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Subject: SPAM -> Re: [Framers] Transfer from FrameMaker into Word
This might seem like a naive question, but why not write up a User
Guide for using your templates and modifying existing document
: Re: [Framers] Transfer from FrameMaker into Word
This might seem like a naive question, but why not write up a User
Guide for using your templates and modifying existing documents? Let
them stay in FrameMaker, especially if they don't anticipate restyling
(and when they do, they can
mally-book-level formatting (chapter-by numbering, variable first
and recto/verso H/Fs, running H/Fs, etc).
And expect a phone call in, oh, three months. ;-)
HTH;
David
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Subject: [Framers] Transfer from FrameMaker into Word
From: Janie Cole <
Kevin is right that the Save to Word option from FrameMaker is not a good
idea. Since I often need to provide Word files for various people to edit,
we invest in a subscription to Adobe PDF Services (about $25 a year). I
produce a PDF file and then use this online service to produce a Word
Re: [Framers] Transfer from FrameMaker into Word
Another thought is that if your version of Frame is old enough (Frame 10 or 11,
I think?), you can use Mif2Go to make a clean conversion from MIF to RTF. I've
never really used Mif2Go, though, so I can't tell you whether the
out-of-the-box conversion will
Another thought is that if your version of Frame is old enough (Frame 10 or
11, I think?), you can use Mif2Go to make a clean conversion from MIF to
RTF. I've never really used Mif2Go, though, so I can't tell you whether the
out-of-the-box conversion will do what you need or if it needs to be
I would advise against using Acrobat's "Save as Microsoft Word" function. When
I tried this, Acrobat would produce an exquisite-*looking* copy of my PDF. But
the moment I'd try to edit the file in Word, the layout would do silly things
like wrap off the page into oblivion. I call it the
At 09:30 -0400 25/4/18, Janie Cole wrote:
>My contract is ending and no one else at the company knows how to use
>FrameMaker.They have asked me to convert the SOPs that I produced for them
>into Word so others can maintain after I'm gone.
Shmuel has nailed the detail for you: saving out of PDF
I think you are much better off saving the Frame files as RTF then RTF
as Word. The reason is that when you save Frame files as RTF, you get
the styles that were in Frame. If you want to change style names, it's a
simple search and replace. This is much faster than having to apply all
the
Depends on whether the people doing the maintenance have any real Word
experience, I guess. Converting from PDF to Word will give you a Word
document that looks like the PDF, all right, but there will be no styles.
EVERYTHING will be Normal + whatever.
If they do all their formatting on the fly,
My contract is ending and no one else at the company knows how to use
FrameMaker.
They have asked me to convert the SOPs that I produced for them into Word
so others can maintain after I'm gone.
All the docs are saved as PDF for general use. I'm thinking converting the
PDF to Word might be the
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