Saving MIF file to FM
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Today, I am having troubles with an old file converted to v7.2. I can save it to MIF, but when I try to save to FM, Frame tells me that MIF cannot be saved to document format. I have encountered this error before, but with book files and just assumed that saving a mif book to standard fm book does not work. But now I cannot do it with a document file. Is there something I need to do in the ini file, or somewhere else.
Or is my Frame install completely corrupted. I have had to kill it several times recently because it gets stuck trying to display a PDF. I thought the problem was with the PDF, but maybe it is with Frame itself.
I have Frame v7.2b144. The operating system is Windows XP v2002, service pack 3.
Thanks,
Van
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Also, before you patch, if you've had to kill FM several times be sure to reboot before updating.
http://www.adobe.com/support/downloads/product.jsp?product=22&platform=Windows
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After you reboot, install the patch, and reboot a second time, try opening and saving the MIF again, maybe to a local drive.
Art
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The MIF issue seems to be that when one does a save as, Frame displays the .mif extension in the file name box. When you try to save to fm, Frame complains because the .mif is part of the file name. Deleting it then allows Frame to save the mif file as fm. I just never noticed this before. On the other hand, it does not complain when saving an fm file to fm, even though the .fm extension is displayed in the file name box. O, the quirkiness of it all!
And the update did not resolve the PDF importation problem. I am going back to my original tack and assuming the problem is with the PDF file. It was created by a program that can view gp4 files (a fax format) but cannot save to another format. So, we just print to PDF. Photoshop can open the PDF, but Illustrator gets bogged down. Hence, the notion that the problem is with the PDF. I think we will buy a cheap conversion program that can save the gp4 file to tif, which can then be imported into the Frame file.
This call worked OK three years ago, but maybe the version of Acrobat at that time created a simpler PDF file.
Thanks again,
Van
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(Frame is complaining because you're trying to save a file with two extensions in line... if you delete the extension from the file name so you're not trying to save foobar.fm.fm or foobar.fm.mif, you won't get an error message.)
Are you saying that you have an Adobe Acrobat printer instance installed and are creating the PDF file from the gp4 by printing to the printer instance? Or that the gp4 program has a built-in facility for producing a PDF?
If the former, what version Acrobat are you running?
Are the PDFs imported by reference, or copied into FM?
Art
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The gp4 was printed to the Adobe PDF printer instance, which is version 8 professional. And the PDFs are imported by reference.
HOWEVER, I just discovered that this version of Frame (v7.2) imports gp4 files directly, which apparently did not happen when the Frame files were originally created. So, now there is no need to create the PDF files in the first place. But it is curious that Frame has such a difficult time with these PDFs.
Thanks for you help,
Van

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I too am having an issue saving a MIF file to FM. I was trying to create Web help (for the first time ever) using Robohelp and if I add the FM book file (by reference) to RH my screenshots do not display in RH. However, if I add the book files individually in RH, for some reason the screenshots display. My FM Heading styles also did not appear in RH. I wasn't sure if those issues had to do with me being a newbie to RH. Just in case the issue was with my FM file, I thought I would try experimenting with saving my FM file with the screenshots as MIF, but when I try to save back to FM, I get the same error that Van was getting. The file extension does not display, however, so it's doesn't seem that FM is saving the file with a double file extension (as filename.mif.fm). It just returns with "filenames ending in mif cannot be saved in document format". Am using FM 8.0p277 on Vista Home Premium. Any ideas?
Janice

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Ignore my last post. I played with the filename and was able to get it to work. Now on the learning why I cannot add my book file to RH by reference...
Janice

