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Will FMv9 work after installing FMv12?

November 11, 2014, 3:17 pm
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Running Win7/64-bit. Have been running FMv7 and FMv9 for some time now.

 

Recently, I installed v12 and had tinkered with it for a few days before getting around to opening v9 - at which time I've discovered v9 will not start. With splash screen up, only Localization starts, and then "Internal Error 9004, 6921628, 9677518, 0. FrameMaker detected a serious problem and must quit."

I cannot know if v12 installation affected v9, since I had used my pc, worked business as usual, etc. for days before getting around to going into v9.

I am also tinkering with third part add-ons, so I might back track and find this myself. All I am really asking for at this point is for confirmation that v9 and v12 will can be expected to play nice together?

 

Thanks,

Dave

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FrameMaker 11 won't start up

December 28, 2012, 1:14 pm
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I'm running FrameMaker 11 on Windows 7. I just changed the settings from unstructured to structured Frame and restarted my computer. Now FrameMaker comes up for a few seconds and goes away. Is there something I can do to get FrameMaker to launch?

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"Unwrap" CDATA with XSLT

June 12, 2008, 1:41 pm
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Hi,

I know this isn't necessarily a FrameMaker question, but it is a place where I know people. So forgive me for asking it here.

I have some CDATA sections in an XML file that contain markup that I want to be parsed eventually, and I want to be able to extract it with the markup intact. Can I do this with XSLT, or does the nature of CDATA negate the use of retrieving the markup with an XML-parser-dependent technology?

Here's a sample element (element tags replaced with curly braces)

{documentation}{![CDATA[{p}Some text{/p}]]}{/documentation}

Is there any way I can get that p element out of there with XSLT, without excaping any of the characters, so it is parsable markup in the output?

[{p}Some text{/p}

Thanks,
Russ
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Preserving non-breaking spaces in XML round-trip?

September 2, 2009, 5:56 pm
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This issue has been discussed several times, but I haven't seen a post that describes my experience. I see this behavior on FM8 and FM9, Windows XP and Vista.


FrameMaker represents non-breaking spaces as character code 0x11. This is not a legal Unicode character, so XML saved from FrameMaker with non-breaking spaces will fail to validate. In fact, FrameMaker will fail to re-open documents with this character. This is unfortunate, but I can accept it.


Unicode specifies character code 0x160 as a non-breaking space. I can insert this character in body text and variable definitions. FrameMaker treats this character as a non-breaking space. (It does not display as a non-breaking space text symbol, but provides the behavior of a non-breaking space). Other processing tools also respect this character as a non-breaking space.


However, upon saving to XML, FrameMaker converts character 0x160 back to character code 0x11. So I'm back where I started. I can no longer edit the XML document in FrameMaker, nor is the XML valid and usable in other tools/workflows.

 

I've played with the "character map" read/write rule to attempt to get FrameMaker to write non-breaking space 0x11 as Unicode 0x160. But FrameMaker writes 0x11 back to the XML.

 

Is it reasonable to expect that FrameMaker retain Unicode character 0x160 on XML round-trip? Am I missing something? Of course, this is an issue for several lower-ANSI FM characters, including non-breaking spaces and hyphens, thin spaces, and forced returns, which FM writes to XML as illegal Unicode characters.

 

-Alan

-- 
Alan Houser, President
Group Wellesley, Inc.
412-363-3481
www.groupwellesley.com
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Cross-reference between structured and unstructured FM documents

December 17, 2009, 5:11 am
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Hello,

 

Is it possible to retain FM cross-references from structured to unstructured FM documents during an XML round trip?

 

From what I know, cross-references between or inside structured documents form pairs of ID and IDREF, while cross-references to unstructured documents are dumped as normal text and lose their functionality.

 

The unstructured target documents might be converted to Structured FM at some point, but for the time being I'd like to find another solution. Do you know any solution to this?

 

 

Thanks,

Johannes

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Fm10: Process AutoInsertion Rule Recursively

October 8, 2011, 12:50 am
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What does "Process AutoInsertion Rule Recursively" do? It's not described in the Fm10 "Help".

 

Yves

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S1000D Publish IETP not available

October 20, 2012, 6:40 am
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I am attempting to build an IETP from the sample S1000D bike data provided with TCS 4.  I have opened the S1000D bike sample Publication Module (PM) in Framemaker 11.  I followed  the help file instructions but have encountered a couple of issues.  First, when I attempted to set global applicability for the book, there are no applicability values available (see help file instructions below).

