Tuesday, March 30, 2010

FrameMaker 8 and WWP 2003 interworking...

Hello all,

we have previously been using FM6 in conjunction with WWP2003 to produce HTML output. Due to new requirements we are facing the update to FM8 and encounter problems. Evidently FM files cannot be used at all to produce HTML output in WWP and if we import MIF files instead, then output is generated but many special characters are missing.

Is this a known problem, or are there perhaps updates available for WWP (I have not found any)? I think that moving to WWeP will not be an option. Any comments would be helpful because we have to determin whether the current workflow is possible at all under FM8.

FrameMaker 8 and WWP 2003 interworking...

Robert,

You might have better luck asking at the WWP users list over on Yahoo - http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/wwp-users/

My recommendation would be to dump WWP and go with mif2go.

FrameMaker 8 and WWP 2003 interworking...

The special character issue may be due to unicode. I'm not sure there is an easy way to avoid it.

Could the workaround proposed by Shlomo in this thread

http://forums.adobe.com/thread/457771?tstart=0

be applicable here?

Thanks for the responses, evidently the special character problem is realy related to the new MIF format and not to FM8 in general. I found that if I save as FM7 MIF, then the problerm is gone! Even though this is not a very fluent workflow, it does provide a preliminary solution.

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