FDK FrameMaker text extraction

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3 total messages Started by Robert_Low Thu, 22 Jan 2009 03:47

#281

Author: Robert_Low
Date: Thu, 22 Jan 2009 03:47

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Hi,

I need to extract text from FrameMaker documents. I can use, for example,
textItems = F_ApiGetText( docId, fmtId, -1 );

to get a handle to the text under each fmtId.

But when I tried to write this text out to a text file, characters like apostrophe appears to be some strange character.

And when I saved the file into .txt file, FrameMaker can write the special characters without any problem.

How can I do the same with api? Appreciate any help.

Robert

Re: FDK FrameMaker text extraction

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Author: Sheila_Carlisle
Date: Fri, 23 Jan 2009 16:33

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Robert, if you haven't already done so, your question might find a wider FDK audience on the Frame-dev Yahoo list:
 <http://groups.yahoo.com/group/frame_dev/>

Also, it would be good to post the specific version of FM that you are working with.

Re: FDK FrameMaker text extraction

#297

Author: Russ Ward
Date: Fri, 23 Jan 2009 18:46

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The problem that Robert is seeing is that special characters, like curly quotes, change once they are run through an FDK data structure and output to something like a text file. It must have something to do with character encodings but I don't understand that well enough to answer the question.

Russ

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