Trouble MIF washing FM 12

Okay, what am I missing? When I save my mif back as fm, I open the fm, I see the mif-text.
1) Save as MIF (for FM 12). I make sure the extension is .mif.
2) File > Open. I select the .mif file and ctrl+click Open and select the default to access the mif text. So far so good.
3) Without making changes to the mif (cos am just testing), I use File > Save as and choose document 12.0 (.fm) and change the extension to .fm.
An .fm file is the result, but when I open it in FrameMaker I only see text as though looking at the mif source.
Thoughts?

Hi,
That's not happening.
1) Open MIFtest.fm.
2) Save as MIFtest.mif (MIF 12.0).
3) Close all open files.
4) File > Open. Highlight Miftest.mif, and then Ctrl+click Open.
5) Select the default, Treat each line as a paragraph, and ANSI Windows, and click Read.
6) The MIF opens in FrameMaker as readable text.
7) Make no changes.
8) Save the file as either .MIF or FM.
9) Close all open files.
Subsequently, I can only get a text-view of MIF by opening the files saved, I cannot recover a FrameMaker binary.
Thoughts?
Sean

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The question is rhetorical. There is no need to respond.
I just spent over an hour trying to print selected files from a book to the AdobePDF printer. FrameMaker 9.0p237 crashed seconds into the operation. I tried printing individual files in the book. I tried printing to file. All resulted in crashes. Yesterday printing was fine, except for some muddled PDFs, but no crashes.
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Does this also happen when you add the file to a new book file? If so, try MIF-washing the problem file (save as MIF, open the MIF and save as .fm) and try again. If not, then create a new book file and add the other files.

FrameMaker 11 trial version crashing on save and cross-reference insertion

Hi everyone,
I've recently started a new position. My prior background was heavily DITA, and I'd describe my FrameMaker experience as late beginner or early intermediate. The new position uses FM exclusively though, so I've been on a steep learning curve lately.
I'm using the trial version of FrameMaker 11, downloaded about two weeks ago, until the PO for my full FM 11 license is processed. I'm working in book and document files that have been upgraded, I believe, from FM 9 to FM 10 and then from FM 10 to FM 11. All of my colleagues are still using FM 10, with a mind to upgrade to FM 11 in the spring as our new budget comes through (I am, so to speak, the FM 11 guinea pig for the group).
My workstation is a brand new HP Elitebook laptop running Windows 7 64-bit (I believe our IT department downgraded it from Windows 8). Windows is fully up-to-date. My trial version of FM 11 is 11.0.1.382 and also up-to-date as of this message.
My issue: FM 11 randomly crashes several times a week, sometimes once a day or so, sometimes when I try any of the following:
Saving all files in a book (using Shift + the File menu command)
Saving individual document files (generally using the Save icon in the tool bar)
Attempting to insert a cross-reference (placing the insertion point within the document, then opening the Cross-Reference tool in the right-hand side bar)
The crash takes the appearance of FM freezing for several seconds, then the dreaded message window opening with the words "FrameMaker has detected a serious error and must quit", with columns of error codes below.
I've googled and binged and not found anything for this issue in FM 11, so I thought I'd post here. I have tried the following, based on somewhat similar discussions I've seen for crashes in earlier versions of FM)
Mif-washing the files
Working in the Structured FrameMaker interface instead of the Unstructured
Neither of these has worked. FM 11 trial continues to crash. It doesn't happen often; I'd say that I'm able to successfully able to perform the above tasks 20 times or so, with the crash on the 21st. But on a busy day, that's a few crashes a day.
To mitigate damage, I have autosave set to every two minutes and gotten in the habit of only having one or two documents open, instead of all in a book, to minimize the number of recovery files I need to process.
After one of the initial crashes, I did as Adobe asked and forwarded the crash report to them for troubleshooting.
My colleagues are watching all this very closely, and my troubles might influence our decision to upgrade from FM 10 to FM 11. So any insight into this issue would be appreciated!
Cheers,
Eric

Eric,
The multitude of unesolved x-refs may due to the font issues when updating the book. During an update, if the files aren't open, FM tries to open them in the background but if it encounters an error like a missing font, it skips the file and then any x-refs to that file are unresolved. This can cascade to make things look really worse than they are.
What is your default printer when you start FM? It should be the Adobe PDF prnter instance. If not, then you might want to insatll the Sundorne SetPrint utility (http://www.sundorne.com/FrameMaker/Freeware/setPrint.htm) thta will automatically set this for your FM sessions only.
One other place where fonts can hide is in table definitions. The catalog stores the font information (and not just the explicit paratag) of the cells in the header and first row. As Jeff mentions, you need to check the MIF file in detail. An excellent tool for quickly browsing your MIF is Graham Wideman's Mifbrowse (http://www.wideman-one.com/gw/tech/framemaker/mifbrowse.htm).

