half-hearted Exclusion
Good thing I was relatively awake! After extensive remodelling (or to put it another way, sorting the content into a more logical order and removing duplications) of an inherited document, I ran a Find...
View ArticleGreater than or equal symbol not working
Hi, I cannot get the "greater than or equal to" symbol to display properly. I can get the less than or equal symbol to display by typing Ctrl+q #, and then formatting it as Symbol font. According to...
View ArticlePage count /numbering issue
Hello, I have a document that needs to have the page number increment only on every left page. i.e. first left page has page 1first right page has page 1second left page has page 2second right page has...
View ArticleDuplicate conditional text
Dear all, I want to create another language "layer", but I have to fill it with the original text first in order to translate it later.Is there a simple way to duplicate all text marked with one...
View ArticleAlternate row shading in tables
Hi all I've been trying again and again to get alternate rows of my long table in Frame 11 to be shaded. I succeeded, then did something to remove them, and now I CANNOT get them to reapply. I am using...
View ArticleWatermark linked to a table or anchored frame
Hello I'm having a problem. I have a table wich has a watermark. I created two more master pages with the watermark and applied to the pages containing the table. The problem comes when I add or remove...
View ArticleResize detached panels in framemaker_9 (beyond default limit)...
Greetings, I was wondering if anyone knew how to increase the size of detached panels beyond what seems to be a default limit. Is there a .ini or .inf file somewhere that controls this? Or perhaps a...
View ArticleTroubleshooting Heading2 in TOC
Hello,I'm generating a TOC for a book in FM 11.I'm using Heading1, Heading2, and Heading3. Headings 1 and 3 are brought in normally, but Heading2 is just showing up as blank rows in the TOC. Any...
View ArticleUnstructured Framemaker to DITA
I need to move my documents from unstructured FrameMaker to DITA docs. Could anyone explain me or point me a link about the step by step instructions to migrate from unstructured to DITA Docs? PS:...
View ArticleOkay to uninstall TCS3 before upgrading to TCS4?
Since Techical Communication Suite 4 has such a large footprint for installation, I need to free up some disk space. Can I uninstall TCS3 before upgrading to TCS4?
View ArticleCan I install from a shared drive?
I have about 25 people who need to install Technical Communication Suite 4. Does each person need to copy the installation files (exe and 7z files) to their local environment before running the...
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Setting a fill pattern in a table
Hello , As per the title, can you set a fill pattern in a table? I'm pretty sure I already know the answer...
View ArticleFM9 crashing when trying to open book file
Help!! FrameMaker crashes when I attempt to open certain book files. I am using FrameMaker Version 9.0 p255 on Windows XP pc. Other details:This problem began mid April about 5 weeks ago. Some book...
View ArticleControlling Acrobat 9's starting page side view
FM8 p277, WinXP, SP2Acrobat 9 ProIs there some magic incantation within Acrobat 9 to actually invoke a "real" facing pages view?In FM's facing pages view the document is correctly displayed, i.e. the...
View ArticleFrameMaker 11 (automatically?) creating new paragraph tags
I've just upgraded from FM 9 to FM 11, and I'm getting some unexpected behavior. For example, when I set a manual page break for a heading, FM is creating and applying a new para style to my heading -...
View ArticleWhy is FM10 crashing when I change conditional text settings?
When I go from "show certain conditions" to "show all" in some, but not all, files in a book, FM 10 crashes.I've tried saving as MIF, then reopening, but it still happens eventually.Sometimes it...
View ArticleFM10/Acrobat X 10-use named destinations for PDF linking
My company wants our documentation to be accessible from a web page. No problem there. But they want to provide users with links that open the PDF files to a specific section.My books are in FM10. I...
View ArticleCan't find unresolved Xrefs in Book Error Report
Hi, I am trying to check my unstructured Frame 11 book for unresolved Xrefs. My Book Error Report (generated when I update the book) displays about 35. When I click on a link in the Error Report,...
View ArticleFailed PDF Creation due to Offending pdfmark
I have a large book from which I need to create a PDF. I can create PDFs of individual files; however, when I go to distill the .ps file, creation fails with the following error message in the log...
View Article"draft" (and other watermark) in Acrobat
Prepare book in Framemaker, save as .pdf – looks fine, which is what you'd hope for! Add "draft" watermark at 50% transparency, and Acrobat helpfully adds a dark grey veil to every page to make sure...
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