Steve's right about FM running in native mode, of course... I was thinking of running FM 8 on her Mac under a Windows emulator.
Art On Fri, Apr 18, 2008 at 10:01 AM, Steve Rickaby <srickaby at wordmongers.demon.co.uk> wrote: > At 19:30 -0400 17/4/08, Louise Moritsugu wrote: > > >I can open FrameMaker alright, but it won't import the French Word > >files. The error message reads: > > > >"Mastersoft Error: From -Side Converter returned error 3" > > If it helps at all (which it probably doesn't), my archives say that error 3 > is 'illegal instruction error'. I.e. the code probably went mad after being > presented with something it could not process. > > Agree with Art's comments other than, as Louise is working on a Mac, the > FrameMaker 8 demo won't help her a lot ;-) Louise... Art is right about the > FrameMaker 7 filters being better, and I was recently impressed that I could > import raw Word files in FrameMaker 7 for Mac with not only the tags intact, > but also stuff like Word index markers. > > Your only route to a FrameMaker 7 install is secondhand, for example via > eBay. This is where I got my 6 -> 7 updater, legally, and it worked for me. > However, a search today reveals only a FrameMaker 5.5 updater (yes, really!). > > Hope this helps a bit. > > -- > Steve > -- Art Campbell art.campbell at gmail.com "... In my opinion, there's nothing in this world beats a '52 Vincent and a redheaded girl." -- Richard Thompson No disclaimers apply. DoD 358
