Re: FM-to-Word & vice-versa (was Re: Another newbie question:

[Rhea Tolman <rhea@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Kevin, I really recommend mif2go (www.omsys.com). I too have to occasionally turn
my FM7 files into Word for the engineers to review. They prefer that to PDF.  I had
heard that FM7 was better about exporting to Word, so I took a typical chapter and
tried every single one of the Save As options for Word and RTF.   Each one had
different but serious problems. But when I used mif2go, the output was excellent,
as always.

There are some things that you need to learn about mif2go, but their User Guide has
gotten pretty good. One thing I can think of off the top is that if you have screen
shots with callouts and they're not already BMP or WMF, you need to convert the
graphics to BMP (or WMF, I think) and put them in the output directory. That's not
as difficult as it sounds if you've got something like Paint Shop Pro that does
batch conversions in a heartbeat. If you don't have callouts, you don't need to do
that. And mif2go has really good email support.

HTH

Rhea Tolman

Kevin McLauchlan wrote:

> On Thursday 08 August 2002 08:51, Bill_Swallow@mapinfo.com
> wrote:
> [...]
> > FM 7 actually does a good job of translating DOCs
> > directly. Prior to FM 7, I'd definitely suggest the RTF
> > route, but from what I've seen and heard of FM 7's
> > capabilities, it's really not necessary to first save as
> > RTF.
>
> What about the other direction?
>
> FM used to (and for me it still does, cuz I'm at FM6...)
> perform poorly when trying to Save as (or was that Export?)
> RTF, in order to get an FM doc into Word.
>
> My personal experience was that "successful" exports to RTF
> took many agonizing hours for even a small document. An
> unsuccessful export/save to RTF could take literally days
> before finally admitting defeat.
>
> So, does FM7 now do a good job at round-tripping with Word?
> If so, then what versions of Word?
>
> AND, FOR BONUS POINTS... has anybody got a suggestion as to
> the best approach for getting an FM document into
> OpenOffice Writer... with the least damage and grief?
>
> Thanks,
>
> /kevin
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