Framemaker 10 crashing when trying to import formats

I have been having trouble with Framemaker 10 (most recent version 10.0.2.419) crashing when I try to import formats from one .fm file to another, or more often a group of other files.
I am using Windows 7 64-bit for an OS. The documents are all unstructured. The files are small (less than 10 pages in general), no extensive formating or graphics. If I am importing to a group of files in a book, its 6 or fewer files. I have something like 13 crash reports over the last month, so its not a seldom occurance.
At least a few of the crash reports have also mentioned errors 6382424, and 6383085.
That is all the information I can think of.
Is there someplace I can look up the erorr numbers that are getting reported to me when Frame crashes? I would do self-diagnosing and attempt fixes, but I am having a very difficult time finding information to allow that.
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Too bad about those error codes. I guess I can only use them to determine if I have the same problem over and over or brand new problems.
The files are nearly all unqiue text, and if not it was importated without formatting (edit > paste special > unformatted text) or washed through a pure text app like Windows notepad.
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Text is not displayed / Text wird nicht angezeigt

Working with FM 11 I've got a longer text written with an older FM-version with some headings and paragraphes that are not displayed. It's just free space or lines and in some cases it's underlined like misspelled words but the characters are not visible. Paragraph- and character-formats look normal (that is black text on white background) and the text is not conditional. BUT the text is displayed in the Markers-Pod, when I mark a passage and it's even possible to find words in these paragraphs searching for them. I would appreciate any hint, how to deal with this problem.
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Hi Georg,
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Inconsistent Conditional Text Settings Message When Making a PDF

I'm working in FM 11 and get a "Use Condition Indicators setting is inconsistent" error message when printing my book as a PDF. I have two child books in a parent book, so my book structure looks like this:
I've been trying to fix this all day and tried mif washing to delete the stuff shown below, but it didn't work:
So I started from scratch: I opened each .fm file separately (not from within the book, but the file itself) and deleted all conditions. Sometimes I had to delete them from the Master Page in order for them to stay deleted. (Not sure why, because those conditions were not on my Master Page, but it was the only way the conditions would stay deleted.) Then I updated each of my child books. The child books print to PDF without errors. I clicked on each child book and selected all files in the book, and no conditions were present. Good.
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I then told the parent book to read page numbers from the files, and updated my parent book. That's when I got these conditions:
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Thanks for your help.

Thanks for your reply, Arnis.
I must be missing something because there are no conditions in either child book or the parent book.
I don't understand why I'm getting the warning when I'm not seeing ANY conditions.

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I’ve emailed [email protected] (per crash message window) and have not received suggestions on how to fix. L
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Besides reinstalling FrameMaker 9, does anyone have any suggestions? Hoping to reach the root of the problem as this issue keeps resurfacing in slightly different forms.
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Judy

Judy,
The 9004 code just means that FM9 crashed. The subsequent numbers provide some clue to engineering as to where the fault was, but can't be deciphered by anyone else. If these seem to be all different values, then this may be an installation or machine issue.
The p255 version means that you have all of the patches applied.
The fmerror mailing address is just a one way street, where Adobe keeps track of issues and looks at trends. They will never reply via this channel. Also, since they've been at FM11 for almost a year now, odds are that single FM9 issues won't be flagged as high priority items by engineering - that's kind of why us users have to help each other out.
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If you re-create a clean book file from scratch, does it immediately crash or when you open it again? You could try saving the book file as a MIF at that point and trry working from the MIF. Also does there seem to be any pattern as to when (i.e. after how many open/close cycles) a book file will start to crash after you have recreated it or used an old, archived one?
Do you have another machine (coworkers?) with FM that you could test the files on? If they don't crash there, then odds are it's something specific with your machine.
With regards to resources, do you have significant free space available in your system TEMP area? Have you defragmented your drives? How much memory does your system have? Do these crashes occur at any time or after you've been working on the machine (from a cold start) for a while?

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Hi,
A customer sent me an FM9 document that uses the Symbol font. When he saves the document as PDF, without converting CMYK to RGB, one instance of a character in this font appears in the PDF as a different character in the same font. Other instances of the same character in the same document are fine. Saving as PDF changing CMYK to RGB produces correct results.
Does this sound like the usual don't-use-CMYK-and-Save-as-PDF-with-FM9 type of problem? Or should we look for something else?
Minor variations of the document cause the problem to go away:
1. Deleting some earlier instances of characters in this font cause the problematic one to appear as expected.
2. Some characters in this font occur in tables. Converting those tables to paragraphs "fixes" the problem.
3. Saving as PDF under Win 7 from FM10 and FM 11 produces expected results.
We have only seen the problem on a Win 7 system. On Vista and XP, we get correct results. Editing the document on Vista and saving it as PDF on Win 7, however, fails. A MIF wash does not fix it. Deleting and reinserting the problematic character or the table row in which it occurs does not fix it. While the original document was structured, removing structure did not fix it. Nor did changing master pages.
We started with a longer document and repeatedly deleted content until we had a much shorter document that fails. Somewhere along the line, the erroneous character changed
We can change the documents for this project to convert CMYK. I just don't know if doing so simply masks one particular instance of a general problem, or if CMYK is the real problem.
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--Lynne

Lynne,
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It can be downloaded from here: http://design.grafikhuset.dk/index.php/kontakt/downloads/grafikhuset-publi-pdf
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Upgraded from Frame 8 to Frame 11, three books print to PDF just fine, one won't. Frame crashes. If I use 'Print' it gives me a log file, but 'Save as PDF' just crashes, no log file. Individual chapters won't print either. Similar to EMTtechwriter's problem, but even worse since chapters won't print. Any clues? Thanks.

