Add new symbol to FrameMaker 7.2's Symbol drop-down list
I need to add a new symbol to FrameMaker 7.2's Symbol drop-down list -- the "#" pound symbol.I've never attempted to customize FrameMaker in this way. I tried reading the customizing_frame_products.pdf...
View ArticleInstalled FrameMaker 11 and Acrobat Pro has disappeared
HiI use FrameMaker 7.2 with Acrobat Professional version 7 almost every working day. I downloaded and installed the 30-day version of FrameMaker 11. And having done so, All traces of Acrobat...
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 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...
View ArticleChanging Equations
Running FrameMaker 11.0.1.382 under Windows 7 Service Pack 1. In FrameMaker 10, I could change various feature of a Equation using the Grapchis -> Object Properties Dialog box. This doesn't seem to...
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Creating for touchscreen
Hello , I use unstructured Framemaker to create user manuals which I convert to pdf. What is the best way to convert the manual for use on a touchscreen? Would I be best converting the pdf, or is this...
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 ArticleUsing Anchored Frame Object Attributes to "Store" Art Numbers
Good Morning, Everyone, I have been using FrameMaker for over 15 years now, and as a tech writer who has inherited LOTS of graphics-intensive documents from previous writers, I have often struggled...
View Articleon the fringes of this forum – two graphics questions
… justified because this is the most knowledgeable forum I'm acquainted with, but also because both questions are related to graphics intended for use in FM :-}someone has sent me a system graphic in...
View ArticleSuddenly cannot adjust table width via sizing handles
I have found the cause of this, and it is rather bizarre: Using Structured FM, 10.0.2.419, on a Windows 7 Ultimate (32-bit) OS. Today I noticed I cannot resize table columns in the usual way, by...
View ArticleFrameMaker 7.2 Blank Page Problems
Hello, I am new to FrameMaker, running WinXP SR3 and am editing a book created by someone else. In one of the "chapters" of this book, There are 7 blank pages at the end that I cannot get rid of. I am...
View ArticleVery Slow Scrolling with Images
I'm running Framemaker 11 on a Windows 7, 64-bit machine with an i7 processor at 2+ ghz and 8.0 MB RAM. My Frame files, with imported/referenced images, are scrolling extremely slowly. When I say slow,...
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 ArticleFrame to MIF to Frame to MIF to Frame
What happens when you have cross references from one chapter to another and save those fm 11 chapters as mifs, which get converted to fm and edited in an earlier version fm 7, then saved as mifs, and...
View ArticleThe utility, HTML Setup, is not available? What am I doing wrong?
I open a chapter file in FM10. I select File > Utilities, but the HTML Setup... option is ghosted and not selectable. I thought maybe something was wrong with my file, so I tried using one of the...
View Articleaide svp
Framemaker instruction a 0x01cc5297 emploie l'adresse memoire 0x00000014 la memoire ne peut pas etre read
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...
View ArticleFrameMaker freezes after 60 minutes
Over the years I have had insurmountable problems with FrameMaker version 5.5.6, 7, and 8 freezing exactly 60 minutes after FrameMaker startup on certain machines, including Dell, Lenovo and Asus...
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 ArticleHelp! Word Tables are Coming into FrameMaker as Text Boxes
Help! I am converting a Word file into FrameMaker (FM) the same way for the past 10 years---now all of a sudden the Word tables are converting to text boxes, ahh! I open the Word file in FM, apply all...
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