FM10/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...
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I just recently purchased and installed the Academic version of the Adobe Technical Communication Suite. However, when I went to enter my serial number after launching Frame 8 for the first time, I...
View ArticleCross Reference displays wrong Chapter
I have several FrameMaker files that will eventually be combined into one book. In some chapters there are references to outside chapters. At some point another person that was using these files had to...
View ArticleAlternative for selecting ISF file in FM12 Webhelp publishing
Hi I am currently evaluating TCS5/ FM12 as an upgrade from TCS4/ FM11. In TCS 4, I could create an ISF file that contains my FM-RH style mapping and use that file in FM to publish the WebHelp. Now in...
View ArticleHow to modify the color of an "xref" element existing as a cross-reference?
How to modify the color of an "xref" element existing as a cross-reference? It's color now is black, but I want it blue. Excerpts from the EDD file are as follows. Can someone help? Thanks in advance....
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 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 ArticleHow do I change the table's first row to a Heading row if it contains pgfs...
So far, I have the following in a JavaScript: if (tbl.FirstRowInTbl.FirstCellInRow.FirstPgf.PgfFmt.Name === "tblHead") { if (tbl.FirstRowInTbl.RowType === 1) //1 is...
View ArticleCan Frame12 include master page or reference page objects in HTML Help output?
Hi, I am trying out a copy of FrameMaker 12. Whilst I can do a lot with the settings available to tweak in the Publish dialog, there still doesn't seem to be any way to include objects from Master...
View ArticleApplying a condition to a paragraph
Greetings, I want to iterate through all paragraphs in a document and for each paragraph with the "comment" style, I want to apply an existing condition called "Comment" (as per p. 126 of the FDK...
View ArticleVector to Raster Conversion
I posted this in the Acrobat forum a few weeks ago and received no feedback. I'm hoping that someone in this forum has come across these situations and can offer some adviceI produce technical manuals...
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 ArticleFM 12.0.2 patch available now
The FM 12.0.2 patch has been pushed out with 22 fixes, 14 enhancements and 8 FDK/Extendscript issues resolved. There also is a RoboHelp 11.0.1 patch out. This update is being pushed through the update...
View ArticleNo hierarchy structure in PDF output from ditamap
I am trying to publish a ditamap to pdf with FM11. Adobe seems to recommend to save as a FM book with components and then to PDF. Then the hierarchy was lost in the PDF even though it looks very good...
View ArticleCan Framemaker 12 save files down in Framemaker 11 and 10 ? Is it backward...
Can Framemaker 12 save files down in Framemaker 11 and 10 ? Is it backward compatible? Thanks,
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 ArticleTransfer attribute values to Entities in rw-rules for table creation
Hello, I try to fight my way through the xml Structured FM jungle.To this I read various documents (e.g. STRUCTURE APPLICATION DEVELOPER REFERENCE).At the moment my main goal is to find out what works...
View ArticleCtrl-alt in TOC working fine in FM11 but TOC not working in pdf
Hi, I have run into this problem of late. The TOC links in FM 11 work fine (Ctrl-Alt) but when converted to pdf the links are not working at all. I use Adobe PDF reader XI for generating the pdf....
View ArticleWhere are the job options saved?
Hi, everyone, We work in a writing group that is in several states and we're trying to document our current processes. We'd like to have access to each others job options files but we're not sure where...
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