Re: ghost character inserted during MSWord import

[Shlomo Perets <shlomo2@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Giuseppe,

You wrote:

> I have just finished to convert a book from FM7.0 to XML and I
> discovered that the xml is littered with unicode FFFD characters (which
> does not exist and therefore results in garbage) at the end of almost
> every para.
>
> Upon inspection of the various files used during the production of the
> book I discovered that they appeared during the import from MSWord2000
> into FM; they are not visible, but they are there since you can count
> the bytes.
>
> This is not a big problem since it does not affect the PDF for print
> production and a global replace can cure easily the xml files,
> nevertheless this is annoying and potentially dangerous.
>
> Anyone has ever incountered such a problem ?


Michael Müller-Hillebrand reported this problem after FM7.0 was released. [ 
http://www.microtype.com/FM_bugs.html ]

After opening Word or RTF documents in FM each paragraph ends with an 
invisible but selectable Carriage Return character.

Workarounds:
(1) Do a find/replace in FrameMaker, searching for "\x0d" (without the 
quotes), replacing with nothing.
(2) saving the file as MIF also removes those characters.


Shlomo Perets

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