New FM Console messages

[Guest]

Hello Framers:

Using TCS (FM 8.0p277 and RH 7.03.001) on Vista Home Premium

I was exploring the fminit file a couple of weeks ago. I didn't think I changed anything, but now when I open the structure view of a FM file, the console displays the message: MIF: "C:\Program Files\Adobe\Adobe FrameMaker 8\fminit\fmstruct\strwin"(1):Skipped (message repeats 3 times). My files do not seem to be affected, but I feel that I have inadvertently changed something I shouldn't have.

Also have been experimenting with importing a FM file to RH (by reference) to create html. The console displays: C:\AppData\Local\Temp\MIFTMP1\Mif00004.mif"(1913): Value of Separation out of range (8). Does anyone know what "Value of Separation out of range" refers to? The screenshots (tifs imported into FM file by reference) appear as blank spaces in RH. Not sure if the message is related to that, so perhaps this is a RH forum question?

I tried doing a search of this forum for clues to these messages and couldn't find anything. Any help or direction would be appreciated.

Janice

[Art Campbell]

Combined with your messages in the TCS forum, I'd check to see if your TIFs are in a RH supported format -- in particular, the "out of range" message would make me wonder if they're 16-bit.

To test, I think I'd open them in Photoshop or a similar editor and set one or two of them up as 8-bit uncompressed .TIFs.

Art

[Guest]

Thanks for the quick response, Art. I don't actually have Photoshop on my laptop. Is there another common editor that would work?

janice

[Guest]

Hi All,

Actually, I discovered the "Value of Separation is out of range" message is not RH related. But is related to the main document in my FM book file. I also get the message when I open the file in FM.

janice

[_hrinke]

I'm evaluating Tech Comm Suite 2 on Windows XP SP2 and getting a similar MIF message when updating my RoboHelp project from the FrameMaker book it's linked to:

'MIF: "C:\Documents and Settings\...\LocalSettings\Temp\MIFTMP\Mif00002.mif" [755]: Value of Separation out of range [8].'

Three of these messages appear, with the only differnce between them being the value between the square brackets (shown as [755] above).

My graphcs have transferred over without a problem. However the Frame TOC is not transferred properly. Only the contents from 2 of the 4 Frame documents included in the book are converted in RoboHelp. Not sure if this is related to the MIF messages I'm getting?

[Guest]

I had posted a message to another forum regarding issues with using my FM TOC in RH. I have received no further responses to either posting that leads to any conclusion and am still getting the MIF messages in the console. So I am stiill experiencing issues with converting my FM TOC to RH and am still seeing the MIF messages regularly. I might conclude that the two things are related, but I notice the console displays these messages when I open the structure view (I am working with structured FM). I am still confused, so hopefully someone with the know-how will respond to your question. Sorry I can't be of further help.

Janice