Yes, I was thinking the error I made was a separate directory (if you're under 40, those are called folders I guess...). Thanks for the pointer!
Steve Cavanaugh Sr. Technical Writer NAT Seattle Inc. -----Original Message----- From: Jeremy H. Griffith [mailto:jer...@omsys.com] Sent: Thursday, October 05, 2006 7:52 PM To: framers at frameusers.com Cc: Steve Cavanaugh Subject: Re: "MIF"ed Newbie On Thu, 5 Oct 2006 09:01:22 -0700, "Steve Cavanaugh" <scavanaugh at nat-seattle.com> wrote: >is there a way to prevent Frame from changing the cross-references when >saving as MIF and then re-saving as .fm? Yes: save the .mif in the *same* dir as the .fm. Otherwise, Frame "corrects" *every* external ref, for xrefs, hyperlinks, graphics, and insets (at least). If you want the .mif to be in a different dir while you work on it, move it using Explorer *after* Frame produces it. That's what we do for the Mif2Go conversion to MIF, which works for individual .fm files or full books, and which we created so that we could put MIF files into CVS conveniently. We don't do that any more, but the MIF destination format choice lives on in Mif2Go, and works fine in the free demo version (which isn't size or time limited): http://www.omsys.com/dcl/download.htm Using that, you can specify any directory you want as the destination, and the files will work correctly when you put them back into the original directory. (Of course, if you open them in Frame in the other dir, they *won't* work. ;-) We generally name the MIF files .fm, so that references from the book file work; when Frame saves them next, it saves them in the real .fm binary format. Makes it easy. Mif2Go also has a "Wash via MIF" command, which saves files (or books) as MIF, then re-opens them and re-saves as .fm. This trip through MIF often cleans up oddities in the Frame files. That works fine in the free demo version too. HTH! -- Jeremy H. Griffith, at Omni Systems Inc. <jeremy at omsys.com> http://www.omsys.com/
