FM 7.2 File Compare Headaches

[Art Campbell]

The most obvious reason your book level compare may be failing is
because of problems opening (and maybe closing) some of the files, per
your graphics error message. Can you open all the files in both books
without any errors? And then run the compare?

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If you do a quick search of this site, or the Adobe FM user forum,
you'll see a number of messages related to the "failed to..." problem,
which surfaced when XP SP3 shipped.  You're probably going to have to
fix this before going much further...
The problem is (probably) that you have OLE objects in your Frame
document AND have installed XP SP3, which contains a Microsoft OLE
security fix that seems to break things.

*  The work-arounds available seem to be: converting the OLE objects
to referenced graphic files
*  Backing out of SP3

A couple people have reported that when the files crash, temporary
Frame files, usually with random number extensions, are left behind.
The report is that if you open one of these in Frame and SaveAs, that
everything is either recovered or now works. I don't have any personal
experience with that solution...

Art

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On Mon, Nov 24, 2008 at 11:11 AM, Paul Kent <jopakent at comcast.net> wrote:
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> FM7.2, Win XP. Pleae respond directly, as I'm on digest. I'll post results with a |solved suffix . TIA for any insights!
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> Grrrrr, I failed trying to create a redline for a book I've been maintaining over the last several years.
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> I did a File/Utilities/Compare on the old book versus the new book and all initially seemed well. However, I noticed that only 18 of the 39 files created CMP files. My first interpretation was that perhaps there were no changes in the ones that didn't create a CMP file. That turned out to be true for some of them.
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> For instance, I noticed that none of the appendices has created CMP files. I know that some of these had significant changes. I began doing file by file compares to create the CMP files. This worked until I came to one particular file. The CMP for that file creates successfully, but when I try to save it I get the following error message:
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> An internal error occurred while writing imported graphics in this document. The file has been saved, but has lost some image data. Please report this error to Adobe Technical Support.
> I tried a couple of ways to save the file, but nothing has worked yet. I did not try washing via MIF yet, perhaps that's a good option.
> I also did not try removing all of the graphics or (better) un-linking and importing all of the graphics.
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> Also, I'm wondering if the error I encountered trying to save the CMP file is the reason that Frame did not create any CMP files that occur after that file. I'm hoping that once I figure out how to get the problem file cleaned up so that the CMP saves, I can re-run the compare on the two books again to get all of the files with changes to yield CMP files.
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> Another thing, can someone confirm that the compare utility does NOT show changes made in tables? I see that these did not get noted in the CMP file.
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> Finally, if anyone has any tips for creating and printing a redline I'd welcome a process change. My process in the past has been to:
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>    1. Do the compare to create the CMP files
>    2. Create a copy of the book and rename it.
>    3. Either rename the files (for instance bob.fm becomes bobCMP.fm) or delete the old ones import the CMP files.
>    4. Walk through the new book cleaning up all of the phantom deletions/insertions (mostly updates to cross-references)
>    5. Print the whole thing to a PDF.
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> I s this the best way to create a redline? Something very much like this has worked for me inthe past, but it is pretty labor intensive (even more so when FM internal errors gum up the works).
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> J. Paul Kent
> 206-383-0539
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