Trouble MIF washing FM 12

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October 24, 2014
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Okay, what am I missing? When I save my mif back as fm, I open the fm, I see the mif-text.

1) Save as MIF (for FM 12). I make sure the extension is .mif.

2) File > Open. I select the .mif file and ctrl+click Open and select the default to access the mif text. So far so good.

3) Without making changes to the mif (cos am just testing), I use File > Save as and choose document 12.0 (.fm) and change the extension to .fm.

An .fm file is the result, but when I open it in FrameMaker I only see text as though looking at the mif source.

Thoughts?

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Arnis Gubins

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The ctrl+click Open, did open the MIF file as pure text. However, when you saved it, it went back out as pure text also (as that's all there was when you opened it that way).

To examine MIFs, it's better to use Graham Wideman's MIFbrowse utility. See: FrameMaker MIFBrowse (it still works fine with the latest FM12 version).

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Seanb_usAuthor

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So, how do I open and view the MIF in FM12 and save it back for use as an FM binary?

Sean

Arnis Gubins

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Just open the MIF file (without using the ctrl+click). It will look like the regular FM version, as FM will interpret the MIF contents for display. Then save as .fm.

If you want to examine the MIF contents, use the MIFbrowse utility.

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