Hi ,

I managed to make a conversion table to structure the documents of out company.I am having a proble with images.I am importing the word file to our template with a custom EDD document.When the import finishes I am having all images at almost correct places.The issue is when i apply the custom conversion table all the images at anchored at insertion point.The correct position would be at below current line.I am stuck and I can not find a solution to this.

My EDD is as follows:

EDD Version is 12.0

Structured Application: ReportPlain

F:\FramemakerBooks\Part B -Section 3.fm

April 14, 2014

Element (Container): Author

General rule:          <TEXT>

Text format rules

In all contexts.

Use paragraph format: ReportAuthor

Element (Container): Emphasis

General rule:          <TEXTONLY>

Text format rules

In all contexts.

Text range.

Use character format: Emphasis

Element (Equation): Equation

Element (Container): EquationPara

General rule:          Equation

Text format rules

Element paragraph format: Equation

Element (Container): Extract

General rule:          (<TEXT> | Emphasis | Term | Superscript | Subscript | XRef)*

Attribute list

Name: ID           Unique ID           Optional

Text format rules

In all contexts.

Use paragraph format: Extract

Element (Container): Figure

General rule:          (<TEXT> | Frame)*

Attribute list

Name: ID           Unique ID           Optional

Name: XRefLabel           String           Optional

Default:          Figure

Name: Imported           Choice           Optional

Choices:          Yes, No

Default:          No

Text format rules

In all contexts.

Use paragraph format: Figure

Element (Footnote): Footnote

General rule:          <TEXT>

Text format rules

In all contexts.

Use paragraph format: Footnote

If context is: * < Table

Use paragraph format: TableFootnote

Element (Graphic): GRAPHIC

Initial graphic element format

In all contexts.

Insert anchored frame.

Anchored Frame Object Style:FiguredCentered

Element (Graphic): Frame

Initial graphic element format

If context is: Figure[Imported = "Yes"]

Insert imported graphic file.

Else

Insert anchored frame.

Element (Container): Head

General rule:          <TEXT>

Text format rules

Count ancestors named:          Section

If level is: 1

Context label: H1

Use paragraph format: Heading1

Else, if level is: 2

Context label: H2

Use paragraph format: Heading2

Else, if level is: 3

Context label: H3

Use paragraph format: Heading3

Else, if level is: 4

Context label: H4

Use paragraph format: Heading4

Else, if level is: 5

Context label: H5

Use paragraph format: HeadingRunIn

Else

Numbering properties

Autonumber format:

If context is: {first} < Report

Use paragraph format: ReportTitle

Else, if context is: HeadingRunIn

Use paragraph format: HeadingRunIn

Element (Container): HeadingRunIn

General rule:          Head, Para+

Element (Container): Item

General rule:          (<TEXT> | Emphasis | Term | Superscript | Subscript | XRef | Para)*

Format rules for first paragraph in element

If context is: List[Type = "Plain"]

No additional formatting.

Else, if context is: List[Type = "Bulleted"]

Use paragraph format: Bulleted clean

Else, if context is: {first}

Use paragraph format: Numbered1

Else

Use paragraph format: Numbered

Element (Container): List

General rule:          Item+

Attribute list

Name: ID           Unique ID           Optional

Name: Type           Choice           Optional

Choices:          Plain, Bulleted, Numbered

Default:          Bulleted

Automatic insertions

Automatically insert child:          Item

Element (Container): Para

General rule:          (<TEXT> | Emphasis | Term | Superscript | Subscript | XRef | Footnote | Table )*

Attribute list

Name: ID           Unique ID           Optional

Text format rules

If context is: {after Head }

Use paragraph format: Body

Else, if context is: {after List}

Use paragraph format: BodyAfterHead

Else

Use paragraph format: Body

Element (Container): Part

Valid as the highest-level element.

General rule:          (Para | Footnote | Table | Section )*

Attribute list

Name: ID           Unique ID           Optional

Control flags: Read-only

Automatic insertions

Automatically insert child:          Head

Text format rules

Element paragraph format: Body

Element (Container): Purpose

General rule:          <TEXT>

Text format rules

Element paragraph format: ReportPurpose

Element (Container): Section

General rule:          (Section,Head |Section | Para | List  | Table | Figure  | HeadingRunIn )*

Attribute list

Name: ID           Unique ID           Optional

Name: XRefLabel           String           Optional

Default:          Section

Automatic insertions

Automatically insert child:          Head

Element (Container): Subscript

General rule:          <TEXTONLY>

Text format rules

In all contexts.

