Macromedia FrameMaker - 2017 Operation Manual

Using Adobe FrameMaker

(2017 release)

April 25, 2017

Contents

Getting started . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1

What is FrameMaker . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1

Author and enrich content . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2

Manage and collaborate . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3

Publish across multiple channels . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4

Supported software . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5

Authoring modes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5

FrameMaker mode . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5

Structured FrameMaker mode . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6

Choose an authoring mode . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8

What’s new in Adobe FrameMaker (2017 release) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8

Authoring and productivity enhancements . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9

User interface enhancements . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9

New project manager . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 14

Structured authoring enhancements . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .14

Authoring enhancements . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .18

Performance improvements . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .19

Publishing enhancements . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 19

Search autocomplete . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 19

Next-generation responsive HTML5 layouts . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .20

Greater content accessibility with 508 compliance . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 20

Text search within SVG images in responsive HTML5 output . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 21

Support for DITA attributes in dynamic content filters . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .21

Dynamic Content Filters support for indexes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 22

Manage styles from a single CSS file . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .22

Improved image and multimedia files management . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 23

Better handling of inline styles . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 23

Publish all topic into a single folder . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .23

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New basic HTML output generation support . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 23

Table of contents and index improvements . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .23

Context-sensitive help support in DITA 1.3 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .24

Installation and registration . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 24

System requirements . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .24

Available in languages . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 24

Install FrameMaker . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 25

Register . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 25

General resources . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 25

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User interface . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 27

Welcome screen . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 27

Workspaces . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 28

Standard workspaces . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .29

Save a custom workspace . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 29

Switch workspaces . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 30

Reset a workspace . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 30

Rename a custom workspace . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 30

Delete a custom workspace . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 30

Document window . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 30

Tabbed documents . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 31

Pods . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 31

Close pods and tab groups . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .32

Pod list area . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .33

Setting pod location criteria . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .34

Toolbars . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 35

Toolbar icons . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 36

Smart catalogs . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 37

Status bar controls . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 38

Zoom in and out . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 39

Turn pages and set scrolling . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 39

Go to another page . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 40

Viewing options . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .40

Faster page display . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 40

Preset display units . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 41

Spacing of ruler or grid intervals . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .41

Line numbers . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .41

Visual guides . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .43

Text symbols . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 43

Subset of menu commands . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .44

High-contrast workspace . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 44

Preferences dialog . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .44

Contextual tips . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 46

Contextual tips preferences . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 47

Manage open files . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 47

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Save files on file close and exit . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 48

Save and close open files . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .48

Restore last session . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 49

Conditions to restore last session . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .50

Steps to restore the last session . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .50

Preferences for alerts on restore . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 50

Restore dimensions of Resource Manager views . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 50

Tips to work with the user interface . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 51

Accessibility . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 52

Launch the soft keyboard . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 52

Documents . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 52

Create a document . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 52

Use a template to create a document . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 53

Create a blank document . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 54

Set the direction of a document . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .54

Open a document . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 54

Open a file . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 54

Open a text file . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 55

Open a document in use . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .55

Open a document without updating references . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 56

Reopen a file after a system crash . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .56

Troubleshooting unavailable fonts . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .57

Save a document . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 58

Save a document . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 58

Save a book . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .58

Save all open documents . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 59

Return to the saved version of your document . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 59

File formats you can save in . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 59

Filename extensions for saved files . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 60

Save documents in text-only format . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .60

Use Save As to export XML from unstructured documents . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 61

Back up and save automatically . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .62

Add metadata to a document . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 62

Apply a template to an open document . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 63

Templates in FrameMaker . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .63

Available import and update settings . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 63

Import formats . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 65

Document direction . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 65

Inheritance design . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 66

Caret location and movement . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 66

Asian language support . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 67

Page layout and templates . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 68

Formats . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 68

Paragraph formats . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 68

Paragraph Designer . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .68

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Create a paragraph format . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .70

Character formats . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 70

Character Designer . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 70

Create a character format . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 72

Manage formats . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 72

Update formats . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 72

Rename or delete formats . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 73

Apply formats . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 74

Tips for creating new formats . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .74

Specify formats for the paragraphs that follow . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .75

Add graphics to paragraph formats . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 75

Format catalog . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 75

Display formats . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 76

Delete formats . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 76

Fonts . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 76

Replace fonts using the Fonts pod . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .77

Manual font changes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 78

Font changes using the designers . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 78

Adjust superscripted, subscripted, and small cap text . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 80

Condense and expand characters . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 80

Create or change combined fonts of Japanese and Western characters . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 81

Background color . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 82

Set background color of text within a paragraph . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 83

Set background color of entire paragraph text . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 83

Set background color of a paragraph box . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .83

Indentation, alignment, and spacing . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 83

Change paragraph alignment . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .83

Change tab stops . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .84

Change paragraph and character spacing . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 85

Adjust spacing in Japanese documents . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .87

Lists and autonumbering . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 88

Format text as numbered lists . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 88

Format text as bulleted lists . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 89

Specify a special bullet symbol . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .89

Remove autonumbering or a bullet from a paragraph . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .90

Counters in autonumber formats . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .90

Base autonumbering on book component numbers . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 91

Base autonumbering on section numbers . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 91

Use multiple counters in an autonumber format . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .92

Reset a series . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .94

About Japanese numbering options . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .94

About RTL numbering options . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 95

Master and reference pages . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 96

Body, master, and reference pages . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 96

Master pages . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .97

Reference pages . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .99

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Create custom master pages . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 99

Create an empty custom master or page based on another master page’s layout . . . . . .100

Create a custom master page based on a body page’s layout . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 100

Reorder, rotate, or delete custom master pages . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 100

Reorder custom master pages . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .100

Rotate a master page . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .101

Rename or delete a custom master page . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .101

Assign master pages to body pages . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 101

Assign a different master page . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .102

Assign a master page to pages with specified paragraph tags . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .102

Assign a master page to body pages of structured documents . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .104

Display master pages . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 105

View other master pages when a master page is visible . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .105

Return to body pages while master pages are visible . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .105

View, create, and delete reference pages . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 106

Display reference pages . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .106

View other reference pages when a reference page is visible . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .106

Create a reference page . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 106

Return to body pages . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .106

Rename or delete a reference page . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .106

Use reference frames on reference pages . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 107

Create a reference frame on a reference page . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .107

Rename a reference frame . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 108

Change other properties of a reference frame . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .108

Set up boilerplate graphics on reference pages . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .108

Page layouts . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 109

Change page size . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 109

Change pagination . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 109

Add or delete empty pages . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 110

Change page margins and number of columns . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 110

Headers, footers, and other background text . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 111

Creating and modifying background text frames . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .112

Entering header or footer information . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 113

Changing page layout on specific pages . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 114

About layout overrides . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .114

Change margins and column layout on specific pages . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .114

Add a template text frame on a master page . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .115

Adding text frames on body pages . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 116

Updating body and master page layouts . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 116

Creating one-time-only page layouts . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .117

Align text across columns . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 117

Balance text across columns . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 117

Feather text to the bottom of text frames . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .118

Synchronizing baselines . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .119

Multiflow documents . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 120

Set up a multiflow document . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 120

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About text flows and flow tags . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .121

Set up a side-by-side flow . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 121

Set up a flow for a newsletter or magazine . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .122

Control the flow of text . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 123

Change a flow’s tag or Autoconnect setting . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .123

Add a new, disconnected page . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 124

Delete disconnected pages . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .124

Connect text frames . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .124

Disconnect text frames . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .125

Remove a text frame from the middle of a flow . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .125

Split or unsplit text frames . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .126

Cross-reference a disconnected text frame . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .126

Tracking a text flow . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .127

Set flow direction . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 127

Templates . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 128

Design the page layout . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 129

Designing text formats . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 129

Standardizing graphics, frames, and tables . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .130

Setting up numbering . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .130

Define special text and fonts . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 131

Set up HTML options . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .131

Create templates for generated files . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 131

Create templates to change conditional tags settings . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 132

Change templates for blank paper and text files . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 132

Change the template for blank paper . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .133

Change the template for text files . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 133

Import formats from a template or document . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 133

Import formats . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 133

About import and update settings . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .134

Editing content . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 136

Text and special characters . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 136

Add text and special characters . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 136

Special characters . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .136

Copy, move, and delete text . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 138

Drag and drop text . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 138

Importing and linking files . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 139

Import and link methods . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 139

Use the clipboard . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .139

Use drag-and-drop . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 140

Use the File > Import > File command . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .140

Use the File > Import > Object command . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 141

Using paths when importing by reference . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 141

Import text . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 142

Import formatted text . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .142

Import unformatted text . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .143

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Import graphics . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 144

Import a graphic . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 144

Import JPEG 2000 files . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .145

Import SVG images . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .145

Import Adobe Photoshop files . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .146

Import Adobe Illustrator files . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .146

Locate missing graphics . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .147

Locate a graphic FrameMaker can’t find . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .147

View an imported graphic’s filename . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .147

Insert imported graphic elements into structured documents . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 147

Import movies, SWF files, and 3D objects . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 149

Import movies . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .149

Import a SWF file . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .150

Import 3D objects . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .151

Poster file for a media file . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .154

Import other files . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 154

Import PageMaker and QuarkXPress files . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .155

Import PDF files . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .157

Import MIF files . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .157

Import Microsoft Word files . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .157

Import Microsoft Excel files . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .160

Import formatting properties . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 160

Import formats . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 161

Format settings . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .161

About formatting overrides . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .163

Find and remove overrides . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .163

Import properties from a template . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 164

Equations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 164

Placing and displaying equations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 164

Inline and display equations in structured documents . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 165

Equations in graphic frames in structured documents . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .166

Equations pod overview . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 166

Create equations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 167

Create an inline equation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .167

Create an equation in a paragraph of its own (a display equation) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 168

Create an equation in a graphic frame with other objects . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .170

Insert math elements . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 170

About the scope of operations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 171

Insert a math element . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .172

Insert a text string . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .172

Insert, add, or edit a horizontal or vertical list of expressions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .172

Insert symbols . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .173

Insert operators . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .174

Insert large elements . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .175

Insert delimiters . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .175

Insert relations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 175

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Insert calculus elements . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .176

Insert matrices . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 177

Insert functions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .177

Insert a custom math element . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .177

Shrinkwrap or unwrap an equation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 178

Edit equations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 179

Extend a selection using the keyboard . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .179

Change the selection . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .179

Replace or delete a math element or equation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .180

Remove delimiters . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .180

Toggle an element format . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .180

Add an operand to a math element . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .181

Change matrices . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .181

Create and define math elements . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 182

Math element types . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .183

Define a custom math element or change a built-in math element definition . . . . . . . . . 184

Find the name of a math element . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 185

Change or delete a custom math element definition . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .185

Position math elements in an equation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .186

Adjust the spacing values for a math element wherever it appears . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 187

Set line breaks and align equations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 187

Change equation line breaking . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .188

Align display equations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .189

Set automatic alignment for a vertical list or multiline equation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .190

Clear a manual alignment point . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .190

Align items in a horizontal list . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .190

Align cells in a matrix . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .191

Check alignment settings for a horizontal or vertical list, or for a matrix . . . . . . . . . . . .191

Left-, center-, or right-align equations in a frame . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .191

Align equations along a point . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .192

Change font settings in equations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 192

Change the character format in individual equations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 193

Change equation fonts throughout a document . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .193

Evaluating equations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 194

Transform or evaluate an expression . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .194

Matrix Commands pop-up menu . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .195

Addition pop-up menu . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 196

Multiplication pop-up menu . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .197

Division pop-up menu . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 199

Evaluation pop-up menu . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 201

Rules pop-up menu . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 205

Other Rewrites pop-up menu . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .206

Markers . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 209

Add a marker . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 210

Generate a list of markers . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 210

Delete a marker . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 211

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Create a custom marker . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 211

Add a custom marker to your document . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 211

Publish options . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 211

Pagination with Page Break marker . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .211

Context-sensitive Help marker . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 212

Apply index markers . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .214

Create Dynamic HTML effects . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 214

Hypertext commands . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 215

Add hypertext commands to documents . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 216

Define an active area in a document . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 216

Associate a hypertext command with an active area . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .217

Edit and delete hypertext commands . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 219

Editing a hypertext command . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .219

Deleting a hypertext command . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .219

Available hypertext commands . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 219

Display alert messages . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .220

Navigate to a named destination . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .221

Navigate to a specific page . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .223

Navigate back . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 224

Open documents . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .225

Button Matrix . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .226

Go to URL . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 227

Open external applications and files . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 227

Close FrameMaker and FrameMaker documents . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .229

PDF and HTML: Hypertext command support . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 230

Create an image map . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 231

Multiple Undo/Redo . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 231

Undo and Redo commands . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 231

Document-level command history . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 232

Repeat Last Operation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 232

Undo History pod . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 234

Search . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 235

Find / Change dialog . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 235

Types of search items . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 238

Unicode text search . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 241

Special character and nonprinting symbol search . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 241

Regular expression configuration . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 241

Spelling Checker . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 242

Run Spelling Checker . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 242

Set Spelling Checker to skip text . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 243

Correct spelling errors automatically . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 244

Change Spelling Checker options . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 244

Check spelling in different languages . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 245

Control hyphenation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 246

Change word hyphenation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .246

Prevent FrameMaker from hyphenating a word . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .246

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Rehyphenate an entire document . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 246

Dictionaries . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 247

About FrameMaker dictionaries . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 247

Dictionary Functions dialog . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .248

Dictionaries for other languages . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .249

Create another personal dictionary . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .249

Change site dictionaries . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 249

Edit dictionary files . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .250

Thesaurus . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 251

Export text and graphics . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 252

Using Save As to export to other formats . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 253

Saving MIF files . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .253

Send files in e-mail . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 253

Save a document containing SWF files as PDF, HTML, and XML files . . . . . . . . . . . 254

Save documents containing SWF files as PDF . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .254

Save documents containing SWF files as HTML . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .254

Save documents with SWF files as XML . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 255

Print a FrameMaker file with SWF files . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 255

Save a structured document in SGML or XML . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 255

Multilanguage authoring . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 256

Unicode support . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 256

About Unicode . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 256

Enable Unicode . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .257

Adding multilingual text . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 258

Asian language support . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 260

Character sets and encoding methods . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 261

Inline input . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .261

Typesetting rules . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 262

Combined Asian and Western fonts . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .262

Text import and export . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .263

Date and time . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .263

Autonumbering . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .263

Index sorting . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .263

Exporting Chinese, Korean, or Japanese documents to HTML or XML . . . . . . . . . . . . .265

Structured FrameMaker . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .266

HTML output . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 267

Preparing documents for conversion to HTML . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 267

About HTML documents . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .268

HTML conversion overview . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .268

Preserve the FrameMaker look by using style sheets . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .270

Format overrides . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .271

Add links to URLs . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .272

Create links that simulate a TOC . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 273

Setting up links for image maps . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .274

Specifying graphics conversion . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .274

Set up and adjust HTML mappings . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 275

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Set up or modify HTML mappings . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 275

Autolevel mappings for headings . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 276

Mappings for lists . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .276

Mappings for cross-reference formats . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 278

Fine-tuning mappings by editing reference pages . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .278

Use the Headings reference page . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .279

Edit the HTML Mapping table . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 280

Edit a mapping using the HTML Mapping table . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .281

Convert special characters . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 282

Save a document in HTML format . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 283

Use HTML conversion macros . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 283

Create or edit an HTML conversion macro . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .284

Use building blocks in HTML conversion macros . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .284

Redefining HTML system macros . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .284

Customize titles . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .285

Insert HTML code . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 286

Convert books to HTML files . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 287

Troubleshooting and tips on HTML conversion . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 287

Saving structured documents as HTML . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 288

Publishing options for online output formats . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .288

Tables . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 289

About tables . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 289

Tables formats . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 289

Working with tables in structured documents . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 290

Elements for structured tables and table parts . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .290

