Can I use company's Confluence as CMS repertory?
Still exploring the possibilities of DITA as a newbie... I notice there is a CMS menu in Structured FM12. My company is already using a Confluence system to manage documents and code. At each product...
View ArticleNew to FrameMaker
Does anyone have good suggestions or recommendations for where one can findinformation about FrameMaker 8 for the new writer. I'm not new to writing,just to FrameMaker. But I can't afford to spend lots...
View ArticleEDD to DTD conversion
I am using FM 8 on Windows XP Pro and just working through the Getting started with structure example. It's a breeze until I get to the "Building the structured application" topic. Then, whenever I try...
View ArticleUsing non-breaking spaces in attributes
Hello all, I am writing reusable modules in Structured FrameMaker. Part of the reusability comes from using a variable instead of a hard-coded machine name, so that the machine name does not require...
View ArticleAXCM plug-in question
Not sure if this is the best forum to post this question -- hoping someone else is using this plug-in and has a suggestion. I'm running FM 10 on Win7 and using West Street's free AXCM plug-in to filter...
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Help generating DTD and Read/Write Rules
Hi all,I’m trying to structure a large number of unstructured FM8 files using DITA 1.2 and FM10. I’m having some trouble with the EDD/DTD/Read Write Rules and was hoping someone could help me out.My...
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 on...
View ArticleControl table row or cell formatting via EDD context rules?
Hi... I think I know the answer to this, but is it possible to control table row or cell properties (like shading, padding, borders, etc) through context rules in an EDD? I'm not aware of any way to do...
View ArticleSpecial, Filter by Attribute, build expression syntax
I searched and searched Adobe's help after repeatedly seeing the error message from the Filter by Attribute's build expression dialog: "Invalid Expression, Kindly refer to help for rules on building...
View ArticleCreate watermark in FrameMaker 7.1
I am trying to add a "PRELIMINARY" watermark to every page of a structured document in FrameMaker 7.1. I added the text in a text box to the master pages, but the graphics boxes in my document block...
View ArticleUnicode support when round-tripping to XML
Hi all, Last week, I posted a question on round-tripping the symbol font and got no replies...:-) I'm thinking the question was entirely too generic, so I'd like to now add a little detail of what it...
View ArticleFrameMaker 11 won't start up
I'm running FrameMaker 11 on Windows 7. I just changed the settings from unstructured to structured Frame and restarted my computer. Now FrameMaker comes up for a few seconds and goes away. Is there...
View ArticleHow to prevent FrameMaker eating up significant whitespace
I have a paragraph that contains a number of inline elements, such as a <link> and a <uicontrol>. When these are only separated by a whitespace (which is significant in this case, as it...
View ArticleJeremy H Griffith, 1942-2014
Hi everyone I was very sorry to see a recent post on the dita-users list saying that Jeremy has died. We've used Mif2Go extensively and found Jeremy incredibly helpful. The FM community won't be the...
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 ArticleUninstall FrameMaker 11 and reinstall on a second PC
I've a licenced copy of FrameMaker 11 which I've legally installed on two virtual PCs (both on Macs running Windows XP in VMWare Fusion). On this older Mac, I've also got a full licence for FrameMaker...
View ArticleCross references in conrefs - FrameMaker does not update
Hi all, the scenario: file A has cross refs to file B ("see chapter xxx on page yyy") and vice versa. When I insert both files into file C via conrefs, then the cross refs do not update to show the...
View ArticleXML export of marker-based xrefs?
Colleagues, I'm pulling my hair out a bit over issues with external cross-references in an unstructured>structured conversion. (FrameMaker 11, custom DTD). First, I've not found a way to...
View ArticleS1000D CSDB
Fellow Forum Members,Does FrameMaker offer a S1000D specification publishing solution that includes a Common Source Data Base (CSDB)? And outputs an Interactive Electronic Technical Publication (IETP)...
View ArticleDo we have an option to disable the FrameMaker error console programmatically...
Hi, I would like to know if there is any option in the FDK11 to disable the FrameMaker console window which runs on every frame file transformation. This was happening with FrameMaker 10 too but it had...
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