Text range.

Font properties

Superscript/Subscript: Subscript

Element (Container): Superscript

General rule:          <TEXTONLY>

Text format rules

In all contexts.

Text range.

Font properties

Superscript/Subscript: Superscript

Element (Table): Table

General rule:          TableTitle?, TableHead?, TableBody

Attribute list

Name: ID           Unique ID           Optional

Control flags: Read-only

Name: XRefLabel           String           Optional

Default:          Table

Control flags: Read-only

Initial table format

In all contexts.

Table format: Format A

Element (Table Body): TableBody

General rule:          TableRow+

Element (Table Cell): TableCell

General rule:          (<TEXT> | Emphasis | Term | Superscript | Subscript | XRef | Frame| Para)*

Text format rules

Element paragraph format: Bodycell

Element (Table Heading): TableHead

General rule:          TableHeadRow+

Element (Table Cell): TableHeadCell

General rule:          <TEXT>

Element (Table Row): TableHeadRow

General rule:          TableHeadCell+

Element (Table Row): TableRow

General rule:          TableCell+

Element (Table Title): TableTitle

General rule:          <TEXT>

Text format rules

Element paragraph format: TableTitle

Element (Container): Term

General rule:          <TEXTONLY>

Text format rules

In all contexts.

Text range.

Use character format: Emphasis

Element (CrossReference): XRef

Attribute list

Name: IDRef           ID Reference           Required

Control flags: Read-only

Limit values for format change list properties

First indent

Maximum: 39.0"

Minimum: 0.0"

Left indent

Maximum: 39.0"

Minimum: 0.0"

Right indent

Maximum: 39.0"

Minimum: 0.0"

Space above

Maximum: 32767.0 pt

Minimum: -32767.0 pt

Space below

Maximum: 32767.0 pt

Minimum: -32767.0 pt

Line spacing

Maximum: 32767.0 pt

Minimum: -32767.0 pt

Tab stop position

Maximum: 39.0"

Minimum: 0.0"

Font size

Maximum: 400.0 pt

Minimum: 2.0 pt

Spread

Maximum: 1000.0%

Minimum: -1000.0%

Stretch

Maximum: 1000.0%

Minimum: 10.0%

Cell margins

Top

Maximum: 32767.0 pt

Minimum: 0.0 pt

Bottom

Maximum: 32767.0 pt

Minimum: 0.0 pt

Left

Maximum: 32767.0 pt

Minimum: 0.0 pt

Right

Maximum: 32767.0 pt

Minimum: 0.0 pt

And my conversion table is:

Wrap this object or objects          In this element          With this qualifier

TC:          TableCell

P:Body          Para

P:Normal          Para

P:Heading 5          Head          head5

E:Head[head5],(Para | Frame | List | Table )*          Section          section5

P:Heading 4          Head          head4

E:Head[head4],(Para | Frame | List | Table |  [section5])*          Section          section4

P:Heading 3          Head          head3

Head[head3],(Para | List | Frame | Table | [section4])*          Section          section3

P:Heading 2          Head          head2

Head[head2],(Para | List | Frame | Table | [section3])*          Section          section2

P:Heading 1          Head          head1

Head[head1],(Para | List | Frame | Table | [section2])*          Section          section

T:Table          Table (promote)

TT:          TableTitle

TH:          TableHead

TB:          TableBody

TF:          FOOTING

TR:          TableRow

RE:RootElement          Part

P:List Paragraph          Item

Item+          List

G:          GRAPHIC(promote)

RE:RootElement          Part

I am almost done with the template"Application"I just need to place the pictures in the correct position.Can anyone point me to the right direction?

Thanks a lot in advance

Hello,

I'm new to structured FrameMaker and to DITA. I'm using TCS5.

I'm having to compile a set of training materials that include video tutorials generated out of Captivate. I'm thinking I might have a ditamap of the text tutorial with all its concepts and tasks as topics, and then a separate topic at the end with the video, to which the others could link. I'd prefer to use the mp4 format rather than the outdated swf.

I've found how to do this by saving the ditamap as a Frame book with composite fm files. Of course I can just import the mp4 into the corresponding fm file. But this import is then not reflected or present in the pure dita topic and that makes exchangeability and re-use problematic. Ideally I would like to be able to do everything in pure dita without having to pass through fm files, much harder to maintain.

I've seen there is an "object" element in DITA which can be used to include video streaming, but I can't for the life of me find intelligible instructions on how to use it. The mp4 files would be in a folder of a local directory, or eventually in a sub-folder of our company web-site host.

