Conference vaxuum::online_bookbuilding

317.0. "Bookreader won't open books" by CASEY::BROCKNEY () Fri Apr 13 1990 12:00

	Help! I'm stumped. I'm creating online books for the first time
	and am mystified.

	The situation:

           o The books build with NO errors. LMF info and
	      FSE files are included successfully.
                 (one book is 30 pages long, 1 FSE file)

	   o  I copy each file to the DECW$BOOK area.
              I add each book .DECW$BOOKSHELF info to the 
	      LIBRARY bookshelf. Give each .DECW$BOOK file
              W:RE privileges. Each book title appears on the
              LIBRARY  bookshelf when I call up the BOOKREADER.

           o When I try to open each book, the BOOKREADER hangs with
              the little watch icon. No error messages -- nothing.


           o Any other book in the LIBRARY works fine --- just this
             problem with mine. 

         What's going on?  Any clues?

          Could it have anything to do with the FSE files? This is the
          procedure I used to create those files:

                1. Use CAPTURE to capture a screen image. (these are
                    not DECwindows screens

                 2. Call the SIXEL file into RAGS. Add a screen
                    border. In RAGS, join screen image and border,
                    then reduce size to 70%. 
                    Crop figure and save to RAGS file.

                  3. Use the following MOPS command:

                   MOPS/TYPE=FSE/NOBACKGROUND  file.rags


         This is rather alarming if it is the artwork, because I have over
         100 screen images prepared this way in 4 manuals.

         Help!

          Karen  

It sounds like the LMF bug which is explained elsewhere in this or the
Bookreader conference.  If you don't get an LMF match for the book when
you try to open it, the Bookreader hangs.  The workaround is to instal
the BOOKBROWSER PAK.

I am assuming you are running the VMS V5.3 Bookreader and that you have
Bookbrowser as an alternate product name.

Run the Bookinfo utility on the book file and see what license info is
stored in the book.  The output should look something like this:

 Title:           "Using the Bookreader"
 Symbolic Name:   "decw_bookreader"
 Build Date:      11-APR-1990 20:28:30.57
 Structure Level: 2.0

 LMF Information
   Product Name:  "VAX-VMS"
   Producer:      "DEC"
   Date:          none
   Version:       0
 LMF Alternate Product Names:
   BOOKBROWSER

 Book contains the following directories:
   Contents
   Figures
   Index
 

	The mystery has been solved! Silly me -- I had the
	incorrect product name in my <LMF> tags. (It should
	have been "DSM", not "VAX DSM".)

	Once I rebuilt the books with the correct product name,
        I was able to open them.