Thomas Ronayne wrote:
G. Roderick Singleton wrote:
On Wed, 2006-07-12 at 08:04 -0400, Thomas Ronayne wrote:
Jo wrote:
Thomas Ronayne wrote:
G. Roderick Singleton wrote:
On Mon, 2006-07-10 at 16:20 -0400, Thomas Ronayne wrote:
Other than export-to-word, open-word-document is there any
utility around that will either convert a FrameMaker document to
ODF or, oh this would be nice, open a FrameMaker document in
OpenOffice?
Nope. I have been playing with a MIF import filter but not having
much
luck.
Ah.
What is wrong with the export to Word, Open as Word document in OOo
route? You only have to do it once for each file. On the FM side it
can be scripted with Framescript, on the OOo side it can be
automated with OOo Basic. FM books are a different matter though.
For those you would have to create master documents in OOo.
Jo
'Cause when you export (a book's chapters and the like particularly)
to word you lose stuff and when you import from word you lose more
stuff and the entire exercise is generally a pain where you sit
down. What I usually wind up having to do is save the FrameMaker
file as text then do the thing in OpenOffice -- at least that way I
don't have to deal with all the Wonderful Things microjunk persists
in doing to "help" me then having to undo them later. The idea is to
avoid word completely if at all possible.
Since FrameMaker is now a Windows only app, you might try
http://www.omsys.com/dcl/omni.htm for Mif2Go. Not cheap but it works.
Hmm.
Well, given that I'm coming from FrameMaker on Solaris to OpenOffice
on Solaris and Linux... looks like text-to-text might be the only
practical solution.
How many FM files do you need to convert? MIF is a very structured
format, OOo XML is too. It should be possible to create a conversion
tool with XSLT. I even have a colleague who has been toying with that, I
think. I should ask him, but he is on holidays right now. I know he has
a way to create FM documents from scratch. So maybe the other direction
is possible as well.
Jo
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