<div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif">Before you try Flare, do MIF2Go -- like a number of other writers in the thread have said, it's the best way to export from FM to RTF.</div>
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<br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif">Flare is a decent tool, but if all you need to do is reliably round trip and you have the rest of your editorial flow working well in Frame... the conversion is unlikely to be worth the time and effort.</div>
<div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif">And if the SMEs don't do too much damage during the re-write, it should be a pretty easy round trip.</div>
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<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Mon, Mar 3, 2014 at 1:52 PM, Robert Lauriston <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:robert@lauriston.com" target="_blank" onclick="window.open('https://mail.google.com/mail/?view=cm&tf=1&to=robert@lauriston.com&cc=&bcc=&su=&body=','_blank');return false;">robert@lauriston.com</a>></span> wrote:<br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">You should get an evaluation copy of MadCap Flare and see if it does<br>
any better on the return trip. You could try FrameMaker > Flare > Word<br>
and Word > Flare > FrameMaker, that's possible but I'm not sure if it<br>
would mean more or less cleanup.<br>
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On Mon, Mar 3, 2014 at 8:36 AM, Harding, Dan <<a href="mailto:dharding@illinois.edu" target="_blank" onclick="window.open('https://mail.google.com/mail/?view=cm&tf=1&to=dharding@illinois.edu&cc=&bcc=&su=&body=','_blank');return false;">dharding@illinois.edu</a>> wrote:<br>
> I'm open to replacing Frame if need be, assuming the replacement is<br>
> functionally equivalent and capable, especially with respect to indexing and<br>
> handling multi-chapter books. Replacing Word for authors and editors, on the<br>
> other hand, is not an option.<br>
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