Re: [Framers] Book and Doc Templates.

[Syed Zaeem Hosain]

When I did this in the past (Word --> FM), I also followed the same approach 
that Lin mentions - it is the one that prevents confusing issues later on 
within FM or generating PDF, etc. There is usually some crud hanging around 
that could cause problems otherwise.

Of course, now that I am using LaTeX, I have an equally similar approach taking 
docs in FM (stopped upgrading at FM 12) over to LaTeX (FM --> LaTeX). If I need 
to make significant changes - needing multiple days of work - I convert to 
LaTeX with about a day of editing work for the size of documents that I work on 
(typically less than a few hundred pages). 

Else, I just make the changes in FM12.

(As always, I emphasize that what works for me in LaTeX may not be relevant for 
you all. Just the kinds of specs and white papers I write work great in there 
now. With formalized consistency that Word is unable to provide.)

Z

Lin Sims wrote:
> Personally, I usually save the Word file to an ASCII text file and copy and 
> paste blocks into Frame, tagging as I go. It may be a bit brute force, but it 
> works for me. If nothing else, it ensures that none of Word's cruft is 
> imported and that the graphics I need are placed where I want them.

Richard Melanson wrote:
> Hello Everyone,
>
> I am converting a 193 page Word doc to FrameMaker 2017. Does anyone have 
> recommended templates for doing this. I am trying to do this in 
> as little time as possible. If you can share what you have great, if you are 
> selling what you have great also, just let me know what you need.
>
> Thank you all for your help.
>
> Rick
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Re: [Framers] Book and Doc Templates.

[Jeff Coatsworth]

Nope, with this line (looked it up this time) -


ClipboardFormatsPriorities=TEXT, FILE, MIFW, MIF, RTF, OLE 2, META, EMF,  DIB, 
BMP, UNICODE TEXT


It acts just like running it through Notepad first, no Word cruft.



From: Framers 
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I thought about this way but I didn't trust the copy/paste function to only 
bring over text. You ever have any problems after with garbage left over from 
Word?


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For a faster experience of copy/pasting text, I would use the tip to adjust 
your maker.ini to stick TEXT at the beginning of the ClipboardPriorityFormats= 
line (ahead of the default UNICODE bit). That way you can copy in Word & paste 
in FM as if you had gone through the Paste Special > Text route.



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And that is exactly why I go the text route. If I didn't create that Word file, 
I don't know whether the person who did set it up right or not.
Usually the answer is "not".

(On a side note, if you set up a Word template, create your own numbering list 
styles and assign your own number styles to the list style, and restrict style 
usage to the ones you created. You will prevent so many headaches by forcing 
users to actually use styles instead of the bloody ribbon bar!)

On Wed, Apr 15, 2020 at 1:18 PM Richard Melanson 
wrote:

> The Word file I inherited does not use any formatting standard, it's
> just a 193 pages of mish mash of whatever any given editor felt like
> doing at the time. I'm probably going to have to go to text then into
> Frame and manually assign the formatting.  YUCK  :-)
>
>
> Richard Melanson
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>
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Re: [Framers] Book and Doc Templates.

[Richard Melanson]

I thought about this way but I didn't trust the copy/paste function to only 
bring over text. You ever have any problems after with garbage left over from 
Word?


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Subject: Re: [Framers] Book and Doc Templates.

For a faster experience of copy/pasting text, I would use the tip to adjust 
your maker.ini to stick TEXT at the beginning of the ClipboardPriorityFormats= 
line (ahead of the default UNICODE bit). That way you can copy in Word & paste 
in FM as if you had gone through the Paste Special > Text route.



From: Framers 
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Subject: Re: [Framers] Book and Doc Templates.

And that is exactly why I go the text route. If I didn't create that Word file, 
I don't know whether the person who did set it up right or not.
Usually the answer is "not".

(On a side note, if you set up a Word template, create your own numbering list 
styles and assign your own number styles to the list style, and restrict style 
usage to the ones you created. You will prevent so many headaches by forcing 
users to actually use styles instead of the bloody ribbon bar!)

On Wed, Apr 15, 2020 at 1:18 PM Richard Melanson 
wrote:

> The Word file I inherited does not use any formatting standard, it's 
> just a 193 pages of mish mash of whatever any given editor felt like 
> doing at the time. I'm probably going to have to go to text then into 
> Frame and manually assign the formatting.  YUCK  :-)
>
>
> Richard Melanson
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>
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Re: [Framers] Book and Doc Templates.

