FrameMaker to Apple Pages (then to iBooks Author)

[Scott Prentice]

Hi Steve...

Yes, IBA does import Word as well, but in my early testing I found that style names weren't preserved and many objects like links and images were lost. 

I still need to do more validation to see if there exists a viable route from FM to IBA or if a plugin would be a usegul method. 

The current beta plugin is more of a proof of concept to test the process. 

Cheers,

...scott

Sent from my phone. Please excuse any typos or unexpected brevity. 

On Jan 29, 2012, at 5:42 AM, Steve Rickaby <srickaby at wordmongers.demon.co.uk> wrote:

> At 17:52 -0800 28/1/12, Scott Prentice wrote:
> 
>> The reason you may want to save from FM to Pages is so you can get your content into the Apple iBooks Author application (it only imports a Pages file).
> 
> I thought it also imports Word? See for example
> 
> <http://www.apple.com/ibooks-author/> under 'Building a book'
> 
> Pages might well be preferable, though ;-) I evaluated it recently, and the only major issue I found was that - at least in the version I tried (4.0.3) - it had no concept of linking graphics, and just pulled them all into the Pages document, resulting in huge files and slowness. This might have been fixed by now.
> 
> -- 
> Steve