[Framers] In FM 2019, the "Update Book" function "dies" in the middle of a long book

[Lin Sims]

It does that automatically now, although it's still faster if you have them
all open. I usually have all my files open anyway for xref creation so it's
never been an issue for me.

On Fri, Jan 10, 2020 at 12:44 PM Robert Lauriston <robert at lauriston.com>
wrote:

> Oh, there's a blast from the past. In FM7 there was some issue that
> meant I had to open all the files in a book when saving as PDF. That
> was one of the incentives for putting all the chapters in a single .fm
> file.
>
> On Thu, Jan 9, 2020 at 8:06 AM Lin Sims <ljsims.ml at gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> > Holding down Shift, not Ctrl. :D
> >
> > On Thu, Jan 9, 2020 at 10:21 AM Fred Ridder <docudoc at hotmail.com> wrote:
> >
> > > Have you tried opening all the component files before you kick off the
> > > update book operation? If you don't do this, any kind of
> "informational"
> > > dialog like the infamous "missing fonts" message or "inconsistent
> > > conditions" or "inconsistent color definitions"  messages will make the
> > > book update hang because the dialog must be dismissed before the file
> in
> > > question can be fully opened.
> > >
> > > Opening all the files in not as onerous as it sounds. If you hold down
> > > Ctrl when you pull down the File menu, all the commands (Open, Save,
> Save
> > > As) will be "all" commands (Open All, Save All, etc.). Just remember
> that
> > > you do have to explicitly save the updated component files after
> running
> > > the update because they are not automatically saved if they are in the
> open
> > > state when updated.
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Lin Sims