Community KB :: DITA / FrameMaker

A collection of tips and troubleshooting information. Feel free to register and add your own items.

FMN DITA .. refers to the DITA support that is provided by default in FM9 and FM8.

DITA-FMx .. is a plugin that provides extended DITA authoring support for FM9, FM8, FM7.2 and FM7.1. More info...

Authoring

"Zapfdingbats Font Family not available" message in console - 2008-12-08
Building a real FM book from a DITA map - 2008-06-19
Can't convert tab-delimited text into a table element, only a simpletable ? - 2011-07-08
Can't create a conref to a table row - 2009-04-27
Can't delete topicrefs from a map - 2008-07-07
Can't get rid of empty pages - 2008-07-07
Convert to Table command only lists "simpletable" - 2009-03-04
Customize the formatting and layout of DITA files in Frame - 2008-06-19
FM crashes when saving to XML - 2008-06-19
Formatting of nested conrefs isn't right - 2009-01-23
FrameMaker replaces XML character entities with characters - 2010-02-18
How do I get cross-references working for tables and figures? - 2010-10-03
How do I link from an xref to a PDF? - 2011-04-26
How to implement manual line breaks (soft returns) in DITA -- Obsolete for DITA-FMx 1.1.12 and newer - 2011-06-07
How to modify the structure applications for non-English versions of FrameMaker - 2010-02-04
How to use ditaval to apply change bars - 2010-02-08
I can't create an fm-xref to anything except a "topic" - 2009-04-21
I want my figure title after the image - 2008-06-19
I'm getting the message "Translator client not found." when saving from a FM binary to XML - 2008-06-19
Images are cropped to the width of the text column - 2008-07-29
Line breaks disappear in code or preformatted content - 2009-01-26
My fm-xref cross-refs disappear when reopening the file. - 2008-06-19
My tables always end up filling the text column width, how do I stop that? - 2011-05-06
Paragraph returns aren't preserved when code samples are pasted into a codeblock element - 2008-07-21
simpletable and choicetable columns widths don't stick - 2008-06-19
Specializing Your EDD and FrameMaker Template Files - 2008-03-17
Table title continuation variable cannot be used in a table title - 2008-10-16
Table titles don't insert properly - 2008-10-16
Tip: use tables in your conref library - 2009-02-20
Using "Convert to Table" command, reports it can't convert a text inset to a table. - 2008-06-19
What is a "max reference level" and why are all these messages in the console window? - 2008-06-19
When generating a book from a map I end up with blank pages that keep reappearing. - 2008-07-07
Where do I get the latest FM updates? - 2008-06-19
Why am I getting the message "Translator client (ditafm_app) was not found." when opening a DITA file? - 2009-04-26

Installation

How do I install DITA-FMx on Vista? - 2009-07-05
How to modify the structure applications for non-English versions of FrameMaker - 2010-02-04
Setting up DITA-FMx with OT 1.4.x - 2008-06-19
Where do I get the latest FM updates? - 2008-06-19
Why am I getting the message "Translator client (ditafm_app) was not found." when opening a DITA file? - 2009-04-26

OpenToolkit

FM-based cross-reference text shows up in OT-generated files - 2008-06-19
How to implement manual line breaks (soft returns) in DITA -- Obsolete for DITA-FMx 1.1.12 and newer - 2011-06-07
I installed the FM8 DITA-OT plugin, but I can't get the Generate Output dialog to display - 2008-06-19
Setting up DITA-FMx with OT 1.4.x - 2008-06-19

Output

Building a real FM book from a DITA map - 2008-06-19
Can't get rid of empty pages - 2008-07-07
Customize the formatting and layout of DITA files in Frame - 2008-06-19
Excluding shortdesc from generated FM/book files - 2008-06-19
Extra line break on "pre" elements in map to book builds - 2008-06-19
FM-based cross-reference text shows up in OT-generated files - 2008-06-19
Formatting looks different than expected when generating a book from a map - 2008-07-04
Formatting of nested conrefs isn't right - 2009-01-23
Frame crashes when generating a PDF - 2008-06-19
Generate Book from Map tells me that the map is in Document format .. what's up? - 2008-06-19
How to implement manual line breaks (soft returns) in DITA -- Obsolete for DITA-FMx 1.1.12 and newer - 2011-06-07
How to use ditaval to apply change bars - 2010-02-08
I installed the FM8 DITA-OT plugin, but I can't get the Generate Output dialog to display - 2008-06-19
I want my figure title after the image - 2008-06-19
Images are cropped to the width of the text column - 2008-07-29
Line breaks are added at approx 80 chars in the exported XML file - 2008-07-03
Map to Book conversion fails - 2008-06-19
My tables always end up filling the text column width, how do I stop that? - 2011-05-06
Related links are absent from FrameMaker output, or point to XML files. - 2011-05-04
When generating a book from a map I end up with blank pages that keep reappearing. - 2008-07-07
Why is a file not in the "scope" of the build? - 2009-12-03