I opened a structured fm file wrongly in unstructured mode and saved it. When I opened this fm file again in structured mode, the structure view has been blank. Does anyone no how to withdraw this?
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How to withdraw a wrong open and save of a structured fm file in unstructured mode?
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FM12 - "Black" images in HTML5 output
Hello
I'm using Framemaker 12, and I work with HTML5 output to publish online helps.
In my FM files, I use PNG images which are in anchored frames.
My problem is, after I did the HTML5 output, my images appear "black" as you can see below. Any idea about where this problem comes from would be greatly appreciated !
Thanks a lot.
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DITA Open Toolkit (DITA-OT) nothing happens when building output
Hi
I'm trying to generate PDF2/XHTML using the DITA Open Toolkit with FrameMaker 12 but nothing happens when building the output.
I can see the command line start but is then immediately shutdown, and there is nothing generated in the output folder.
I have installed the Java JDK and set the Java_Home variable (before that the output options box didn't open).
Do anyone have a glue what is wrong?
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How to import a table from an excel for word into an fm file?
Is there any shortcut?
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pagination for books with xml files
I need to use the "read from file" pagination option for a book I'm generating using xml files, but that option is greyed out! How do I make that option available?
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Nested tables
Hi all,
there is some Information in the Framemaker help how to nest tables in structured documents but I simply don't understand how to implemend this. This is a DITA document and I know that nesting tables is very bad style. However it is a requirement and after all DITA does support it.
In unstructured documents we used anchored Frames in table cells. The approach for structured documents seems similar:
"Select a graphic element for empty anchored frames in the Element Catalog, and click New Frame"
I wonder how I can accomplish this. In the EDD I would have to set up an element (perhaps a dedicated paragraph class) to insert an anchored Frame in which then the table is inserted.
Has anybody succeeded in using nested tables in structured documents with Framemaker?
Robert
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How can I display the string "ZBAA/PEK-ADSB"?
In xml file,these elements are following:
ZBAA
PEK
ADSB
When I import the xml file to FrameMaker,I want to display "ZBAA/PEK-ADSB" in a paragraph.the element of "airportCode" is a Marker element,The header of fm file will call it. What should I control the display?
When I import the xml file to FrameMaker,I want to display "ZBAA/PEK-ADSB" in a paragraph.the element of "airportCode" is a Marker element,The header of fm file will call it. What should I control the display?
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Format Change Lists when using Paragraph Styles
Hi all,
Our EDD's formatting makes use of the documents' paragraph styles. I am now wishing I had not designed it like that since it's not extensible at all, but it's too late at this point to redesign it to make better use of the hierarchical way that Frame applies formatting.
We are now trying to implement Keep with Next, and Keep with Previous pagination properties for various elements. I thought I could do this through a simple Format Change List defining just pagination properties, but it doesn't seem that I can invoke this once I've applied a paragraph style...correct?
So, is there any workaround for this? (other than a complete refactoring of the EDD) -- I assume that I could create a Format Change List for each time we might use this (about a half dozen), but, since I apparently cannot combine this with an existing para tag, that means each Format Change List would have to redefine every single formatting detail, including basic font properties, etc.
This might be the route we need to take, but I thought some of you wizards out there might know of something more graceful... :-)
Thanks in advance,
Shelley
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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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To import a pdf file in FrameMaker
How do we import a pdf file with all its pages in a FrameMaker file ?
I found that we can import only one sheet of the pdf in a FrameMaker file.
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Making display options sticky
In FM 10, whenever I open a DITA topic, the Structure View and Element Catalog display options revert to defaults that look cluttered and annoying to me. The Structure View displays all the attributes, and the Element Catalog shows all the element descriptive tags. In the Structure View, I right-click, select Attribute Display Options, and set the display option to No Attributes. In the Element Catalog, I click the Options button and unset the option Show Element Descriptive Tags. Then both windows are simple and uncluttered. When I finish editing my DITA topic, save it, and close it and then open another DITA topic, the Structure View and Element Catalog revert to the cluttered view again. This gets annoying. I looked for preferences to making my preferred views permanent, but I could not find anything in the interface, in the DITA options, in the user manual, or in the maker.ini file. I tried saving the settings as part of my DITA workspace configuration, but the preferences weren't saved with the workspace, either. I don't mind having these more elaborate views available, but I do mind not being able to control them as a preference. Does anyone have a solution for this?
Susan
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Best practices: formatting inside or outside EDDs ?
Hello all,
A discussion started elsewhere on whether or not formatting should be done inside the EDD. I think that discussion should be held here, as there will be more people who have experience with this on this forum than on the other non-public discussion site. Of course most of the participants in the discussion on the closed forum are on this forum as, well, so we can maybe continue our discussion with a larger group.
On this particular topic, there seem to be two completely opposite views, and I would like to hear from people on this forum what they feel about this.
On one side are those who state that formatting should be done completely in the EDD, as this takes the ability to mess up the formatting away from authors - who should not have any control over formatting as they should just deliver content. If formatting is put in their hands the compatibility with existing standards or earlier revision processes would be breached. One message mentioned an 'enforcable controllable environment' as the goal of working with structured Frame in the first place - if I am getting that point correctly (and of not, there will be reactions from the ones on this forum who belong to that camp).
The other side (which, according to the impression given on the non-public site, is a rare minitory viewpoint) is taking ALL formatting out of the EDD and allowing clients to do their own paragraph and character designer based formatting without having to edit the EDD. In this case, the client is not dependent on the person who created the EDD to change the font, text alignment, hyphenation etc. The EDD assigns paragraph format tags and the client can - if they want to - change those paragraph formats to suit their needs. I am a strong advocate of this position and have been using this strategy for my clients with a lot of success.
