Howard,
If the master pages are the same in all the chapters, make the changes
in one, then use the Import Formats function to copy the page layouts
from the corrected chapter into all of the others. You can do this from
the book level. De-select all the other option and check Page Layouts
before
If they are not too complicated, the best approach is probably to save
the FM file as MS Word and then go from Word to Excel.
Clint
Clint Owen
Technical Publications
Crane Aerospace Electronics
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Maxwell,
Just select all the paragraphs that contain the change bar attribute,
then go to the character designer (ctrl D), uncheck the change bar
attribute, then click Apply. This will remove the change bar and leave
everything else.
We always apply and remove change bars manually; it's easier
Some fonts are restricted from being embedded by the font foundry. It is
an attribute of the font files. This prevents them from being extracted
from the PDF by a third party and reused.
Clint Owen
Technical Publications
Crane Aerospace Electronics
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Cross references work great for this. Just put a cross reference marker
at the first place you use the text, like on a title page, then cross
reference it everywhere you need it. You can also use a variable to
insert the text in the first location, to make it even easier. Change
the variable once
You need to open the master page view for each separate file before you
can find and replace on the master pages. It's a pain in the neck.
However, if all the files use the same master pages you can fix them in
one file and then import the page layouts into all the other files.
Finally, after
Generate a PDF file.
Clint Owen
Technical Publications
Crane Aerospace Electronics
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Harold
Winberg
Sent: Wednesday, February 20, 2008 8:02 AM
To: framers@lists.frameusers.com
Subject: Page
Deidra,
There are at least two ways to set it up that will accomplish the same
thing.
1. Define the variables you need in the Title Chapter, then import them
into all of the other chapters. Insert the variables themselves wherever
you need them. When a change is needed, change the variables in
We used to have a similar problem with our logo on landscape pages. If
we rotated the logo after it was placed on the page it would be cut off
in the PDF. The solution was to create a rotated version of the logo
that did not need to be re-oriented after insertion.
HTH,
Clint Owen
Technical
We have a subcontractor preparing non-structured documents with FM7.2. I
don't know what operating system they use, but I am sure it's some
flavor of Windows.
They create graphics in Isodraw, then export to CGM. The graphics are
inserted in the FM documents by reference. PDFs that they create on
Electronics
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From: Art Campbell [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Monday, March 10, 2008 7:59 AM
To: Owen, Clint
Cc: framers@lists.frameusers.com
Subject: Re: CGM Handling in FM7.0 vs FM7.2
The Adobe FM Upgrade site probably still has the What's New files
Deirdre,
The file icons in the book window are different for auto-generated
files. If the doc icons are all the same, then none of them are
generated.
Clint
Clint Owen
Technical Publications
Crane Aerospace Electronics
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and have to set up all the formatting by
hand.
Clint Owen
Technical Publications
Crane Aerospace Electronics
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From: Fred Ridder [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Monday, March 10, 2008 12:06 PM
To: Owen, Clint; Frame Users
Subject: RE: Ahoy! Question
This might not be relevant to FM8 or to the current discussion, but it
does cause similar instability problems on FM7, running under XP.
We found that FrameMaker creates temporary files in C:\documents and
settings\username\local settings\temp\. These files (fm*.tmp) seem to
accumulate and never
Mike,
The CGM import filter comes from another company (Itedo, I think). If
you search the Adobe website for CGM Graphics you should find a couple
of articles that will have a link to another site where you can download
the latest version, which might solve your problem.
Clint
Clint Owen
My wife uses QB Pro in her (very) small business. It's probably a great
product for your accountant to use, but we find it fiendishly
non-intuitive. Once you manage to mess something up, like importing
external data into an account, it's almost impossible to un-mess it.
Clint
Clint Owen
For this to work the table title has to be inserted as one of the table
parameters, not as a separate paragraph above or below the table. Look
at the table designer, there is a selection for the title to be
Above..., Below... or No Title. If, for instance, your table title
paragraph is inserted
Deirdre,
There are a few of us out here, but I don't know of a specific list. I
have been writing ATPs, FTPs, CMMs, SBs, SLs, and other aerospace type
documents for 7.5 years. If you have questions that might not apply to
the whole Framers list you can write me off-list.
Clint
Clint Owen
Deirdre,
That's about right. It's a pain in the neck, but you can't globally open
or search the master pages.
