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.mif format file in Studio 2021 - file does not open in project, is Adobe FrameMaker mandatory?

QA Sara

Hello,

I know someone has already discussed the issue for v2019 in another community topoic,

but I am afraid ran into the same issue again today with Studio 2021, file type is enabled ...as in screenshot.

is there a munite solution before I ask client to change file type?

or is FrameMaker or Adobe product mandatory to process these types?

many thanks for your help in adnavance

Sara

(+) Problem creating a project with MIF files - 2. Trados Studio - Trados Studio - RWS Community

Trados Studio 2021 options window showing file types with Adobe FrameMaker 8-2020 MIF V2 enabled, indicated by a red circle around the checkbox and file extension '*.mif'.

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    QA Sara said:

    s there a munite solution before I ask client to change file type?

    or is FrameMaker or Adobe product mandatory to process these types?

    No, Adobe Framemaker is not mandatory.  Maybe you need to use this setting?

    Trados Studio options menu with Adobe FrameMaker 8-2020 MIF v2 selected, showing various processing settings such as 'Process unsupported file versions' and 'Process reference pages'.

    Paul Filkin | RWS Group

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  • 0 in reply to Paul

    Thank you so much Paul, I really appreciated it.

    I ticked the option (as in screenshot) and relaunched Studio,

    but when I tried to convert the file to the sdlxliff with right click or newly load the file, it still looked like this..? (or maybe restarting the computer?)

    thank you so much,

    Sara

    Trados Studio options menu with 'Common' settings expanded showing various checked and unchecked options.

    Trados Studio options menu with 'Common' settings expanded, 'Convert forced line breaks to inline tag' option is checked.

    Trados Studio task results window showing three warnings related to pre-scanning file type and FrameMaker version errors.

    Trados Studio right-click context menu with 'Batch Tasks' expanded showing a message 'No tasks available'.
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  • 0 in reply to QA Sara

    I wonder if your default project template is different?  Can you make sure that the default also has this option set?

    File -> Setup

    If the problem is still there would you be able to share the file with me?  At least that way we could rule out a file problem.

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  • 0 in reply to QA Sara

    Open the mif file in a text editor like Notepad++ and tell us the mif version stated there. Thanks.

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  • 0 in reply to Jerzy Czopik

    Helo Jerzy,

    many thanks for reaching out, it said

    <MIFFile 7.00> # Generated by FrameMaker 2019
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  • 0 in reply to QA Sara

    OK, this comes to my mind,

    if notepad can read these files - how about if I simply save them as .txt, and after translation just change the identifier back to .mif again - could this be the answer? that saves my day! thank you so much!
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  • 0 in reply to QA Sara

    So this is the culprit. Simply ask the customer to create mif files in the current version. MIF7 is not supported by Studio and on top it does not support Unicode, so using this for translation in 21st century isn't a good idea.

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  • 0 in reply to QA Sara

    Well, you could go that way. But this would involve defining dozens of tags, which is unnecessary, as you can simply use current mif version.

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  • 0 in reply to Jerzy Czopik

    Hi there, can I Save As *.mif in Trados? It seems not possible though:

    https://ibb.co/b1smnJ2

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  • 0 in reply to Mikael Arhelger

    No, because your source format was NOT mif. You used txlf as source, so this is the format you can create as target. Your mif can only be created in the tool, which converted it from the source.

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