I agree with Alison. I also use a FRAME > PDF > WORD option so personnel can edit the docs. They prefer to use something other than the comment capabilities of Acrobat. Usually, the conversion is relatively good, but I find many issues when scientific/mathematical symbols are used. It can get quite ugly.
Your client has yet to deal with long documents like this in Word. "Drink heavily and then run away" also sounds like a good option. Julie Sigrist 513-607-1444 From: Framers <framers-bounces+julie.sigrist=airbornemx....@lists.frameusers.com> On Behalf Of acr...@shaw.ca Sent: Wednesday, December 13, 2023 6:55 PM To: 'An email list for people using Adobe FrameMaker software.' <framers@lists.frameusers.com> Subject: Re: [Framers] Regarding "Converting a frame maker document to a word document" I've been using the FRAME > PDF > WORD option a lot lately (50-150 page docs) so the engineers can do their editing and commenting in the Word doc. But I always preface my explanation to them with the caveat... "this creates an incredibly ugly Word file". If you do the test run on 20 pages or so (pick complex pages) and do a truly honest quote, I can't imagine why the client would want to continue. But " drink heavily and then run away" is a really good option as well. :-) Alison -----Original Message----- From: Framers <framers-bounces+acraig=shaw...@lists.frameusers.com<mailto:framers-bounces+acraig=shaw...@lists.frameusers.com>> On Behalf Of Tammy Van Boening Sent: December 13, 2023 7:51 AM To: An email list for people using Adobe FrameMaker software. <framers@lists.frameusers.com<mailto:framers@lists.frameusers.com>> Subject: Re: [Framers] Regarding "Converting a frame maker document to a word document" Thanks everyone for all the responses. Despite the "death knell" tone, I was 99.9% sure that that was going to be the case. Sigh. I need to reach out to my client and set the expectations and let them decide how badly they want to go down the rabbit hole - and it won't be cheap. I am still sticking with my original solution which is to drink heavily and then run away. TVB Tammy Van Boening Tammy dot vanboening at spectrumwritingllc dot com www.spectrumwritingllc.com<http://www.spectrumwritingllc.com> > -----Original Message----- > From: Framers <framers- > bounces+tammyvb=spectrumwritingllc....@lists.frameusers.com<mailto:bounces+tammyvb=spectrumwritingllc....@lists.frameusers.com>> > On Behalf > Of Dennis Hays > Sent: Tuesday, December 12, 2023 5:29 PM > To: framers@lists.frameusers.com<mailto:framers@lists.frameusers.com> > Subject: Re: [Framers] Regarding "Converting a frame maker document to > a word document" > > > That may be useful for single files, but what about a book file > containing multiple .fm files? > Dennis > > -- > Dennis Hays > Quantum Mechanic > +1 518.779.2322 > > On Tuesday, Dec 12, 2023 at 4:33 PM, B. Smalbro > <[1]stu...@smalbro.dk<mailto:stu...@smalbro.dk>> > wrote: > I would suggest saving the fm document to pdf. And then export the pdf > to WordIt is important to use the Save As feature from FM rather than > print. 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