Framemaker DITA Basics
So far I've been working with unstructured FM templates. I'm using FM11. I plan to move to structured authoring. I downloaded DEVELOPING STRUCTURED APPLICATIONS WITH ADOBE® FRAMEMAKER® 9 from Adobe...
View ArticleCross-reference ID
Hi there,I have internal cross-references between elements of the document as well as external references to elements of other documents. The external references working fine, but when I open a...
View ArticleGetting image name to the XML-file
Framemaker 9 and 11Windows 7 Hi there I am a brand new user to FM and my task is to go from old FM9 files to structured FM11 files and then save them as XML. I have gotten so far that I can get...
View ArticleHighlight text in FrameMaker.
I want to highlight text in FrameMaker.or add shadow for the text.How can I deal with it?
View ArticleLosing shift-returns in XML roundtripping
Hi In a couple of locations - mainly table cells - my customer is using shift-returns to spread the data over multiple lines. The table cell does not currently allow a paragraph. But when the files get...
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 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 ArticleCross-References Text Dropped?
I'm having a problem with cross-references exporting to XML. I'm using Frame 8, and I have associated an element as a FrameMaker "cross-reference". I then go to insert that element and everything...
View ArticleXML file considered "Unknown File Type"
Hi,I have XML files that lack an XML declaration. Part of the import process, though, is an XSLT stylesheet that adds one through standard XSLT output (ie, omit-xml-declaration="no"). However, Frame...
View ArticleBuild FM DITABook from DITA Map file - xref and general questions
Hello,I'm using Frame 8.0p277 on Windows XP Pro. I have some questions about the "Build FM DITABook from DITA Map file" function.1) When using the "Build FM DITABook from DITA Map file", I'm noticing...
View ArticleXML files with xrefs in book
Hello,I have a book with several chapter files in xml format.The chapters have xrefs to each other, which works fine when working with the FM book.My problem is saving the book as PDF. I get one big...
View ArticleSpace! The Final Frontier
Here's my tribble. The XSLT in my application inserts extra spaces and line breaks into my XML but a Spock inspection after import to Frame8 shows that the spaces are incorrectly phased as literals....
View ArticleFM 7.2 Crash 7204...
Hi,I have Framemaker7.2p158, Windows XP.When I try to open one specific file : it cause in FM Internal Error :=== Header Begin ===Internal Error: 7204, 5428621, 5428952, 7196599FrameMaker 7.2.0 for...
View ArticleCrashes when using FM drawings and saving to XML (DITA)
We're having a strange problem with FM 8.0p273 and DITA concerning FM-internal graphics. We would like to create some of our images using the FM drawing tools, so we insert a <fig> element and...
View Articlegraphic element from DTD to EDD
Framemaker 7.2, WindowsI created the EDD from the DTD. But I'm having trouble with the 'graphic' (lower case)Element. It's supposed to be an empty element but when I insert the tag it displays with the...
View ArticlePerformance issues with FDK in large XML documents
In my current project with FrameMaker 8 I'm experiencing severe performance issues with some FDK API calls. The documents are about 3-8 MBytes in size. Fortmatted they cover 150-250 pages. When...
View Articleimport XML - user variables
Hello,Using framemaker 8.I've created an XML application. In the header and footer definitions of the template I use some user variables. For example:productname [product name]Now, I was hoping to...
View ArticleHow to Convert as XML from SGML using FrameMaker
I have SGML files created by FM Structured App. I wanted to convert all these SGML files to XML files and save into Oracle XMLDB database.Any idea,like using FDK or any other way.Please let me...
View ArticleProblem with Entities and and XSL
When working with images Framemaker generates the following when exporting to XML.!NOTATION jpeg SYSTEM ""!ENTITY symbol1 SYSTEM "Graphics/Icon%20Files/Haz_Icon_Heavy.jpg" NDATA jpegThe XML looks like...
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