[Craig Ede]

The nice thing is that once you get it into FrameMaker you will know what 
everything is. A silver lining of sorts.

Craig


...snipped..
The Word file I inherited does not use any formatting standard, it's just a 193 
pages of mish mash of whatever any given editor felt like doing at the time. 
I'm probably going to have to go to text then into Frame and manually assign 
the formatting.  YUCK  :-)

Richard Melanson
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Re: [Framers] Book and Doc Templates.

[Lin Sims]

What Jeff said. And if you're really worried, save the Word file to a text
file, open it in something like Notepad++, and copy from there. You'll lose
some of the context of headings and things, though, which means keeping the
Word file open so you can check for things like heading tags and graphic
locations and the like.

Still, I prefer it because there is no way, none, that anything sneaks
through. The only thing I copy directly from Word is tables, and those go
into a separate Frame document with the right tags set up and then I use
Rick's TableCleaner to fix them before copying them (again) into Frame.

I tend toward the paranoid when it comes to Word.

On Wed, Apr 15, 2020 at 3:49 PM Jeff Coatsworth <
jeff.coatswo...@jonasclub.com> wrote:

> Nope, with this line (looked it up this time) -
>
>
> ClipboardFormatsPriorities=TEXT, FILE, MIFW, MIF, RTF, OLE 2, META, EMF,
> DIB, BMP, UNICODE TEXT
>
>
> It acts just like running it through Notepad first, no Word cruft.
>
>
> 
> From: Framers  jonasclub@lists.frameusers.com> on behalf of Richard Melanson <
> rmelan...@highresbio.com>
> Sent: April 15, 2020 3:27 PM
> To: An email list for people using Adobe FrameMaker software.
> Subject: Re: [Framers] Book and Doc Templates.
>
> I thought about this way but I didn't trust the copy/paste function to
> only bring over text. You ever have any problems after with garbage left
> over from Word?
>
>
> Richard Melanson
>

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Re: [Framers] Book and Doc Templates.

[Richard Melanson]

The Word file I inherited does not use any formatting standard, it's just a 193 
pages of mish mash of whatever any given editor felt like doing at the time. 
I'm probably going to have to go to text then into Frame and manually assign 
the formatting.  YUCK  :-)


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Subject: Re: [Framers] Book and Doc Tplates.

That's exactly the approach I took when I converted nearly 10k pages of docs 
from Word (Word 95 in those days) to Frame for a former, former employer. We 
had pretty good compliance to the old Word template because we had been using a 
complex, scripted conversion to Windows Help, so the conversion actually went 
pretty well except for cases of missing graphics source files. (I still curse 
the memory of writers who pasted graphics directly into Word.)

The Frame templates I imported into were set up to be semi-structured (tags to 
reflect structural function rather than appearance) to facilitate further 
migration to XML. But that migration never happened because the parent company 
sold off our division and shipped the products and docs off to teams in India.

-FR


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Subject: Re: [Framers] Book and Doc Templates.

Hi Rick,

I haven't used any templates, but what I have done is renamed the para tags and 
any character tags in the word doc to match what I have in frame (i.e., Heading 
1 to Heading One) and then imported the doc file into frame.  It seems to work 
pretty well.  The only thing is, you'll have to go back make separate 
files/chapters, and you'll have some minor para/character clean up.  And you'll 
need to re-import the graphics.

Hope that helps.

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Subject: [Framers] FW: Book and Doc Templates.

Hi Everyone,

I didn't get any responses to my email. If I have done something wrong or 
offended anyone, I humbly apologize. I have been on and off this list since 
1991 and Everyone I have ever dealt with has been great. So again Everyone, if 
I did something wrong, my bad.

Thank you.

Rick


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Subject: Book and Doc Templates.

Hello Everyone,

I am converting a 193 page Word doc to FrameMaker 2017. Does anyone have 
recommended templates for doing this. I am trying to do this in as little time 
as possible. If you can share what you have great, if you are selling what you 
have great also, just let me know what you need.

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Re: [Framers] Book and Doc Templates.

[Lin Sims]

And that is exactly why I go the text route. If I didn't create that Word
file, I don't know whether the person who did set it up right or not.
Usually the answer is "not".

