[Framers] Searching for content in FrameMaker files

[Craig Ede]

Even with MIF the text strings are often split in unknowable ways so search would be haphazard anyway.

Craig

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From: Framers <framers-bounces+craigede=hotmail.com at lists.frameusers.com> on behalf of Fred Ridder <DocuDoc at hotmail.com>
Sent: Saturday, May 7, 2016 8:57 AM
To: Austin Meredith; framers at lists.frameusers.com
Subject: Re: [Framers] Searching for content in FrameMaker files

You're not doing anything wrong. It's just the way Windows works.

The ability to find text strings in the content of a file depends on Windows knowing how to decode the file (if it's a binary type) and parse the contents. Windows knows how to parse most common non-proprietary file formats, like TXT, RTF, HTML, PDF, and so on. And it knows how to parse the file formats used by Microsoft applications, like DOC, DOCX, XLS, VSD, PST. But there's no return on investment for Microsoft spending the effort to program Windows to parse non-Microsoft application file formats like those used by FrameMaker. Simply adding the filename extensions to the list of file types to be indexed does not teach Windows how to decode and parse the files. It's possible that Windows would figure out how to parse a MIF file, since it is text based rather than binary, but I would never expect Windows to be able to do full-text indexing on a .fm binary file.

-Fred Ridder

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From: Framers <framers-bounces+docudoc=hotmail.com at lists.frameusers.com> on behalf of Austin Meredith <kouroo at kouroo.info>
Sent: Saturday, May 7, 2016 9:28 AM
To: framers at lists.frameusers.com
Subject: [Framers] Searching for content in FrameMaker files

   I don't seem to be able to persuade the File Explorer of Windows 10 to
   find Boolean content inside FrameMaker2015 files. I've tried all the
   obvious tricks such as making certain that the file suffixes ".fm" and
   ".frame" are included in the indexing list, and deleting and rebuilding
   that indexing list. File Explorer will find the name "Thoreau" if it is
   part of the FrameMaker file's filename such as "ThoreauINDEX.fm" and
   will indeed find the name "Thoreau" when it is *inside* a '.txt" or
   other file, but refuses to find the name "Thoreau" for me when it is
   inside a ".fm" or ".frame" file. What am I doing wrong? -Austin
   Meredith
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