Re: Frame maker importing documents from Publisher, Word or Quark

["Janet M. Swisher" <swisher -at- enthought -dot- com>]

isabel -dot- soria -at- suinsa -dot- com wrote:

> First of all, hellow and I've been reading information and comparatives
> about publishing programs and consider this page so much interesting and
> practical.

Hello Isabel, and welcome. I was hoping that someone more knowledgeable 
than me would answer your question. I don't use FrameMaker currently, 
but I have in the past. Because no one else has responded, I will try to 
help. Perhaps that will result in other responses that will be more helpful.

> I'm a worker at an engineering company. My job consists of making all
> documentation for all the Xray machines tath company manufactures. User
> Manuals, Service manuals, Pre-instalation manuals and Specifications
> brochures.
>
> The fact is i'm only 15 days working here, and all the manuals are 
made in
> Publisher, a big landmine. I'm getting crazy because everytime i made a
> change, i have to reorganize manually index, images numbers and it's
> references.. such a weary job and so much lost time.
>
> Reading documents, i'm sure than Frame maker is perfect for this job, 
but
> i have to convince my boss that it's the best tool. Here, i have no
> problem.
> The thing is that i can't assure all previos documents in publisher 
can be
> actualized to Framemaker.
>
> Does anybody knows if frame can import from publisher or pagemaker?.

I don't know whether FrameMaker can import from Microsoft Publisher. My 
guess is that it cannot. FrameMaker definitely *can* import from 
PageMaker, so if you have your files available in PageMaker format, that 
would probably be the best way to do it. You might check about what 
other formats Publisher can export to. For example, if it can export RTF 
(Rich Text Format), FrameMaker can import that.

> I'm not so familiarized with frame. i do know i can import pdf, but page
> by page.

PDF is designed as an "output only" format. It is usually difficult to 
go from PDF to any other format. I believe that when you import a page 
of a PDF into FrameMaker, you're really importing it as an image -- you 
can't edit it like you would edit normal text.

If you have the full version of Adobe Acrobat (not Reader), you can 
export a PDF document as a Microsoft Word (.doc) file. You could then 
import that into FrameMaker, either directly, or by first saving it as 
RTF from Word. However, you would probably have to clean up a lot of the 
formatting, so it would still be a lot of work.

Good luck!

--
Janet Swisher --- Senior Technical Writer
Enthought, Inc. http://www.enthought.com



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