On Fri, 20 Dec 2013 10:06:06 -0700, Michael Wiesenberg <qatfr...@gmail.com> wrote:
>Thanks to all who responded. Printing to Adobe >PDF and then distilling preserved xrefs and color. > >Long-term this does not solve my problem. I want >to prepare a book for Kindle, which requires >dynamic pages and PDF is not a dynamic format. >Kindle deprecates PDF because the conversion from >PDF to Kindle doesn't retain all formatting >features. Not surprising. PDF was always meant to be a final format, not an interchange format. >Amazon recommends Word as source. The >FM6-to-Word save-as feature completely loses >xrefs and font information. They become, for >example, "xrefparatextefault ΒΆ Font" with the >xref text gone. And pictures are lost completely. Frame's native Word output is worthless. >The conversion from FM to Word may work better in >later releases of FM, Not that we know of. >but the reason I don't buy a newer version is >this is the only book I have in FrameMaker. A new version wouldn't help. What would help is Mif2Go, which does an excellent Word rendering of Frame docs. It's one of our primary use cases; the other is conversion to DITA. (Mif2Go also does better than RH on every output, but the tide of hype tends to obscure that fact these days. ;-) >Even if this all worked, the point may still be >moot. My book has upwards of 20 xrefs per page, >and I don't believe Kindle books even support >cross-references (other than possibly table of contents). Don't know about that. For ePub, we suggest using the Mif2Go XHTML output, then the free converter Calibre: http://calibre-ebook.com HTH! -- Jeremy H. Griffith, at Omni Systems Inc. <jer...@omsys.com> http://mif2go.com/ _______________________________________________ You are currently subscribed to framers as arch...@mail-archive.com. Send list messages to framers@lists.frameusers.com. To unsubscribe send a blank email to framers-unsubscr...@lists.frameusers.com or visit http://lists.frameusers.com/mailman/options/framers/archive%40mail-archive.com Send administrative questions to listad...@frameusers.com. Visit http://www.frameusers.com/ for more resources and info.
