I wholeheartedly agree with the suggestion to use a purpose-built Frame template with style names that match the Word styles. At a former-former employer I used that approach when converting multiple thousands of pages of Word docs (which fortunately used a tightly controlled template) to FrameMaker.
I also second an earlier recommendation to obtain and use Rick Quatro's TableCleaner. The table model is *very* different between Word and Frame, and Rick's tool instantly cleans up most of the consequences of the differences. -FR ________________________________ From: Framers <[email protected]> on behalf of Lin Sims <[email protected]> Sent: Wednesday, April 25, 2018 1:45 PM To: An email list for people using Adobe FrameMaker software. Subject: Re: [Framers] FrameMaker 2017 - Pros, cons and import from Word You could probably run the template through saving as RTF and then importing into Frame to get the basic styles converted to tags, although I've never done that. Word and Frame handle numbering very differently, and that could cause an issue if that's all you do. Whoever set up the Word template might also have used Word's Figure and Table captioning tool, which could cause issues if you want chapter numbers included as part of the figure or table numbering. When I've done it, I've always had a built-from-scratch Frame template set up with tag names identical to the Word style names. You'll still do some hand-editing, but it would get you about 85-90% of the way. On Wed, Apr 25, 2018 at 11:57 AM, Caroline Tabach <[email protected] > wrote: > Thanks. > Currently there is no FrameMaker template of course. > > What is the best thing to do? > The Word template seems very well built. Should I choose to use all the > Word styles? > > Caroline Tabach > > בתאריך יום ד׳, 25 באפר׳ 2018, 16:10, מאת <[email protected]>: > > > From a day-to-day author perspective it will feel similar enough. You > have > > menu reorganization of course, but the F7 key will be your friend (press > it > > almost anywhere for a quick contextual search of functions). For the > import > > of Word the biggest issues are how styles are used in the source (if not > at > > all, then the issue is starting with crappy semantic markup of content), > > images, xrefs, tables. However, it works pretty well. I got to demo it a > > few times at events and conferences, and I've used the import myself a > > decent amount. > > > > Again, boils down to the source quality for it. > > > > Bernard > > > > > > ----- Original Message ----- > > From: [email protected] > > To: [email protected] > > Sent: 4/25/18 7:14 AM > > Subject: [Framers] FrameMaker 2017 - Pros, cons and import from Word > > > > > Hi > > > > > > I used FrameMaker 2015 in my previous position. > > > > > > My new employers offered to buy FrameMaker 2017. > > > > > > 1. What are the main differences between the versions? > > > > > > 2. What is hard to get used to? > > > > > > 3. I have to import their guides from Word. I did this in my previous > job > > > many years ago. I understand the workflow is much better now. The guide > > is > > > a 390 page word doc, the others are much smaller. Tip, Tricks, hints > > > anything to beware of? > > > > > > > > > thanks > > > > > > -- > > > Caroline Tabach > > > Technical Writer > > > e-mail: [email protected] _______________________________________________ This message is from the Framers mailing list Send messages to [email protected] Visit the list's homepage at http://www.frameusers.com Archives located at http://www.mail-archive.com/framers%40lists.frameusers.com/ Subscribe and unsubscribe at http://lists.frameusers.com/listinfo.cgi/framers-frameusers.com Send administrative questions to [email protected]
