Thank you for the offer I gratefully accept! I do not have any experience with Framemaker, so I welcome any information on it. I thought I might also include a section on Apple¹s iwork suite.
Matt On 5/26/08 3:59 AM, "Gary Schnabl" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Matthew Copple wrote: >> > I will go ahead and start on the migration guide, then. >> > >> > Thanks! >> > >> > Matthew Copple >> > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Matt, > > If you care to, you could set up a work site on my now dormant forum > site for the Migration Guide. That way, if you had others helping, they > could create forum threads and keep down the mundane messages off from > the main OOoAuthors or this e-mail list. The forum has some OOo > categories already set up, and others could easily be created. > > The previous Migration Guide was essentially based on conversions > to/from MS Office, and to a much lesser extent on WordPerfect. However, > There are other applications or suites that we neglected totally before. > FrameMaker is still a major-league player, and although FrameMaker does > not directly convert to/from OOo, working through a DOC file converted > from an ODT file works fairly well, as long as some OOo functions are > totally avoided. > > I found that anchored OOo frames convert somewhat OK to DOC, but having > even one such OOo frame in the ODT parent file will cause its further > conversion from DOC to FM to freeze up my FrameMaker 7.0 to the point > that I would have to resort to the Windows Task Manager to abort > FrameMaker. It seems to be RAM related. > > Maybe, the newer version, FM 8, works better as FM 7.x was not > supposedly Vista compliant (it works OK on my Vista ThinkPad, though). > However, when I used the FM 8 evaluation, it too reacted unkindly to OOo > frames converted to a DOC file. The DOC file is OK on Word, but FM won't > even open if OOo frames are present in the parent ODT file... > > If you don't have FrameMaker or any experience with it, I and hopefully > others could assist you in including any FrameMaker (or possibly also > InDesign) migration. I have an older InDesign installation--version > 2.0.2. InDesign was intended to replace FrameMaker, but Adobe apparently > could not get InDesign to do the heavy lifting, major-league authoring > of large books and such that FrameMaker does much better than MSO or > OOo. Yet, I routinely do FrameMaker authoring with parent ODT files, as > long as its (OOo) pitfalls are not employed. > > Gary >> > -- >> > Gary Schnabl >> > 2775 Honorah >> > Detroit MI 48209 >> > (734) 245-3324 > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >
