<div dir="ltr">Hi! I've never posted before, but here is finally a topic where I have something to contribute!<div><br></div><div>I just converted three novels from Word, each about 200,000 words. My experience actually wasn't too bad -- I created a Frame 12 template, created a book, and then started importing the Word docs using the Word filter, chapter by chapter. Then I developed a set of styles and went through each chapter and applied the relevant style to each paragraph. I actually had some fairly complex formatting in Word that I was able to recreate in Frame with little trouble. I did not attempt to match style names but instead developed new styles for Frame and applied those.</div>
<div><br></div><div>Even going through and applying a style to each paragraph, it took only a few hours to reformat almost 600 pages in the first book.</div><div><br></div><div>Perhaps my experience was different because I wrote the novels in Word, with each chapter as a separate file, so each file import was smaller. In my experience, Frame chokes on massive Word files.</div>
<div><br></div><div>I finished the first book and sent it to the printer, and everything went off without a hitch. The e-book has been more of a problem because of hyphenation; I finally decided to turn the hyphenation off for e-book because hyphenated words appeared to have weird spaces in them when I viewed the mobi file on my various Kindles. I don't like Word at all, but it certainly does a better job of hyphenation than Frame does (IMO).</div>
<div><br></div><div>Sincerely,</div><div><br></div><div>Linda Furlet</div></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Tue, Jul 29, 2014 at 10:37 AM, Keith Soltys <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:keith.soltys@tmx.com" target="_blank">keith.soltys@tmx.com</a>></span> wrote:<br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">I would not import Word into FrameMaker using the Word import filter. Given that you are working with novels, which have a fairly simple format, I would save the Word files as raw text, bring them into FrameMaker as text, and completely reformat from scratch.<br>
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I am not sure why the export from PDF to text would cause you problems unless the export isn't pure text.<br>
<br>
Regards<br>
Keith<br>
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Subject: Problems with documents imported from Word<br>
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Hi Framers,<br>
<br>
What do I do to clean up files which originate in Word or PDF. I'm turning crime fiction novels into ebooks and have run into a few problems.<br>
<br>
Case 1:<br>
I import simple Word files into Frame then publish as epub or mobi. In the finished version there are strange display behaviours in the middle of the book (font size and weight and italic drastically change, then return to normal).<br>
<br>
Is there a way I can "clean" files before I begin preparing them for publishing?<br>
<br>
<br>
Case 2:<br>
You may suggest that I ask this question on a Word forum, but everyone<br>
here knows everything, so here goes:<br>
<br>
Client has no "original" document so I've taken his PDF and used Adobe<br>
Acrobat to convert to text, massaged it in Frame to fix various things,<br>
then copied and pasted in Word. Going through the editing process, I<br>
cannot join two paragraphs together (by deleting the carriage return)<br>
and the Track Changes feature shows all kinds of formatting changes,<br>
which are totally unnecessary. In this case, I also want to strip the<br>
document of any formatting.<br>
<br>
<br>
I never work in Word to do any work, except when I am copyediting a<br>
nearly complete document (using Track Changes).<br>
<br>
Advice please?<br>
<br>
Thanks,<br>
Theresa<br>
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