<html><head></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; ">Here's what I've come up with.<div><br></div><div>I save the Powerpoint file as a PDF, then use Able2Doc to convert the PDF to Word. (I've found I get a very clean conversion after using Able2Doc.)</div><div><br></div><div>I imported the resulting Word file into FrameMaker. Text and graphics are imported cleanly.</div><div><br></div><div>There's still a lot of manual cleanup but I think it's better than Cut-and-Paste.</div><div><br></div><div>Thanks for the suggestions!</div><div><br></div><div>Pat</div><div><br></div><div><br><div><div>On Nov 26, 2012, at 4:49 PM, Bill Swallow wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><blockquote type="cite">You can save PPT to Word and import that into FM. How easy it'll be really depends on how the PPT was designed.<div class="gmail_extra"><br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Mon, Nov 26, 2012 at 5:13 PM, Pat Christenson <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:pxenson@gmail.com" target="_blank">pxenson@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">I have material in Powerpoint (text and graphics) that need to be transferred to FrameMaker 9. I'm assuming this is a cut-and-paste procedure but if anyone has any tips, I'd appreciate hearing about them.<br>
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I have PowerPoint for both Mac and Windows, if that helps any.<br>
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Thanks!<br>
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Pat Christenson<br>
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