Cleaning up color definitions - killing fm_gen colors in the MIF files

[rebecca officer]

Hi Gillian
 
Thought I'd put this onto the list too, in case other people have the same question.
 
To unlock colors, save as MIF, then search for the string:
 <ColorAttribute ColorIsReserved>
and globally replace it with nothing.
 
When you open the file as a .fm again, Framemaker re-applies the ColorIsReserved attribute to the basic color set (red etc) but not to the fm_gen colors. This means you can use View>Color>Definitions to delete the fm_gen colors, though that's slow. 
 
Instead, you can just delete the fm_gen colors in the MIF by finding them in the ColorCatalog section and deleting them. You need to delete the whole definition for each color, which looks like this:
 
 <Color 
  <ColorTag `fm_gen_147474'>
  <ColorCyan  50.000000>
  <ColorMagenta  100.000000>
  <ColorYellow  50.000000>
  <ColorBlack  0.000000>
  <ColorAttribute ColorIsReserved>
 > # end of Color
If you haven't got a huge number of files, this is pretty quick.
 
If you re-import CT formats from a clean template afterwards, FM will re-create the definitions it needs.
 
And the standard disclaimer: back up your files before you mess with MIFs!
 
Cheers
Rebecca


>>> Gillian Flato <Gillian.Flato at nexenta.com> 4/07/12 10:16 >>>

Rebecca,
I would love to know how to unlock those fm_gen colors. I have hundreds of them. They are just junk littering my files.
Thanks,
Gillian
 

From: rebecca officer [mailto:rebecca.officer at alliedtelesis.co.nz] 
Sent: Tuesday, July 03, 2012 3:12 PM
To: Gillian Flato
Subject: RE: Cleaning up color definitions

 

Hi Gillian

 

I've just looked up what we did and it was more complicated than I'd remembered. We were trying to clean out FM10's self-generated colours that it assigned to overlapping conditional text, and it turns out that FM locks those so you can't delete them. We started by doing search and replace on the MIF files to unlock the colours, then we ran a script.

 

I can look up more details if that sounds like the problem you're trying to solve, but our script was pretty rough and wouldn't be safe for anyone but us to use. The locked self-generated colours were a right pain until we worked out how to unlock them. That's not an issue unless you're using overlapping CT and want to change the CT indicator colours.

 

Cheers

Rebecca



>>> Gillian Flato <Gillian.Flato at nexenta.com> 4/07/12 04:09 >>>
Rebecca,

Do you just manually delete the colors or do you use a script?

Thanks
-Gillian

-----Original Message-----
From: rebecca officer [mailto:rebecca.officer at alliedtelesis.co.nz] 
Sent: Tuesday, July 03, 2012 3:00 AM
To: Gillian Flato
Subject: Re: Cleaning up color definitions

No, but we've done it pretty fast by editing MIF files. Let me know if you want more detail - I'm at home but can look it up tomorrow.

Cheers
Rebecca

>>> Gillian Flato <Gillian.Flato at nexenta.com> 07/03/12 6:06 PM >>>
Anyone know of a tool that allows you to clean up color definitions like BookVars cleans up variables?

Thank You,

Gillian Flato
Senior Content Developer
Skype: Gillian.B.Flato
Gillian.Flato at nexenta.com

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