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Re: Damaged FrameMaker File

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From: "John Posada" <jposada@book.com>
> I attempted to open a file and got the following message:
> -----------
> Cannot read the file named ...
> Its size is not a multiple of 1k. It appears to be damaged. ....
> ---------- 
> Do I have any alternatives other than go to the last PDF version, export
> the section to text, and recreate the file by applying all styles and
> cross-references all over again?

FM binary files have to be exact multiples of 1 KB in size.
If they're not, they have been damaged in a file transfer.
Perhaps you have emailed the document, or used FTP, or copied
the file between different file systems over a network?
(Novell NetWare comes to mind as being problematic...)

If you really cannot find a backup file or the original file
before the file transfer took place, you're basically out of luck.
If you like living on the edge, you can use a binary file editor
to "fill" the contents with null bytes until the file reaches
a size of an exact multiple of 1 KB (1,024 bytes). But there's
no guarantee that the file can be opened anyway.


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Thomas Michanek, FrameMaker/UNIX/MIF expert
Technical Communicator, Uppsala, Sweden
mailto:Thomas.Michanek@telia.com
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