Conversion table: How does it know whether a topic is a task, concept, or...
FM 11DITA 1.2 I'm just starting to work on my conversion table for our non-structured files. I've only gone as far as my first couple of iterative tests to create FM binary files; i.e., I haven't...
View ArticleFont substitution When converting FM11 file to PDF
I am working in a FM11 – Win 7 environment. We upgraded 2 font families recently: Imago Book upgraded to Imago BQ Bembo upgraded to Bembo Std I am attempting to save a FrameMaker 11 file as a pdf. When...
View ArticleConversion tables and table entries
I'm working on a conversion table to move our legacy products from unstructured FM to DITA. I understand the basic concepts but I'm having a problem with the table cells. In my conversion table I have...
View ArticleCrashes when using FM drawings and saving to XML (DITA)
We're having a strange problem with FM 8.0p273 and DITA concerning FM-internal graphics. We would like to create some of our images using the FM drawing tools, so we insert a <fig> element and...
View ArticleFDK 7.1 and Visual Studio 2008
Hi!I'm used to Visual C++ 6.0, but I now have Visual Studio 2008.I have tried to set up the environment with additional lib path and include path, but I don't know where to set the Links fdk.lib,...
View ArticleInterleaving structured files (XML)
Hi again;<br /><br />Our group receives XML files that contain eng data for multiple widgets inside 1 standard component. Like....<br /><br /> <pre><br />...
View ArticleHighlight text in FrameMaker.
I want to highlight text in FrameMaker.or add shadow for the text.How can I deal with it?
View ArticleAdobe FrameMaker 8 plug-in for DITA Open Toolkit
Has anyone gotten this plug-in to work? I'm getting error messages about unexpected version numbers.
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Structured elements and paragraph formats
Hi, my question is how can I prevent an end of line return being inserted when I wrap a word in an element, specifically an 'indxflag' element? I'm using structured FM 7.0. The screen shot here shows 3...
View ArticleHow to round-trip a "suppress hyphenation symbol"?
Hi all, I can't find any information in the ref or dev guides on how to map a "suppress hyphenation symbol" from Frame to XML. Van -- are you reading this? I've seen your recent post that says to...
View ArticleNeed Help With Military DTD Using FrameMaker 8
Fellow Forum Members,I hope someone out there with experience in using Department of Defense DTDs with FrameMaker can contribute to this thread. Attached is the MIL STD 400051-2 DTD that needs to play...
View ArticleSome text not printing when printing from FM8 to Pdf
We have recently upgraded to Acrobat 9 and now have problems with some Helvetica text not showing up in the pdfs. If we change the text to Arial it prints. Changing/substituting Arial for Helvetica...
View Articleto copy FrameMaker book using FrameMaker API
How to to copy FrameMaker book to a different folder path using FrameMaker API ?
View ArticleUnable to print to PDF Oversize pages from FrameMaker 9.0 and 7.2
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...
View ArticleHow to get the page number according to MarkerID?
I want to get the page number according to the marker element in fdk. I can get the marktext and markid,How to get the page number according to MarkerID in fdk?
View ArticleNew-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...
View ArticleHow can I resolve the following postscript error: [ Error: undefined;...
I know the error is caused by using a character definition that uses the Courier font (indicating 'user input' in a technical documentation document). FM indicates that Courier is an available font.
View ArticleGenerating a Book from DITA Map
Hi All, In the DITA-FMx plugin developed by Leximation, there's a feature called Generate Book from Map. It allows me to create a FrameMaker book from a DITA map or bookmap and then do whatever I can...
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External cross-ref to another FM topic with and ?
FM11DITA 1.2 I'm trying to determine how to do a cross-reference to another FM topic using the [x-ref] element and a [keyword].What I've done:* I've inserted a [keyword] in the [title] element of the...
View ArticleApplying master pages while typing
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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