Many thanks to anyone who can help.

EFR

Cambridge Imaging Systems

FM 11

DITA: 1.2

OS: Windows 7

We save our ditamap/xml documents as "Book 11 with fm components (*.book)" to create .fm files from the .xml using the ouputTemplates in the C:\Program Files (x86)\Adobe\AdobeFrameMaker11\Structure\xml\DITA\outputTemplates directory. I modified the original template files that we need, using the original's variable (Chapter Title Name <$chaptertitlename> for populating the title in the bookTitletpl.fm template file. This works great--whichever document I'm publishing, the correct title appears in that variable.

• I'd like to do the same (using a variable) for Version number, but I can't figure out how to do that using a user/system variable and/or even by using some other means (ditaval file, etc.). So far I cannot find an easy/clear answer here, but I'd like to use a variable if I can.

• The <$chaptertitlename> for the title seems to be pulling the name entered in our title element for the ditamap for each document. It there a system variable that will pull from some other element? Perhaps even something like the "rev" metadata for the map element for the document?

The template book cover page looks like this:

Logo (hard coded)

bookTitleTpl.fm (variable)

Version 2.0 (hard coded)

Thanks for any suggestions!

I am evaluating Structured Framemaker 12 using DITA. I have placed a cross reference to several tables in my topics and want to reference them from the paragraph text e.g. Table 1, Table 2, etc. The Format Options I see are for DITA Default Format or for Figures (Figure, See_Figure, See_Title_and_Page, Title_and_Page) - none of which work. Any suggestions on what I'm doing wrong or missing?

Hi, we are now using TortoiseSVN, which is free. I wonder if there is any better solutions? I checked FM Guide, there are three: Adobe Eexperience Manager, EMC Documentum, MS SharePoint. What is your reccommendation? BTW, is AEM free?

Goodmorning,

First sorry for my english.

I have a big problem with the new version of Framemaker 11.

if I create an xml connecting the external svg (created in Illustrator) Framemaker with version 11 (Windows 7), raster images inside the svg are not displayed in the preview, only text and vector files.

If I try to open an xml file created with version Framamaker like 9 or 11 on windows XP the element "stepimage" with whom I connect the svg are no longer present on the tree.

If I insert again the stepimage tree, they become disproportionate size.

In fact, opening them with Illustrator CC dimensions have changed (I have not edited the picture.)

However, still do not appear raster files.

I hope someone can help me.

Thanks

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Hi,

I've got an XML application that works w/o problems on FM9 and FM 11, but not in FM 12. If my structapps does not have any preprocessing XSLT, everything works. But if it has, XSLT processor (Xalan used, not Saxon HE), XSLT processor gives me error: java.io.FileNotFoundException: Could not find file: <path_to_source_xml>\dtd_file, so it looks like xalan cannot resolve the public identifier and tries to locate dtd  from same folder. I have declared the entity locations with public ID + path\filename in structapps (and uses default API client).

What might be wrong?

Thanks in advance,

Martti

DATA

1. I write<p><ph>This is a sentence. </ph><ph>This is a sentence. </ph><p>
2. I save and close the file
3. When I open it at new, I remark :

• the first <ph> still have a spacer after the point
• the second <ph> have no spacer after the point

QUESTION

Do you know where we can set in FrameMaker11 to not delete spacers ?

Other solution can be put a WHITESPACE between the elements <ph>, but it seems this causes problems while publishing.

Hi,

So, we have a document (1000+ pages long) with hundreds of help topic IDs that were auto generated when the document was first created. We now need to access certain sections of the documents and make updates, but the only point of reference given is the help topic ID.

Is there a way in which we can extract the help topic IDs along with the heading name, or at least view where each help topic ID is?

Best regards,

Anshuman

We are using structured FrameMaker11 to generate tagged information in accordance with S1000D build rules, and after we created all our (newlink) targets, and then built the corresponding (gotolink) pointers in our table of contents, list of figures, and list of tables, etc., we tested each one in FrameMaker11 and they all seemed to work. However. When we made a print to PDF (with links) some of the links did not work in the rendered PDF. We could not see what we were doing wrong.

One of our team used "CutePDF Writer" and all the links in the rendered PDF worked perfectly.

What's going on, and how can we use our FrameMaker product to produce reliable PDF links?