If all or some of your chapters use the same master pages and the same
cross-references (like to a part number on the title page), you can fix
one of them and then import the page
Yves,
As Dov and Jim mentioned, the preview is created by the graphic
application. Corel Designer, for example, lets us choose 4 bit, 8 bit,
black and white, color, grayscale, and many other options for the
preview.
Clint Owen
Technical Publications
Crane Aerospace Electronics
425-743-8674
Ken,
1. Convert the FM file to PDF, using settings that will not degrade the
embedded image.
2. Extract the page with the target image into a separate PDF.
3. Import the PDF with the target image into any graphic program that
can read PDF, such as Adobe Illustrator or Corel Designer.
4. Use
It might not be relevant in your situation, but you don't really need a
text frame to add callouts on top of a graphic. Just use the text tool
on the graphics toolbar. You can change the font, size, and color as
necessary. You can also add arrows and simple shapes.
Clint
Clint Owen
Technical
Deirdre,
The TOC is built from specified paragraph styles. If one of the named
paragraphs in the target file contains a variable, the variable text
will show up in the TOC.
HTH,
Clint
Clinton Owen | Senior Technical Writer | Crane Aerospace Electronics |
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: Monday, June 16, 2008 7:57 AM
To: Owen, Clint
Cc: Framer's List
Subject: Re: adding user variables to the TOC
Thanks, Clint.
The user variable is in the footer on the master page. It's not showing
up as an option in the list of TOC variables.
Deirdre
On 6/16/08, Owen, Clint [EMAIL PROTECTED
Deirdre,
I can think of two things: 1. Some kind of bizarre spell check or auto
replace accident, or 2. A memory or file corruption issue that is
causing the characters to drop out during printing.
I print all kinds of documents regularly with no problem, but I have one
269 page PDF that drops
Try ALT+ 0176 °
Clint
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Deirdre Reagan
Sent: Thursday, June 19, 2008 2:38 PM
To: Framer's
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cMQ2eATq1OI
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Deirdre,
That's exactly what we do. I create a cross reference marker next to
each revision date on the Record of Revisions page. This date is then
referenced anywhere in the manual that I need that particular date, such
as on the List of Effective Pages or the master page for a new part of
the
Deirdre,
There is another little trick that we use if the content of a page has
changed because of additional material on a previous page.
We create a new master page as before, including the date of the
revision, and put a change bar next to the footer. This indicates to the
user that the flow
Were these templates imported from MS Word, by any chance? That can be
the source of strange characters.
As for the upside down T, that can be any one of several different
kinds of marker. If you have ever cross-referenced something to that
paragraph the marker will remain, even if the
Deirdre,
Generated files are hyperlinks automatically and don't need or create
markers. The only way you will get a marker in a TOC is if you manually
create a cross reference to the paragraph in the TOC after the file is
generated. This is not recommended!
Clint
Clinton Owen | Senior
You are correct, of course.
Thanks,
Clint
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From: Combs, Richard [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Thursday, July 03, 2008 8:12 AM
To: Owen, Clint; Framer's
Mollye,
As others have suggested, we distill separate PDF files for each page size,
then put them together in Acrobat. It's a manual process, but causes fewer
problems than trying to do it automatically.
Clint
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Leah,
Look in the directory where your FM files are stored for a bunch of
xxx.LCK files. FM creates one of these for each open file. If a second
user tries to open the same one, FM sees it and gives the Can't lock
the file for your use message. If your computer or FM crashes with
files open, the
Deirdre,
The TOC creates its own paragraph format for each type of paragraph you
add to it (1AutoTOC, Heading1TOC, etc). The secret is in the format of
these paragraphs.
If you want two different paragraphs from the chapter to appear on the
same line in the TOC, you can manipulate the indent,
Tags increase the PDF file size, if that's important.
Clint
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Sent: Friday,
Deidre,
You need a good vector graphics program, such as Corel Designer or Adobe
Illustrator. These programs will import the PDF and maintain the vector
data. Then you can edit the graphic any way you want and export a new
graphic that you can reference in FM.
You can't do your job without the
Deirdre,
Don't just import the formats. Put a copy of the Good TOC in the
directory with your new book and make sure that the file name is exactly
what it will be in the new book. Now generate/update and the data from
the new book should replace what was in the original TOC.
If you still get
Deidre,
Unless your template is broken, all you need to do is add your content.
FM will add pages as necessary. You can also add a page break manually
to any paragraph or use a paragraph with the Top of Page attribute.
If the template is broken, in that no matter what you do you can't get
it to
Deirdre,
I have not tried it, but I think that you could put your figures in a
table, then use the Table Sheet variable to accomplish what you need.
