RE: Framemaker to Apple's Pages

2006-01-04 Thread david
At 15.20 +0100 05-12-21, david wrote/05-12-21, 15.20 +0100 skrev david At 09.12 -0500 05-12-21, Ridder, Fred wrote/05-12-21, 09.12 -0500 skrev Ridder, Fred The nice reply you received is an automated acknowledgement that your feedback was received. It is simply a form letter filled in with

Framemaker to Apple's Pages

2006-01-04 Thread david
At 15.20 +0100 05-12-21, david wrote/05-12-21, 15.20 +0100 skrev david >At 09.12 -0500 05-12-21, Ridder, Fred wrote/05-12-21, 09.12 -0500 >skrev Ridder, Fred > >>The "nice reply" you received is an automated acknowledgement >>that your feedback was received. It is simply a form letter filled in

RE: Framemaker to Apple's Pages

2005-12-21 Thread david
At 09.12 -0500 05-12-21, Ridder, Fred wrote/05-12-21, 09.12 -0500 skrev Ridder, Fred The nice reply you received is an automated acknowledgement that your feedback was received. It is simply a form letter filled in with your first name and issue ID number. The only thing this response

Framemaker to Apple's Pages

2005-12-21 Thread david
At 12.11 -0500 05-12-14, Fred Ridder wrote/05-12-14, 12.11 -0500 skrev Fred Ridder >FrameMaker has three export filters for RTF (MS1.3, MS1.6, and >"Japanese") and two export filters for .msw (Windows 6.0/7.0 >and Mac 6.0), but no filter for .doc. What is the difference between .msw and .doc? I

Framemaker to Apple's Pages

2005-12-21 Thread david
At 13.56 + 05-12-14, Paul Findon wrote/05-12-14, 13.56 + skrev Paul Findon >Thanks, Steve. By the way, the FrameMaker for Mac OS X petition is >almost at 3,300 signatories. > I believe it would be more efficient to file bugs and

Framemaker to Apple's Pages

2005-12-21 Thread david
At 00.32 +0100 05-12-21, david wrote/05-12-21, 00.32 +0100 skrev david >I have reported back through both these channels. Of course, they >closed the bug report immediately but if enough people bug (!) them, >they will take it into more serious consideration. Since the >bugreport-site requires

Framemaker to Apple's Pages

2005-12-21 Thread david
At 09.12 -0500 05-12-21, Ridder, Fred wrote/05-12-21, 09.12 -0500 skrev Ridder, Fred >The "nice reply" you received is an automated acknowledgement >that your feedback was received. It is simply a form letter filled in >with your first name and issue ID number. The only thing this >response

Re: Framemaker to Apple's Pages

2005-12-20 Thread david
At 12.11 -0500 05-12-14, Fred Ridder wrote/05-12-14, 12.11 -0500 skrev Fred Ridder FrameMaker has three export filters for RTF (MS1.3, MS1.6, and Japanese) and two export filters for .msw (Windows 6.0/7.0 and Mac 6.0), but no filter for .doc. What is the difference between .msw and .doc? I

Re: Framemaker to Apple's Pages

2005-12-20 Thread david
At 13.56 + 05-12-14, Paul Findon wrote/05-12-14, 13.56 + skrev Paul Findon Thanks, Steve. By the way, the FrameMaker for Mac OS X petition is almost at 3,300 signatories. http://www.petitiononline.com/fmforosx/petition.html I believe it would be more efficient to file bugs and

Re: Framemaker to Apple's Pages

2005-12-17 Thread david
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):

Framemaker to Apple's Pages

2005-12-17 Thread david
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): >

Framemaker to Apple's Pages

2005-12-16 Thread Shlomo Perets
Paul Findon wrote: > ... Apple is still using FrameMaker 6.0 in the Classic environment to > produce its own user guides That's true -- apparently using a template with multiple flows that cause bookmark ordering problems (see http://microtype.com/hmmms.html#0504 which refers to the

Framemaker to Apple's Pages

2005-12-15 Thread Steve Rickaby
>Thanks, Steve. By the way, the FrameMaker for Mac OS X petition is almost at >3,300 signatories. That's good to know - if I could sign again, I would. After fourteen years of FrameMaker, I'm currently going into new areas (complex designs, structure), and even now learning new stuff and new

