Curious question about Interleaf to FM9 files

Report · May 26, 2011

I have been converting Interleaf to FM for that last couple of years. I have tried different ways of doing this and all of them work, not really any problems. I can save as aschi and down to revision 5 or can save as a rtf. I like to save down because it is cleaner. But, the last couple of times it has been very strange, and I was wondering if someone has an answer.

OK, I save down to rev 5 and go through the file and get rid of all the anchored frames...ect....just because it opens better in FM. I did this to the last two files but when I opened them in FM, ALL the anchored frames and their pictures were still there!!! Even some of the pages that I had deleted!!!...lol Our Interleaf files are not linked by reference as we do the FM files. In Interleaf, the rev 5 file opens clean, none of the things deleted are there, but in FM every thing is still there.

How in the world is that happening? It's not really a problem. I can get rid of everything through FM. I just would like to know how FM sees pages and pictures that aren't there anymore.

Thanks,

ls

Report · May 31, 2011

I never used IL for any length of time, but your description sounds like maybe IL saves the "deleted" content in a separate part of the file, sort of a garbage collection area, so it's not visible in IL itself but is available later on if you want to "undo" the changes, similar to FM's history buffer. Maybe there's a setting for some sort of an undo buffer that you can change?

Having this content visible in FM is similar to the way FM reads Word files that have tracked changes that haven't yet been accepted in them, it reads the whole file so you see both the old and the new text.

Sheila

Report · Jun 01, 2011

Thanks Sheila, I think you are correct. I can remember some of the files even holding old

logos and things. I will look around and see if there is anyway to keep the files from coming over

to FM.

ls

Report · Jun 01, 2011

If there isn't anything built into IL to delete the "hidden" text then you might try doing a "save As" to save as a different file, that might do the trick.