FM7.2, Win XP. Pleae respond directly, as I'm on digest. I'll post results with
a |solved suffix . TIA for any insights!
Grrrrr, I failed trying to create a redline for a book I've been maintaining
over the last several years.
I did a File/Utilities/Compare on the old book versus the new book and all
initially seemed well. However, I noticed that only 18 of the 39 files created
CMP files. My first interpretation was that perhaps there were no changes in
the ones that didn't create a CMP file. That turned out to be true for some of
them.
For instance, I noticed that none of the appendices has created CMP files. I
know that some of these had significant changes. I began doing file by file
compares to create the CMP files. This worked until I came to one particular
file. The CMP for that file creates successfully, but when I try to save it I
get the following error message:
An internal error occurred while writing imported graphics in this document.
The file has been saved, but has lost some image data. Please report this error
to Adobe Technical Support.
I tried a couple of ways to save the file, but nothing has worked yet. I did
not try washing via MIF yet, perhaps that's a good option.
I also did not try removing all of the graphics or (better) un-linking and
importing all of the graphics.
Also, I'm wondering if the error I encountered trying to save the CMP file is
the reason that Frame did not create any CMP files that occur after that file.
I'm hoping that once I figure out how to get the problem file cleaned up so
that the CMP saves, I can re-run the compare on the two books again to get all
of the files with changes to yield CMP files.
Another thing, can someone confirm that the compare utility does NOT show
changes made in tables? I see that these did not get noted in the CMP file.
Finally, if anyone has any tips for creating and printing a redline I'd welcome
a process change. My process in the past has been to:
1. Do the compare to create the CMP files
2. Create a copy of the book and rename it.
3. Either rename the files (for instance bob.fm becomes bobCMP.fm) or
delete the old ones import the CMP files.
4. Walk through the new book cleaning up all of the phantom
deletions/insertions (mostly updates to cross-references)
5. Print the whole thing to a PDF.
I s this the best way to create a redline? Something very much like this has
worked for me inthe past, but it is pretty labor intensive (even more so when
FM internal errors gum up the works).
Thanks again,
J. Paul Kent
206-383-0539
