FrameMaker or something else? Advice please.
Hello all, I am trying to gather enough information in order to make an informed decision on which documentation tool is most appropriate for my new job. A little background...I am an experience...
View ArticleANSI Z535.1 Safety Colors in Frame
Frame 7.1 Solaris (Frame 9 Win7 available). Although the manuals I work on are print-published only in grayscale (600 dpi bitmap, actually), we make them available on the web as PDFs (which could be in...
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Replacing all text in book with sample text
Hello fellows, Is there a way to replace all the textual content in a book with some sample text using Extendscript? If yes, could you please point me to the relevant APIs? Thank you for your help in...
View ArticleFrameMaker 9 crashing on Windows 7
Hey Framers I have problems with my FrameMaker 9 installation. I set up a new Windows 7 (64 bit) machine with sufficient system resources - 8 GB of RAM, for example. A couple of days ago, I installed...
View ArticleFM, TC, CC Cloudy Crystal Ball
Needing a new version of FM and Acrobat at least, and wanting a credible path to HTML, and probably ebook, which implies RoboHelp, I'm looking at getting a retail copy of TC4 for home use. An upgraded...
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 ArticleRelative file pathnames in FM book files
I haven't had the opportunity to use FM in several years, but recently installed FM 11 on a Windows 7 laptop. I work on a network, and generally save my files there, but have had some network issues,...
View ArticlePhotoshop vs. Illustrator
Does anyone know why Photoshop has been replaced with Illustrator in Tech Comm Suite 4?
View ArticleFont question (GOTHAM)
Dear Representative,In FM10. I was instructed to use a font called "gotham book" for my body text. I bought gotham-book.otf and gotham-book.ttf and put them in the FM folder FMINIT\Fonts. I have been...
View ArticleAn internal error occurred while writing imported graphics in this document....
An internal error occurred while writing imported graphics in this document. The file has been saved, but has lost some image data. Please report this error to Adobe Technical Support.How do i fix...
View ArticleTable Designer third rule thick is not working for me. Any suggestions?
I am trying to turn the third rule in a four row table thick. I go into Table Designer and select Every 3rd Thick. The others are all none. The table is not responding to the command to make the...
View Article"Page intentionally left blank."
I am using FrameMaker 9.0 on Windows, and I'm trying to add the statement "Page intentionally left blank" on the last page of my chapters. I've found some information online about how to do it, but not...
View ArticleCross Reference Format
Is there a cross reference format for listing two steps? I'd like to have, "See Steps 5 and 6 on page 2" as a cross reference. I found formats for the "5" and "page 2," but can't seem to find a format...
View ArticleHow can I migrate from FrameMaker to InDesign?
We have a bunch of legacy documentation in FrameMaker format, and would like to migrate those documents over to InDesign. Any suggestions would be helpful… OMas
View ArticleFrameMaker 10 not printing PDFs
When I try to print to PDF on FrameMaker, I get the "printing book" dialog box but nothing happens....the PDF is not created and no errors are reported. If I choose to print to poscript, open Acrobat...
View ArticleWhy is Appendix not appearing in the TOC?
Hi All I have just added an appendix to an existing guide. However, the Appendix heading does not display in the TOC, it just includes the heading 1s and 2s.The master page for the toc includes the...
View ArticleWhat is Hotspot Mode in the Graphics toolbar?
I am new to FrameMaker and am trying to figure out what the Hotspot Mode is for. Thanks.
View Articleimage width differed from exported illustrator and coreldraw emf
Hi, when exporting a 7cm width EMF image from illustrator and corel draw, the image size is getting differed when EMF is imported to framemaker. coreldraw exported EMF gets correctly fitted in the...
View ArticleLong Hyperlink is broken into two lines in PDF/HTML, therefore, the link...
A long hyper link http://docs.oasis-open.org/ebxml-msg/ebms/v3.0/core/os/ebms_core-3.0-s pec-os.html works fine in Framemaker. Because it is too long, so it is displayed in two lines in FM....
View ArticleFM9 Both the .fm and .backup files unexpectedly deleted from the network....
I submitted below as a bug because it has now happened to both me and my colleague. I have copied below the same information from my bug report.Basic info: FM 9.0p.255, OS 64 bit, Windows 7 We have...
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