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No first paragraph found - strange error situation
Dear all,
Just to tell what's all possible in FrameMaker (15.0.5.838):
I wanted to use my ETBdocNav to get t he navigation panel - but for a particular file it reported that there are no heading paragraphs in the document. Of course there are plenty of those visible...
With the following script
#target framemaker
main ();
function main () {
var oDoc = app.ActiveDoc;
$.writeln (oDoc.ObjectValid());
var oFlow = oDoc.MainFlowInDoc;
$.writeln (oFlow.ObjectValid());
var oTframe = oFlow.FirstTextFrameInFlow;
$.writeln (oTframe.ObjectValid());
var oPgf = oTframe.FirstPgf;
$.writeln (oPgf.ObjectValid());
}
only oDoc is valid, all other objects are reported invalid.
- A MIF wash did not help
- Saving as very old did not help
- Jumping in the miniTOC to the nearly last heading showed me a page with missing 3-D object and missing Flash object - then FM quit with dump.
- For the reconstruction starting with the template I needed to restore an older version to get these two 'strange' objects.
- Then I copied page by page into the template, checking after each...
- Finally - since this is a book file - I needed to rebuild the TOC and Index.
The strange thing is: This damaged file existed since a while, just a few weeks ago I updated it, TOC and index did not fail, PDF creation worked also - so i did not notice this strange damaged object structure until ETBdocNav struggled.
How could FM 'live' with this non-existent first paragraph oDoc.MainFlowInDoc.FirstTextFrameInFlow.FirstPgf ?
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