I’m using DITA and I‘d like to create hazard statements.
In which files can I define the styles? In the DITA templates
or in the EDDs?
Is it possible to create the hazard statements as tables?
Which steps must be done?
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DITA: How to create hazard statements?
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Need a little help with an EDD Context Rule
FM 2017 / DITA 1.3
EDD is ditabase.edd.fm, most of which is stock standard, except I am working with a flattened copy (text insets converted to text).
I have a problem with output and I'm hoping the community can give me a little nudge toward the correct context rules to specify here.
I noticed that on output, my figure titles don't format correctly in at least one circumstance (topic type is TASK):
<steps>
<step>
<cmd></cmd>
<info><fig><title>Title Here</title><image href="foo" /></fig></info>
</step>
</steps>
This is the required structure to get a figure into a step. The problem I have on output is that the figure title comes in with the wrong paragraph style, namely, step.info.begin.
For element <title>, the EDD says
If context is: (fig | figgroup)
Use paragraph format: figure.title
(etc., the point is I haven't touched it)
For element <info>, the EDD says
Format rules for first paragraph in element
If context is: step
Use paragraph format: step.info.begin
(etc., again, haven't touched it)
So it looks to me like the <info> rule is overriding the <title> rule, and I'm having some trouble conceiving a context rule to fix it. When I say I haven't touched anything, that's not strictly true; I have tried to specify this particular context but it hasn't worked, so I reverted my changes. I also tried moving the title rules in case it was an order-of-application thing, but that didn't help either.
I've made a bunch of context rules work in the past. For some reason this one is giving me trouble. I can't seem to find the answer in the structured dev guide, either.
(edited to correct structure sample)
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paste across multiple rows/columns in table
How to copy / Paste across multiple rows/columns in a table.
Copy into buffer one <text> from Word into Untitled.fm works fine.
However cannot copy and paste a row of 5<texts> into existing table row in FrameMaker 2017
"No table cells on the Clipboard"
Please advise
rhonda
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Space! The Final Frontier
Here's my tribble. The XSLT in my application inserts extra spaces and line breaks into my XML but a Spock inspection after import to Frame8 shows that the spaces are incorrectly phased as literals. For example, if my XML Data is....
Then that's how it displays inside Frame. This is annoying as the F8 Struct App Dev Reference says that:
> reader line break is space;
is the default inside the rules file but it isn't and adding it doesn't change anything. Is there anything I can do to change the parser defaults?
This problem is the Real Mccoy. Plus it's the last item on my application Chekov list and I'm the Sulu developer here so any help is appreciated. Thanks!
David Blyth (the UNIX and vi dinosaur)
Staff Technical Writer
QUALCOMM - Standard Disclaimers Apply
Only 149,999,949 more years of Ruling The Earth to go.
[para]Hello (big smile), I
am Captain Kirk.[/para]
Then that's how it displays inside Frame. This is annoying as the F8 Struct App Dev Reference says that:
> reader line break is space;
is the default inside the rules file but it isn't and adding it doesn't change anything. Is there anything I can do to change the parser defaults?
This problem is the Real Mccoy. Plus it's the last item on my application Chekov list and I'm the Sulu developer here so any help is appreciated. Thanks!
David Blyth (the UNIX and vi dinosaur)
Staff Technical Writer
QUALCOMM - Standard Disclaimers Apply
Only 149,999,949 more years of Ruling The Earth to go.
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How to automate FrameMaker?
Hi All
I'm a InDesign Programmer, new to framemaker and trying to automate framemaker processes. I want to know which programming language is used to automate it and where to get those ebooks? could any one please help me on this?
many thanks
Ays.Hakkim
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FM 11 - Issues with Saving FrameMaker files
I am working in a Structured FrameMaker 11 | Windows 7 environment. I have been working on a test computer. Another testing site was built today, and I am currently working in this newly built computer. I am imported xml files into FM 11 using an automated process. The imported xml files are formatted upon completion of the import into FM11. In the previous computer that I used for testing, when I saved the newly imported FM11 file, I had to save the FrameMaker file using Save As the first time. When I did this, the FrameMaker file saved with the existing file name. I did not need to apply a new file name before saving. If I attempted to save the file the first time using Save, when I closed and then reopened the FrameMaker file, some of the formatting was lost, particularly with tables.
In this newly built computer, I am finding that when I perform a Save As, I am receiving an error message that reads:
This document was saved to a temporary file, but FrameMaker can't rename it to have the correct name. The newer version has an odd suffix
If I want to save the file using Save As I have to change the name, then it will save, and when I reopen the Framemaker file, the formatting will be intact.
Is there a setting that I need to change in FrameMaker 11 in order for me to be able to Save As the Framemaker files without having to change the name before saving? As mentioned, in the other test site that I worked in I was able to Save As without changing the file name.
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Can't Save As PDF
I am working with DITA files in Frame 8, and am unable to save a generated Frame file as a PDF. I keep getting these errors:
- "To execute "Save as PDF" command you must have Acrobat Distiller version 5.05 or higher installed."
- "To execute "Save as PDF" command you must have PDF Job Options defined.
I have Acrobat Distiller 8 installed, so I don't know why I'm getting the first error. I opened Distiller, and still got the error.
Also, I did try to set job options using Format> Document> PDF Setup. On the PDF Setup dialog box, the only job option in the PDF Job Options drop-down list was High Quality Print. When I clicked Set, I got a message stating that "The selected PDF Job Option does not existing in the current installation. Either create this Job Option or select an available Job Option."