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Hi,

I am using FDK 12.0 on Windows (using Visual Studio 2012) to make some changes in a FrameMaker document programmatically. I have never used this or any other Adobe API before and am somewhat struggling with the concepts. Primarily I am using the sample programs, coming along with the FDK to guide me.

Now, I want to open and parse an XML file, whose content I will use later to manipulate the texts in a FrameMaker document. In .NET framework there are several classes (XMLReader, XMLTextReader etc.) to read and parse XML files easily. However, it seems I cannot use these Common Language Runtime classes because, apparently, a FDK plug-in needs to be a) C program and b) should not use CLR. In view that, can anyone please indicate if there are any suitable set of functions in FDK itself for parsing an XML file. Otherwise, is there any pure C based XML parser I can use? Some actual sample will be very helpful.

Thanks in advance,

Joydeep

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Hi All,

I am trying to print to PDF a publication that is full of oversize wiring diagrams. The pages are all images ranging in size from standard A3 and A4 siz sheets through to a foldout being 1470 mm W X 297 mm H. We have no problem printing A3, A4 and 630 mm W X 297 H. These are all Portrait images. When we set up our custom print size to accomodate the 1470 mm W X 297 mm H we get the pages without the content, and even some of the oversize pages are not the correct size on print.

The page sizes we are using are:

• A4
• A3
• 630 x 297 mm
• 840 x 297 mm
• 1050 x 297 mm
• 1260 x 297 mm
• 1470 x 297 mm

The procedures we are using to set up the printing are:

1.      Print to PDF (Do not Save to PDF, you do not have control over paper sizes)

Under Print Setup make sure you select PDF Driver and select the Paper size as largest that is in your book.  Example: If A4 and A3 pages, print to A3

2.      Select Generate Acrobat Data and select

Note: Back in FM Print dialogue; make sure Print to File is turned OFF, before you click Print

Any assistance would be greatly appreciated.

Regards

AJ Wilkinson

Hi,

FM10 not patched, WinXP SP3

I've bumped into a very serious problem that I am able to replicate, but not solve. When I import (custom) XML, any whitespace following <xref> elements is deleted. I don't know if it exclusive to crossreference elements or any no-content elements... but for sure it is happening with xrefs.

Here is a zip with sample files with which I am able to replicate this. The XML file has two <xref>s separated by "and". When you import the XML (using the DTD, rules, and template provided), the whitespace before the "and" is deleted.

http://www.weststreetconsulting.com/downloads/test.zip

I disabled all my personal plugins and all DITA plugins that I could find, same thing.

I don't know if anyone has the time to look at this, but I'd be very appreciative if anyone could confirm the problem. This has caused a real mess in my source files that I can go fix using non-breaking spaces, but this is really a pain and very much suboptimal.

Thanks,

Russ

Hi all,

I am a technical writer and I am new to structured authoring.

I have a structured CMM for a component with ATA number 11-22-33 (example). Taking Source files of this CMM, i have to create a new CMM whose ATA number is 11-22-34. Contents of both CMMs are similar except some minor changes.

I have made all the required changes and now I am facing a problem with MTOSS Numbering.

I have to update ATA Number as 11-22-34 for TASK and Subtask level, but there is no Element Attributes for chapno, subno, secno. for TASK and Subtask

I have updated Book level attributes as chapno=11, subno=22, secno=34, but it is not reflecting throughout CMM pageblocks.

How can I change the attributes as chapno=11, subno=22, secno=34 for TASK and Subtask.

Please help me in this..

I've never done more than just briefly mess around with the xDocBook structure application in FM. Seemed to work fine, but never used it for real work so didn't get into it too deeply.

I was asked about using FM and DocBook specifically around indexing, so took a look at the indexterm element. If I create a very basic document .. title, para, and index entry, then save .. I get an error about mismatched tags. Looking at the resulting file I see this for the indexterm ..

<indexterm/><primary>level one</primary><secondary>level two</secondary></indexterm>

Notice the initial indexterm element, is EMPTY. This obviously hoses the entire document.

The same thing happens in FM8 through FM11.

When I try the SGML DocBook app, it works fine, which creates the correct structure of ..

<indexterm><primary>level one</primary><secondary>level two</secondary></indexterm>

Am I missing something very obvious here? Is there some setting that properly creates this structure? Or has no one tried to use DocBook (XML) in Frame for many years?

Cheers,

...scott

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 with the same name (e.g. fett) correctly. We need the "double declaration of the same element" feature in Frame Maker 11 in a big migration project. We migrate  SGML data to XML. How can we solve this?

