Matt,
If you need any workspace for a separate category on the TE forum, ask
Jean or me to set one up. It would be best to keep and update Migration
topics threaded in posts there so that any possible lurkers could view
and add to them. If the e-mail lists are used instead, then everybody
would be "informed" and more than some would likely be inundated and
irritated. And many/most e-mail posts are often deleted, and no history
of them is often kept, except on the archived e-mail lists online.
Meaning, a trip online--just like going online for the forum...
And yes, iWork would be nice. I have no late-model Mac at present and
have to ask any commercial iWork clients to first convert their iWork
files to DOC first if I need to edit them. So, having an SOP for doing
that would be OK.
Also there are GIMP, IrfanView, and Inkscape, among others, for analogs
to Draw.
Gary
Matthew Copple wrote:
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:
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
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