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Subject:Re: Word to FrameMaker Conversion From:quills -at- airmail -dot- net To:jaguarjam -at- yahoo -dot- com, techwr-l -at- lists -dot- techwr-l -dot- com Date:Thu, 18 Sep 2008 14:23:19 -0500
I found that having the paragraph and character tags the same as the
Frame template makes the conversion almost seamless. But there have
to be para and character tags and they must be used consistently.
Then if you need to map the imported tags to what you use in your
Frame template I've found that the Silicon Prairie Software plug-ins
to be priceless. And at about $10 to 15 for each plug-in they are
very cost effective.
The other route to use is MIF2go which does an excellent job of it.
Scott
At 11:40 AM -0700 9/18/08, R D wrote:
>Hi-
>
>I'm contemplating moving a 1000 page Word doc to FrameMaker. This
>document has a lot of tables so I'm guessing I will have to reformat
>all of them. I'm sure there will be other problems. Is there anyone
>who can advise me on Word-to-Frame conversion projects and what
>problems I may encounter? I know in the long run having this
>document in FrameMaker will save me time and aggravation but I'm
>nervous about what the conversion will entail.
>
>Thanks-
>RD
>
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