HTML output rendering annotations

Thu Sep 22 07:30:00 PDT 2011

Mif2Go is as simple or complicated as you need it to be. The way you work with it is new, and a bit intimidating, to most people. Mif2Go processes your FM files into any of its many output formats according to the settings in a big plain-text configuration file. There are a few things you set in the GUI, but mostly you edit the config file settings. The workflow is:  Make best guess at the config settings you need to change from defaults; generate output (takes seconds); check results; tweak config settings; rinse; repeat.

For most purposes, the number of settings you have to change is relatively small. But there are a bazillion of them. They're documented to a fare-thee-well, but that impressive volume of documentation is itself somewhat intimidating. And sometimes you spend a fair amount of time finding just the information you need for what you want to do.

But if your source files are fairly standard, and the output you want is fairly standard, you can ignore almost all of those bazillion settings, and you'll have excellent HTML, XML, RTF, or any of its many help formats, in relatively short order. It's by far the best FM-to-Word conversion tool, and some people use it just for that.

Richard

From: framers-bounces at lists.frameusers.com [mailto:framers-bounces at lists.frameusers.com] On Behalf Of Jeff Coatsworth
Sent: Thursday, September 22, 2011 6:42 AM
To: framers at lists.frameusers.com
Subject: RE: HTML output rendering annotations

>From listening to most FM users, the consensus I've seem is that FM's HTML output is "weak" - they all recommend using mif2go to carefully control how their HTML output is rendered. It's supposedly quite complicated to configure, but once done, it works really well.

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From: framers-bounces at lists.frameusers.com [mailto:framers-bounces at lists.frameusers.com] On Behalf Of Smith, Andy
Sent: Wednesday, September 21, 2011 11:37 AM
To: framers at lists.frameusers.com
Subject: HTML output rendering annotations
Hi

I'm experimenting with HTML output of my files from Frame 9.0. I'm running on Win XP.

I'm just at the very early stages of experimentation and all I've come across is to save as HTML in the file menu. (I'm saving selected chapters from a book.)  When I do this I get a fairly primitive HTML file and a folder full of images, which seems to be fine for my customer except that the annotations come out as grey strips. (The text frames are inside or overlaid on the images, I'm not sure of the technical definition.) I'm guessing that this is because the text is too small to render as it's 8 point Arial.

Is there any way of getting the annotations to render or do I need to export the files in some other format? I'm looking for a fairly quick solution as I made my customer aware of this a few months ago but they are only mentioning it now that it's become urgent. Even though it's their fault for not listening to my warning about this I need to find them an answer quickly.

Cheers

Andy Smith
England

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