InDesign to FrameMaker

[Steve Rickaby]

At 08:55 +0200 26/9/06, Nanna P. Vig wrote:

>Most manuals in my company are done in FrameMaker. However, a few have been
>created in InDesign, and we have decided to change one of them to
>FrameMaker.
>
>Is there a way to to this apart from redoing the manual from scratch in
>Frame using copy-paste?
>
>I am using FrameMaker 7.0 on Mac and PC, and also have InDesign 2.0 on Mac.

Here's a possible route, if you have full Acrobat: save as PDF from InD, then open the PDF in Acrobat and save as RTF. Import the RTF into FrameMaker - see the archives for a discussion of methods, but I seem to remember that the 'Japanese' RTF filter is preferred, and Mif2Go is better if you have some money to spend on the job.

It seems, however, that you can also export RTF directly from InDesign. Here are some relevant recent postings...

At 13:43 +1200 13/4/06, Alan Litchfield wrote:

>"Adobe InDesign 2.0 enables users to convert InDesign documents into
>text-based formats, such as Rich Text Format (RTF), Hypertext Markup Language
>(HTML), eXtensible Markup Language (XML), and plain text (TXT). These formats
>can be accessed using standard tools, such as word processors."
>
>Of course, when one tries to do this by going File > Export...
>
>Well, here's the secret. Select the Text tool and the text frame you want to
>export to rtf. Go File > Export and hey presto. Instead of the usual PDF, etc.
>options, you now have a whole bunch of text related export options.
>
>But, you are only going to export the text flow you have selected ;)
>
>Option B. How about exporting to PDF, then saving from Acrobat as RTF?


At 23:05 -0500 12/4/06, Peter Gold wrote:

>There are free scripts available at the Adobe Studio and InDesign User-to-User Forum that can export all stories in a file as RTF or text. You can export an ID file as XML, but you need to assign XML element tags to each object and story to do this.
>
>Your suggestion to export as PDF and convert PDF to RTF is a reasonable workaround.

-- 
Steve