Hint: we explicitly want to prohibit an endless recursive nesting of elements!

Sample XSD:

<xs:schema xmlns="http://tempuri.org/test-rekursion" xmlns:tr="http://tempuri.org/test-rekursion" elementFormDefault="qualified" attributeFormDefault="unqualified" targetNamespace="http://tempuri.org/test-rekursion" xmlns:xs="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema" > <xs:group name="inlineBase"> <xs:choice> <xs:element name="sup" type="xs:string" /> <xs:element name="sub" type="xs:string" /> <xs:element name="keyword" type="xs:string" /> <xs:element name="inline-graphics" type="xs:string" /> </xs:choice> </xs:group> <xs:element name="paragraph"> <xs:complexType mixed="true"> <xs:choice minOccurs="0" maxOccurs="unbounded"> <xs:group ref="tr:inlineBase" /> <xs:element name="bold"> <xs:complexType mixed="true"> <xs:choice minOccurs="0" maxOccurs="unbounded"> <xs:group ref="tr:inlineBase" /> <xs:element name="italic"> <xs:complexType mixed="true"> <xs:choice minOccurs="0" maxOccurs="unbounded"> <xs:group ref="tr:inlineBase" /> </xs:choice> </xs:complexType> </xs:element> </xs:choice> </xs:complexType> </xs:element> <xs:element name="italic"> <xs:complexType mixed="true"> <xs:choice minOccurs="0" maxOccurs="unbounded"> <xs:group ref="tr:inlineBase" /> <xs:element name="bold"> <xs:complexType mixed="true"> <xs:choice minOccurs="0" maxOccurs="unbounded"> <xs:group ref="tr:inlineBase" /> </xs:choice> </xs:complexType> </xs:element> </xs:choice> </xs:complexType> </xs:element> </xs:choice> <xs:attribute name="autor" type="xs:string" /> </xs:complexType> </xs:element> </xs:schema>

Sample XML:

<paragraph xmlns="http://tempuri.org/test-rekursion" xsi:schemaLocation="http://tempuri.org/test-rekursion test-recursion2.xsd" xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance" > Lorem ipsum <bold>dolor <italic>sit amet<sup>hoch 2</sup>, consetetur </italic>sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod</bold> tempor invidunt ut labore et <italic>dolore <bold>magna aliquyam<sup>hoch 3</sup> erat</bold>, sed diam voluptua</italic>. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet. Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet. </paragraph>

Opening the XML in Frame Maker 11 results in following error:

XML Read Report Log Source Document: C:\Work\DOCS\120820-Base-Umstrukturierung\Bold-Italic-Test-2.xml XML Parser Messages (Document Prolog) Error at file C:\Users\t25681a\AppData\Local\Temp\FMTCCD7.tmp, line 18, char 17, Message: Element 'italic' has already been declared Error at line 19, char 15, Message: Element 'bold' has already been declared

Thanks a lot for any suggestions

Miro

Hi Everyone!

I am working in structured framemaker....on developing an update manual based on a mil-std dtd 40051c. I have the dtd as well as an official FOSI (stylesheet) file and need a bit of help.

Here is a recap of what I have done thus far:

• Create an EDD based off the MIL-STD DTD file
• Create a DTD based on my EDD
• Create new file and imported element definitions, followed by building the top-level tree structure for the entire manual
• I have put the FOS, as well as an XSL (I simply converted the FOS file) into my structapps directory

My question is this:

Seeing as I have the entire tree structure built already, I could potentially go through each element and add my content. The problem however is that in Framemaker I cannot see the styles of each element in the document itself. I have done many tests and my modifacations to structapps have not worked. I also know that I am building the document correctly because after finishing a test section I save my framemaker file to an XML file and open it up in Arbortext. At that point I can associate it to the stylesheet and it looks perfect. This is an extremely tedious process though and I would really love it if we could somehow view the correct styles as we inputted text in Framemaker. (We only have one copy of Arbortext as well so there is no way I can update all of these documents on my own)

I hope I have explained this well - so if anyone can please give me information on correctly linking an fos/xsl stylesheet within Framemaker it would be greatly appreciated. Thanks so much

I am converting a large complex unstructured doc set to Structured Frame. I'm starting off with Tom Aldous' webinars. I have many questions. First, I am performing my conversion to DITA (because this is how the webinar guides us). Is this the best format to use? I will have PDF User Guide with multiple role based outputs and Robohelp Webhelp output. Am I better with a DITA or Custom Structure?

I am using TCS 3.