
   BOMBADIL - Frequently Asked Questions
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   "Do Bombadil messages in the window only draw attention to problems, 
    or have they been repaired already?"

    Normally BOMBADIL repairs an error it has recognized immediately. If 
    the document is seriously damaged, however, it can't do any more and 
    reports an "Unexpected Error". In these cases the checking of the 
    document is terminated and the data structures remain defective.


   "Can I switch off the pesky report window?"
 
    Of course! In the "Styles and colours of objects copied via the 
    clipboard" dialog there is a "closed" option. If you select this, the 
    log window will remain closed.


   "Do I still need Bombadil for Calamus 98 April freshup/SL2000?"

    Yes. Some of the errors that BOMBADIL removes have not yet been 
    located and rectified in the new Calamus SL. In addition, one is 
    confronted repeatedly with older documents that -- partly due to 
    Calamus bugs that have long been fixed -- give rise to problems of 
    some kind. With BOMBADIL's repair functions some of these can be 
    solved.


   "Bombadil reports an unexpected error during repairs. What now?"

    This happens when the data structures are so badly damaged that when 
    BOMBADIL acccess them an error is reported to it. This terminates the 
    capability of the module; the document will not be checked any 
    further, the error cannot be rectified.

    In such cases you should check whether you can still open the Text 
    Style and Colour List dialogs and that both lists appear correct. If 
    not, it may be possible to save the frames by moving them via the 
    clipboard into a new document (Select all, Group, Copy to clipboard 
    etc. for every page). There have also been documents where only a 
    single page or a frame was damaged beyond repair. By deleting the 
    page or the frame, the problem could be eradicated.


   "Every time that I change something in the Style or Colour List, 
    Bombadil immediately reports an error. Is my document spoilt?"

    No, definitely not. Actually this happens each time you exit the 
    Style or Colour dialog with "OK" and frames or objects from this 
    document lie in the clipboard. This is also the case with opened 
    Eddie windows. Both dialogs uses the same faulty function in Calamus 
    that always incorporates the same subtle defect in the relevant list.

    With the new Style dialog used from Calamus 98 onwards this problem 
    no longer arises, incidentally, although it still happens with the 
    Colour dialog.


   "Does Bombadil also remove the errors arising from using Calamus in
    16-colour resolution?"

    Unfortunately no. BOMBADIL only has the properties described in 
    README.TXT. Specially with the false colour problem we are not 
    dealing with an error in the direct sense, but with a conceptionally 
    qualified compromise made so as not to slow down screen redraws of 
    the documents unnecessarily. BOMBADIL cannot do anything to alter 
    this.


   "I have now installed the new version of Bombadil, but the error 
    still appears."

    All error-correction properties built into a new BOMBADIL version are 
    at first switched OFF by default. Please do not forget to activate 
    the relevant bugfix.

    If this still offers no improvement, then it is simply due to 
    BOMBADIL not recognizing this error, or it cannot remedy it in this 
    variation.
    



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