[Framers] Mif wash .book files

[Stamm, David]

2016-11-17-04T19:00Z

Fred -

You're onto something here.  Right after I saved the file as .mif, I _was_ able to open it with FrameMaker.  The only other "plain-text editor" I have conveniently available is WordPad, so I used that to delete only offending color definitions.

I _was_ able to  open the .mif file with FrameMaker after it displayed an informational window, the content of which I didn't "capture."

I used WordPad a second time to delete some offending character tags and opened the .mif file with FrameMaker without complaint.  Go figure.

In the .mif file, each offending character tag was tagged as a "<Font" - rather than "<Character" or whatever, which seemed new to me.

Fred, please dispel my ignorance about Notepad as a plain-text editor.  ¿What might Notepad do to corrupt a file?

¡Thanks!
Dave Stamm
Information Engineer

From: Fred Ridder [mailto:DocuDoc at hotmail.com]
Sent: 2016-11-17-Thursday 13:43
To: Stamm, David-P45904; FrameMaker user's list posting
Subject: Re: Mif wash .book files


Are you able to open the MIF file *before* you make your deletions? If so, I'd have to guess that something is happening in the MIF editing that is not kosher and is, in fact, corrupting the file.



Have you tried using any other text editor besides Notepad? It would be good to eliminate that application as the possible cause of the problem.



-FR

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Subject: [Framers] Mif wash .book files

2016-11-17-04T17:25Z

Windows 7 Enterprise operating system

FrameMaker 2015 Release (13.0.5.547) installed on workstation

FrameMaker source and inset files are on a server on our local area network

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Help, please, even if only to tell me that I'm "holding my mouth wrong."

With [BookName].book open, on the menu bar, I choose File | Save Book As... > MIF 2015 (.mif).  The program saves the .book file as [BookName].mif.

Through Windows Explorer, I open [BookName].mif with Notepad, delete various and sundry cruft such bad color definitions, old character tags, and old conditional text tags.

I save [BookName].mif and exit Notepad.

Through Windows Explorer, I try to open [BookName].mif with FrameMaker 2015, which displays the "Unknown file type" window.

In the "Unknown file type" window, there are numerous types of file listed.  "MIF" is among the choices, but .fm is not.

When I choose "MIF" and the "Convert" button, the program complains that "The filter encountered an error and could not complete the translation."

¿Am I the only one who has experienced this?

Thanks,
Dave Stamm
Information Engineer.

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