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Subject:Re: Re: Saving a FrameMaker book as a Word file From:"Chuck Martin" <cm -at- writeforyou -dot- com> To:"TECHWR-L" <techwr-l -at- lists -dot- raycomm -dot- com> Date:Wed, 14 Apr 2004 11:56:09 -0700
Yeah, I can do that. It just takes additional time. And is moderately
annoying to have to do it that way rather than on the book level.
Of course, the filenames already identify the content. Semantic naming. :)
thx,
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"Gene Kim-Eng" <techwr -at- genek -dot- com> wrote in message news:235531 -at- techwr-l -dot- -dot- -dot-
>
> In this application you probably have no need to preserve
> things that are set up in the book, so just rtf the
> individual Frame chapter docs as Word docs with filenames
> that make the chapters easily identifiable. Text flow
> and most graphics will be preserved well enough to "steal."
>
> Gene Kim-Eng
>
>
> ------- Original Message -------
> On Wed, 14 Apr 2004 09:50:33 -0700 Chuck Martin wrote:
>
> I seem to have made a rather hasty offer in passing to the head of our
> training team. He raved over the User Guide I'd produced so far (the PDF
> version) and said he was "plagarizing" content for training. I offered to
> provide the book in a Word format, presuming that it would be easier to
copy
> and format content from a Word file than from a PDF file.
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