FM8 crashing when book building

[Alan Houser]

Does the book specify character formats in the index markers? That is 
likely to be the culprit. This is a rather nasty FrameMaker 8 bug.

-Alan

Kanti.Mann at schange.com wrote:
> Hello all: 
>
> I'm just testing FM 8 for our group: we are still using FM6. 
>
> In two tests with existing books, the first (a long doc plan w/several 
> chapters), opened and built fine. 
>
> The next book (a user manual with index) crashes frame consistently. 
> Narrowed this down to the index.  Even removing index and recreating is 
> fine until I use our index template.  Someone suggested looking at 
> reference pages, which I did, noting that all template files have 
> identical ref pages: lots of old stuff on them, including equations, 
> callout numbers, etc. 
>
> Anyone else seen this? 
>
> Any other ideas appreciated. 
>
> Thanks. 
>
>
> Kanti 
>   
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Alan Houser, President
Group Wellesley, Inc.
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