Exporting Paragraph Catalog to EDD
Hello everyone and thanks in advance for any help. I'm currently working on importing XML into Framemaker. I'm fairly new to Framemaker but after reading the technical paper on XSLT and structured...
View Articlecan you find specific tags in structured FM and clear them?
I'm working with FM 8 in Tech Comm Suite 1 in an XP environment. We have used the ph tag to indicate sections where text has changed and must be approved by SMEs. How do we clear the tags when the...
View ArticleHow to register a DLL used by Framemaker
Hi all,I have a trouble with an installation of a structured framemaker XML DTD. This DTD (I will call it application from now on) has been written by a customer of mine to automatically create...
View ArticleQuestion on EDD
Hello. I have the following scenario: We are documenting config file that a user might need to edit (within the software that we sell), which is in XML format. When the user opens a config file (in...
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 ArticleStructured Framemaker/XML Resources—Where to Begin?
I'm new to Structured Framemaker and XML, though I've used Unstructured Framemaker for several years. My company has asked me to look into options for converting our many publications to e-book format,...
View ArticleCross reference issues in FrameMaker 11 DITA
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...
View ArticleHow to convert existing FM to DITA 1.2? Any documentation?
I watched a webinar posted on the adobe website called "How to Optimize content for smooth migration into XML/DITA" and in the conversion, it showed an element called dita (root) and elements called...
View ArticleBook Chapters not renumbering
HELP...FrameMaker (Structured v.7.2p158) I copied some unstructured files to a new folder, used the conversion table to add structure...deleted and readded the files to the book file and it won't...
View ArticleFM TOC reference page generation
Is there a way to force FM to use a document's modified TOC reference page instead of it generating a second one when creating a separate TOC file?
View ArticleFramemaker 8 Output to XML Errors
Error at file H:\My Documents\IMS\IMS CURRENT DEVELOPMENT\FrameDocs\framed.frnt_revisionsummary_Revisions.e01, line 24, char 19, Message: Requiredattribute 'cols' was not provided I cannot find anyway...
View ArticleCan an EDD be devolped for an entire .FM book?
Can and should an EDD be developed for an entire FrameMaker book or should a seperate EDD be developed for the different sections within a book? A title, chapter, glossary, appendicies, and index all...
View ArticleConrefs in xml files disappear in generated book file
I'm using FM 8 in Tech Comm Suite 1 in a Windows XP environment. I've used a conref in a number of my topics. The conref is a note tag. I have just generated a book file and the conrefs are not...
View ArticleDITA templates erratic in FM10 on Win 7 32-bit
We are a writing team of 4 - two using Windows XP 32-bit, one using Windows 7 32-bit and until recently I was using Windows XP 64-bit. We are all using TCS3, with FM10. We developed our desired DITA...
View Articlehow to get rid of warning messages framemaker 7.0
Is there any way to get rid of most or even better all of the warning messages that come up?
View ArticleGraphic Entity on Export
Good morning, I've successfully gotten my FrameMaker XML application running and exporting millions and millions of lines of data. I was SO excited to be able to do this completely on my own (and with...
View ArticleFrame 9 Revision Bars
In Frame 6 we had the stupid SGML inclusions for Revst/Revend and we were able to render the revison bars by turning them on in the edd as...
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...
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How to "Wrap New Topics In Dita Element" when creating a DITA topic?
The Adobe help documentation says to "1. Select DITA > DITA Options, and choose Wrap New Topics In Dita Element." (under Home / Using FrameMaker 11 / #######Structured Authoring Using DITA>...
View ArticleFrameMaker 9 plug-in for DITA Open Toolkit/ RoboHelp 8
Hi - Does anyone know where to download the FM9 plug-in for DITA-OT? Also, do you have to have the FM9 DITA-OT plug-in installed in order to import a Ditamap into RoboHelp 8? I am working in a Windows...
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