atw: Re: FrameMaker to Word conversion
- From: Peter Martin <peterm_5@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: <austechwriter@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>, <austechwriter@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Tue, 11 Nov 2008 16:24:09 +1100
Hedley Finger:
You should know that someone using your name wrote:
> Chris Virtue wrote:
>
>> File > Save as
>>
>> It's as slow as wet week, though and it's pretty rough.
>>
> Actually, it is not only slow but dangerous if you use either of the
> Microsoft Word RTF
> options in FM 7.2 or earlier (don't know about FM8). Takes for ever, memory
> gets chewed
> up, output file is suspiciously far larger than it should be, crashes
> frequent, output
> RTF won't open ... . The rumour is that Adobe and the developer of the
> bought-in filter
> fell out about FM5.5 and that and all subsequent releases have had the same
> buggy
> converter.
>
> UNLESS you choose the Japanese RTF converter. Then it is fine. The Japanese
> RTF
> converter is from a different developer and has always worked reliably.
> Running heads
> and feet may not convert or will turn out ... s t r a n g e ... but only
> because FM's
> master pages allow multiple graphic and text frames, and the converter may
> not be able
> to decide which ones equate to headers and footers.
>
>
My experience has been that FM v 8.0 works better than earlier versions. As
is the case with all conversions, though, it helps if you have cleaned styles
up and eliminated things like style overrides. And yes, tables still seem to
be a problem sometimes... but then, such seems to have been the case always in
format conversions, and particularly if you're going out to Word formats.
Just ran 15 pages of text out to RTF v1.6 via Save As, and it took about 3 secs
or less.... (no graphics, no tables etc).
It even converted FrameMaker index markers to Word index markers, and took
(hidden) conditional text with it...
-Peter M
peterm_5@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx
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