FrameMaker to Apple Pages (then to iBooks Author)

[Scott Prentice]

One more thing.

I'm now seeing that IBA does properly maintain style names when 
importing a Word DOC. Not sure what I was seeing (or not seeing) before. 
You do need to make sure to select the "Preserve paragraph styles on 
import" option, but when you do it does seem to preserve style names 
(for character styles as well).

Might still make sense to be able to go from FM to Pages directly 
without going through a DOC file .. but we'll see.

Cheers,

...scott


On 1/29/12 7:54 AM, Scott Prentice wrote:
> 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
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