FM 8 - Can't Delete Color Definitions

[Pinkham, Jim]

You're welcome. Discovering this technique put to rest a lot of
frustration with legacy docs for me.

Jim 

-----Original Message-----
From: mbradley at techpubs.com [mailto:mbradley at techpubs.com] 
Sent: Wednesday, March 10, 2010 5:40 PM
To: Pinkham, Jim
Cc: framers at lists.frameusers.com
Subject: RE: FM 8 - Can't Delete Color Definitions

Dang! I did a MIF Wash using mif2go, and the RGB colors are gone. I love
it when software works.

Thanks for the tip!

= Mike B



> -------- Original Message --------
> Subject: RE: FM 8 - Can't Delete Color Definitions
> From: "Pinkham, Jim" <Jim.Pinkham at voith.com>
> Date: Wed, March 10, 2010 2:34 pm
> To: <mbradley at techpubs.com>, <framers at lists.frameusers.com>
> 
> 
> Have you done a MIF wash on the files, Mike? If not, try the wash and 
> then repeat the Toolbox deletion step.
> 
> HTH,
> Jim
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: framers-bounces at lists.frameusers.com
> [mailto:framers-bounces at lists.frameusers.com] On Behalf Of 
> mbradley at techpubs.com
> Sent: Wednesday, March 10, 2010 4:31 PM
> To: framers at lists.frameusers.com
> Subject: FM 8 - Can't Delete Color Definitions
> 
> Windows XP Service Pack 3
> FrameMaker 8
> 
> Hi,
> 
> I have some FM files that were created in Word some time ago, then 
> imported into FM more recently.
> 
> In FM, we were able to remove all the artifacts from Word except for 
> the color definitions. We are not using any of the Word colors in the 
> FM files, but we can't delete them from the files' color catalogs,
either.
> The colors are listed in the Color Definitions window and in the 
> Character Designer window. They are labeled "RGB <RGB_number>", such 
> as RGB 177,197,218. The usual FM procedure for deleting colors simply 
> doesn't work; nor did Toolbox (it threw errors -17 and 12).
> 
> It appears that the Word colors are embedded in the FM files in a 
> unique way that prevents them from being deleted. Any ideas on how we 
> can delete them?
> 
> = Mike Bradley
>   www.techpubs.com
> 
> 
> 
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