G. Roderick Singleton wrote:
On Wed, 2006-07-12 at 10:48 -0400, Thomas Ronayne wrote:
G. Roderick Singleton wrote:
On Wed, 2006-07-12 at 08:04 -0400, Thomas Ronayne wrote:
Jo wrote:
Thomas Ronayne wrote:
G. Roderick Singleton wrote:
On Mon, 2006-07-10 at 16:20 -0400, Thomas Ronayne wrote:
Other than export-to-word, open-word-document is there any utility
around that will either convert a FrameMaker document to ODF or, oh
this would be nice, open a FrameMaker document in OpenOffice?
Nope. I have been playing with a MIF import filter but not having much
luck.
Ah.
What is wrong with the export to Word, Open as Word document in OOo
route? You only have to do it once for each file. On the FM side it
can be scripted with Framescript, on the OOo side it can be automated
with OOo Basic. FM books are a different matter though. For those you
would have to create master documents in OOo.
Jo
'Cause when you export (a book's chapters and the like particularly) to
word you lose stuff and when you import from word you lose more stuff
and the entire exercise is generally a pain where you sit down. What I
usually wind up having to do is save the FrameMaker file as text then do
the thing in OpenOffice -- at least that way I don't have to deal with
all the Wonderful Things microjunk persists in doing to "help" me then
having to undo them later. The idea is to avoid word completely if at
all possible.
Since FrameMaker is now a Windows only app, you might try
http://www.omsys.com/dcl/omni.htm for Mif2Go. Not cheap but it works.
Hmm.
Well, given that I'm coming from FrameMaker on Solaris to OpenOffice on
Solaris and Linux... looks like text-to-text might be the only practical
solution.
Ooops! Of course Solaris. I was thinking of Abode stuff and lumped frame
in with the products they stopped supporting.
So since you are on Solaris, have you tried miftran
( http://alumnus.caltech.edu/~jimmc/freesw.html ) ? Old but ...
Interesting -- got it and working on "fixing" older syntax and the like;
we'll see.
Thank you.
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