Alan: forgot to ask whether this "nasty FM8 bug" is just in indexes, or do char formats mess up elsewhere?
Kanti Alan Houser <arh at groupwellesley.com> 12/17/2007 10:45 AM To Kanti.Mann at schange.com cc framers at lists.frameusers.com Subject Re: FM8 crashing when book building Does the book specify character formats in the index markers? That is likely to be the culprit. This is a rather nasty FrameMaker 8 bug. -Alan Kanti.Mann at schange.com wrote: > Hello all: > > I'm just testing FM 8 for our group: we are still using FM6. > > In two tests with existing books, the first (a long doc plan w/several > chapters), opened and built fine. > > The next book (a user manual with index) crashes frame consistently. > Narrowed this down to the index. Even removing index and recreating is > fine until I use our index template. Someone suggested looking at > reference pages, which I did, noting that all template files have > identical ref pages: lots of old stuff on them, including equations, > callout numbers, etc. > > Anyone else seen this? > > Any other ideas appreciated. > > Thanks. > > > Kanti > -- Alan Houser, President Group Wellesley, Inc. 412-363-3481 www.groupwellesley.com
