FM-14: strange behaviour of SetUpMenu function
Friends and gurus: I encounter a very strange situation!The following script works correctly. The functions are called by a button.#target framemaker var gasETBViewSettings = [];...
View ArticleRun script by invoking FrameMaker and the required script
How to run a FrameMaker script by invoking FrameMaker and the required script from an external program?
View ArticleFramemaker 2017 ESTK Add Custom Menu
Hello, Can anyone share the new function names for adding a new menu ... and if possible, the name of the View menu. Thanks,Tracey
View ArticleArchive utility does not work in FrameMaker 2015
The Archive utility (a script Adobe created that packages all of a book's files, including images regardless of their source location) does not work in FrameMaker 2015. Is there a new version...
View ArticleFM12 crashes during script execution
Hello, could someone help me with next problem?Fm12 problem.Script goes through book, opens file, saves it and then closes it. This operation is executed for all files in a book.Problem occurs after...
View Articlefile.Save() is not a function
I'm trying to create a script to save a folder full of FM files to TEXT. My script is running fine until I get to file.Save() and I get a 'file.Save is not a function' error. Can someone help...
View ArticlePrint File with parameters
Hello folks I'm trying to make a script to print my current doc (before merging it with other script)I have A4 format document, I need to print it to my "Adobe PDF Printer" with Registred Marks in an...
View ArticleHow to check if a paragraph is/contains an anchored frame or not? if it...
Hi, I am new to Extendscript and Framemaker. I am trying to cycle through a book and find which paragraphs are/contain anchored frames. If they contain an anchored frame, I want to be able to select...
View ArticleHow to check if a flow contains a particular paragraph style?
The script iterates through a doc and works on changing conditional tags in it but it does not factor in whether the paragraph style is "Anchor" i.e. whether it contains an Anchored Frame or not. How...
View ArticleCustom shading using ExtendScript based on element attribute
I am rather new to ExtendScript, and working on a structured DITA FM document. In our tables, we use a background colour to highlight a specific type of information. Of course, this shading is...
View ArticleA script which imitates doc.TextSelection property
What exactly does doc.TextSelection contain? How can I print its contents? and can anyone provide an example script using which one can essentially perform the equivalent of "selecting" the entire...
View ArticleHow to create a new Conditional Format?
How to create a new Conditional Format Tag with default Style/Color/Background using ExtendScript?
View ArticleHow to find out if a paragraph contains a table or not?
Is there any way to find if a paragraph contains a table or not? Can I get a list of objects within a paragraph to determine this?
View ArticleCan I check in FDK client, if user currently does KANA to KANJI...
Hi Frame developers, when I enter Japanese text in structured FrameMaker, I see the intermediate KANA text (dotted line below typed characters) and pressing SPACE converts it to KANJI. (I do not know...
View ArticleHow to Insert a Framemaker Variable Using Extendscript
I've been fighting with this for several days and just cannot get the results I need. The situation: I work in technical/how-to documentation. Several older documents use a font-face to represent...
View ArticleHOW TO START WITH FRAME MAKER SCRIPTING?
Hello Everyone. I am Mechanical Customization Engineer. Currently i am developing automation tools for Mechanical designing software's using VB.NET. Now i have a requirement on FRAME MAKER for one of...
View ArticleLocalisation problem
Friends and experts,On my English Win7-x64 with FrameMaker 14.0.2.425 (en) I have this very simple script, which I also tested on the machine of my wife (Win7-x32, German) with the German version of FM...
View Articleone FrameScript file suddenly freezing Frame 9
Hi :-) I've searched through the messages but none seem to apply. I'm using FrameMaker 9.0p255 and FrameScript 6.0R1p70 on Windows 10. I have three scripts that were provided to me. Two of the scripts...
View ArticleIs it possible to remove data from cells depending on the content of the...
Is it possible to remove data from cells depending on the content of the neighbouring cells of a Framemaker table?Below is a very basic example of the predicament I have. I have hundreds of tables that...
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