TechWhirl (TECHWR-L) is a resource for technical writing and technical communications professionals of all experience levels and in all industries to share their experiences and acquire information.
For two decades, technical communicators have turned to TechWhirl to ask and answer questions about the always-changing world of technical communications, such as tools, skills, career paths, methodologies, and emerging industries. The TechWhirl Archives and magazine, created for, by and about technical writers, offer a wealth of knowledge to everyone with an interest in any aspect of technical communications.
Subject:RE: Conversion of FM books to MS Word From:"Sean Brierley" <sbri -at- haestad -dot- com> To:"TECHWR-L" <techwr-l -at- lists -dot- raycomm -dot- com> Date:Mon, 23 Sep 2002 09:31:29 -0400
But Mif3Go from http://www.omsys.com. It's a good tool and the best way
to convert FrameMaker to Word.
However, FrameMaker and Word are such different creatures that I
recommend not using such a workflow. Moreover, I would not expect good
results from the machine-translation on the Word files. I sense bad
karma all around.
> A Japanese client wants all our product documentation (2000 pages!!)
as
word
> files. He plans to run a tool on these files and convert the content
from
> English to Japanese. We are currently using FrameMaker 6.0 to create
our
> documents, and deliver the docs to the client in PDF format. I have
two
> questions:
>
> 1. Is there a tool that can translate the contents of an FM or PDF
file to
> Japanese.
> 2. Is there a tool that can convert an FM book to word without
affecting
the
> layouts and text formats.
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
Experience RoboHelp X3! This new RoboHelp release combines single sourcing,
print-quality documentation, conditional text and much more, into the most
monumental release of RoboHelp ever! http://www.ehelp.com/techwr-l
FrameMaker-to-PDF TimeSavers Assistants let you enhance & automate navigation
in PDF doc sets (chapter tabs, next/prev chapter/pg, bookmarks, popup menus);
create interactive PDF forms, rollover popups; presentations: http://www.microtype.com
---
You are currently subscribed to techwr-l as:
archive -at- raycomm -dot- com
To unsubscribe send a blank email to leave-techwr-l-obscured -at- lists -dot- raycomm -dot- com
Send administrative questions to ejray -at- raycomm -dot- com -dot- Visit http://www.raycomm.com/techwhirl/ for more resources and info.