 

To implement applicability (Global) at a book level,

  1. When the book file is in focus, select S1000D > Common Source Data.The S1000D Common Source Data dialog appears.
  2. In the Common Source Data dialog, select the Applicability tab and then PCT.
  3. In the list of products, select the applicable product and click Apply.

 

I am beginning to think that the Book/PM is not properly set up with applicability values.

 

Second, the "Publish IETP" menu item is grayed out and not available.

 

Any ideas on what I am doing wrong?

 

Mike

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Control table row or cell formatting via EDD context rules?

January 16, 2014, 4:11 pm
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Hi...

 

I think I know the answer to this, but is it possible to control table row or cell properties (like shading, padding, borders, etc) through context rules in an EDD? I'm not aware of any way to do this, but thought I'd toss it out there to be sure.

 

Would love to hear that I'm wrong.

 

Cheers,

 

...scott

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FrameMaker 12 Publish Crash

February 13, 2014, 3:16 am
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Using Framemaker 12.0.1.331 all publish operations crash if the document contains a UserString of 1 or more characters in a table element.  We use UserStrings in this way to hold metadata about tables such as database keys and effective dates.

 

The Mif looks like this:  [We would normally have an xml fragment here but this is enough to produce a crash]

 

<Tbl

  <TblID 10>

<UserString `A'>

  <TblTag `Format A'>

  <TblFormat

 

 

Incidently a zero length UserString doesn't result in a crash.

 

Looks like a bug to me.

 

regards,

 

    Colin

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How to name topics better when developing a new documentation?

May 26, 2014, 8:30 pm
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Hi all,

I am encountering a problem about topic name. I think a suitable topic name is key to make href/xref or display the topic's main content. Currently, there are two solutions to the problem, for example, a topic named t_define_product_name or t_DefineProductName.

I wonder how you design the topic name or depend some rules?

Thank u in advance.

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Conversion Table with P tags to Body

June 5, 2014, 4:00 pm
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I am converting from unstructured to structured XML in DITA.

 

In my conversion table, I have multiple paragraphs tagged with p, like this:

 

P     p[otherprops="ProcTitle"]     ProcTitle

P     p[otherprops="Paragaph"]     Paragraph

 

I apply my Conversion Table to my Unstructured doc, then save as XML using the Dita1.2 application. The conversion to structured completes fine. The save as xml has errors, but i expected that at this point.

 

I now want to edit the Dita EDD to use my formatting. When I apply the Dita EDD, all the "p" paragraphs convert to Body.

 

How to I configure the EDD to see the difference among the types of p paragraphs? I tried the following command in the EDD, but it was frankly just a guess based on similar configuration I saw in the EDD:

 

Under Body Element

 

Text format rules

       if context is [otherprops !="ProcTitle"]

          Use paragraph format: ProcTitle

     Else,

          Use paragraph format: Paragraph 

 

As I'm sure is no surprise for those of you in the know, this did not work. .

 

How can I do this?

 

Thanks in advance for any help you can give

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keys

August 26, 2014, 12:20 pm
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Hey,

I'm trying to use keys as variables in my DITA project, but I can't figure out how to insert a "variable" in a topic using keys?

 

This is what my dita map looks like:

 

<map xmlns:ditaarch = "http://dita.oasis-open.org/architecture/2005/">

     <title>Product variables</title>

          <keydef keys = "product_name">

               <topicmeta>

                    <keywords>

                             <keyword>Sample Product Name</keyword>

                    </keywords>

                  </topicmeta>

             </keydef>

</map>

 

This is what the topic looks like but nothing happens

 

<concept id = "id144FF0W0FFP"

    xmlns:ditaarch = "http://dita.oasis-open.org/architecture/2005/">

<title>General description</title>

     <conbody>

          <p><keyword keyref = "product_name"></keyword> is a great product.</p>

     </conbody>

</concept>

 

Can anyone help me?

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mass update master pages

October 29, 2014, 3:52 am
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version 7 - I have MANY pages that are booked. I just want to find a way to easily update the master pages all at once.

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Document that is OK for oXygen remains full of errors under FrameMaker 12

October 29, 2014, 6:45 am
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Hello everybody!

 

I will use Adobe FrameMaker 12 in author mode in an upcomming project, and I will continue testing it for two more weeks. As I am new to XML and document creation, I finished an online tutorial about XML and started now to create a document. I entered all files in one directory, then tested & corrected the contents with oXygen XML Author 16. Now, I opened the same files under FrameMaker 12 and have a lot of errors. As XML is a standard, I think that my code is not the problem. Do you have an idea why one & the same documents are evaluated differently by the two tools?

