FM 8 - Can't Delete Color Definitions

[Melanie Raney]

Mike,
If the bad colors are indeed from graphics with palette-based colors, the bad color definitions will likely reappear the next time you open the file. In that case, the real fix is to fix the graphics as Richard Combs suggested, and then do the mif wash.

Regards, Melanie Raney


-----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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