(On a side note, if you set up a Word template, create your own numbering
list styles and assign your own number styles to the list style, and
restrict style usage to the ones you created. You will prevent so many
headaches by forcing users to actually use styles instead of the bloody
ribbon bar!)

On Wed, Apr 15, 2020 at 1:18 PM Richard Melanson 
wrote:

> The Word file I inherited does not use any formatting standard, it's just
> a 193 pages of mish mash of whatever any given editor felt like doing at
> the time. I'm probably going to have to go to text then into Frame and
> manually assign the formatting.  YUCK  :-)
>
>
> Richard Melanson
> Technical Writer|HighRes Biosolutions
> T:781.932.1912x1160|rmelan...@highresbio.com
> www.highresbio.com???
>
> Lin Sims
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Re: [Framers] Book and Doc Templates.

[Ben Anderson]

Hi Rick,

I haven't used any templates, but what I have done is renamed the para tags and 
any character tags in the word doc to match what I have in frame (i.e., Heading 
1 to Heading One) and then imported the doc file into frame.  It seems to work 
pretty well.  The only thing is, you'll have to go back make separate 
files/chapters, and you'll have some minor para/character clean up.  And you'll 
need to re-import the graphics.

Hope that helps.

Ben Anderson
Senior Technical Writer
O 512-279-5796  /   M 512-925-3687   
__
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Building 4, Suite 200
Austin, Texas 78727

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Subject: [Framers] FW: Book and Doc Templates.

Hi Everyone,

I didn't get any responses to my email. If I have done something wrong or 
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1991 and Everyone I have ever dealt with has been great. So again Everyone, if 
I did something wrong, my bad. 

Thank you. 

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I am converting a 193 page Word doc to FrameMaker 2017. Does anyone have 
recommended templates for doing this. I am trying to do this in as little time 
as possible. If you can share what you have great, if you are selling what you 
have great also, just let me know what you need. 

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[Framers] FW: Book and Doc Templates.

[Richard Melanson]

Hi Everyone,

I didn't get any responses to my email. If I have done something wrong or 
offended anyone, I humbly apologize. I have been on and off this list since 
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I did something wrong, my bad. 

Thank you. 

Rick


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Hello Everyone, 

I am converting a 193 page Word doc to FrameMaker 2017. Does anyone have 
recommended templates for doing this. I am trying to do this in as little time 
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Re: [Framers] FW: Book and Doc Templates.

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Hi Rick,

No, you did absolutely nothing wrong. Remember that many, many of 
this list's subscribers have been affected by coronavirus-related 
work disruptions. They may not be reading list messages as regularly 
as they had been. Of the ones that are, they perhaps have no solution to offer.


One of the things you can do is search this group's archives at
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You might be able to unearth some helpful information in previous posts.

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I didn't get any responses to my email. If I have done something 
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Re: [Framers] Book and Doc Templates.

[Lin Sims]

I think it's more like no one has "templates" so didn't feel they could
help you.

Frame since, I think, 2017, has a Word Import facility that allows you to
map Word styles to Frame tags, which can do a lot of the work for you as
long as you have a file set up with the tags you want. Check Barb Binder's
Rocky Mountain training site; I believe she has a blog post explaining how
to do that.

Beyond that, I recommend Rick Quattro's TableCleaner script, which will
help you reformat Word's tables to clean Frame tables.

Personally, I usually save the Word file to an ASCII text file and copy and
paste blocks into Frame, tagging as I go. It may be a bit brute force, but
it works for me. If nothing else, it ensures that none of Word's cruft is
imported and that the graphics I need are placed where I want them.

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wrote:

> Hello Everyone,
>
> I am converting a 193 page Word doc to FrameMaker 2017. Does anyone have
> recommended templates for doing this. I am trying to do this in as little
> time as possible. If you can share what you have great, if you are selling
> what you have great also, just let me know what you need.
>
> Thank you all for your help.
>
> Rick
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Re: [Framers] FW: Book and Doc Templates.

[Richard Melanson]

Thank you Carol, 

Good point on the virus, I hadn't thought of that. I was just concerned I had 
stepped out of line.  

And thank you again, I will dig through the archives and see what I can come up 
with. 

Stay healthy. 

