Index Troubles: No Openable Nongenerated Files?

[Karen Robbins]

Every file generates a missing font message! But if that were the 
cause of the index problem, wouldn't Frame stop 
background-file-opening at the first flawed file it encountered in 
the book? Instead, Frame goes through several files before the error 
message appears and the operation stops. And missing fonts aren't 
cited in the book error report.

I have painstakingly migrated from Type 1 fonts to Open Type fonts, 
and equally carefully installed the new fonts on several machines. We 
have long dealt with false missing font errors. Of course I'll make a 
final pass for font irregularities, but there has never been one 
foolproof cure to that problem.

Frame used to provide useful error messages--condition problem, 
missing fonts, color inconsistencies, etc. Now I'm lucky if I get 
"book is inconsistent." :-(

Hey, if I can get an index, I'll do whatever it takes. :-)

Thanks,
Karen

At 7:00 PM -0700 5/26/11, Combs, Richard wrote:
>
>When you open a file with an error condition, FM should display a 
>dialog box informing you of the problem. For instance, if the file 
>contains unresolved cross-references, a dialog tells you so and 
>directs you to the manual/help for information on locating them. If 
>the file uses unavailable fonts, FM tells you so and asks if you 
>want to reformat it using available fonts.
>
>If you're not seeing any such error reporting dialogs when you open 
>the files, I'm not sure what's going on. I know you can suppress 
>them programmatically (e.g., via FrameScript), but I didn't think 
>there was any way to turn them off for manual file opening via the 
>interface.
>
>Richard G. Combs
>Senior Technical Writer
>Polycom, Inc.
>richardDOTcombs AT polycomDOTcom
>303-223-5111
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>rgcombs AT gmailDOTcom
>303-903-6372
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>Karen Robbins wrote:
>
>>  Richard,
>>
>>  Yay! Opening all the files at once worked. You hit it on the head,
>>  something is causing FrameMaker to not be able to open all the files
>>  in the background. Where would I start looking?