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>Someone recently (within the past 6 weeks) posted a question about
>converting Ventura Publisher files to FrameMaker. I, too, need this
>information. (Management has graciously agreed to let us upgrade!) I
>contacted George Hayhoe (a Ventura user) and he suggested that Bob Armao
>posted the original question.
Hello,
I have not seen an answer and I have no solution, but perhaps half of an
solution:
If you have a PageMaker 5 --> FrameMaker filter plus PageMaker 5, you can
convert your Ventura files to Pagemaker using the PageMaker Expansion Pack 2.
The expansion pack is at