I can easily generate CHM and PDF using the Generate Output option offered by DITA-FMx, but the output is just standard and I would like to customize it according to the company style. Which files should I work on to modify fonts, colours, indentation, etc, both for CHM and PDF?
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how to customize CHM and PDF output
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New-user resources for authoring DITA with FrameMaker 10?
Might as well ask the same question about DITA. I'm gearing up to write a bunch of new docs and am considering switching to XML. Since we already own FrameMaker, I'll use that if there's no good reason to switch.
Can anyone point me to some introductory material on creating a DITA project in FrameMaker and maybe some better sample projects than come with the product?
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converting Framemaker files into PDF progaramatically using publishing server
Hi All
Background:
We are going for upgrade of Frame maker 8 which is on unix system to FM 10 or 11. We are using Framemaker mainly for renditions, i.e to convert the fm documents to PDF. To convert fm document to PDF we are using the below mentioned command line utility available in FM 8.(on unix). /opt/app/frame8.0/bin/fmprint -i -p Sample.fm.fmtpl Sample.fm Currently the the fm file which need to converted to PDF and the FM 8(installed) are available on the same unix system ,so we were able to initiate/use the command line utility of FM 8. The rendition of the FM to PDF is On -Demand.( We are not running any batch activities/ bulk renditions).We are rendering the document as soon as the document is available.
Requirement:
As we are going to upgrade the FM to newer versions which would be installed on the Windows machine as Frame maker 10 or 11 will not support unix plat form, so can you please let us know which option is better to use i.e we want to convert fm file to PDF using java program without any manual intevention using publishing server/client version.
can any one help us as it is very urgent for us.
please let us know the ways to do and links for helpful documents .
thank you very much for your help in advance!!\
Best reagrds
Ramesh babu
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How can I add an mp4 to a DITA topic?
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
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Parser error message: Required attribute 'cols' was not provided
I'm having trouble with a ditamap in FM 12 because two of the files refuse to save. They send up the parser error message "Required attribute 'cols' was not provided".
They both contain tables imported by conref. The error seems to arise on the tgroup element. Yet the Attributes table for tgroup does not seem to contain a cols attribute and I can't see where to define it or how.
In another DITA editor, XMLMind Personal Edition, I have no trouble opening and saving both the destination and imported conref source files. They seem to have the cols attribute correctly defined.
What is going wrong in FM and how can I fix it? It's annoying that a big expensive tool should be so much harder to use than a free one!
Thanks to all,
Elisa Roselli
Cambridge Imaging Systems
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Frame cannot find Acrobat Distiller printer instance
I installed Acrobat Pro 8 and now I can no longer create pdfs from Frame 7. I get the following message:
FrameMaker could not find Acrobat Distiller printer Instance, which must be installed to execute Save as PDF command.
Is there a way to fix this w/out having to reinstall Frame?
FrameMaker could not find Acrobat Distiller printer Instance, which must be installed to execute Save as PDF command.
Is there a way to fix this w/out having to reinstall Frame?
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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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Type mismatch for the element FrameMaker element (graphic)
Now that I'm moving along on the formatting portion of this manual (or so I think - ha), I need to start bringing in the graphics to make sure they are all there, so I can get the illustrator going on that end. I've looked at threads everywhere I could find regarding graphic boardno and using the read/write rules to tell FrameMaker what to do with the graphic, and nothing works. I keep getting an error that says, "type mismatch for the element FrameMaker element (graphic). The type defined by the read/write rules is different from thet defined in the template."
I created this rw file from scratch out of FM 10. I've copied several different iterations that I've found all over the place. Right now my rw file has this:
element "graphic" {
is fm graphic element;
attribute "boardno" {
is fm property entity;
is fm attribute;
}
}
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graphic element from DTD to EDD
Framemaker 7.2, Windows
I created the EDD from the DTD. But I'm having trouble with the 'graphic' (lower case)Element. It's supposed to be an empty element but when I insert the tag it displays with the open and close element tags. And the only way to actually get the image in is to insert an anchored frame and import the file. Then this automatically inserts a box in my structure view(which indicates an empty element). It is in all caps, 'GRAPHIC', And it's invalid.
Also, isn't the Unique ID attribute on the element 'graphic' used to bring in the correct file? Or do I have to use Anchored Frame and Import?
Carron
I created the EDD from the DTD. But I'm having trouble with the 'graphic' (lower case)Element. It's supposed to be an empty element but when I insert the tag it displays with the open and close element tags. And the only way to actually get the image in is to insert an anchored frame and import the file. Then this automatically inserts a box in my structure view(which indicates an empty element). It is in all caps, 'GRAPHIC', And it's invalid.
Also, isn't the Unique ID attribute on the element 'graphic' used to bring in the correct file? Or do I have to use Anchored Frame and Import?
Carron
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Create watermark in FrameMaker 7.1
I am trying to add a "PRELIMINARY" watermark to every page of a structured document in FrameMaker 7.1. I added the text in a text box to the master pages, but the graphics boxes in my document block out the watermark. I tried placing the text in a graphics box, but that gave the same results. Is there a way to bring a watermark to the front of graphics boxes?
