My personal suggestion would be this:
-make a PDF of the Word document
-use Acrobat to crop the pages to remove the Word headers
and footers and reduce the page size to something that will
fit your FrameMaker body text frame
-import the PDF pages as graphic objects in a FrameMaker template
that has the required headers and footers
I use a similar technique with FrameMaker files that contain
landscapre-formatted tables that I need to use in a rotated
orientationin a normal, portrait-oriented book. The only time this
aproach does not work well is when the inserted document is still
evolving because you would have to repeat the convert/crop/insert
process.
Fred Ridder
From: "J. Paul Kent" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: "Framers" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Text Inset?
Date: Thu, 19 Jul 2007 06:26:55 -0700
I've never used a text inset before, but I may be up against it.
I need to include a heavily formatted (tables, single and double columns,
heading levels that make zero sense) 20 page Word document as an Appendix
to
an Operators Manual. It would have a standard Appendix title, header,
footer, etc, but otherwise it must appear as close as possible to the
existing document.
I know I could convert the Word doc, but it would take time that we don't
have. I'm wondering what would happen if I used the Word doc as an inset
and
flowed it into a blank Appendix, set up with a title, header and footer.
When I select Word text, I see in the Paste Special options: Embedded MS
Word Object and Linked MS Word Object. Would one of these start me down the
right track?
I'm pretty sure I can do without the headers and footers from the existing
doc. I wonder what would happen if I just select all of the text and then
Paste it into a blank Appendix?
Sorry if these are obvious questions, but I need to NOT spend time
experimenting if I can help it.
Thanks in advance.
J. Paul Kent
206-383-0539
206-508-1144
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