Importing docs from Word question

[Reng, Dr. Winfried]

Hi,

If you have all graphics embedded in a FrameMaker file,
you could export them via Mif2Go. As far as I know also
the demo version would work.

However, that would not import them as referenced graphics.
If I were you, I would write a script.

Best regards

Winfried 

> -----Original Message-----
> From: framers-bounces at lists.frameusers.com 
> [mailto:framers-bounces at lists.frameusers.com] On Behalf Of 
> Diane Gaskill
> Sent: Sunday, April 26, 2009 2:41 PM
> To: John Hedtke; framers at lists.frameusers.com
> Subject: RE: Importing docs from Word question
> 
> John,
> 
> We've done a lot of what you are starting to do. But we are 
> using FM8, which
> has a good Word to FM import filter.  FM7 does not.  The 
> easiest way to
> export the graphics from a word file to files in a directory 
> is to save the
> word file as HTML. Word will export all the graphics into GIF 
> files.  The
> names will all be just numbers, but they are in the order 
> that they appear
> in the manual.  You will have to sort them out by chapter and probably
> rename them.
> 
> The next step is to decide when to break up the word file 
> into chapters.
> You can import the whole word file and then break it up in 
> FM, or you can
> break up the word file into chapters and import each chapter into FM
> separately.  For smaller manuals (100 pages or less, I import 
> the whole word
> file and then break it up.  For larger manuals, I break up 
> the word file
> first.  Since your word doc is (omigosh) 1000 pages, I'd 
> recommend you break
> it up in word.
> 
> In FM8, we use the Microsoft 2007 filter when importing the 
> word file.  It
> creates frames for all the graphics, but leaves them embedded 
> in the frames.
> You have to delete the graphics and import the GIF files 
> manually.  However,
> if you have Framescript, you can automate all of this.  Rick 
> Quatro is the
> expert on FrameScript.  Maybe he can comment on this.
> 
> Hope this helps,
> Diane Gaskill
> =====================
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: framers-bounces at lists.frameusers.com
> [mailto:framers-bounces at lists.frameusers.com]On Behalf Of John Hedtke
> Sent: Sunday, April 26, 2009 4:30 PM
> To: framers at lists.frameusers.com
> Subject: Importing docs from Word question
> 
> 
> I've got a challenge at work I've been asked to work on:
> 
> Starting with a Word document of about 1000 pages
> (don't ask; I didn't do it) and 2187 graphics
> (again, not my fault!), we want to turn this into
> a working FM 7.x document that has the graphics
> no longer embedded and instead stored off in a
> graphics directory of some kind and linked at the
> appropriate places in the Frame
> document.  There's not always an associated
> figure caption, so naming of the graphics is
> going to have to be something pretty arbitrary
> (even if it's only... oh... a page number from the Word document 
> or something).
> 
> For the obvious reasons, including the writer who
> has to work on this possibly beating himself to
> unconsciousness with his keyboard, I'd like to
> automate as much of this process for him as
> possible.  I haven't done any huge imports like
> this before and the question of how to extract
> the embedded graphics and replace them with a
> link is not something I've dealth with
> before.  Is this best done BEFORE the import
> (using, say, a Word macro or manipulating the RTF
> file), AFTER the import (using a FrameScript or
> some sequence of find/replaces on the MIF file), or via some other
> mechanism?
> 
> Many thanks!
> 
> 
> Yours truly,
> 
> John Hedtke
> Author/Consultant/Contract Writer
> www.hedtke.com <-- website
> 541-685-5000 (office landline)
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