You would just use your Figure Title paragraph instead of the Table
Title paragraph.
You can also do it by cross-referencing the second through
Deirdre,
If I understand your question correctly, it sounds like you need to add
another frame on the master page. It can be in front of or behind the
existing frame, or you can resize them to fit the space available. You
can also assign them different flow markers, if that's what you need.
We have found in FM 7.0 that FrameMaker creates a bunch of temporary
files that accumulate in the temp directory under the user profile.
Eventually some limit is reached and FM stops working. You can run disk
cleanup within Windows or create a batch file to delete these and FM
will work again.
Does anyone know if the PDF review feature will be available in FM 9 by itself,
if you don't buy the whole TC Suite? We use FM, but not the other components of
the suite. This feature alone is probably worth the upgrade from FM 7 to 9, but
I doubt that the company would want to pay for the
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From: framers-boun...@lists.frameusers.com
[mailto:framers-boun...@lists.frameusers.com] On Behalf Of Fred Ridder
Sent: Wednesday, January 21, 2009 9:04 AM
To: Owen, Clint; framers@lists.frameusers.com
Exactly. That is what they show in the TC2 demonstration.
Clint
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Some of our older scanned documents are multi-page TIFFs. I keep a copy
of Paperport Deluxe (version 7.0, that came with a long gone scanner) on
my computer solely because it can split these files into individual
graphics.
Clint
Clinton Owen | Senior Technical Writer | Crane Aerospace
The trial download page on adobe.com lists all of the individual
products, including FM 9.0, but you can only get TC2 on a DVD. The
download size for FM 9.0 is given as 1000 MB, so maybe the suite is just
too large.
Also, every time I try to download FM 9.0 I get an error from my
After much frustration and non-helpful help on Adobe's website I was
finally able to download the FM 9.0 trial last night.
The key turned out to be turning off the pop-up blocker in IE, which
then allowed the Akami Download Manager to be installed as an Active-X
control.
The download help page
Nancy,
Open the document with the new master pages. Delete all of the master
pages except the ones that you want to import into other documents.
Leave this document open.
Create a book file that contains all of the target documents, which do
not have to be open. From the book file, select all of
Do you mean that you have one book that contains 650 1 page files? 650
pages spread over a few files should not be a problem.
Try opening all of the files before you perform any book wide tasks. If
the files are closed, FM has to open and close each one as it moves
through the book, which can
To anyone who has to keep track of the revision date for each page in a
document. You know what a pain it is to do manually.
I have worked out a way to generate an automatic LOEP in unstructured
FrameMaker documents. This method uses a second flow, with a text frame
on each page that only has
It may not be the most informative term, but it's been in use for a long
time.
Basically, it's a front matter list of the date on which each page in
the manual was last updated. Military and Aerospace manuals typically
have hundreds of pages, and may go through dozens of revisions that
change
Kristy,
You can do it easily if the date is identified by a unique paragraph tag
that appears once for each occurrence of the section title (call it
Section Date). Then you set up a List of Paragraph and pull in all of
the Section Title and Section Date paragraphs as its content. The rest
is just
[mailto:richard.co...@polycom.com]
Sent: Monday, March 09, 2009 1:35 PM
To: Owen, Clint; Framer's List
Subject: RE: List of Effective Sections
Owen, Clint wrote:
I don't know how you Titles and Dates appear on the page, but you can
use negative line spacing and left and right tabs to put two
We use FM 7.0 p578 on Win XP, SP 3.
My coworker recently had Acrobat 9 Standard installed on her computer,
then the hard drive was cloned into a new box and the operating system
was reinstalled. So we don't really know what caused the problem.
For some FM documents, which she has worked on
...@lists.frameusers.com] On Behalf Of Owen, Clint
Sent: Wednesday, March 18, 2009 9:39 AM
To: framers@lists.frameusers.com
Subject: Font and Graphic problems after installing Acrobat 9.0
We use FM 7.0 p578 on Win XP, SP 3.
My coworker recently had Acrobat 9 Standard installed on her computer, then the
hard drive
Subject Matter Expert
Clint
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[mailto:framers-boun...@lists.frameusers.com] On Behalf Of Lea Rush
CSV is really just a text file. Try changing the extension to .txt.
After it's in FM you should be able to convert it to a table.
Clint
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From:
Lea,
Do you have a PDF copy of the original version, in which the graphics
look OK? If so, then you can use PDF as your graphic format and probably
retain the original quality. Just extract each page with a graphic on it
and crop as necessary to get the correct size.
