[Framers] Mif wash .book files

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Thu Nov 17 12:23:11 PST 2016


Never use Notepad !!

Its saves without BOM    see: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Byte_order_mark

And that distroyes the file.

Use Notepad++ instead.


Am 17.11.2016 um 18:42 schrieb Jack DeLand:
> I never trust Notepad. Notepad++ is a free programming editor, very nice. You'll love it!
>
> Jack DeLand
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>> On Nov 17, 2016, at 12:25 PM, Stamm, David <David.Stamm at gd-ms.com> wrote:
>>
>> 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
>>
>> ==========
>>
>> 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.
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>> 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.
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>> In the "Unknown file type" window, there are numerous types of file listed.  "MIF" is among the choices, but .fm is not.
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>> 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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