I do want to answer to the comments about control, just to clarify that the choice between formatting inside or outside the EDD is not the same as a choice between keeping full control or having no control whatsoever. Control or no control is another matter, in my opinion. I can easily see methods to make the paragraph and character designer unavailable in Frame for those who have no authority to make any changes to the company's style sheerts. This would leave those who are in control of the styling the option to define or redefine paragraph and character styles without having to bring in the expensive consultant who created the EDD for them. Changes to the EDD would for example be required to support another font for a Bulgarian translation.
Frankly, I do not want to make my clients dependent on my services just to change the font to Arial CYR if they happen to sell a machine to Bulgaria. Also, I don't want to build full support for all the formatting quirks my customers might ever need into an EDD that will become an almost unmanageable beast (and require expensive consultants to make any changes that do not bring the system to a screaching halt). My customers can create different templates, using different sets of fonts, paragraph formats, character formats and table formats, without ever changing the underlying structure that is defined by the EDD. It is their responsibility to define the look and feel of their documents, and it is mine to make sure the structure is correct. They pay me to build a structured authoring system, not to define their style guide. And if they do want me to create their style guide as well, I will create a template that contains all the required paragraph, character and table formats separate from the EDD. To ensure that their authors cannot mess around with the formatting I will even give them a little script that makes the designer pods go away and stay away. Plenty control, but not at the cost of putting the formatting in the EDD - where I do not think it belongs in the first place.
OK - that was my first round. Let's hear it from the others on this forum...
Kind regards from drizzly Amsterdam
Jang
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XSLT to convert XML into Tables
Hi,
I'm trying to import my XML data into a table format. After adding an XSL file to my Structure Application as a Preprocessing Stylesheet, and importing my XML instance file with the Template file opened, the "Unknown File Type" error window appeared asking for a file format to Convert From. Picking any one doesn't create a table.
The XSL file tranforms the XML data into an HTML file that has a table with columns corresponding to the XML data. I was thinking using that type of XSL because it renders tables.
Below is the XSL markup:
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="ISO-8859-1"?>
<xsl:stylesheet version="1.0" xmlns:xsl="http://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/Transform">
<xsl:template match="/">
<html>
<body>
<h2>Products</h2>
<table border="1">
<tr bgcolor="#9acd32">
<th>Title</th>
<th>Number</th>
<th>Date</th>
</tr>
<xsl:for-each select="Products/Product">
<tr>
<td><xsl:value-of select="Title"/></td>
<td><xsl:value-of select="Number"/></td>
<td><xsl:value-of select="Date"/></td>
</tr>
</xsl:for-each>
</table>
</body>
</html>
</xsl:template>
</xsl:stylesheet>
Title, Number, and Date are child elements of the Product element, which is a child element of the Products root element in my XML file.
Am I applying the stylesheet correctly here? Am I using the write kind of stylesheet?
Thanks,
zeb
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Structured FrameMaker conditional text
Hello,
I have a problem with Conditional text in Structured FrameMaker.
I have to use conditional text for different customers. I have to use the same content and should get displayed for the particular customer when I publish that particular customer. It is more or less product conditioning.
How do I deal with it.
Please give me the solution at the earliest.
Thanks,
Srilakshmi
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How To Import a DTD to FrameMaker 9
I have a DTD in notepad. How do I go about importing or using this DTD for FrameMaker 9?
Eric
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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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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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Figure and Table number captions
I am using FM 8.0p277 on Vista Home Premium and am a newbie to FM. I am currently migrating documents from unstructured to structured. I am also learning to develop my own EDDs and templates.
My question is: In Structured FM, how do you add Figure and Table captions in the format Figure#: figurename and Table#: tablename? I want to generate lists of figures and tables for a book. Is it set up as a Marker in the EDD? If so, what do I need to include in the set-up to generate a list of figures/tables for the book?
I had thought this topic was covered by another forum user, but couldn't find it by performing a search. I also have been searching the User Guide and Application Developer Guide for information to no avail. I hope my question is clear.
My question is: In Structured FM, how do you add Figure and Table captions in the format Figure#: figurename and Table#: tablename? I want to generate lists of figures and tables for a book. Is it set up as a Marker in the EDD? If so, what do I need to include in the set-up to generate a list of figures/tables for the book?
I had thought this topic was covered by another forum user, but couldn't find it by performing a search. I also have been searching the User Guide and Application Developer Guide for information to no avail. I hope my question is clear.
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Bullets as Wingdings characters not working
FM 8.0p277
I created an EDD with nested bulleted lists using Wingdings characters for the bullets (a different character to represent each bullet level). It worked fine for previous documents, but for some reason, now when I import that EDD into a new document, it shows a letter "n" where the n used to be (Wingdings equivalent of the "n") a "p" where the p should be and a "w" where the w should be. I'm not sure what has changed - I'm guessing something with my fonts, but I'm not sure where to look or what to change. I found other users with similar issues, but in their cases it happened when converting a FM document to PDF. I haven't even gotten that far yet. Any help would be appreciated.
Janice
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S1000D Application Pack and graphics
Hi,
I am using the S1000D Application Pack to make data modules according to S1000D221. In one project I have a lot of tif-files (TIF, CCITTgr 4) to be inserted in the data modules (descriptive and procedural). When opening the XML-files in FrameMaker the application changes the size of the graphic files. When inserting CGM this never occurs. The problem is related to TIF only. If anyone has the explanation to why I would be grateful.
Jon Harald, Norway
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