FrameMaker 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...
View ArticleStarting with DITA & FrameMaker 10
Hi - Can anyone please help!!!! I understand DITA from a conceptual point of view but want to use FrameMaker to implement a DITA/Topic-based solution for my organisation. Initially, I am looking to...
View ArticleManaging EDD, DTD, and templates in Framemaker 11 and DITA 1.2
I'm in the process of upgrading from FM9 with DITA to Framemaker 11 with DITA 1.2 I'm using the ditabase template, EDD, and DTD. I've made some paragraph format changes in the template and will need to...
View ArticleWhy can't I open a DITA file?
FrameMaker 11DITA 1.2 Yes, this is a repeat of an earlier query but I'm hoping the new title will help. I'm really stumped and this seems like it should be simple. When I originally set up my EDDs...
View ArticleConversion Tables Again
FM 11DITA 1.2 I just got back to working on our conversion table and have two questions today: I'm trying to wrap task topics in a task element. The headings in our source files are labeled...
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 ArticleExporting 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 ArticleHow 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
View ArticleWhich template file is used for DITA 1.2 publishing?
Hi all,when I save a ditamap as composite document, which template file must I edit to change the layout? So far I have modified the topic templates (task.template.fm etc.) but I have not found the...
View ArticleWhy is some of my text not formatted correctly in xml?
Hello, I've been trying to do some xml publishing via Framemaker 9. I've created EDD, DTD, rules, structapps, CSS (style sheet), and template files to transition manuals from framemaker to xml. However...
View ArticlePostcripted FrameMaker 8 Colors Converting from Spot Colors to CMYK
I am working with Structured FrameMaker 8 files in which all of the colors are set as spot colors. Some of the spot colors in a postscripted FrameMaker 8 file processed as CMYK files when the...
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How do I get multiple lines in ?
FM 11 I know that <codeblock> is designed to represent lines of program code and that line endings and spaces must be preserved. However, my line endings are not being preserved; turn into a new...
View ArticleWhat to Do Now That I've Got Structured Content?
Hello FrameMaker Gurus. I've been working as a lone writer for a software company for many years. We have a 1300 page product manual that was originally authored in unstructured FrameMaker. We then use...
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 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 ArticleWhy is Smart paste (to DITA) disabled?
I've just started working with FM 11. I'd like to try out the new ability to convert Word docs to DITA, but I can't. As I understand it, you copy part of a Word document (or an HTML document) to the...
View ArticleFramemaker 10 - DITA Image Linking - Sharepoint CMS
Hello, I am using Adobe Framemaker 10 with DITA. I am connected, through Framemaker, to a Sharepoint CMS. I initially created my DITA concept locally, I then added an image (HRef) and linked it to a...
View Articleformatting structured documents
So … I have a whole bookmap's worth of valid DITA files I've developed with XML Mind, and it seemed to me they would be a good starting point if I want to explore using structured FM for DITA. The...
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 ArticleUndo Command not working in FrameMaker 10 - how do I enable it?
The Undo command and Redo command are not working in the FrameMaker 10 book I am working on. I am running FrameMaker 10 on Windows 7. I'm working on a Structured DITA FM document. Undo works in my...
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