InDesign to FrameMaker 9.0 for Windows 7

[David Creamer]

There is no direct conversion of ID to Frame. (There is a Frame to ID
conversion, however.)

If you get all the ID documents at once, do a trail subscription to the
Cloud (if your security allows) and use ID CC for 30 days. You can subscribe
month-to-month for $30 or for a year at $20/month if you need more time.

Make sure the other company Packages the files to send all the linked
graphics; technically, they can send you the fonts too, but you may have
copyright issues involved.
Open the ID file, select all the text* and export as RTF. If you need to,
you can copy and paste tables into Excel. 

*A LOT depends on how well the InDesign document was created: were styles
used properly, was the file created with one long text flow (like Frame) or
a bunch of separate text boxes, etc.

David Creamer
IDEAS Training
http://www.ideastraining.com
Adobe Authorized Instructor & Certified Expert since 1995
Authorized QuarkXPress Instructor and Certified Expert since 1988


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>My team is about to get a pile of InDesign files from another company. To
edit the files, we need to either purchase InDesign ourselves or convert the
files to FrameMaker 9.
>I don't know (yet) what version of InDesign they are using.
>Question: How easy and clean is the conversion of InDesign files to FM 9.0?