Internal TOC using EDD
Hi,After briefly exploring FrameMaker book, I have decided "for now" not to use it and instead create my own structure using one fm file. In this concept, the highest element in my EDD is called book...
View ArticleImport image via filepath+image title in EDD
Hi all, I am in the process of creating an EDD from scratch (without any template, DTD or r/w rules). Within my EDD, I have created a simple Element tagged "figure" with Graphic type. In the source...
View ArticleEDD to DTD conversion failed
Hi, I have created an EDD for a book chapter from scratch. Next, I tried to save the EDD as DTD using FrameMaker 2019. The conversion failed where the GeneralRule contains <TEXT>. The log says:...
View ArticleInternal TOC using EDD
Hi,After briefly exploring FrameMaker book, I have decided "for now" not to use it and instead create my own structure using one fm file. In this concept, the highest element in my EDD is called book...
View ArticleChapter numbering rules within EDD
Hi guys,I started using FrameMaker a week ago. My first task is to create a structured user manual for one of our products. So far, I have created a simple EDD, covering the basic structure, I need. My...
View ArticleCross-Reference in DITAconcept & DITAmap
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,...
View ArticleFrameMaker 11: Internal Error 11004, 17075188, 14420806, 14421392
To whom it may concern, Recently I keep having a problem with FrameMaker 11 and the application would crush and close. The error message I got is like this: Here is the txt file FrameMaker generated:...
View ArticleXML read errors--failure to open dtd (DITA)
Hi all,I've run out of ideas and places to look on this one, I hope someone can help. The specs: WinXP Pro, Frame 8.0p277. Built-in DITA. Not using DITA Open Toolkit. No major issues except for...
View ArticleHow can I save widths of columns in a table in XML documents?
Hello everyone!Please help me understand what I need to do if I want ... tables of the same type in my XML document keep different column widths. 1) I use FM 2017 and have a book with XML files, so I...
View ArticleText alignment on landscape page
I have a document where I have rotated the page clockwise to be landscape because I want to fit some tables into it. My problem is the text and the table are now aligned incorrectly, I want to flip...
View ArticleError if an element name is declared more than once in XSD. But e.g. Dot.Net...
Frame Maker 11 reports an error if an element name is declared more than once in XSD. However Dot.NET 4.0 validation with the same XSD is OK with such model and validates the different modeled elements...
View Article"Error in processing external entity reference" - why?
-- FM 8.0p277, structured --Saddened to see this morning that FM apparently decided against saving the work I did yesterday afternoon ... I can sympathise with the idea of not saving imperfect...
View ArticleUnable to wrap sequence of element with conversion table
Hi,Using Framemaker 10, I'm trying to structure a document with a conversion table. I can wrap all character and paragraph tags into an element, but the conversion seems to stop after that first step...
View ArticleOpening XML files when structure files is on Sharepoint
Hi Not sure if i should post this in here or on the CMS forum but, I am having trouble opening XML files when the structure files is on Sharepoint. Since we have multiple users it would be beneficial...
View ArticleWhy does FM create files called img1.mif, img2.mif, etc. when saving an XML...
Trevor-Nicholls started a discussion last month on creating an XML document from the welcome screen (Re: Creating a new document from the Welcome screen, doesn't ). That discussion has grown to include...
View ArticleQuestion regarding generating a list of paragraphs (alphabetical)
I have a table with different tags for each column. I would like to keep the information in each row together, and output an alphabetical list that sorts based on one of those columns only, while still...
View ArticleTwo Table columns on same page
I am trying to make an Illustrated Parts List with two columns on the same page that have the same heading. Nomenclature I Part Number I Cage Code I I Nomenclature I Part Number I Cage Code Whenever...
View ArticleFramemaker Crashing When Creating Element List from EDD
I'm a bit deep in the weeds here, and not entirely sure I'm going about this the right way. Overall Goal: Be able to use XML/Structured Framemaker to generate Word versions of current publications...
View ArticleFramemaker 2019 messing up image properties, why?
This was working as expected in FM8 from whence my application is migrating. In FM2019 certain images are being scaled without notification. Our XML contains img elements which have a number of...
View ArticlePreprocessing stylesheet fails in FM2019, worked in FM2017
I am migrating a structured Frame application from FrameMaker 8 to FrameMaker 2019. Several months ago I did a trial migration to Frame 2017 and the open-edit-save roundtrip for a single document...
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