On 12 Jun, David Pilling <david@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Hi, > Someone has approached me with a book he has done in Impression. His > publishers want it in Quark format. The book is structured as lots of > frames with text in - there's no large body text that flows through the > document, instead each page has four non-linked frames with text in. > I wondered if anyone has any suggestions as to how to tackle this > problem. > I'm considering writing some software to help, if I do that I want to > make the software useful for the users of Ovation Pro. > I can load the documents into Ovation Pro, the question is what format > to save them out in? > Approaches I have tried and discarded are - print to PDF, PDF to Word > conversion (loses all the style information), save text as DDF, DDF to > Word using Techwriter (hard work because there are so many stories). David Breakwell's !MakeRTF (which runs well uner Aemulor) would make a good job at converting the styles but would probably ignore the frame information. -- William Lack --------------------- williamlack@xxxxxxxxx County Series: http://home.clara.net/williamlack/index.htm To unsubscribe or subscribe goto: //www.freelists.org/list/davidpilling