Chapter 10: Mif Compatibility; Changes Between Version 9.0 And 10.0; Mif Syntax Changes In Framemaker 8 - Adobe FRAMEMAKER 10 User Manual

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Chapter 10: MIF Compatibility

MIF files are compatible across versions. However, some MIF statements have changed in version 7.0 of Adobe®
FrameMaker®. This appendix lists the MIF statements that are new or have changed in version 7.0 and describes how
these statements are treated when an earlier version reads a 7.0 MIF file. The appendix also lists changes between
versions 7.0 and 6.0, and between earlier version upgrades of FrameMaker. MIF statements are listed by feature.
In general, when previous versions of FrameMaker read new MIF statements, the new MIF statements are stripped
out and ignored. For example, if version 4 of FrameMaker reads a new 7.0 MIF statement in a 7.0 MIF file,
FrameMaker ignores the statement.

Changes between version 9.0 and 10.0

This section describes changes to MIF syntax between versions 9.0 and 10.0 of FrameMaker.
Text background color
In FrameMaker 10, you can add a background color for the paragraph and conditional text. In a MIF file, the
background color for a paragraph tag is added using the tag and the background color for a
FBackgroundColor
conditional tag is added using the tag.
CBackgroundColor
Track text edits
FrameMaker tracks the Windows/Unix username of the user who edits a document in track changes mode.
FrameMaker also tracks the time of the edit. In a MIF document, this information is in the
DTrackChangesReview-
, , and .
erName ReviewerName ReviewTimeInfo
Descriptive tags
FrameMaker displays the description of the elements in the element catalog. In a mif file, the
EDDescriptiveTag
tag contains the descriptive tag of an element and using a boolean tag , you can
DShowElmentDescriptiveTags
decide whether or not to display the element descriptions.
Custom catalogs
FrameMaker allows you to create custom catalogs of character formats, paragraph formats, and table formats. A mif
document contains the boolean tags, , , and , to control whether
CustomPgfFlag CustomFontFlag CustomTblFlag
or not these custom catalogs exist in the document. For the custom catalogs, a mif document contains one tag each
to signify the start of a custom catalog: , , or . The
DCustomFontList DCustomPgfList DCustomTblList DCustom-
, , and tags specify the names of the tags in the custom catalogs.
FontTag DCustomPgfTag DCustomTblTag

MIF syntax changes in FrameMaker 8

This section describes the MIF syntax changes in FrameMaker 8.