Hi all, Speaking of converters, I was wondering if Adobe might ever consider fixing up the RTF to FM and FM to RTF filters that come with Frame. Especially the RTF to FM filter. It would be SO helpful to companies like mine who are about to convert their docsets, including many large manuals (up to 800 pages, believe it or not) from Word to FM. It would have made the job of convincing management a lot easier to switch to Frame if we didn't have to pay an outside vendor to do this for us.
Seems like it would be a profitable thing to do, considering that more companies would be likely to by Frame if they had an easy way to get there from Word. Diane -----Original Message----- From: Dov Isaacs [mailto:isa...@adobe.com] Sent: Sunday, January 14, 2007 9:55 AM To: Rick Quatro; Diane Gaskill; framers at FrameUsers.com Subject: RE: PDF to framemaker (1) There are "a lot of people within Adobe" who don't know what Dreamweaver or Contribute are either! (2) Actually, there is NOT much demand for a PDF to FrameMaker or even a PDF to InDesign "converter" at least as expressed directly to Adobe. Most users of these programs understand the problems of trying to do such reverse engineering of a PDF file. PDF is a "final form" document format. It does not have the context of the graphical objects it represents. At best, if you produce a "tagged" PDF, a "converter" can make some guesses as to the original document structure in terms of sentences, paragraphs, and tables, but not much more. The Acrobat save-as-RTF capability as well as the third party products out there try to make good guesses as the original formatting, but that is about the best they can do. Very little context of a FrameMaker or InDesign document remains in the resultant PDF file, so any attempt to go back to those formats is somewhat doomed. If we were to supply "converters" back to those formats, users expectations would be set to a level that we could not deliver to. Conversions from PDF should be viewed as and only be used for emergency retrieval of content that has no other means of being retrieved. We provide an RTF converter simply because just about every text consuming program out there can open or import content in RTF and that does satisfy most of our customer's needs in terms of such emergency retrieval. - Dov > -----Original Message----- > > I am sure there are a lot of people within Adobe that don't > know what FrameMaker is. > > Rick Quatro > > > It always puzzles me how companies make decisions. Adobe has included > > a function within Acrobat to convert PDF to RTF, the file format of > > their competitor, but not to FM which is one of their own file > > formats. Perhaps there is not enough demand for PDF->FM? > > > > Diane
