Why do green paragraph tags become tick marks when converted to PDF?

Hi Again . . .

My team of writers have been using Frame unstructured for many years using many versions. We are all currently using Frame 2017 and have never seen this problem with previous versions. Is there a reason why we are seeing it now and do we know if this bug exists in Frame 2019? We will upgrade to 2019 if that's the case. We should not have to be playing with code to solve bugs.

Thanks!

Thank you, I will try all of your suggestions. It's a bit ridiculous to have to go through the process of converting to MIF to get a normal result. Just saying.

Winfried - I saw the bug report you sent (thank you for that!) but the selections to login and vote produced error pages. Maybe that's why there are no votes?

Rick Quatro wrote that process up a couple of years ago on the Farmeusers list. This is what he said:

1. Open FrameMaker document.

2. Save the document as MIF (File > Save As).

3. Close the FrameMaker document.

4. Choose File > Open and navigate to the .MIF file you saved in step 2.

5. Press and hold the shift key when you click the Open button. You should

see the Reading Text File dialog box.

6. Click Read to open the file as text.

After you do any edits in FrameMaker, make sure when you save the file you

save it as plain text. Then you can reopen the document and allow FrameMaker

to open it as a normal binary file.

Hi Sedona,

In some of my documents I had the same issue (some years ago).

Some paragraph marks were green from the Track Text Edits feature.

I was not able to accept these with Track Text Edits.

What I did in the end:

o Converted to MIF.

o Searched for these paragraph marks. (In one of the paragraphs I had entered some unique text like ### to find the paragraph mark.)

o Deleted the MIF code for the Track Text Edit with Search and Replace.

You can view MIF with MIFBrowse:

http://www.grahamwideman.com/gw/tech/framemaker/mifbrowse.htm

That's an old tool, but it still works.

Edit the MIF files with a decent text editor.

FrameMaker can also open MIF as text, but I cannot remember what you must do.

If your tables are simple, you can also convert your table to paragraphs, accept Track Text Edits and then convert back to a table.

Best regards

Winfried

Hi Sedona:

It turns out that those marks are green paragraph tags in FrameMaker.

If the check marks are really green paragraph tags in FrameMaker:

• Put your cursor in a green paragraph
  Format > Paragraphs > Paragraph Designer > Font
• Color: Black
• Update Style, Remove overrides if asked

If it turns out that they are actually a green character tag in FrameMaker, just use Format > Character > Character Designer to edit the color.

~Barb