Best Practice: Multi-Page PDFs to Frame?

[Pinkham, Jim]

Thanks for this, Art, and my apologies for not being more precise. In
our case, we have multiple-page, sometimes graphic-intensive PDFs,
provided by our vendors, that we include as appendices today. The
advantage to being able to bring them purely (or relatively purely) into
Frame would primarily be for purposes such as generated tables and
internal cross-references. However, placing documents that sometimes
have 20-40 individual pages into FM, one page at a time, would not be a
process improvement. Nor would it be worthwhile if we had to
significantly compromise quality -- then we'd still be better off with
our current string of PDFs.

-----Original Message-----
From: Art Campbell [mailto:art.campbell at gmail.com] 
Sent: Wednesday, October 04, 2006 7:00 AM
To: Pinkham, Jim
Cc: framers at lists.frameusers.com
Subject: Re: Best Practice: Multi-Page PDFs to Frame?

In Acrobat, Save As .rtf and open the file in FM.

Both how good / clean it looks and how labor-intensive it is depends
entirely on how the original files were built -- with style tags or
without, with manual over-rides, lots of tables....

If you have a FM template you're going to impose, you've already solved
many of the formatting decisions; it's just a matter of converting tags
to different types.

Art


On 10/3/06, Pinkham, Jim <Jim.Pinkham at voith.com> wrote:
> I'm using FM 7.1p116, and though I hesitate to bring up what might 
> well be a timeworn question, I am curious. Is there such a thing as an

> optimal (and hopefully not overly labor-intensive) way to bring 
> multiple-page PDFs into Frame? If so, what does it look like?

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