How structured tables are formatted . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .291

DITA support for tables . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .291

Insert, move, or remove a table . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 292

Insert a table . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 292

Insert a table element (structured documents) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 293

Use an invalid table element . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 293

Nest a table in a table cell . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 294

Copy, move, or remove a table . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 294

Text and graphics in tables . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 295

Select text or cells in tables . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 295

Place the insertion point in a table cell . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .295

Select the contents of a cell . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .296

Select a single cell . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 296

Select multiple cells . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .296

Add or remove a table title . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 296

Add continuation text . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 297

Add continuation text to a selected table . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .297

Add continuation text to multiple tables in a document . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .298

Place graphics in table cells . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 298

Place a graphic . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .298

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Place a graphic in a structured document . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 299

Convert between text and tables . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 299

Convert text to a table . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .300

Convert a text file to a table as you open the file . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .300

Convert a text file to a table as you import the file . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 300

Touch up a table after conversion . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .301

Convert a table to text within FrameMaker . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .301

Copy a table to another application as text . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .301

Convert all tables in a document to text . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 302

Run text around a table . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 302

Run text around a table in an anchored frame . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .302

Run text around a table in an anchored frame (structured documents) . . . . . . . . . . . . . .302

Run text around a table that remains stationary on the page . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 303

Position and autonumber text within cells . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 303

Set default cell margins . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 304

Customize cell margins or text alignment . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .304

Specify the direction of autonumbering in a table . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 305

Change the direction of text in table . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 305

Formatting tables . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 305

Table Designer . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 305

Display the Table Designer and a property group . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .307

Apply property changes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .307

Reset properties after changing them in the Table Designer . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .307

Table catalog . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 307

Apply or change table format . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 307

Create, edit, and delete table formats . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 308

Create a table format . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .308

Edit a table format . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .308

Delete a table format . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .309

Apply a different format to a table . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .309

Redefine table formats . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .310

Change properties in multiple table formats . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .311

Ruling and shading . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 311

Set up regular ruling and shading . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .312

Manage ruling styles . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .312

Manage custom ruling and shading . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .313

Rows and columns . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 313

Add and delete rows and columns . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .313

Copy, move, or reorder rows or columns . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .314

Resize rows and columns . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .315

Sort rows and columns . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .317

Table position and spacing . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 318

Specify table position and spacing . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 318

Straddle or unstraddle tables and cells . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 319

Straddle a table . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .319

Unstraddle a table . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .320

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Straddle or unstraddle cells . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 320

Rotate cells and tables . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 320

Rotate cells . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .321

Insert a rotated table in a page of unrotated text . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .322

Insert a rotated table in a page of unrotated text (structured documents) . . . . . . . . . . . .322

Create a rotated table on a page with other rotated text . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .322

Edit a rotated table . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .323

Insert page breaks in a table . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 323

Set the minimum number of rows on a page or in a column . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .323

Keep rows together . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .323

Add or remove a page break in a table . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .324

Graphics and objects . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 325

Create graphics . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 325

About graphics and objects . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 325

Working with illustrations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 325

Tools palette overview . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .326

About paths . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .327

About graphic elements in structured documents . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .328

Draw objects . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 329

Draw a straight line . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .330

Draw a polyline or polygon . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .330

Draw an arc . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .330

Draw a freehand curve . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .331

Draw a rectangle, a rounded rectangle, or an oval . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .331

Draw a regular polygon . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .332

Draw several objects of the same type without clicking the tool each time . . . . . . . . . . . 332

Select objects . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 332

Select an object or multiple objects . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .333

Deselect objects . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .333

Apply and change drawing properties . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 333

Apply a fill pattern or pen pattern to a selected object . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .334

Choose a line width for a line or an object’s border . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 335

Change the ends of an arc, a line, a polyline, or a freehand curve . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .335

Make a line or object’s borders solid or dashed . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .335

Inspect an object’s drawing properties or apply them to other objects . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 335

Change line width settings . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .335

Change the line end style . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 336

Change the dashed line style . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .336

Change the arrow style . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .336

Add text to graphics . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 337

Add a text line to a graphic . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .338

Add a text frame . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .339

Fix text frames that overflow . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .339

Create reverse text in a text frame . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .340

Create a reverse text line over an object . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 340

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Add a title to an illustration . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 341

Run text around graphics . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 342

Copy and arrange objects . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 343

Cut, copy, or paste an object by using the clipboard . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .343

Copy an object by dragging . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 344

Delete an object . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 344

Move an object . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .344

Change the stacking order of objects . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .345

Use gravity and grids to align objects . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 346

Align text lines . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .347

Distribute objects . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .347

Make lines intersect cleanly . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .348

Group and ungroup objects . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 349

Join lines and curves . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 349

Flip and rotate objects . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 350

Flip an object . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .351

Create a symmetrical object . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 351

Rotate objects by dragging . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .352

Rotate an object precisely . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 352

Crop or mask graphics . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 352

Crop the edges of a graphic frame . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .353

Mask an area within a graphic frame . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 353

Measure object size and position . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 353

Measure an object . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .353

View the position of an object . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .354

View the position of an object as you move it . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .354

Measure any distance on the page . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .354

Resize and reshape objects . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 354

Resize an object by dragging . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .356

Resize an object precisely . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .356

Resize imported graphics . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .356

Change the size of bitmap graphics . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .356

Move a corner of a polyline or polygon . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .357

Add or remove a corner or reshape handle . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .357

Reshape a curve . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 357

Change the corner radius of a rounded rectangle . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 359

Smooth and unsmooth objects . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 359

Colors . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 360

About color and color models . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 360

Before you begin . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .360

Color models . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 361

Manage color libraries . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 361

View color definitions in a color library . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .363

Add a color library for use in FrameMaker . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 363

Work with color in objects . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 363

Apply a color or tint to text or an object using formatting features . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .363

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Apply a tint to an object using a fill pattern . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .364

Define and modify colors and tints . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .365

Assign a color to an object . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .366

Set up and display color views . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 367

Anchored frames . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 368

About anchored frames . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 368

Create anchored frames . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 368

Create an anchored frame automatically . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .369

Create an anchored frame with specific options . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .369

Inline anchored frames . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 369

Anchored frames in a column of text . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 370

Anchored frames in multicolumn layouts . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .372

Anchored frames outside a column of text . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 373

Anchored frames in the page margins . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 375

Anchored frames run into paragraph text . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 375

Insert anchored frames in structured documents . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 377

Fill and edit anchored frames . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 378

Filling anchored frames in structured documents . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 379

Put graphics or text in a graphic frame . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .380

Prevent an anchored frame from clipping its contents . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 380

Change a frame’s anchoring position and drawing properties . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .380

Resize an anchored frame . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 381

Copy, move, or delete an anchored frame . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .381

Add object attributes for tagged PDF . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 382

Embed objects . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 383

Embed text and graphics with OLE . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 383

Embed only part of a file with OLE . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .383

Embed an entire file with OLE . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .383

Embed by dragging with OLE . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .383

Link to a text or graphic object with OLE . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 384

Link to part of a file . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 384

Link to an entire file . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .384

Edit OLE objects . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 384

Edit an embedded OLE object . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 384

Edit a linked OLE object . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .384

Control the updating of OLE links . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 385

Change the updating of a linked OLE object . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 385

Suppress the updating of all linked OLE objects . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 385

Manually update a single OLE link object . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .385

Cancel an OLE link . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .385

Import text into structured documents . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 385

Change direction of document containing objects . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 388

Hotspots . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 388

Create hotspots using hotspot properties . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 390

Create hotspots using graphics toolbar . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 390

Delink a hotspot . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 391

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Create hotspots in vector graphics . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 391

Object styles . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 391

Object style designer . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 392

Object style catalog . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 393

Create an object style . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 393

Create an object style from an object’s properties . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 393

Apply an object style . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 394

Import object formats from another document . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 394

3D and multimedia objects . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 394

Insert a link to a 3D object . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 394

3D object part links . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 395

Create 3D links . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .397

Insert links to an SWF file . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 397

Insert links to an FLV file . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 398

Set poster for a SWF, FLV, or MP4 files . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 398

Set poster for a 3D object . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 399

Insert multimedia links table . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 399

Edit multimedia links . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 400

Attach custom JavaScript™ to a 3D object . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 400

Use object handle in JavaScript™ . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 400

Activate 3D/multimedia objects by default . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 401

Display 3D/multimedia objects in pop-up windows . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 401

QR codes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 401

Generate and insert a QR code . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 401

Editing QR codes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 402

Using RoboScreenCapture . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 403

Capturing and inserting images . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 404

Editing imported images . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 404

Edit with Adobe Illustrator . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 405

Insert Photoshop images . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 406

Editing Photoshop graphics . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 406

Insert Adobe Captivate demos . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 406

Projects, books and long documents . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 407

Projects . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 407

Create a project . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 407

Add a location and save a project . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 408

Open a Project . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 408

Remove a location . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 409

Delete a resource . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 409

Work with project window . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 409

Additional features in the project widow . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 410

Books and long documents . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 410

Book building workflow . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 411

Set up hierarchical books . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 411

Create books . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 412

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Create a book . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 412

Add files to a book . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 413

Associate a structured application with an XML file . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .413

Add generated files to a book . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 413

Add a folder . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 413

Rename a folder . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 414

Associate a template with a folder . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 414

Add file information for a folder template . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .415

Add a group . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 415

Add a child book . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 415

Direction of a book . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 416

Manage books . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 416

Manage book files . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 416

Display filenames or heading text in the book window . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .416

Exclude book components from output . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .417

Select book components . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 417

Rearrange and delete files . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .417

Rename files . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .418

Revert to a previously saved version . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .418

Open, close, or save files . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .418

Compare documents . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .419

Apply book-wide commands . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 420

Add metadata to books and documents . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 421

Document and page numbering . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 421

About numbering . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 421

Set up numbering . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .422

Insert book component numbers in cross-references . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .422

Include book component numbers in headers and footers . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 423

Include the total page count of a book in a header or footer . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .423

Print a book file . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 424

Create a PostScript file . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .424

Change and import formats . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 425

Import formats into book files . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .425

Import element definitions into structured books . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .426

Set up a book file to create a master TOC or index . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 427

Generate and update books . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 427

Update a book . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 428

Update a book with child books and XML files . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 428

Update a structured book . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 429

Remove inherited information from structured files . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 429

Edit and validate book structure . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 429

Validate structure . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .430

Clear all special cases . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .431

Tables of contents and other lists . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 431

About generated files . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 431

About tables of contents and other lists . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 431

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Lists of paragraphs . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 431

Lists of markers . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .432

Indexes of markers . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .432

Lists and indexes of references . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .432

Generate a table of contents or list . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 432

Generate a table of contents or list for a book . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 433

Generate a table of contents or list for a single document . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .434

Generating TOCs and other lists in structured documents . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .435

Add a title or other static text to lists and indexes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .436

Generate a miniature table of contents . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 436

Create mini TOC . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 437

Update mini TOC . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 437

Delete mini TOC . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .439

Embed TOCs in a document . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 439

Embed a TOC in a document by using cross-references . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .439

Embed a TOC in a structured document by using cross-references . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 440

Embed a TOC in a document as a text inset . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 440

Maintain a TOC embedded in a document . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .440

Update and edit TOCs and lists . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 440

Update a TOC or list that is part of a book . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 440

Add or remove paragraph tags from a TOC or list that is part of a book . . . . . . . . . . . . . 441

Update a TOC or list that is a stand-alone document . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 441

Find the source of list entries . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .441

Find and select a paragraph by using Find/Change . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .441

Edit and delete list entries . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .442

Creating indexes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 442

Create index entries . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 442

Inserting an index marker . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 443

Insert index marker elements (structured documents) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .443

Insert an index marker without typing . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .445

Place several entries in one marker . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .445

Create an index subentry . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .445

Create a cross-reference in an index entry . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 446

Use page ranges in index entries . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .446

Format text in an index entry . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 447

Work with group titles in indexes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 448

Change the groupings and group titles . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .449

Create an index without group titles . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .449

Create an index with neither a group title nor a space between entry groupings . . . . . .450

Create quick access to group titles in a hypertext document . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 450

Change sort order . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 450

Specify sort order for an index entry . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .450

Specify sort order for an index . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .451

Sort letter by letter instead of word by word . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .452

Specify characters to ignore . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .452

Sort symbols, numbers, or other characters in another location in an index . . . . . . . . . .453

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Specify the sort order for Japanese . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 453

Generate indexes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 454

Generate an index for a book . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 454

Generate an index for a document . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 456

Generate a standard index that displays page numbers in a variety of ways . . . . . . . . . . 456

Update and edit indexes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 457

Update an index that is part of a book . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .457

Add or remove items included in an index that is part of a book . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .457

Update an index that is a stand-alone document . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .458

Find the source of index entries . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 458

Find the source of an index entry by using a link . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 458

Select a marker by using Find/Change . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 459

Add, edit, or delete markers and marker types . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 459

Edit or delete a marker . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .459

Add or delete a custom marker type . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 459

Copy a marker type from one document to another . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .460

Rename a marker type . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .460

Formatting lists and indexes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 460

Format a list or index with a template . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 460

Edit special text flow for a list or index . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 460

Change paragraph and character formats of entries . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 462

Change the paragraph format of entries . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .463

Change the character format of entries . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 463

Include book component and paragraph autonumbers . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 464

Include volume and chapter autonumbers . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .465

Include paragraph autonumbers . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .466

Change page number separators . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 466

Manually add text to entries . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 466

Use tabs and tab leaders in a list or index . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 467

Rearrange information in list entries . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 468

Resolve cross-references . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 469

Resolve a cross-reference when a marker has been deleted . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .469

Resolve a cross-reference when the ID and ID Reference values mismatch . . . . . . . . . . . 469

Glossaries . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 469

Create the glossary term definition . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 469

Apply the glossary marker to the occurrences of the term . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 470

Footnotes and endnotes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 470

Create and edit footnotes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 470

Insert, edit, and delete footnotes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .470

Format footnotes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .474

Create and maintain endnotes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 477

Create an endnote . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 477

Create an endnote in structured documents . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .477

Maintain endnotes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .477

Troubleshooting books . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 478

Interpreting error messages . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 478

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Troubleshooting TOCs and lists . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 479

Troubleshooting indexes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 481

Single-sourcing content . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 485

Conditional text . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 485

Manage conditional tags . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 486

Conditional Tags pod . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .487

Creating and editing conditional tags . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .488

Importing conditional tags and expressions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .490

Deleting conditional tags . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 490

List Conditional tags in a document . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 491

Apply conditional tags . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 492

Applying conditional tags to text . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .492

Applying conditional tags at book level . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .494

Applying conditional tags in structured documents . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .495

Removing conditional tags from text . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .496

Removing all conditional tags from text . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .497

Identifying the state of conditionalized text . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 497

Copying conditions across text . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .498

Show or hide conditional text . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 498

Show / Hide Conditional Text dialog . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .499

Show / hide conditional text using conditional tags . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .500

Show / hide conditional text using conditional expressions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 501

Finalizing conditional documents . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 503

FAQ and troubleshooting . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 503

Cross-references . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 504

Insert cross-references . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 506

Cross-Reference dialog . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .506

Insert cross-references in documents . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .508

Manage cross-references . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 512

Editing cross-references in a document . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 512

Deleting cross-references in a document . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 513

Managing cross-reference formats . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .513

Updating cross-references in a document . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .519

Managing unresolved cross-references . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .520

Text insets . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 521

Insert text insets . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 523

To import a text into a document: . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 523

Flow to import . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .525

Formatting of Imported Flow . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .526

Updating of Imported Flow . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .526

Manage text insets . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 527

Viewing and editing inset properties . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .527

Deleting text insets . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .528

Updating text insets . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .528

Fixing unresolved text insets . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 529

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Insert a cross-reference to a paragraph in a text inset . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 530

FAQ and troubleshooting . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 531

Variables . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 531

Insert variables . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 533

To insert a variable in a document . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 533

