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A cousin of mine is a complete novice on Frame. She is buying Frame v9.0
and importing a 300 page Word manual into it. (After editing the 1rst
edition of the manual in Word, she said, never again). I have never seen
Frame v9.0, I still use Frame v8.0.
How does Frame v9.0 map Word Paragraph
Hi:
I am developing templates for a client. They asked me to create four tags
named Notes, Caution, Warning, Tip.
They want colored borders above and below each tags and a gif file to appear
(to the left) when text is selected and changed to one of these tags.
I created four graphic frames
The procedures and best practices for importing Word files are still
the same as for earlier versions of Frame...
Usually, the best results are obtained by saving s RTF in Word and
opening that file... Graphics, if they're embedded in the Word file,
can be recreated by saving the Word as HTML,
As a novice Frame user, I am currently doing the same thing (taking a 350 page
Word manual and moving to FrameMaker 9).
As a long time, highly skilled Word user, I know from experience that there is
a mountain of invisible crap in the Word doc - so my best advice is to not
import the Word
Hi Gillian,
I haven't noticed any real differences in how FM9 imports Word.
The main thing to keep in mind is how rigidly the Word author used Para and
Character Styles.
Normal+ will not come across cleanly...never did and never will!
If the author was a sophisticated Word user, and did not
On Mon, 13 Jul 2009 14:43:46 -0700, Alison Craig alison.cr...@ultrasonix.com
wrote:
As a novice Frame user, I am currently doing the same thing (taking a 350 page
Word manual and moving to FrameMaker 9).
As a long time, highly skilled Word user, I know from experience that there is
a mountain
Having just completed rebuilding a 450-page Frame book that my client
created by importing a Word doc, then round-tripping chunks of content
between Frame and Word a couple of times, I'd second that. Word metadata can
really munge up a Frame document. It got so bad that attempting to open a
This is my practice as well, although I don't go to a complete text file. What
I do is read the RTF into Frame and then copy/paste-special paragraphs and
text into a new document, applying proper paragraph formats as I go.
Using my approach minimizes (but does not eliminate) overlooking
I agree, all the hidden stuff will give you problems sleeping.
Alison Craig alison.cr...@ultrasonix.com
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Here too.
The difference I have made though, from one especially large and
difficult assignment, was to print the Word file to PDF then export
the graphics. That enabled vector based illustrations to be retained
and not converted to raster. It also meant that specific pages that
contained
Like things that go bump in the night.
Nadine
Carole Johnson wrote:
I agree, all the hidden stuff will give you problems sleeping.
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A cousin of mine is a complete novice on Frame. She is buying Frame v9.0
and importing a 300 page Word manual into it. (After editing the 1rst
edition of the manual in Word, she said, never again). I have never seen
Frame v9.0, I still use Frame v8.0.
How does Frame v9.0 map Word Paragraph
Hi:
I am developing templates for a client. They asked me to create four tags
named Notes, Caution, Warning, Tip.
They want colored borders above and below each tags and a gif file to appear
(to the left) when text is selected and changed to one of these tags.
I created four graphic frames
The procedures and best practices for importing Word files are still
the same as for earlier versions of Frame...
Usually, the best results are obtained by saving s RTF in Word and
opening that file... Graphics, if they're embedded in the Word file,
can be recreated by saving the Word as HTML,
An easier way to do this may be to create a 1-row, two-cell table. The
left cell holds a unique tag that only calls the graphic on the
reference page with Frame Above or Below. The right cell holds the
warning/note/whatever text.
The table will let you adjust more finely because now you have cell
As a novice Frame user, I am currently doing the same thing (taking a 350 page
Word manual and moving to FrameMaker 9).
As a long time, highly skilled Word user, I know from experience that there is
a mountain of invisible crap in the Word doc - so my best advice is to not
import the Word
Hi Gillian,
I haven't noticed any real differences in how FM9 imports Word.
The main thing to keep in mind is how rigidly the Word author used Para and
Character Styles.
Normal+ will not come across cleanly...never did and never will!
If the author was a sophisticated Word user, and did not
On Mon, 13 Jul 2009 14:43:46 -0700, Alison Craig wrote:
>As a novice Frame user, I am currently doing the same thing (taking a 350 page
>Word manual and moving to FrameMaker 9).
>
>As a long time, highly skilled Word user, I know from experience that there is
>a mountain of invisible crap in
Having just completed rebuilding a 450-page Frame book that my client
created by importing a Word doc, then round-tripping chunks of content
between Frame and Word a couple of times, I'd second that. Word metadata can
really munge up a Frame document. It got so bad that attempting to open a
This is my practice as well, although I don't go to a complete text file. What
I do is read the RTF into Frame and then "copy/paste-special" paragraphs and
text into a new document, applying proper paragraph formats as I go.
Using my approach minimizes (but does not eliminate) overlooking
I agree, all the hidden stuff will give you problems sleeping.
Alison Craig
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RE: Importing a Word Doc into Frame v9.0
As a novice Frame user, I am
Like things that go bump in the night.
Nadine
Carole Johnson wrote:
> I agree, all the hidden stuff will give you problems sleeping.
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