so they would work in DITA Topics and DITA Map.

As we know that normal FM cross-references do not work in DITA.

 

I have two topic files, each file has one cross-reference which points to an image (inside Figure element).

 

DITA MAP (of two Topic Files) output in PDF: Figures are updated but cross-references are not updated and not working. 1

 

Rename NoName element in Structured Book

January 18, 2019, 7:44 am

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How do I modify NoName to make is WDMS_1261728_003?

It will not allow me to edit From the Structure View --

Can I modify it From the Elements Tab..?

Complex context rules in EDD (for inherited properties)

January 22, 2019, 4:16 am

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Hi

 

I was checking my answer to another question in this forum about table properties when I discovered that my recollection of how certain properties worked was faulty. This has revealed an omission in our EDD which I'd like to rectify, but the reference guide hasn't got enough detail to help me.

Our table schema allows for cell align and valign attributes to be specified at any level (th, tb, tf, tr, td) and inherited by descendant elements. Thus the text alignment of a table cell will be governed by the cell's align attribute/property, if that is omitted then it will use the row's align property, if that is omitted it will use the th/tb/tf align property, and so forth.

 

The reference guide notes that the align and valign attributes are automatically translated by Framemaker without needing to be specified in read/write rules, but it also notes that when tables are displayed in the document view the cells are not aligned automatically; "you must write format rules to use these attributes to format a table".

 

So that is what I am trying to do. It's easy to respect the cell's own attribute: 'context rule, if context is [align = "center"]' etc., but what I want is something like XPath's ancestor axis: off the top of my head it would be something like ancestor-or-self::*[layout][1]/@layout = "center"

 

Can an EDD manage contexts like this? If not, is there anything better than a huge series of hierarchical context tests to achieve the same thing?

 

Cheers

T

Why for structured FM file I get FV_XML_WELLFORMED_NO?

January 22, 2019, 6:00 am

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Hi,

 

I have got a structured FM file which is exported from dita topic and has exactly the same structure as of dita-topic. When I query (FrameMaker 2017 & 2019.)

IntT isXmlWellFormed = F_ApiGetInt(FV_SessionId, document_Id, FP_XmlWellFormed);

I expect to get zero but I got 2 (FV_XML_WELLFORMED_NO).

 

As per my understanding of the FDK documentation

* '0' means it's a FM file and

* FV_XML_WELLFORMED_YES/FV_XML_WELLFORMED_NO mean it's a xml file.

 

Is it a bug with FrameMaker or am I missing anything here?

 

Thanks,

Paresh

FrameMaker 2019 Save-As PDF not saving to the selected Folder

January 22, 2019, 9:52 am

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I have been trying to use Save-as PDF from the File menu in FrameMaker 2019 but the File\Publish settings seem to be overriding the folder selection I make in Save-as PDF. My PDF are being saved to a different folder that I set up during Save-as. I am creating PDFs for a number of different .book files want each one saved into the folder that contains the l.fm and .book file.  I never had this issue with Previous version of FrameMaker.

Is this a BUG or been reported by anyone else?

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January 22, 2019, 10:04 am

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Is there a source document for the list of FrameMaker structured elements?   fm.mov   fm.icy  fm.description (attachStoreShipPartCodeRef)  etc.  Most are self-explanatory, but I like to understand the context in which they are used, which data modules, etc.  Is there a source document somewhere?

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January 22, 2019, 12:52 pm

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MiniTOC not formatting as defined

January 22, 2019, 3:26 pm

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Hi,

* My Alert preferences show all messages

* This is a standalone file (not in a Book)

* My Reference Page defines my Heading1MTOC and Heading2MTOC the same (tab stop setting of 4.7R):

 

 

<image001.png>

   

 

 

But in the Body View, even after clicking Update MiniTOC, it doesn’t display correctly:

   

 

 

 

   

 

 

 

The MiniTOC displays correctly when I slightly move the right-justified tab stop any amount in either direction. (I thought there was an extra tab character, but there isn't; I also experimented with adding 1 more tab stop closer to the left):

   

 

 

 

<image003.png>

   

 

 

But when I click the Save button, that tab stop change is lost and the MiniTOC reverts to the earlier screenshot.