How variables display in a document . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .534

Inserting variables into structured documents . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .534

Manage variables . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 534

Creating user variables . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 535

Editing user and system variables . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .536

Deleting variables in a document . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .537

Converting variables to text . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .537

Importing variables from one document to another . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .538

Add variables to headers and footers . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 539

Running H/F variables in FrameMaker . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .539

Using markers to display text in a running header or footer . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .540

Creating a dictionary-style header or footer . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 540

Review and collaboration . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 542

Text edit tracking . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 542

Tracked and untracked text edits: Examples . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 542

Set scope for tracking text edits . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 543

Set color preferences for tracking text edits . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 544

Display Track Text Edits toolbar . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 544

Turn text edit tracking on or off . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 544

Manage track text edits in a document . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 545

Preview a document with track text edits . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 545

Saving and publishing a document with track text edits . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 546

Saving a document with tracked text edits as XML . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .546

Change bars . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 546

Apply change bars automatically . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 547

Apply change bars manually . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 548

Create and apply change bar character format . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 548

Remove change bars . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 549

Clear all change bars in a document . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .549

Remove specific change bars . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 549

PDF review . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 549

Send a review PDF through email . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 550

Set up shared review . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 551

Import PDF comments . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 551

Importing comments from PDF after changing the source document . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .552

Conditions for importing PDF comments in edited documents . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .553

Types of comments supported . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .553

Placement of comments . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .553

Import comments . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .554

Create packages . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 554

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Dropbox integration . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 555

Configure Dropbox . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 556

Add files to Dropbox . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 557

Share Dropbox location . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 557

Open and save files . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 557

Document comparison . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 557

About compare documents . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 557

Types of items compared . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 558

Compare two versions of a document . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 560

Compare documents that contain conditional tags . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 560

Compare documents that contain conditional tags . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 561

Word and character count . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 561

FAQ & troubleshooting . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 561

Structured authoring . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 563

Benefits . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 563

SGML, XML, and XHTML . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 565

DITA and DocBook . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 566

User interface . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 567

Views . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 568

XML View . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 568

Author View . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .570

WYSIWYG View . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .572

Switch between the views . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .572

Structured authoring mode . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 572

Working with the Structure View . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 573

Expand or collapse structure . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .573

View element boundaries in the document window . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 573

Expand and collapse elements in document window . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .574

Show and hide attributes for new elements . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 574

Show and hide element content . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .574

Change the scope of elements available in a structured document . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .574

Structure View pod . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .576

Elements catalog . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .576

Working with elements in structured documents . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 577

Valid contents for elements . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .578

Two classes of elements . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 578

Attributes for elements . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .578

Import element definitions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .579

Insert elements . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .580

Add text in a structured document . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .582

Edit elements . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .582

Hierarchical element insert . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .587

Select and edit text . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .588

Remove elements . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .589

Assign attribute values . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .590

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Types of attributes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 593

Copy attribute values . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .594

Find and edit elements and attributes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .594

Find and correct errors in document structure . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 597

Quick Element Toolbar . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 602

Using the Quick Element Toolbar . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 602

Customization . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .603

Create a Quick Element Toolbar . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .604

Error console . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 604

Author content . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 605

Create XML documents . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 606

Create a blank XML . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .606

Create an XML based on a DTD . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .607

Create an XML based on a structured application . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .608

Save an XML document . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 609

Open an XML document . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 609

Working with elements . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 610

Elements catalog . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .610

Manage elements . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .615

Banner text . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .616

Element boundaries . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .617

Create output with banner text and element boundaries . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 618

Working with attributes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 618

Set attribute values for elements . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 618

View the attributes of an element . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .619

Set attributes display options on element insertion . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .619

Copy the attribute values from one element to another . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 620

Create equations using the Equations pod . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 620

Create an inline equation using an element . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .620

Create a display equation using an element . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .621

Create an equation in an anchored frame element . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 622

Create equations using MathML . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 623

Create and insert a MathML equation into a document . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 624

Edit a MathML equation in a document . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .625

Configure the MathFlow settings in FrameMaker . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .625

Configure the installation settings . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .625

Format a MathML equation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 625

Configure the MathFlow editor . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 627

Sample DITA MathML structured app . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .627

Change text direction . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 628

Smart paste . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 628

Smart paste content in a DITA file . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .630

Add smart paste XSL for a custom XML application . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 631

Conditional text in XML . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 631

OLE object support . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 631

Insert an OLE object . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .632

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Whitespace handling . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 632

White-space normalization standard . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .633

Cross-references in XML . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 634

Round trip table properties . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 634

Round trip equations and anchored frames . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 636

Filter by attribute . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 636

Apply filtering attributes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 636

Set attribute values for elements . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 637

Create filters . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 637

Create a filter . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 638

Guidelines for creating filter rules . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .640

Manage filters . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 642

Edit filters . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .642

Delete filters . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 642

Import filters . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .643

Set attributes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 643

Apply a filter . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .644

FAQ and troubleshooting . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 645

Search . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 646

Complex Expressions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 646

XPath queries . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 647

XPath toolbar . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .648

Auto-Suggest . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 649

XSL Transformation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 650

Switch to XALAN processor . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 652

Create transformations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 652

Edit transformations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 653

Application-specific transformation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 654

Transform multiple files using Advanced Run . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 655

Getting started with structured applications . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 656

Structured templates . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 657

Content analysis . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 657

Elements . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 659

Attributes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 659

Element rules . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 660

XML schema . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 660

Create an EDD . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 661

Analyze requirements . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .661

Choose an EDD strategy . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 661

Build the proposal EDD . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 662

Define child elements . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 663

Add formatting to the EDD . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .663

Test the EDD . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .664

Create a DTD from an EDD . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 665

Build a structured application . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 665

Create a DTD . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .665

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Create a structured template . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .666

Configure the structured application . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .666

Copy the application files . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 667

Build structure files . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .667

Test XML roundtripping . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 671

Configuration file editor . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 671

XML with Cascading Style Sheets . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 672

Import CSS element styles into an EDD file . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 673

Export CSS for a FrameMaker XML file . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .674

XML with schema . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 674

Schema workflow . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .675

Changes to the structure application for schema support . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .675

Generate an element catalog (EDD) from a schema . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 675

View or edit XML namespaces . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 676

Convert unstructured documents . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 677

Conversion workflow . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 677

Conversion rule examples . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 678

Simplified XML . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 679

Simplified XML user interface . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 680

Use the Simplified XML view . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 681

Working with objects in Simplified XML view . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .683

Work with ordered and unordered list . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .683

Work with tables . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 684

Work with images . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .684

Work with MathML . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .685

Work with Definition List . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .685

Work with code block . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .685

Use Paste and Smart Paste . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .685

Open and save XML files in the Simplified XML view . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .686

Customize the Simplified XML authoring environment . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 686

Customize the Simplified XML view form fields . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .686

Customize the Simplified XML view template . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 689

Structured authoring using DITA . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 690

Why DITA . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 691

Content reuse and modularity . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 691

Multichannel publishing . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 691

Ease of authoring and publishing . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 691

Minimalism in content . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 691

Reduced localization costs . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 692

Challenges in implementing DITA . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 692

DITA topics . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 692

Create a DITA topic . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 692

Add links to related content . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 693

DITA Link dialog . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .694

Create a DITA link . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 696

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DITA maps . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 697

Create a DITA map . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 697

Insert topicref elements in a DITA map . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 698

Display DITA map content . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 699

Show or hide the preview of topicref elements content . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .699

Open all topics referenced in a DITA map . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 700

Save a DITA map . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 700

DITA referencing . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 701

Set up reference content . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .702

Using keyspaces to manage DITA key references . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .703

Update DITA references . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 704

Find References . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 705

Bookmaps . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 706

DITAVAL . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 706

Set up DITA topics to use DITAVAL . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 706

Applying condition attributes to elements . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .707

Creating a DITAVAL file to create conditional output . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 708

Generate conditional output . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 710

Content references . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 711

Set up a topic to use conrefs . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 711

DITA conref dialog . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 711

To open the DITA conref dialog: . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 711

Use the DITA Conref dialog to: . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .712

Working with conrefs . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 713

Create a conref . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .713

Creating a conref to a range of elements . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .714

Updating conrefs . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .715

Cross-references . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 715

Set up topics to use cross-references . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 715

DITA Cross-Reference dialog . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 715

Use the DITA Cross-Reference dialog to: . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .716

Create a cross-reference . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 717

Relationship tables . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 719

Create a relationship table . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 720

Sample relationship table workflow . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 722

Publishing . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 722

Save as PDF . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 723

Multi-channel publishing . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 723

DITA Open Toolkit . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 723

Generate output using DITA OT . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .724

Change the output type list . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .725

Use a different DITA-OT package . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .726

DITA specialization . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 728

Customization . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 729

Print and publish . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 732

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PDF output . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 732

Save as PDF . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 732

Configure PDF settings . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 733

Update general settings . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 733

Customize PDF bookmarks . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 734

Tagged PDF output . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 736

Add links from other documents . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .737

Import PDF Settings . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .738

Optimize files created in previous versions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 738

Optimization options . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .739

PDF conversion guidelines . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 739

Multichannel publishing . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 740

Generate output using the default publish settings . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 741

Configure publish settings . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 744

Style mapping . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 746

Outputs settings . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 751

Use the RoboHelp settings (isf) file . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 765

HTML page templates . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 766

Create an HTML page template . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .766

Define a mini TOC . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .768

Define a breadcrumb . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .769

Define a header and footer . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .770

Define the body content . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .770

Sample HTML page template . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .770

Microsoft HTML Help distribution . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 771

Register ActiveX controls . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 772

Generate dynamic content output . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 773

Tag content . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .773

Create a dynamic content filter . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .773

Use a dynamic content filter in the output . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 775

Format TOC for publish . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 777

Indent TOC items in a book . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .777

Specify number of TOC items in a DITA map . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .778

Print output . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 778

Prepare color documents for output . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 778

Prepare color documents for commercial printing . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 779

Print color separations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .779

Knock out and overprint colors . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .780

Print negative and mirror images . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .782

Trap objects . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 782

Processing color documents using OPI . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 783

Print to Linotronic typesetters . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 783

Print documents . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 784

Print to a desktop printer . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .784

Print options . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .784

Create PostScript files . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .786

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Content Management Systems . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 788

Adobe Experience Manager . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 788

Set up the AEM connector . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 788

Repository Manager . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 789

Create a CRX folder and upload files . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 790

Other operations on the folder . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 791

Working with files . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 792

Check out a file . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .792

Check in a file . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .792

Cancel Checkout of a file . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .792

Other operations on a file . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 792

Searching in the AEM repository . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 793

Repository search . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .793

Attribute search . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .795

Advanced search . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .795

Review . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 797

Associate XMP Metadata . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 798

Manage AEM preferences . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 798

Documentum, SharePoint, and DITAExchange . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 800

Configure the connectors . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 801

Set default file versioning . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .801

Setup and configure the Documentum connector . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 801

Add the FrameMaker types and formats on the Server . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 802

Set up sample Adobe FrameMaker DITA Applications for Documentum Server . . . . .802

Connect to the content management system . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 802

Using Repository Manager . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 803

Upload files and folders . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 804

Upload files . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 805

Upload folders . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 806

Manage resources . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 806

Manage Documentum cabinets, folders, and files . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 806

Check out files . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 808

Check in files . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 808

Manage files . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .808

Search files . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 809

Basic search . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .809

Advanced search in SharePoint or DITAExchange . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .810

Filter files by attributes in DITAExchange . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .811

Advanced search in Documentum . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .813

Add custom CMS attributes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 814

Add a custom property for Documentum . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 815

Add a custom property for SharePoint . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .816

WebDAV . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 816

Getting started . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 817

Advantages of using Browse URL . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 817

Using the Browse URL workflow . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 817

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Save a WebDAV server connection . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .818

Setting preferences . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .819

Using HTTP paths to open files . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .819

Add, open, and save documents . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 819

Associate a template with a folder . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 821

Scripting in FrameMaker . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 822

What is scripting? . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 822

Why use scripting? . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 822

Getting started with scripting . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 822

Run scripts . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 822

Manage scripts . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 823

Manage favorite scripts . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .824

Manage autorun scripts . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .824

Manage registered (notification) scripts . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .825

Other features . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .825

Using ExtendScript Toolkit . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 826

Appendix . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 827

Keyboard shortcuts . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 828

About keyboard shortcuts . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 828

Conventions and function keys . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .828

Navigating through documents . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 830

Book commands . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 831

Documents . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 832

Help . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .832

Open . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 833

Save and Close . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 833

Cancel and Undo . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .833

Navigation within a document . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 834

Document redisplay . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 834

Zoom . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .834

Hypertext documents . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 835

Dialog boxes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 835

Typing in dialog boxes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .835

Window manipulation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .837

Display and activation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .837

Navigation within dialog boxes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 838

Command buttons . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .838

Radio buttons and checkboxes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .839

Pop-up menus . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .839

Scroll lists . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .839

Custom menus . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 839

Document design . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 840

Master and reference pages . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .840

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Page layout . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 840

Import formats . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 840

Side-head area . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 840

Text flows . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 841

Document utilities . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 841

Spelling Checker . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .841

Thesaurus . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .842

Document comparison . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 842

Document reports . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .843

HTML and PDF export . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .843

Reference Updating . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .843

Drawing . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 843

Pen patterns . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .844

Fill patterns . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .845

Line widths . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 845

Line styles . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .845

Adding color . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 846

Color selection . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 846

Color views . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 846

Editing objects . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 846

Object selection . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 847

Object manipulation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .847

Object movement . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 848

Object alignment . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .848

Object rotation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .849

Graphic frames . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .849

Editing text . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 849

Element menu . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 851

Entering special characters . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 851

Equations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 853

Equations pop-up menu . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 853

Symbols page . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .853

Operators page . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .857

Large page . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .859

Delimiters page . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .859

Relations page . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .861

Calculus page . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 862

Matrices page . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .863

Functions page . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 864

Positioning pages . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .866

Navigating in an equation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 868

Filter By Attribute . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 869

Find and change . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 869

Function keys . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 871

Hierarchical element insert . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 872

Markers and variables . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 872

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Marker insertion . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .872

Variable insertion . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .872

Menu commands . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 873

Context menus . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .873

File menu (document window) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 873

File menu (book window) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .874

Edit menu (document window) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .875

Edit menu (book window) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .876

Add menu (book window) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .877

Element menu . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 878

Format menu . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 878

View menu (document window) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .880

View menu (book window) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .881

Special menu . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .883

Graphics menu . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 885

Table menu . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .887

StructureTools menu . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .888

DITA menu . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .889

Window menu . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 889

Screen modes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 890

Selection . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 890

Tables . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 890

Selection in tables . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .891

Navigating through tables . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .891

Tab characters in cells . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .892

Row and column manipulation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .892

Row and column replacement . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .893

Vertical alignment in cells . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .893

Column width . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 893

Table Designer . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .894

Table formats . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .894

Text . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 894

Insertion point movement . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .894

Insertion point placement . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 895

Text selection . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .896

Text editing . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .897

Asian text . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .898

Text deletion . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .898

Capitalization . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 898

Text formatting . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 899

Character and Paragraph Designers . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 899

Paragraph formats . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 899

Character formats . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .900

Object styles . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 902

Track Text Edit . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 902

Conditional text display . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .903

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Conditional text window . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .903

Condition tags . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .903

Views . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 904

Working with structure . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 904

Other useful shortcuts . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 906

Character sets . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 907

Windows character sets . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 907

Standard character set for hyphens, spaces, returns, undisplayed characters . . . . . . . . .907

Standard character set . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 909

Symbol and ZapfDingbats character sets . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 919

Unsupported keyboard shortcuts for the Symbol and Dingbats character set . . . . . . . . .923

Support for FrameMaker 7.x character set . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 929

Keyboard shortcut support . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .929

Using key sequences . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .930

Additional resources . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 931

Structured authoring . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 931

FrameMaker Publishing Server . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 931

INI and MIF Reference . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 931

Programming and scripting . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 932

Legal notices . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 933

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Getting started

Adobe FrameMaker is a complete content authoring solution with the required product maturity to
support complex authoring environments and publishing needs.

