On 03/25/2008 11:10 AM, McLauchlan, Kevin wrote: > All, > > I've got a 6-page document that was last modified in FrameMaker 7.1. > It's basically four tables, including one that spans three pages. Three > of the four tables are two-column affairs with text and pictures in > almost every cell. It's supposed to be mostly-pictorial instructions > for setting up some equipment. Woulda been IKEA-like, but I couldn't > manage to make some of the steps picture-only, so I went with a > combination of pics supplemented by a sentence or two in each cell. > > > > I'd like to continue supporting that document, but in OOo. > > > > What's my best bet for getting this done? > > The export options from FM are limited (actually Save as... FM, MIF, a > few Word versions, XML, html) > > The XML version came into OOo as tagged text. It doesn't render. > > The html version renders crudely (with all the pictures reduced to > low-quality GIFs) and of course the table structure as a basic html > thing (all steps are step 1), and the page headers didn't come through. > > The FM document has all the graphics referenced, not embedded, if that > makes a difference, so I do have the source files, mostly in both JPG > and PNG formats. > > The word versions aren't a whole lot better, with respect to importing > into OOo in ready-to-maintain fashion. Word always does freaky things > with styles. > > > > I could just build the doc fresh in OOo, duplicating the look of the FM > version, but that's a bit time-consuming if I don't hafta. > > Importing in some fashion is an attractive option, but only if the > imported document doesn't make more (re-)work than just building from > the ground up. > > > > Is there a canned Howto? Best practice? > >
I've found that save as html works best as it also exports and saves any graphics (FM 5.5). Then open OOo Writer to a blank/new doc, open the html, then select all and copy & paste to the new doc. Unfortunately, you cannot save the OOo html doc as an .odt, so you need to use the copy & paste. On the newly pasted doc: Edit|Links and break all the links to the html graphics. That will embed the graphic into the doc. You can then save as a normal .odt. The doc will still require formating edits as the imported styles won't be the same. For example: Text body will be added as Text body.Body, but you can modify these fairly easily. --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
