<draft-comment> appearing in PDF output

[ndlholm1]

Hello -- Anything we place inside the <draft-comment> element is appearing in our PDF output. I thought if I changed the document state of the topic from “Draft” to “Approved” or “Done” in Assets this would prevent the <draft-comment> from appearing in the published output.

Unfortunately, that did not work, and the <draft-comment> appeared in the published output after I changed the document state of the topic to “Approved” or “Done”.

How can this be resolved?

[VivekKumar]

Hi Nicole,

You can use style to hide draft comments. Select .draft-comments style, go to LAYOUT section, select "none" for the Display dropdown. Following image will help

Thanks,

Vivek

[sschnelbach]

We had the same issue with AEM Guides and using FMPS to generate the PDF, whereas the DITA-OT did not allow draft comments to appear. Here is the answer we received from Mayank Mehrota at Adobe:

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The option to suppress <draft-comment> from PDF output is available via 'ConditionalizeComment' in ditafm.ini located at “C:\Program Files\Adobe\Adobe FrameMaker 2020\fminit\ditafm”. If it is turned on ('1'), <draft-comment> would be hidden in Authoring as well as publishing.

Suppression of all three <draft-comment>, <data> & <data-about> can be achieved in multiple ways:

1. DITAVAL : All the elements to be suppressed from publishing would need to be annotated & corresponding DITAVAL being set.
2. Conditional tags : All the elements to be suppressed can be hidden using conditional tags & that tag can then be hidden.
3. An ESTK client script: We may be able to write an ESTK client script that will remove the elements from the intermediate fm file before it is generated. This is still a theoretical concept & will need to be POC'ed.

All options mentioned above have their own pros & cons. DITAVAL & conditional tags will need to be applied to all the elements to be suppressed. DITAVAL will allow the elements to be shown in Authoring & only hide in Publishing whereas Conditional tags will hide it from Authoring as well. ESTK script will result in minimal changes but we will need to do a POC beforehand.

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He also supplied a jsx script:

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You need to put the script in “C:\Program Files\Adobe\Adobe FrameMaker 2020\startup” folder & then re-launch FM & publish.

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[ndlholm1]

Thanks, Vivek. I followed the instructions you provided, but the draft-comment is still appearing in my PDF output.

[VivekKumar]

Gunjan will reach out to you for a call on Monday morning. We need to see what is happening but this is the way in the Native PDF to hide something.

[GunjanK · Accepted solution]

Hi Nicole,

You have to use "!important" with "none" in the draft-comment style. You can use CSS Editor Source mode for these changes.

.draft-comment {
    display: none !important;
}

Regards,
Gunjan Kumar

[ndlholm1]

Thank you, Gunjan. That works.