atw: Re: converting framemaker from Mac to windows
- From: "Daryl Colquhoun" <atw@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: "austechwriter list" <austechwriter@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Thu, 14 Oct 2010 06:41:42 +1100
From: Peter G Martin <peterm_5@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Probably the easiest way for really big jobs of this kind is to save
> original FM files to MIF, move the MIFs to the PC,
Alternatively, if you've got the .fm files on your PC, and they work,
save as MIF on the PC.
> and use a text editor with good search and replace facilities to look
> for each of the filenames and insert the ".eps"
> as appropriate throughout each file. That suggests you have to look
> for a pattern which will apply only to the names of the eps files.
> Here, the MIF tags may be of assistance to select particular file
> contexts, assuming they are pretty much the same for all your eps
> files...
> Easiest if you know a bit about regexes and / or have perl or awk
> handy... but some free editors these days have fairly good and
> powerful pattern-search capabilities.
Or, failing that, you could perhaps open the MIF in Microsoft Word and
use the wild-card features to find and replace the references.
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