There is no direct conversion of ID to Frame. (There is a Frame to ID conversion, however.)
If you get all the ID documents at once, do a trail subscription to the Cloud (if your security allows) and use ID CC for 30 days. You can subscribe month-to-month for $30 or for a year at $20/month if you need more time. Make sure the other company Packages the files to send all the linked graphics; technically, they can send you the fonts too, but you may have copyright issues involved. Open the ID file, select all the text* and export as RTF. If you need to, you can copy and paste tables into Excel. *A LOT depends on how well the InDesign document was created: were styles used properly, was the file created with one long text flow (like Frame) or a bunch of separate text boxes, etc. David Creamer IDEAS Training http://www.ideastraining.com Adobe Authorized Instructor & Certified Expert since 1995 Authorized QuarkXPress Instructor and Certified Expert since 1988 _________________ >My team is about to get a pile of InDesign files from another company. To edit the files, we need to either purchase InDesign ourselves or convert the files to FrameMaker 9. >I don't know (yet) what version of InDesign they are using. >Question: How easy and clean is the conversion of InDesign files to FM 9.0?