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stummeay
Inspiring
March 2, 2015
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Inconsistent Conditional Text Settings Message When Making a PDF

  • March 2, 2015
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I'm working in FM 11 and get a "Use Condition Indicators setting is inconsistent" error message when printing my book as a PDF. I have two child books in a parent book, so my book structure looks like this:

I've been trying to fix this all day and tried mif washing to delete the stuff shown below, but it didn't work:

So I started from scratch: I opened each .fm file separately (not from within the book, but the file itself) and deleted all conditions. Sometimes I had to delete them from the Master Page in order for them to stay deleted. (Not sure why, because those conditions were not on my Master Page, but it was the only way the conditions would stay deleted.) Then I updated each of my child books. The child books print to PDF without errors. I clicked on each child book and selected all files in the book, and no conditions were present. Good.

Then I made a new book and added the front cover, checked the parent book for conditions and there were still none. Good. As I added each child book and finally the back cover, I kept checking the parent book for conditions are there were none.

I then told the parent book to read page numbers from the files, and updated my parent book. That's when I got these conditions:

But as soon as I click on the parent book window again, those conditions go away. I think those conditions have something to do with the TOCs???

Anyway, I then printed to a PDF and I got the Use Conditions error message. When I show conditions for the parent book, nothing shows up, so why am I getting this message?

Thanks for your help.

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Arnis Gubins
Arnis Gubins
Inspiring
March 3, 2015

It's not an error, but rather a warning that (at least) one of the files has different Conditonal settings applied with respect to the first file found in the book, e.g. the first file may show "X", but one of the other files hides "X". No need to do anything with the Condition catalog(s).

The simplest way to make the conditions consistent is to apply the conditional setting to all files in each component book (i.e. select all files in a book and then use the View menu to set the Conditions) and then do the same for the master book.

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stummeayAuthor
Inspiring
March 3, 2015

Thanks for your reply, Arnis.

I must be missing something because there are no conditions in either child book or the parent book.

I don't understand why I'm getting the warning when I'm not seeing ANY conditions.

Arnis Gubins
Arnis Gubins
Inspiring
March 3, 2015

Check the "Show Condition Indicators" settings, as it may be ON in one file and OFF in another, even without any conditions being present. You can apply the setting at the book level to all files to override such an instance.

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