Before you begin working with FrameMaker, take a few moments to read an overview of its capabilities
and learn how to install, activate, and register the software. In addition to the information provided in this
guide, you can access instructional videos, plug-ins, templates, user communities, seminars, tutorials, RSS
feeds, and much more online.

To get an overview of FrameMaker, see What is FrameMaker.

What is FrameMaker

If you need a versatile solution that takes care of all your authoring and publishing needs, FrameMaker is
the answer:

• Whether you want to create a document that enforces a tight structure or whether you want to take
a template-based approach, FrameMaker offers its powerful tools in the most accessible ways for
individuals as well as teams.

• With the advanced review and collaboration capabilities of FrameMaker, you can seamlessly inte­grate and address review comments.

• FrameMaker lets you effortlessly tie your files to Adobe Experience Manager, Documentum, Share­Point, or any content management system of your choice.

• A large set of publishing options enables you to customize and deliver your content to multiple
devices.

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FrameMaker is a versatile solution for all your authoring and publishing needs

Author and enrich content

While the nature of some documents calls for structured authoring, you may want to use the free-flow
mode of authoring for other documents. Graphics, tables, and rich-media objects are only some of the few
ways in which you can enrich content. FrameMaker gives you the flexibility to choose your mode of
authoring and also gives you several options to enhance content.

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Manage and collaborate

Speed and accuracy are paramount in keeping your content current as well as relevant. You have several
options to conduct content reviews and ensure smooth collaboration with team members. Use change
bars, enable tracking of text edits, or set up shared PDF reviews depending upon your need. You can also
use FrameMaker to directly access and upload assets to a content management system.

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For details, see Structuredauthoring.

Publish across multiple channels

The current demands of content publishing requires the support for an ever-growing number of formats
and devices. FrameMaker meets your complex publishing needs in the most easy-to-use and efficient ways.
You can generate PDF, Responsive HTML5, or output for Kindle devices, among other output formats.
You can also choose to customize your output by changing styles and themes, setting templates, enabling
encoding, or setting up content search options. Generate a single output format or multiple formats at one
go.

For details, see Multichannelpublishing.

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Supported software

FrameMaker supports the following software in its work-flows:

• Microsoft Office 365 (only documents downloaded from Office 365) or Microsoft Word 2013, 2010

• Adobe Acrobat Pro DC (2015 release) or XI

• Adobe Captivate 9 or 8

• EMC Documentum 7.2 or 6.7

• Microsoft SharePoint 2013 or 2010

• Adobe Experience Manager 6.2 or 6.1

• DitaExchange

• DITA-OT 2.3

• Adobe RoboHelp Server 10

Authoring modes

FrameMaker offers the following authoring modes:

• FrameMaker mode

• Structured FrameMaker mode

Depending on whether you take the structured or unstructured approach to content authoring, you can
choose an appropriate FrameMaker mode for your content.

FrameMaker mode

The FrameMaker mode is ideal for authoring content that need not be tied to a rigid structure. The
unstructured style of authoring relies on a template to define the presentation of content. Font, paragraph,
table, and other formats are often based on style guides, and content writing rules specified by editors. You,
as an author, decide the content flow and formatting. For example, depending on the nature of content,
you may include headings followed either by paragraphs or by graphics. This means that in an unstruc­tured authoring workflow, you create relatively free-flow documents that are largely style-based.

A typical workflow for unstructured authoring in FrameMaker comprises the following tasks:

• Create single documents or include multiple documents in a book.

• Specify how content is presented by defining font, paragraph, and table formats among others.

• Create templates, with appropriate styles, that can be shared with multiple authors.

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• Use the Document window to author in this free-form environment. Type Enter to create a new para­graph or place the insertion point at the required location before you insert objects like images and
tables.

• Author in any of the supported formats:

– unstructured documents (.fm)
– Maker Interchange Format documents (.mif)
– books (.book)

NOTE: You cannot use the FrameMaker mode to open structured documents.

Structured FrameMaker mode

Use the Structured FrameMaker mode for documents that need to adhere to a structure. The structure is
defined in terms of the elements that are available to the document as well as the valid location of these
elements in the structure.

Every part of a document, for example, a paragraph, a section, a topic, or a table, is expressed as an element.
When you create a structured document, you need to ensure that every element is present at a structurally
valid location. Structured authoring ensures consistency of structure across similar pieces of content.

Following are some examples of structural rules:

• A bulleted list must contain at least three items

• A heading must be followed by a paragraph.

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• A table must have a heading row.

• A graphic must have a caption.

A typical workflow for structured authoring in FrameMaker comprises the following tasks:

• Create individual structured documents or include multiple documents in a DITAmap or a book.

• Use the existing structured samples or create a custom structure based on EDDs or DTDs.

• Include the right elements to define the flow of content. Some elements also include formatting
information that you can use to specify styles.

• The underlying structure ensures consistency across content in a multi-author environment.

• Use the Elements catalog or keyboard shortcuts to insert new elements for text, images, tables, and
other objects.

• Use the Structure view to navigate through your document and also move elements around. The
Structure view also indicates the validity of your document against the underlying structure.

• Author in any of the supported formats:

– structured documents (.fm)
– XML documents (.xml)
– books (.book)

See a video on Introduction to Structured FrameMaker (2017 release).

NOTE: You can also choose to work with unstructured documents in the Structured mode. All features of the

FrameMaker mode are available in the Structured mode.

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Choose an authoring mode

The first time you launch FrameMaker, the default authoring mode is set to Structured FrameMaker. You
can change the mode from the Preferences dialog:

1) Open the Preferences dialog (Edit > Preferences).

2) In the Preferences dialog, go to Global > General tab.

3) In the Product Interface drop-down list, choose the FrameMaker mode and click OK.

You are prompted to restart FrameMaker for the changes to take effect.

The FrameMaker user interface provides for a seamless transition between unstructured and structured
authoring. The menu options and other user interface elements are consistent between both the modes.
The options, however, are specific to the mode in which you are authoring.

What’s new in Adobe FrameMaker (2017 release)

Adobe FrameMaker 2017 ships with a number of enhancements. See a video on Introduction to

FrameMaker (2017 release) features.

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Authoring and productivity enhancements

User interface enhancements

The following enhancements have been made in the latest user interface of FrameMaker.

Support for high-resolution screens

FrameMaker's user interface is now compatible with high-resolution screens ranging up to 3480 x
2160 pixels. Earlier, when you launched FrameMaker on a high-resolution display device, the text on
the user interface would render too small. You would have to use a workaround to overcome this
problem for earlier versions of FrameMaker. However, starting from 2017 release, FrameMaker
supports high-resolution display devices. The user interface and all text automatically resizes as per
Windows display settings.

New welcome screen

FrameMaker (2017 release) comes with a completely new look and feel. You will notice the change
right from the welcome screen.

The welcome screen is divided into three panes. The left pane allows you to work with recent docu­ments, browse to and open documents, connect to a document repository, or restore your last
session. The middle pane allows you to create a new document based on a template. And, the right
pane contain links to the valuable FrameMaker resources.

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For more information, see Welcomescreen.

Enhanced Table, Paragraph, and Character Designers

The new table, paragraph, and character designer comes with intuitive looks and presents the config­urable options more clearly. You will notice the following enhancements in the new pod:

• Styling icons in table and paragraph designers have been replaced with labeled buttons

• Configurable options have been reorganized and relabeled

• The redundant command operations have been removed, which were: New Format and Delete
Format

• One button for creating new style and updating all style formatting

Improved Conditional Tags pod

The following improvements have been introduced in the Conditional Tags pod:

• Adding or editing a conditional tag now happens through a dialog

• The old Select drop-down list has been replaced with Filter icon

• The Color and Background columns have been removed

• The conditional tags are listed with their close-to-final formatting

• A tooltip is displayed for conditional tags listed in the pod

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For more information, see ConditionalTagspod.

Enhanced image insertion workflow

A new Insert menu has been introduced in FrameMaker that allows you to insert images, and also a
few other components. If you choose Insert > Image workflow to insert and image, you no longer
have to select the DPI settings for the imported image. The DPI settings are retained from the image
itself. If the image is larger than the page width, it is automatically resized to fit into the page width.
You can change the other properties of the image from the Object Properties pod.

You can also insert an image by dragging it from Windows Explorer and dropping it onto your active
document. The image gets inserted in an anchored frame. When you save your document, the image
is also saved along with the document, which was not the case in earlier version of FrameMaker.

For more information, see Importgraphics.

Redesigned catalog pods

Catalog pod like Paragraph, Character, Table, Object, and Elements have been redesigned. The old
buttons for refresh, options, and delete have now been replaced with icons at the top of the pod. Also,
the dialog to delete an item from the catalog has been simplified by removing the redundant Cancel
button.

Session-level scope for View menu commands

Earlier when you selected a command from the View menu, the command would impact only the
active document. However, from 2017 release, if you choose any command from the View menu, it
will impact all documents opened in the current session. The following commands in the View menu
affect the structured and unstructured documents:

•Borders

• Text Symbols

• Rulers

• Grid Lines

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• Hotspot Indicators

However, the following commands in the View menu affect only the structured documents:

• Element Boundaries

• Element Boundaries (as Tags)

• Element Banner Text

For more information, see Viewingoptions.

Pods to dialog conversion

For improved usability, few pods have been converted into dialogs. Additionally, for some pods, the
positioning in the main menu has been reorganized which aligns with their functionality. The
following table lists the pods that have now been converted into dialogs, and their old and new menu
positions have also been listed:

Pod Old menu position New menu position

Align Graphics > Align Graphics > Arrange > Align

Text Inset Properties Edit > Text Inset Properties Edit > Text Inset Properties

Add Conditional Tags Special > Conditional Text >

Conditional Tags > Create New Tag

Add Variable Special > Variables > Create New User

Va ri a bl e

Page Break Special > Page Break Insert > Page Break

View > Pods > Conditional Tags >
Create New Tag

Insert > Variables > Create New User
Va ri a bl e

Command shortcuts added in main menu

Earlier, the commands shortcut keys were available only in the user guide. This made it a bit difficult
for the new users to find the command shortcuts. Now, the shortcut keys are shown along with the
command labels in the menu itself. Users can quickly launch the command by using the shortcut
keys.

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New name and menu location for pods

The following pods have been renamed and repositioned in the main menu:

• History pod

The History pod has now been renamed as Undo History pod. This is primarily because this pod dis‐
plays only those actions that can be undone. Also, the new menu location to launch the Undo History
pod is View > Undo History or you can also use the shortcut keys Ctrl+K.

• Currently Opened Files pod

Currently Opened Files pod has now been renamed as Open Files pod. The new menu location for
this pod is View > Open Files and the shortcut keys to invoke it is Esc+S+F+L.

• Page Break pod

The Page Break pod has been moved into Insert menu. Also, new page break options have been add‐
ed into the dialog.

Console window changed to pod

The FrameMaker Console window displays the error description and file that contains the error.
This window has now been converted into a pod. You can launch this pod from the new menu loca­tion View > Pods > Console, or use Esc+c+P shortcut keys.

Other user interface modernization updates

• For pods where information is shown in the form of a list, such as Conditional Tags or Cross-Refer­ences pods, a tooltip is displayed for items listed in the pod.

• Adding or editing a variable now happens through a dialog

• List of fonts is displayed in a single column.

• All dialogs open in center of the screen.

• List of symbols is alphabetically sorted and you can insert symbols from Insert > Symbols menu.

• List of items by which you can perform a search in the Find/Change dialog are shown in alphabetical
order. Also, a history of search is maintained across sessions.

• The message shown in the alert pop-up on opening an older version of file is simplified.

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• The resize gripper from all pods has been removed. You can adjust the pod size by simply dragging
it from any edge.

• The pods have been rearranged to optimize screen usage and enhance usability. The following pods
now show up in the bottom right corner of the user interface:

– Conditional Tags
– Cross-Reference
–Markers
–Fonts
–Insets
–Variables
– References
–Hotspots
– Open Files
– Review Comments

New project manager

Project management feature has been added in FrameMaker (2017 release). With the latest project
management capabilities, you can:

• Organize content such as DITA map, book, topic, image, TOC, index files related to a project at a
single place

• Drag-and-drop files from Windows explorer onto your project window to add files

• Drag-and-drop images from project window to an active document

For more information, see Projects.

Structured authoring enhancements

The following enhancements have been made in the structured authoring environment:

• In the Attributes pod, if there is not value assigned to an attribute, the Value field will be blank.
Earlier, the Value field contained temporary text <no value> in it.

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• The Status bar now provides information about the exact path of the current element in your struc­tured document.

In the above example, the cursor is placed at the paragraph within the prereq element in the doc‐
ument, the same information is presented in the Status bar as breadcrumb.

• You can show or hide content from the Structure View. To toggle between views, simply select the
Show Text option from the context menu or from the main menu choose View > Show Text in Struc­ture View. By default, the content is shown in the Structure View.

NOTE: See a video on XML/DITA Authoring in FrameMaker (2017 release).

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Changes in the Insert Cross-References pod interface

The user interface and workflow to insert a cross-reference in a structured document has been
enhanced. The workflow for using Keyspaces in cross-references has been modified by removing a
redundant Key Reference dialog. In addition, a powerful search functionality has been added in the
Insert Cross-References dialog. For inserting cross-reference, you can search for the required text by
its element type, ID, or text. The new menu location to insert cross-reference is Insert > Cross-Refer­ence or you can also use the shortcut keys Esc+s+c.

For more information, see Cross-references.

DITA Keyspace Manager improvements

Working with the DITA Keyspace Manager dialog has been made easier by introduction of the
following new features:

• If any DITA map is open in the current session, then it is added in the drop-down list of the Keys­paces.

• You can search for a keyspace by entering the first few characters of the key.

• By default, the first key in the list is always selected.

• If you click OK on the dialog, a common keyspace is considered for all open DITA maps.

• If you want to select a different keyspace for a particular document, then it can be set using the set
keyspace manager.

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• No different entry is made for the default keyspace (<default> filename) in the Keyspace drop-down
list.

• You can set the keyspace from multiple paths. For example, you can set keyspace from DITA
cross-reference, DITA link, insert conref, and more.

Element menu enhancements

A lot of new commands have been added in the Element menu to help you work more efficiently and
easily with structured elements. In addition, a shortcut key is assigned to all of these commands to
help you perform tasks quickly. A list of commands in the Element menu along with their shortcut
keys is given in the following table:

Command name Shortcut

Insert Element Ctrl+1

Wrap Element Ctrl+2

Change Element Ctrl+3

Unwrap Esc+E+u

Edit Attributes Esc+E+A

Namespaces Esc+E+N

Merge Esc+E+m

Merge Into Last Esc+E+M

Split Esc+E+s

Promote Element Esc+E+P

Demote Element Esc+E+D

Toggle Element Collapse Esc+E+x

Toggle Element Collapse All Siblings Esc+E+X

Transpose With Previous Esc+E+T

Transpose With Next Esc+E+t

Repeat Last Element Command Esc+e+e

Move To Next Element Esc+s+D

Move To Previous Element Esc+s+U

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Command name Shortcut

Move Into Next Child Esc+s+N

Move To Start of Element Esc+s+S

Move To End of Element Esc+s+E

Move To Before Element Esc+s+B

Launch Config File Maker Esc+C+F+M

Attribute Display Options Esc+v+A

Set Available Elements Esc+E+O+C

New Element Options Esc+E+O+I

Authoring enhancements

The following enhancements to the authoring feature have been introduced.