 

Thank you for your suggestions!

Note: As ist is not possible to upload a ZIP file, I add two images to show the problem.

book in Adobe FrameMaker 12.png

book in oXygen XML Author 16.png

 

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Applying master pages while typing

March 13, 2013, 9:08 am
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I am running framemaker 7.0  (I realize it is a very old version). How do I force it to add a page based on a different master page that I have set up? Right now it adds the default (none).

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Cross reference issues in FrameMaker 11 DITA

April 22, 2013, 10:32 am
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I'm trying to upgrade from FrameMaker 9 to FrameMaker 11. My files are set up using structured FrameMaker and DITA. The ditamap is comprised of both FM files and XML files. I'm attempting to use the ditabase template and DTD and DITA 1.2.

 

When I open my XML files in Framemaker 11, any cross references to other chapters in the book and gone. The fm-xref tag that is there is empty. I know there are some changes to cross references between DITA 1.1 and DITA 1.2, but I'm wondering if there is a way to retain the cross references when I open the file in FM11 even if the cross reference does actually link to the referenced location. Or do I have to manually go through my document and re-enter all the cross references?

 

I'm also having trouble getting the cross references to use the correct font format. After searching through all the various edd files that are referenced, I found the section that applies to cross references and it seems to indicate that the font format is set in the cross reference format in FrameMaker, but I can't figure out how to change the cross reference format.

 

Then instructions in the Framemaker help say:

 

  1. Choose Special > cross-reference.
  2. Click Edit Format.
  3. ....

 

But I can't find anything that says "Edit Format".

 

Thanks for the help,

 

Sharon

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Conversion Tables Again

December 4, 2013, 11:27 am
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FM 11

DITA 1.2

 

I just got back to working on our conversion table and have two questions today:

 

  1. I'm trying to wrap task topics in a task element. The headings in our source files are labeled Heading1Task, Heading1Concept, etc., so finding the tasks shouldn't be a problem for the conversion table.

 

 

My Heading1Task is set to wrap in the <title> element with a qualifier of h1task.

At the end of the conversion table I have this in the first column:

 

E:title[h1task], (abstract* | titlealts*), taskbody, (concept* | ol* | p* | prereq* | stepsection* | ul*), steps

 

I set that to be wrapped in a <task> element.

 

It isn't working. I have no errors on the FrameMaker Log (Structure Document Report), the Structure View, or anywhere else.

 

Side question: Can I put the asterisks outside of the parentheses, like this (abstract | titlealts)* rather than after each element to indicate that everything inside is optional (zero or more)?

 

 

 

2.     In my task topics, the steps are coming in as ordered lists. How can I tell the conversion table that it should first wrap these in <cmd> and then wrap all <cmd> elements in <step>, and finally wrap all <step> elements in <steps>?

 

TIA,

 

Marsha

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Trouble with Cross-References

September 24, 2014, 4:30 pm
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FM11 / DITA 1.2

 

What could cause a particular cross reference to consistently NOT work? I know that's vague. I'll try to give a more specific example:

 

Let's say I have a collection of xrefs across several XML files in a DITA map. Some xrefs might even point to the same item (usually a <title> tag with an ID attribute). On output to a book with FM components, particular xrefs just will not work (they output as "unresolved"). I can fix it manually in the FM file, but I'd rather it work correctly in the first place, especially since I deal with translation in to several languages, and if I can't get an xref to just work, I have to fix it many, many times.

 

I've tried deleting the xref and starting again; I've tried changing the ID attribute in case there was some kind of conflict...I still have trouble with that particular xref (and this happens with more than one xref). What else can I try?

 

Again, I know this is vague. I'd be happy to elaborate on relevant points. I just don't currently have time to write a massive description and I want to get this question out.

 

Thanks in advance.

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What happened to Full FM?

November 5, 2014, 4:01 pm
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Yesterday, I downloaded FM v12 Trial, upgraded to full version with license/serial number, and used it with some existing .fm files for initial testing.

Today, using same icon on Start Menu and/or Desktop, I only have XML Author.

What happened to full install?

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Can My C# program control the FrameMaker?

September 24, 2008, 7:25 pm
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In my C# program,I export many xml files. In FrameMaker,I define my template.When I open xml file in FrameMaker,I want to save as pdf.
The question:
Can I control the frameMaker using my c# program to print the pdf file
automatically? Beacause opening and printing xml file by manually,It is terrible.
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