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Debra -
I'm curious as to why you are going from Interleaf to PageMaker. It's my
understanding that Interleaf is designed more for producing and managing
very large and complex sets of manuals. PageMaker is designed for very
simple docs - flyers, brochures, etc., and as such is not very good with
large book sets. If your docs are large and complicated, you would
probably be better off going to FrameMaker instead (and there *are* 3rd
party utilities for converting from Interleaf to FM, although I don't
know how well they work).
Hope this helps -
Chris Welch-Hutchings
Senior Technical Writer
Home Wireless Networks, Inc. mailto:cwhutchings -at- homewireless -dot- com
-----Original Message-----
From: Debra Ashcraft [mailto:DJA -at- JENKON -dot- COM]
Sent: Monday, July 20, 1998 2:27 PM
To: TECHWR-L -at- LISTSERV -dot- OKSTATE -dot- EDU
Subject: Q: Convert Interleaf to PageMaker?
I'm not sure I've ever seen this conversion discussed here.
I want to convert thousands of UNIX (SunOs) Interleaf 5.3 documents into
PC PageMaker 6.5 documents. Even a halfway decent job would be better
than recreating all of them. There must be *some* third-party software
that attempts this.
I've been to the Quadralay, Adobe and Interleaf websites with no
success.
Are there any takers?