New command search and execute tool

FrameMaker has hundreds of menu commands. At times, even experienced users might find it a bit
tedious to locate the required command in the menus. FrameMaker (2017 release) comes with the
powerful search command feature. Using this feature, you can enter the name of the command that
you are looking for and the search command tool returns the commands matching the search string.
Once the required command is located, you can execute the command from the tool itself. The search
command tool lists the commands and the corresponding shortcut keys to invoke the command.

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Mini TOC auto-update

A mini TOC in your document gets automatically updated when you save or print that document.
The other ways to update the mini TOC are through the main menu (Edit > Update Book), or the
context menu.

For more information, see Generateaminiature tableof contents.

Improved auto-spell checker

If you have enabled auto-spell check feature in FrameMaker, you see a red squiggly line under all
words as you type. This behavior has now been improved. You will see the red squiggly line only after
you have typed the complete word, and the word is not available in the dictionary. Also, the Hunspell
dictionary has been updated to provide you better spell-checking functionality.

For more information, see SpellingChecker.

Farsi to Numeric command in Direction Toolbar

The Direction Toolbar has been enhanced by adding Farsi to Numeric and Numeric to Farsi conver­sion commands.

RTL markers moved to Insert menu

The RTL directional marker have been removed from the Directional Toolbar and placed under the
Insert menu. You can insert directional marker from the main menu by choosing Insert > Direc­tional Marks and selecting the desired directional marker.

Performance improvements

You will find the following performance improvements in FrameMaker (2017 release):

• A structured document with a large number of nested cross-references opens up much faster.

• While working with a document repository in a CMS, the behavior of dependent document has been
improved. Now, if a dependent document is updated, every time you open the parent document, a
latest version of the dependent document is also fetched from the repository.

Publishing enhancements

Search autocomplete

The search field in the responsive HTML5 output now displays predictive search results based on a few
characters that you type. The entire help content including the text in SVG images is now indexed and is
made searchable. The search results also display the minimum count of appearance of the entered word or

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phrase in the published output. The search results are ranked based on the frequency of the search term's
occurrence within the content.

For more information, see Multichannelpublishing.

Next-generation responsive HTML5 layouts

Present visually rich content to your users through the two newly designed frameless Responsive HTML5
layouts - Indigo and Ocean. These new modern frameless HTML5 layouts deliver a superior search and
navigation experience. You can configure these layouts to match your corporate branding and suit the
needs of your users.

Greater content accessibility with 508 compliance

Expand the reach of your content to people with special needs. All responsive HTML5 layouts are 508
compliant. Using any of the responsive HTML5 layout, you can create content that can be consumed by
people with special needs.

IMPORTANT: As there are a number of 508 compliance checking tools, you might see some warnings or minor

errors related to the following checks:

• Script: Script must have a <noscript> Section

• Text equivalents: iframe missing alternate content

• Stylesheets in use: Content possibly not readable when stylesheet are removed

• Skip repetitive navigation links: Document may be missing a "skip to content" link

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• Color also available without color: Input possibly using color alone

• Accessible forms: Input element, type of "text", missing an associated label

Text search within SVG images in responsive HTML5 output

The latest responsive HTML5 output allows you to search text within SVG images. SVG defines graphics
in XML format, which makes them readable. Using this property of the SVG graphics, FrameMaker can
now read the information stored in the SVG graphics’ <text>, <tspan>, and <textpath> nodes.
When you perform a search in HTML5 output, information in the respective nodes within SVG files is also
read and displayed in the search results.

Support for DITA attributes in dynamic content filters

You can now use the DITA attributes to generate dynamic content filters for responsive HTML5 and
mobile app outputs. A new Select Conditional Attribute dialog has been introduced wherein you can
specify the DITA attribute to filter content.

For more information, see Generatedynamiccontentoutput.

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Dynamic Content Filters support for indexes

Earlier the dynamic content filters would not work on index entries. If a conditional tag was applied on the
content for which there was a corresponding index entry, the index entry would be visible even if the
content was hidden. This behavior has now been changed with the display of the index entries being
controlled by the dynamic content filters. If the main content does not show up for the selected filter, its
corresponding index entry also gets hidden.

Manage styles from a single CSS file

Whenever you generated an output, the publishing process would create a CSS file for each document in
your book or DITA map file. This would make management of the CSS files a bit complex. You can now
have only a single CSS file in the published output to manage styles across all documents in your book or
map file. You can generate a single CSS file by selecting Merge topic styles to single CSS option in the Publish
Settings dialog.

For more information, see the Generalsettings section in Configurepublishsettings

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Improved image and multimedia files management

Images and multimedia files management has been streamlined in the latest version of FrameMaker.
Earlier, if an image file was referenced at multiple places, then the publishing process would create as many
number of copies of the image file. This would increase the size of the published output and also make it
difficult to manage. Now, if there are multiple references for an image file, there would only be a single
copy of that image in the published output.

In addition, if the source document references image and multimedia files across different folders, they all
are stored under a single folder in the published output. A folder named assets is created within the root
folder of the published output and all image and multimedia files are placed under this folder. All refer­ences in the published output are automatically updated to point to the resource in the assets folder.

Better handling of inline styles

If your source document has inline styles applied, then you can control the way you want them in your
published output. For example, if you have applied a style on a specific paragraph and you don't want that
style in your final output, then you can select Cleanup Inline HTML Styles option in the General Setting of
the Publish Setting dialog. Once you select this option, all inline styles are excluded from the final output.
However, if you do not select this option, the style is published as an inline style in your output.

For more information, see the Generalsettings section in Configurepublishsettings

Publish all topic into a single folder

You can split topics based on your paragraph style mappings. A folder with the file name of your topic in
the book or DITA map is created in the final output. And, all HTML files are saved under these topic
folders. If you do not want to have multiple folders in your final output, you can save all HTML files within
a single folder. To do so, you simply select the Keep all topics in one folder option in the General Settings
of the Publish Settings dialog. Once you select this option, all topic HTMLs are saved under a folder named

topics.

New basic HTML output generation support

A Basic HTML output format has been added into the existing bucket of output formats that you can
generated from FrameMaker. The Basic HTML output format takes each topic file within your book or
DITA map and generates a corresponding HTML file with the similar look-and-feel controlled through a
CSS file. The output is generated without any JavaScript or custom layouts. This type of output is extremely
light and easy to share with your intended audience.

Table of contents and index improvements

The layout of table of contents and index has been enhanced which makes them cleaner and intuitive. Also,
the format of storing index data has been changed from XML to JSON. Unlike XML, which requires an
XML parser, JSON can be parsed by any programming language such as JavaScript, C, Python, and many

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more. Because of lightweight data-interchange format of JSON, it improves the search experience of index
entries.

Context-sensitive help support in DITA 1.3

You can now use the resourceid element of DITA 1.3 to provide information to the context-sensitive
help systems. FrameMaker supports generating Responsive HTML5 and Microsoft HTML Help outputs
with context-sensitive help.

Installation and registration

Follow these instructions to get up and running with FrameMaker on your computer.

System requirements

Before installing FrameMaker, make sure that you have the required hardware and software:

• Intel Pentium 4 or faster processor

• Microsoft Windows 10, 8.1 or 7

• 1 GB of RAM (2 GB recommended)

• 3 GB of available hard-disk space for installation; additional free space required during installation
(cannot install on a volume that uses a case-sensitive file system or on removable flash storage
devices)

•JRE 8

• DVD-ROM drive

• Maximum supported screen resolution – 4K (3480 x 2160, 8.3 megapixel, aspect ratio 16:9)

This software does not operate without activation. A broadband Internet connection and registration are
required for software activation, validation of subscriptions, and access to Online Services.

NOTE: Phone activation is not available.

Available in languages

FrameMaker is available in the following languages:

• Deutsch

• English

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•Français

• Japanese

Install FrameMaker

To install FrameMaker:

1) Close any Adobe applications open on your computer.

2) Insert the installation disc into your disk drive, and follow the on-screen instructions.

During the installation process, your Adobe software contacts an Adobe server to complete the license
activation process. No personal data is transmitted. For more information on product activation, visit the
Adobe website at www.adobe.com/go/activation

NOTE: You can have more than one version of FrameMaker installed on your computer.The default

FrameMaker installation path on a Windows system is: C:\Program Files (x86)\Adobe\AdobeFrameMaker

2017. In this guide, the default FrameMaker installation location is referred to as <Fm_install_location>.

Register

Register your product to receive complimentary installation support, notifications of updates, and other
services.

1) To register, follow the onscreen instructions in the Registration dialog box, which appears when you
first start the software.

TIP: If you postpone registration, you can register at any time by choosing Help > Registration.

General resources

Resource URL

FrameMaker Help PDF http://www.adobe.com/go/learn_fm_ug_en

Getting started with FrameMaker http://www.adobe.com/go/learn_fm_gsg_en

Video tutorials https://helpx.adobe.com/framemaker/video-hub.html

Frequently Asked Questions http://www.adobe.com/go/learn_fm_faq_en

System Requirements http://www.adobe.com/go/learn_fm_sys_req_en

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Resource URL

FrameMaker forum https://forums.adobe.com/community/framemaker/

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FrameMaker basics

FrameMaker has an extensive user interface that helps you perform all authoring and publishing tasks with
ease. Understand the various elements of the FrameMaker’s user interface, how to get started by creating
a document, and learn how to work with bi-directional content.

User interface

Welcome screen

FrameMaker displays a Welcome screen based on the current mode.

The Welcome screen provides options for performing a set of commonly required tasks as relevant to the
current mode of FrameMaker.

• Open recent documents

• Create new DITA maps, DITA files, XML files, change DITA version

• Create new CMS connection, open recent connection

• Create new project, documents, books,

• Access FrameMaker templates

• Access FrameMaker learning resources

• Access support, product updates, developer center, forums, marketing content

• Restore the last session

You can also customize the Welcome screen by rearranging or adding information on the Welcome
Screen. The Welcome screen customization is done by updating the welcome.html file which is avail­able at the following location:

%appdata%\Adobe\FrameMaker\14\resources\welcomeScreen\

The Welcome screen, as shown in the following figure, is displayed on launching FrameMaker in struc­tured mode.

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NOTE: To get the best experience out of the new Welcome screen, it is recommended to use Internet Explorer

11 or above. If you are using an earlier version of Internet Explorer, the Welcome screen might look distorted.

Workspaces

A particular arrangement of elements, such as pods that you use frequently while working on documents,
is called a workspace. You can dock, stack, minimize, or make these elements free-floating in your work­space. You can select from several preset workspaces or create one of your own. Once you have arranged
the pods, you can save the workspace settings for use later.

The FrameMaker interface has the following components.

•The Application bar across the top contains a workspace switcher, menus, and other application
controls.

•The document window displays the file you’re working on. Document windows can be tabbed and,
in certain cases, grouped and docked.

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• Pods help you monitor and modify your work. Examples include character, paragraph, and table
designers; and marker, variable, cross-reference pods. You can minimize, group, stack, or dock pods.

•The status bar shows text formatting and pagination information for the current document. For
structured documents, the status bar also displays breadcrumb of the currently selected element.

Standard workspaces

You can choose from standard workspaces or create custom workspaces and switch between them. The
standard workspaces are designed so that you can quickly switch between workspaces according to what
you want to accomplish. For example, the Review workspace has review toolbars, commonly used pods,
and pods prearranged to help you review a document quickly.

• Authoring

• DITA Authoring (available only in Structured FrameMaker)

• Manage Content

• Manage Graphics

• Review

• Structured Authoring (available only in Structured FrameMaker)

Save a custom workspace

1) Configure the workspace the way you want it and choose Save Workspace from the workspace
switcher on the Application bar.

2) Type a name for the workspace and click OK.

FrameMaker remembers the last used workspace across sessions. If you were working in the Review work­space and you close and relaunch FrameMaker, it loads the Review workspace.

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Switch workspaces

1) Select a workspace from the workspace switcher in the Application bar.

Use the workspace switcher to switch between workspaces designed for your workflow.

Reset a workspace

By saving the current configuration of pods as a named workspace, you can restore that workspace even if
you move or close a pod. The names of saved workspaces appear in the workspace switcher in the Appli­cation bar.

Select the Reset Workspace option from the workspace switcher in the Application bar.

Rename a custom workspace

1) Select Manage Workspace from the workspace switcher in the Application bar.

2) Select the workspace and click Rename.

3) Type a new name and click OK twice.

Delete a custom workspace

Select Manage Workspace from the workspace switcher in the Application bar, select the workspace, and
then click Delete.

Document window

A document window appears when you open a structured or unstructured FrameMaker document. The
window shows the document text formatted, with graphics and other items in place, and everything laid
out in a page design. If more than one document is open, a document window appears for each one.

The document window is the only window available in the unstructured workspace. In the structured
workspace, you can also view element boundaries in the document window.

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Tabbed documents

When you open more than one file, the document windows are tabbed. You can open documents as
floating windows by clearing the Open Documents As Tabs option in the Interface Preferences dialog box.

Documents appear as tabs in the document view

However, when you add a generated file, such as a Table of Contents, the generated file appears minimized
in the lower-left corner of your workspace. There are multiple ways in which you can organize floating and
tabbed document windows.

• To dock a document window in a group of document windows, drag the window into the group.

• To rearrange the order of tabbed document windows, drag a window’s tab to a new location in the
group.

• To undock a document window from a group of windows, drag the window’s tab out of the group.

NOTE: When you minimize a floating document window, it covers a part of the FrameMaker status
bar. You cannot move the minimized window to a new location.

Pods

Pods are floating panels with an interface designed to simplify your work. FrameMaker offers the following
key pods:

• Conditional Tags pod

• Cross-References pod

• Markers pod

• Fonts pod

• Insets pod

• Variables pod

• References pods

• Open Files pod

• Review Comments

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Pod interface

A. Search pod entries - as you type, FrameMaker searches through all the columns for matches and keeps
displaying them B. Pod-specific toolbar buttons C. Arrow on column headers indicates sort order D. Pod
list area E. Tooltip F. Details of each instance include location. You can customize the location using the
Pods Location Criteria dialog box.

NOTE: By default, pods open up in the pod list area in the right pane. If you move the pods around,

FrameMaker remembers the pod location. Th next time you launch the pod, it is displayed at the last closed
location.

Close pods and tab groups

Pods have a button on the right side of the title bar that you can click to close a pod or a tab group (group
of pods).

• Close: Closes just the pod in focus (the Markers pod, in this case)

• Close Tab Group: Closes all the pods in the tab group

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Also, by double-clicking in the title of a pod, you can minimize or maximize that pod as well as the whole
tab group it is a part of.

Pod list area

The Select pop-up displays a list of all open documents, including books and DITA maps. If you select All
Open Docs, the pod list area displays all the variables from all the open documents. If you select a specific
open document, the pod list area displays variables from the selected document even when you switch to
other open documents. The pod list area continues to display the list of instances from the selected docu­ment.

If you select the Current option, the pod list area displays the list of instances from the selected document.
The list area refreshes when you switch between open documents. However, when you switch between
pods, you may need to click the Refresh button.

If you select an open document

• Single-click an instance in the pod to display the corresponding instance in the document. For
example, if you select an image instance from the Insets pod, the corresponding image is also selected
in the document view.

• Double-click an instance to do the following for each pod:

Conditional Tags pod

Displays the Add/Edit Condition Tag pod for the selected condition.

Cross-references pod

Displays the Cross-Reference pod for editing the selected cross-reference.

Markers pod

Displays the Markers pod so that you can edit the selected marker definition.

Fonts pod

Displays the Replace Font pod for selecting a replacement font.

Insets pod

Displays the Object Properties pod for the selected inset.

Variables pod

Adds the selected variable at the insertion point in the current document.

Hotspots pod

Displays the Hotspots pod for editing the selected hotspot.

Reference pod

Displays the results of the search for locations where a particular element is referenced. This pod is
only relevant for DITA documents.

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Open Files

Lets you manage and navigate through large number of open files.

NOTE: Click a column name to sort the data in the list area in ascending or descending order.

Console pod

Displays the Console pod listing warnings and error messages.