 

Please let me know if you have any ideas what I’m doing wrong or what I need to adjust to make my MiniTOC display properly.

 

Thanks,

Guy

 

P.S.  I now have a 2nd file with the same issue, and in the MiniTOC, the tab symbols appear to the left of the page numbers instead of on top of the page numbers. Does that mean anything or just a quirk of FrameMaker?

 

Selecting an STS Preset File in the Word Import dialog crashes Frame 2019

January 22, 2019, 4:15 pm

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Hi -

 

I'm importing Word 2016 files into Frame 2019 using Copy Into Document. After mapping the Word doc styles to my Frame doc formats in the Word Import dialog, I created a Preset File to save my map choices. The process works fine for the initial import after creating the STS file, but when when trying to repeat the Word file import process for another Frame file, Frame consistently crashes when I try to select my saved STS file in Word Import dialog. I've tried saving the STS to another location, but Frame still crashes.

 

I don't see this issue on the Forum, so wondering if I'm doing something wrong.

 

-Jeff

Converting DITA to framemaker

January 23, 2019, 12:07 pm

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New to DITA. Investigating structured framemaker to see if it's something we should pursue at my company.

 

We are on framemaker 2017.

 

I've created a few sample chapters in DITA and have saved these as PDF, which is the main format we'll be targeting.

 

But I'm having trouble wrapping my head around how to export a dita book that mirrors the look and feel of the technical manuals we currently produce in unstructured framemaker.

 

Can someone point me in the direction of resources/tutorials on how I'd go about doing this? 

Unclickable Xrefs

January 24, 2019, 11:25 am

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In the body text of one document I refer to a figure on the same page, using language something like this:  See Figure 10 below.

 

However, I don't want to enter the figure number in the body text because the actual number might change in the future.  So it makes sense to use a variable for the number.  Normally I'd use a cross reference for this, but that would make the variable a clickable link.  Since the image is on the same page, I don't need (or want) the variable to be clickable.  I just want the number to update automagically.

 

Is there a way to accomplish this in Frame?

 

Thanks!

Trouble with character format and element definition brackets

January 24, 2019, 12:39 pm

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I am converting unstructured documents to structured documents. I have a "Paragraph" element, which allows "ParagraphTitle" elements, <TEXT>, and other "Paragraph" elements under it (simplifying for ease of explaining the issue).

The "ParagraphTitle" element has the following EDD:

 

Element (Container): ParagraphTitle

     General rule: <TEXT>

     Text format rules

          In all contexts.

               Text range.

               Font properties

                    Underline: Single

 

The "ParagraphTitle" element comes at the beginning of the "Paragraph" element. The problem is that after the conversion the underline character formatting is bleeding into the parent element's element definition brackets, as shown below:

(you can see the underline at the brackets).

 

What this does, is it causes a tiny underline at the end of the "Paragraph" element in the printed PDF:

 

This is driving me crazy, because I have to cleanse the formatting and reapply the character formatting for the entire element (which, for a high level paragraph, can also mean reformatting a large number of child elements). It is causing a lot of unnecessary rework, wasting a lot of time. Any help would be appreciated.

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How to make a script run automatically when you save a Framemaker document

January 24, 2019, 1:54 pm

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I wrote a script that actually works, but I'd like for it to automatically run whenever I save the Framemaker (19) document. It seems like there should be a command for that but I can't find it. Thanks!

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January 25, 2019, 3:23 am

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Seit gestern arbeite ich mit FrameMaker 2019 (32-bit) der neuesten Version (d.h. mit allen Service Releases, die angeboten wurden).

 

Ich habe ständig Programmabstürze beim Versuch, über das Menü "Bearbeiten" > "Voreinstellungen" zu öffnen ebenso wie bei der pdf-Erstellung direkt über das Menü.

