Disappearing anchored frames: strange FrameMaker bug

[Steve Rickaby]

At 13:44 -0800 4/12/09, Jeremy H. Griffith wrote:

> >the only unusual thing about this book is that
>>the source files were brought in from Word via RTF
>
>That could very likely be the culprit. The RTF and Word import filters are VERY BAD, and introduce many strange artifacts into the resulting Frame file.  These can and will bite you again and again. MIF washing will do no good.

Ah. Will anything else?

>That's why we strongly advise people to do all Word import by copying the Word doc content and using Paste Special to put it in as "Plain Text". It's the only way we know to avoid the sort of pain you are experiencing now.  It may seem to take longer to do it that way, but it gives youa nice stable document,and that's well worth it.

Noted.

>Even at this point, you might still consider that, but after you've put a lot of work in it'sharder to bring yourself to do it...

I cannot do that at this stage from the Word sources, as the book has been heavily edited (and typeset). Would cutting and pasting from the FrameMaker document into a clean new FrameMaker document and reformatting work?

-- 
Steve