DITA "tutorial" fails or is it me?
I am following the Quick Start "tutorial" in the _Structure Application Developer Guide_ and have hit an impasse.My EDD is valid, and I can import it into the test document, but doing so has no effect...
View ArticleFM 7.2, Structured view: New book isn't structured?
While working with Structured FrameMaker, I've collided with FM 7.2's apparent unwillingness to create a new structured book file...(?)I began with a properly validating structured chapter file that I...
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 ArticleFDK select all components (files) in a book
Hi,I need to open a FrameMaker book (by double-clicking the file for the book in file explorer) and then select all the files in the book window (the short cut is ctrl-g).I was able to open each file...
View ArticleDitabook and ditafile organization
Other than the xref issue discussed in another thread, the map to ditabook functions not badly. Except, as also mentioned in yet another thread, all the fm-ditabook and fm-ditafile elements being red,...
View ArticleWindow Size Driving Me Crazy
Well, I've installed the trail version of FrameMaker 9.0. I can't figure out how to get the structured view window size to expand to a size where I can see all the text. I'm use to being able to see...
View Article"Unwrap" CDATA with XSLT
Hi,I know this isn't necessarily a FrameMaker question, but it is a place where I know people. So forgive me for asking it here.I have some CDATA sections in an XML file that contain markup that I want...
View ArticleFDK : element order, prop, ID?
Hello,I need to develop an automate to get prop of an element before an action and to set it after the action.Before an action, it will search all P elements of the document that are before B elements....
View ArticleX-refs are not working in the PDF output
I correctly generated a PDF from a ditamap using DITA-FMx and cross-references are not working.Thanks for your help.
View ArticleImporting element definition from an EDD into a template - does not work
FM 10.0.1 German on Windows XP SP3. When importing the element definitions from an existing EDD into an existing template, FrameMaker converts the template into a new EDD.So the element definitions...
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 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 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 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 ArticleColumns in Framemaker
I have read the message on how to set up columns in the master pages of a document and I did this, but how to I make them read down the column and then start at the top of the next and so on. When I...
View ArticleFrameMaker 10 and 11 suddenly require ???
We've been using FrameMaker 9, 10, and 11 for several years now and suddenly on my machine Frame requires the first line of a DITA file to be <?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?> I...
View Articleconverting Framemaker files into PDF progaramatically using publishing server
Hi All Background: We are going for upgrade of Frame maker 8 which is on unix system to FM 10 or 11. We are using Framemaker mainly for renditions, i.e to convert the fm documents to PDF. To convert...
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 round-trip a "suppress hyphenation symbol"?
Hi all, I can't find any information in the ref or dev guides on how to map a "suppress hyphenation symbol" from Frame to XML. Van -- are you reading this? I've seen your recent post that says to...
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...
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