Re: On the topic of migrating Word dox to Frame

["Rick Henkel" <frameuser@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

We're testing the same thing. Two tools that I'd recommend are Rick Quatro's
TableCleaner (www.frameexpert.com) and Steve Kubis's ParagraphTools
(www.siliconprairiesoftware.com). They might not help with all of your
problems, but they eliminate some of the manual stuff.

Rick


----- Original Message -----
From: "Bart Windrum" <bart.windrum@DiogenesInc.com>
To: "Framers/Adobe" <framers@frameusers.com>; "FrameUsers Short"
<framers@omsys.com>
Sent: Friday, May 24, 2002 8:21 AM
Subject: On the topic of migrating Word dox to Frame


> I invested a lot of time building some Word templates with sets of styles
> whose names exactly match those used as Frame tags for our doc suite. It's
> been months, but I recall that when I tested it myself it worked ok; e.g.,
> author a doc in word, save as rtf, open in Frame, and voila: all tags were
> assigned w/no violations.
>
> This resource is now in use here, and the result is uneven at best, messy
> more typically, with
> - the aforementioned TimesNewRomanPS-ItalicMT Medium Italic and
> TimesNewRomanPS-ItalicMT Medium appearing
> - Word character styles appearing as frame para tags
>
> I know I cannot rid the word dox of many of its default styles, and it's
no
> big deal to eliminate them in Frame.
>
> But the need to virtually manually reformat the entire doc remains, and
> that's what I'm striving to overcome. I don't mean recheck the doc to
tweak
> style application and make editing and doc-shaping decisions, I mean the
> down and dirty search and destroy which burns so much time; these dox are
> laced with phrases that require character formatting in addition to the
> paratag flows of moderate complexity.
>
> Bottom line: is there one or more comprehensive resource (article,
archive,
> book, seminar) that dissects the issue of taking Word source material and
> repurposing it for Frame?
>
> Btw, these are not terribly intensive dox (tables and pix are rare;
they're
> rarely longer than 30 pps; typically programmer guide content from the
> SMEs).


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