Greater 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...
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I cannot make framemaker apply a master page using the master page mapping, on a table that spans over several pages. I specified the paragraph tag on wich lays the table anchor and set the Range...
View ArticleWhy am I getting this error message in my DITA Topic? "Element (concept) is...
Frame 11DITA 1.2 I was finally able to create a DITA topic (rather than a reference, concept, or task). However, when I try to insert a task, concept, or reference element after the prolog, I get the...
View Article"Save As PDF" vs. "Print" as PDF
Is there any real difference? With "Save as" you get a txt file with a report that seems to be meaningless. Are there any hidden advantages or disadvantages to either?Thank youIan
View ArticleHow do I globally replace a bold character override in FM10?
How do I globally replace a bold character override with a specific character format from the character format catalog in FM10? I am not concerned about filtering for specific paragraph tags. Thanks,Marc
View ArticleSetting Up Acrobat 5/Distiller 5
The content of this thread comes from a collection of information mostly provided by Dov Isaacs on the Framers forum, .
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 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 ArticleInstalling TCS 3.5 over existing apps not installed via TCS
I have been using all of the apps in TCS apps but installed individually. Now I want to install the TCS 3.5 and it is failing to install FrameMaker and Robohelp, as well as a bunch of other stuff...
View ArticleComplex Boolean Expressions in FrameMaker
I have a complex document set with multiple conditions to support brand and output, and now I want to add roles. Prior to the roles, I had it set up with the following...
View ArticleSave as PDF
Hi All,I'm working with Framemaker 8.0p277 on a Windows XP machine.Often I read answers that one should not use the Save as PDF option. Instead one should print to a Postscript file and distill that...
View ArticleHypertext links not working after pdf conversion
I have a document that contains many hyperlinks to external PDF files. Not sure if I created the link correctly to start with, but when I save the book file as a pdf none of the links to the external...
View ArticleIn a FM 11 book, how can I display filename w/o file location?
In a FrameMaker book, how can I display filename without the file's location on the hard drive? For example, The book would list:"MyFile.fm" instead of C:\windows\documents\Framefiles\XYZ...
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...
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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Installing TCS 4 on another machine
Hi , W7, TCS4 subscription. I am having problems with a computer at work, so I am moving to another terminal. Am I OK to install and use TCS4 here and will I be fine to go straight back to my old...
View ArticleNamed Destinations not Working in PDF
We have book files that contain several chapters and a glossary. We created numerous named destinations (specify named destination/jump to named destination) throughout the FM files. If we check the...
View ArticleSave as pdf deleted bookmarks when combining pdf-files
Hello,when I save several books each to a pdf-file with save as pdf (or printing to .ps and converting afterwards), the bookmarks are deleted when I combine the pdf-files with Acrobat. Only one...
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 ArticleFrameMaker 11 won't display page flow
Working in a 60+ page document and when it gets to page 42 it will not display the remaining pages. I know they are there as I can see the curser work through the page flow using the arrow key to move...
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