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Subject:Re: Framemaker v. Word v. ? From:Art Campbell <art -dot- campbell -at- gmail -dot- com> To:"TECHWR-L" <techwr-l -at- lists -dot- techwr-l -dot- com> Date:Thu, 29 Sep 2005 16:06:44 -0400
Melissa,
FM will certainly do all that you're looking for, including using Word
or .rtf files as a starting point. A semantic point here -- FM doesn't
create books
out of chapters -- it uses a book meta file to manage multiple files that
most users use to contain a single chapter.
Because you didn't specify what your final output form would be, it's hard to
respond in a critical or precise way... FM can output or print to most of
the major formats -- .PDF, HTML, XML, etc. Some people prefer to use
third-party tools to do the conversion, some don't; it depends a lot on how
sophisticated your layout and end product are.
If you want end users to actually modify the text, you obviously need to
look at the editable formats. If you just want them to add their own notes
and operating procedures, I'd lean more toward Adobe Acrobat's .PDF format.
***
Both Frame and Acrobat will save out or export to Word's .RTF format.
Again, some people prefer third party tools; others use the built-ins.
However, one of the reasons to use Frame is to have access to book
building tools that Word doesn't have... so exporting to Word would
throw those features away.
Art
On 9/29/05, Melissa Wang <melissa -at- taprootfoundation -dot- org> wrote:
> tables, heading structures, pagination etc. I know Framemaker would
> allow me to create different "books" out of chapters, which is very
> appealing.
>
> However, I was wondering if anyone knew anything about trying to convert
> a Framemaker file into Word?
--
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