Review Comments

Displays and lets you manage the review comments received from reviewers

Setting pod location criteria

The pod location criteria determine what should be displayed in the pod list area for an instance by way of
identifying its location in the document.

For example, you can define two Paragraph tags that should be displayed as the location identifier for a
marker. FrameMaker searches backwards for the first match of the first Paragraph tag that you have spec­ified and displays it in the pod. Suppose you specify the first Paragraph tag as Topic_Title in the Location
Criteria dialog box. FrameMaker locates a marker and traverses backwards to display the first topic title in
which the marker occurs. If you specify the second Paragraph tag as Article_Name, FrameMaker displays
the exact article name to which the topic belongs.

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A. In structured interface, you can specify either the paragraph styles or the element names. In unstruc­tured FrameMaker, you can only specify paragraph styles. B. Specify the first paragraph style. C. Specify
the second paragraph style.

1) Choose Edit > Preferences.

2) Select Pods.

3) Select Element Name if you want the pod to display the element names in which the instance is
located.

4) Specify valid element names and click OK.

Toolbars

You can access all commonly used commands from the following toolbars for use in structured or unstruc­tured documents. You can display a toolbar from the View > Toolbars menu.

Graphics Toolbar

Provides shortcuts for graphics creation and edits.

Quick Access Bar

Provides commands for opening and saving documents, editing text, graphics, and tables.

Structured Access Bar

Provides commands for working with the structured document, such as add an XML document,
open element catalog, edit attributes, and more.

Text Formatting

Provides text formatting commands, such as font styles.

Table Formatting

Provides table editing commands, such as add rows, columns, merge cells, and text alignment
options for table cells.

Paragraph Formatting

Provides commands for formatting paragraphs, such as tab stops, text alignment, spacing, as well as
the paragraph tag list.

Object Alignment

Provides commands to change sequence, alignment, and orientation of objects.

Object Properties

Provides commands to group objects, change layer order, reshape, scale, and snap objects.

Track Text Edits

Provides commands for tracking, accepting, and rejecting text edits.

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Quick Element

Provides commands inserting and wrapping common structured document elements.

Direction Toolbar

Provides commands for working with bi-directional documents.

You also have keyboard shortcuts for all commands accessible through the toolbars and menus. For a list
of all the keyboard shortcuts see Keyboardshortcuts.

Toolbar icons

FrameMaker gives you a predefined set of greyscale icons. These icons resize according to the resolution
of your display device.

Customize icons

You can also add your own custom icons in FrameMaker.

1) Locate the toolbar.xml file relevant to your view and mode and open it.

2) Create and place all the icon files in AppData\Roaming\Adobe\FrameMaker\13\.

3) Locate the Action element relevant to the icon you want to customize. The Action element code looks
like the following:

<ACTION command="CenterPara">
<images base="P_TextAlignCenter_Md"/>

4) Add the base name of the icon in the base attribute of images element.

5) Create at least 2 icon images for normal and rollover state of the icon.

For example if the icon name is xyz the image names will be xyz_C_S.png and xyz_R_C_S.png. (Here,
C= color, S=regular, and R=rollover.) If, however, your icon preferences are set to have large or grey‐
scale icons instead of regular and color, you will use M and L in the icon names.

You can have 8 image files for the following possible combinations of preferences with the base
name as xyz:

Preferences Icon names

Size Color Normal Rollover

Large (L) Colored (C) xyz_C_L.png xyz_R_C_L.png

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Grayscale (M) xyz_M_L.png xyz_R_M_L.png

Regular (S) Colored (C) xyz_C_S.png xyz_R_C_S.png

Grayscale (M) xyz_M_S.png xyz_R_M_S.png

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6) You can further add more icon files for icon states, such as dark_normal and dark_rollover by spec­ifying attributes with data in the relevant element. For example:

<ACTION command="CenterPara">
<images base="P_TextAlignCenter_Md"
dark_normal=”<icon_name>.png” <!-- for regular sized icons-->
dark_rollover=”<icon_name>.png”
dark_normal_l=”<icon_name>.png”<!-- “_l” suffix for large sized icons-->
dark_rollover_l=”<icon_name>.png”/>

Smart catalogs

You can use the Smart catalog as a convenient shortcut to the catalogs available in FrameMaker. For
example, to set a paragraph format in a document, you use the Smart catalog to quickly search for and
select the required paragraph format. In a structured document, you can easily find the required elements
and attributes to insert at a point in the document.

See the video, Smart Catalogs.

To use the Smart catalog:

1) Place the cursor at the required location in the document.

For instance, for character and paragraph formats, place the cursor inside a paragraph. For ele‐
ments and attributes in a structured document, place the pointer at the element insertion location
in the structure view.

2) Press the Smart catalog shortcut key. See, the Smart catalog shortcut keys defined below.

The Smart catalog dialog displays.

Smart catalog dialog

The focus of the pointer is now within the text box at the top of the dialog.

3) To search for an item in the current catalog, start typing either the name of the item or the descrip­tion. As you type, the list in the dialog is narrowed down.

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For example, if you want to insert a list element in a structured document, you can type the name
of the list element: ul, ol, or dl. You can, however, also type the description of the element, list, and
the dialog list is narrowed down to all the available list items in element catalog.

Filtered elements

NOTE: The list of displayed items in the dialog is limited to 10. If the list exceeds 10, you can use the

scrollbar to navigate up and down the list.

Smart catalog shortcut keys

Shortcut Smart Catalog Applies to...

F8, Ctrl + 8 Character catalog Structured and Unstructured

F9, Ctrl + 9 Paragraph catalog Structured and Unstructured

Ctrl + 1 Element catalog Structured

Ctrl + 2 Wrap element Structured

Ctrl + 3 Change element Structured

Ctrl + 4 Apply condition Structured and Unstructured

Ctrl + 5 Remove condition Structured and Unstructured

Ctrl + 7 Attributes Structured

Esc + q + o Object styles catalog Structured and Unstructured

Status bar controls

The FrameMaker status bar provides all the navigational controls, pagination information, and zoom
controls.

Navigational controls on the status bar

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A. Page flow and element breadcrumb (in structured) or paragraph format (in unstructured) B. First page
C. Previous D. Go to page number E. Next F. Last page G. Go to line number H. Go to insertion point I.

Zoom controls

Zoom in and out

• To magnify or decrease magnification, text, and objects, click the + (Increase Zoom) or - (Decrease
Zoom) buttons on the status bar. FrameMaker zooms in or out on the area of the page containing the
insertion point or selection. If the document doesn’t contain an insertion point or a selection,
FrameMaker zooms in on the center of the page.

• To display text and objects at a particular magnification, select a percentage from the Zoom pop-up
menu.

• To display the entire page in the current window, select Fit Page In Window from the Zoom pop-up
menu.

• To fit the page or text frame to the window, select Fit Window To Page or Fit Window To Text Frame
from the Zoom pop-up menu. If the view options are set to display facing pages, the window is
resized to accommodate two pages side by side.

• To change the available zoom settings, click Set from the Zoom pop-up menu, select the percentage
you want to change and enter the new percentage. Enter any percentage from 25% to 1600%. Click
Set. To return to the default percentages, click Get Defaults.

NOTE: The default zoom level is set as per the resolution of your display device.

Turn pages and set scrolling

You can navigate through a document window using controls in the status bar.

You can also define how FrameMaker displays pages when you scroll up and down, left and right, or two
pages at a time.

If the document you are paging through is part of an open book, FrameMaker sometimes displays an alert
message prompting you to choose to open the next or previous document in the book. For example, if you
click Previous Page on the first page of a document, clicking Yes in the alert message box opens the
previous document in the book. The last page of that document appears.

1) Make the appropriate document window or book window active. If a book window is active, select
the documents you want to affect.

2) Choose View > Options.

3) Choose one of the following options from the Page Scrolling pop-up menu:

– To display pages from top to bottom (for example, page 2 below page 1), choose Vertical.
– To display pages from left to right (for example, page 2 to the right of page 1), choose Hori-

zontal.

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– To display pages two at a time, side by side, choose Facing Pages.
– To display as many pages as will fit in the window from left to right, choose Variable.

4) Click Set.

Go to another page

Do one of the following:

• To go to the next page, click the Next Page button.

• To go to the previous page, click the Previous Page button.

• To go to the first page in the document, click the First Page button.

• To go to the last page in the document, click the Last Page button.

• To go to a specific page, click in the Page Number area and specify the page number you want to
display.

• To go to a specific line number, click in the Line Number area and specify the line number you want
to display.

• To go to the page containing the insertion point, click the Insertion Point button.

• To move quickly through the pages, scroll vertically.

TIP: In case of structured documents, click or select in the Structure View to display the corresponding

page in the document window. This is often the quickest way to go to the page you want.

Viewing options

NOTE: The Border, Text Symbols, Rulers, Grid Lines, Hotspot Indicators, Element Boundaries, Element

Boundaries (as Tags), and Element Banner Text options under the View menu impact all documents opened
in the current session.

Faster page display

To display pages quickly:

• Open the document by bypassing the update of imported graphics, cross-references, and text insets.
(Opening a document without updating references makes a document open faster but can slow down
the display of individual pages.)

• Turn off the display of graphics by choosing View > Options, deselecting the Graphics option, and
clicking Set.

IMPORTANT: If you deselect the Graphics option and generate a PDF, the graphics do not appear in the

PDF.

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• Display small text as gray bars by choosing File > Preferences > General, entering a point size in the
Greek Screen Text Smaller box, and clicking Set. Whenever text in your document is in a point size
smaller than the size you specified, it appears on the screen as a gray bar.

Preset display units

Some text boxes in dialog boxes require a unit of measurement (such as points or inches) for the value you
enter. You can specify the default units for font size and line spacing (font size units) and for other
measurements (display units). The default units of measurement appear after the values in the text boxes.
If you enter a value without a unit of measurement, FrameMaker uses the default unit.

• To change the preset units, make the appropriate window is active. Select View > Options. Select the
values for Display Units and Font Units, and then click Set.

• To enter different units in a box, make the appropriate window active. Enter an abbreviation for the
unit along with the numeric value. Use cm for centimeters, mm for millimeters, "or in for inches, pc,
pi, or pica for picas, pt or point for points, dd for didots, cc or cicero for ciceros, Q for Q units (refers
to font size and line spacing for the Japanese language only).

FrameMaker converts the entry to the preset display units when you click a command button in the
dialog box. For example, if your document display units are picas and you want to set a paragraph
indent of 1 inch, enter 1" in the First Indent box. When you click Apply, the measurement changes
to the number of picas that corresponds to 1 inch.

Spacing of ruler or grid intervals

1) Make the appropriate document window or book window active. If a book window is active, select
the documents you want to affect.

2) Select View > Options. Select a new setting from the Rulers menu or the Grid menu, and click Set.

Line numbers

Line numbers in FrameMaker files help you identify particular lines of content. Line numbers are set at a
document level (for a .fm file) and appear before each inserted line in a FrameMaker document.

While using line numbers and change bars, ensure that they do not overlap.

Line numbers and change bars displayed in a FrameMaker file

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Insert line numbers

To insert line numbers, complete the following steps:

NOTE: You can also use the View > Line Numbers to display/hide line numbers.

1) Select Format > Document > Line Numbers.

2) In the Line Number Properties dialog, select Show line numbers and specify the following:

a) Width: Distance of line numbers from the column. The distance is relative to the columns that

contain text.
b) Font: Font of the line numbers

c) Size: Size of the line numbers

d) Color: Color of the line numbers
e) Restart at Each Page: Selecting this option restarts line numbers for each page

f) Show Line Numbers: Selecting this option displays the line numbers.

Some highlights of line numbers

1) Support for multicolumn and multiflow formats: For files with multicolumn formats, line numbers
appear for text in each of the columns. For multi-flow documents, the line numbers are calculated
according to the text flows and continue accordingly.

2) Recalculation: When you insert text within a paragraph with line numbers are enabled, the line
numbers are recalculated to accommodate the new text.

3) Document level property: Line numbers are a document level property, so you can enable/disable
this feature for a document (.fm file). Line numbers can be set at a document level to continue from
previous page or restart at each page.

4) Text flows: For multi-flow documents, the line numbers follow the text flows and continue according
to the text flows.

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5) XML documents: Line numbers do not persist in XML documents. However, you can enable line
numbers in the application template.

6) Printing: Line numbers are visible in the print and PDF created using Save As PDF.

Visual guides

You can show several of these visual guides in a document window:

• Borders around text frames, graphic frames, and imported objects

• Markers, paragraph returns, and other symbols in running text

• Rulers along the top and left side of the window

You can also show a grid of horizontal and vertical lines for drawing, resizing, and aligning graphics. All
visual guides are non-printing, so you do not need to hide them when you print.

1) Make the appropriate document window or book window active.

2) Do the following:

– To show or hide borders, select View > Borders.
– To show or hide the text symbols, select View > Text Symbols.
– To show or hide the rulers, select View > Rulers.
– To show or hide grid lines, select View > Grid Lines.
– To show the element boundaries, select View > Element Boundaries or Element Boundaries

(As Tags) in Structured FrameMaker. FrameMaker automatically toggles these two options.

IMPORTANT: The visual guides affect all open documents in the current session. In earlier versions of

FrameMaker, the visual guides would apply only on the selected document.

Text symbols

Text symbol Meaning

End of paragraph

End of flow and end of table cell

Ta b

Anchored frame and table anchor

Marker

Forced return

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Text symbol Meaning

Manual equation alignment point

Non-breaking space

Discretionary hyphen

Suppress hyphenation

Subset of menu commands

You can display a subset of menu commands called quick menus. The quick menus do not have commands
for formatting text, editing some aspects of graphics, and inserting some objects such as markers and vari­ables.

If you do not see the full set of menu commands, the quick menus is probably displayed.

NOTE: If you’re using a structured document, your application developer can change the commands available

in the complete menus.

• To display quick menus, select View > Menus > Quick.

• To restore the complete menu, select View > Menus > Complete.

• To customize menus, add, move, or remove menus and commands as described in the online manual
Customizing FrameMaker on the Adobe website www.adobe.com/go/lr_FrameMaker_support_en.

High-contrast workspace

FrameMaker uses system colors to draw window backgrounds, text, and other graphics. Users who have
trouble discerning colors or variations in contrast, or who have low visual acuity, can set high-contrast
color schemes and custom text and background colors. This setting makes the information in the user
interface easier to view.

To configure the accessibility options on your system, set the Accessibility options in Windows Control
Panel.

NOTE: FrameMaker does not adjust colors of all items. Some of these include the background color, and the

fill color of graphic objects.

Preferences dialog

Use the Preferences dialog (Edit > Preferences) to change FrameMaker settings.

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• General Preferences - Use these preferences to specify settings, such as:

– Product interface
– File saving, naming, and backup
– Handling of embedded objects
– Cursor movement to handle right-to-left authoring environment

• Interface preferences - Use this dialog box to specify whether FrameMaker should auto-collapse
pods to icons or always open documents as tabs, and handle navigation in Structured View.

• Alerts - These settings control the display of warnings and contextual tips.

• Pods - The pod location criteria determine what should be displayed in the pod list area for an
instance by way of identifying its location in the document.

• Launch - The Launch preferences help you optimize the startup time of FrameMaker. Using the
Launch preferences, you can optimize the loading of the clients, fonts, language providers, and
startup scripts according to your requirement.

• Dropbox - The Dropbox preferences help you set up the Dropbox app to work with FrameMaker.

• Documentum - Use these preferences to set up Documentum® file versioning, specify DFS SDK
path, and add custom CMS properties to FrameMaker for Documentum®.

• SharePoint - Use these preferences to set up SharePoint file versioning and add custom CMS prop­erties to FrameMaker for SharePoint.

• DITA Exchange - Use these preferences to set up DITA Exchange.

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• Adobe Experience Manager - Use these options to set up file check-in and check-out preferences
and proxy server settings for AEM.

