At 14:29 +0000 10/6/13, Fei Min Lorente wrote: >We're using structured FrameMaker, and we do import XML files sometimes, but >these aren't one of them. However, he does sometimes copy bits from Outlook, >other FrameMaker files, or the PDF review copy which has reviewer's markups on >it. Would any of these be a possible source of the mysterious Color9?
Possibly from Outlook - 'Color9' sounds like the usual useful Microsoft style of nomenclature - definitely from other FrameMaker files, unlikely from PDF. I find SiliconPrairie's Color Tools plugin to be indispensable in these sorts of cases, and especially so when you get 'color explosions' for no apparent reasons, or when an author sends a FrameMaker book that contains hundreds of unused color definitions (yes, this happened, and 'hundreds' isn't an exaggeration). >From their website: 'Color Tools provides additional capabilities for working with color definitions in FrameMaker documents. As a documentation set ages, it tends to get polluted with color definitions that are not used. This was especially true with earlier versions of FrameMaker that defined colors for 8-bit PNG (Portable Network Graphic) files. Color Tools can help. Its capabilities include listing colors defined and removing non-list colors from Frame documents. It also contains a routine that generates a report listing the colors defined in a document.' <http://www.siliconprairiesoftware.com/Downloads.html> -- Steve [Trim e-mails: use less disk, use less power, use less planet]
