Question about some FM plugins

[Mike Wickham]

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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