Converting Framemaker to Word/WordPro

[Peter Collins <peter -dot- collins -at- BIGFOOT -dot- COM>]

I have done this a number of times, by exporting the Frame to RTF and
opening it as such in Word.
Version 4 of Frame had a bug in the RPG export - charcters bolded in a
paragraph by applying BOLD, when converted to RTF had the opening /b1 tag
but lost their /b0 to turn the bold off, so the converted file showed bold
from there to the end of the paragraph, when it was reset by default. The
problem was quite wide-spread, as thrid party this-to-that converters also
had the same bug at the time.
    I quite expect the problem has been fixed in the meantime.
    All styles and the like were converted adequately.
    No Frame feature converted if Word did not have it too. By now you
should know some of them.
    The fixes for the /b bug, by the way, were to use a character style set
to bold instead of bolding the characters directly.
    I think you will find Frame 5.5 outputs direct PDF or HTML and I would
go one of those routes (I prefer HTML for on-screen reading and I would use
it to print from too. But, if your text must be printed with exactly the
layout you define, then for that, PDF is better, but I prefer to avoid it,
because it is not easy to read on-screen and users will try to do that, and
it does hang some users' printer drivers.)
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