All I did was go to the book in Internet Explorer, double-click to open it and then I was opening one file at a time in the book. I was mouse-driven the whole time - I promise I never touched the keyboard at all during the opening of the book or files. What on earth is the keyboard shortcut for View > Options > Display all Graphics? I didn't even know that it existed.
TVB Tammy Van Boening Owner/Principal Spectrum Writing, LLC www.spectrumwritingllc.com i...@spectrumwritingllc.com -----Original Message----- From: Stuart Rogers [mailto:srog...@phoenix-geophysics.com] Sent: Friday, January 21, 2011 10:40 AM To: i...@spectrumwritingllc.com Cc: framers@lists.frameusers.com Subject: Re: Disappearing graphics in Framemaker files I suspect that you had accidently hit the keyboard shortcut equivalent to View > Options > Display Graphics, thereby hiding all the images. (Or somehow FM decided to turn that option off for you ;-) Importing a new image always turns that setting back on, revealing all the images. sr On 21/01/2011 11:56 AM, Spectrum Writing wrote: > All, > > > > Now that I can catch my breath after a major panic, hopefully, I can > accurately describe a problem that I just had in a large Framemaker book - > one that I had NEVER seen before and one that took some weird fixes. > Working on a Win 7, 64-bit system, 12GB memory, dual quad processors with FM > 9.0 all patched and current. I have a Framemaker book file with 14 files in > it, two of which are some standard generated files, a TOC and an Index. I > have been working on this book for over a month now without any issues. > Today, I opened all the files in the book and all, and I do mean>ALL< > graphics were just apparently "gone" from each and every file. Every single > solitary anchored frame that had an imported graphic (by reference) file was > blank, but yet when the files opened, I did not get the message about "FM > cannot find a graphic file." I also have graphics on my Reference pages that > are pulled into some paragraph tags that I had and these too were gone - > poof! I couldn't really fathom what I was seeing. In fact, when I opened and > viewed the Reference page for each of these files, the graphics on the > Reference pages were "gone" as well. Only the name of the graphic above its > anchored frame was displayed. > > > > I first opened a file in a completely different book in a completely > different directory that uses the same Reference page layout and reference > page graphics and all was OK, so I tried MULTIPLE times to import this > reference page into the files with the apparently missing graphics to no > avail. I would select File> Import> Formats, confirm that Reference > Page/Page Layouts/Paragraph Tags, etc. was selected and with an affected > file open, import from this good file. Nothing, nada, zip, zilch. Nothing in > the affected file was being changed - the Reference page stayed blank, etc. > In desperation, in an affected file, I selected an anchored frame and > imported the apparently missing graphic into an anchored frame and VOILA! >>> ALL<< and I do mean all the graphics "reappeared" in all their glory in > all their anchored frames - no error messages, nothing. This included the > graphics that were pulled in by reference pages. > > > > I repeated this process for all the affected files - reimporting a single > graphic into a single anchored frame to update all the missing graphics. > Here's the real kicker - in some cases in which I reimported the missing > graphic, it was displayed on top of the same graphic - like I was importing > over an already existing graphic, even tho' the existing graphic wasn't > displayed until I reimported it. It was like FM lost its memory and simply > forgot the path to the graphics folder, and nope, I hadn't moved any > folders, renamed files, etc. It was the same old book in the same old place > with the same old file structure that I have had for a month now. > > > > Has anyone ever seen this before and if so, do you have any insight as to > what would be the cause of this? I can't imagine that with 12GB RAM, memory > would be an issue. I had standard applications open on my desktop that I > always have when working - Outlook, MS Internet Explorer, Skype, PowerGramo > (a recording app. for Skype), and the application to which I am writing. > This has been my MO since the cows came home, and I have never seen it > before, and I hope to never see it again. > > > > TIA, > > > > TVB -- Stuart Rogers Technical Communicator Phoenix Geophysics Limited 3781 Victoria Park Avenue, Unit 3 Toronto, ON, Canada M1W 3K5 +1 (416) 491-7340 x 325 http://www.phoenix-geophysics.com _______________________________________________ You are currently subscribed to framers as arch...@mail-archive.com. Send list messages to framers@lists.frameusers.com. To unsubscribe send a blank email to framers-unsubscr...@lists.frameusers.com or visit http://lists.frameusers.com/mailman/options/framers/archive%40mail-archive.com Send administrative questions to listad...@frameusers.com. Visit http://www.frameusers.com/ for more resources and info.