FrameMaker 5.5.0-5.5.3, All Platforms

July 14th, 2006 by Posted in FrameMaker, Print and Web Publishing

FrameMaker 5.5.0 released August 1997; FrameMaker 5.5.3 released February 1998

Note: See also issues present in previous releases of FrameMaker, as they may also apply to FrameMaker 5.5.x (unless indicateds otherwise)

• Corrections Included with the FrameMaker 5.5 Update (ATN 314137)
• Corrections Included with the FrameMaker 5.5.2 and 5.5.3 Updates (ATN 320117)
• Platforms Supported for FrameMaker 5.5 Products (ATN 312425)
• Crash when printing or saving as PDF file (FrameMaker 5.5x) (ATN 322613)
• “Next Screen” or “Previous Screen” commands do not change pages in a horizontal page scrolling mode (View > Options).
• Change in Scrolling Behavior When Using Page Up/Page Down in FrameMaker 5.5 (ATN 310927)
• Original colors of graphic objects are lost when saving as .mif
• Registration Marks Create Larger PostScript files in FrameMaker 5.5 Than in Earlier Versions (ATN 317320)
• Sorting a Table Deletes Cross-Reference or Conditional Text Markers from FrameMaker Table (ATN 324650)
  Workaround: Change the marker type of all cross-reference markers, leaving the marker text unchanged (for example, change marker
  type to a custom type, or Comment if not used otherwise), sort the table, then change the marker type back to Cross-reference. [Can be automated with MIF processing]
• Text in Graphics Appears as a Gray Bar When a FrameMaker 5.5 Document is Exported to HTML (ATN 310464)
• Spelling checker incorrectly accepts concatenated words as valid (at least with Dutch and German languages). For example, “In een wijkcentrum aan de Dukatenburg in Nieuwegein is woensdag rond 01.00 uur eengrote uitslaande brand uitgebroken. De politie haaldeal vrijsnel circa tachtig flatbewoners uit hun huizen” contains 3 errors not flagged by FrameMaker: “eengrote” (should be “een grote”); “haaldeal” (should be “haalde al”); “vrijsnel” (should be “vrij snel”). [Harro de Jong]
• Conditions displayed in the status area may be incorrect (when the selected area has multiple conditional states, e.g. mixed conditional/unconditional, or multiple conditions); these are displayed correctly in the Conditional Text dialog box. [Harro de Jong]
• Files in FrameMaker 5.5.x Book File Don’t Link Correctly after Conversion to PDF (ATN 317778)
• Freeze when FrameMaker 5.5 or later imports or exports a Word, RTF, or WordPerfect file (ATN 317364)
• Graphics Are Jumbled or Appear as Gray Boxes in a Word Document Opened in FrameMaker (ATN 320159)
• Spaces Added to Words in HTML Document Created from FrameMaker (ATN 312690)
• Hypertext Links in a FrameMaker List of Markers Don’t Work After it is Converted to PDF (ATN 317112)
• Character Formats in Index Markers Aren’t Applied Correctly in FrameMaker (ATN 317971)
• Subentries in FrameMaker Index File use Default Font Properties of Level1IX Tag (ATN 313472)
• Unable to Edit Head Column of System Macros Table in FrameMaker (ATN 318541)
• Cross-Reference Links Are Off-Set in a PDF Created From FrameMaker or Earlier/Win (ATN 321079)
• FrameMaker Crashes While Generating/Updating a Book or Importing Formats to a Book (ATN 320207)
• FrameMaker Product Crashes When Reformatting Documents Containing Sideheads or Multiple Columns (ATN 312579)
• Error “Cannot open the hyphenation and spell-checking data files” in FrameMaker (ATN 319844)
• FrameMaker Crashes When Comparing Two FrameMaker Documents (ATN 319629)
• FrameMaker Returns the Error “Document named TCOD has catalog definitions that contain unavailable fonts” and Quits When Opening a File or When Generating a Book (ATN 322062)
• FrameMaker Crashes After the Undo Command is Used (ATN 322038)
• Text is Missing from HTML File for FrameMaker Paragraphs set to Start New, Linked Web Page (ATN 320204)
• Extra Space Added to Words in HTML Document Created from FrameMaker (ATN 312690)
• Error when Importing Microsoft Word 97 (Word Document into FrameMaker (ATN 311082)
• Table Footer or Title Row in FrameMaker Does Not Display When Table Splits to Next Page (ATN 317294)
• Superscript and Subscript Text Are Not Positioned Correctly when Opening an MML File (ATN 315499)
• FMSGML: FrameMaker+SGML 5.1x or 5.5 – 5.5.3 Drops Graphic Elements if Referenced Graphics Are Unavailable (ATN 318076)
• FMSGML: Graphics Created in FrameMaker+SGML 5.1.1 Appear Poorly On-screen and in Print after Saving the Document as SGML (ATN 317828)
• FMSGML: Character Entity References in SGML Instance Written Back Incorrectly on Export from FrameMaker+SGML 5.1.x to SGML (ATN 318339)
• FMSGML: Error “NOTATION () not defined in DTD” When Opening an SGML Documentin FrameMaker+SGML 5.5.x (ATN 317561)
• FMSGML: Cannot Install DocBook Starter Kit from FrameMaker+SGML/Unix CD-ROM (ATN 321440)
• Links Are Incorrect in HTML Index Created from FrameMaker (ATN 323057)
• HTML Files Created in FrameMaker Appear without Bullets in Netscape Navigator (ATN 323430)