• Dictionary - Use these preferences to specify Proximity or Hunspell dictionaries for Spelling,
Hyphenation, and Thesaurus for various languages.

• Spelling Options - Use these preferences to set up Spell Checker.

• Simplified XML - Use these preferences to enable or disable Simplified XML view and the alert
messages display options. For more information, see SimplifiedXMLuserinterface.

• XML - Use these preferences to set up syntax colors and other display options for XML content in
FrameMaker.

• MathML - Use these preferences to set up the MathFlow Editor install path and specify the license
file path. You can also select the Style or Structure editor from this dialog.

Contextual tips

The contextual tips feature helps you find the new features introduced in FrameMaker, or find an alternate
method of performing a regular task. If there's a feature that is related to the current task that you are
performing, the contextual tips feature would show you the related feature's information in the form of a
tip. These useful tips help you perform your tasks easily and efficiently.

For example, the first time you open a new document, a tip appears at the lower-right corner of the
FrameMaker workspace.

The tip dialog box includes the following buttons:

• ?: Hover the mouse over this button to see how to turn these tips on or off.

• ShowMe: This button is displayed for some specific tips only. Clicking this button opens the respec­tive pod that is being referred in the tip.

• Details: Clicking this button takes you to the relevant Help content.

• X: clicking this button closes the tip. To stop displaying any further messages, see Contextual tips

preferences.

Each tip appears only once for a specific workflow. For example, the next time you open a document, the
tip is not displayed. The attempt is to provide you the valuable information without being intrusive. In this
attempt, if you perform a workflow, FrameMaker assumes that either you have made use of the informa­tion in the tip or you do not require that information.

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Contextual tips preferences

To customize the contextual tips preferences, choose Edit > Preferences > Global > Alerts. The following
options related to the contextual tips are available at the bottom of the dialog:

Show Contextual Tips

Deselect this option to stop any further messages from displaying. This means that even if you are
performing a task for the first time, you will not be shown any tip or message.

Reset Contextual Tips

Click the Reset Contextual Tips button to start displaying tips again even for those workflows that
have been performed earlier. For example, a tip appears while saving a document, you rest the
contextual tips by clicking this button, next time when you save the document, the same tip is
displayed again.

Manage open files

The Open Files pod lets you manage and navigate through large number of open files. Using the Open Files
pod, you can:

1) Review and save files with unsaved changes

2) Search for a file with a specific name or files saved in a particular folder

3) Navigate across different files

4) Review the path of the various open files

5) Close specific files after saving or without saving

The Open Files pod

A. Select All, Unsaved, or Saved to filter results B. Save files and keep them open C. Save the selected files
and close them D. Close the selected files - if there are unsaved changes in the files you are trying to close,

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the Save Files dialog appears E. Search - As you type, the pod matches the search criteria with entries in all
the columns F. Clear search criteria G. Select all the currently opened files

You can display the currently Open Files pod by selecting View > Pods > Open Files.

See the video: Currently opened files pod.

Save files on file close and exit

FrameMaker displays the Save Files dialog when you attempt any of the following:

• Exit FrameMaker by

– Clicking the Close button
– Selecting File > Exit
– Using Alt+F4 on the keyboard

• Select Shift+File and select one of the following options

– Close All Open Files
– Close All Files in Book
– Close All Files in Ditamap

• Try to close files without saving in the currently Open Files pod

The Save Files dialog

In the Save Files dialog, you can review and save unsaved changes files. You can also discard the changes
by deselecting the files and clicking Save.

Save and close open files

You can see a list of currently open documents in the currently Open Files pod. Using the currently Open
Files pod, you can select the files and changes to save and discard.

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Save

1) Select View > Pods > Open Files.

FrameMaker displays the Currently Opened Files pod. Unsaved files and files with unsaved changes
are indicated with asterisk (*). To locate files in a long list, type in the Search box. FrameMaker
matches the text in the name of the file as well as the path.

2) Select the files to be saved and do one of the following:

– Click Save.

FrameMaker saves the selected files. FrameMaker prompts you to specify the name and path
of the files that are not saved to the disk yet.

– Click Save and Close.

FrameMaker saves and closes the selected files.

– Close Files.

FrameMaker closes the selected files. If you choose to close any files with unsaved changes,
the Save Files dialog appears.

Restore last session

FrameMaker allows you to restore the last session you were working on when you last exited FrameMaker
or it crashed. In case of a crash, when you launch FrameMaker again, FrameMaker displays an alert where
you can choose whether or not to restore the last session. By restoring the last session, you can reinstate
the following as you were working on them in the last session:

• View: XML Code, WYSIWYG, or Author

• Workspace

• The document in focus

• The files open in the last session (Except the files open through the CMS connector in the last session)

• Page numbers in focus for different documents

• The scroll space for the master, body and reference pages

• Tab order of the documents

• Palettes (such as Equation, Templates, and Thesaurus browser)

• stuctapps.fm file: The last read structapps.fm file (On restore, the last read structapps.fm file is read
again)

See the video: Single click session restore.

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Conditions to restore last session

If all the following conditions are met, you can restore last session:

1) There were files open when you exited FrameMaker or it crashed. In other words, there is something
to restore in the last session. If you exit files FrameMaker after manually closing the files, there is
nothing to restore.

2) There are no open files when you try to restore the last session

3) The current mode of FrameMaker (Structured or Unstructured) is same as FrameMaker’s last exit
mode.

Steps to restore the last session

To restore FrameMaker’s last session, launch FrameMaker and do one of the following:

• Click Restore Last Session on the starter screen.

OR

• Select File > Open Recent > Restore Last Session.

OR

• Use the keyboard shortcut Esc r s.

• In case FrameMaker crashes, when you relaunch FrameMaker, FrameMaker displays an alert
message where you can click Yes to restore the last session.

FrameMaker restores the last session. If there are some files that could not be restored, FrameMaker
displays an error message and lists the files in the Console pod.

Preferences for alerts on restore

In the preferences dialog, you can select whether or not to display the alerts, such as missing fonts and
unresolved cross references, on session restore. The alerts that require user action, such as missing
graphics, appear even when you have disabled the alerts.

Restore dimensions of Resource Manager views

FrameMaker retains the dimensions of the following RM Views on exit and relaunch:

• RM View for Book

• RM View for CMS Repository Browser

• RM View for Ditamap

FrameMaker retains the dimensions of the RM views and uses them as default dimensions of these RM
views when you close and open them again.

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• For undocked RM views, FrameMaker retains the width as well as height.

• For docked RM views, FrameMaker retains the width only.

The width that is retained for docked and undocked RM views is different. The dimensions retained for
different RM Views, such as Book and Ditamap, are the same.

Tips to work with the user interface

Combine document windows

To consolidate all document windows, floating, minimized, or docked, right-click the tab bar of the
docked document window and select Consolidate All To Here from the menu.

Float document windows

Click Arrange Documents icon on the top Application bar and select Float All In Windows. This
arranges all the document windows as cascaded floating pods.

Tile documents

Use the Arrange Documents icon to tile document windows vertically or horizontally. This is espe­cially useful for manually comparing documents and layering them side by side.

Bring hidden pods to the front

Sometimes while working with floating document windows or when switching workspaces, the pods
may seem difficult to bring to the front.

• Undock the pods by dragging them out using the pod title bar.

• Dock all floating document windows. Right-click the docked tab bar and select Consolidate All To
Here or drag and dock the floating document windows.

Minimize pods to icons

Right-click on the pods tab bar and select Collapse To Icons from the menu. This option is available
only if the pods are floating and not docked. To collapse docked pods, click anywhere in the tab bar.

Reopen the pods

Choose View > Pods and click any pod name. The entire group of pods open at the bottom of the
workspace.

Reopen a pod

Choose Windows and select Pods and select the pod you want to reopen.

Collapse all open pod groups to icons

Right-click the tab bar of the pod group and select Collapse To Icons.

Exit the full screen mode

Right-click outside the text frame in the document window and select Toggle Screen Mode.

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Screen modes

Accessibility

The FrameMaker software provides a number of features that improve access for visually impaired users.
In particular, it:

• Provides support for high-contrast viewing for users with low visual acuity.

• Creates tagged Adobe PDF files when converting FrameMaker files to tagged PDF, making it easier
for people who use screen reader software to navigate a document in the proper reading order. For
information on how to turn your FrameMaker documents into tagged Adobe PDF files, see
TaggedPDF output.

• Supports assistive technology, such as screen reader software for the Windows® platform.

Screen readers let visually impaired users interact with the computer by interpreting what is happening on
the screen and sending that information to speech-synthesis devices. The screen reader will follow the
logical structure of the document. Screen readers can read FrameMaker documents viewed in
FrameMaker, or tagged PDF documents viewed in Adobe Acrobat® or Adobe Reader®. Refer to your screen
reader documentation for information on installation and use with documents viewed in FrameMaker or
Acrobat.

For more information on accessibility in Adobe Acrobat and Adobe PDF documents, see the Acrobat
online Help and the Adobe website.

Launch the soft keyboard

1) From the Start menu, select Programs > Accessories > Accessibility > On-Screen Keyboard.

2) Click OK. You can then start using the onscreen keyboard.

RELATED LINKS:

High-contrast workspace

Documents

Create a document

FrameMaker provides several templates upon which you can base your documents. Alternatively, you can
choose to use a template defined by your organization or create a blank document.

By default, FrameMaker documents have a .fm extension.

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Use a template to create a document

You can create a document using a template. Your organization may have predefined templates for
different types of documents. Do the following to create a document based upon a predefined template:

1) Select File > New > Document.

2) Do one of the following:

Choose a standard template

a) Click Explore Standard Templates.

b) In the Standard Templates dialog, select a template. For example, User Guide—Legal.
c) Click Create to create a document based upon the selected template.

NOTE: Optionally, click Show Sample to preview the document in a new document tab. This

option closes the Standard Templates dialog. To return to the dialog once you’ve viewed the
sample, select File > New > Document > Explore Standard Templates again.

Choose a structured template

a) Click Explore Structured Templates.

b) In the Structured Templates dialog, select a template. For example, Business—Memo.

c) Click Create to create a document based upon the selected template.

NOTE: Optionally, click Show Sample to preview the document in a new document tab. This

option closes the Structured Templates dialog. To return to the dialog once you’ve viewed
the sample, select File > New > Document > Explore Structured Templates again.

Choose a custom template

a) Navigate to the document that you want to use as a template for the new document.

b) Click New.

Choose an RTL template

a) Navigate to the Templates folder (Fm_Install_Location\Templates).

b) Click on the RTLTemplate.fm file.

c) Click New.

NOTE: This creates a blank document with its direction set as right-to-left.

3) Add content to the document.

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Create a blank document

You may want to start with a blank FrameMaker document if you’re defining a template for your organi­zation or team.

1) Select File > New > Document.

2) Specify the basic page layout:

– To create a standard one-column document, click Portrait or Landscape.
– To create a document with custom page size, columns, column margins, and pagination

settings, click Custom, specify the required values, and click Create.

You can also select a measurement unit for the document. FrameMaker displays measure‐
ments in dialog boxes and in the document window’s status bar in the selected unit.

3) Add content to the document.

Set the direction of a document

FrameMaker allows you to author documents in both left-to-right (LTR) and right-to-left (RTL) scripts
(such as Arabic, Hebrew, and Farsi). However, you can change the direction of the current document.

1) Choose Format > Document > Direction.

2) In the Direction sub-menu, choose left-to-right or right-to-left.

The position of the insertion point changes based on the direction of the document.

Open a document

In addition to FrameMaker documents, you can open text files, files in MIF (Maker Interchange Format),
files in MML (Maker Markup Language), and XML and SGML documents. If the required filter is
installed, you can also open files created in other applications, such as Microsoft® Word. Much of the file’s
formatting is retained when you open the file.

To open files created using FrameMaker 7 or earlier, you must save them as MIF files.

Open a file

1) Select File > Open.

2) Locate the document and click Open.

Opening a document usually updates graphics imported by reference, text insets, cross-references, and
system variables (if any exist). Recently opened files are listed at the bottom of the File menu.

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Messages alerting you to possible issues with the file sometimes appear. You can click OK and resolve the
problems later.

NOTE: You can also drag-and-drop files from Windows Explorer to the document window, empty UI areas,

toolbars, menu bars, or pods to open the files.

Open a text file

Text-only files do not contain graphics or formatting information. When you open a text-only file, you are
asked to confirm that it is a text file.

1) Select File > Open, and open a .txt file. The Unknown File Type dialog box appears.

2) Select the Text option.

3) Click Convert.

4) Select one of the following options:

– To break the text into paragraphs only at blank lines, select Merge Lines Into Paragraphs. Use

this option for a paragraph-oriented text file, such as a file containing document text.

– To break the text into paragraphs at the end of each line, select Treat Each Line As A Para-

graph. Use this option for a line-oriented text file, such as a file containing computer code.

– To convert the text into a table, select the Convert Text To Table. Use this option if the content

of your source file is tabulated.

Select additional options in the Convert To Table dialog box, such as number of columns, cell
separators, and heading rows, to obtain the data in the appropriate tabular form.

5) Select the desired Encoding scheme. By default, the ANSI (Windows) encoding scheme is selected.

6) Click Read. The text appears in a document that is created from a special template. You can
customize the template so that documents created from text files are formatted differently.

Open a document in use

A lock file (*.lck) is created every time you open a document. This lock file prevents others from changing
the file while you work in it. A lock file is in the same folder as the original document and is removed when
you close the document. You can turn off file locking.

If you try to open a document that’s already open and if you have write permission to the document, a
dialog box displays the name of the document, who opened it last and when, and the computer on which
it is open. You sometimes see this dialog box after a system crash when you open a document you were last
using.

Open the file and do one of the following:

• If you want to look at the file but not change it, click Open For Viewing Only, and then click
Continue. The document appears in View Only format.

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• If you want to edit a copy of the file, click Open Copy For Editing, and then click Continue. A copy
of the file is opened and when you save this file you are prompted to provide a new filename.

• If you want to edit the file and you know that no one else is using it, click Reset Lock And Open, and
then click Continue. Use this option after a system crash to edit a document that was open at the time
of the crash.

Open a document without updating references

A document opens more slowly if it contains many cross-references to other files, large imported graphics,
or many text insets. You can open a document faster by bypassing the update of imported graphics,
cross-references, and text insets. However, if you use this method to open documents, keep in mind that
FrameMaker does not warn you about missing items or unresolved cross-references. For this reason, it is
best to occasionally open a document in the usual way.

1) Choose File > Open, and select the file you want to open.

2) Control-click Open.

After the file is open, FrameMaker imports and displays graphics as needed on a page-by-page basis. You
can manually update cross-references and text insets by using Edit > Update References. If the page display
is too slow, reopen the document in the usual way.

SGML, XML, MIF, and MML are all text formats, so they open as text in unstructured FrameMaker.

In the case of .xml or .mif files in structured FrameMaker, control-clicking the Open button opens them
as text files. You are prompted to specify the text reading options in the Reading Text File dialog box.
Opening these files as text lets you view or edit the markup.

Markup in an SGML file

Reopen a file after a system crash

If your system crashes, the file is saved automatically in the following situations:

• If you selected Automatic Save in the Preferences dialog box, autosave files (whose filename contains
.auto) are created at the specified interval. This file is deleted when you save and close a file.

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• If your system becomes unstable, FrameMaker tries to create a recover file (filename contains
.recover) with your most recent changes.

An automatically saved copy of the file contains recent changes to the file.

1) Open the file you were working on last.

2) Do one of the following:

– If a recover file exists, open it when prompted and check whether your latest changes are

there. If they are, save the recover file with the same name as the document you were origi­nally working on and then delete the recover file.

– If no recover file exists, open the autosave file when prompted and save it with the same

name as the document you were originally working on. The autosave file contains all the
changes you made until the time of the last automatic save. The amount of work lost depends
on the time interval you set between saves and when your system crashed.

