C.2.1 Conversion files created during set-up

The first time you set up a conversion project for a particular FrameMaker document, Mif2Go creates for that document three conversion files:

• a document-specific project file

• a document-specific FileID file

• an output-specific starting project configuration file:

Conversion file	Default file name	File contents
Project	MyDoc.prj	Information Mif2Go collects about conversion-project names, types, paths, and states.
FileID	mif2go.ini	Output-file identifiers called FileIDs, mapped to the names of your FrameMaker files; Mif2Go assigns these identifiers.
Configuration	_m2output.ini	Settings and options that dictate how your document will be converted.
	_m2output_html.ini or _m2output_word.ini	Settings that are specific to this document.

Mif2Go places the project file and the FileID file in the same directory as your FrameMaker document, and places the starting project configuration file in the project directory.  

Before Mif2Go set-up:		After Mif2Go set-up:
Input directory	Project directory	Input directory	Project directory
MyDoc.book		MyDoc.book	_m2output.ini
Chapter1.fm		Chapter1.fm
...		...
ChapterN.fm		ChapterN.fm
		MyDoc.prj
		mif2go.ini

Project file and FileID file

If you run Mif2Go from within FrameMaker, the project and FileID files are created when you click Set Up Mif2Go Export... on the FrameMaker File menu:

MyDoc.prj	Project file for conversions from MyDoc.book (or MyDoc.fm)
mif2go.ini	FileID file for conversions from MyDoc.book (or MyDoc.fm)

See §C.3 Renaming or relocating the Mif2Go project file for more information about these two conversion files.

Configuration file

Mif2Go places the starting project configuration file in the project directory. If you run Mif2Go from within FrameMaker, the project directory is the location you specify via the Choose Project Browse button (...). The configuration file is one of those listed in Table 30-5. Mif2Go also places a document-specific configuration file in subdirectory _config, parallel to the project directory. This file contains settings that apply only to the particular FrameMaker document you are converting. See §30.3 Including document-specific configuration files.

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