FrameMaker 5.5.0-5.5.3, Windows

• Reference page not updating when two or more documents have reference page frames with identical names but with different content [Penelope Perkins]
• Graphics Are Wrong Size in a PDF or HTML File Created from FrameMaker for Windows (ATN 321332)
• Mouse wheel button works incorrectly when you scroll in FrameMaker (on Windows) (ATN 323607)
• FrameMaker Prints More Thumbnails than Specified (ATN 319772)
• Activating Hypertext Links with Control + Alt Combination Changes Text (ATN 318011)
• Error “WinExec failed: File was not found” when Clicking Hypertext Link in FrameMaker (ATN 323907)
• FrameMaker Crashes When Changing Anchored Frame Properties on a Reference Page (ATN 322417)
• FrameMaker Crashes When Using the Find/Change Utility (ATN 319391)
• FrameMaker Crashes When You Click While Another Application Is Running (ATN 322569)
• Text Line Cropped by an Anchored Frame On-Screen Prints Completely in FrameMaker (ATN 311029)
• Unable to Install FrameMaker 5.5 for Windows 95 from CDROM (ATN 317497)
• Error “…FrameMaker.exe appears to be corrupt…” When Starting FrameMaker 5.5.x (ATN 320439)
• FrameMaker Crashes when Learning a Compound Word (ATN 322646)

FrameMaker 5.5.0-5.5.3, Mac

• MacLinkPlus Translators Aren’t Listed in FrameMaker’s Open Dialog Box After a Clean Install of the Mac OS (ATN 319684)
• Unable to Insert a Numeric Space in an Autonumber Format in FrameMaker (ATN 316029)
• Error When Installing FrameMaker 5.5 for Mac OS from the CD-ROM (ATN 317596)
• Internal Error in FrameMaker When Norton DiskLock Auto-Activates (ATN 317065)
• AdobePS Printer Driver Fails to Install with FrameMaker for the Mac OS (ATN 319971)
• Equation Editor Characters in FrameMaker Display Incorrectly (ATN 319076)

FrameMaker 5.5.0-5.5.3, Unix

• Fmreport Shows Incomplete Information in FrameMaker 5.5 (ATN 320494)
• Unable to Run fmsetupfls and fmaddlicense When Installing FrameMaker or FrameMaker+SGML 5.5 (ATN 315949)
• Automatic Font Downloading Does Not Work When Printing from the Book Window in FrameMaker 5.5 (ATN 320291)
• Scrolling a FrameMaker Document Window Draws Lines in an Overlapping Window in Solaris 2.5.1 (ATN 319505)
• Unable to Print FrameMaker Document from Open Windows File Manager (UNIX) (ATN 314066)
• FrameMaker Crashes When Changing Anchored Frame Properties on a Reference Page (ATN 322417)
• FrameMaker Crashes When Printing a Document or Saving as PDF (ATN 320470)
• FrameMaker Freezes and Returns an Error When Working with a Document with Imported EPS Graphics (ATN 320634)
• OpenWindows Freezes When You Access Pop-up Windows in FrameMaker 5.x for SunOS 4.1.3, 4.1.3_U1, or 4.1.4 (ATN 314514)
• EPS Images Appear Incomplete in FrameMaker in Solaris 2.6 or IRIX 6.x (ATN 322651)
• FrameMaker Quits After Deleting a Page or Importing a Page Layout Format (ATN 320375)
• FrameMaker for Solaris Freezes When Importing Graphics (ATN 315511)
• Error “Cannot Get License…” When Opening a Document in FrameMaker (ATN 310457)
• Scaled Document is Clipped When Printing from FrameMaker (ATN 317622)
• FrameMaker on System 5 OS Changes File Permissions When Saving an Existing Document (ATN 318530)
• The Print Dialog Box in FrameMaker is Slow to Appear or Does Not List All Available Printer Names (ATN 315502)
• Error “Frame reports error 3…” When Using Fmbatch or Fmprint Utility in FrameMaker 5.5 (ATN 313093)
• Error “Warning: Missing charsets in String to FontSet conversion” When Starting a FrameMaker (ATN 321356)
• Unable to Install Acrobat Exchange from the FrameMaker 5.5 CD-ROM Under HP-UX (ATN 320024)
• Errors Running FrameMaker 5.5 Under HP-UX 9.x or HPUX 10.10 (ATN 315638)
• Cannot Install FrameMaker 5.5 for UNIX Products Over a UNIX FDK 5.5 Install (ATN 311597)
• “Error reading /cdrom/frainst.tar” While Trying to Install FrameViewer or FrameMaker on an IBM AIX machine (ATN 315659)
• FrameMaker Can’t Get Additional Licenses Added Using Fmaddlicense (ATN 315657)
• Error “This file has been corrupted…” in FrameMaker (ATN 315791)

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