[Framers] FrameMaker to Confluence

[Art Campbell]

It's been a couple years and releases, but I would use/try the Frame
Publish to HTML5 to export and the Confluence HTML Macro to import.


Art Campbell
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On Wed, Apr 18, 2018 at 2:50 PM, Shaw, Brian <Brian.Shaw at dieboldnixdorf.com>
wrote:

> 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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