"Color Definition / Print Setting... is inconsistent" error

[Fred Ridder]

The error means exactly what it says. There is som einconsitency in the print settings portion (e.g. Print As and Overprint/Knock Out)of the color defintion for one or more colors in one or more of your files. Each named color must have *exactly* the same definition in *all* of the files in your book or you will get this kind of error when you attempt to print. 
On approach to fixing it is to carefully examine all the settings in all the definitions of one file in the book (or in your master template file) to make sure they are correct, and then use File>Import>Formats to import those color definitions to all the files in the book. This approach should work OK in FM7, but it does not always resolve all conflicts in FM8 (and presumably 9) when the inconsistencies occur in FrameMaker-generated colors that are generate on the fly to indicate text with multiple conditions applied to it.
-Fred Ridder
 
> Date: Mon, 29 Nov 2010 08:33:38 +0530
> From: garnier_framescript at yahoo.co.in
> Subject: RE: "Color Definition / Print Setting... is inconsistent" error
> To: framers at lists.frameusers.com; richard.combs at Polycom.com
> 
> 
> Hi,
>  
> As already mentioned by one of the listers, the error does occur for some. The list does not support attachment, else I would have sent across the error image.
>  
> I am using FM 7,0, unstructured and on Windows.
>  
> B/R
> Garnier
>  
> 
> --- On Sat, 27/11/10, Combs, Richard <richard.combs at Polycom.com> wrote:
> 
> 
> From: Combs, Richard <richard.combs at Polycom.com>
> Subject: RE: "Color Definition / Print Setting... is inconsistent" error
> To: "'Garnier Garnier'" <garnier_framescript at yahoo.co.in>, "framers at lists.frameusers.com" <framers at lists.frameusers.com>
> Date: Saturday, 27 November, 2010, 10:30 AM
> 
> 
> Garnier Garnier wrote:
> 
> > Any ideas how I can overcome the following error?
> > 
> > "Color Definition / Print Setting... is inconsistent.."
> > 
> > I know it can be ignored but this becomes a hindrance if I use a script
> > to convert the FM files to pdf.
> > 
> > Tried all possible suggestions available on the net but so far nothing
> > helped me resolve the same.
> > 
> > Help/suggestions/workaround appreciated.
> 
> I've never seen an error message with that text. Are you sure you're quoting it accurately? 
> 
> To get any meaningful help, you'll have to provide some context. For starters, the version of FM and OS, what kind of document, whether it's structured or unstructured, and what you were doing when the error message appeared. 
> 
> 
> Richard G. Combs
> Senior Technical Writer
> Polycom, Inc.
> richardDOTcombs AT polycomDOTcom
> 303-223-5111
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