Hello Klaus, These definitions are not taken from the fminit/custom file; I guess the formats are stored internally ("fallback catalogs").
This happens only if the appropriate catalogs are not defined in the MIF file at all. If you add *empty* catalogs to your MIF snippet, they are kept empty: <MIFFile 7.00> <ColorCatalog> <PgfCatalog> <FontCatalog> <TblCatalog> <RulingCatalog <Ruling>> <MarkerTypeCatalog> <ConditionCatalog> <VariableFormats> <XRefFormats> <Page <PageType ReferencePage>> Anyway, the standard colors, system variables and standard marker types cannot be removed. A document without a master page is not possible, too. Kind regards, Klaus M?ller, itl AG --- Original Message --- From: Klaus Daube Date: 04.10.2006 10:31 > Dear all, > > Recently i have discovered, that _opening_ a very rudimentary MIF > file, such as the one hereafter, FM magically creates a nearly full > document environment - only a text frame on the body page is missing. > > The open document displays a full set of catalogues, masterpage Right > and even a Reference page with the 'standard' elements. > > Where does FM take these defintions from? > > Klaus Daube > > --- sample MIF ----------------------------------------------- > <MIFFile 7.00> # Generated by FrameMaker 7.2p158 > # Arrow style "rhombus filled" > <PolyLine > <Pen 0> > <PenWidth 0.2 mm> > <HeadCap Square> > <HeadCap ArrowHead> > <TailCap Square> > <ArrowStyle > <TipAngle 45> > <BaseAngle 135> > <Length 8.0 pt> > <HeadType Filled> > <ScaleHead Yes> > <ScaleFactor 0.25 pt> > > # end of ArrowStyle > <NumPoints 2> > <Point 10 cm 0.5 cm> > <Point 16 cm 0.5 cm> > > # end of PolyLine > # End of MIFFile > --------------------------------------------------------------- > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ > Docu + Design Daube; Sch?racher 11; CH-8053 Z?rich > Technical documentation & consultancy; On-line and paper > Phone: +41-44-422 86 25 FAX: +41-44-422 82 78 > E-mail: ddd at daube.ch Web: www.daube.ch/