Possible Solution for Color Definition Cleanup

[Art Campbell]

If you have FrameScript, I believe they include a sample/demo script
that purges the colors catalog...

Art Campbell
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On Thu, Jan 14, 2010 at 4:05 PM, Pinkham, Jim <Jim.Pinkham at voith.com> wrote:
> Interesting situation today, folks: I was working on several books built
> from an old, cluttered template and running into the zillion color
> definitions with RGB numbers, and I was running into them on almost
> every file. Recently, I've been circumventing this problem, when the
> definitions won't delete nicely, by creating a new file from our clean,
> new template and pasting the old content into the new document . Presto!
> The bad color definitions don't carry over, so all is well.
>
> I had 51 chapters from four different books in the "master book" I was
> working on, so I thought I'd check the Web again and see if, on the
> archives or elsewhere, there was an approach less tedious and
> labor-intensive. I stumbled across the following from Adobe: "Color
> Definition in a FrameMaker Document Can't Be Deleted and Has a Strange
> Name <http://kb2.adobe.com/cps/323/323771.html> ".  Going at the MIF as
> described in the Adobe item sounds plausible, but again it did not seem
> to reasonably well address the need for handling that many files
> efficiently.
>
> However, part of my clean-up process also includes a "Wash All Files in
> Book via MIF" step. I did that first and then repeated my effort to
> delete the cantankerous color definitions using Toolbox - Format -
> Delete All Unused Color Definitions. They all disappeared without a
> further squeal of protest.
>
> I haven't attempted to replicate this on any other files yet, though I
> most certainly will be doing so in the not-too-distant future. I pass
> this along, though, in the hopes it may prove to be a solution for
> others in a similar situation.
>
> - Jim
>
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