RE: Disappearing graphics in Framemaker files
At 11:29 -0700 21/1/11, Spectrum Writing wrote: I promise guys - View Options would have been an overt series of clicks to get there and I would have remembered that and I didn't do that, but here's another thing - just opened one of the files in this lovely book and again, apparently no graphics, so I go to View Options and Graphics is indeed selected. I clear it, close the Options dialog box, the open the dialog box and select again, and boom, graphics reappear, no joke. and, I didn't even really know about the dialog box that opens after you select View Options until y'all mentioned it here. Only one explanation, Tammy - your file is haunted ;-) More seriously, have you tried MIF-washing? Always worth a try if a file goes a bit weird. -- Steve ___ 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.
Disappearing graphics in Framemaker files
At 11:29 -0700 21/1/11, Spectrum Writing wrote: >I promise guys - View > Options would have been an overt series of clicks to >get there and I would have remembered that and I didn't do that, but here's >another thing - just opened one of the files in this lovely book and again, >apparently "no" graphics, so I go to View > Options and Graphics is indeed >selected. I clear it, close the Options dialog box, the open the dialog box >and select again, and boom, graphics reappear, no joke. and, I didn't even >really know about the dialog box that opens after you select View > Options >until y'all mentioned it here. Only one explanation, Tammy - your file is haunted ;-) More seriously, have you tried MIF-washing? Always worth a try if a file goes a bit weird. -- Steve
Disappearing graphics in Framemaker files
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 Tammy Van Boening Owner/Principal Spectrum Writing, LLC www.spectrumwritingllc.com i...@spectrumwritingllc.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.
RE: Disappearing graphics in Framemaker files
Spectrum Writing wrote: 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. snip 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. Somehow, in View Options, Display Graphics got turned off in all your files (probably turned off in one file, and then doc properties from it were imported to the others). When you import a graphic into a file, FM very wisely assumes you want graphics visible so you can see what you're importing, and it turns Display Graphics back on. Richard G. Combs Senior Technical Writer Polycom, Inc. richardDOTcombs AT polycomDOTcom 303-223-5111 -- rgcombs AT gmailDOTcom 303-903-6372 -- ___ 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.
RE: Disappearing graphics in Framemaker files
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 meanALL 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
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 meanALL 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.
RE: Disappearing graphics in Framemaker files
Spectrum Writing wrote: 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. Esc v o opens the View Options dialog, and then Alt-i toggles Display Graphics. Not a key combination you're likely to enter by accident, and certainly not multiple times. :-) As I said, I suspect it was an Import Formats operation that propagated that setting throughout the book, so there's probably a single file that's the original source of that setting. Richard G. Combs Senior Technical Writer Polycom, Inc. richardDOTcombs AT polycomDOTcom 303-223-5111 -- rgcombs AT gmailDOTcom 303-903-6372 -- ___ 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.
RE: Disappearing graphics in Framemaker files
I promise guys - View Options would have been an overt series of clicks to get there and I would have remembered that and I didn't do that, but here's another thing - just opened one of the files in this lovely book and again, apparently no graphics, so I go to View Options and Graphics is indeed selected. I clear it, close the Options dialog box, the open the dialog box and select again, and boom, graphics reappear, no joke. and, I didn't even really know about the dialog box that opens after you select View Options until y'all mentioned it here. The only View option that I use in FM 9 is View and then right there on the dropdown menu, I select Text Symbols or Borders as needed. TIA, TVB Tammy Van Boening Owner/Principal Spectrum Writing, LLC www.spectrumwritingllc.com i...@spectrumwritingllc.com -Original Message- From: framers-boun...@lists.frameusers.com [mailto:framers-boun...@lists.frameusers.com] On Behalf Of Spectrum Writing Sent: Friday, January 21, 2011 11:04 AM To: 'Stuart Rogers' Cc: framers@lists.frameusers.com Subject: RE: Disappearing graphics in Framemaker files 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 meanALL 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
Disappearing graphics in Framemaker files
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 Tammy Van Boening Owner/Principal Spectrum Writing, LLC www.spectrumwritingllc.com info at spectrumwritingllc.com
Disappearing graphics in Framemaker files
Spectrum Writing wrote: > 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." > 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. Somehow, in View > Options, Display Graphics got turned off in all your files (probably turned off in one file, and then doc properties from it were imported to the others). When you import a graphic into a file, FM very wisely assumes you want graphics visible so you can see what you're importing, and it turns Display Graphics back on. Richard G. Combs Senior Technical Writer Polycom, Inc. richardDOTcombs AT polycomDOTcom 303-223-5111 -- rgcombs AT gmailDOTcom 303-903-6372 --
Disappearing graphics in Framemaker files
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 info at spectrumwritingllc.com -Original Message- From: Stuart Rogers [mailto:srog...@phoenix-geophysics.com] Sent: Friday, January 21, 2011 10:40 AM To: info at spectrumwritingllc.com Cc: framers at 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
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
Disappearing graphics in Framemaker files
Spectrum Writing wrote: > 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. Esc v o opens the View Options dialog, and then Alt-i toggles Display Graphics. Not a key combination you're likely to enter by accident, and certainly not multiple times. :-) As I said, I suspect it was an Import > Formats operation that propagated that setting throughout the book, so there's probably a single file that's the original source of that setting. Richard G. Combs Senior Technical Writer Polycom, Inc. richardDOTcombs AT polycomDOTcom 303-223-5111 -- rgcombs AT gmailDOTcom 303-903-6372 --
Disappearing graphics in Framemaker files
I promise guys - View > Options would have been an overt series of clicks to get there and I would have remembered that and I didn't do that, but here's another thing - just opened one of the files in this lovely book and again, apparently "no" graphics, so I go to View > Options and Graphics is indeed selected. I clear it, close the Options dialog box, the open the dialog box and select again, and boom, graphics reappear, no joke. and, I didn't even really know about the dialog box that opens after you select View > Options until y'all mentioned it here. The only View option that I use in FM 9 is View and then right there on the dropdown menu, I select Text Symbols or Borders as needed. TIA, TVB Tammy Van Boening Owner/Principal Spectrum Writing, LLC www.spectrumwritingllc.com info at spectrumwritingllc.com -Original Message- From: framers-boun...@lists.frameusers.com [mailto:framers-bounces at lists.frameusers.com] On Behalf Of Spectrum Writing Sent: Friday, January 21, 2011 11:04 AM To: 'Stuart Rogers' Cc: framers at lists.frameusers.com Subject: RE: Disappearing graphics in Framemaker files 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 info at spectrumwritingllc.com -Original Message- From: Stuart Rogers [mailto:srog...@phoenix-geophysics.com] Sent: Friday, January 21, 2011 10:40 AM To: info at spectrumwritingllc.com Cc: framers at 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 exi
