You're welcome. Discovering this technique put to rest a lot of frustration with legacy docs for me.
Jim -----Original Message----- From: mbradley at techpubs.com [mailto:mbrad...@techpubs.com] Sent: Wednesday, March 10, 2010 5:40 PM To: Pinkham, Jim Cc: framers at lists.frameusers.com Subject: RE: FM 8 - Can't Delete Color Definitions Dang! I did a MIF Wash using mif2go, and the RGB colors are gone. I love it when software works. Thanks for the tip! = Mike B > -------- Original Message -------- > Subject: RE: FM 8 - Can't Delete Color Definitions > From: "Pinkham, Jim" <Jim.Pinkham at voith.com> > Date: Wed, March 10, 2010 2:34 pm > To: <mbradley at techpubs.com>, <framers at lists.frameusers.com> > > > Have you done a MIF wash on the files, Mike? If not, try the wash and > then repeat the Toolbox deletion step. > > HTH, > Jim > > -----Original Message----- > From: framers-bounces at lists.frameusers.com > [mailto:framers-bounces at lists.frameusers.com] On Behalf Of > mbradley at techpubs.com > Sent: Wednesday, March 10, 2010 4:31 PM > To: framers at lists.frameusers.com > Subject: FM 8 - Can't Delete Color Definitions > > Windows XP Service Pack 3 > FrameMaker 8 > > Hi, > > I have some FM files that were created in Word some time ago, then > imported into FM more recently. > > In FM, we were able to remove all the artifacts from Word except for > the color definitions. We are not using any of the Word colors in the > FM files, but we can't delete them from the files' color catalogs, either. > The colors are listed in the Color Definitions window and in the > Character Designer window. They are labeled "RGB <RGB_number>", such > as RGB 177,197,218. The usual FM procedure for deleting colors simply > doesn't work; nor did Toolbox (it threw errors -17 and 12). > > It appears that the Word colors are embedded in the FM files in a > unique way that prevents them from being deleted. Any ideas on how we > can delete them? > > = Mike Bradley > www.techpubs.com > > > > _______________________________________________ > > > You are currently subscribed to Framers as jim.pinkham at voith.com. > > Send list messages to framers at lists.frameusers.com. > > To unsubscribe send a blank email to > framers-unsubscribe at lists.frameusers.com > or visit > http://lists.frameusers.com/mailman/options/framers/jim.pinkham%40voith. > com > > Send administrative questions to listadmin at frameusers.com. Visit > http://www.frameusers.com/ for more resources and info.