FrameMaker 8.0p277 Crashes When Creating Postscript Files
We have an automated process that was internally created in FrameMaker 8.0p277 that takes a FrameMaker Book file that contains a large number of individual mutual fund files and breaks out each mutual...
View ArticleFrameMaker 11 ignores relationship tables?
Hello All I'm playing around with the Save Ditamap As options in FrameMaker 11. I have a ditamap that references four sub-maps. In the top container map there is a relationship table with topic...
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 ArticleMaster Page Flow Problems
I am trying to flow 4 xml documents into structured FrameMaker template that is 4 pages. The last page has 3 different master page versions. I have set the StructMasterPageMaps up to direct the page...
View ArticleUnable to find the required structured application setting. Please check the...
I have an older DITA 1.1 manual developed in FM 9.0 that I have recently updated to DITA 1.2 within FM10.0. I thought I had everything straightened out and the documents are looking as expected on the...
View ArticleDITA 1.2 EDD - unable to transfer elements due to language problem
Hi all,the EDD files for DITA 1.2 have English element names in my German FM11 installlation. In my previous FM9 installation the element names were German. The result is that I cannot copy any context...
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 ArticleWhy aren't my DITA elements nesting?
FrameMaker 10 and patched || Windows 7 64-bit Our company is migrating from unstructured to structured DITA XML. We had not encountered any "showstoppers" that would keep us from proceeding...until we...
View ArticleCan't Save As PDF
I am working with DITA files in Frame 8, and am unable to save a generated Frame file as a PDF. I keep getting these errors:"To execute "Save as PDF" command you must have Acrobat Distiller version...
View ArticleHow to get the Figure Title to appear below the graphic, not above
I have valid XML that I am importing into FrameMaker just for printing. My <figure> element contains a <title> and a <graphic> element. The graphic comes in within an anchored frame,...
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Literature for creating structured documents
Hello, I am using TCS4. I have used structured Framemaker extensively, but have never created from there. Is there a Dummies for creating structured FM or any other sort literature that would help a...
View ArticleeSeminar 10/2: Debugging XSLT with FM 11
Just a reminder that I will be speaking on using FM 11 to debug XSLT at 10:00 AM Pacific time on October 2. To register, go to...
View ArticleCan you reorder cells using Read/Write rules?
I’m trying to reorder some table cells during conversion from SMGL to FM10, but I think the Read/Write rules don’t really do what I want them to do. Here’s what I’ve got in SGML:<data>...
View ArticleSave Ditamap As FM 11 book with components causing xrefs to disappear
When we used the Framemaker option Save>Ditamap As > FM 10 book with components, all of our cross references were maintained.Now for some odd reason with Framemaker 11, all the cross references...
View Articledefault fonts in structured interface
Dipping a cautious toe in the exciting waters of structured documentation; or, rather, trying my hand at using structured FrameMaker instead of / as well as my usual DITA IDE.First minor question:The...
View ArticleMigrating DITA EDD/templates to FM11
Hello all,I found this task to be very enervating. The performance of FM11 when working with the new edd files (task.edd.fm etc.) is also extremely sluggish to the point of being almost unusable - and...
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 ArticlePDF formatting problems
Hello - I've been tasked with converting existing documentation (authored in unstructured Frame 9) to structured (DITA) Frame 9. Deliverables will be in pdf format, and they must match the existing...
View ArticleCan an XML snippet be inserted into a structured Frame document?
I am trying to import an Excel spreadsheet into a structured Frame document by exporting the spreadsheet as XML then importing into Frame, preferrably by copy. Of course, the spreadsheet is mainly a...
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