Question about some FM plugins

[Fred Ridder]

You are assuming that the missing registration that the notice is complaining about is a license registration. But it could also be that the registration in question is an entry in the Windows Registry, or a registration as a FrameMaker "API Client" in the corresponding section of the maker.ini file. Since you're dealing with plug-ins, my guess is that it's the latter. And if so, a further issue is whether the API Client registration is in the "all users" copy of maker.ini or the user-specific "overlay" maker.ini.
 
-Fred Ridder
 
> Date: Mon, 31 Jan 2011 19:41:24 -0600
> From: info at mikewickham.com
> To: framers at lists.frameusers.com
> Subject: Re: Question about some FM plugins
> 
> I had the same or a similar problem. If I remember right, there were 
> notices popping up that the programs were unregistered, but no menus to 
> allow me to register them. I did something-- I forget what (deleting the 
> *.fm files for the SP plugins in fminit?)-- that made the menus return, 
> but entering the registration data would not stick and would be lost 
> when I closed FrameMaker.
> 
> If I recall correctly, the fix was to find the various *.fm files 
> belonging to the SP plugins in the fminit folder: AutoText.fm, 
> CHARREG.fm, etc. Right-click on each one and choose File Properties> 
> Security Tab, and then set permissions for Users to allow everything. As 
> I recall, they had read-only permissions set that were the cause of the 
> problem.
> 
> Mike Wickham
> 
> 
> On 1/31/2011 6:17 PM, Spectrum Writing wrote:
> > All,
> >
> >
> >
> > I have also sent a message directly to Steve at Silicon Prairie, but I am
> > hoping that I can also get an answer from this list. I must set up a
> > client's environment with FM9.0 on a Win7 64-bit machine. The client wants
> > their FM installation to have all the "bells and whistles" that mine has.
> > This means that I must install the following Silicon Prairie plugins -
> > AutoText, Master Page Tools, Paragraph Tools, Character Tools, and Table
> > Tools. I am set up as an Administrator on the client's laptop on which I am
> > setting up this environment. I have downloaded and installed these plugins
> > many times before w/out issue, but for the life of me, this time, I having
> > some difficulty.
> >
> >
> >
> > For example, I downloaded the Master Pages Tools for FM9.x and I placed the
> > MPTools.dll in the plugins directory for FM and the MasterPage.fm document
> > in the fminit directory for FM9 as you are supposed to do. I did not have FM
> > open at the time, but when I opened FM, I did not see the Tools menu option
> > in the FM main menu as expected. I closed FM and reopened and still no luck.
> > So, I opened the MasterPage.fm document and made an entry and when I tried
> > to save the file, I got the message that the file could not be locked
> > because I did not have Write permission, but I am set up as an
> > Administrator. I closed FM and opened it by right-clicking on the desktop
> > icon and selecting "Run as Administrator" and after FM opened, I opened the
> > MasterPage.fm file, made an entry in the file and was able to save it. OK,
> > good, but the Tools menu option still is not displayed on the FM main menu.
> > I am expecting to see File Edit Format View Special Graphics Table Adobe
> > RoboHelp AutoText Tools Webworks Window Help and instead, I am seeing File
> > Edit Format View Special Graphics Table Adobe RoboHelp Webworks Window Help.
> > I don't have the options for Auto Text and Tools and I have properly placed
> > the dlls for the tools as well as the corresponding .fm files. I have
> > confirmed that under View> Menus that Complete is selected.
> >
> >
> >
> > Has anyone run into this issue before and if so, how did you resolve it?
> >
> >
> >
> > TIA,
> >
> >
> >
> > TVB
> >
> >
> >
> > Tammy Van Boening
> >
> > Owner/Principal
> >
> > Spectrum Writing, LLC
> >
> > www.spectrumwritingllc.com
> >
> > info at spectrumwritingllc.com
> >
> >
> >
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