Re: Importing variables across a book

2005-12-14 Thread Newton Furia
Silvia You cannot open the MIF file, because FM will create all the information necessary to build a document, including the System Variables. The correct steps: 1. Create the MIF file as the example already done: MIFFile 7.00 VariableFormats VariableFormat VariableName `MyVariable'

Framemaker to Apple's Pages

2005-12-14 Thread david
I guess this has been asked before but searching for Pages in the Frame archive is, well, not a useful search term in this context... How can I migrate Framemaker documents to Apple's word processor Pages? Of course I want to keep as much structure as possible, in other words, RTF is not

Re: Framemaker to Apple's Pages

2005-12-14 Thread Steve Rickaby
At 1:58 pm +0100 14/12/05, david wrote: I guess this has been asked before but searching for Pages in the Frame archive is, well, not a useful search term in this context... How can I migrate Framemaker documents to Apple's word processor Pages? Of course I want to keep as much structure as

Re: Framemaker to Apple's Pages

2005-12-14 Thread Paul Findon
On 14 Dec 2005, at 13:22, Steve Rickaby wrote: How can I migrate Framemaker documents to Apple's word processor Pages? Of course I want to keep as much structure as possible, in other words, RTF is not really an option (or is it?). Someone must have written about this before, a link to a web

Re: Framemaker to Apple's Pages

2005-12-14 Thread david
At 13.56 + 05-12-14, Paul Findon wrote/05-12-14, 13.56 + skrev Paul Findon Getting back to the question, I've not tried this, but I think RTF is the only way to go. Framemaker can export to .doc, can't it? Since Pages imports that, wouldn't migration path possibly retain more

Re: Framemaker to Apple's Pages

2005-12-14 Thread Paul Findon
On 14 Dec 2005, at 15:06, david wrote: At 13.56 + 05-12-14, Paul Findon wrote/05-12-14, 13.56 + skrev Paul Findon Getting back to the question, I've not tried this, but I think RTF is the only way to go. Framemaker can export to .doc, can't it? Since Pages imports that, wouldn't

Re: Framemaker to Apple's Pages

2005-12-14 Thread Pat Christenson
I don't know about transferring FM docs to Pages but I had the misfortune of working with Pages several months ago. I'm pretty sure I posted (ranted) about it here. In a nutshell, I felt that Pages was a toy. Good enough for writing the Christmas letter and that's about it. Not at all ready to

Importing variables across a book

2005-12-14 Thread Newton Furia
Silvia You cannot open the MIF file, because FM will create all the information necessary to build a document, including the System Variables. The correct steps: 1. Create the MIF file as the example already done: > > > > # end of VariableFormat > # end of VariableFormats > # End

Framemaker to Apple's Pages

2005-12-14 Thread david
I guess this has been asked before but searching for Pages in the Frame archive is, well, not a useful search term in this context... How can I migrate Framemaker documents to Apple's word processor Pages? Of course I want to keep as much structure as possible, in other words, RTF is not

Framemaker to Apple's Pages

2005-12-14 Thread Steve Rickaby
At 1:58 pm +0100 14/12/05, david wrote: >I guess this has been asked before but searching for Pages in the Frame >archive is, well, not a useful search term in this context... > >How can I migrate Framemaker documents to Apple's word processor Pages? Of >course I want to keep as much structure

Framemaker to Apple's Pages

2005-12-14 Thread Paul Findon
On 14 Dec 2005, at 13:22, Steve Rickaby wrote: >> How can I migrate Framemaker documents to Apple's word processor >> Pages? Of course I want to keep as much structure as possible, in >> other words, RTF is not really an option (or is it?). Someone must >> have written about this before, a

Framemaker to Apple's Pages

2005-12-14 Thread david
At 13.56 + 05-12-14, Paul Findon wrote/05-12-14, 13.56 + skrev Paul Findon >Getting back to the question, I've not tried this, but I think RTF >is the only way to go. Framemaker can export to .doc, can't it? Since Pages imports that, wouldn't migration path possibly retain more

Framemaker to Apple's Pages

2005-12-14 Thread Paul Findon
On 14 Dec 2005, at 15:06, david wrote: > At 13.56 + 05-12-14, Paul Findon wrote/05-12-14, 13.56 + skrev > Paul Findon > >> Getting back to the question, I've not tried this, but I think RTF is >> the only way to go. > > Framemaker can export to .doc, can't it? Since Pages imports that,

Framemaker to Apple's Pages

2005-12-14 Thread Jeremy H. Griffith
On Wed, 14 Dec 2005 13:58:56 +0100, david wrote: >How can I migrate Framemaker documents to Apple's word processor >Pages? Of course I want to keep as much structure as possible, in >other words, RTF is not really an option (or is it?). It would be good to find out, empirically! Mif2Go's RTF

Framemaker to Apple's Pages

2005-12-14 Thread Pat Christenson
I don't know about transferring FM docs to Pages but I had the misfortune of working with Pages several months ago. I'm pretty sure I posted (ranted) about it here. In a nutshell, I felt that Pages was a toy. Good enough for writing the Christmas letter and that's about it. Not at all ready to