[Framers] FrameMaker to Confluence

[Shaw, Brian]

Hi Framers,
I'm hoping somebody has had some experience in moving FrameMaker books into Confluence. Out-of-the-box, Confluence only supports import from Word docs, so the approaches are to either save as RTF and then to Word, or save as PDF and then to Word. PDF appears to be the better intermediary format as we can import a complete book at a time, but maintaining the formatting during the import is approximate at best.
Numbered lists are particularly problematic, and strange things happen to graphics and tables. The best option we've been able to find so far is to open PDFs directly in Word and save as docx. This preserves the numbered lists after the Confluence import, except that the extras embedded in a list, such as graphics, notes, etc. break the numbering. A soft return can fix things by joining the extras to the numbered paragraph above, but the process is clumsy. Other issues are that we lose all of our cross references and special formatting such as monospaced fonts for code examples. There doesn't seem to be any options for mapping the formats during the import.
Another issue has been PDFs that were used as graphics in the source FM files. While they look great in an FM to PDF save as, Confluence doesn't know what to do with them. We have a workaround by initially saving the PDF images as PNGs. We then save each of the FM docs as MIF, replace .pdf with .png in the MIF text, and then resave the MIF as FM, but that's also long-winded. If somebody knows of a way to get Confluence work with PDF images, that would be cool.
As background, we're using Frame 2015 for general production, but some of the team also have 2017. We also have the latest versions of Acrobat and the Office products.
Thanks in advance,

Brian Shaw
Technical Writer | Delivery Systems

Diebold Nixdorf
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