Possible Solution for Color Definition Cleanup

[Art Campbell]

Just to follow up, the script isn't in the FrameScript version for FM9...

There is a version in Rick Quatro's set of web scripts, but I don't
know if it's available separately or not.
http://www.frameexpert.com/scripts/superwebbundle.htm


Art Campbell
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On Thu, Jan 14, 2010 at 4:14 PM, Art Campbell <art.campbell at gmail.com> wrote:
> If you have FrameScript, I believe they include a sample/demo script
> that purges the colors catalog...
>
> Art Campbell
>               art.campbell at gmail.com
>  "... In my opinion, there's nothing in this world beats a '52
> Vincent and a redheaded girl." -- Richard Thompson
>                                                      No disclaimers apply.
>                                                               DoD 358
>
>
>
> 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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