[Framers] Error Message Explanation (Robert Lauriston); Framers Digest, Vol 187, Issue 16

[Spencer Rugaber]

Thank you Robert for your response. With respect to you questions:

1. I have tried import by copy and by reference, both with the same (failing) result.

2. Indeed a frame is created automatically. I hadn't known that. Doing so does not
change my results.

3. I am running Windows 2000, 5.00.2195 on a VirtualBox virtual machine.

4. I am running FrameMaker 5.5.6.p145.

I can reconfirm the error message occurs on importing some images, but not all. I don't understand the difference
between them, and I haven't come up with a work around.

Thanks.

Spencer
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> Date: Mon, 25 Oct 2021 10:11:10 -0700
> From: Robert Lauriston <robert at lauriston.com>
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> Try importing by reference. Even back in 5.5.6 didn't FM create a
> frame automatically?
> 
> Which version of which operating system and what exact version of FM?
> 
> On Sun, Oct 24, 2021 at 10:25 AM Spencer Rugaber
> <SpencerRugaber at bellsouth.net> wrote:
>> 
>> Hi,
>> 
>> I have a legacy version of Framemaker (v5) and a collection of .fm files that I am trying to edit.
>> One of the edits tries to add a .jpeg image to a file. To do this, I create and select an empty
>> Graphics frame. I then click on File -> Import -> File... I then navigate to the .jpeg file and
>> click on Import.
>> 
>> When I do this, I see the message:
>> 
>>        The filter encountered an error and could not compete the translation
>> 
>> which, I don't understand.
>> 
>> Although I have been able to import many such images in the past, doing this no longer works
>> for me. I have tried different images and different image formats, all with the same result. I have
>> searched online for interpretations of this message, to no avail. I have even tried completely
>> reinstalling Framemaker. Nothing I do changes the outcome.
> 
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