Transfering PageMaker legacy docs into FM9

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3 total messages Started by Roberto_P_Torres Mon, 02 Mar 2009 21:04

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Author: Roberto_P_Torres
Date: Mon, 02 Mar 2009 21:04

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Hello everyone,
I have before me the interesting task of taking a heavy equipment maintenance manual that was done years ago in PageMaker and transferring its content into a FM9 template that I've just created to somehow respect the look and feel of the original documents.
Can anyone cast some light into what's the best and easiest way to do that?
I have certainly never done that kind of work before and I was wondering about automation for this task since I only have a few weeks to complete it.

I really appreciate a hand on this.

PS: I use FM9 running on Vista and the docs are in PageMaker 6

Roberto

Re: Transfering PageMaker legacy docs into FM9

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Author: Van_Kurtz
Date: Mon, 02 Mar 2009 21:18

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Roberto,

I have never done this, but barring a PageMaker import filter for Frame, you can try exporting from PageMaker in RTF and then importing the RTF into FrameMaker. Of course, it requires that PageMaker can export in RTF.

I do not import RTF content, but others on this forum suggest that the import is good.

Van

Re: Transfering PageMaker legacy docs into FM9

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Author: Roberto_P_Torres
Date: Mon, 02 Mar 2009 21:28

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Thanks Van,
If I understand well there is no mapping available to transfer content from PageMaker into FM.

It seems to me that even if I find a shortcut to output the content in any usable format, I won't be able to avoid the hectic reformatting to adapt all of it to the new FM template.

I'll keep on looking and trying though... best way to learn!!!

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