Disapperaing end-of-line/whitespace
I have a problem with xml-import into FM11. When the eol in the xml-file appears after an element in the xml-file. like this:Ved samtidig bruk bør kun...
View ArticleLooking for FrameMaker 7.2 Patch 128
Hello all,Our company is looking for a CD only of FrameMaker 7.2 Patch 128 to purchase. We have license keys so only require the CD. We have tried FM 7.2 P144 and it seems to have memory issue any this...
View ArticleAbsolute 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...
View Article"Unwrap" CDATA with XSLT
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...
View ArticleProblems opening a .sgm file in FM 7.2
I'm trying to open an .sgm file in Structured FrameMaker 7.2 and I keep getting errors and believe my setting are incorrect. This is what happens: Open file.Prompt: "Use Structured Application." I...
View ArticleInternal Error 11004
I'm converting some projects from Framemaker 9 to Framemaker 11 using Dita 1.1 and the composite template. Initially, I had set up to use Dita 1.2 using the ditabase tempate but am changing them based...
View Articlewhich is better: strct or unstrct fm for docs >200 pages
Background:there is discussion in my department regarding merits of working in structured vs unstructured for large docs, say over 150 - 200 pages; specifically, a new set of docs for Project X is...
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 ArticlePreserving Idref in Cross Reference when Converting from Unstructured to...
Hi, I am currently in the process of converting from Unstructured FrameMaker files to DITA using FrameMaker 11. When I structure the document using the conversion table, I'd like to be able to save the...
View ArticleFrame cross-references to DITA
FrameMaker 11Vasont CMSArbortext editor In order to comply with our parent company, we are converting all of our FM docs to DITA. We check before conversion to ensure all cross-refs are working. When...
View ArticleLosing shift-returns in XML roundtripping
Hi In a couple of locations - mainly table cells - my customer is using shift-returns to spread the data over multiple lines. The table cell does not currently allow a paragraph. But when the files get...
View ArticleATA iSpec 2200 CMM book validation
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...
View ArticleError if an element name is declared more than once in XSD. But e.g. Dot.Net...
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...
View ArticleFM9: Import of previously created xml file back to FrameMaker
Hi all, I have saved a FrameMaker document as an XML file and would like to import it back to FrameMaker. I am guessing it needs a little more skills and attention than just hitting "Open file" cause...
View ArticleFrameMaker 10 font size autonumbered xml lists on import to FM
I have a bizzare problem using Structured FrameMaker 10. When importing xml documents, I have a set of Procedures which are broken down into numbered Steps, each with their own para. So the tree would...
View ArticleSpecial Char not Translating into Horizontal Tab in Structured FM 11
In the office where I work, we are upgrading from Structured FrameMaker 8 in Win XP to Structured FrameMaker 11 in Win 7. Part of the work that I do involves importing xml feeds into Structured...
View ArticleVideo clips do not play in PDF document, why?
What is the point of being able to import video clips (SWF, AVI, WMV, OLE object, etc) into FrameMaker 8 if you can not run them in the PDF? I still have to manually embed the clips in Acrobat. Am I...
View ArticleForced return, non-breaking hyphens & spaces, suppress hyphenation + XML
Forced return (linefeed), non-breaking hyphens and spaces, suppress hyphenation. None of these are preserved when exporting from FrameMaker to XML, since they do not seem to be represented by a Unicode...
View ArticleXML import deletes whitespace after xref element
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...
View ArticleFont style issues in DITA
Hello, I am working on DITA topics, I have defined bodytext paragraph tag font as regular in the template. But i need some words/sentence as bold and italics. If i change a word/sentence as bold, when...
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