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On Sun, 26 Jul 1998 22:54:44 -0700, "John J. Gardiner"
<jgard -at- SLIP -dot- NET> wrote:
>A new client currently has HTML user documentation. What he needs is some
>additions and updates to these HTML pages and a hardcopy FrameMaker version
>of the user guide derived from the HTML pages.
>
>Anyone worked in a similar situation before? I don't know much about Frame
>5.5's HTML capabilities, but it sure would be nice if I could:
>
>- open the HTML pages in Frame
>- make edits
>- save the files as HTML (preserving the HTML formatting of the original
>files)
>- format the doc as a hardcopy doc and save it as such
>
>Am I dreaming?
Unfortunately, yes.
Frame does a reasonably good job of EXPORTING HTML but it does not
IMPORT HTML, at all.
I'm in the same situation at work, as we have a lot of technical docs
that the programmers have put up on web pages in HTML format. We'd
like to use some of these as the basis for docs in Frame, but there's
no simple way of getting them into Frame format.
We did get an evaluation copy of a package called HTML2Frame (or
something like that, it was mentioned on the Framers list, but we
could not get it to work as it kept crashing (it actually messed up
the installation of the person who was testing it to the point where
she had to reinstall Frame.)
There are filters that go the other way, but I haven't found one that
will take HTML and put it into Frame format.
I did find a workaround which is a bit messy but still faster than
working from scratch and that's to open the HTML doc into MS Word.
Then save the file as Word 6/95 and import it into Frame. If you use
the same styles in Word and Frame you get a reasonable conversion --
except that tables are problematic.
If anyone finds a good way of doing this please email me at the
address in my sig or at ksoltys -at- solect -dot- com -dot-
Best
Keith
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