How do you create a valid job option? How do you get it to show up in the drop-down list? I looked at the Adobe PDF properties in Print Setup, and the Default Settings show several job options including the High Quality Print option.
Any advice would be greatly appreciated.
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DITA Hotspots
I am using FrameMaker 2015 to create DITA 1.2 xml files
I am trying to create hotspots on images:
<imagemap><image href = "../Maps/_images/lifecycle_partition.png"
scale = "40" />
<area><shape>rect</shape>
<coords>2,0,53,59</coords>
<xref outputclass = "fm:" keyref = "access_control_policies">Access
control policies</xref></area></imagemap>
However, the image does not have a hotspot and the text "rect", "2,0,53,59" and "Access Control Policy" appears under the image.
The text appears on the Document View, PDF and HTML5 outputs.
When I try using the Hotspot mode in the graphic tools, I get a warning on save of:
Framemaker does not support DITA multiple graphic object in a single frame.
So, how do I create hotspots using FrameMaker DITA?
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Which templates are used for ditamap when saved as PDF?
I have successfully changed looks of topics, tasks etc,. with following instructions in the site below:
However, when I save a whole document as PDF (The top tag is bookmap), the all the changes I made for the templates are discarded.
I edited the following templates in a same manner as editing topic and other templates, but did not bring out the change into the PDF either.
$Structure$\xml\DITA_1.2\app\technicalContent\template
map.template.fm
$Structure$\xml\DITA_1.2\app\bookmap\template
bookmap.template.fm
How can I customize looks and feel of PDF made from dita bookmap data ???
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Questions about EDD Developing in Framemaker
Hi, all
I am following the Adobe's "DEVELOPING STRUCTURED APPLICATIONS WITH ADOBE® FRAMEMAKER® " to build up my first EDD.
I think I exactly followed the step-by-step instruction for Create an EDD (from page 27) , however I do not get my EDD perfectly the same as that are shown on the instruction.
1. about the section definition:
My structure is as following:
However, when I apply this EDD to my file, I cannot get the intended nested section numbering, <n>.<n+1>; instead the nested section continues the numbering from its parent section:
2. Though I have added the "section" tag in the EDD, my file will not display it in the "Cross-reference" pod.
My cross-reference pod, which has the section element missing in the "Element Tags" column:
And what the cross-reference pod in the "DEVELOPING STRUCTURED APPLICATIONS WITH ADOBE® FRAMEMAKER® " looks like, on page 46 of that document:
Please, if any body know where I possibly made it wrong?
Thanks very much.
Karol
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HTML/XML escaped characters
Is there a known way for Frame to handle HTML/XML character references ('>' and that sort of escape sequence)?
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Convert sgml to xml?
Is it possible to convert a sgml file to xml in FrameMaker? If so, how?
Thanks.
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Cannot initialize API client svg2pdf.dll
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
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DITA html 5 hierarchy different when using Tasks
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
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Difference between CROSSREFS and CONREFS?
What is the difference between CrossRef and ConRef?
I'm a Newbie. I'm trying to figure out how to create a cross reference.
I have open in FM
Chapter.fm and
CrossRef.ditamap
How do I designate the word "Rhonda" in the Chapter so that it picks up the word "Rhonda" and enters a cross reference for each page and location it can be found in the Chapter.fm
any suggestions would be helpful
rhonda
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Conversion table adds empty rows to table
Hi,
I try to convert a table to structured FrameMaker that contains several paragraphs in a single cell. FrameMaker successfully converts the table but adds empty rows beneath the row containing the cell with multiple paragraphs in it.
The empty rows cannot be removed or changed.
Can anyone help me with this?
Below a screenshot.
Regards, Arnold
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converting Framevector files
Hi all,
We are migrating some content to DITA. The migration tool seems to have spit out .framevector files instead of the images. The one sample doc I looked at had unreferenced .png files in Framemaker, but .framevector files with generic names were produced in the DITA output instead of retaining the images.
In Framemaker, the images had PNG and Framevector facets in the object properties.
It may be a case of sorting out the conversion process.But for this batch, does anyone know a way of converting these .framevector files? Or even viewing them? I can't find any program to even open these files.
Thanks for your help,
Ronan
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The responsive HTML output in structured framemaker are not loading
Hello,
The responsive HTML output from structured framemaker files are not getting loaded in web browsers (Chrome and Mozilla) but the unstructured output is loading. Please help whats wrong in this??
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XML/Structured document How do I add cv01 text for "caveat" under security element?
REFERENCE: S1000D_4.2 "Commercial Security Classification" such as "Commercial In Confidence".
Need to add <TEXT> "Commerical in Confidence" and associate it with "Caveat=cv01" under Security Element.
Please Help.
Rhonda
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XML STRUCTURED DOC How do I create the pointer to the applicable reference documents using ?
Using FrameMaker 2017 ver 14.0.2.425
Start FILE-->NEW-->BREX Module
Using the Element <applicCrossRefTableRef>
How do I create a pointer to the Applicable Cross Reference documents?
Structure View --- the child element <dmRef> is not allowed anywhere under the <applicCrossRefTableRef>
Refer to S1000D_4.2
2.2.9 Applicability cross-reference table reference
child element: <dmRef> is used to link to the applicable reference Data Modules.
any suggestions?
rhonda
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