MindTouch > FrameMaker migration ideas

[Robert Lauriston]

Does "Smart Paste" work in unstructured mode?

The template I'm stuck with is extremely complex so porting it to
structured would be too time-consuming.

If we were using Confluence, I wouldn't need to do this at all, I'd
just tweak Confluence's PDF output so it looked right.

On Fri, Aug 24, 2012 at 12:58 PM, Yves Barbion <yves.barbion at gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi Robert
>
> With FrameMaker 11, you could also use the new Smart Paste feature:
>
> http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EtWb53fgJZ0
>
> I have just tested this with "topics" which I copied from our own Confluence
> wiki and our website. Some of them have some pretty "complex" structures to
> transform back to XML, for example numbered steps with unordered lists,
> graphics and a table, as in this topic:
>
> http://www.scripto.nu/index.php?q=en/node/56
>
> I got valid DITA topics in most cases.
>
> It's not a problem to use an existing template with structured Frame. You
> can just take one of the default Fm templates to publish DITA as PDF and
> customize that one.
>
> Kind regards
>
>
> --
> Yves Barbion
> www.scripto.nu