Re: Convert from Pagemaker to Framemaker?

[Dov Isaacs <isaacs@xxxxxxxxx>]

If you open a PageMaker document and select some text, you
can "Export Text" to RTF and a few other formats. You can
export a "story" at a time.

You are correct that you cannot directly open or import
PageMaker files in or into FrameMaker. These two products
were never designed with the idea that conversions would
occur between them. They were designed and implemented for
exceptionally different marketplaces.

Depending upon the "lifetime" of the document or documents
in question, it might be worth it to have one Windows license
for PageMaker 6.5Plus for your NT systems for purposes of
"end of life" support for existing PageMaker documents. The
cost of one license can be very quickly overshadowed by the
cost of labor in converting documents for which there is not
a large amount of editorial change to be subsequently performed.

	- Dov


At 6/8/99 09:25 AM , Ross, Diana L. wrote:
>I have a client who is using Pagemaker 6.5/Windows 95. We are using
>Framemaker 5.5.6/NT (we don't have Pagemaker and won't be getting it). Our
>goal is to take all of the text, graphics, and tables from Pagemaker and put
>it into Framemaker. Formatting is not a concern at this point (we will be
>reformatting the entire book in Framemaker). Can anyone give me specific
>details for the process to go through in order to transfer this information?
>
>It doesn't appear that she has an option to SAVE AS RTF.
>It doesn't appear that we can IMPORT the file into Framemaker.
>It doesn't appear that we can OPEN the file with Framemaker.
>
>I desperately need help on this one. The entire company is migrating to NT
>(she hasn't yet) and Pagemaker is not on the list of programs that our
>company will be keeping (She is going to be 1 hurting unit! ALL her work is
>in Pagemaker).
>
>Diana Swenk
>Technical Writer
>Alyeska Pipeline Service Company
>
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