At 12.22 -0800 05-12-14, Jeremy H. Griffith
wrote/05-12-14, 12.22 -0800 skrev Jeremy H.
Griffith
It would be good to find out, empirically! Mif2Go's RTF export
is substantially better than Frame's native RTF. But we haven't
tried it with Pages. You can download a free demo (Win only):
http://www.omsys.com/dcl/download.htm
If you find any problems with importing the resulting RTF to
Pages, please let us know, and we'll work them out. Note
though that you'll need to run Mif2Go with a Windows version
of Frame, either on a Windows box or under VPC on the Mac.
We'd love to offer a Mac version, but so far no-one with the
required Mac FDK and C++ porting experience has been willing
to take the task on... We can offer shared royalties on the
result, or agree to make the Mac version free (our preference),
but we cannot offer the $100K+ that would be needed to pay for
this port. If anyone on the lists is interested, let us know!
Since Pages uses a documented XML-format as its
native document format, wouldn't it make more
sense to use Framemaker's XML-export and use some
kind of XML-transformation to convert to/from
Pages? I don't know enough about XML but my
understanding was that XML is quite easy to
convert back and forth using XSLT?
I guess there should be some demand for a product
that could perform such a transformation between
Pages and Framemaker, shouldn't it?
At 14.58 -0800 05-12-14, Pat Christenson
wrote/05-12-14, 14.58 -0800 skrev Pat Christenson
I don't know about transferring FM docs to Pages
but I had the misfortune of working with Pages
several months ago. I'm pretty sure I posted
(ranted) about it here. In a nutshell, I felt
that Pages was a toy. Good enough for writing
the Christmas letter and that's about it.
Currently, that is what I want to use Pages for
(actually business letters, CV:s and similar
short documents but they shouldn't be more
demanding that »Christmas letters»). I used to
use FM for all my writing, from short letters to
theses, but it feels like a lot of overhead to
start classic to write a 10 lines letter....
Not at all ready to compete as a publishing
tool. For instance, we were unable to create a
PDF other than with Apple's Print as PDF command
which didn't make our printer happy at all.
I haven't had that problem, printing to Adobe PDF
7.0 has always worked fine for me. On the other
hand, my documents haven't been that 'heavy' or
complicated (c.f., previous paragraph).
At 15.37 +0000 05-12-14, Paul Findon
wrote/05-12-14, 15.37 +0000 skrev Paul Findon
That's what I thought. But it wasn't an option
when I checked. However, like Apple, I use
FrameMaker 6.0. Just checked FrameMaker 7.0 and,
sure enough, Word is a save-as option. So, yes,
FrameMaker->Word->Pages is another route. As you
say, it should retain more info, but I've read
some unfavorable reports about Pages' Word
import/export ability on Apple's forums, so your
milage may vary.
I just checked and I can't find that option, or
can I? I have Word 6.0 for Mac or Word 6-7 for
Windows as options in the Save as... dialog but
if I save a Framemaker document in any of those
format with a .doc-extension Pages refuses to
open it. However MacWord reads them. Another,
slightly more complicated document, that origins
from Word is opened by Pages without any problem.
Maybe Framemaker introduces something
non-standard when it exports to .doc that Word
accepts but Pages don't understand?
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