Which 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 ArticleWhen printing a book to PDF, bookmark definitions are not saved
I recall seeing another post about this issue and I can't find it now, but none of the workarounds mentioned there worked for me, so here goes: I am working on a book migrated from FM 9 to FM 11, and...
View Articlefatal error on trial download?
Trying to download FM 10/Windows from the download page, and get this message from the Akamai download tool:"Download manager fatal error: Could not find the requested file on the server." This seems...
View ArticleWhat is the correct way to format file paths and names in the structapp file?
I am trying to create a structured application to export fm files as xml, and probably read the xml back to fm. In the structured application file (structapp), I need to specify the locations of the...
View Articleblank pages not deleted
Greetings all, Am working on a FM 7.2 structured document. The history of this file: a document that I deleted all the irrelvent content and then added the new content. The setting for Pagination is...
View ArticleEnhanced application definition file (structapps.fm) template available
Text Structure Consulting, Inc. is pleased to make available an alternative FrameMaker 10.0 template for application definition files such as structapps.fm. Differences between this template and the...
View ArticleDITA vs. roll-your-own
My team is just getting started with structured FrameMaker, and we're trying to determine whether we should use DITA or define our own EDD (etc.). DITA seems overly restrictive for our needs, so I'm...
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...
View ArticleConrefs disappear after saving to xml
Hi all, I'm having a weird issue with conrefs and I'm hoping someone can help. I have 3 documents: DocA, DocB, and DocC.I've been using conrefs to reuse rows in a table that need to be repeated in...
View ArticleEDD BUCHKOMPONENTE: Element implementieren!
Hallo zusammen, wie kann man Ordner oder Gruppen in der EDD definieren? Gerade Attribute wären wichtig? Danke vorab
View ArticleConversion table wrapping of character styles
I've never tried to do this before, but now that I do it seems it can't be done. I'd like to wrap a text range (tagged with a character style) in two elements. Let's say I've got a character style...
View ArticleDocumentation of API Clients?
Hi guys,is there anywhere an official (or even better: an unofficial) documentation of the API clients that are shipped with FM11?I had so many strange behaviors working with the standard and the...
View ArticleHow to retrieve all external refereces in a frame maker file without...
How to retrieve all external refereces in a frame maker file without conditional text of hidden
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 Articlexrefs to xml not changing to .fm targets
I sure thought this was working last year, and was a major reason for updating to FM9 from FM8. I use Save Ditamap As... Book 9.0 with fm components. It converts the components to .fm files alright,...
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 ArticleFM 10: images aligned to the left revert to center position after...
I'm using structured FM10 in TCS3 on Windows XP. We upgraded from TCS1 FM8 to the current version and are having a problem with our images. All of our window images are constructed within a table. So...
View ArticleInconsistent format for same tag
Hi,I'm using FM10 + DITA-FMx1.1.13 + Window7 64bit (but I think this is not DITA-FMx problem).I am inflicted with mysterious behaivour. I created a simple DITA file...
View ArticleIssue with RE:RootElement and Conversion Table
Hi there, I am trying to convert unstructured to stuctured documents using the conversion table. I'm building the prototype table and EDD that my department will use, and working in FM 10. Ideally,...
View ArticleCopy text from FrameMaker 11 to another editor
It appears that one cannot copy text in FrameMaker 11 and paste it into another editor such as Notepad++ or MS Word. It is as though FrameMaker does not use the Windows clipboard. We observe this...
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