We have to do this with old
Nancy,
As far as I know, you need to create a separate file for each different
size master page. You can't mix master page sizes in a file.
Clint
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We are still using FrameMaker 7.0. My co-worker was upgraded from
Acrobat 6 to 9 and she has no trouble using print to PDF.
Clint
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From:
Nancy,
You can do it with cross references, but that can have it's own set of
problems.
You need to use each variable at least once in your title chapter. Each
one has to be in a paragraph by itself, possibly be on an unused master
page. Then create a cross reference marker in the paragraph that
I frequently use the company VPN and Remote Desktop to take over my
office computer from home and work on FrameMaker files for up to a full
workday with no problems.
Clint
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Darren,
We have used Omnipage for several years with completely satisfactory
results. We especially appreciate that it will take an existing PDF as
input instead of requiring a new scan. It will also export directly to a
FrameMaker document. It also handles tables and multi-column documents
quite
Alison,
If I understand your situation correctly, all you need to do is use the
Open All Files in Book commend from the File Menu (Shift + Open). When
you receive the Can't find the Graphic dialog, just navigate to the
new graphic directory and click on the correct file. Make sure that
update to
-
From: Alison Craig [mailto:alison.cr...@ultrasonix.com]
Sent: Friday, March 05, 2010 2:53 PM
To: Owen, Clint; framers@lists.frameusers.com
Subject: RE: Relative Path Problem for Linked Graphics
Clint:
That worked for Chapter 1 where all two of the images are in the same
folder. But all the other
It's also easy to globally delete change bars before starting the next
round of revisions.
Clint Owen
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From: framers-boun...@lists.frameusers.com
[mailto:framers
We are still on FM 7.0, so this might not be applicable. We are also
still on Win XP
The behavior of spell checker described below sounds a lot like
something that used to happen when I was using spell check and
find-and-replace over and over on a very large document with lots of
instances of the
I have had this happen perhaps six times in ten years. If I restart FM
and try again, no change in any settings, everything works fine.
Clint
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From:
Jenny,
You might have to view the master pages in each suspect file to look for
your broken cross references. One of the most annoying features up
through FM 7.0 is the inability of global searches to find anything on
a master page.
If this has been fixed in FM 9.0 it would be a good enough
Pat,
The best way I have found to do this is to print the Word document to
PDF, then use Acrobat to extract the applicable pages and crop away
everything except the graphics you need. Then the PDF becomes your
source file for the graphics. This works no matter what the original
graphic format was
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From: Pinkham, Jim [mailto:jim.pink...@voith.com]
Sent: Wednesday, June 30, 2010 1:34 PM
To: Owen, Clint; Frame Users
Cc: Pat Christenson
Subject: RE: Extracting embedded graphics from
Our Tech Pubs group is finally on the verge of upgrading from FM 7.0 to
9.0. We will not be buying the full TC4.
First, do you see any problems with just opening our old unstructured
templates and saving them again as the new version? I don't expect there
would be any.
Second, various members of
In Simplified Technical English, which has a strictly limited vocabulary
and is supposed to make documents easier to understand for international
readers, neither of these terms is allowed in this context. I spent a
few minutes and can't think of a STE legal way to write the requested
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From: Flato, Gillian [mailto:gfl...@nanometrics.com]
Sent: Tuesday, July 20, 2010 3:04 PM
To: Owen, Clint; framers@lists.frameusers.com
Subject: RE: type vs enter
Clint,
That can't be right. Telling Users to enter or type text
Alan,
I am not defending Apple, because I have not dealt with them, but this
could be a matter of terminology.
For some software that I have bought in the past, an extended download
service would let you download a fresh copy of your purchase for an
extended length of time. So, the standard
If Acrobat X is about to ship, can FrameMaker X be far behind?
Maybe I should start trying to convince my company that once FM X ships
we will have fallen out of the cheap (relatively) upgrade window from FM
7.0.
Clint
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425
Most of our company is still using Windows XP and FrameMaker 7.
The IT group has set up a Windows 7 PC for testing, including FM 7.0,
with patch 579.
I have been using this setup through a remote desktop connection for
some of my unstructured FM documents. All seems well except for
seemingly
If it's not OK it should be.
People looking for jobs need all the help they can get.
My company is grinding very slowly towards advertising a couple of
positions, and I hope to find some great candidates lurking on this
list.
Clint
Clint Owen | Sr. Technical Writer | Crane Aerospace
Sorry. We are committed to staying here in Rainland (near Seattle).
