FrameMaker 2019 Update 3 now available

Adobe released FrameMaker 2019 Update 3 today. Use the Help > Updates menu item in FrameMaker 2019 to update, or visit https://supportdownloads.adobe.com/product.jsp?product=22&platform=Windows to download the updater manually.

Interested in FrameMaker 2019 training?

See TRAINING in the menu above for a free Introduction to FrameMaker 2019 course, as well as courses in advanced authoring and template design for both structured and unstructured (standard) FrameMaker. All versions supported.

Fixed Issues

• Using the Save As PDF route to generate PDF for a document containing some specific fonts for East Asian languages do not render correctly.
  (Ref – 6002)
• Hyphenated words in Arabic language do render correctly in the PDF output.
  (Ref – 5374)
• In some cases, when a document containing Helvetica font with Oblique Angle is saved as PDF, junk characters are found in the published PDF.
  (Ref – 5977)
• FrameMaker does not generate a valid PDF for documents containing some specific Type 1 fonts.
  (Ref – 5748)
• In the PDF output, the Grid lines do no render correctly.
  (Ref – 5879)
• Scaling image using the Fit Frame (Proportionally) option does not retain the scaling properties for EPS and SVG files.
  (Ref – 6017, 6071, 5959)
• Random image pixelation issues noticed in Responsive HTML5 output.
  (Ref – 5820)
• A .png file imported into a document does not show in the Authoring mode, but renders correctly in the PDF output.
  (Ref – 5929)
• In the PDF output, the math equations created using CoolType fonts do no render correctly.
  (Ref – 5027)
• Drawing vertical lines using the ExtendScript is not possible.
  (Ref – 5819)
• The Convert Text and Graphic Colors to RGB (Excluding Images)option (label) in the PDF General settings dialog gets cropped on a high-resolution monitor.  
  (Ref – 5767)
• Text truncation issues were noticed in some dialogs in localized versions.
  (Ref – 5615, 5285,  6014, 5883)
• Adding a document to the Pinned documents list does not work as expected.
  (Ref – 6022, 5217)
• The variable Name label is missing from the Add/Edit Variable pod.
  (Ref – 5571)

Fixed crash issues in FrameMaker:

The following crash and freeze issues reported by users or found in FrameMaker have been fixed:

• In some cases, changing properties in the Object Properties dialog causes FrameMaker to freeze.
  (Ref – 6030, 5999)
• In some cases, FrameMaker crashes on changing variable values using the Variables pod.
  (Ref – 5869, 5962)
• FrameMaker crashes while importing a .sts file in the Word Importdialog.
  (Ref – 6005, 5951)
• Importing a Word document containing nested tables results in a crash.
  (Ref – 5344)
• FrameMaker crashes on copying tables with colored content from a PDF into a FrameMaker document.
  (Ref – 5634)
• Random crashes noticed when saving FrameMaker 11 version files to FrameMaker 2019 version.
  (Ref – 5948, 5935)
• In some cases, FrameMaker crashes on inserting a new reference element like topicref or mapref from the Elements Catalog.
  (Ref – 5637)
• Closing a book file using the keyboard shortcut keys (Ctrl+F4) or switching between tabbed  document window (Ctrl+Arrow key) causes FrameMaker to freeze.
  (Ref – 5887, 6006)