At 13:44 -0800 4/12/09, Jeremy H. Griffith wrote: > >the only unusual thing about this book is that >>the source files were brought in from Word via RTF > >That could very likely be the culprit. The RTF and Word import filters are >VERY BAD, and introduce many strange artifacts into the resulting Frame file. >These can and will bite you again and again. MIF washing will do no good.
Ah. Will anything else? >That's why we strongly advise people to do all Word import by copying the Word >doc content and using Paste Special to put it in as "Plain Text". It's the >only way we know to avoid the sort of pain you are experiencing now. It may >seem to take longer to do it that way, but it gives youa nice stable >document,and that's well worth it. Noted. >Even at this point, you might still consider that, but after you've put a lot >of work in it'sharder to bring yourself to do it... I cannot do that at this stage from the Word sources, as the book has been heavily edited (and typeset). Would cutting and pasting from the FrameMaker document into a clean new FrameMaker document and reformatting work? -- Steve
