To avoid crashing when importing, remove some or all of the pictures before importing the file.
Regards, Shmuel Wolfson 052-763-7133 On 30-Jan-13 9:32 PM, Tori Muir wrote: > Thanks to all who replied, it's genuinely good to know there isn't a > magically simple way to do this that I was unaware of. If the import > filters are more robust, we definitely should look into upgrading -- > we hadn't so far because as non-structured users we hadn't seen any > must-have features in v10 or v11. > > Onward! > > Tori Muir > tmuir at spot-on-creative.com | 650.430.8674 > www.spot-on-creative.com > > On 1/30/13 7:25 AM, Art Campbell wrote: >> A couple of points.... >> >> * I wouldn't work with the Word files at all if you have any other >> options. RTF would be the way to go. >> * You should have the option to open the RTFs in Frame using the >> Japanese RTF import filter. It's more robust than the English RTF >> filter. Try that... >> * You're two frame releases behind current, and the import filters >> seemed (to me, at least) to have been updated. You should at >> least download the FM11 eval version and see if that makes a >> difference, or find someone with current versions to test for you. >> * You also have another option... Output from Word to PDF, and then >> save that out from Acrobat to RTF. Not saying it'll make much >> difference or what the formatting will look like, but it's an >> option to look at. >> >> >> Art Campbell art.campbell at gmail.com <mailto: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 >> >> I support www.TheGrotonLine.com <http://www.TheGrotonLine.com>, >> hyperlocal news for Groton MA. >> >> >> On Tue, Jan 29, 2013 at 6:27 PM, Tori Muir >> <tmuir at spot-on-creative.com <mailto:tmuir at spot-on-creative.com>> wrote: >> > We've been maintaining a set of engineering specs for a client for >10 >> > years. The documents are large, 300+ page multi-chapter books, with >> header >> > autonumbering that goes to 8 levels. About a year ago, client >> requested we >> > give them the Frame content for one spec in Word so they could do some >> > extensive edits. We did, and had not heard from them since. They >> contacted >> > us 2 weeks ago, asking us to reformat the document. They'd compiled >> all the >> > chapters into one 450-page Word doc and done 2-3 major revisions >> over the >> > last year, all editing done by engineers and other folks with no >> expertise >> > in long-document work. It's a bit of a mess. >> > >> > Now they want us to re-convert it into Frame. What would the >> recommended >> > workflow be? We want to do this as cost-efficiently as possible for the >> > client, but also keep our Frame template pristine and the data clean. >> > >> > - We tried opening the Word doc (and sub-sections thereof) in >> Frame (v9), >> > but Frame crashes. >> > >> > - We have saved selected chunks of the Word doc to RTF and imported to >> > Frame. On the plus side, paragraph formatting comes in OK, and >> tables are >> > tables (there are a bazillion tables). On the minus side, >> paragraphs with >> > TOC references get split into two, one empty one with the reference >> marker, >> > then one with the text. This is a significant issue in a manual >> whose TOC >> > includes all 8 levels of the aforementioned autonumbered headers. >> Plus the >> > dreaded missing-font message occurs, and I hate trying to track >> that down. >> > And I'm a bit uneasy about corrupted cross references and other >> metadata >> > that have been round-tripped thru Word, had bad experiences with that. >> > >> > - We can also just blow the Word file out to plain text and reformat. >> > Painful, but our Frame template remains clean that way. Or maybe a >> hybrid >> > approach where we RTF the Word document, then use that to copy >> tables from >> > (formatting them is time-consuming), and import the rest as plain >> text... >> > >> > Recommendations? >> > >> > Tori Muir >> > tmuir at spot-on-creative.com <mailto:tmuir at spot-on-creative.com> | >> 650.430.8674 >> > www.spot-on-creative.com <http://www.spot-on-creative.com> >> > >> > _______________________________________________ >> > >> > >> > You are currently subscribed to framers as art.campbell at gmail.com >> <mailto:art.campbell at gmail.com>. >> > >> > Send list messages to framers at lists.frameusers.com >> <mailto:framers at lists.frameusers.com>. >> > >> > To unsubscribe send a blank email to >> > framers-unsubscribe at lists.frameusers.com >> <mailto:framers-unsubscribe at lists.frameusers.com> >> > or visit >> > >> http://lists.frameusers.com/mailman/options/framers/art.campbell%40gmail.com >> > >> > Send administrative questions to listadmin at frameusers.com >> <mailto:listadmin at frameusers.com>. 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