OS X 10.4.11 -- can't import files from Word

[Art Campbell]

Steve's right about FM running in native mode, of course... I was
thinking of running FM 8 on her Mac under a Windows emulator.

Art

On Fri, Apr 18, 2008 at 10:01 AM, Steve Rickaby
<srickaby at wordmongers.demon.co.uk> wrote:
> At 19:30 -0400 17/4/08, Louise Moritsugu wrote:
>
>  >I can open FrameMaker alright, but it won't import the French Word
>  >files. The error message reads:
>  >
>  >"Mastersoft Error: From -Side Converter returned error 3"
>
>  If it helps at all (which it probably doesn't), my archives say that error 3 is 'illegal instruction error'. I.e. the code probably went mad after being presented with something it could not process.
>
>  Agree with Art's comments other than, as Louise is working on a Mac, the FrameMaker 8 demo won't help her a lot ;-) Louise... Art is right about the FrameMaker 7 filters being better, and I was recently impressed that I could import raw Word files in FrameMaker 7 for Mac with not only the tags intact, but also stuff like Word index markers.
>
>  Your only route to a FrameMaker 7 install is secondhand, for example via eBay. This is where I got my 6 -> 7 updater, legally, and it worked for me. However, a search today reveals only a FrameMaker 5.5 updater (yes, really!).
>
>  Hope this helps a bit.
>
>  --
>  Steve
>



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