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What do you mean "looks fine?" Are you opening the RTF in Word or some other program and seeing if it lines up then?
Right now it seems like the problem could be coming from either the RTF or from Framemaker. If you open the RTF in Word or some other program and get the same extra-column problem then, that would indicate that the source of the problem is somewhere in the code of the RTF file.
Are you always using the same Frame table specification?
If it was me, I'd start checking the Frame paragraph tag that is applied to the table content. When the table is imported, maybe the tag is forcing an additional space in front of a table entry.
> From: Jennita Catherine <jennita -dot- catherine -at- viragelogic -dot- com>
> Subject: Problems when converting RTF to FRAMEMAKER
> To: techwr-l -at- lists -dot- techwr-l -dot- com
> Date: Thursday, June 12, 2008, 6:37 AM
> Hi,
>
> Our documents are processed using Adobe FrameMaker. While
> processing
> the documents, I follow the normal procedure of converting
> html to RTF,
> and then opening the RTF file in FrameMaker for use.
>
> And always the html file looks fine, and when it gets
> converted to
> RTF then also it looks fine, but when it is opened in
> FrameMaker, there are
> extra columns in the tables during many instances.
>
> Please help me out with these ghost columns. How does it
> appear when the
> html file is fine?
>
>
> Thanks,
> Jennita
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