Außerdem reagieren meine Tasten F8 und F9 nicht mehr, über die ich meine Zeichen- und Absatzformate schnell und einfach zuweisen kann.

 

Ist das ein System-Bug und wir FM 2019 User sind die CrashTest-Dummies oder liegt das ggf. an dem Installationsprozedere?

Soll unsere IT-Abteilung das Programm nochmals installieren? Was ist hierbei insbesondere zu beachten?

 

Schöne und ziemlich erboste Grüße

Astrid Imhof

cross reference behaviour which I don't understand

January 25, 2019, 3:47 am

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As other threads have already covered, I've been updating an application from FM8 to FM2019 and I've just noticed what appears to be a change in behaviour that I'd like to understand.

When a user opens one of our XML documents in Frame, a pre-processing stylesheet is run which "expands" the document, pulling in the content of "included" sub-documents. This means that instead of having perhaps twenty-five separate tabs containing separate parts of a document, the user is able to edit in a single tab. When they save their changes, a post-processing stylesheet "collapses" the document into its constituent parts.

So if (say) the original document a.xml contains the element

<include srcfile="b.xml"/>

then the preprocessing step transforms this into

<included srcfile="b.xml">

  <document..><title id="b1">Document B"</title>...</document>

</included>

Frame presents the user with what appears to be a single document, and the structural view shows an "included" element wrapped around the content extracted from the sub-document.

 

So far so good. The problem relates to the situation where the user wants to create a cross-reference and point it to the beginning of the included content.

 

In FM8 they would insert a cross reference, select from the current document, pick "title" from the element tag list, and then pick "Document B" from the matching element list. The resultant XML when the document was saved was valid, and it would round-trip. This absolutely worked, we relied on it all the time.

 

In FM2019 it seems to be a bit different. I go to insert a cross reference, pick "title", but now for some reason the element list contains the actual text of every title in the parent (wrapper) document, but any title in an included document appears in this list as "Included: b.xml Document B". I can select this element to link to, which puts that "included: b.xml Document B" string in the document view (ugh), but that's not the half of it. When I save the document it does not round-trip, and on opening the document again it reports

XML Read Messages (Document instance)

No cross-reference ID specified for the element (link).

 

Can anyone explain what is going on here?

 

cheers

T

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January 25, 2019, 9:34 am

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Reading another discussion about using FM's Alert hypertext marker to generate sticky-note comments in PDF output, I was thinking this would be a good addition to my group's toolset, to flow our editorial comments and questions back to authors and other stakeholders. When I tested it, though, I got unexpectedly inconsistent results.

 

For reference, we use unstructured FM2019 and Acrobat 2017 Pro (within TCS2019) to publish books (i.e., no dynamic/online formats required). I tried inserting an Alert marker in text in a few different files and created PDFs in a few different ways (i.e., print, save as, publish), and I got varying results:

• In one file, the marker turned into not one, but three PDF sticky notes, identical to each other but scattered around the marker location. I tried deleting and reinserting the marker, and tried outputting to PDF in all three ways, but got the same result each time.
• In another file, I got just one sticky when I used save as and publish to generate a PDF, but no sticky at all when I printed to PDF. The sticky I did get wasn't sensibly close to the actual marker location.
• Only in one file did I consistently get a single sticky in the PDF that was usefully near the FM marker location.

 

All three of the files I used were created from our standard book-chapter template; I can't think of any differences between the files that could account for the differing results. Any idea what I'm missing here?

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January 25, 2019, 9:42 am

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Not a FrameMaker question, per se, but... I started asking a question as a reply in an existing discussion, and then decided it should probably be its own separate thing. So I selected the text, cut it, canceled my reply, opened a new discussion, and tried to paste my text into the text field.

 

Nothing.

 

Neither hitting <ctrl>-v nor right-clicking and choosing Paste produced any results at all in the forum window. I know the content was there in the paste buffer, because I was able to paste it into an open FM file, but I couldn't paste it here, and ended up retyping it all. Is that the way the forums are supposed to behave, or is it some kind of user error on my part?