save as... FM 8 Mif

[Chris Despopoulos]

It's starting to get weird, how often this subject keeps coming up.  


First, Maker 10 MIF should not have any problem opening up in Maker 8.  So there's no obvious need to actually produce Maker 8 MIF.  (Unless your work flow demands that the MIF actually be version 8.)  


Second, I have a free plugin on my site called SafetyMif...  The idea is that whenever you perform a save operation, the plugin also saves a MIF version of your file.  So you could open a book, hit Save All In Book, and you would have MIFs for all the files in the book. Then save the book, and you have a MIF for that.  

To easily open the files in Maker 8, you grab a dir with all the MIFs, and any referenced files.  Then change the filename extension for all the doc files FROM .mif TO .fm.  Then open the book, open all files in book, then save all files in book...  For saving the files, you'll have to confirm overwriting the mif files (they all say .fm in their filenames) with binary.  It so happens I also have a freeware tool for changing the filename extension.  


You can find this stuff at cudspan.net...  Go into the professional pages, and look for freeware tools.  The SafetyMif plugin is in the Maker 11 and 10 sections.  The file extension tool is in the Java section.  


Good luck!

cud
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