Troubleshooting unavailable fonts

You sometimes get an alert message that indicates the document you are opening uses unavailable fonts.
Fonts can become unavailable for a few reasons:

• The document was edited on a different system using fonts that are not installed on your system.

• A font is removed or has become damaged.

• The default printer for your system has changed.

If the Remember Missing Font Names option in the Preferences dialog box is selected, FrameMaker
preserves the names of unavailable fonts. Selecting this option causes the original fonts to reappear when
you open the document on a computer that has the fonts installed, even if you save the document with
substitute fonts.

To fix the problem of missing fonts, consider the following options:

Check for damaged fonts

Determine whether the fonts that are unavailable in FrameMaker are installed on your system and
available in another application. If another application can use fonts that FrameMaker cannot use,
the fonts may be damaged. Reinstall them using the original media. For more information on trou­bleshooting font problems, isolating damaged fonts or a damaged fonts folder, or reinstalling Post­Script fonts, see the Adobe website.

Remap unavailable fonts

If you cannot install or reinstall the unavailable fonts, you may want to permanently remap the
unavailable fonts to available fonts, so that the alert message does not appear when you open the
document. You do this by deselecting the Remember Missing Font Names option in the Preferences
dialog box before you open the file. However, be aware that doing this causes you to lose the original
font information referenced in the document.

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Switch printers

FrameMaker reads font information stored in the printer driver so that it can make fonts stored at
the printer available for use within FrameMaker. In some cases, changing the default printer can
change one or more fonts available in FrameMaker.

Obtain and install the missing fonts

For example, if you and a co-worker are editing the same documents, and you would like to use the
same fonts as your co-worker, consider purchasing and installing copies of the fonts.

Save a document

You can save a document using its current name and location, or save a copy of the document using a
different name or location. You can save a document in several formats, including Hypertext Markup
Language (HTML), Extensible Markup Language (XML), and Portable Document Format (PDF).

When a document or a book has unsaved changes, an asterisk (*) appears in the Page Status area of the
status bar.

An asterisk indicates unsaved changes.

RELATED LINKS:

Save as PDF
Import properties from a template

Save a document

1) Do one of the following:

– To save changes in the current file, choose File > Save.
– To save the file in a different folder or with a different filename, choose File > Save As.

2) If you choose the Save As command, or if the file has never been saved, specify the new filename and
location. If you want to save the file in a different format, choose the format from the pop-up menu.

3) Click Save. If you choose Text Only format, specify how to treat the text and tables in the document.

Save a book

1) Do one of the following:

– To overwrite the current version on the disk, choose File > Save Book.
– To save the file in a different folder or using a different name, choose File > Save Book As.

2) If you choose the Save Book As command, or if the file has never been saved, specify the new filename
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Save all open documents

Hold down Shift and choose File > Save All Open Files.

Return to the saved version of your document

Choose File > Revert To Saved and click OK.

File formats you can save in

You can use the Save As command to save a file in the following formats:

Document 2017

Saves the FrameMaker document or book as a document or book that you can open and edit in
FrameMaker.

Document 2015

Saves the FrameMaker document or book as a document or book that you can open and edit in
FrameMaker (2015 release).

NOTE: To save a FrameMaker (2015 release) document as a FrameMaker 9.0 or prior version’s document,

save the document as a MIF 7.0 document, open the MIF 7.0 document in FrameMaker 9.0 or prior, and
Save the document in the desired format.

MIF 2017

Creates a text file containing FrameMaker 2017 statements that describe all text and graphics. To
avoid overwriting your original document, save the MIF file under a different name. (For example,
add a .mif extension to the name.) For information on MIF, see the MIF Referenceguide.

MIF 7.0

Creates a text file containing FrameMaker 7.0 statements that describe all text and graphics. To avoid
overwriting your original document, save the MIF file under a different name. (For example, add a
.mif extension to the name.) For information on MIF, see the online manual MIF Reference.

Text Only

Creates a text file without graphics or formatting information. To avoid overwriting your original
document, save the text file under a different name. (For example, add a .text extension to the name.)

PDF

Creates a Portable Document Format (PDF) file that can be viewed in Adobe Acrobat® and other
applications that support PDF files.

SGML

Creates an SGML file with the content, elements, and attributes from your document.

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HTML

Creates an HTML document that can be viewed on the World Wide Web. For information on
adjusting the mapping of paragraph and character tags to predefined HTML elements, see Setupan­dadjustHTMLmappings.

NOTE: When you save a structured FrameMaker document as HTML, all attributes with the same name are

mapped to the same value, even if the attributes have different values for different elements. To use different
values for these attributes after exporting, use a text editor to edit the resulting file.

XML

Creates an XML document that can be used for data exchange and viewed on the World Wide Web.

Microsoft RTF

Create files in Rich Text Format 1.6 (RTF), which is supported by many word processors and can be
read by other applications. Most formatting is preserved as formats are usually converted to
word-processing styles.

NOTE: You can use the Print command to save a PostScript

RELATED LINKS:

Create PostScript files
Using Save As to export to other formats
Set up and adjust HTML mappings

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file.

Filename extensions for saved files

When you save a file for the first time in Windows, FrameMaker automatically adds these extensions: .fm
for documents, .book for book files, and .mif for MIF files. With these extensions, the files are recognized
as FrameMaker files by the Windows operating system.

If you don’t want these special extensions added to the filenames you assign, enclose the filenames in
double quotation marks. Windows doesn’t recognize a file without one of these extensions as a
FrameMaker file, but you can still open the file in FrameMaker.

If you assign an extension that’s registered by another application, such as .doc, the extension is not
replaced by the FrameMaker extension and you can still open the file in FrameMaker.

Save documents in text-only format

Saving a document in text-only format creates a text file with the text encoding of your choice: ANSI
(Windows), or ASCII. (On Japanese-language systems, you can also use JIS, Shift-JIS, or EUC. On other
Asian-language systems, you can use encoding for the supported languages.) Only ordinary text—those in
text frames and tables—is saved; graphics, text in graphic callouts, footnotes, and formatting information
are not saved. Reformat line lengths and hyphenation as needed before saving the file.

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If some characters are not available in the text encoding that you choose, those characters are replaced in
the text file. For example, when you save a document in Text Only format using ANSI (Windows) or ASCII
encoding, spaces (including thin, en, em, and numeric spaces) are converted to regular spaces.

1) Choose File > Save As.

2) Specify the filename and location, and choose Text Only format.

3) Click Save.

4) Do one of the following:

– To break each line into a separate paragraph, click At The End Of Each Line. This option main-

tains a file’s original line breaks and blank lines. Use this option for a line-oriented file such as
computer code.

– To merge adjacent lines into paragraphs and insert a carriage return only at blank lines, click

Only Between Paragraphs. Use this option for paragraph-oriented files, such as files
containing document text.

5) If you want to save table text, select Include Text From Table Cells. Then do the following:

– Specify the order in which you want the table cells saved (row by row or column by column).
– Choose whether to separate cells with tabs or with carriage returns by choosing items from

the pop-up menus.

6) If the text file will be used on a platform that uses a different text encoding, choose an appropriate
encoding from the Text Encoding pop-up menu, and then click Save.

RELATED LINKS:

Control hyphenation
Indentation, alignment, andspacing

Use Save As to export XML from unstructured documents

You can export both structured and unstructured files to XML. The mapping used to specify what element
to create for each paragraph tag in the source FrameMaker file is defined on a reference page. The export
function creates an XML file and a corresponding cascading style sheet (CSS), which can be used with the
document.

1) Do one of the following:

– Select File > Save As XML.
– Select File > Save As and choose XML from the pop-up menu. Give the filename an extension

of .xml.

2) Specify the file location.

3) Click Save.

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Back up and save automatically

FrameMaker can back up and save your work automatically.

1) Choose Edit > Preferences.

2) In General preferences, do the following:

– To create a backup file every time you save, select Automatic Backup On Save. This option

creates a copy of the file before your latest changes are saved. If a backup file exists, the new
backup file overwrites it. (The filenames of backup files contain .backup.)

– To create an autosave file at regular intervals, select Auto Save Every and enter an interval (in

minutes) in the box. This causes a copy of the file to be saved periodically without your having
to choose File > Save. (The filenames of autosave files contain .auto.) When you save manually
or revert to the last saved version with the Revert To Saved command, the autosave file is
deleted.

3) Click OK.

Add metadata to a document

FrameMaker includes built-in support for Extensible Metadata Platform (XMP). Metadata, or file infor­mation, is descriptive information that can be searched and processed by a computer. Use it to provide
information about the contents of a document, and to preserve information about a document that will be
opened in other Adobe applications. If you export the file to PDF, much of this metadata will appear in
Acrobat.

Metadata tags travel with the document and describe its content. By embedding them in your documents,
you make the documents easier to track, manage, and retrieve.

NOTE: Metadata in a book file sometimes overrides metadata in a document file. If your document is part of

a book file, open the book file and select the document before you add metadata.

1) Make the appropriate document window or book window active. If a book window is active, select
the documents you want to affect.

2) Choose File > File Info.

3) Enter the desired information in the box next to any or all categories.

4) For Marked, choose Yes if the document is copyrighted, or No if the document is explicitly in the
public domain. Choose Unknown if you’re not sure.

5) Click Set.

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Apply a template to an open document

You can import formats from a template or a different document to an open document. Formats that you
can import include paragraph formats, table formats, variable definitions, and other properties. You can
also retain or remove any format overrides in the document. For example, changes made to a paragraph
but not stored in the Paragraph Catalog.

Templates in FrameMaker

FrameMaker templates store the following properties for reuse across documents.

1) Paragraph, character, and table formats

2) Page layouts that determine the number and position of columns on pages, and background items
such as running headers

3) Reference pages that store often-used graphics and formatting information. For example, the tip and
caution icons.

4) Variables you use as placeholders for text. For example, <BookTitle> and <CopyrightLine>. For more
information, see Variables.

5) Formatting information for cross-references, equations, and conditional tags

6) Definitions for colors that you can apply to text and objects

7) Document-wide settings, including footnote properties, custom marker types, and feathering
options for line spacing

8) On Japanese-language system, specifications for combined Japanese and Western fonts

For more information, see Pagelayoutandtemplates.

Available import and update settings

When you import formatting information from a template, FrameMaker merges the information into the
document rather than completely replacing the information. For example, when you import paragraph
formats, FrameMaker adds the formats to the document’s Paragraph Catalog. If any formats have the same
name in both documents, the imported format overwrites the original format. Any formats that are not
overwritten remain in the document.

Format names are case-sensitive, so Body is not the same as body.

Paragraph formats: The template’s Paragraph Catalog is merged into the document, and all formats in the
catalog are reapplied in the document. The template’s PDF bookmark settings are also copied into the
document.

Character formats: The template’s Character Catalog is merged into the document, and all formats in the
catalog are reapplied to the document.

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Page layouts: The template’s master pages are merged into the document, and body pages are updated
with the master page changes. If the template and the document both have a master page with the same
name, the template’s master page replaces the document’s. FrameMaker copies the change bar properties,
all the settings in the Page Size and Pagination dialog boxes, and most settings in the View Options dialog
box.

Table formats: The template’s Table Catalog and ruling styles are merged into the document, and all
formats in the catalog are reapplied in the document.

Color definitions: The template’s color definitions and views are merged into the document.

Document properties: The template’s custom marker types and footnote properties are merged into the

document. These properties include:

• Volume, chapter, page, paragraph, footnote, and table footnote numbering

• Styles in the Numbering Properties dialog box

• Characters in the Allow Line Breaks After setting in the Text Options dialog box

• Feather settings in the Line Layout dialog box

PDF Setup settings (other than the bookmark settings) are also merged into the document.

NOTE: On Japanese-language systems, the rubi properties and kumihan rules (Japanese-language typesetting

rules) are merged into the document as well.

Reference pages: All the template’s reference pages (except for FrameMath reference pages) are merged
into the document. If the template and the document both have a reference page with the same name, the
template’s reference page replaces the document’s. To import FrameMath reference pages, select Math
Definitions. See Equations.

Variable definitions: The template’s variable definitions are merged into the document.

Cross-reference formats: The template’s cross-reference formats are merged into the document, and

internal cross-references are updated.

Conditional text settings: The template’s condition tags and Show/Hide settings are merged into the
document and applied to conditional text.

Math definitions: The template’s equation size and font settings, custom math element definitions, and
FrameMath reference pages are copied into the document. If a custom math element in the document is
deleted when the reference pages are merged, FrameMaker replaces the math element in equations with
the name of the element enclosed by question marks.

Combined fonts: On Japanese-language systems, the specifications for combined Japanese and Western
fonts are merged into the document and applied to text that uses combined fonts.

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Import formats

You can import formats from an open template or document. With the document open, perform the
following steps:

1) Make the appropriate document window or book window active. If a book window is active, select
the documents you want to update.

2) In the document or book you’re updating, choose File > Import > Formats.

3) Do one of the following:

– To import formats from a different open document, choose the document from the Import

From Document pop-up menu. The pop-up menu lists all documents that are open and in the
saved state.

– To reapply formats from the current document, choose Current from the Import From Docu-

ment pop-up menu.

4) Select the Import And Update Settings that you want to apply to the current document. By default,
all options are selected.

TIP: To deselect or select all options at once, click Deselect All or Select All. If you’re updating variable

definitions, cross-reference formats, or math definitions, and if any of these items use character formats,
select Character Formats so that the formats are added to the document.

5) To remove changes that you made to individual formats and didn’t save in a catalog, do the
following:

– To remove page breaks that are not a part of a Paragraph Catalog format, select Manual Page

Breaks.

– To remove paragraph, character, page layout, and table formatting overrides, select Other

Format/Layout Overrides.

6) Click Import.

Document direction

FrameMaker allows you to author documents in both left-to-right (LTR) as well as right-to-left (RTL)
scripts such as Arabic, Hebrew, and Farsi. You can also choose to You can also choose to author
multi-directional documents. This means that you can author a document in a specific direction that
includes parts authored in the other direction. For example, you can author a document in a LTR script
such as English that includes paragraphs (see ParagraphDesigner) and tables (see Changethedirectionof
text in table) authored in RTL scripts such as Arabic, Hebrew, and Farsi. Or you can author a multi-flow
document contains one flow (text frame) in an LTR language and another flow in an RTL language. For
details, see Setflowdirection.

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Document containing text authored in LTR (English) and RTL (Arabic, Hebrew, and Farsi) scripts

Besides the text in a document, you can also change the orientation (flip) of the images in a document
based on the direction of the document (see Changedirectionofdocumentcontainingobjects). You can add
multi-directional text lines to the images in your documents (see Addatextlinetoagraphic).

You can define a mini TOC in a FrameMaker document in which the direction either LTR or RTL. Use the
directional marks in your document (Insert > Directional Marks) to insert marks of type LRT\RTL embed­ding, mark, or override.

You can also copy and paste such text to and from FrameMaker documents (see ImportMicrosoftWord­files).

NOTE: When you import or copy text of a specific direction into a FrameMaker document, you need to ensure

the text direction of the destination location (document, table, or paragraph) is set to the same direction.

FrameMaker provides out-of-the-box document direction support for both unstructured documents (see

Set the direction of a document) and DITA topics (see Changetextdirection). However, for structured

documents based on other structured applications, the application developer will need to define the dir
property in the EDD. For details, see the Structured applications reference guide.

Inheritance design

The direction authoring support in FrameMaker is based on an inheritance design. By default, the objects
in a document inherit the direction of the document. For example, direction of the paragraphs or tables
inserted into a RTL document will be RTL. FrameMaker uses this inheritance design to allow you to author
multi-direction documents.

Caret location and movement

By default, the cursor in an RTL enabled document moves right to left as your type. FrameMaker now has
system of a strong (primary) caret and a weak (secondary) caret. The strong caret indicates where an
inserted character will be displayed when that character's direction is the same as the base direction of the
text. The weak caret shows where an inserted character will be displayed when the character's direction is
the opposite to the base direction.

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