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Columns in Framemaker
I have read the message on how to set up columns in the master pages of a document and I did this, but how to I make them read down the column and then start at the top of the next and so on. When I hit enter my cursor goes across to the next column.
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Automatically insert element tag around 'inline' cross-references
Hi all,
When you have a cross reference that was created around, say, just a chunk of text, Framemaker will not preserve any sort of cross-reference information on export to XML, beyond just making sure the text associated with the cross reference is exported correctly.
As it states in the structured application developer manual:
Whether or not the cross-reference element has an IDREF attribute, if the source of the cross-
reference is not an element, then FrameMaker exports the cross-reference element as text. That
is, the fact that an element was present in the FrameMaker document is lost; instead, the text
content provided by the cross-reference format appears in the markup document.
I was trying to figure out a way to use read/write rules to automatically generate a tag of some sort around such inline cross-references. I have an element for cross references in my DTD named Xref, so I tried this:
element "Xref" {
is fm element "Xref";
}
Unfortunately, this didn't do anything. This is my first day using Framemaker, so I'll readily admit I may be a little bit lost.
Does any one have any suggestions as to how I can preserve cross-reference information, on export to XML? I want to create an XML toolchain that reads in this XML; and currently it's not really possible to pick up cross-references.
Regards,
Seth
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OTF Fonts Thai
Hello,
we are working with structured FM 8 and do translate in pretty much all languages except for Arabic. So far, there were no complaints for the Asian languages. But now, we receive the feedback that the characters for Thai (Arial Unicode) are correct but that there are spaces between some characters making it difficult to read the text. We have done various tests and recognized that all True-Type fonts are causing these problems. Now, I installed an OTF-Font for Thai and the problems stay the same. Therefor, my question if the Thai font is upported at all?
Thank you very much in advance,
Sandra Ullrich
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FM9, ATA iSPEC 2200, & EDD setup
Does anyone have advice on setting up the EDD created from the CMM DTD provided in the ATA iSPEC 2200 Standard? I'm having a difficult time trying to modify the EDD to format the front matter and pageblock pages the way the spec says it should, specifically involving the Title element option of the Topic and Subtask elements.
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Converting thousand(s) documents from Framemaker to Word(doc/rtf)
Can anyone help me making a macro or use fmbatch, which I understand can be used to repeat action, to convert Framemaker files to Word?
I've got many developers that is going to write user doc and hence I need it in a format which doesnt need Framemaker.
I know I can save as rtf and that works ok, but pressing Shift and Save all open file wont let me change from fm to rtf.
ANyone who knows a way past this problem?
Newbee
Thanks
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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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crossrefs in svg files
I need to embed svg files with clickable crossrefs to other xml elements.
I saw this done with wmf and the fdk8 but wmf is a binary format and our toolchain is written in java.
So here is my question:
Is there a good way to make multiple cross-references in a svg file that would link to other elements in the framemaker xml file?
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Absolute path in Doctype DTD makes DTD unavailable on other machines
Hi all,
When saving to XML, I understand that Frame takes the relative path to the DTD as described in structapps.fm (in our case, $STRUCTDIR\xml\xdocbook\app\docbookx.dtd) and generates an absolute path in the XML it writes, like this:
DOCTYPE chapter SYSTEM "file:///C:/Program%20Files/Adobe/FrameMaker9/structure/xml/xdocbook/app/docbookx.dtd"...
This, of course, makes the files impossible to open on a machine that has Frame installed in something other than "Program Files". Any way to get around this? Have Frame generate a relative path in some way? I've researched this in the ref and dev guides and don't see any way to control this. I did try adding something to the rules, like this...
writer external dtd is system "docbookx.dtd";
but then Frame just looks directly in the folder that contains the document you're trying to open.
Thanks for any suggestions.
- Shelley
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how can we handle graphics in DITA source files in order to display them correctly both in PDF and H
We are using FM9 to publish PDF and HTML output from DITA source files and we cannot find a way to display images correctly. By adjusting the appropriate DPI, the image gets correctly displayed in HTML but not in PDF where it appears cropped according to the the text frames of the source file in FM9, like this:
We have tried to enlarge the text frame in the source file but for some reasons FrameMaker doesn't take these changes into account.
By modifying the attribute of the element <fig> (expanse = page), it was possible to improve a bit the rendering in the PDF but not completely.
Our graphics are in JPG format.
Any help on this is highly appreciated.
Thank you.
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Mil Spec XML to FrameMaker to XML
I am a beginner, at best, user of FrameMaker 9 and have been provided an XML file by a customer for updating. This is a product file based on military XML specifications. Our requirement is to update the XML file and return the file to the customer for publishing. In an attempt to use our existing tool (FM 9) I have imported the associated DTD to make an EDD and the existing XML file.
Admittedly, I haven't gotten far enough into this to determine if FM is the correct tool for this effort. My main concerns are if the table of contents, list of effective pages, change bars, etc. will build correctly. Another concern is exporting the XML file and the customer being able to "publish" it correctly, with all of the previous elements listed building and publishing accurately.
My question is does anyone have any experience with this and can they tell me if I'm attempting to force a round peg into a square hole?
Any advice or suggestions are greatly appreciated. Best regards, Bill
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