Re: Conversion from PageMaker

["Dick Margulis" <margulis -at- mail -dot- fiam -dot- net>]

In PageMaker, with the Text tool selected, place the cursor into a story. Then File > Export > Text.

At that point, you have a choice. The default is text-only, but that is not what you want. You want to export as RTF. Beyond that, you can export "with tags," which means that paragraph styles are listed in brackets at the beginning of each paragraph. I don't know whether FrameMaker would be able to read these tags directly, but I'm sure you could use a clever search/replace scheme to make good use of them.

You need to repeat the procedure for every story in the PageMaker publication, which means each figure legend, each running head or or running foot, each sidebar, etc., etc. So in a complicated publication the procedure can be tedious. But it's a whole lot better than html for your purposes.

HTH,

Dick

---------- Original Message ----------------------------------
From: "Candie McKee" <kiruna91 -at- hotmail -dot- com>
Reply-To: "Candie McKee" <kiruna91 -at- hotmail -dot- com>
Date: Tue, 31 Jul 2001 14:15:09 -0500

>Hello to you all.  I was wondering if anyone knows of a way to convert 
>PageMaker files into FrameMaker files.  So far, the best I've come up with 
>is saving as HTML, and naturally, I am losing all of my formatting.
>


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