Rick


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Subject: Re: [Framers] FW: Book and Doc Templates.

Hi Rick,

No, you did absolutely nothing wrong. Remember that many, many of this list's 
subscribers have been affected by coronavirus-related work disruptions. They 
may not be reading list messages as regularly as they had been. Of the ones 
that are, they perhaps have no solution to offer.

One of the things you can do is search this group's archives at 
https://www.mail-archive.com/framers%40lists.frameusers.com/maillist.html
 


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>I didn't get any responses to my email. If I have done something wrong 
>or offended anyone, I humbly apologize.

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Re: [Framers] Book and Doc Templates.

[Fred Ridder]

That's exactly the approach I took when I converted nearly 10k pages of docs 
from Word (Word 95 in those days) to Frame for a former, former employer. We 
had pretty good compliance to the old Word template because we had been using a 
complex, scripted conversion to Windows Help, so the conversion actually went 
pretty well except for cases of missing graphics source files. (I still curse 
the memory of writers who pasted graphics directly into Word.)

The Frame templates I imported into were set up to be semi-structured (tags to 
reflect structural function rather than appearance) to facilitate further 
migration to XML. But that migration never happened because the parent company 
sold off our division and shipped the products and docs off to teams in India.

-FR


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behalf of Ben Anderson 
Sent: Wednesday, April 15, 2020 12:19 PM
To: An email list for people using Adobe FrameMaker software. 

Subject: Re: [Framers] Book and Doc Templates.

Hi Rick,

I haven't used any templates, but what I have done is renamed the para tags and 
any character tags in the word doc to match what I have in frame (i.e., Heading 
1 to Heading One) and then imported the doc file into frame.  It seems to work 
pretty well.  The only thing is, you'll have to go back make separate 
files/chapters, and you'll have some minor para/character clean up.  And you'll 
need to re-import the graphics.

Hope that helps.

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Subject: [Framers] FW: Book and Doc Templates.

Hi Everyone,

I didn't get any responses to my email. If I have done something wrong or 
offended anyone, I humbly apologize. I have been on and off this list since 
1991 and Everyone I have ever dealt with has been great. So again Everyone, if 
I did something wrong, my bad.

Thank you.

Rick


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Subject: Book and Doc Templates.

Hello Everyone,

I am converting a 193 page Word doc to FrameMaker 2017. Does anyone have 
recommended templates for doing this. I am trying to do this in as little time 
as possible. If you can share what you have great, if you are selling what you 
have great also, just let me know what you need.

Thank you all for your help.

Rick

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Re: [Framers] Book and Doc Templates.

[Jeff Coatsworth]

For a faster experience of copy/pasting text, I would use the tip to adjust 
your maker.ini to stick TEXT at the beginning of the ClipboardPriorityFormats= 
line (ahead of the default UNICODE bit). That way you can copy in Word & paste 
in FM as if you had gone through the Paste Special > Text route.



From: Framers 
 on behalf 
of Lin Sims 
Sent: April 15, 2020 1:23 PM
To: An email list for people using Adobe FrameMaker software.
Subject: Re: [Framers] Book and Doc Templates.

And that is exactly why I go the text route. If I didn't create that Word
file, I don't know whether the person who did set it up right or not.
Usually the answer is "not".

(On a side note, if you set up a Word template, create your own numbering
list styles and assign your own number styles to the list style, and
restrict style usage to the ones you created. You will prevent so many
headaches by forcing users to actually use styles instead of the bloody
ribbon bar!)

On Wed, Apr 15, 2020 at 1:18 PM Richard Melanson 
wrote:

> The Word file I inherited does not use any formatting standard, it's just
> a 193 pages of mish mash of whatever any given editor felt like doing at
> the time. I'm probably going to have to go to text then into Frame and
> manually assign the formatting.  YUCK  :-)
>
>
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Re: [Framers] Book and Doc Templates.

[Katherine Witbeck]

I use PureText for copying and pasting as plain text. It works with
everything I use.

On Wed, Apr 15, 2020 at 1:38 PM Jeff Coatsworth <
jeff.coatswo...@jonasclub.com> wrote:

> For a faster experience of copy/pasting text, I would use the tip to
> adjust your maker.ini to stick TEXT at the beginning of the
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> you can copy in Word & paste in FM as if you had gone through the Paste
> Special > Text route.
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