Oftentimes, you don't even need to find and delete the gibberish in the MIF manually. Simply saving the file to MIF and then converting the MIF back to FM binary (the so-called "MIF wash") will often take care of a problem of this type thanks to the MIF import filter, which is designed to ignore anything in the MIF file that the given version of FrameMaker doesn't fully understand (such as features implemented in a newer version of Frame).
Have you already done a MIF wash, Alison? -Fred From: [email protected] To: Alison.Craig at ultrasonix.com; docudoc at hotmail.com; robert at lauriston.com; framers at lists.frameusers.com Subject: RE: Can't Get "Delete Empty Pages" to stick Date: Sat, 14 Jul 2012 00:50:01 +0000 Allison, When I have a Frame file that is doing inexplicable things, I save it as a MIF file and look at the code there. I tend to see an entry that scrolls across 5 lines and contains gibberish. After I delete the tag and its contents, everything goes back to normal. -Gillian From: framers-bounces at lists.frameusers.com [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Alison Craig Sent: Friday, July 13, 2012 5:45 PM To: Fred Ridder; robert at lauriston.com; framers at lists.frameusers.com Subject: RE: Can't Get "Delete Empty Pages" to stick Fred: I?ve done all that and Next Available seems to (occasionally) reset itself as well. I tried resetting things at the file level only when everything else I could think of had failed to solve my problem (desperate times call for desperate measures, and all that). Everything works fine in all the other files, it?s just this one that?s decided to misbehave (as Rick Quatro helped me with the initial setup it?s not surprising that it used to work perfectly ? before I did something to screw it up). I think I?ll try again on Monday. Maybe I?ll try recreating it from scratch. Again. Good thing the file is tiny. Thanks, Alison From: Fred Ridder [mailto:[email protected]] Sent: Friday, July 13, 2012 5:12 PM To: Alison Craig; robert at lauriston.com; framers at lists.frameusers.com Subject: RE: Can't Get "Delete Empty Pages" to stick By way of clarification, you need to look for the "Next Available" setting in the file *following* the one that appears to have the pagination ptroblem. If the following chapter is set to start on a right (recto, odd-numbered page) page rather than Next Available, it will force an empty left (verso) page in the *preceding* chapter if that chapter ends on a right (recto) page. Also noet that you can ony see (and set) the "Next Available" option when accessing the pagination properties from the book file. If you open a file independently, you will only see the Left and Right options, because "Next Available" depends on having something preceed the file in question; you can only set the behavior that will apply if you print that one file by itself. -Fred Ridder > From: Alison.Craig at ultrasonix.com > To: robert at lauriston.com; framers at lists.frameusers.com > Date: Fri, 13 Jul 2012 16:28:39 -0700 > Subject: RE: Can't Get "Delete Empty Pages" to stick > > I've set it to that (at the book level) but occasionally I lose this info as > well and it changes to Read from File. > > Alison > > > > -----Original Message----- > From: robert.lauriston at gmail.com [mailto:robert.lauriston at gmail.com] On > Behalf Of Robert Lauriston > Sent: Friday, July 13, 2012 4:27 PM > To: framers at lists.frameusers.com > Cc: Alison Craig > Subject: Re: Can't Get "Delete Empty Pages" to stick > > In the Pagination dialog, is 1st Page Side set to Next Available? -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://lists.frameusers.com/pipermail/framers/attachments/20120713/0569e649/attachment.html>
