FrameMaker to InDesign

[Morgan Morrissette]

Hi all:

A second option might be to save your files as MIF which can be used by many software programs.  I also have a customer who needed to open FM files in a different program and this process worked quite well for him.

Morgan Morrissette
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-----Original Message-----
From: Rick Quatro [mailto:frameexpert at truevine.net]
Sent: June 5, 2006 11:20 AM
To: Ann Zdunczyk; Framers List; framers at omsys.com
Subject: Re: FrameMaker to InDesign


Hi Ann,

Here are some ideas, depending on the nature of the FrameMaker documents.

* Save FM to RTF or Word and import the text into InDesign.

* For structured FrameMaker, export to XML and import XML into InDesign.

* Build a script to export FrameMaker paragraphs, tables, etc, wrapping them 
in Adobe InDesign Tagged Text. Then open the tagged text file in InDesign to 
get fully-formatted text. This would work well for simple, consistently 
formatted FrameMaker documents.

Rick Quatro
Carmen Publishing
585-659-8267
www.frameexpert.com

>
> Hi All,
>
> I have been contacted by a customer to find out what is needed to convert
> FrameMaker to InDesgin. They say they will be using InDesign CS2.
>
> Has anyone done this and if so what are the steps.
>
> Any help would be great.
>
> Thanks
> Z
>
>
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> Ann Zdunczyk
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> a2z Publishing, Inc.
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