[Framers] Transfer from FrameMaker into Word

[Syed Zaeem Hosain]

A good point ... it is far superior to any other solution to output to RTF for Word!

Mif2Go will work through FrameMaker 11 for sure - with one file that needs to be updated for FM 11, as I recall, but has not worked with later versions.

For a while now, I have meaning to look at the code and get it working for recent versions of FrameMaker, but have not been able to justify the time ... yet.

Particularly also, after I decided to get off the upgrade bandwagon at FrameMaker 12 - with all my newer specs written in LaTeX. Given that it would now take nearly $1000 to get to the latest rev of FrameMaker, this was a pretty permanent decision!

Plus, Mif2Go was written with a much older version of Microsoft's Visual Studio, and it would be best to bring it into modern revs of that compilation environment before further work is done. Means more time than I can spend on it at the moment.

Z

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From: Framers <framers-bounces+syed.hosain=aeris.net at lists.frameusers.com> On Behalf Of Lin Sims
Sent: Wednesday, April 25, 2018 1:33 PM
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Subject: Re: [Framers] Transfer from FrameMaker into Word

Another thought is that if your version of Frame is old enough (Frame 10 or 11, I think?), you can use Mif2Go to make a clean conversion from MIF to RTF. I've never really used Mif2Go, though, so I can't tell you whether the out-of-the-box conversion will do what you need or if it needs to be tweaked. Since Jeremy's death, Mif2Go has become freeware; but as far as I know, no one has had the opportunity or know-how to update it to today's API. It can be downloaded from Github:

https://github.com/omsys-dev/original-source

On Wed, Apr 25, 2018 at 4:14 PM, Kevin Ryan <kryan at harriscomputer.com>
wrote:

> I would advise against using Acrobat's "Save as Microsoft Word" function.
> When I tried this, Acrobat would produce an exquisite-*looking* copy 
> of my PDF.  But the moment I'd try to edit the file in Word, the 
> layout would do silly things like wrap off the page into oblivion.  I 
> call it the "House of Cards" conversion as it looked great until I touched it and it imploded.
> Lots of disconnected text boxes with no flow.
>
> Kevin Ryan