Importing HTML into FrameMaker?

Gagne, Bernard (Bolton) bgagne at husky.ca
Fri Apr 20 12:19:07 PDT 2007


For the tables you could always import the HTML into Word and export the
tables out as RTF. 

Berny Gagne
Lead Writer
Husky Injection Molding Systems Ltd.
Bolton, Ontario, Canada

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Subject: Re: Importing HTML into FrameMaker?

That would help.

I think tables are probably going to be the nightmarish part.

Pat

On Apr 20, 2007, at 11:01 AM, Art Campbell wrote:

> I'd at least think about importing the HTML source, rather than 
> cut-and-pasting from a browser window. If you did that, you should be 
> able to do a series of find-and-replaces based on your tags
> (<h1>=Heading1) for both paragraphs and characters, and then finish 
> cleaning up with wildcard based deletions.
>
> Art
>
> On 4/20/07, Pat Christenson <pxenson at comcast.net> wrote:
>> Hi all -
>>
>> I have a client who wants to import HTML docs into FrameMaker. My 
>> guess is that this will be a copy-and-paste with a lot of manual 
>> cleanup. Anybody have any ideas on how to make this less painful?
>>
>> Thanks.
>>
>> Pat Christenson



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