Can FrameMaker 10 and/or 11 *output* raw SGML data?
Our group has a requirement from the government to output SGML data. Right now, the group from whom we're inheriting data are using UltraEdit to write the text, Arbortext to tag the documents as SGML,...
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FrameMaker 11: Internal Error 11004, 17075188, 14420806, 14421392
To whom it may concern, Recently I keep having a problem with FrameMaker 11 and the application would crush and close. The error message I got is like this: Here is the txt file FrameMaker generated:...
View ArticleProblems with image attributes
I'm not a native speaker but I give it a try :-) I tried to add attributes of my image element directly in the attributes window, for example I set the alignment to left. But the image is then still...
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 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 Articlecouldn't open file because it uses unavailable fonts
I am using framemaker 7.1 and windows 7. I am very familiar with this error. Every time I have gotten it save as with the same file name has always taken care of the problem. I just reloaded framemaker...
View ArticleHow do I convert hypertext links to DITA?
FM 11 checked into Vasont and then turned into a PDF via the DITA OT We are using a combination of conversion tables and a few scripts to convert our legacy documentation to DITA. In some books we have...
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.
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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 ArticleGetting Started with Structured FrameMaker
I am a technical writer in-training and am trying to learn the tools I need. I took an Introduction to FrameMaker class but I want to learn how to use Structured FrameMaker. Every tutorial I have seen...
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...
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 ArticlePopulating Framemaker structured templates
Presently utilizing Framemaker+SGML 7.2 environment, along with version 7.1 of the FDK. Our organization has a group of users that utilize templates to input structured information to generate...
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...
View ArticleFrameMaker -> XML -> FrameMaker issues
Hello, I currently have about 150 pages fm file, which were orginally unstructured but I managed to make a working structure to it. It has mainly tables, which have crossreferences, images, graphics,...
View ArticleCan I use DocBook 4.5 DTD with FrameMaker 11?
I am fairly a newbie both at FrameMaker 11 and XML, but have just dived into the deep end with Structured FrameMaker to produce a DocBook document. FrameMaker's DocBook structured applications seem to...
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Structure App Designer Setup for Schemas
Fellow Forum Members, My stylesheets are 31 separate FO-XSL files. There is one MAIN XSL file that contains links to all 30 XSL files. It's the only file that needs to be pointed to using a directory...
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 ArticleProblem Working With Framemaker 9 Dita XML Files in Framemaker 10
I just upgraded to Framemaker 10. I am encountering a number of problems when I try to work with my Dita XML help topics, which were last saved in Framemaker 9 format. 1. Using the Default Dita...
View ArticleType mismatch for the element FrameMaker element (graphic)
Now that I'm moving along on the formatting portion of this manual (or so I think - ha), I need to start bringing in the graphics to make sure they are all there, so I can get the illustrator going...
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