Steve Rickaby wrote: > At some point while editing yesterday, and I'm not sure what I was doing, > *every chapter* in the book I'm working on started displaying all its text as > if someone had picked it up and randomly scattered it across the page - > complete loss of vertical leading, and sideways shifts as well. It was > clearly something internal to FrameMaker's display engine, as opening > unopened chapters showed the same thing.
> After nearly having a coronary, I closed down FrameMaker and then re--opened > the book, and everything then looked fine, and has remained fine. > I've never seen anything like this before, and it's probably shortened my > life expectancy somewhat. Anyone else experienced this? Happened to me once quite a while back - all tables, in particular, were totally messed up. And, as you noted, a re-start of FrameMaker showed everything was fine - whew! Since then, I have relied on two things: 1. A daily incremental backup schedule that backs up all my changed files every 2 hours (using ShadowProtect from www.storagecraft.com). So that I can recover if I need to. 2. A manual copy of all the FrameMaker files associated with a document into a directory called BACKUP, below the working directory, *just* before I kick off a new editing session - particularly if it has been a few days since I last worked on something. So, that I have a prior editing session version available. And, of course, the problem has not recurred since then ... (my belief: carrying an umbrella prevents rain from falling! :)) Z _______________________________________________ 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.
