Framemaker's ability to import WordPerfect and PageMaker

[Maxwell Hoffmann]

Rob,

I have only had to use the FM7.2 PageMaker filter once, and I was very
pleased with the results. It was for a very complex PageMaker 9.0
project: files had complex layout with many disconnected columns, and
"fake" tables (e.g. horizontal tabs with hor/vert rules placed on top of
them.) The filter worked surprisingly well: I could not detect any
"lost" text.

I *did* get a lot of disconnected columns with text that had expanded
beyond the bottom (solid line on the borders) but that is to be
expected. In my case, it was far faster than extracting the text and
bringing in as Word or RTF. The relatively preserved page layout was a
good guide for which master pages to apply (the project used about 4
variant master pages.)


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>     Date: Thu, 11 Jan 2007 11:05:51 +0200
>     From: "Rob Shell" <rshell at iafrica.com>
>     Subject: Framemaker's ability to import WordPerfect and PageMaker
>     	files
>     To: <framers at lists.frameusers.com>
>
>     I wonder if any Framies can help me? Framemaker is supposed
>     to import WordPerfect files. It does so, but only 5.1 files.
>
>     While on the subject of importing files, I have certainly
>     not had much luck importing any Pagemaker files despite the
>     heavily advertised feature of the latest release.  It seems
>     the best way is to go into the PM editor and take out the
>     text via the clipboard, story by story...
>
>     Does anybody know when the FM filters are updated? WP5.1 is
>     more than 10 years old. So is Pagemaker, which we now know
>     will never be updated.
>
>     I love FrameMaker by the way. Nothing like it.
>
>     Newbie Rob Shell
>
>     Robert C.-H. Shell
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