Framemaker to Apple's Pages

2005-12-14 Thread david
I guess this has been asked before but searching for Pages in the Frame archive is, well, not a useful search term in this context... How can I migrate Framemaker documents to Apple's word processor Pages? Of course I want to keep as much structure as possible, in other words, RTF is not

Re: Framemaker to Apple's Pages

2005-12-14 Thread Steve Rickaby
At 1:58 pm +0100 14/12/05, david wrote: I guess this has been asked before but searching for Pages in the Frame archive is, well, not a useful search term in this context... How can I migrate Framemaker documents to Apple's word processor Pages? Of course I want to keep as much structure as

Re: Framemaker to Apple's Pages

2005-12-14 Thread Paul Findon
On 14 Dec 2005, at 13:22, Steve Rickaby wrote: How can I migrate Framemaker documents to Apple's word processor Pages? Of course I want to keep as much structure as possible, in other words, RTF is not really an option (or is it?). Someone must have written about this before, a link to a web

Re: Framemaker to Apple's Pages

2005-12-14 Thread david
At 13.56 + 05-12-14, Paul Findon wrote/05-12-14, 13.56 + skrev Paul Findon Getting back to the question, I've not tried this, but I think RTF is the only way to go. Framemaker can export to .doc, can't it? Since Pages imports that, wouldn't migration path possibly retain more

Re: Framemaker to Apple's Pages

2005-12-14 Thread Paul Findon
On 14 Dec 2005, at 15:06, david wrote: At 13.56 + 05-12-14, Paul Findon wrote/05-12-14, 13.56 + skrev Paul Findon Getting back to the question, I've not tried this, but I think RTF is the only way to go. Framemaker can export to .doc, can't it? Since Pages imports that, wouldn't

Re: Framemaker to Apple's Pages

2005-12-14 Thread 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. Not at all ready to

Framemaker to Apple's Pages

2005-12-14 Thread david
I guess this has been asked before but searching for Pages in the Frame archive is, well, not a useful search term in this context... How can I migrate Framemaker documents to Apple's word processor Pages? Of course I want to keep as much structure as possible, in other words, RTF is not

Framemaker to Apple's Pages

2005-12-14 Thread Steve Rickaby
At 1:58 pm +0100 14/12/05, david wrote: >I guess this has been asked before but searching for Pages in the Frame >archive is, well, not a useful search term in this context... > >How can I migrate Framemaker documents to Apple's word processor Pages? Of >course I want to keep as much structure

Framemaker to Apple's Pages

2005-12-14 Thread Paul Findon
On 14 Dec 2005, at 13:22, Steve Rickaby wrote: >> How can I migrate Framemaker documents to Apple's word processor >> Pages? Of course I want to keep as much structure as possible, in >> other words, RTF is not really an option (or is it?). Someone must >> have written about this before, a

Framemaker to Apple's Pages

2005-12-14 Thread david
At 13.56 + 05-12-14, Paul Findon wrote/05-12-14, 13.56 + skrev Paul Findon >Getting back to the question, I've not tried this, but I think RTF >is the only way to go. Framemaker can export to .doc, can't it? Since Pages imports that, wouldn't migration path possibly retain more

Framemaker to Apple's Pages

2005-12-14 Thread Paul Findon
On 14 Dec 2005, at 15:06, david wrote: > At 13.56 + 05-12-14, Paul Findon wrote/05-12-14, 13.56 + skrev > Paul Findon > >> Getting back to the question, I've not tried this, but I think RTF is >> the only way to go. > > Framemaker can export to .doc, can't it? Since Pages imports that,

Framemaker to Apple's Pages

2005-12-14 Thread Jeremy H. Griffith
On Wed, 14 Dec 2005 13:58:56 +0100, david wrote: >How can I migrate Framemaker documents to Apple's word processor >Pages? Of course I want to keep as much structure as possible, in >other words, RTF is not really an option (or is it?). It would be good to find out, empirically! Mif2Go's RTF

Framemaker to Apple's Pages

2005-12-14 Thread 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. Not at all ready to