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Subject:Exporting FrameMaker to Word7 From:Amy Janczy <janczy -at- GILSON -dot- COM> Date:Thu, 21 May 1998 00:06:00 GM
Does anyone have to export completed Frame manuals (200+, lots of
linked Illustrator graphics) to Word7 for final approval/printing?
I'm being asked to do this with the following requests:
- I produce ONE (obviously giant) Word file containing resident, not
linked graphics - there is a feeling that people would be 'confused'
about linked graphics, even with a very clear, local file structure
set up on the network
- I am able to then import any changed Word documents back into
FrameMaker and hopefully not take more than a day to do my "cleanup",
which I'm assuming would involve re-setting all my index and TOC
tokens (or the Frame equivalent of this). (I personally feel they
ought to simply tell me what minor changes they made - like to the
cover page re: printing date or some typo stuff.)
- Also, does anyone know if you can quickly convert PageMaker 6.5
documents into Frame? All our manuals are now in PM 5.something and
were mostly done on the Mac.
