Hi Mike, I worked on a similar project for a large defense contractor and they chose to keep the graphics library managed separately in their CMS. Their graphics had also been "mutilated" with layers of raster on vector, kludges, and the like. The process I followed was to take the source Interleaf Ascii files, convert them to WORD, capture each graphic using Visio 2000, fix the kludges using Visio tools, and assign meta-data to the graphics (labor intensive). The files were saved as EMF format, and conversion to SVG is now being comtemplated for compatibility when they take the next step to XML. Let me know if you need a tool or service. To answer your direct question, I think the PDF and Framemaker step(s) is unnecessary.
Hope this is moderately interesting and useful and I apologize in advance to the list-mom and group if I've violated any posting rules. Tim O'Neill Lurker, now post-er BudJit Graphics New Media Publishing Solutions ---quoted---> Message: 2 Reply-To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> From: "Michael Bardeggia" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "'CMS List'" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: Thu, 14 Nov 2002 08:58:25 -0500 Organization: PLANiT Design Subject: [cms-list] MSWORD to XML (FrameMaker - .doc > .pdf > .xml...?) Hi All, My goal is to convert 3500 MS Word docs to XML. About 1/3 of the docs have images with text boxes and arrows pointing to things overlaid on the images. Is there a way to capture that info and preserve it in an XML conversion? I've toyed with MajiX (http:///tetrasys.dhs.org) with great success in converting to "sdocbook" format. However, MajiX pulls the images out as individual WMF files..and discards any of the "user-drawn" text boxes. >From word to PDF...the documents look great. So, I figured....lets convert the PDF into XML...and now I've downloaded Adobe Framemaker. Am I wrong to think that Framemaker can convert a PDF into XML? Does anyone have any suggestions? Sincerely, Mike Bardeggia ---digest trimmed -- http://cms-list.org/ trim your replies for good karma.