Clint
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Linda,
There is a Convert to paragraphs option on the Table menu, at lease in
FM 7.0.
Clint
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From: framers-boun...@lists.frameusers.com
We finally got permission to hire another writer, after being woefully
understaffed for a couple of years.
This is a full time on site position for someone who has some actual
maintenance experience in their background. Most of us are ex military.
We are in Lynnwood, Washington, which is north of
I have the free version of Nitro PDF installed on my Vista machine at
home. It installs as a printer, so you can create a PDF from any program
that can print to it. It's a little cranky and sluggish, but that could
be due more to the underpowered hardware than to Nitro PDF.
Clint
Clint Owen |
FM10 is for sale on Adobe's website and FM9 is not.
For FM9, their trial download was the full install, but it would only
work for 30 days or until you bought the activation code. I assume FM10
is the same.
Clint
Clint Owen | Sr. Technical Writer | Crane Aerospace Electronics | +1
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Ed,
FM 7.0 works fine with Acrobat 9 and also runs on Windows 7. We have
tested both scenarios.
Clint
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I have also noticed that the selections for which paragraphs generate
bookmarks don't stick. It's pretty annoying to have to reset them every
time I generate a PDF from the same document.
Clint
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From: Steve Johnson [mailto:chinask...@gmail.com]
Sent: Wednesday, February 02, 2011 2:10 PM
To: Owen, Clint
Cc: framers@lists.frameusers.com
Subject: Re: Bookmarks
Clint, that should not happen. Are you setting
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From: Steve Johnson [mailto:chinask...@gmail.com]
Sent: Wednesday, February 02, 2011 2:28 PM
To: Owen, Clint
Cc: framers@lists.frameusers.com
Subject: Re: Bookmarks
Post this on the Adobe Frame. It's either a bug or you're doing something wrong
Carolyn,
We tested FM 7.0 on a Windows 7 machine with no problems. We have not
tried Acrobat X yet.
Clint
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From: framers-boun...@lists.frameusers.com
We do all of our change bars manually:
1. Select the text that you want to mark.
2. Open the character designer.
3. Check the Change Bar button.
4. Click the Update button. Make sure that you don't use Update
All.
To remove the change bars, do the opposite:
Carrie,
We are in the same boat. We are currently using FM 7.0 and the company
is pretty tight-fisted when it comes to software. We bought one FM 9
upgrade for evaluation, as it turns out, a week before FM 10 was
released.
You can't upgrade to FM 8 or 9, except if you get lucky on eBay. Our
Helen,
You can insert the Table Continuation or Table Sheet variable in
your table title or table # paragraph.
Clint
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John,
Special characters are accessible by typing the ALT key and the ANSI
code, then changing the resulting text to the Symbol font. I have a
printed list of the characters, but I am not sure where I got it. Mu
happens to be ALT + 077.
Clint
Clint Owen | Sr. Technical Writer | Crane
Simplify, then add lightness Colin Chapman's philosophy of car design;
equally applicable to technical writing.
Clint
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From:
Susan,
I think that this is a web-based service, which means that we would not
be able to use it for any proprietary or sensitive information.
Virtually everything we do would be off limits.
One of my co-workers suggested using a similar service to convert some
CAD models to a different
Hedley,
I use my Barnes Noble Nook (original, non-color version) every day.
It's great for reading text, but graphics handling is terrible. Mainly,
you can't zoom in on a graphic to see any details. If a graphic is
larger than the screen, it is automatically shrunk to fit and that is
all you
Karen,
It sounds like someone inserted a disconnected page instead of allowing
FM to add a new page automatically. This used to happen frequently when
a writer who was not experienced with FrameMaker worked on the files.
The only fix I know is to copy the content into a new file. Just CTRL-A
to
In spite of all the warnings, I have been using Save as PDF, with
mostly good results since FM6.
Now I am using FM10 and Acrobat 7 on Windows XP. When I use Save As
PDF Framemaker tells me that it can't find the specified JobOptions
file and uses the default one instead. This didn't bother me
Clara,
That's a pretty tall order! There is not much good news in this situation.
Your customer should have specified the deliverable format from the beginning
of the project, and provided the SGML template for you to work in. The template
specifies all of the tags and elements to be applied
Theresa,
I do not have experience with FrameMaker and EPub, but I do use Calibre
to manage a lot of e-books. I find that it works really well with RTF as
an input. So you might use MIF-to-go to create an RTF from FM, and then
use Calibre to convert that to EPub.
Clint
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