A MIF-wash is the process of saving the FM file as a MIF, then opening the .mif version and re-saving it as the binary .fm file. This is quite simple, but for a book with many files it gets tedious fast.
FM11 includes a sample utility to automate this, but it isn't installed by default.
You need to copy from your FM installation [e.g. C:\Program Files(x86)\Adobe\AdobeFrameMaker11\Samples\ScriptsAndUtilities\BookMIFWash] the BookComponentMIFWash.dll to the fminit folder.
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MIFwash=Standard, MIF Wash, fminit\BookComponentMIFWash.dll, all
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new install in August, not upgraded
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I think you picked the wrong thread - this one deals with importing or linking FM content into RoboHelp with the TCS.
I haven't heard of anybody talking about conditional text crashing their FM11 - only issues with Track Changes and Conditions. Have you been reporting these crashes to Adobe Support? Have you submitted your crash logs? Can you reproduce the crashing with a sample book or is it only with this project? Have you tried MIF-washing your content?

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I have imported dozens of images files into the 750 page book and FrameMaker has accepted both tif and jpg formats. The way I did it was to create an anchored frame in the textbook, click on it, and then File>Import and select the image file and then choose whether I wanted it to be referenced or actually in the text. All of this worked fine... until a couple of days ago.
Problems
1. I no longer get Import as an option under File and
2. FrameMaker no longer recognizes tif and jpg files under "All Readable Documents" when I do File>Open. I have to click on Show All Files to see them.
As a result I am unable to import any tif or jpg files into the FrameMaker textbook.
What's curious is that I have 6.0 installed on both a G4 and a PowerBook and this problem has occurred on both at the same time.
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So what has caused this loss of memory for Framemaker that it can no longer do what it has done for me for years. (I am somewhat sympathetic to it's memory loss myself as a 78 year old user.)
The G4 has been unplugged recently but in the past it has been unplugged for a week or so and there were no problems.
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adiabatic wrote:
I have a question about old software: FrameMaker 6.0 on a Mac. (While Adobe encouraged me to purchase this in 2001 for the chemistry textbook I am writing, I had invested to much to abandon it when Adobe abandoned the Mac version a few years later.)
I have imported dozens of images files into the 750 page book and FrameMaker has accepted both tif and jpg formats. The way I did it was to create an anchored frame in the textbook, click on it, and then File>Import and select the image file and then choose whether I wanted it to be referenced or actually in the text. All of this worked fine... until a couple of days ago.
Problems
1. I no longer get Import as an option under File and
2. FrameMaker no longer recognizes tif and jpg files under "All Readable Documents" when I do File>Open. I have to click on Show All Files to see them.
As a result I am unable to import any tif or jpg files into the FrameMaker textbook.
What's curious is that I have 6.0 installed on both a G4 and a PowerBook and this problem has occurred on both at the same time.
3. And I just discovered that when I do Format/Page Layout the half a dozen or so custom formats that I had are no longer listed.
So what has caused this loss of memory for Framemaker that it can no longer do what it has done for me for years. (I am somewhat sympathetic to it's memory loss myself as a 78 year old user.)
The G4 has been unplugged recently but in the past it has been unplugged for a week or so and there were no problems.
Fred Tabbutt
I don't know if read-only files are recognized by FrameMaker to the point where it will dim commands that need to write to the files.
It's always a good idea on Mac to repair permissions with Disk Utility - make sure you have good backups, just in case.
Have you tried saving a file that can't import as MIF, then opening the MIF version to restore the file, and perhaps lose any corruption in it? This is called the "MIF Wash."
I think the latest Mac OS that FrameMaker can work with is system 9, or the Classic simulator that runs on the OS X release called Tiger. I'm sure you'd know if you changed operating systems in this period. Classic won't run on Intel Macs.
I have no other clues about what might cause this, except the general thought that something has changed on your systems or in the files you're working with. Does the problem persist in a brand-new file you create on your local drive? If you're working with FM files on a network, have you tried the process with files on your local computer drive? Have you quit FrameMaker and restarted your Macs? Any change? If you have a cloned bootable backup of your stuff from before the problem arose, you might want to try cloning your problematic drive to a new bootable backup, then restoring the known good clone, to see if it works.
HTH
Regards,
Peter
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Unresolved cross-references error in FM 10, but same ref-s working in PDF

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I've come across an issue I can't fix: when opening an .fm file in FrameMaker I get an error message saying the document has unresolved cross-references. The Find/Change check also shows that all cross-references in the file are broken, but from the Cross-references pod I can jump to the right marker by clicking Go to source.
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